The Night Journal

9 best books like The Night Journal (Elizabeth Crook): Who the Hell Is Pansy O'Hara?: The Fascinating Stories Behind 50 of the World's Best-Loved Books, One Writer's Beginnings, The Library, A Spear of Summer Grass, Jennie: The Life of Lady Randolph Churchill, Vol 1: The Romantic Years 1854-95, Jennie: The Life of Lady Randolph Churchill, Vol 2, Mrs. Whaley and Her Charleston Garden, The Little Guide to Your Well-Read Life: How to Get More Books in Your Life and More Life from Your Books, Must You Go?: My Life with Harold Pinter

Who the Hell Is Pansy O'Hara?: The Fascinating Stories Behind 50 of the World's Best-Loved Books

Author

Jenny Bond

The captivating stories behind fifty of the greatest authors and their most famous literary creations

Before Who the Hell is Pansy O'Hara?, there had never been a single volume that explored the backstories of so many of the greatest books in the English language. A work sure to captivate all...

One Writer's Beginnings

Author	Eudora Welty
ISBN	0674639278

Now available as an audio CD, in Eudora Welty's own voice, or as a book.

Eudora Welty was born in 1909 in Jackson, Mississippi. In a "continuous thread of revelation" she sketches her autobiography and tells us how her family and her surroundings contributed to the shaping not only of her personality...

The Library

Author	Sarah Stewart
ISBN	0374343888

Meet an unforgettable bibliophile.

Elizabeth Brown doesn't like to play with dolls and she doesn't like to skate. What she does like to do is read books. Lots of books. The only problem is that her library has gotten so big she can't even use her front door anymore. What should Elizabeth Brown...

A Spear of Summer Grass

Author	Deanna Raybourn
ISBN	0778314391

Paris, 1923

The daughter of a scandalous mother, Delilah Drummond is already notorious, even amongst Paris society. But her latest scandal is big enough to make even her oft-married mother blanch. Delilah is exiled to Kenya and her favorite stepfather's savannah manor house until gossip...

Jennie: The Life of Lady Randolph Churchill, Vol 1: The Romantic Years 1854-95

Author

Ralph G. Martin

If she had simply been the mother of Winston Churchill, her place in history would have been assured. But the Brooklyn-born Jennie was also the most fascinating and desirable woman of her age, the toast and the scandal of two continents throughout her long life. Volume I, THE ROMANTIC YEARS, follows...

Jennie: The Life of Lady Randolph Churchill, Vol 2

Author	Ralph G. Martin
ISBN	0135097606

Mrs. Whaley and Her Charleston Garden

Author	Emily Whaley
ISBN	0684843870

The vibrant, opinionated, and totally engaging voice of eighty-five-year-old Emily Whaley transforms a guided tour of one of the most visited private gardens in America into a magical adventure, alive with tidbits of advice and deeply moving reflections.Gardeners are not the only ones who will...

The Little Guide to Your Well-Read Life: How to Get More Books in Your Life and More Life from Your Books

Author	Steve Leveen
ISBN	1929154178

"Perfect for all of us who can never get enough time with good books. It not only urges us to indulge deeply and often, it shows us how."-Myra Hart, professor, Harvard Business School "Readers and want-to-be readers will be encouraged by the advice to read more, more widely and more systematically."-Michael...

Must You Go?: My Life with Harold Pinter

Author	Antonia Fraser
ISBN	0297859714

Memoir of a marriage between two people at the top of the literary game who had spouses, six children between them when they met, but cared more for each other than them. After their first meeting Pinter said to the author, "Must you go?" and the lust became an affair became marriage. 33 years of being in...