Biography: writers

In more than thirty published books the novelist Moyra Caldecott has transported her readers through ancient history and into other worlds.

En este libro se estudia a un grupo de escritores colombianos del periodo 1930-1946, unidos no solo por el oficio de la literatura, sino por su relación con la política partidista: además de escribir novelas, ensayos y poesías, y también otros géneros, estos escritores estuvieron por lo general ligados a los dos partidos dominantes de la época, el Liberal y el Conservador.

Con una entrada realmente seductora, este libro plantea desde el principio un drama, que en un juego de tiempos sin complicaciones, mantiene una tensión, no solo entre las luces y las sombras de los personajes, sino entre la moral y la política, los intereses del estado y los deberes de la justicia.

Este libro está animado por un propósito: mostrar las múltiples miradas que convergen sobre un autor polémico y difícil de clasificar, aun a cincuenta años de su muerte.

'Please read this joyful, tragic account of life in Gaza' MIRIAM MARGOLYES'Transforms pain into poetry' RUPI KAURIn early October 2023, Palestinian Plestia Alaqad was a recent graduate with dreams of becoming a successful journalist.

Ela é pequena, ela gosta das pequenas coisas.

Something extraordinary happened to the UK literary scene in the 1980s.

'A brave process of healing and self reconstruction' Observer'Simply one of the best writers working today.

'A hugely informative and quietly furious call to arms.

The poet George Herbert was born in1593 and died just before his fortieth birthday in1633.

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA'Daphne du Maurier has no equal' DAILY TELEGRAPH'Miss du Maurier has brought to the art of the biography the narrative urgency' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW ' .

London, 1888: Jack the Ripper stalks the streets of Whitechapel; national strikes and social unrest threaten the status quo; a grave economic crisis is spreading across the Atlantic .

"e;A superb portrait of this most human of poets who leaps to life, hating and loving as ferociously as ever, before our twenty-first-century eyes.

This collection of works by the great Irish author includes his most famous novel, an intimate memoir written from prison, and four delightful fairy tales.

Dostoevsky and Tolstoy are the titans of Russian literature.

From the author of the critically-acclaimed Austerlitz and Across the Land and Water comes A Place in the Country, the much anticipated translation of one of W.

This is an inspirational testimony of how God demonstrates His grace in human tragedy.

Beat Generation great Jack Kerouac traverses the vast landscape of American counterculture in this raucous and insightful collection In these collected articles, essays, and wild autobiographical tales, Jack Kerouac, author of On the Road, leads readers down the highways and through the myriad subcultures of mid-twentieth-century America, guiding them along with his ingenious observations and brilliant command of language.

A fact-filled reference for discovering, and learning more about, the literary greats of the nineteenth century.

On every page of this delicious book you will meet characters and situations that tell you this could only be New York.

Down and Out in Paris and London was George Orwell's first published book.

'Sleepless has changed how I feel about sleep .

'Like all good diarists Paling's musings are funny, tender and uncensored' Sunday Times6 April 2007Writing income for the year so far: minus 300'I feel that this might just be the year in which something happens.

RECOLLECTIONS OF A FAMILY WHO LIVED THEIR LIVES AS SHOWBOAT ENTERTAINERS ON AMERICAN RIVERS.

First published in 1962, this is a wonderful collection of humorous articles on feminine topics written by actress and stuntwoman-turned-writer Cynthia Hobart Lindsay.

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This “fascinating” biography of an iconic American author and public intellectual “is so full of incident and celebrity .

Born in Dundee in 1938, Maureen Reynolds grew up in wartime Scotland, a young girl surrounded by adult concerns.

In the spring of 1895 the life of Constance Wilde changed irrevocably.

The difficult early years.

'The water slips over me like cool silk.

She puts salt in the pepper shaker and pepper in the salt shaker because then if she gets mixed up, she's right.

The life of pioneering photographer Barbara Ker-Seymer'Thoroughly entertaining.

One of Hollywood's greatest stars recalls her fabulous life: at nine, scrubbing floors in a Kansas City school; at twenty, motion picture stardom and marriage to Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

'In the first decade of the twentieth century, it was not a good time to be born black, or woman, in America.

In 1995, Adam Gopnik and his wife, and their infant son left the familiar comforts and hassles of New York for the urbane glamour of Paris.

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In his foreword, Jim Bishop says of Jackie Gleason that when the comedian read the manuscript for the Fust time "e;he did not ask that anything be either omitted or altered.

Oxford thought it was at war.