The Assassin’s Cloak
- 5 Nov 2020
- 9781786899118
- £25
- 720 pp
- 162×240mm
- 5 Nov 2020
- 9781838852924
- £15.99
- 720 pp
In a few words
A beautiful and updated edition of this collection of the world’s greatest diarists on its twentieth anniversary
In a few words
A beautiful and updated edition of this collection of the world’s greatest diarists on its twentieth anniversary
Triumphantly eclectic and entertaining . . . What this delightful book demonstrates is that there is nothing more gripping than everyday life, and nothing more extraordinary than the commonplace
Utterly compulsive, thanks, in part, to the excellent editing and the way in which they have allowed the commonplace to co-exist with the sage, the hackneyed with the gnostic. Its cumulative effect is surprisingly moving
Triumphantly eclectic and entertaining . . . What this delightful book demonstrates is that there is nothing more gripping than everyday life, and nothing more extraordinary than the commonplace
Utterly compulsive, thanks, in part, to the excellent editing and the way in which they have allowed the commonplace to co-exist with the sage, the hackneyed with the gnostic. Its cumulative effect is surprisingly moving
More about
the book
‘A diary is an assassin’s cloak which we wear when we stab a comrade in the back with a pen’, wrote William Soutar in 1934. But a diary is also a place for recording everyday thoughts and special occasions, private fears and hopeful dreams. The Assassin’s Cloak gathers together some of the most entertaining and inspiring entries for each day of the year, as writers ranging from Queen Victoria to Andy Warhol, Samuel Pepys to Adrian Mole, pen their musings on the historic and the mundane.
Spanning centuries and international in scope, this peerless anthology pays tribute to a genre that is at once the most intimate and public of all literary forms.
This new updated edition is published to mark the twentieth anniversary of the book’s original publication.
More about
the book
‘A diary is an assassin’s cloak which we wear when we stab a comrade in the back with a pen’, wrote William Soutar in 1934. But a diary is also a place for recording everyday thoughts and special occasions, private fears and hopeful dreams. The Assassin’s Cloak gathers together some of the most entertaining and inspiring entries for each day of the year, as writers ranging from Queen Victoria to Andy Warhol, Samuel Pepys to Adrian Mole, pen their musings on the historic and the mundane.
Spanning centuries and international in scope, this peerless anthology pays tribute to a genre that is at once the most intimate and public of all literary forms.
This new updated edition is published to mark the twentieth anniversary of the book’s original publication.
Wonderful . . . The range of diarists and subjects is remarkable, and the anthology is one to which you will want to return again and again
For a delicious daily read, nothing can eclipse The Assassin’s Cloak. This is the ultimate bedside book
This gloriously serendipitous gathering of diarists provides wonderfully diverse comments on virtually everything under the sun
A superb collection . . . Gossipy, funny, perceptive and vicious . . . Every dip-in is a sheer delight
Wonderful . . . The range of diarists and subjects is remarkable, and the anthology is one to which you will want to return again and again
For a delicious daily read, nothing can eclipse The Assassin’s Cloak. This is the ultimate bedside book
This gloriously serendipitous gathering of diarists provides wonderfully diverse comments on virtually everything under the sun
A superb collection . . . Gossipy, funny, perceptive and vicious . . . Every dip-in is a sheer delight
