The first volume of Frederic Raphael's notebooks, Personal Terms, was greeted in the TLS as 'a sm...
In 1951, when he was twenty, the novelist, screen-writer and homme-de-lettres-to-be Frederic Raph...
The fourth volume of Frederic Raphael's notebooks, Ticks and Crosses covers the years 1976 to 197...
My notebooks are my conscience,' writes Frederic Raphael. 'They contain a writer's letters to him...
During a Christmas leave in London, Ford Madox Ford attended a party at the French Embassy, 'a he...
The novelist Gabriel Josipovici's new book of essays ranges from writings on the Bible, Shakespea...
In 1911 some of D.H. Lawrence's poems and his story Odour of Chrysanthemums found their way, with...
We had been instructed to start promptly at six, since the hall was needed again at eight. We pus...
This is a book about remoteness: a memoir of places observed in solitude, of the texture of life ...
Ford Madox Ford spent his last years in the south of France, near Toulon. In Provence (1935), wri...
Here is a portrait of the poet by his wife which has no equal, not even in Mary Shelley's sketche...
The essays, reviews, memoirs and other writings collected here for the first time conjure up one ...