Books about diary

In Amsterdam, in the summer of 1942, the Nazis forced teenager Anne Frank and her family into hiding. For over two years, they, another family and a German dentist lived in a 'secret annexe'. All that time, Anne kept a diary. This dairy is the record of tension and struggle, adolescence and confinement, anger and heartbreak.

Bridget Jones wants to have it all - and once she's given up smoking and got down to 8st 7 she will. Based on Helen Fielding's diary in the Independent newspaper, this is a novel about a year in the life of a single girl on an optimistic but doomed quest for self-improvement and Inner Poise. First published in 1996.

Alice is 15 years old and appears a perfectly normal teenager; she diets, goes out with boys, and gets good marks at school. Without her parents being properly aware, she tries drugs and falls into addiction. The difference between Alice and a lot of other kids on drugs is that Alice keeps a diary.

This sequel concerns Bridget Jones, a single, girl-about-town on an optimistic but doomed quest for self-improvement. If she could just get down to 8st 7lb, stop smoking and develop inner poise, all would be resolved.

This is teenage angst author Louise Rennison's book about the confessions of crazy but lovable Georgia Nicolson. Louise is a bestselling author and her books make you laugh out loud.

Drawn from journals, this book offers an account of a woman's sexual awakening, covering a single year - 1931-32, in Paris, when June fell in love with Henry Miller, undermining her own idealized marriage.

Though it covers less than a decade, Pepys' diary offers a detailed insight into a period and a personality, for he noted events in both public and private life. It includes passages on the plague and the Great Fire of London.

A remarkably wide-ranging anthology - laid out, day by day, like a diary - The Assassin's Cloak has been universally praised.

The new school year's only just begun - and already there have been some big surprises. And then Michael drops a bombshell. He has been accepted on a year-long computer science course ...in Japan! Can Mia's perfect prince really love her if he can go away for a year? And what would it take to make him stay?

Zlata Filipovic was given a diary shortly before her tenth birthday and began to write in it regularly. But the distant murmur of war draws closer to her Sarajevo home. Her father starts to wear military uniform and her friends begin to leave the city. The pathos and power of Zlata's diary comes from watching the destruction of a childhood.

This is teenage angst author Louise Rennison's book about the confessions of crazy but lovable Georgia Nicolson. Louise is a bestselling author and her books make you laugh out loud.

A translation of the idiosyncratic diary of a C10 court lady in Heian Japan. Along with the Tale of Genji , it is one of the major Japanese classics.

In this painfully honest (and secret) diary, teenager Adrian Mole writes candidly about his parents' marital troubles, the dog, and his life as a tortured poet and misunderstood intellectual .

This is a transcription of the journals kept by Sylvia Plath over the last 12 years of her life. It gives insight into her final years and the evolution of her last poems.