Form/Genre: Diaries

To tie in with the release of his first James Bond film, 'Live and Let Die', Roger Moore agreed to keep a day-by-day diary throughout the film's production which was published just ahead of the premiere in July 1973. From the previous October, when he was unveiled as the new 007, through to his f...

'Prelude to Power' is the first of four volumes and covers the early days of New Labour, culminating in their victory at the polls in 1997. It details the extraordinary tensions between Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.

'Power and the People' is the second of four volumes, and covers the first two years of the New Labour government, beginning with their landslide victory at the polls in 1997. It details an astonishing array of events and personalities, progress and setbacks, crises and scandals, as Labour make t...

The third volume of diaries, covering 1999 to 2001. Life continues apace for Campbell and the New Labour government. Alongside the day-to-day running of the country, they deal with the fallout from the military action in Kosovo, continuing negotiations over Northern Ireland, and the pressures whi...

This is the final volume of Alastair Campbell's diaries, and perhaps the most eagerly awaited given the ground it covers. It begins on September 11, 2001, a day which wrote itself immediately into the history books, and it ends on the day Campbell leaves Downing Street.

This is a must for any allotment owner, packed with useful advice. It includes month-by-month tips on sowing, growing, allotment care and seasonal recipes.

Sheila Heti kept a record of her thoughts over a ten-year period, then arranged the sentences from A to Z. In the vein of Joe Brainard's 'I Remember' and Edouard Leve's 'Autoportrait', passionate and reflective, joyful and despairing, these are the alphabetical diaries.

'I am one of the cracked people of the world,' Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon wrote of herself, 'and I like to herd with the cracked - queer Americans, democrats, socialists, artists, poor devils or angels; and am never happy in an English genteel family life. I try to do it like other people, but ...

Animals bond people and transcend class, financial and cultural barriers, pets matter to people more than anything, but what happens to those people who can't afford pet insurance or vet's bills. 'Animal Matters' is a diary of real-life cases written during a year of Charlotte's career working as...

Through the discovery of a precious friendship album which belonged to 12-year-old Alie, a Jewish schoolgirl in Amsterdam, Claudia Carli has traced and preserved the lives of an entire class of girls, most of whom did not survive the war. Alie and her friends are brought touchingly and vividly to...

From talking Brexit with Trump and trying not to embarrass the Queen, to courting communists and wasting a fortune on a pop concert that descended into farce, this is his unexpurgated and highly entertaining diary of the referendum campaign.

RAF fighter pilot George Barclay kept a personal diary of his time flying Hurricanes and Spitfires in 1940-41. Presented here with photographs and ephemera from his personal albums, this is a descriptive chronicle of the life of an RAF front-line fighter pilot during the Battle of Britain.

Historical recruitment campaigns to become a Royal Marines Commando drew on a harrowing but intriguing narrative: 99.9% Need Not Apply. In 2005, only one in a thousand applications for the Royal Marines were successful in reaching the end of training, earning the Coveted Green Beret - a world ren...

Historical recruitment campaigns to become a Royal Marines Commando drew on a harrowing but intriguing narrative: 99.9% Need Not Apply. In 2005, only one in a thousand applications for the Royal Marines were successful in reaching the end of training, earning the Coveted Green Beret - a world ren...

Tony Benn was one of the twentieth century's most charismatic politicians. 'The Benn Diaries', kept for almost seventy years, are a uniquely authoritative, fascinating and readable record of the political life of our times. This single-volume edition is the selected highlights of the complete dia...

Tony Benn's 6 volumes of diaries, covering the years 1940-1990, are already established as a uniquely authoritative and personal record of political life this century. Here they are published together in a single volume for the first time.

Political diaries of one of the most significant politicians of the late twentieth century. Covering the entire Thatcher/Major period from the former's election in 1979 to the latter's defeat in 1997 - during which time Norman Fowler held prominent positions in the Cabinet and as party Chairman -...

Henrietta is a true original. Clever, vivacious, and interested in everything, she managed to balance the demands of high profile public life with that of a caring mother. She was the home-schooled daughter of a bankrupt Earl and more than just a little bit in love with her handsome wayward broth...

Where can a tin of tuna buy you clean clothes? Which British education system struggles with 50% illiteracy? Where do teetotal Muslims attend AA meetings? Where is it easier to get 'spice' than paracetamol? Where does self-harm barely raise an eyebrow? Welcome to Her Majesty's Prison Service, a c...

Where can a tin of tuna buy you clean clothes? Which British education system struggles with 50% illiteracy? Where do teetotal Muslims attend AA meetings? Where is it easier to get 'spice' than paracetamol? Where does self-harm barely raise an eyebrow? Welcome to Her Majesty's Prison Service, a c...