Mit der unerschrockenen Freimütigkeit, die ihre Erinnerungsbücher auszeichnet, hält Simone de Beauvoir Rückschau auf ein Stück Lebens- und Zeitgeschichte: auf die Sechzigerjahre.
'Screamingly funny and deliciously candid, full of wisdom and joie de vivre, this is memoir with the grip of a thriller' ERIN KELLYLynda La Plante has lived an illustrious life and has the stories to prove it.
Edgar Rice Burroughs was not satisfied with creating characters and events within the world that we know; instead he created whole new worlds for histories, and he filled them with peoples, languages, cities, wars, plants, machines, and monsters that were believable to the reader, yet still alien and fantastic enough to thrill and delight.
From Winston Graham, author of the Poldark series, the bestselling book and hit television series, comes a collection of his memoirs that were once consigned to his safe.
**WINNER OF THE JHALAK PROSE PRIZE 2026**'A pleasure and an invigoration' Guardian'A moving, witty and seductive anthology' Financial Times'Every piece feels beautifully sewn together and complete BERNARDINE EVARISTOCrafted over twenty-five years, I Want to Talk to You invites you into a conversation about literature, art and music, identity, grief and everything in betweenAs a young journalist, Diana Evans was catapulted overnight into the role of culture editor, going on to interview a roster of stars including Lauryn Hill, Viola Davis, Alice Walker and Edward Enninful.
Un anunci, una escola on s'ensenya a fer de pastor, una joventut rebel i una decisió que ella no pren faran que la vida de l'Anna Plana doni un gir inesperat.
First published in 1985, in this book Malcolm Barnes, the editor of Augustus Hare's autobiography, tries to elucidate: a man who wrote much about others, but little of consequence about himself in spite of the longest 'story of my life' in the English language.
Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam was a transformative figure of the Renaissance, whose ideas challenged the religious and intellectual boundaries of his time.
Fruto de casi cien horas de entrevistas con Juan Jose Arreola, grabadas, transcritas y editadas por Fernando del Paso, en este libro se retrata la infancia y la juventud del narrador: desde su primer recuerdo en 1920 hasta 1947, poco despues de su regreso de Paris.
