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A Florence Diary by Diana Athill
$19.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
A charming, vibrant diary of Diana Athill's holiday to Florence in the late 1940s.
Alive, Alive Oh!: And Other Things That Matter by Diana Athill
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
In this sequel to Costa Biography Award Winning Somewhere Towards the End, Diana Athill writes vivaciously, poignantly, and with extraordinary clarity about what really matters in the end, from the remarkable vantage point of her late nineties. Several years ago, Diana Athill accepted that she could no ...Show more
Don't Look at Me Like That by Diana Athill
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the author of Somewhere Towards the End and Stet, the late great Diana Athill's only novel, about love, betrayal and a young woman finding oneself in 1950s London. England, in the mid-fifties. Meg Bailey has always aspired to live a respectable life. With her best friend, Roxane, she moves from se ...Show more
Instead of a Letter by Diana Athill
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Diana Athill's childhood was idyllic, brought up in the Norfolk countryside. Aged only fifteen, she fell in love with a young undergraduate. They travelled to Oxford, engaged to be married. Then everything fell apart in the cruellest possible way. In this classic modern memoir, Diana Athill dissects the ...Show more
Life Class: The Selected Memoirs of Diana Athill by Diana Athill
$55.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Diana Athill, born in 1917, made her reputation as a writer with the candour of her memoirs; through her commitment, in her words, 'to understand, to be aware, to touch the truth'. In a celebration of her life and writing, "My Lives" brings together four of her best-loved memoirs in one volume, spanning ...Show more
Somewhere Towards the End by Diana Athill
$35.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
With skill and candour, the acclaimed London book editor, who turned 90 in December 2007, tells the story of what it means to be old.Somewhere Towards the End tells the story of what it means to be old: how the pleasure of sex ebbs, how the joy of gardening grows, how much there is to remember, to forge ...Show more
Somewhere Towards the End by Diana Athill
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Diana Athill made her reputation as a writer with the candour of her memoirs, now aged ninety, and freed from any inhibitions that even she may once have had, she reflects frankly on the losses and occasionally the gains that old age brings, and on the wisdom and fortitude required to face death. This i ...Show more
Somewhere Towards the End by Diana Athill
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Included in the BEST OF GRANTA series: the Costa-award winning memoir on what it means to grow old.
Stet - An editor's life by Diana Athill
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Diana Athill's memoir of a life spent working with some of the charismatic characters who have dominated 20th-century literature. With inimitable wit and rare candour, she recounts tales from a long life in publishing, including reflections on editing writers such as Jean Rhys and Gitta Sereny.
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