"The Lost Diaries is a day-by-day anthology of over two hundred of the greatest diarists the world has ever seen, from Woodrow Wyatt ('To Chatsworth, Poky') to Maya Angelou ('There is no great writer or painter who is not at heart an African. "To be or not to be" - the rich reggae rhythm is undeniable), and from Edwina Currie ('A mild case of the squitters. Write it in my diary. The public has a right to know') to Germaine Greer ('Albert Einstein. Let's face it, the guy didn't know the first thing about science'). Barack Obama pours his breakfasat cereal, Lady Antonia Fraser and Harold Pinter order a bottle of Château d’Yquenon behalf of the sugar-plantation workers of East Timor, Anthony Powell rereads Dostoevsky ('His characters lack bounce') and HM the Queen Mother compares writers and waiters. Within The Lost Diaries, Sharon Osbourne sits alongside V.S. Naipaul and John Prescott rubs shoulders with D.H. Lawrence. Meticulously edited, and re-edited, and re-re-re-edited by Craig Brown, this is a volume to cherish for as long as sentences continue to start with that telltale leller 'I'. All human life passed through these pages and out the other side."--Book jacket.