Stet: A Memoir - Hardcover

This is Diana Athill's memoir of her time spent working with some of the charismatic characters that dominate 20th-century literature. She recounts tales from a life in publishing - including her reflections on editing writers such as V.S. Naipaul, Jean Rhys, Gitta Sereny and Brian Moore. She also offers an account of her own writing career, which includes the works, "Instead of a Letter" and "After a Funeral".

Diana Athill was born in 1917. Together with Andr Deutsch she established the publishing house that bore his name, where she worked untiol her retiremant in 1985. Her earlier books include Instead of a Letter and After a Funeral, now republished by Granta Books. Diana will be doing a lot of national and regional radio around the time of publication including appearances on Woman's Hour and Book of the Week on Radio 4, and in London on GLR and BBC Thames Valley. Both Diana and Stet will be appearing in all the major national newspapers.- catch any one of these to see what the fuss is about!