Fragments for Those Who Kept Living is an intimate collection of literary reflections about emotional exhaustion, loneliness, family wounds, fear, friendship, and the quiet act of continuing when life has not been fully resolved.
'I set off on the most direct route to Paris, in full faith, believing that she would stay alive if I came on foot'In November 1974, when Werner Herzog was told that his mentor Lotte Eisner, the film historian and critic, was dying in Paris, he set off to walk there from Munich, in full faith, believing that she would stay alive if I came on foot .
A remarkable collection of 'Covid Chronicles' -- stories from lockdown sent in from listeners to BBC Radio 4 -- making a deeply moving people's history of the pandemic.
'Captures both Barbara and her writing so miraculously' JILLY COOPERPicked as a Book to Look Forward to in 2021 by the Guardian, The Times and the ObserverA Radio 4 Book of the Week, April 2021Barbara Pym became beloved as one of the wittiest novelists of the late twentieth century, revealing the inner workings of domestic life so brilliantly that her friend Philip Larkin announced her the era's own Jane Austen.
The vivid and exciting accounts written from the front line, taking the story of the British war with Napoleon from its desperate beginnings in Portugal to the final triumph at WaterlooThe Duke of Wellington was not only an incomparable battle commander but a remarkably expressive, fluent and powerful writer.
Based on select writings from an exceptional Amsterdam archive containing more than two thousand Dutch diaries from World War II, The Diary Keepers illuminates a part of history we haven't seen in quite this way before.
Born in Ireland in 1864 Roger Casement acted as British Consul in various parts of Africa (1895-1904) and Brazil (1906-11) where he denounced atrocities among Congolese and Putumayo rubber workers.
The inside story of the campaign that rocked the United Kingdom to its foundations, and the implications of the Scottish independence movement for the future of British politics.
Agatha Christie's Complete Secret Notebooks brings together for the first time Secret Notebooks and Murder in the Making, two volumes that explore the fascinating contents of her 73 notebooks.
From the bestselling author of 'Elizabeth and Mary', the remarkable love story of Dorothy Osborne and Sir William Temple, set against the turbulence and romance of 17th-century England.
A perceptive introduction to the mind of one of German's greatest writers, in a new translation for the first time in 150 years'The best German book there is' Nietzsche By the turn of the nineteenth century, the poet, novelist and thinker Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was one of the most famous people in the world.
**MiCannes Award Music Book of the Year**The first full-length biography of Mal Evans, the Beatles' beloved roadie, assistant, confidant and friendA towering figure in horn-rimmed glasses, Malcolm 'Mal' Evans was an invaluable member of the Beatles' inner circle.
Viaje a Oxiana, clasico entre clasicos de la literatura de viajes, relata la travesia de Robert Byron a principios de la decada de 1930 para llegar a Oxiana, la tierra del Oxus, el hoy rio Amu Darya.
Abre una ventana intima y reveladora al universo cotidiano, familiar y empresarial del historiador y bibliografo Joaquin Garcia Icazbalceta (1825-1894).
Mit Band 92 liegt der Briefwechsel zwischen Karl May und seinem zu Lebzeiten wichtigsten Verleger Friedrich Ernst Fehsenfeld aus Freiburg im Breisgau komplett vor.
Der Briefwechsel zwischen Ingeborg Bachmann und Hans Werner Henze ist das einzigartige Zeugnis leidenschaftlichen kunstlerischen Austauschs und einer bewegenden Freundschaft.
Charles Baudelaire, uno de los mas grandes e influyentes poetas de la historia de la literatura, el primer moderno, ademas de escribir sus geniales poemas mantuvo una intensa relacion epistolar con su madre.
Un documental que ilumina las redes de comunicacion y colaboracion entre dos destacados eruditos del siglo XIX: el historiador y bibliografo mexicano Joaquin Garcia Icazbalceta y el abogado y bibliografo franco-estadounidense Henry Harrisse.
Por que elegir a Alice Domon, la religiosa francesa desaparecida en 1977, para escribir una biografia como tesis de candidatura al doctorado en Filosofia de la Universidad de Buenos Aires?
Bianka Bleier setzt ihre beleibte Buchreihe fort und prasentiert wieder ein wunderbar erzahltes Tagebuch voller Herz, Ehrlichkeit, Lebenshunger und Charme - und mit einem Glauben, der sich gerade in den Hochs und Tiefs des Lebens als tragfahig zeigt: Jede Zeit, jede Dekade meines Lebens hat ihr Schones - auch die, uber die mein Tagebuch hier erzahlt!
