Books by Diana Athill

One of the great editors in British publishing reflects candidly and with great humor on the condition of being old--the triumphs and tragedies, as ... More

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One of the great editors in British publishing reflects candidly and with great humor on the condition of being old--the triumphs and tragedies, as ... More

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A classic memoir by the author of the New York Times bestseller Somewhere Towards the End.

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A remarkable, truthful and vivid recollection of childhood, from the author of Stet, After a Funeral, Don't Look at Me Like That and Instead of a ... More

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For nearly 50 years, Diana Athill edited (and nursed and coerced and coaxed) some of the most celebrated writers in the English language. In a prose ... More

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Diana Athill, born in 1917, made her reputation as a writer with the candour of her memoirs; through her commitment, in her words, 'to understand, to ... More

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Diana Athill has corresponded with the American poet Edward Field for over thirty years, freely sharing jokes, pleasures and pains with her old ... More

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In 1963 Diana Athill published an autobiography called Instead of a Letter, which has gained an enduring reputation. Its latest 'rediscovery' was in ... More

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Diana Athill's Stet is "a beautifully written, hardheaded, and generally insightful look back at the heyday of postwar London publishing by a woman ... More

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On 2nd January 1972, an Englishwoman called Hale Kimga was murdered in Trinidad. A year later, a black American called Hakim Jamal was murdered in ... More

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This epistolary memoir rich with Diana Athill's characteristic wit, humor, elegance and honesty describes a warm, decades-long friendship.

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"I can remember in detail being hit by my first story one January morning in 1958." So begins literary legend Diana Athill in the preface to ... More

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English author Diana Athill writes about her relationship with Hakim Jamal, the black American activist and Malcolm X disciple who came to believe he ... More

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It is the 1950s in England, where well-brought-up young women are meant to aspire to the respectable life. Meg Bailey duly follows the rules and ... More

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