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Diaries, letters & journals
Paperback. Portland Place is the diary of then-BBC Secretary Sarah Shaw for the year of 1971, a humorous and charming perspective of life at the BBC and for a woman at the time. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 3JJPL; APT; BJ; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472124692
- ISBN
- 9781472124692
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.12
€ 13.99
€ 11.12
Hardback. Lord Crawford was the only Cabinet level politician to serve 'in the ranks' during WW1as a private. A gifted author and diarist, his daily entries provide a fascinating insight into life in the frontline over a 14 month period. Num Pages: 206 pages, 24pp B & W plates. BIC Classification: BJ; HBWN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 164 x 26. Weight in Grams: 614.
- Publisher
- Pen & Sword Books Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781593677
- ISBN
- 9781781593677
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.35
€ 26.99
€ 20.35
Hardback. These letters chart the friendship between Boswell and the man he called his "most intimate friend", William Johnson Temple. Editor(s): Crawford, Thomas. Series: The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; BJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 914.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748607587
- ISBN
- 9780748607587
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 231.70€ 220.57
€ 231.70
€ 220.57
Hardback. .
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- New Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781509826704
- ISBN
- 9781509826704
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.76
€ 15.99
€ 11.76
Paperback. In 1939, Christopher Isherwood and W H Auden emigrated together to the United States. This title describes Isherwood's search for a new life in California; his work as a screenwriter in Hollywood, his pacifism during World War II and his friendships with such gifted artists and intellectuals as Garbo, Chaplin, Thomas Mann, and more. Num Pages: 1104 pages. BIC Classification: BGLA; BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 155 x 61. Weight in Grams: 1290.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 1104
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099555827
- ISBN
- 9780099555827
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 37.57
€ 52.99
€ 37.57
Paperback. Carefree, revelatory and intimate, this selection of unpublished letters between the six legendary Mitford sisters, compiled by Diana Mitford's daughter-in-law, is alive with wit, passion and heartbreak. Editor(s): Mosley, Charlotte. Num Pages: 830 pages, 40 b/w illus, 32 b/w plates (32pp). BIC Classification: BG; BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 48. Weight in Grams: 644.
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841157740
- ISBN
- 9781841157740
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 17.53
€ 25.99
€ 17.53
Paperback. Receive Our Memories consists of a rare set of correspondence from a poor, uneducated Mexican in the mid-20th century to his daughter who moves to the United States, putting a human face on the experience of both the immigrant and the family left behind, as well as the histories of both countries. Num Pages: 288 pages, 34 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; 3JJPG; BJ; HBJK; HBLW3; JFFN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 167 x 20. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199340439
- ISBN
- 9780199340439
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.79
€ 42.79
Paperback. From the teenager in provincial Russia in 1875 to his premature death in Germany in 1904, the author wrote over 4,500 letters to a range of correspondents, including family and friends, his publisher and fellow writers - not to mention actresses. This book presents these letters which tell the story of the author's life as a man and a writer. Translator(s): Bartlett, Rosamund; Phillips, Anthony. Num Pages: 624 pages, map. BIC Classification: 2AGR; BG; BJ; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 624
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140449228
- ISBN
- 9780140449228
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.40
€ 20.99
€ 19.40
Paperback. This is the largest selection of Stoic philosopher and tragedian Seneca's letters currently available. In them Seneca advises his friend Lucilius on how to do without what is superfluous, whether on the subject of happiness, riches, reputation, or the emotions. We learn too about Seneca's personal and political life in the time of Nero. Translator(s): Fantham, Elaine. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; BJ; HBLA1; HPCA; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 195 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199533213
- ISBN
- 9780199533213
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.76
€ 13.99
€ 11.76
Hardcover. Virginia Woolf meets Caitlin Moran - the extraordinary journals chronicling one ordinary woman's life, edited and introduced by Simon Garfield Editor(s): Garfield, Simon. Num Pages: 736 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BJ; DN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 241 x 62. Weight in Grams: 1072. Some shelf wear, dustjacket
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Main
- SKU
- KTK0095816
- ISBN
- 9781782115700
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 20.00
€ 20.00
Paperback. Editor(s): Levi, Peter. Num Pages: 432 pages, map. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; BJ; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1984
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140432213
- ISBN
- 9780140432213
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.33
€ 17.99
€ 14.33
Paperback. "Allow me to introduce myself. I'm Jamie, I'm 19-years-old. I make videos on the Internet, and enough people watched them that they let me write a book. I know. What is life?" WELCOME TO JAMIE'S WORLD Num Pages: 224 pages, 8 col plates, (2x8pp plates). BIC Classification: BJ; YNM; YNU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 218 x 135 x 23. Weight in Grams: 272. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- SKU
- KAK0007292
- ISBN
- 9780008159412
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover. Presents the author as a teenage girl who fretted about and tried to cope with her own emerging sexuality and who also veered between being a carefree child and an aware adult. This title is a true story to be rediscovered by each generation. Num Pages: 368 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1DDN; 3JJH; BGA; BJ; HBTZ; HBWQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 150 x 223 x 33. Weight in Grams: 518.
- Publisher
- Viking
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Re-issue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780670919796
- ISBN
- 9780670919796
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.36
€ 26.99
€ 20.36
Hardcover. Offers an extensive selection of author's letters, arranged by subject so that you can choose from themes including social life, the Court, politics, literature, and the evolution of his Gothic castle and art and book collections at Strawberry Hill. Editor(s): Hadley, William. Num Pages: 704 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JF; BGL; BJ; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 6 x 3. .
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841593500
- ISBN
- 9781841593500
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.69
€ 23.99
€ 16.69
Hardcover. Num Pages: 628 pages, illustrations, map. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; BJ; HBJK; HBLL; JPHL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 150 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1179.
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 628
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813911021
- ISBN
- 9780813911021
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 150.80
€ 150.80
Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; BJ; WTLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 196 x 14. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Publisher
- Daunt Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781907970405
- ISBN
- 9781907970405
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.61
€ 15.99
€ 12.61
Paperback. The novelist J.G. Farrell - known to his friends as Jim - was drowned on August 11, 1979 when he was swept off rocks by a sudden storm while fishing in the West of Ireland. He was in his early forties. Had he not sadly died so young,A" remarked Salman Rushdie in 2008, there is no question that he would today be one of the really major novelists Editor(s): Greacen, Lavinia. Num Pages: 478 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 36. Weight in Grams: 776.
- Publisher
- Cork University Press Cork
- Number of pages
- 478
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781859184769
- ISBN
- 9781859184769
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.71
€ 21.99
€ 17.71
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Second edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784102487
- ISBN
- 9781784102487
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.76
€ 13.99
€ 11.76
Hardback. Features letters between Eliot and his associates, family and friends - his correspondents range from the Archbishop of York and the American philosopher Paul Elmer More to the writers Virginia Woolf, and Ralph Hodgson - that shows the ways in which his Anglo-Catholic convictions could, at times, prove a self-chastising and even alienating force. Series: Letters of T. S. Eliot. Num Pages: 928 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; BGL; BJ; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 166 x 44. Weight in Grams: 1230.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571316328
- ISBN
- 9780571316328
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 59.41€ 41.39
€ 59.41
€ 41.39
Hardback. The third and final volume of the first collected edition of Hogg's letters reveals his versatility in old age. It contains an index to all three volumes of Hogg's letters. Editor(s): Hughes, Gillian. Series Editor(s): Mack, Douglas S.; Hughes, Gillian. Series: The Collected Works of James Hogg. Num Pages: 450 pages, 16 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 156 x 41. Weight in Grams: 844.
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Number of pages
- 450
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780748616756
- ISBN
- 9780748616756
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.88€ 109.07
€ 112.88
€ 109.07