Tell My Sons by Mark Weber
$9.95 AUD
Category: Diaries & Letters
In the bestselling tradition of Tuesdays with Morrie and The Last Lecture, a dying father's deeply moving legacy for his sons is winning hearts and minds around the world. At just 38 and at the height of his military career, highly decorated US soldier Lieutenant Colonel Mark Weber was diagnosed with de ...Show more
Counting One's Blessings: The Selected Letters of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother by William Shawcross
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Category: Diaries & Letters
One of the revelations of William Shawcross's official biography of the Queen Mother was her private correspondence. Indeed the Sunday Times described her letters as 'wonderful ...brimful of liveliness and irreverence, steeliness and sweetness.' Queen Elizabeth was a prolific correspondent from her earl ...Show more
Wallis and Edward - Letters, 1931-1937 by Michael Blogh (Editor)
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Category: Diaries & Letters
The Love Affair as a Work of Art by Dan Hofstadter
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Category: Diaries & Letters
In this marvelously original book, Dan Hofstadter shows how a great treasure of forgotten personal writing—diaries, memoirs, and letters written by George Sand, Anatole France, and Marcel Proust, among others—bears on the erotic lives of the writers, and how the fine French tradition of conducting love ...Show more
Women of Letters #7 Signed Sealed Delivered by Michaela McGuire
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Category: Diaries & Letters
"Dear Madonna, Thank you for showing me that it is okay to be both a devoted mother and on a podium drenched in glitter. Love, Em Rusciano Dear Leigh Sales, What kind of psychopath is unmoved by fairy wrens? Love, Annabel Crabb The art of letter writing is still the best way to connect, to express a th ...Show more
Alphabetical - How Every Letter Tells a Story by Michael Rosen
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Category: Diaries & Letters
From minding your Ps and Qs to wondering why X should mark the spot, Alphabetical is a book for everyone who loves words and language. Whether it's how letters are arranged on keyboards or Viking runes, textspeak or zip codes, this book will change the way you think about letters for ever. How on Earth ...Show more
A Carnival of Snackery: Diaries 2003 - 2020 by David Sedaris
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Category: Diaries & Letters | Series: Language Acts and Worldm Ser.
For forty years, David Sedaris has kept a diary in which he records everything that captures his attention-overheard comments, salacious gossip, soap opera plot twists, secrets confided by total strangers. These observations are the source code for his finest work, and through them he has honed his cunn ...Show more
Letters of Vanessa Bell by Vanessa Bell; Regina Mahler (Editor); Regina Marler (Editor)
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Category: Diaries & Letters
Vanessa Bell was a central figure in the Bloomsbury Group. The sister of Virginia Woolf and wife of Clive Bell, she lived at what is now the shrine of the Bloomsbury Group - Charleston Manor in Sussex, as part of a menage a trois with her husband and the artist Duncan Grant.
Oscar Wilde - A Life in Letters, Writings and Wit by Juliet Gardiner (Editor)
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Category: Diaries & Letters | Series: Illustrated Letters Ser.
Recounted almost word for word by Wilde hims elf, Juliet Gardiner provides the reader with extracts from his extensive literary portfolio both written and spoken, in private and in public, to add a further title to the Illust rated Letters series. '
Patrick White - Letters by David Marr (Editor); Patrick White
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Category: Diaries & Letters
Patrick White was a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, the author of more than a dozen novels and many other books, and a spokesman for (and against) an Australia he both hated and loved. In preparing this biography, David Marr secured White's co-operation in tracking down sources and using priva ...Show more
Margaret Mitchell's 'Gone with the Wind' Letters, 1936-1949 by Margaret Mitchell; Richard Barksdale Harwell
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Category: Diaries & Letters
Dashing for the Post: The Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor by Patrick Leigh Fermor
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Category: Diaries & Letters
Handsome, spirited and erudite, Patrick Leigh Fermor was a war hero and one the greatest travel writers of his generation. He was also a spectacularly gifted friend. The letters in this collection span almost seventy years, the first written ten days before Paddy's twenty-fifth birthday, the last when h ...Show more