Diana Athill Book order

December 21, 1917 – January 23, 2019

Diana Athill was a British literary editor and author whose career spanned decades of significant literary output. Working with some of the 20th century's greatest writers, she played a crucial role in shaping literary landscapes. In her own writing, Athill explored profound human experiences and reflections with unflinching honesty and keen insight. Her prose is characterized by precision and subtle observation, offering readers a memorable and thought-provoking literary journey.

2023
Don't Look At Me Like That
192 pages
7 hours of reading
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England, in the mid-fifties. Meg Bailey has always aspired to live a respectable life. With her best friend, Roxane, she moves from secondary school to an un-Bohemian art college in Oxford. Under the watchful eye of Roxanne's mother, Mrs Wheeler, the two girls flourish in Oxfordian society. But Meg constantly longs for more. Not content to stay in Oxford, she finds a job in London. Roxane stays behind and marries Dick, a man of Mrs Wheeler's choosing. As Meg's independence grows, Dick suddenly appears in London for work. A connection to her past, Meg and Dick's friendship flourishes, blurring the lines of loyalty between what is and what was in a way that changes life for these three friends forever. As sharp and starling now as when it was written, this unflinching and candid book of love and betrayal encapsulates Diana Athill's gift of storytelling at its finest.
2022
After A Funeral
240 pages
9 hours of reading
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The story of Diana Athill's relationship with Didi - a gifted writer and an Egyptian in exile - and a remarkably honest, poignant look at love and grief.
2022
A Florence Diary
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A charming, vibrant diary of Diana Athill's holiday to Florence in the late 1940s.
2022
Yesterday Morning
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Written with Diana Athill's trademark insight and wry humour, a memoir of Diana's childhood, in England in the 1920s, that asks: does privilege equate to happiness?
2022
Instead of a Book
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A collection of candid, entertaining letters, spanning thirty years of wit, wisdom, gossip and intimacy.
2022
Make Believe
160 pages
6 hours of reading
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Diana Athill's account of her turbulent relationship with Black Power activist Hakim Jamal in the 1960s: raw and unflinching, a memoir of friendship, love, mania and injustice.
2016
Alive, Alive Oh!
144 pages
6 hours of reading
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In this sequel to Costa Biography Award-winning Somewhere Towards the End, Diana Athill writes vivaciously, poignantly, and with extraordinary clarity about what really matters in the end, from the remarkable vantage point of her late nineties
2011
Instead of a Letter
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Athill's debut, and a modern classic memoir: a moving story of love and loss, heartbreak and hope during the second world war.
2010
Life Class
784 pages
28 hours of reading
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Diana Athill, born in 1917, made her reputation as a writer with the candour of her memoirs. Celebrating her life and writing, this title brings together four of her best-loved memoirs, spanning her very English childhood, her life and loves during World War II, her publishing career at Andre Deutsch, and her reflections on old age.
2010
Irgendwo ein Ende
Die britische Starlektorin Diana Athill erzählt vom Altwerden, von berühmten Autoren und leidenschaftlichen Affären - erfrischend und mit viel Esprit. Diana Athill ist 92 und die Grande Dame der britischen Verlagsbranche. In ihrem Buch denkt sie über die Bedeutung langjähriger Freundschaften nach, setzt sich mit Religion auseinander und spricht über Liebe und Sex im Alter. Das alles tut sie mit großer Offenheit und Ehrlichkeit, viel britischem Humor und erstaunlich unsentimental. Sie erzählt auch, warum alltägliche Dinge für sie einen ganz neuen Wert erlangt haben, und schaut mit klarem Blick zurück auf ein bewegtes Leben, in dem sie zahlreiche berühmte Schriftsteller kennengelernt hat - wie Norman Mailer, John Updike, Jean Rhys, Philip Roth oder V. S. Naipaul.