ANNOUNCING TWO NEW DIARIES

'Diaries are better than novels, more accurate than histories, and even at times more dramatic than plays.' Arthur Ponsonby

WHO IS SYLVIA? The Diary of a Biography
Lynley Hood
Who is Sylvia? is Lynley Hood's personal record of her experiences and reflections as she pieced together the puzzle of Sylvia Ashton-Warner's life for her award winning biography, Sylvia!
Who is Sylvia? is a fascinating insight into the business of biography: the meticulous research, the often wasted time chasing red herrings, the highs of extraordinary discoveries and the lows of confusion and doubt, sensitive dealings with Sylvia's family, numerous interviews, professional rivalries, the loneliness of travelling, the biographer as social worker.
Absorbing, intimate and addictive reading as only a diary can be.
212 x 138mm, 320pp, over 40 b/w photographs, sewn paperback.
ISBN 0 86868 1212 0. $29.95

BERLIN DIARY
Cilla McQueen
Berlin Diary is McQueen's journal of her time in the hothouse atmosphere of Berlin prior to the crash of the wall. An impressionistic exploration of a city heavy with a sense of its own history, a city of contrasts and barriers, of sensuality and violence.
210 x 174mm, 128pp, sewn paperback. ISBN 0 86868 124 5. $22.00

Published in August by John McIndoe BOX 694, DUNEDIN