Jenny Diski
Birth date: July 08, 1947
Jenny Diski's Books
Skating to Antarctica isn’t just a travel memoir; about half is travel, half is memories of other stuff. Both parts work really well together, though, since the reason that Jenny Diski is travelling to Antarctica is because of the other events in her life she writes about! So that’s good. It also he...
Very poor example of the genre - what a disappointment.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00vw734/Book_of_the_Week_What_I_Dont_Know_About_Animals_Episode_1/Beginning with the early rescue of a bird in Regent's Park, and an indifferent relationship to childhood pets she moves on to look at the way in which fictional animal characters are used to expla...
How wonderful is this book? Diski's travel across the USA and her experiences with being a smoker were just perfect - and made even more fun to read since I read it on a train myself. Highly recommended!