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9780393253719 | W W Norton & Co Inc, January 4, 2016, cover price $24.95
9781783782543 | Granta Books, December 1, 2015, cover price $21.30

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9781862074842 | Granta Books, September 1, 2002, cover price $18.95

Paperback:

9781847084262 | Reprint edition (Granta Books, April 30, 2013), cover price $13.95
9781862075511 | Granta Books, February 1, 2004, cover price $15.95

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9781862077089 | Granta Books, February 10, 2005, cover price $16.95

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Product Description: This epistolary memoir―rich with Diana Athill's characteristic wit, humor, elegance and honesty―describes a warm, decades-long friendship. Diana Athill is one of our great women of letters. The renowned editor of V. S. Naipaul, Jean Rhys, and many others, she is also a celebrated memoirist whose Somewhere Towards the End was a New York Times bestseller and a National Book Critics Circle Award winner...read more

Hardcover:

9780393062953 | W W Norton & Co Inc, April 16, 2012, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: This epistolary memoir―rich with Diana Athill's characteristic wit, humor, elegance and honesty―describes a warm, decades-long friendship.

Product Description: Written in an even more vivid and direct style than her celebrated memoirs, Diana Athill's letters to the American poet Edward Field reveal a sharply intelligent woman with a brilliant sense of humour, a keen eye for the absurd, a fierce loyalty and a passionate zest for life...read more

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9781847084897 | Lea edition (Granta Books, October 6, 2011), cover price $154.35 | About this edition: Written in an even more vivid and direct style than her celebrated memoirs, Diana Athill's letters to the American poet Edward Field reveal a sharply intelligent woman with a brilliant sense of humour, a keen eye for the absurd, a fierce loyalty and a passionate zest for life.

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9781770890619 | House of Anansi Pr, November 22, 2011, cover price $18.95
9781903155820 | Gardners Books, April 14, 2011, cover price $21.25

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9780393338584 | W W Norton & Co Inc, June 7, 2010, cover price $13.95

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9780393338577 | W W Norton & Co Inc, June 7, 2010, cover price $14.95

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9780393067705 | W W Norton & Co Inc, January 5, 2009, cover price $24.95

Paperback:

9780393338003 | 1 reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, December 7, 2009), cover price $13.95

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9781410419118 | Large print edition (Thorndike Pr, October 2, 2009), cover price $31.50

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Product Description: Granta goes to the movies. This issue includes Thomas Keneally on finding Schindler's List, Roger Lewis on Peter Sellers, Pankaj Mishra in Bombay, Ian Jack on the Roxy, the Rialto, the Ritz and the Regal, Andrew O'Hagan on his years as a movie critic, and the stories of the people who fell from stardom in Hollywood...read more
By Diana Athill (contributor), Sophie Harrison (contributor), Ian Jack (editor), Gail Lynch (contributor), Blake Morrison (contributor) and Andrew O'Hagan (contributor)

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9781929001163 | Granta Books, August 1, 2004, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Granta goes to the movies.

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Product Description: The Gender Management System (GMS) is a holistic approach to gender mainstreaming. The Commonwealth Secretariat has produced a series of reference manuals to assist governments and others in mainstreaming gender, using the GMS. This Toolkit will enable people to put these manuals into practice by providing a range of tools to make them more accessible...read more

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9780850927689 | Pck edition (Commonwealth Secretarial, April 1, 2004), cover price $75.00 | About this edition: The Gender Management System (GMS) is a holistic approach to gender mainstreaming.

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Product Description: 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 conventions—until she gets a job and moves to London, and her best friend Roxane marries a man selected by her mother...read more

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9781862074415 | Granta Books, September 1, 2002, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: It is the 1950s in England, where well-brought-up young women are meant to aspire to the respectable life.

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Product Description: Diana Athill's Stet is "a beautifully written, hardheaded, and generally insightful look back at the heyday of postwar London publishing by a woman who was at its center for nearly half a century" (The Washington Times). A founding editor of the prestigious publishing house Andre Deutsch, Ltd...read more

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9780802116833 | Grove Pr, March 1, 2001, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: In an insightful memoir of life in a publishing house, the author guides readers through the corridors of literary London, illustrating the portraits of some of the century's most fascinating writers from her unique perspective of editor, friend, and observant insider.

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9780802138620 | Grove Pr, March 1, 2002, cover price $13.00 | About this edition: Diana Athill's Stet is "a beautifully written, hardheaded, and generally insightful look back at the heyday of postwar London publishing by a woman who was at its center for nearly half a century" (The Washington Times).

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Diana Athill's memoir of a life spent working with some of the charismatic characters who have dominated 20th-century literature. With inimitable wit and rare candour, she recounts tales from a long life in publishing, including reflections on editing writers such as Jean Rhys and Gitta Sereny.

Hardcover:

9781862073883 | New edition (Granta Books, July 28, 2000), cover price $20.10

Paperback:

9781862074408 | New edition (Granta Books, August 17, 2001), cover price $14.35 | About this edition: Diana Athill's memoir of a life spent working with some of the charismatic characters who have dominated 20th-century literature.

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This is the story of how and why a talented writer came to kill himself. When Diana Athill met the man she calls Didi, an Egyptian in exile, she fell in love instantly. With painful honesty, Diana Athill explores the three years they spent together; a period that culminated in Didi's suicide.

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9780899194547 | Ticknor & Fields, November 1, 1986, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Recounts the story of the author's involvement with Didi, an Egyptian exile in London who lured her into a state of infatuation and eventually tortured her with his irreversible drive to suicide

Paperback:

9781862073890 | New edition (Granta Books, July 28, 2000), cover price $14.35 | About this edition: This is the story of how and why a talented writer came to kill himself.

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The author, a British editor, recounts her relationship with Hakim Jamal, a Black activist, and his relationships with Jean Seberg and Gail Benson, the daughter of a Member of Parliament

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9781883642211 | Steerforth Pr, March 1, 1994, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: The author, a British editor, recounts her relationship with Hakim Jamal, a Black activist, and his relationships with Jean Seberg and Gail Benson, the daughter of a Member of Parliament

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A British writer recounts her life, her betrayal by a man she wanted to marry, her emotional recovery, and her career in publishing

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9780881840469 | Carroll & Graf Pub, April 1, 1984, cover price $7.95 | About this edition: A British writer recounts her life, her betrayal by a man she wanted to marry, her emotional recovery, and her career in publishing

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