Diaries, letters and journals

British Antarctic Expedition 1910 - 1913.

In May of 2009, my husband was severely injured at the geothermal plant where he worked.

There are many people in the world who have always wanted to learn to dance.

In this diary of real emotions, the writer shares her own journey through various situations she's faced in life, in the hopes of offering you a listening ear, encouragement, and empathy.

Two world-class writers reveal themselves to be the ultimate soccer fans in these collected lettersKarl Ove Knausgaard is sitting at home in Skane with his wife, four small children, and dog.

A Director's Tale is the story of Burnley Football Club in the early 1980s, a time of short-lived success and then turmoil.

My Dear Boy brings a largely unexplored dimension of Langston Hughes to light.

A Stirring Mosaic of Leonard Cohen: Poet, Lyricist and ArtistDive into The Flame, a profound exploration of the celebrated poet and musician, Leonard Cohen.

From the end of the 1950s through the middle of the 1960s, Amiri Baraka (b.

In 1981, when he was thirty-three and had just caught what was then the largest British carp, Chris Yates wondered if he could now dream of capturing Redmire's Pool's real monster: the King.

Each chapter of "e;Trippin' through the Oil Patch"e; is a story all by itself.

Author Louis Alexander Hemans writes not only as a linguist, poet, and philosopher, but also as a man socialized in the Jamaican subset of the African diaspora.

In 1870, Louisa May Alcott and her younger sister Abby May Alcott began a fourteen-month tour of Europe.

Winner of the Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Literary Prize for Non-fictionEdith's Book (published as Edith's Story in the US) is often compared to Anne Frank's diary.

In 1870, Louisa May Alcott and her younger sister Abby May Alcott began a fourteen-month tour of Europe.

Imagine you are sitting in a lovely garden.

Letters on Literature and Politics, 1912-1972 contains a selection of the literary critic and author Edmund Wilson's personal correspondence.

One Confederate soldier's descriptive letters to his family offering a personal view of the devastating Civil War assault.

Follow Peter Millar on a journey in the heart of Cold War Europe, from the carousing bars of 1970s Fleet Street to the East Berlin corner pub with its eclectic cast of characters who embodied the reality of living on the wrong side of the wall.

Unlock the more straightforward side of The Sorrows of Young Werther with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!

Death and dying are issues that cause most people in the Western world to catch their breath and change the subject, yet Patsy Freeman's chronicle In Search of You: Letters to a Daughter, as she writes letters to her daughter before and after her death, is a compelling page turner.

Through letters and other writings, this historical study chronicles an Irish Catholic family's influence on mid-nineteenth-century South Carolina.

Eat, Pray, Love meets Claude Monet in this epistolary ode to Paris.

John Rae was one of the most charismatic and controversial figures in British education.

'The author has done a quite outstanding job of editing and footnoting this rare memoir .

The book is a thoroughly researched and engaging history of the 15th Hussars throughout the wars, crammed full of interesting asides regarding the life and loves of a cavalryman in the Napoleonic age.

Dear Mr Bigelow is an enchanting collection of weekly letters written between 1949 and 1961 from an unmarried woman working at the Public Baths in Bournemouth, to a wealthy American widower in New York.

This book has been compiled in memory of the author's parents.

Imagine if that well-loved composition notebook from your teenage years became a bestseller.

This collection will entertain all who appreciate the art of masterful letter writing.

In Roland Barthes's eyes, Philippe Sollers embodied the figure of the contemporary writer forever seeking something new.

n Many people across the world know Antonio Negri as an internationally renowned political thinker whose book, Empire, co-authored with Michael Hardt, is an international bestseller.

Through letters and other writings, this historical study chronicles an Irish Catholic family's influence on mid-nineteenth-century South Carolina.

How fortunate it is that Robert Atkins wrote up his experiences as a young Gurkha officer in India and later Malaya as, seventy years on, they form an important contemporaneous record of two historically significant periods.

'This wasn't the story I wanted to tell.

Ensign Charles Paget’s previously unpublished diary of the Peninsular War is an important discovery for two reasons.

One Confederate soldier's descriptive letters to his family offering a personal view of the devastating Civil War assault.

The book is a thoroughly researched and engaging history of the 15th Hussars throughout the wars, crammed full of interesting asides regarding the life and loves of a cavalryman in the Napoleonic age.

John Fremantle was on Wellington's personal staff through the later years of the Peninsular War and Waterloo campaigns.

A journalist, columnist, humorist and musician, Miles Kington began his writing career at Punch, where he created Franglais, a hugely popular fictional language, before going on to write a daily column for The Times, followed by the Independent.