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Jan Morris

Jan Morris was born in 1926 of a Welsh father and an English mother, and when she is not travelling she lives with her partner Elizabeth Morris in the top left-hand corner of Wales, between the mountains and the sea. Her books include Coronation Everest, Venice, The Pax Britannica Trilogy (Heaven's Command, Pax Britannica, and Farewell the Trumpets), and Conundrum. She is also the author of six books about cities and countries, two autobiographical books, several volumes of collected travel essays and, more recently, the unclassifiable Trieste and the Meaning of Nowhere. A Writer's World, a collection of her travel writing and reportage from over five decades, was published in 2003.

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Title:

In My Mind's Eye: A Thought Diary

Written by:

Jan Morris 

Read by:

Phyllida Nash 

Format:

Unabridged CD Audio Book 

Number of CDs:

6 

Duration:

6 hours 31 minutes 

Published:

January 28 2019 

Available Date:

January 28 2019 

Age Category:

Adult 

ISBN:

9781489481603 

Genres:

Non-fiction; British; Lifestyle - Travel; Writer 

Publisher:

Bolinda/Audible audio 

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AUD$ 39.95

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Riffing on cats and Brexit, the Royals and the annoyances of aging, the nonagenarian Jan Morris delights with her wickedly hilarious first-ever diary collection.

'I have never before in my life kept a diary of my thoughts, and here at the start of my ninth decade, having for the moment nothing much else to write, I am having a go at it. Good luck to me.' So begins this extraordinary book, a collection of diary pieces that Jan Morris wrote for the Financial Times over the course of 2017. A former soldier and journalist, and one of the great chroniclers of the world for over half a century, she writes here in her characteristically intimate voice – funny, perceptive, wise, touching, wicked, scabrous, and above all, kind – about her thoughts on the world, and her own place in it as she turns 90. From cats to cars, travel to home, music to writing, it's a cornucopia of delights from a unique literary figure.

'A thing of wonder: a diary of daily musings with zero pretension. It is light yet profound, ecstatic yet melancholy, ethereal yet droll.'
The Evening Standard

'Morris is one of Britain's greatest living writers.'
The Times

'A splendidly quirky confection which mixes the trivial with the serious, like life.'
Literary Review