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  • The Education of Young Donald Trilogy

    Including Confessions of a New Boy and Portrait of an Optimist

    de Julia Horne, Nick Horne, Donald Horne ...
    A compelling insight into the making of one of Australia's foremost public intellectuals. A classic of Australian literature, The Education of Young Donald Trilogy combines Donald Horne's three autobiographies— The Education of Young Donald (1967), Confessions of a New Boy (1985) and Portrait of an Optimist (1988)—in one volume. With a keen intellect, sharp wit, and dry humour, Horne vividly ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

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  • How to be a Brit

    The hilariously accurate, witty and indispensable manual for everyone longing to attain True Britishness

    de George Mikes ...
    The hilariously accurate, witty and indispensable manual for everyone who longs to attain True Britishness'Got me in tears of laughter' 5***** Reader Review'Laugh-out-loud hilarious, witty and insightful' 5***** Reader Review_______Born in Hungary, George Mikes eventually spent more than forty years in the Britain observing behaviours and misbehaviours of local and foreign Brits.With essential ... Leer más

    $10.69 USD

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  • A Very Private Eye

    An Autobiography in Diaries and Letters

    de Barbara Pym ...
    ‘Barbara Pym is one of my most favourite novelists. Few other writers have given me more laughter and more pleasure.' Jilly Cooper‘Could one write a book based on one’s diaries over thirty years? I certainly have enough material,’ wrote Barbara Pym. This book, selected from the diaries, notebooks and letters of this much loved novelist to form a continuous narrative, is indeed a unique ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • A Notable Woman

    The Romantic Journals of Jean Lucey Pratt

    de Jean Lucey Pratt ...
    A glorious gut-wrenching read . . . A Notable Woman makes my heart sing. Jean's diaries are a life in its entirety, in all its glorious mess" ( The Pool ).In April 1925, at the age of fifteen, Jean Lucey Pratt started a journal that she kept until just a few days before her death in 1986, producing over a million words in forty-five exercise books. What emerges is a portrait of a truly unique, sp ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Love and War in London: A Woman’s Diary 1939-1942

    A Woman’s Diary 1939-1942

    de Robert W. Malcolmson, Olivia Cockett ...
    Series series Life Writing
    Olivia Cockett was twenty-six years old in the summer of 1939 when she responded to an invitation from Mass Observation to “ordinary” individuals to keep a diary of their everyday lives, attitudes, feelings, and social relations. This book is an annotated, unabridged edition of her candid and evocative diary.Love and War in London: A Woman’s Diary 1939-1942 is rooted in the extraordinary milieu of ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • A Collection Of Essays

    de George Orwell ...
    In this bestselling compilation of essays, written in the clear-eyed, uncompromising language for which he is famous, Orwell discusses with vigor such diverse subjects as his boyhood schooling, the Spanish Civil War, Henry Miller, British imperialism, and the profession of writing. ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Time to Be in Earnest

    de P. D. James ...
    In 1997, P. D. James, the much loved and internationally acclaimed author of mysteries, turned seventy-seven. Taking to heart Dr. Johnson's advice that at seventy-seven it is "time to be in earnest," she decided to undertake a book unlike any she had written before: a personal memoir in the form of a diary. This enchanting and highly original volume is the result. Structured as the diary of a ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD

  • Basil Street Blues: A Memoir

    A Memoir

    de Michael Holroyd ...
    "A wonderful offbeat memoir.... Holroyd has written perhaps his best book yet."—Ben Macintyre, New York Times Book ReviewRenowned biographer Michael Holroyd had always assumed that his own family was perfectly English, or at least perfectly ordinary. But an investigation into the Holroyd past—guided by old photograph albums, crumbling documents, and his parents' wildly divergent accounts of their ... Leer más

    $16.39 USD

  • The Unexpected Professor

    An Oxford Life in Books

    de John Carey ...
    Best known for his provocative take on cultural issues in The Intellectuals and the Masses and What Good Are the Arts?, John Carey describes in this warm and funny memoir the events that formed him - an escape from the London blitz to an idyllic rural village, army service in Egypt, an open scholarship to Oxford and an academic career that saw him elected, age 40, to Oxford's oldest English ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Dear Oliver

    Uncovering a Pakeha history

    de Peter Wells ...
    A captivating exploration of a Pakeha family's history in colonial New Zealand through intimate letters and personal reflections.In Dear Oliver, Peter Wells unearths a treasure trove of family letters, offering a poignant glimpse into the lives of ordinary people navigating extraordinary times. From the war against Te Kooti to the devastating Napier earthquake, Wells traces his ancestors' journey ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Grub Street Irregular

    Scenes from Literary Life

    de Jeremy Lewis ...
    An engaging, wickedly funny and splendidly anecdotal memoir of a career spent among writers, agents, publishers and bookmen and women of every stripe.Jeremy Lewis's first memoir, 'Playing for Time', was hailed by James Lees-Milne as 'the funniest and best written book I've read for years.' His second, 'Kindred Spirits', was described by John Carey as 'sheer pleasure from start to finish'. Now he ... Leer más

    $0.99 USD

  • The New Book of Snobs

    A Definitive Guide to Modern Snobbery

    de D.J. Taylor ...
    'Hugely enjoyable' AN Wilson, Sunday Times'Thoughtful, entertaining and enjoyable' Michael Gove, Book of the Week, The TimesInspired by William Makepeace Thackeray, the first great analyst of snobbery, and his trail-blazing The Book of Snobs (1848), D. J. Taylor brings us a field guide to the modern snob.Short of calling someone a racist or a paedophile, one of the worst charges you can lay at ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD