Told Through Diaries or Letters

Read the innermost thoughts and feelings of characters with these stories told through letters or diaries

Updated May 28, 2024
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I capture the castle
Smith, Dodie
Paper Book
'This book has one of the most charismatic narrators I've ever met' J K Rowling 'I write this sitting in the kitchen sink' is the first line of this timeless, witty and enchanting novel about growing up. Cassandra Mortmain lives with her bohemian and impoverished...
The Chilbury Ladies' Choir : a novel
Ryan, Jennifer
Paper Book
'The writing glows with emotional intelligence. This atmospheric debut...had me sniffing copiously' Daily Mail IN WARTIME, SURVIVAL IS AS MUCH ABOUT FRIENDSHIP AS IT IS ABOUT COURAGE... Kent, 1940. In the idyllic village of Chilbury change is afoot. Hearts are breaking as sons and...
The color purple
Walker, Alice
Paper Book
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Shaffer, Mary Ann.
Paper Book
The beloved, life-affirming international bestseller which has sold over half a million copies worldwide - soon to be a major film coming in April 2018, starring Lily James, Matthew Goode, Jessica Brown Findlay, Tom Courtenay and Penelope WiltonIt's 1946. The war is over, and Juliet Ashton...
The historian : a novel
Kostova, Elizabeth.
Paper Book
THE SUMPTUOUS INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER. 'A smart retelling of the Dracula story' New Yorker 'Quite extraordinary....Kostova is a natural storyteller....She has refashioned the vampire myth into a compelling contemporary novel, a late-night page...
Letters from an astrophysicist
Tyson, Neil deGrasse
Paper Book
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Join the galactic conversation on the biggest issues in the universe, from the 'most popular scientist in the world' 'Don't fear change. Don't fear failure. The only thing to fear is loss of ambition. But if you've got...
The Martian : a novel
Weir, Andy
Paper Book
I'm stranded on Mars. I have no way to communicate with Earth. I'm in a Habitat designed to last 31 days. If the Oxygenator breaks down, I'll suffocate. If the Water Reclaimer breaks down, I'll die of thirst. If the Hab breaches, I'll just kind of explode....
On earth we're briefly gorgeous : a novel
Vuong, Ocean
Paper Book
THE MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER AND TIKTOK SENSATION 'A marvel' Marlon James Brilliant, heart-breaking and highly original, discover Ocean Vuong's shattering coming of age novel. This is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read...
A private spy : the letters of John le Carré
Le Carré, John
Paper Book
A Private Spy spans seven decades and chronicles not only le Carre's own life but the turbulent times to which he was witness. Beginning with his 1940s childhood, it includes accounts of his National Service and his time at Oxford, and his days teaching the 'chinless, pointy-nosed gooseberry...
The Screwtape letters ; with, Screwtape proposes a toast
Lewis, C. S.
Paper Book
A milestone in the history of popular theology, 'The Screwtape Letters' is an iconic classic on spiritual warfare and the power of the devil. This profound and striking narrative takes the form of a series of letters from Screwtape, a devil high in the Infernal Civil Service, to his...
The Twyford code : a novel
Hallett, Janice
Paper Book
The dazzling new bestseller from the author of The Appeal.
We need to talk about Kevin : a novel
Shriver, Lionel.
Paper Book
WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2010ONE MILLION COPIES SOLDEva never really wanted to be a mother; certainly not the mother of a boy named Kevin who murdered seven of his fellow high school students, a cafeteria worker and a teacher who had tried to befriend him. Now, two years after her son...
Where'd you go, Bernadette : a novel
Semple, Maria
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES bestseller Shortlisted for the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction Now a major motion picture, directed by Richard Linklater and starring Cate Blanchett, Kristen Wiig and Billy Crudup 'Like A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD written by...
World War Z : an oral history of the zombie war
Brooks, Max
Ebook
It began with rumours from China about another pandemic. Then the cases started to multiply and what had looked like the stirrings of a criminal underclass, even the beginnings of a revolution, soon revealed itself to be much, much worse. Faced with a future of mindless, man-eating horror,...

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