A compendium of the most celebrated, revelatory, notorious and heart-wrenching diaries from the great, the good and the downright evil. Including the historical journals of Samuel Pepys and Anne Frank; snapshots of art and culture in the diaries of Frida Kahlo and Kurt Cobain; and windows into the past from Queen Victoria and John Adams.
A Book of the Year in the Daily Telegraph and Economist
LONGLISTED for the CWA ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction 2026
‘This book reads like a spy novel’ FINANICAL TIMES
‘Entertaining and vivid’ OBSERVER
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The astonishing story of the ten million books that were smuggled across the Iron Curtain during the Cold War.
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