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Diana Athill

March 2021

  • A resident of the Mary Fielding Guild in Highgate, north London, in the garden.

    London care home residents given three months to leave

    New owner of Mary Feilding home in Highgate, whose previous residents include literary figures, wants to knock it down

December 2019

  • Diana Athill at Oxford just before the second world war. Courtesy Diana Athill

    Don’t Look at Me Like That by Diana Athill review – a reissued gem

    In the only novel by the acclaimed memoirist, first published in 1967, a young woman comes of age in 1950s England

June 2019

  • Julie Christie in Joseph Losey’s 1971 film adaptation of LP Hartley’s The Go-Between

    Book clinic
    Book clinic: which authors can help me come to terms with getting older?

    Novelist Deborah Moggach recommends writers who confront the passing of the years, from John Updike to Virginia Ironside

March 2019

  • Anne Tyler, Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, UK, 3rd April 2011. (Photo by Eamonn McCabe/Getty Images)

    Book clinic
    Book clinic: which novels will help me cope with life’s hard knocks?

  • Diana Athill, aged 97, at home in London in 2015, four years before her death.

    Diana Athill’s last words to be broadcast from beyond the grave

31 January 2019

  • Leyton Orient

    Brief letters
    What the L is going on in the football league tables?

    Brief letters: Sugar content of jam | Diana Athill | King Canute | Football league tables | Rooks

26 January 2019

  • Diana Athill: ‘Fantastic in her openness, her honesty her humour.’

    Appreciation: Diana Athill 1917-2019

  • Ian Jack

    Diana Athill’s story was remarkable, and its end serene

    Ian Jack

25 January 2019

  • Woman wiping baby's face

    Brief letters
    Metal bands, Comic Sans plus the benefits of spit

    Brief letters: Jacob Rees-Mogg | Diana Athill | Suing the Sun | Customised cleansers | Narrowboat benefits

24 January 2019

  • Diana Athill in 1979.

    A miracle in action: Diana Athill's editorial genius

    Christobel Kent
    Joining André Deutsch in the late 80s, I saw a great editor at the top of her game, tirelessly working to bring good writing to perfection

  • Diana Athill on her best and worst life moments – video

    Diana Athill, who has died aged 101, was one of publishing’s most remarkable editors and, in later life, a much-admired writer

    • Diana Athill was the sharpest of wits and finest of friends

      Damian Barr

    • Diana Athill obituary

    • Diana Athill, writer and editor, dies aged 101

December 2017

  • Diana Athill photographed at her home in North London. Diana Athill is a British literary editor, novelist and memoirist who worked with some of the writers of the 20th century at the London-based publishing company Andre Deutsch Ltd. books literature literary publishing novelist memoirs feminist writer editor

    A life in ...
    Diana Athill: ‘Enjoy yourself as much as you can without doing any damage to other people’

  • Illustration by Jackie Morris from the book The Lost Words by Robert MacFarlane, Penguin Random House, by Jackie Morris, 2017

    Best books of 2017
    Best books of 2017: the hits and misses of the publishers’ year

  • Alec Guinness as John Le Carre’s spy George Smiley.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about growing old

  • A century’s worth of wisdom ... Diana Athill

    Diana Athill webchat: your questions answered on Jean Rhys, love affairs and turning 100

January 2017

  • The Boboli Gardens, one of the jewels of Florence that captivated Diana Athill.

    A Florence Diary by Diana Athill review – the quiet after the storm

    This postwar trip across Europe in the late 1940s captures the wonder of a world slowly coming to terms with peace

December 2016

  • Barney Rosset

    Rosset by Barney Rosset review – a publisher’s fight against censorship

    This memoir of the American publisher of Lady Chatterley’s Lover and Tropic of Cancer is full of landmark literary moments
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