Memoirs & Journals

Originally published in 1976, Christopher and His Kind covers the most memorable ten years in the writer's life--from 1929, when Isherwood left Eng...

This is the story of Christopher Isherwood's parents--their meeting in 1895, marriage in 1903 after his father had returned from the Boer War, and ...

In 1986 Derek Jarman discovered he was HIV positive and decided to make a garden at his cottage on the barren coast of Dungeness. Facing an uncerta...

A poetic meditation on life and death, by one of the most renowned and respected film-makers and intellectuals of our time. In November 1974, when ...

translated by Margaret Jull Costa Born in 1922 in the tiny Portuguese village of Azinhaga, José Saramago was only a baby when his family moved to a...

When Elspeth Huxley's pioneer father buys a remote plot of land in Kenya, the family sets off to discover their new home: five hundred acres of Ken...

With superb skill and feeling, Graham Greene retraces the experiences and encounters of his extraordinary life. His restlessness is legendary; as i...