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The Assassin's Cloak

The Assassin's Cloak

An Anthology of the World's Greatest Diarists

by Irene Taylor and Alan Taylor
Hardback
Publication Date: 05/01/2021

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A beautiful and updated edition of this collection of the world's greatest diarists on its twentieth anniversary.

'A diary is an assassin's cloak which we wear when we stab a comrade in the back with a pen', wrote William Soutar in 1934. But a diary is also a place for recording everyday thoughts and special occasions, private fears and hopeful dreams. The Assassin's Cloak gathers together some of the most entertaining and inspiring entries for each day of the year, as writers ranging from Queen Victoria to Andy Warhol, Samuel Pepys to Adrian Mole, pen their musings on the historic and the mundane.

Spanning centuries and international in scope, this peerless anthology pays tribute to a genre that is at once the most intimate and public of all literary forms.

This new updated edition is published to mark the twentieth anniversary of the book's original publication.

ISBN:
9781786899118
9781786899118
Category:
Anthologies (non-poetry)
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
05-01-2021
Language:
English
Publisher:
Canongate Books
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
720
Dimensions (mm):
233.93x162.56x61.21mm
Weight:
1kg
Irene Taylor

Irene Taylor was born and brought up in Edinburgh. For many years she worked in public libraries.

She has a degree in history from Edinburgh University and she now works for the National Trust for Scotland.

Alan Taylor

Alan Taylor has been a journalist for over thirty years. He was deputy editor of the Scotsman, managing editor of Scotsman Publications, and writer-at-large for the Sunday Herald. He has edited several acclaimed anthologies, most recently Glasgow: The Autobiography (2016). .

He is the author of Appointment in Arezzo: A Friendship with Muriel Spark and, in 2018, series editor of the centenary edition of Spark's novels. He is the co-founder and editor of the Scottish Review of Books.

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