'Our greatest living satirist' Sunday Times 'The most screamingly funny living writer' Mail on Sunday From the bestselling and award-winning author of Ma'am Darling and One Two Three Four, a selection of Craig Brown's finest writing collected together for the first time.
Repackaged to feature Tolkien's own painting of the Tree of Amalion, this collection includes his famous essay, 'On Fairy-stories' and the story that exemplifies this, 'Leaf by Niggle', together with the poem 'Mythopoeia' and the verse drama, 'The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth', which tells of the events following the disastrous Battle of Maldon.
Esta obra contiene dos ensayos novedosos desarrollados a traves del tiempo, gracias a la observacion inquisidora del autor, principalmente, y a la informacion rescatada desde diferentes alimentadores; pero especialmente nacen por la curiosidad de entender lo mas posible la existencia humana.
Tres figuras clave de la escritura contemporanea sobre la naturaleza entrelazan su perspectiva en torno al lenguaje y el comportamiento de los animales.
'A brave, beautiful book that could double as a handbook to accompany anyone on their journey through cancer' Jackie Kay, New StatesmanThe Cancer Journals is an intimate, poetic and invigorating account of the experience of breast cancer, from biopsy to mastectomy, told by the great feminist and activist Audre Lorde.
El problema de la tartamudez, descrito frecuentemente con pesimismo debido al desconocimiento de su genesis y a las dificultades de su tratamiento, esta enfocado en esta obra con sencillez, buen humor y sin dramatizar.
'The lack of information around how ADHD and autism shows up in adults means that many of us have been assuming we were anxious, not working hard enough, or just entirely failing altogether.
From twice Booker-shortlisted author Deborah Levy, a moving and revelatory collection exploring the muses that have shaped her life and work as a writerIn The Position of Spoons, Deborah Levy traces and measures her life against the backdrop of the literary and artistic muses that have shaped her including a letter to her dying mother and to an absent friend.
To the Seekers of Truth,Who Embrace the Complexities of Existence,And Journey Beyond the Boundaries of Belief,May Your Quest for Understanding Illuminate Your Path.
With a new wave of adult ADHD diagnoses sweeping the world, many are beginning to discover what it is that sets them apart, but few have learnt what it takes to thrive.
The complete collection of Tolkien's essays, including two on Beowulf, which span three decades beginning six years before The Hobbit to five years after The Lord of the Rings.
Real-life stories of mothers and daughters of what we inherit, what we bury and what we, finally, find the courage to say by the award-winning New Yorker staff writer.
An electrifying collection of essays from legendary cultural critic and Pulitzer Prize-winner Greg Tate Easily one of the greatest wordsmiths [and] the best American writer and thinker of the past forty years Washington PostFrom one of the most original, creative, and provocative writers on American culture comes a now-classic collection of essays, delving far and wide into Black music, into film, into the beats and rhyme of culture (Questlove).
Skandalromane sind literarische Werke, die bei ihrem Erscheinen fur groes Aufsehen, Kritik und oft auch Verbote sorgen, da sie gesellschaftliche Tabus brechen, kontroverse Themen wie Sexualitat oder Gewalt aufgreifen oder politische sowie religiose Autoritaten angreifen.
One of the major political figures of his time, Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) served in the court of Elizabeth I and ultimately became Lord Chancellor under James I in 1617.
When you read this, there will be machines that can answer almost anything you ask them — faster than I can, faster than your teachers can, faster than you ever will.
A whimsical masterpiece of acute observations a gem Literary ReviewAn immersive journey through trees in Japan by celebrated writer Aya Koda now available in English for the first time Trees are not just living things, but feeling beings, like us.
