<p>The playwright Peter Nichols was a compulsive diarist all his life. He wrote for himself alone, responding to an urge to record the daily doings, private and professional, of his family, his fellows - and himself. The resulting diaries are candid, insightful, and often as shockingly funny as his plays.<br>This selection, republished to mark the playwright's 90th birthday, covers the extraordinarily fruitful period between his first real h...