In My Mind's Eye: A Thought Diary

Author: Jan Morris

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  • : 9780571340910
  • : Faber & Faber, Limited
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  • : May 2018
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  • : October 2018
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October 2018

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AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4s BOOK OF THE WEEK


'Morris is one of Britain's greatest living writers.' The Times

'Fascinating ... valuable and rare. This book is a writer's constitutional.' Kate Kellaway, Observer

'I have never before in my life kept a diary of my thoughts, and here at the start of my ninth decade, having for the moment nothing much else to write, I am having a go at it. Good luck to me.'


So begins this extraordinary book, a collection of diary pieces that Jan Morris wrote for the Financial Times over the course of 2017.


A former soldier and journalist, and one of the great chroniclers of the world for over half a century, she writes here in her characteristically intimate voice - funny, perceptive, wise, touching, wicked, scabrous, and above all, kind - about her thoughts on the world, and her own place in it as she turns ninety. From cats to cars, travel to home, music to writing, it's a cornucopia of delights from a unique literary figure.