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The Diaries of Waguih Ghali

In 1968 Egyptian novelist and political exile Waguih Ghali committed suicide in the London flat o...

Somewhere Towards The End

Yesterday Morning: A Very English Childhood

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

Somewhere Towards The End

What is it like to be old? Diana Athill made her reputation as a writer with the candour of her m...

Life Class

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

Midsummer Night in the Workhouse

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

Beer in the Snooker Club

Behind the bar at Jameel's in Cairo hang two mugs engraved with the names of Ram and Font.Durin...

Instead of a Letter

Diana Athill's childhood was idyllic, brought up in the Norfolk countryside. Aged only fifteen, s...

Alive, Alive Oh!

“Enchanting . . . Diana Athill, 98, still has a few things to teach us about growing old wi...

Stet : a Memoir

Diana Athill's memoir of a life spent working with some of the charismatic characters who have do...

After A Funeral

This is the story of how and why a talented writer came to kill himself. When Diana Athill met th...

Instead of a Book

Written in an even more vivid and direct style than her celebrated memoirs, Diana Athill's letter...