SHORTLISTED FOR THE SLIGHTLY FOXED BEST FIRST BIOGRAPHY AWARD 2018'If we get another literary biography in 2018 as astute and feelingful as this one, we shall be lucky.
Während Tausende junge Menschen auf der Suche nach neuen Möglichkeiten in Städte ziehen, kehrt die Erzählerin, die als Autorin und Journalistin arbeitet, aus dem Ausland in ihr Heimatdorf zurück.
À travers ce récit à la fois biographique, initiatique et anecdotique, Jean-François Baril nous montre une facette plus humaine et intime de sa personnalité.
'A joyful examination of two artists from different centuries and the unlikely parallels in their life and work' Guardian'An ardent fan letter from Hornby that makes you want to reread Great Expectations whilst listening to Sign o'the Times' Vogue_____________________The essential gift for lovers of Prince, Dickens and everyone in between!
In this exquisite, haunting book, John Burnside describes his coming of age from the industrial misery of Cowdenbeath and Corby to the new world of Cambridge.
Es una intensa evocacion testimonial de la historia personal e intima del Luis Spota, novelista,periodista, funcionario publico, dramaturgo, guionista y director de cine.
Rhys Davies was a seminal influence in Welsh writing because he was one of the first novelists to depict industrial Wales, and was a highly prolific writer producing some twenty novels and one hundred short stories in a career that spanned six decades.
FROM THE ONE-OF-A-KIND IMAGINATION THAT BROUGHT US SLAUGHTERHOUSE 5 AND CAT'S CRADLE 'Kurt Vonnegut is either the funniest serious writer around or the most serious funny writer' Los Angeles Times Book Review An 'autobiographical collage' of speeches, stories and essays, in Palm Sunday, Kurt Vonnegut writes beguilingly about everything from country music to George Bush, his favourite comedians to his mother's midnight mania, and bittersweet tributes to a dead best friend and a dead marriage.
NEW STATESMAN, TELEGRAPH, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT AND GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015When his widowed father - once a high court judge and always a formidable figure - drifted into vagueness if not dementia, the writer Adam Mars-Jones took responsibility for his care.
A collection of five autobiographical essays by one of the masters of Italian literatureIn these five elegant autobiographical meditations Italo Calvino delves into his past, remembering awkward childhood walks with his father, a lifelong obsession with the cinema and fighting in the Italian Resistance against the Fascists.
Cette œuvre est ainsi décrite dans le discours préliminaire : "Les Mémoires de Mme de Vandeul" sur son père sont un des ouvrages où ont le plus puisé les biographes modernes de Diderot.
THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING MEMOIR OF SPY-WRITING LEGEND JOHN LE CARR *NOW A MAJOR APPLE TV MOTION PICTURE*'As recognizable a writer as Dickens or Austen' Financial TimesFrom his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War to a career as a writer, John le Carr has lived a unique life.
Extrait: "Les Bonaparte, dont le nom s'écrivait indifféremment Buonaparte ou Bonaparte avant que Napoléon Ier en fixât l'orthographe, ont joué un rôle distingué dans les annales de l'Italie.
Extrait : "Je vécus de cette vie de campagne et de famille qui me rafraîchissait ma douleur, comme l'air froid rafraîchit une brûlure à la main, jusqu'à l'automne.
A writer's successful search for meaning, purpose and truth, and emergence from a Dark Night of the Soul to illumination and unitive, universal consciousness during the Cold War.
A collection of wisdom and life lessons, from the beloved and bestselling author of I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS 'A brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' BARACK OBAMADedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to my Daughter reveals Maya Angelou's path to living well and living a life with meaning.
Extrait : "Tout le monde des lecteurs se rappelle l'esprit charmant de Villemot, et ses confrères, malgré les préoccupations bien naturelles que causait le siège de Paris, pendant lequel nous l'avons perdu, n'ont pas manqué de lui adresser l'adieu auquel a droit tout honnête homme de talent qui part pour l'autre monde.
«Escritos del exilio» ofrece una faceta sorprendente del autor de «Zama» y se presenta como un valioso testimonio de la vida cultural del Madrid de la transición.
The superb classic memoir from a dazzlingly eccentric and endlessly fascinating author and feminist icon - a woman very much ahead of her time - including her time spent on the glorious island of Skiathos'A happy, hilarious book' Daily ExpressNancy Spain was one of the most celebrated - and notorious - writers and broadcasters of the 50s and 60s.
Includes a new introduction from Sophie Hannah, bestselling author of THE MONOGRAM MURDERS and HAVEN'T THEY GROWNAgatha Christie was not only the biggest selling writer of detective stories the world has ever known, she was also a mystery in herself, giving only the rarest interviews, declining absolutely to become any sort of public figure, and a mystery too in the manner in which she achieved her astonishing success.
