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Diaries of Note
366 Lives, One Day at a Time
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Captures moments in time like nothing else. RICHARD E. GRANT Intimate . . . and rarely predictable. MICHAEL PALIN Completely fascinating and inspiring. Completely addictive. STEPHEN FRY A volume to treasure, sigh and snigger over. BIDISHA An engrossing collection of the most remarkable diary writing -...
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An engrossing collection of the most remarkable diary writing - by the famous, infamous and everyman alike - curated by the creator of the globally bestselling Letters of Note.
An engrossing collection of the most remarkable diary writing - by the famous, infamous and everyman alike - curated by the creator of the globally bestselling Letters of Note.
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Captures moments in time like nothing else. RICHARD E. GRANT
Intimate . . . and rarely predictable. MICHAEL PALIN
Completely fascinating and inspiring. Completely addictive. STEPHEN FRY
A volume to treasure, sigh and snigger over. BIDISHA
An engrossing collection of the most remarkable diary writing - by the famous, infamous and everyman alike - curated by the creator of the globally bestselling Letters of Note.
What is more personal, more intimate, than the diary? Throughout time and across the world, humans from all walks of life have kept diaries: they are the repositories of our most unvarnished truths, our most poignant hopes, hidden desires and our deepest fears. Now, in Diaries of Note, Shaun Usher - best-selling author of Letters of Note - collects 366 of the most noteworthy diary entries ever written, one for each day of the leap year, each authored by a different individual.
The diary welcomes all to its pages, and through this book you will encounter world leaders, such as Nelson Mandela, Theodore Roosevelt and Emperor Uda, artists and writers, like Frida Kahlo, Seamus Heaney, David Sedaris and Shirley Jackson, film stars and musical icons, including Brian Eno, Emma Thompson and Elton John, as well as people whose lives were never illuminated by fame - yet their diaries reveal them to have been extraordinary.
Beautifully illustrated with woodcut-style drawings, Diaries of Note is a book to spend time curled up with, exploring a world of human emotion and experience that by turns reflects and expands our own and is a testament to the power of personal narratives.
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ISBN: 9780571390229
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 09 October 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Edition: Main
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 153.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 250g
Pages: 480
About the Author
Shaun Usher's obsession with old-fashioned correspondence began when he fell in love with his future wife, Karina, by letter in 2002. This ultimately led to the 2009 launch of Letters of Note, an online museum of 'correspondence deserving of a wider audience', which to date has been visited more than 100 million times. In 2013, the first Letters of Note book was published to wide acclaim. It soon became an international bestseller and inspired Letters Live, a star-studded live show in which letters are brought to life on stage. After years of preparation, his latest project, Diaries of Note, launched online on 1 January 2023 and commenced a daily dive into the lives of others, as recorded in their private moments.
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