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

Midsummer Night in the Workhouse

Diana Athill is one of our great women of letters. The renowned editor of V. S. Naipaul, Jean Rhy...

Hailed as 'a virtuoso exercise' (Sunday Telegraph), this book reflects candidly, sometimes with g...

A charming, vibrant diary of Diana Athill's holiday to Florence in the late 1940s.In August 1947,...

'There is a sense throughout Athill's work that you are making a new friend as much as reading a ...

Diana Athill's Stet is 'a beautifully written, hardheaded, and generally insightful look back at ...

This is the story of how and why a talented writer came to take his own life.When Diana Athill me...

Despite her family's ailing finances, Diana Athill's childhood - spent in a lovely house in Norfo...

Fresh re-issue of Diana Athill's candid memoir of a life spent working as an editor of some of th...

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

What will you remember if you live to be 100?