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  • Bibliography:
    6 Books
  • First Book:
    April 1984
  • Latest Book:
    December 2016
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Book List in Order: 6 titles





  • Winner of the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award in Autobiography and a New York Times bestseller: a prize-winning, critically acclaimed memoir on life and aging ―“An honest joy to read” (Alice Munro).

    Hailed as “a virtuoso exer...



  • "I can remember in detail being hit by my first story one January morning in 1958." So begins literary legend Diana Athill in the preface to Midsummer Night in the Workhouse, a long-overdue collection of her short fiction, stories which were original...



  • In Make Believe, Diana Athill, acclaimed author of Instead of a Letter and Stet, remembers her turbulent friendship with Hakim Jamal, a young black convert to the teachings of Malcolm X, whom she met in London in the late 1960s.Despite a desperately ...



  • A remarkable, truthful and vivid recollection of childhood, from the author of Stet, After a Funeral, Don't Look at Me Like That and Instead of a Letter. Here Athill goes back to the beginning in a sharp evocation of a childhood unfashionably filled ...



  • A candid novel of love, betrayal, and friendship about a young woman who breaks with her peers, moves to London, and begins a shocking affair. “When I was at school I used to think that everyone disliked me, and it wasn’t far from true” confess...




Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Diana Athill has published 6 books.

Diana Athill does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Don't Look At Me Like That, was published in December 2016.

The first book by Diana Athill, Instead of a Letter, was published in April 1984.

No. Diana Athill does not write books in series.