Lessons in Becoming Myself
by Ellen Burstyn | 
That's Another Story
by Julie Walters |
Just Me
by Sheila Hancock | 
Arrow In The Blue
by Arthur Koestler |
Will This Do?
by Auberon Waugh |
Point to Point Navigation
by Gore Vidal | 
Quicksands
by Sybille Bedford | 
A Little Learning
by Evelyn Waugh |
Blue Remembered Hills
by Rosemary Sutcliff | 
No More Words
by Reeve Lindbergh |
Losing Mum and Pup
by Christopher Buckley |
A House with Four Rooms
by Rumer Godden | 
Under a Wing
by Reeve Lindbergh |
Under My Skin
by Doris Lessing | 
The Americanization of Edward Bok
by Edward Bok | 
The Liars' Club
by Mary Karr | 
Truth & Beauty
by Ann Patchett |
Another Forgotten Child
by Cathy Glass | 
Borrowed Time
by Paul Monette | 
Amateur Night at the Bubblegum Kittikat
by Victoria Fedden |
A Cab at the Door, originally published in 1968, recalls his childhood in turn-of-the-century and World War I London with the urbane subtlety and wry humor that have marked his other works. For the wild and eccentric Pritchett family, life is a series of cabs waiting at the door to transport them to a succession of ten-bob-a-week lodgings, in their flight from creditors and the financial disasters of their father. It also captures the texture and color of the working class side of Edwardian England. Midnight Oil (which Wilfrid Sheed called a 'little Rolls Royce of a book' when it came out in 1972) opens in 1921: with L20 in his pocket, Pritchett arrives in Paris to commence a literary career. Gradually, his creative sensibilities emerge as he travels as a reporter to Ireland, Spain, and America. Midnight Oil provides an intimate and precise record of a writer's discovery of himself and his art.