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Alive, Alive Oh!: And Other Things that Matter

What matters in the end? In the final years of life, which memories stand out? Writing from her r...

Make Believe: A True Story

In Make Believe, Diana Athill, acclaimed author of Instead of a Letter and Stet, remembers her tu...

Snooker in Kairo

Life Class

Diana Athill, born in 1917, made her reputation as a writer with the candour of her memoirs; thro...

Stet

A New York Times Notable Book: This memoir of a career in book publishing “should please an...

Midsummer Night in the Workhouse

I can remember in detail being hit by my first story one January morning in 1958. So begins liter...

Yesterday Morning: A Very English Childhood

A remarkable, truthful and vivid recollection of childhood, from the author of Stet, After a Fune...

Alive, Alive Oh!: And Other Things That Matter

An invitation to sit a spell with an intractable and witty friend. New York Times Book ReviewWhat...

Don’t Look At Me Like That

England, in the mid-fifties. Meg Bailey has always aspired to live a respectable life. With her b...

Instead of a Book

Diana Athill has corresponded with the American poet Edward Field for over thirty years, freely s...

After a Funeral: A Memoir

When Diana Athill met the man she calls Didi, she fell in love instantly and out of love just as ...

Instead of a Letter