The Noel Coward Diaries, 9781398709218
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Wit, stars, and secrets: Noel Coward’s unexpurgated diaries revealed.

The Noel Coward Diaries

with a foreword by stephen fry

$56.23

  • Paperback

    768 pages

  • Release Date

    30 January 2023

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Summary

A Life in Ink: The Unexpurgated Diaries of Noel Coward

‘A gold mine of gossip with a cast of thousands’ GUARDIAN

The unexpurgated diaries of one of the greatest, most talented, and wittily flamboyant characters of the 20th century - with a new introduction by Stephen Fry

‘Compulsive reading’ SUNDAY TIMES

‘19th February 1956. A A Milne has died. Lord Beaverbrook has not … Larry is going to make a movi…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781398709218
ISBN-10:1398709212
Author:Sheridan Morley, Graham Payn
Publisher:Orion Publishing Co
Imprint:Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:768
Release Date:30 January 2023
Weight:560g
Dimensions:196mm x 130mm x 48mm
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Critics Review

A constant delight. A gold mine of gossip with a cast of thousands * GUARDIAN *Compulsive reading: a very clear portrait. What Coward has to say about other people is light-hearted, witty, often shrewd, totally without malice … His final entertainment for everyone’s pleasure is these diaries * SUNDAY TIMES *

About The Author

Sheridan Morley

Noel Coward was a world renowned playwright, actor, director and entertainer. During the war he ran the British Propaganda Office in Paris, and also worked with the Secret Service. Coward won an Academy Honorary Award in 1943 for his film In Which We Serve and was knighted in 1969.

Graham Payn, who appeared in many of Noel Coward’s plays, was his life-long partner and friend. Sheridan Morley was a drama and theatre critic and author of over dozen theatre and film books.

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