Mark Bostridge

Love among the Paperbacks

A Notable Woman: The Romantic Journals of Jean Lucey Pratt

By Simon Garfield (ed)

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October 2015 Issue

Piers Brendon

Learning the Lambeth Walk

The Maisky Diaries: Red Ambassador to the Court of St James’s 1932–1943

By Gabriel Gorodetsky (ed) (Translated by Tatiana Sorokina & Oliver Ready)

September 2015 Issue

Christopher Silvester

Waspish Wit

‘It’s the Pictures that Got Small’: Charles Brackett on Billy Wilder and Hollywood’s Golden Age

By Anthony Slide (ed)

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July 2015 Issue

Anna Reid

Ration Book

The Diary of Lena Mukhina: A Girl’s Life in the Siege of Leningrad

By Valentin Kovalchuk, Aleksandr Rupasov & Aleksandr Chistikov (edd) (Translated by Amanda Love Darragh)

June 2015 Issue

John Gray

Conspicuous Consumption

The Conqueror Worm: Llewelyn Powys – A Consumptive’s Diary, 1910

By Peter J Foss (ed)

April 2003 Issue

Simon Heffer

The Return of Supermac

The Macmillan Diaries: The Cabinet Years, 1950-1957

By Peter Catterall (ed)

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September 2003 Issue

David Cesarani

Tormented At The End

The Lesser Evil: The Diaries of Victor Klemperer 1945-1959

By Victor Klempere, Martin Chalmers (trans, ed)

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October 2003 Issue

Geordie Greig

Grandees Under Fire

Beneath A Waning Moon: Diaries, 1985-1987

By James Lees-Mile

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October 2003 Issue

William Palmer

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

The Journals: Volume One

By John Fowles, Charles Drazin (ed)

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December 2003 Issue

Patrick O'Connor

The Contrary Contralto

Letters and Diaries of Kathleen Ferrier

By Christopher Fifield (ed)

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February 2004 Issue

Sheridan Morley

Diary of a Somebody

National Service: Diary of a Decade

By Richard Eyre

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November 2004 Issue

Andrew Barrow

Whatever Next?

Ceaseless Turmoil: Diaries 1988-1982

By James Lee-Milne

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August 2006 Issue

Anne de Courcy

A Girl’s Own Story

Sand in My Shoes: Wartime Diaries of a WAAF

By Joan Rice

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February 2009 Issue

Selina Hastings

Love and Friendship

Love’s Civil War: Elizabeth Bowen & Charles Ritchie – Letters & Diaries 1941–1973

By Victoria Glendinning with Judith Robertson (ed)

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September 2008 Issue

Kenneth O Morgan

Unelected & Underrated

Downing Street Diary: Volume Two – With James Callaghan in No 10

By Bernard Donoughue

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May 2008 Issue

Jonathan Mirsky

Operating Underground

Last Night I Dreamed of Peace: An Extraordinary Diary of Courage from the Vietnam War

By Dang Thuy Tram (Translated by Andrew X Pham), Introduction by Frances FitzGerald

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May 2008 Issue

M R D Foot

In Daily Peril

Forgotten Voices of the Secret War: An Inside History of Special Operations During the Second World War

By Roderick Bailey (ed)

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May 2008 Issue

Elspeth Barker

A Mouse on the Jasmine

Diaries, Letters and Recollections

By Lynette Roberts (Edited by Patrick McGuinness)

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April 2008 Issue

Alexander Waugh

The Maestro Matures

Diaries 1915–1923: Behind the Mask

By Sergey Prokofiev (Translated and annotated by Anthony Phillips)

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August 2007 Issue

Jonathan Mirsky

Betrayed From Within and Without

A Garden of Eden in Hell: The Life of Alice Herz-Sommer

By Melissa Müller and Reinhard Piechocki

The Diary of Petr Ginz: 1941–1942

By Chava Pressburger (ed), (Translated by Elena Lappin)

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