Journals

From the American Library Association comes a must-read challenge for book lovers and literary activists to explore! The American Library Association presents a must-read banned book for every week of the year in this beautiful book lover's reading log. Expand your reading list and stand against literary censorship with this one-year reading challenge and book journal! Featuring 52 modern and...

Record your grandfather's life story in this beautiful keepsake journal with 200 guided exercises and prompts that take him back through each stage of his life and its accompanying adventures. Whether called Papa, Grampie, Grandpa, or something else, grandfathers are a family's most-prized treasure and whose patriarchal wisdom, love, and support are needed and appreciated by every member. Grandfathers have...

Take control of your emotions, limit stress, and unleash your full potential daily with this undated mood tracker! Chart your emotions, relieve your anxiety, build a happier you, and thrive this year with an undated mood planner! Filled with proven wellness and self-care tools, this undated self-care planner and anxiety log will guide you to limit stress, increase self-awareness, and...

‘There are few persons’, Anthony Powell wrote in John Aubrey and His Friends, ‘of whom it would be more true to say that they were interested in everything.’ One might say something similar of the London Review of Books, or so we'd like to think. It is our sense of spiritual affinity with the 17th-century antiquary—and pioneering archaeologist, folklorist, garden...

The greatest British diarist of the 20th century . . . finally, we are getting the full text, in all its bitchy, scintillating detail — Ben Macintyre The second volume of the remarkable, Sunday Times bestselling diaries of Chips Channon. A masterpiece - a time machine that transports the reader back to British politics and high society at the end...

Creatrix Awakened Journal is a one-of-a-kind journalling experience, featuring prompts, activations, prayers, and practices from sixteen fierce feminine leaders. This multiauthor journal offers a journey of self-discovery and empowerment, guiding readers to embody their leadership, embrace their sovereignty, and connect with the rising frequencies of the New Earth. The Creatrix Awakened Journal is an empowering, multidimensional journey designed to accompany...

Take your first steps on the path to stellar mental and physical health. In The Astrological Self-Care Journal, reflect on how to nurture your mind, body, and spirit according to the wisdom of the stars. Astrology allows us to understand the nuances of who we are, but can also play a pivotal role in helping us optimise our vitality and...

Harness the power of the magical, mystical, glorious Moon with everything you need included in this kit: magical project book, reflection journal, mystical spell cards, and a moonstone. The Moon is one of our most prominent and ancient symbols. It has shaped how we understand and track time, its movement controls the tides, and its rise into the sky signals...

From the author of the hugely popular 3 Minute Positivity Journal, an all-new journal with more prompts, affirmations, and ways to boost your mood in just minutes a day. Kristen Butler created her original, hugely popular 3 Minute Positivity Journal to share the tools, mindset strategies, and habits that helped her go from depressed and broke—literally broken—to happy, thriving, and...

One of the most influential and compelling books in American literature, Walden is a vivid account of the years that Henry D. Thoreau spent alone in a secluded cabin at Walden Pond. This edition—introduced by noted American writer John Updike—celebrates the perennial importance of a classic work, originally published in 1854. Much of Walden's material is derived from Thoreau's journals...

Gather inspiration from the world's greatest writers and let them inspire your daily reflections in this guided five-year memory book. Inside, quotes from some of the best known works of literature have been curated to bring a daily dose of thoughtful positivity into your journaling. Once your memory book fills, you’ll have a cherished keepsake, and an inimitable list of...

Level up your pickleball game by tracking, assessing, and building your skills with this invitingly illustrated monthly journal. In The Ultimate Pickleball Journal, pro pickleball athlete and author of Play Pickleball, Sydney Steinaker, gives you the tools you need to learn and develop your pickleball skills. This detailed and thorough guide helps you track everything from your day-to-day progress to...

An extraordinary selection of revealing letters to and from one of the titans of 20th-century music Leonard Bernstein was a charismatic and versatile musician—a brilliant conductor who attained international super-star status, and a gifted composer of Broadway musicals (West Side Story), symphonies (Age of Anxiety), choral works (Chichester Psalms), film scores (On the Waterfront), and much more. Bernstein was also...

In Roland Barthes's eyes, Philippe Sollers embodied the figure of the contemporary writer forever seeking something new. Thirty-six years after Barthes produced his study Sollers Writer, Sollers has written a book on the man who was his friend and who shared with him a total faith in literature as a force of invention and discovery, as a resource and an...

Philip Larkin: Letters to Monica captures the unique relationship between Philip Larkin and Monica Jones, who met at University College Leicester in the autumn of 1946. At the time, they were both twenty-four; he was the newly-appointed assistant librarian and she, an English lecturer. In 1950, Larkin moved to Belfast and later to Hull, while Monica remained in Leicester. Despite...

In 1902, a nineteen-year-old aspiring poet named Franz Kappus wrote to Rilke, then twenty-six, seeking advice on his poetry. Kappus, a student at a military academy in Vienna similar to the one Rilke had attended, was about to embark on a career as an officer, for which he had little inclination. Touched by the innocence and forthrightness of the student,...

In Letters of Note: War, Shaun Usher brings together some of the most remarkable letters that encapsulate the human experience of war, from unimaginable feats of courage and compassion to unthinkable episodes of violence and horror. Includes letters by: Martha Gellhorn, Alexander Hamilton, Kurt Vonnegut, Mehmed IV, J.R.R. Tolkien, June Wandrey, Eleanor Wimbish, Luis Alvarez, Canute Frankson, Gajan Singh &...

Using words, drawing, collage, and observation-based list-making, award-winning author Emily K. Neuburger highlights the many paths into journaling. Her 60 interactive writing prompts and art how-tos help you to expand your imagination and stimulate your creativity. Every spread invites a new approach to filling a page, from making a visual map of a day-in-my-life to turning random splotches into quirky...

Clemmie writes about each piece of music with such energy and passion that you can't help but immediately want to stop what you're doing and seek it out. – Eddie Redmayne The only requirements for enjoying classical music are open ears and an open mind. – Clemency Burton-Hill An inspirational journal that will guide you through a year of music,...

Full of charming illustrations and inspiring prompts, A Year of Weeks is an interactive, imagination-sparking road map for a year of trying new things—broken into 52 exciting, achievable activities. From drinking enough water to trying out hand lettering, readers will delight in the engaging challenges and perspective-expanding activities curated by artist Erica Root in A Year of Weeks. Drawing on...

Put every "inconceivable!" idea to paper with the Princess Bride Journal, an officially licensed, deluxe hardcover journal celebrating the characters and quotes of the beloved film. Write a perfect "as you wish" letter to your dream date, correct your coworker who "keeps using that word," or plot out your next "inconceivable!" adventure in this handsome guided journal inspired by the...

Album provides an unparalleled look into Roland Barthes's life of letters. It presents a selection of correspondence, from his adolescence in the 1930s through the height of his career and up to the last years of his life, covering such topics as friendships, intellectual adventures, politics, and aesthetics. It offers an intimate look at Barthes's thought processes and the everyday...

Often we find it difficult to express our true feelings to the ones we love. This beautiful journal is a very special way to say 'I love you' to your best friend. Fill in the prompted pages and gift to your BFF as a sign of your deep connection to one another. Also available: What I Love About YouWhat I...

Fuel success and grow your team at every level of leadership. True leadership isn't a matter of having a certain job or title. In fact, being chosen for a position is only the first of the five levels every effective leader achieves. To become more than "the boss" people follow only because they are required to, you have to master...

Reproducing an expensive goatskin leather book binding crafted in Amsterdam in 1835 by Friedrich W.J.C. Kolb, our Onyx (Asterales) Midi Lined Hardback Journal (Elastic Band Closure) celebrates the harmony between art and science. The binding was originally designed to contain a Latin oration on the physiology of plants by the renowned Dutch botanist Willem Hendrik de Vriese. De Vriese, a...

Bring a touch of peace and wonder to the day ahead with Morning Magic, a guided journal of rituals and reflections to introduce enchantment to each sunrise. Guided rituals for a charmed and reflective morning. From ritual cleansing and manifestation rituals to dream reflections and intention setting, begin each day with a bit of magic. This journal includes instructions for...

This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Latin A-Level (Group 2) prescription of Pliny, Letters 1.9; 3.16; 4.2; 4.19; 8.8; 8.16; 8.17; 9.6, giving full Latin text, commentary and vocabulary, with a detailed introduction that also covers the prescribed material to be read in English. The letters of Pliny the Younger provide a glimpse of what life at the start...

In Letters of Note: Art, Shaun Usher celebrates extraordinary correspondence about art, from missives on the agony of being overlooked, the ecstasy of producing work that excites, to surprising sources of inspiration and rousing manifestos. Includes letters by: Michelangelo, Salvador Dali, Frida Kahlo, Artemisia Gentileschi, Oscar Howe, Paul Nash, Henri Matisse, Mark Rothko, Augusta Savage, Vincent van Gogh & many...

Described as a mix of pop surrealism and lowbrow art, Benjamin Lacombe's style has a vintage look while being distinctly contemporary. In this Empress Jingu A5 Lined (Esprit de Lacombe) Cahier, from his 2003 book titled Storie di donne samurai (Stories of Samurai Women), Lacombe's ability to capture humanity and honest emotion is on full display.

Despite moral pressure and exhaustion, Sentsov's records display his diligence and objective eye as filmmaker and activist. A remarkable two-book volume: Diary of a Hunger Striker, the first-hand account of celebrated Ukrainian filmmaker Oleh Sentsov, jailed unfairly as a political prisoner, during his 145-day-long hunger strike in a Russian prison; and Four and a Half Steps, his newest collection of...

This is the OCR-endorsed edition covering the Latin AS and A-Level (Group 1) prescription of Cicero's pro Caelio, 51–58, 61–68, and the A-Level (Group 2) prescription of 33–50. It provides the full Latin text, commentary, and vocabulary, with a detailed introduction that also covers the prescribed material to be read in English for A Level. Pro Caelio is one of...

Embrace the creative freedom to write, make a mess, and destroy with Write, Design & Wreck. If you're looking for inspiration or want to connect to your creative side in an unconventional way, this book is for you. Discover over 100 prompts that include painting, destroying pages, and answering thought-provoking questions. Embrace the creative freedom to write, make a mess,...

The 2025 Verso Radical Diary is a week-to-view planner for keeping track of the year ahead. Alongside illustrations and book excerpts, it features significant radical dates from throughout history—such as landmark events of the English Civil War and the Black Panther movement, the protests of 1968, and milestones in women's emancipation. Entries touch on the lives of revolutionaries, including Angela...

Begin your healing journey with this step-by-step workbook to help you understand and deal with trauma. Trauma may seem like a daunting word, but it can cover many distressing events – from negative childhood experiences to the ordeal of living through a pandemic. It is often at the source of our fears and anxieties, and it can affect the way...

Quieten your mind with this guided journal, filled with practical tips and simple strategies for managing feelings of anxiety. Anxiety can feel like a huge obstacle to living the life you want - but it doesn't have to be! Brimming with practical activities and inspiring words, The Anxiety Fix is a gentle and encouraging guide to help you flourish. Working...

No other author has been as profoundly formative for me as Kanafani - Mohammed El-Kurd, author of Rifqa I cannot think of a better collection to guide anyone seeking a moral role in the struggle for the liberation of Palestine - Ilan Pappé, author of The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Ghassan Kanafani (1936 - 1972) is perhaps the greatest Palestinian...

"There is scarcely one letter by Van Gogh which I, who am certainly no expert, do not find fascinating." —W. H. Auden In addition to his many remarkable paintings and drawings, Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) left behind a fascinating and voluminous body of correspondence. This highly accessible book includes a broad selection of 265 letters, from a total of 820...

Be transported to the banks of the Seine, a corner boulangerie, or beneath the Eiffel Tower with these beautifully illustrated vignettes of life in the City of Light. What began as a way to fund travel became ten years of a letter subscription service delivering thousands of painted letters to subscribers who delight in fun mail! Eat, Pray, Love meets...

A sweet keepsake journal with fun and thoughtful prompts that will spark conversations and strengthen the bond between mums and their young daughters. Have you ever asked your daughter about her day and received only a one-word response? Wondered what she's thinking while she's sitting quietly in the car? This beautiful journal gives you a chance to find out. Each...

Chronicle life in your garden with this elegant 5-year journal full of tracking tools, planning space, gardening guidance, and inspiration. Compiled by garden personality and QVC host Linda Vater, The Garden Journal is an essential record-keeping tool for every gardener, no matter what you grow. From daily happenings and garden successes to plant lists, variety names, and seasonal to-dos, you’ll...

Take a joyfully unconventional creative journey! With both artistic and writing prompts, this mixed-media journal encourages creative freedom and thinking outside the box. Are you in need of some fresh creative inspiration and new ways to relieve stress all in one? Design & Destroy is the journal for you. With it, discover a new way of approaching the creative process...

A masterclass on living as a writer and developing your writing craft. Part of the Living and Sustaining a Creative Life series, Artists as Writers joins the tradition of books designed or intended to inspire would-be writers to write. Yet, it distinguishes itself by offering succinct first-person narratives by writers of varied genres about the day-to-day life of writing for...

Albert Camus’s lively journals from his eventful visits to the United States and South America in the 1940s are available again in a new translation. In March 1946, the young Albert Camus crossed from Le Havre to New York. Though he was virtually unknown to American audiences at the time, all that was about to change—The Stranger, his first book...

Truly heroic Daniel Craig A completely brilliant thing, to benefit so many Nicole Kidman Powerful and deeply moving Andy Burnham An epic journey . . . will touch the hearts of people everywhere Lou Macari An amazing and inspirational story Michael Ball Foreword from Dan Walker We were (and are) three ordinary dads who found ourselves in a desperate place...

Anne Lister is the inspiration for Gentleman Jack, the acclaimed BBC/HBO series by Sally Wainwright, starring Suranne Jones. The Lister diaries are the Dead Sea Scrolls of lesbian history; they changed everything. By resurrecting them and editing them with such loving attention and intelligence, Helena Whitbread has earned the gratitude of a whole generation' - Emma Donoghue Engaging, revealing, at...

Modern Loss is all about eradicating the stigma and awkwardness around grief while also focusing on our capacity for resilience and finding meaning. In this interactive guide, Modern Loss cofounder Rebecca Soffer offers candid, practical, and witty advice for confronting a future without your person, honouring their memory, dealing with trigger days, managing your professional life, and navigating new and...

The first collected correspondence of one of America's greatest songwriters—revealing a fascinating life and lasting influence. Frank Loesser was one of the most versatile and influential figures of the Golden Age of Broadway, most famous for Guys and Dolls. A Pulitzer Prize– and Academy Award–winning composer and lyricist, he was also a successful producer and businessman who maintained a wide...

Record your dreams, engage with their symbols, and discover a deeper relationship with your subconscious self using this fully illustrated guided journal, filled with dozens of prompts and lush imagery by artist and creator of The Starchild Tarot, Danielle Noel. Dreams and the subconscious offer a window into our deepest hopes and dreams, as well as to collective wells of...

The curiously relatable inhabitants of Strange Planet are at it once again! Illustrated with art from the Strange Planet collections, Nathan W. Pyle's guided journal takes a fresh, self-reflective look at the behaviour that makes us human. Strange Planet: Existence Chronicle explores favourite themes from the Strange Planet social media stream and books, including emotions, recreation, and cultural traditions. Filled...

In his Spring painting (1894), Lawrence Alma-Tadema represented the Victorian custom of sending children to collect flowers on May Day. By placing the scene in ancient Rome, he suggested the festival's great antiquity through architectural details, dress, sculpture, and musical instruments based on Roman originals.

With beautiful watercolour illustrations and thoughtful prompts, this guided travel journal offers a place to reflect on and appreciate the beautiful details of your journeys. As much about mindfulness as it is about travel, it will make every trip a transformative experience. Slow Travel Journal features: Compact, travel-friendly design, with a durable hardcover case and rounded corners Uncoated interior paper...

Diaries capture the most intimate and revealing aspects of diarists’ perception of themselves and the world around them. Throughout history, fiction writers have turned to the diary genre to maximise the intimacy and credibility of their narratives and to tell stories that bridge the personal and the social. This collection is the first to make visible the historical and global...

The famed cabarets of Art Deco Paris revelled in an exuberant atmosphere of showgirls, feathers, silks, bright colours and glittering sequins. The image on the cover of Plume (Vintage Vogue) Slim Lined Hardcover Journal (Elastic Band Closure) was created in 1932 by British theatre designer Alec Shanks, one of the top designers of the era. Here we celebrate the sway...

This gifty book journal offers the perfect place to indulge your passion for reading and to record your literary explorations. This beautifully refreshed edition of our popular My Book Journal provides space to record reviews and thoughts on 100 books, as well as track star ratings for quality of writing, strength of characters, and plot. It also includes 24 enlightening...

This guided journal will take you on a journey of the mind and spirit to help you discover your inner joy, hone your gratitude, and help manifest your dreams. What you can visualize in your mind, you can hold in your hands. Manifest Your Dreams is a journal designed to help you become more optimistic, able to see more possibilities,...

An artist and writer whose charming and inventive works are at once modest and ambitious, Joe Brainard was one of the most distinctive figures on New York City's vibrant cultural scene in the 1960s and 1970s. Widely known for his influential experimental memoir, I Remember, Brainard worked in a variety of forms, from New York School–aligned poetry to Pop Art–adjacent...

Dear Human Race, It is with much regret, and a huge sigh of frustration, that I am writing this letter. For generations you have been taking our goodwill for granted but it behoves me, as a representative for my species, to say 'enough is enough'. You are unpredictable and inconsistent, often behaving in a way that is illogical to us...

Warm, revelatory and moving – The New Statesman's Books of the Year, 2024 At the end of almost every day of their fifty-five years of married life, the publicity-shy author Margaret Forster would ask her naturally gregarious and outgoing husband Hunter Davies to describe to her the highlights of his working day spent in the worlds of journalism and publishing....

Let out all of your pent-up frustration with this beautifully embroidered and hilarious journal so you can make room to let the happy thoughts in. Life is not always filled with sunshine and rainbows. Next time the world has you tearing at your hair, reach for this journal instead. CONVENIENT SIZE: This 5.75 x 8.25-inch journal is a comfortable size...

A personal look into the mind of one of Europe's first and foremost women of letters. At times poetic but not a poem, prosaic but not an essay, a letter is often pure writing for writing's sake. Such is the case for Rahel Varnhagen von Ense, née Levin, the illustrious German-Jewish Berlin literary salon hostess from the early nineteenth century....

How to Heal from Heartbreak (or at Least Feel Less Broken) is a guide, friend, and judgement-free zone to help process the journey of heartbreak. Breakups are messy. They're emotional. They're raw. But all of that pain doesn't just go away after the initial break. It sticks around—sometimes for a long time, sometimes forever—much like grief. Whether you were the...

With simple advice and guided activities, this workbook is a comforting companion to support you through your healing journey after experiencing loss. Grief is the natural response to loss, and it's something that affects everyone at some point in their lives. It can manifest itself in many ways - sadness, panic, confusion, anger - and it's often completely unpredictable. If...

A monumental event in American poetry, Get the Money! brings together the essential prose writings of iconic New York School poet Ted Berrigan. "Ted Berrigan was a leader of the New York School; his crazy energy embodied that movement and the city itself." - John Ashbery, author of Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror Get the Money! was Ted Berrigan's mantra...

Reflective meditations and thoughtful journal prompts for every season help you connect with nature and the magic of the world around you on the path of mindfulness and self-care. Brimming with rituals, wishes, and enchantments to encourage spiritual growth, the Find Your Magic journal is an illuminating guide to harnessing the Earth's power for personal reflection. Featuring beautiful illustrations, it...

Plan your goals and find your peace every day of the year with guided meditations and journal prompts to keep you inspired and motivated. Find the Joy in the Journey: 365 Days of Planning My Goals is the ultimate guide for maintaining a schedule and collecting all of your thoughts in one space. There are 365 days' worth of journal...

A single-volume edition of Diary, Gombrowicz’s acclaimed masterpiece, now with previously unpublished pages restored. Just before the outbreak of World War II, young Witold Gombrowicz left his home in Poland and set sail for South America. In 1953, still living as an expatriate in Argentina, he began his Diary with one of literature’s most memorable openings: “MondayMe.TuesdayMe.WednesdayMe.ThursdayMe.” Gombrowicz’s Diary grew...

BodyTalk continues the conversation started in The Body Keeps the Score and The Complex PTSD Workbook. This unique guide helps reestablish connection to your body to process difficult emotions, improve mental health, and feel secure in your own skin. Everything in your life comes down to how connected you are to your own body. Your relationships, career, and even your...

In Becoming Belle da Costa Greene: A Visionary Librarian through Her Letters, Deborah Parker chronicles the making and empowerment of a female connoisseur, curator, and library director in a world where such positions were held by men. Belle da Costa Greene (1879–1950) was Pierpont Morgan's personal librarian (1908–1913) and the first Director of the Morgan Library (1924–1948). She was also...

This Astra (Nova Stella) Mini Lined Softcover Flexi Journal (Elastic Band Closure) cover comes from the 1789 binding of Missale Sacri Ordinis Praedicatorum, printed during the Settecento period by Octavio Puccinelli publishers. During this time, bookbinding became at once simpler and yet more complex. The sewing was done on recessed cords to give the spines a smooth appearance and so,...

For the celestially minded and lovers of dark light, we present Astra (Nova Stella) Midi Unlined Softcover Flexi Journal (Elastic Band Closure). This book cover, with its central star shape, exerts an emotional pull like the North Star for nighttime wayfarers. Our Nova Stella cover comes from the 1789 binding of Missale Sacri Ordinis Praedicatorum, printed during the Settecento period...

For the celestially minded and lovers of dark light, we present Nova Stella. This book cover, with its central star shape, exerts an emotional pull like the North Star for nighttime wayfarers. Our Nova Stella cover comes from the 1789 binding of Missale Sacri Ordinis Praedicatorum, printed during the Settecento period by Octavio Puccinelli publishers. During this time, bookbinding became...

Conquer that blank page staring back at you! 301 Writing Ideas is a guided journal designed to get you writing right away, so you spend less time pondering and more time expressing your true thoughts and feelings. Whether you want to journal your thoughts and feelings, improve your writing skills, or write a novel, let the 301 diverse questions inspire...

Our Wordscapes (Free Your Mind) A4 Unlined Cahier cover, recreating a work by Catrin Welz-Stein, suggests the creative process of the mind’s mysterious inner workings. One can see influences and elements of children’s literature, surrealism, and folklore in this image that invites you to enter your own Wordscape within its pages.

Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) was one of the greatest of the Post-Impressionist painters. Though much of his work, like this Irises study, is filled with brightness and light, Van Gogh's own life was filled with personal turmoil. A severe mental health crisis, in which he now-famously cut off his own ear, prompted Van Gogh to admit himself to...

This is the first collection in print of the letters of Australian colonial poet Charles Harpur (1813–68) and his circle. Supported by extensive annotation newly prepared for this edition, the 200 letters and life-documents open up successive phases of colonial culture from the 1830s to the 1860s in a newly focused way. Harpur's two-way correspondence with poet Henry Kendall, and...

The Forager's Journal is made in a lightweight, durable, wipe-clean format, designed especially for foragers to document the vivid details of their wild food expeditions, describe and draw edible plants and fungi, and capture priceless memories in the outdoors. With space to record everything about your foraging treks, the journal includes logs with guided prompts to track key information such...

A kaleidoscopic portrait of post-war queer life - Guardian Fascinating - The Times Absorbing, illuminating, highly entertaining and often very funny - Spectator Fascinating, bitchy, humorous and shocking - Time Out For nearly 60 years, Mr George Lucas led a double life. A mild-mannered civil servant by day, by night he was a fixture of London's colourful underground gay scene...

Discover the ethereal dreams of Kinuko Y. Craft, an illustrator celebrated for her attention to detail. Temptation A5 Lined (Visions of Paradise) Cahier showcases a flight of fantasy originally created by Craft as a Freda Warrington novel cover. Touching on ancient mythology and contemporary spirituality, it is sure to tempt the book lover in you!

Sophie la girafe: Baby's First Year is a beautiful baby journal featuring the classic Sophie la girafe toy. You won't want to forget a thing about baby's first year – and with this book, you can treasure the memories forever. Starting before baby is born, there is plenty of space for you to write down your thoughts and feelings at...

A selection of Seneca’s most significant letters that illuminate his philosophical and personal life. In the year 62, citing health issues, the Roman philosopher Seneca withdrew from public service and devoted his time to writing. His letters from this period offer a window into his experience as a landowner, a traveller through Roman Italy, and a man coping with the...