Biography: writers

This book issues a powerful call to action: queer justice requires the abolition of the prison industrial complex.

Ein Streifzug durch die Weltliteratur, von Shakespeare uber Franz Kafka bis zu Salman Rushdie - und eine Lehre des aufmerksamen LesensNicht nur der Teufel steckt im Detail, auch das Geheimnis gro er Literatur wenn man dafur ein Auge hat.

This book issues a powerful call to action: queer justice requires the abolition of the prison industrial complex.

The major new book from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale

'She's taken our times and made us wise to them' ALI SMITH
'She's Margaret Atwood and she can do anything' ANN PATCHETT
'She saw it all coming' TIME
'The outstanding novelist of our age' **SUNDAY TIMES

Immerse yourself in the creative universe of Margaret Atwood for a riot of life, art and everything in between:** the greatest writer of our time tells her own story

Raised by scientifically minded parents, Atwood spent most of each year in the wild forest of northern Quebec: a vast playground for her entomologist father and independent, resourceful mother. It was an unfettered and nomadic childhood, sometimes isolated but also thrilling and beautiful.

From this unconventional start, Atwood unfolds the story of her life, linking key moments to the books that have shaped our literary landscape, from the cruel school year that would become Cat’s Eye to the unease of 1980s Berlin, where she began The Handmaid’s Tale. In pages alive with the natural world, reading and books, major political turning points and her lifelong love for the charismatic writer Graeme Gibson, we meet poets, bears, Hollywood stars and larger-than-life characters straight from the pages of an Atwood novel.

**As she explores her past, Atwood reveals more and more about her writing, the connections between real life and art – and the workings of one of our boldest imaginations.

** THE ULTIMATE GIFT FOR ALL THE MARGARET ATWOOD FANS IN YOUR LIFE ****

The first biography of one of the twentieth century's foremost champions of Hebridean culture.

The Coloniality of Catastrophe in Caribbean Theater and Performance calls attention to theater’s capacity to reveal the constructed roots of catastrophe and offer counter catastrophic strategies to live and imagine otherwise.

The Coloniality of Catastrophe in Caribbean Theater and Performance calls attention to theater’s capacity to reveal the constructed roots of catastrophe and offer counter catastrophic strategies to live and imagine otherwise.

Authored by two eminent Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn scholars, The Soul and Barbed Wire is the first and only book to offer both a detailed biography and a comprehensive appraisal of the literary achievement of the Nobel prizewinning author who became one of the Soviet regime's most formidable foes.

One of greatest Persian writers of both classical prose and poetry, Sa';di was revered in his time as a man of great wisdom and passion.

Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Millicent Fawcett, Emmeline Pankhurst, Constance Markievicz, Nancy Astor They terrorised the establishment.

With a new introduction by the authorPeter Jackson's film version of J.

With the warmth and humor weve come to know, the creator and host of A Prairie Home Companion shares his own remarkable story.

A unique chronicle of the hundred-year period when the Jewish people changed the world and it changed them ';A riveting, gossipy, action-packed, seam-bursting blast through 100 years of (mainly) European history Impressively wide-ranging in scope and unflaggingly fascinating.

Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Millicent Fawcett, Emmeline Pankhurst, Constance Markievicz, Nancy Astor They terrorised the establishment.

One of greatest Persian writers of both classical prose and poetry, Sa';di was revered in his time as a man of great wisdom and passion.

A Rabelaisian satire loosely based on Voltaire's Candide, Terry Southern and Mason Hoffenberg's Candy became one of the most famous novels of the tumultuous 1960's.

In 1870, Louisa May Alcott and her younger sister Abby May Alcott began a fourteen-month tour of Europe.

My Dear Boy brings a largely unexplored dimension of Langston Hughes to light.

Georgia has played a formative role in the writing of America.

John Oliver Killens's politically charged novels And Then We Heard the Thunder and The Cotillion; or One Good Bull Is Half the Herd, were nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.

My Dear Boy brings a largely unexplored dimension of Langston Hughes to light.

Henry Miller was one of the most distinctive voices in twentieth-century literature, yet he remains misunderstood.

In 1870, Louisa May Alcott and her younger sister Abby May Alcott began a fourteen-month tour of Europe.

"e;How is it that I seem to be this Margaret Fuller,"e; the pioneering feminist, journalist, and political revolutionary asked herself as a child.