The former Children’s Laureate and poet lost a child and, years later, nearly succumbed to Covid-19. Kind and wise about loss and recovery.
Getting Better: Life Lessons on Going Under, Getting Over It, and Getting Through It
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£16.99
Edition:Hardback978152914889302/02/2023
Categories: 01. New Year 2023: Biography & Memoir, Biography, Letters & Diaries, New Year 2023
Tag: Memoir
From a Bookshelf nearby
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A marvellous debut from a young man of complex literary and musical parentage: birds of a feather, sins of the father, on and off the rails (the cenotaph too, memorably) - and a magpie calle... read more
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My theory and practice is to say yes to life and then I'll see how I manage along the way. Part memoir, part manifesto of a fiercely independent spirit; intelligent and lyrical.
The Soul of a Woman
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Of the 50,000 Jews who were sent to concentration camps from Salonika, only 2,000 returned. The author is one of them. This manuscript from 1948 is presented by his grandson.
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This is the first publication of Hugh Trevor-Roper's private journal of his visit to the People's Republic of China in 1965, shortly before the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution. It also d... read more