In My Mind's Eye

'I have never before in my life kept a diary of my thoughts, and here at the start of my ninth decade, having for the moment nothing much else to write, I am having a go at it. Good luck to me.'

So begins this extraordinary book, a collection of diary pieces that Jan Morris wrote for the Financial Times over the course of 2017.

A former soldier and journalist, and one of the great chroniclers of the world for over half a century, she writes here in her characteristically intimate voice - funny, perceptive, wise, touching, wicked, scabrous, and above all, kind - about her thoughts on the world, and her own place in it as she turns ninety. From cats to cars, travel to home, music to writing, it's a cornucopia of delights from a unique literary figure.

„Nu am mai tinut niciodata in viata mea un jurnal al gandurilor mele si aici, la inceputul celui de-al noualea deceniu, neavand pentru moment nimic altceva de scris, ma interesez. Mult noroc pentru mine. ”Asa incepe aceasta carte extraordinara, o colectie de piese de jurnal pe care Jan Morris a scris-o pentru Financial Times in cursul anului 2017. Un fost soldat si jurnalist si unul dintre marii cronicari ai lumii de peste jumatate de secolului, ea scrie aici cu vocea ei caracteristica intima - amuzanta, perceptiva, inteleapta, emotionanta, rea, scabra si, mai presus de toate, amabila - despre gandurile ei despre lume si despre locul ei in ea, cand implineste nouazeci de ani.