Waguih Ghali, zwischen 1927 und 1929 in Kairo geboren, studierte in Alexandria, Kairo und Paris Medizin, allerdings ohne Abschluss, und lebte später in Schweden und Deutschland, wo er verschiedenen Berufen nachging. Nachdem er schon Mitte der 50er-Jahre in London gelebt hatte, kehrte er 1966 wieder dorthin zurück. 1964 war bei André Deutsch in London sein Roman „Beer in the Snooker Club“ erschienen. 1969 nahm sich Ghali mit Schlaftabletten in der Wohnung seiner Lektorin und Freundin Diana Athill das Leben. Seine Tagebücher sind posthum erschienen.
22 Ebooks by Diana Athill
Waguih Ghali: Snooker in Kairo
In „Snooker in Kairo“ geht es um Ram, einen ägyptischen „Fänger im Roggen“ als Ich-Erzähler, und seinen Freund Font, ihre Familien und Freunde, und um seine Liebe zur Jüdin Edna. Ram und Font stammen …
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Diana Athill: Midsummer Night in the Workhouse
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 …
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€25.41
Diana Athill: Don’t Look At Me Like That
England, in the mid-fifties. Meg Bailey has always aspired to live a respectable life. With her best friend, Roxane, she moves from secondary school to an un-Bohemian art college in Oxford. Under the …
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€14.86
Diana Athill: After A Funeral
This is the story of how and why a talented writer came to kill himself. When Diana Athill met the man she calls Didi, an Egyptian in exile, she fell in love instantly and out of love just as fast. …
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€17.46
Waguih Ghali: Beer in the Snooker Club
Behind the bar at Jameel’s in Cairo hang two mugs engraved with the names of Ram and Font. During their years together in London, they drank many a pint of Bass from these mugs. But there is no Bass …
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€12.99
Diana Athill: Stet
A New York Times Notable Book: This memoir of a career in book publishing “should please anyone who cares about twentieth-century literature” (The Washington Post Book World). For …
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€22.52
Diana Athill: Alive, Alive Oh!
“Enchanting . . . Diana Athill, 98, still has a few things to teach us about growing old with dignity and humor and grace . . . Astute and sparkling.”—Associated Press …
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€14.97
Diana Athill: Somewhere Towards The End
What is it like to be old? Diana Athill made her reputation as a writer with the candour of her memoirs – her commitment, in her words, ‘to understand, to be aware, to touch the truth’. Now in her …
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€14.95
Diana Athill: Life Class
Diana Athill, born in 1917, made her reputation as a writer with the candour of her memoirs; through her commitment, in her words, ‘to understand, to be aware, to touch the truth’. In a celebration …
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€14.92
Diana Athill: Stet : a Memoir
Diana Athill’s memoir of a life spent working with some of the charismatic characters who have dominated 20th-century literature. In a prose style of inimitable wit and rare candour, she recounts …
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€13.73
Diana Athill: Instead of a Book
Written in an even more vivid and direct style than her celebrated memoirs, Diana Athill’s letters to the American poet Edward Field reveal a sharply intelligent woman with a brilliant sense of …
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€14.98
Diana Athill: Instead of a Letter
Diana Athill’s childhood was idyllic, brought up in the Norfolk countryside. Aged only fifteen, she fell in love with a young undergraduate. They travelled to Oxford, engaged to be married. Then …
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€23.68
Diana Athill: Yesterday Morning: A Very English Childhood
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 …
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€14.95
Diana Athill: Make Believe: A True Story
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 …
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€14.95
Kate Grenville: The Secret River
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEWINNER OF THE COMMONWEALTH WRITERS’ PRIZEA BBC2 BIG JUBILEE BETWEEN THE COVERS READLondon, 1806. William Thornhill, happily wedded to his childhood sweetheart Sal, …
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€9.97
Kate Grenville: Secret River and Searching for The Secret River
*NEW NOVEL RESTLESS DOLLY MAUNDER SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024*Kate Grenville’s The Secret River was one of the most loved novels of 2006. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and …
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€11.99
Diana Athill: Somewhere Towards the End: A Memoir
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 …
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€15.99
Diana Athill: Letters to a Friend
“What a feast. Diana’s work compels me. . . . She’s got her teeth into life!”—Alice Munro Diana Athill is one of our great women of letters. The renowned editor of V. S. Naipaul, Jean Rhys, and many …
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Diana Athill: Alive, Alive Oh!: And Other Things That Matter
“An invitation to sit a spell with an intractable and witty friend.” —New York Times Book Review
What will you remember if you live to be 100?
Diana Athill charmed readers with her prize-winning …
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€14.99
Diana Athill: After a Funeral: A Memoir
A classic memoir by the author of the New York Times bestseller Somewhere Towards the End. When Diana Athill met the man she calls Didi, she fell in love instantly and out of love just as fast. Didi’ …
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€16.99
