Results for: books tagged ‘Anecdotes’
Letters from Iceland: W. H. Auden and Louis MacNeice
This highly amusing and unorthodox travel book resulted from a light-hearted summer journey by the young poets Auden and MacNeice in 1936. Their letters home, in verse and prose, are ... More
Writing Home: Alan Bennett
Writing Home is a wonderfully entertaining collection of Alan Bennett’s prose writings. Bringing together his diaries for 1980-1995 and the journal he kept during the production of Forty Years On, ... More
Writing Home & Untold Stories: Alan Bennett
The Last Cigarette: Simon Gray
Simon Gray is determined to give up smoking. Really. At last. Can he kick the habit of sixty years? Will he, sometime soon, be able to leave his house without ... More
The Smoking Diaries: Simon Gray
One of Britain’s most amusing and original writers reflects on a life filled with cigarettes (continuing), alcohol (stopped), several triumphs and many more disasters; a record of shame, adultery, friendship ... More
The Year of the Jouncer: Simon Gray
A great many writers use their own lives as the raw material for their work but few have done it with the wit and courage of Simon Gray. Like his ... More
Coda: Simon Gray
All four of Simon Gray's Smoking Diaries are now on Faber Audiobooks. They conclude with Coda, Gray's account of 'the beginning of his dying'. More
The Brideshead Generation: Humphrey Carpenter
‘[The Brideshead Generation] has both style and substance, and is above all an enjoyable companion. It has a wildly amusing cast, here controlled by a skilful director.’ Evening Standard‘Jovial and ... More
The Last Cigarette: Simon Gray and Hugh Whitemore
Notable for his uncompromising honesty and a wit both fierce and fearless, Simon Gray’s voice was uniquely his own - intelligent, probing and often outrageously funny. He faced life - and ... More
Worlds Apart: Gavin Young
This volume collects the best of Gavin Young's journalism. These pieces, by turn elegant, vivid and compassionate, display his acute understanding of the varied worlds in which we live.'Young is ... More
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