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Midsummer Night in the Workhouse by Diana Athill
$27.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
"I can remember in detail being hit by my first story one January morning in 1958." So begins literary legend Diana Athill in the preface to Midsummer Night in the Workhouse, a long-overdue collection of her short fiction, originally published in the 1950s to the 1970s. In unsentimental though often tou ...Show more
Somewhere Towards the End by Diana Athill
$20.00 AUD
Category: General
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
$35.00 AUD
$39.99 (12% off)
Category: General
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
$23.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Included in the BEST OF GRANTA series: the Costa-award winning memoir on what it means to grow old.
Stet by Diana Athill
$20.00 AUD
Category: Literary
For nearly 50 years, Diana Athill edited (and nursed and coerced and coaxed) some of the most celebrated writers in the English language. In a prose style of inimitable wit and rare candour, she recounts tales from a long life in publishing, including her reflections on editing writers such as V. S. Nai ...Show more
Stet - An Editor's Life by Diana Athill
$23.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
Fresh re-issue of Diana Athill's candid memoir of a life spent working as an editor of some of the most celebrated writers of the post war generation.
Stet - An editor's life by Diana Athill
$24.95 AUD
Category: General
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.
Yesterday Morning: A Very English Childhood by Diana Athill
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A remarkable, truthful and vivid recollection of childhood, from the author of Stet, After a Funeral, Don't Look at Me Like That and Instead of a Letter. Here Athill goes back to the beginning in a sharp evocation of a childhood unfashionably filled with happiness - a Norfolk country house, servants, th ...Show more
Yesterday Morning: A Very English Childhood by Diana Athill
$20.00 AUD
Category: Literary
Written with Diana Athill's trademark insight and wry humour, a memoir of Diana's childhood, in England in the 1920s, that asks: does privilege equate to happiness?