Subject: Literature -- Anecdotes (Keywords)

Several years ago, Diana Athill accepted that she could no longer live entirely independently, and moved to a retirement home in Highgate. There, she found herself released from the daily anxieties of caring for her own property, and free to settle into her remaining years. From this vantage poin...

Several years ago, Diana Athill accepted that she could no longer live entirely independently, and moved to a retirement home in Highgate. There, she found herself released from the daily anxieties of caring for her own property, and free to settle into her remaining years. From this vantage poin...

This is a collection about risk, courage, and facing the unknown, drawn from the best stories ever told on their stages. 'All These Wonders' features voices both familiar and new. Storytellers include the writers Marlon James and Christina Lamb, as well as a hip hop 'one hit wonder', an astronome...

Through the medium of her postcards - small documents that are the emails of the 20th century - Susannah Clapp evokes Angela Carter's anarchic intelligence, her fierce politics, the richness of her language, her ribaldry, the great swoops of her imagination; she will also say something about her ...

Jonathan Lynn, the co-writer of 'Yes Minister', presents an insider's look at how comedy works through a collection of hilarious anecdotes.

Cyclogeography lifts the lid on the hidden world of Cycle Couriers, the 'solitary creatures of the underworld', and the strange or illicit contents of the parcels they deliver. Here Jon Day explores the extraordinary subculture of courier bicycle races including the Cycle Messenger World Champion...

Hollywood's legendary bad-boy screenwriter tells everything he knows about the business, its habits, and its players after his 30 years in filmmaking.

Sacked from his high-profile job as a national newspaper editor, the author dived headlong into the world of celebrity. Here, he records the ins-&-outs of his attempts to better himself in the celebrity sphere, winding his way from Battersea to Beverly Hills, clashing & getting drunk with some of...

Clare Balding, TV presenter, sportswoman, bestselling author and national treasure spent her childhood falling off and getting back in the saddle. In her first non-fiction book for children, she shares her warm, funny and reassuring personal insights into what it means to make mistakes and be una...

Part memoir, part rant, 'How To Be A Woman' follows Caitlin Moran from her terrible 13th birthday, through adolescence, the workplace, strip-clubs, love, fat, abortion, TopShop, motherhood and beyond.