Diaries, letters and journals

John Fitzgerald Kennedy led his nation for little more than a thousand days, yet his presidency is intensely remembered, not merely as a byproduct of his tragic fate.

Echoing from the mountainous Vosges front of World War I come the rare accounts of an elite French foot soldiera chasseur pied.

Tender, moving, heartfelt and warm (and sporadically scandalous and outrageous too), these are the private messages between people in love.

'I wanted to go on reading it forever' Nigella LawsonTwo strangers.

Who are you?

The second volume of Robert Crawford's magisterial biography of the revolutionary modernist, visionary poet and troubled man, drawing on extensive new sources.

'This small-sized book has immense power.

Experience romance and wartime London in the collected letters between two English lovers separated while serving their country during World War II.

Letters of a Javanese Princess (1921) is a collection of letters by Indonesian political activist and national hero Raden Adjeng Kartini.

Dreiser's careful preservation of his papers bears new fruit with the publication of his personal diaries for the years 1902-26.

The definitive collection of works on a subject that inspired and haunted Charles Bukowski for his entire life: alcohol Charles Bukowski turns to the bottle in this revelatory collection of poetry and prose that includes some of the writers best and most lasting work.

A timeless selection of some of Charles Bukowskis best unpublished and uncollected poems Charles Bukowski was a prolific writer who produced countless short stories, novels, and poems that have reached beyond their time and place to speak to generations of readers all over the world.

A repackaged edition of the revered authors collection of personal lettersa curated selection of the best of his correspondence with family, friends, and fansand a short biography by his brother Warren Lewis.

Originally edited by Dorothy Lobrano Guth, and revised and updated by Martha White.

'It promises to be one of the literary highlights of 2021 - publication of the diaries of Patricia Highsmith, one of the most conflicted, fascinating novelists of the 20th century' Edward Helmore, Guardian'My secrets-the secrets that everyone has-are here, in black and white.

THE NUMBER ONE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERDEAR MADAM PRESIDENT is an empowering letter from former White House Communications Director Jennifer Palmieri to the first woman president, and by extension, to all women working to succeed in any field.

A unique first-hand account of a historical gay trans man's whole life, which reads like a celebratory coming-of-age novel.

'I planted a dog rose.

*A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021*'Raw, tender and urgent' Jessica Andrews, author of Saltwater'Irreducible.

THE SUNDAY TIMES AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'The ultimate Holocaust testimony.

A unique, intimate and beautiful exploration of grief, loss, healing and faith'This is a beautiful book, a remarkable, cadenced recollection of how grief lives in the body.

_____________________________ If you ve ever felt like you were out of your element, in over your head or working without a net, you will love this book.

An indelible portrait of one of the most famous and beloved authors in the canon of American literature a collection of letters between Harper Lee and one of her closest friends that reveals the famously private writer as never before, in her own words.

Tony Benn was one of the twentieth century's most charismatic politicians.

The National Archives is one of the most remarkable collections of documents in the world, holding over 120 miles of papers.

A lieutenant writes of digging through bodies that have the consistency of Camembert cheese; a mother sends flower seeds to her son at the Front, hoping that one day someone may see them grow; a nurse tends a man back to health knowing he will be court-martialled and shot as soon as he is fit.

The acclaimed author of Scorch Atlas offers a deeply candid and wildly original look at insomnia in this "e;superbly lyrical"e; memoir (Paste Magazine).

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERVenture behind closed doors to uncover the secrets of life in the English country house between the wars in all its splendour.

Christopher Isherwood was a celebrated English writer when he met the Californian teenager Don Bachardy on a Santa Monica beach in 1952.

In 1990, G nter Grass - a reluctant diarist - felt compelled to make a record of the interesting times through which he was living.

Brutal and cataclysmic, the First World War irrevocably changed the face of Europe.

An astonishing record.

To mark the publication of Stop What You're Doing and Read This!

Mayada was born into a powerful Iraqi family.

When Brian Johnston was a schoolboy, his reports were full of phrases such as 'talks too much in school' and 'apt to be a buffoon'.

One L, Scott Turow's journal of his first year at law school was a bestseller when it was first published in 1977, and has gone on to become a virtual bible for prospective law students.

'People are my landscape', Isaiah Berlin liked to say, and nowhere is the truth of this observation more evident than in his letters.

Bestselling author Jean Sasson tells the dramatic true story of a young woman caught up in Saddam Hussein's genocide of the Kurdish people of Iraq.

"e;In another country or another era, Dennis Cooper's books would be circulated in secret, explosive samizdat editions that friends and fans would pass around and savor like forbidden absinthe.

Vanessa Bell, artist, sister of Virginia Woolf, wife of Clive Bell and lover of Duncan Grant, is one of the most fascinating and modern figures of the Bloomsbury set, but unlike most of them she rarely put pen to writing paper.

Readers of Princess Sultana's extraordinary biography Princess were gripped by her powerful indictment of women's lives behind the veil within the royal family of Saudi Arabia.

A perfect distraction and inspiration, and a collection that begs to be shared.

"e;[Terry Castle is] the most expressive, most enlightening literary critic at large today.

This is not a book about politics.

From the time she was a little girl, Maryam rebelled against the terrible second-class existence that was her destiny as an Afghan woman.

The Burden of Power is the fourth volume of Alastair Campbell's diaries, and perhaps the most eagerly awaited given the ground it covers.

Things My Son Needs To Know About The World is a tender and funny series of letters from a new father to his son about one of life's most daunting experiences: parenthoodFrom the 18 million copy internationally bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, Anxious People and My Friends, the Sunday Times Bestseller and Goodreads Choice Awards Fiction 2025 winner!

At turns humorous, irreverent, poignant and tender, The Book of Dads brings together twenty well-known and beloved writers on the subject of fatherhood, offering fathersor anyone who has been or loved a parentunrivaled insights into the complexity of fatherhood as it's experienced now.

Unmasks the tough, street-smart persona of Charles BukowskiAmerica's "e;Ultimate Outsider"e; Amazing letters filled with passionate, literary, and personal observation Insights into the author of Tales of Ordinary Madness, Notes of a Dirty Old Man, and Run with the Hunted Insights into Sheri Martinelli: the protege of Anais Nin, an accomplished painter, and the mistress of Ezra Pound Charels Bukowski's persona as the Dirty Old Man of American Literature is just that: a persona, a mask beneath which there was a man better read and more cultured than most people realize.

"e;A beautifully written, three generational saga"e; details the biography of the socialite and actress in a story "e;worthy of Edith Wharton's House of Mirth"e; (John Guare, playwright Six Degrees of Separation).