‘A diary is an assassin’s cloak which we wear when we stab a comrade in the back with a pen’ – William Soutar, 1934. A diary is also a place for recording everyday thoughts, private fears and hopeful dreams. The Assassin’s Cloak gathers some of the most entertaining and inspiring entries for each day of the year, as writers ranging from Queen Victoria to Andy Warhol pen their musings on the historic and the mundane.
