Hilary Mantel

In Her Black Books

A Bright Remembrance: The Diaries of Julia Cartwright

By Angela Emanuel (ed)

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May 2016 Issue

Frances Wilson

Bin There, Done That

A Life Discarded: 148 Diaries Found in a Skip

By Alexander Masters

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May 2016 Issue

Nigel Andrew

Putting Down Roots

The Wood for the Trees: The Long View of Nature from a Small Wood

By Richard Fortey

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April 2016 Issue

D J Taylor

Sorrowing in Sunlight

Devoid of Shyness: From the Journal, 1926–1939

By Alan Pryce-Jones (Edited by John Byrne)

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March 1983 Issue

Max Egremont

Dreams of Autocracy

Caves of Ice

By James Lees-Milne

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May 1997 Issue

Tim Ashley

Nin in Everything

Fire: The Unpublished, Unexpurgated Diary, 1934–1937

By Anaïs Nin

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October 1983 Issue

Christopher Hawtree

Short Measure

October

By Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy

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October 1982 Issue

Sandy Wilson

‘Dad’s Renaissance’

The Noel Coward Diaries

By Graham Payn & Sheridan Morley (edd)

Coward, the Playwright

By John Lahr

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June 1982 Issue

John Lehmann

Streams of Thought

The Diary of Virginia Woolf Vol IV 193-1935

By Hogarth Press 402pp £15

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April 1991 Issue

Alan Bell

‘Lewis No Virgin’ Shock! Horror!

All My Road Before Me: Diary 1922–1927

By C S Lewis

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June 1986 Issue

Penelope Lively

The Red-Haired Waif

The Selected Journals on L M Montgomery Vol 1 1889–1910

By (Ed) Mary Rubio and Elizabeth Waterson

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November 2015 Issue

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

Rory Muir

Tactical Advances

Napoleon on War

By Bruno Colson (Translated by Gregory Elliott)

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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)

March 2003 Issue

Jessica Mann

An Eye On Posterity

The Journals of Mary Butts

By Nathalie Blondel (ed)

Mary Butts: Scenes From The Life- A Biography

By Nathalie Blondel

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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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