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Alive, Alive Oh!: And Other Things That Matter by Diana Athill
$33.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | 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
Alive, Alive Oh and Other Things That Matter by Diana Athill
$23.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: very good
What matters in the end? In the final years of life, which memories stand out? Writing from her retirement home in Highgate, London, as she approaches her 100th year, Diana Athill reflects on what it is like to be in her nineties, and on the moments in her life which have risen to the surface and sustai ...Show more
Don't Look at Me Like That by Diana Athill
$23.00 NZD
Category: World 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 Book: Letters to a Friend by Diana Athill
$29.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Diana Athill has corresponded with the American poet Edward Field for over thirty years, freely sharing jokes, pleasures and pains with her old friend, and writing with an intimacy and spontaneity even more revealing than the candour of her celebrated memoirs. Edited, selected and introduced by Athill, ...Show more
Instead of a Book: Letters to a Friend by Diana Athill
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
Written in an even more vivid and direct style than her celebrated memoirs, Diana Athill's letters to the American poet Edward Field reveal a sharply intelligent woman with a brilliant sense of humour, a keen eye for the absurd, a fierce loyalty and a passionate zest for life. This intimate corresponden ...Show more
Life Class: The Selected Memoirs of Diana Athill by Diana Athill
$37.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
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, "Life Class" brings together four of her best-loved memoirs in one volume, spanni ...Show more
Somewhere Towards the End by Diana Athill
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
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
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
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
Stet by Diana Athill
$25.00 NZD
Category: No Category
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
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | 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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