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Peter Rose
A Tiny Lemon Drop of Envy
One Day I’ll Remember This: Diaries 1987–1995
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Michael White
The Camerons Who Knew Me
Diary of an MP’s Wife: Inside and Outside Power
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Daisy Dunn
The Art of Deduction
Finding Dora Maar: An Artist, an Address Book, a Life
By Brigitte Benkemoun (Translated from French by Jody Gladding)
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Michael Bloch
The Courtier’s Craft
King's Counsellor: Abdication and War – The Diaries of Sir Alan Lascelles
By Duff Hart-Davis (ed)
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James Stourton
His Second Home Was Clarence House
Who Loses, Who Wins: The Journals of Kenneth Rose – Volume Two, 1979–2014
By D R Thorpe (ed)
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Hugh Massingberd
Now We Can Know
Deep Romantic Chasm: Diaries 1979–1981
By James Lees-Milne (Edited by Michael Bloch)
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Jane Ridley
Full of Heirs and Graces
Who’s In, Who’s Out: The Journals of Kenneth Rose – Volume One 1944–1979
By D R Thorpe
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Pamela Norris
Who Is Sylvia?
The Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950–1962
By Karen V Kukil (ed)
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Sara Wheeler
A Nonagenarian Writes
In My Mind's Eye: A Thought Diary
By Jan Morris
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Christopher Hawtree
Sequacious and Robust
The Diary of Virginia Woolf Vol. 5
By Virgina Woolf (Edited by Anne Olivier Bell)
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Kathryn Hughes
What Life Held for a Clergyman’s Daughter
A Governess in the Age of Jane Austen: The Journals and Letters of Agnes Porter
By Joanna Martin (ed)
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January 1995 Issue
Nicholas Shakespeare
Diarist who Makes your Hair Stand on End
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By Anthony Powell
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April 2018 Issue
Catherine Peters
Deb’s Distress
Miss Palmer’s Diary: The Secret Journals of a Victorian Lady
By Gillian Wagner
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December 2017 Issue
Cosmo Landesman
Glitz Spirit
The Vanity Fair Diaries 1983-1992
By Tina Brown
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Charlie Campbell
Shelf Life
The Diary of a Bookseller
By Shaun Bythell
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Sheridan Morley
Disappearing Act
My Name Escapes Me: The Diary of a Retiring Actor
By Alec Guinness
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Jane Ridley
Rex Whistler Painted Her Hall
A Constant Heart: The War Diaries of Maud Russell 1938–1945
By Emily Russell (ed)
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Richard Davenport-Hines
Dark Arts & Coronets
Scenes and Apparitions: Diaries 1988-2003
By Roy Strong
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Patrick Scrivenor
Voice from the Western Front
From Eton to Ypres: The Letters and Diaries of Lt Col Wilfrid Abel Smith, Grenadier Guards, 1914–15
By Charles Abel Smith (ed)
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Stephen Trombley
Virginia Woolf
The Diary of Virginia Woolf, Volume III
By Anne Olivier Bell (ed), Andrew McNeillie (ass ed)
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