The Diary Review

‘It’s a private Journal. No one has ever seen a page of it. And the question remains - why do I write it? I suppose, subconsciously, anyone ...

Carl Van Vechten, the American writer and photographer, was born 140 years ago today. He is well remembered for his photographs of artists a...

‘Reached the summit of the Highest land we have yet been, ... and Encamped by a fine stream of water. Here we had a fine view of all our Set...

‘Another four years to say “less than thirty years old”. Will I be forgiven for being “old” without having yet published ten novels and four...

Today marks the one hundred and tenth anniversary of the birth of the playwright Bill Naughton, best known for writing Alfie , later turned ...

1939 Venice diary author sought - Fox13 , mystery solved Fox 13 Spanish flu family diaries - NBC News Pepys and the plague - The Convers...

E. M. Forster, the important British writer, died 50 years ago today. He is famous for six novels - including  Howard’s End and A Room with...

Today marks the 70th anniversary of the first time that man reached the summit of Annapurna, Nepal, and the first time, in fact, that any mo...

‘While I was asleep the men cut the trees to make clearance to establish our first camp. They picked up a place adjacent to a clear spring ...

‘Once awake everyone starts louse-hunting. At eight the gong sounds for the morning meal. Come on, let’s go and our stomachs try to fill: ...

‘This is nothing like I had ever seen. It was much worse than any photographs of the face of the moon. It looked like a boiling cauldron, be...