A graphic memoir like no other: the true story of a marriage in China that spanned the twentieth century, told in vibrant, original paintings and prose.
A Waterstones Best Book of 2024There are many miles from the business school and basketball court at the University of Southern California to 50 million viewers for the final episode of a TV show called Magnum P.
En Rombo, palabra que designa el oscuro estruendo que hace la tierra al temblar, la naturaleza y la historia oral se trenzan para alumbrar un vibrante relato sobre los efectos, tanto físicos como psicológicos, de las catástrofes naturales.
'Persistently funny, ill-advisedly honest and deadly accurate' - Caitlin Moran'This book is a delight - very real and very entertaining' - Bob MortimerMusic journalist and self-professed creep, Harriet Gibsone, lives in fear of her internet searches being leaked.
'This comforting memoir will help us all feel less alone as we navigate the emotional turmoil of midlife' Davina McCall, author of MenopausingFrom the bestselling author of 'Mum, What's Wrong With You?
'One of the best Dublin memoirs I've ever read' Donal FallonPeig McManus was born into the last of Dublin's tenements before moving to one of Ireland's first social housing estates in Cabra.
THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the award-winning, multihyphenate global entertainer Keke Palmer comes the inspiring true story of her journey to understanding her genuine value.
A Whole Scene Going On covers Barry Fantoni's working - and sometimes not working - life from his first sell-out one-man show in 1963 through his time at Private Eye and the creativity of the Sixties to 1968 when the decade of pop and fashion gave way to the demo, the Red Brigade and social unrest.
**WINNER OF THE SALTIRE BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2024****WINNER OF THE WRITERS' PRIZE 2024 | NON-FICTION****SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024**A beautifully illustrated new memoir of a life in art, a father and daughter, and what a shared love of a painting can come to mean.
Dies ist die wahre Geschichte einer jungen Frau, Anna, von ihr selbst geschrieben einige Jahre vor ihrem Tod über ihr Leben, ihre Magersucht, ihre Suche nach sich selbst, ihr Streben nach Anerkennung und Liebe – mit der Hoffnung, anderen mit ihrer Selbstreflexion zu helfen.
ENCOUNTERS IN A NOISY WORLD - The finitude of eternityIf the view of things is different from the hitherto accustomed one, something is formed, which does that service to the well-worn life, the appearance of which does not become aware of its distinctness to everyone.
Ekaterina Limonova, que estudió una carrera universitaria superior y alcanzó el éxito profesional sin sospechar siquiera que su capacidad auditiva era muy inferior a la media, emprende en Por qué un viaje por sus experiencias vitales, desde su complicada infancia en la Unión Soviética de los años 80 hasta su vida actual en Gran Bretaña, donde finalmente fue diagnosticada su pérdida auditiva y la de uno de sus hijos.
Dieses Buch lädt Sie ein, die Summe der Erfahrungen, Gefühle und Geschichten eines besonderen Lebens zu erkunden, das 1943 beginnt und nach 80 Jahren autobiographisches Erinnern mit tiefgreifendem Assoziieren verwebt.
'Nerve-shattering, enlightening and deeply moving' - JOHN NICHOL'A powerful and compelling read' - ROWLAND WHITEOn 5 December 2002, trainee pilot Nathan Gray walked away from an 'unsurvivable' crash at RAF Wittering in Cambridgeshire.
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Epic, moving and important' ROBERT HARRIS'I'm not sure I've ever come across quite such a revelatory account of the Holocaust and yet despite the horror and the sadness it's also a 'memoir of miraculous survival'.
A doctor reflects on his profession and his experience with patients in this brilliant essay collection that expands on his wildly popular Twitter poems.
'A brutally honest account of power, politics, race and class, written by a politician with a remarkable backstory and destined for bigger things' - David Olusoga, author of Black and British In 2016, Marvin Rees was elected as mayor of Bristol, the first time a major European city had elected a mayor of Black African heritage.
From the bestselling authors of The Sugar Girls and GI Brides, this is Kathleen's story, one of three true accounts from the book The Girls Who Went to War.
***Winner of the 2023 Orwell Prize for Reporting Homelessness******Winner of an RSL Giles St Aubyn Award for Non-Fiction***'Part memoir, part howl of fury' GUARDIAN'Enrich[es] our impoverished sociological imagination' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT'Raw and compelling' FINANCIAL TIMES'Shows the human cost of a genuinely Kafka-esque bureaucratic system' NEW STATESMANAt once a powerful memoir, unflinching polemic and probing investigation into modern homelessness in the UK, by award-winning investigative journalist Daniel LavelleDaniel Lavelle left care at the age of nineteen, and experienced homelessness for the first time not long after.
Rhys Jones was brought up on a council estate in South Wales where expectations for what life held in store for you were slim, and the factor beckoned.
AS SEEN ON CHANNEL 4 S LOVE MY FACE'An extraordinary story of transformation and inner strength' - KATIE PIPER'Well worth reading: a tale of real heroism and obstacles overcome' - THE MAIL ON SUNDAY'Truly remarkable and so helpful' - FEARNE COTTON'Finding self-acceptance hasn't always been easy.
En El enigma del oficio, Guillermo Schavelzon nos invita a hacer un recorrido por las últimas décadas en la historia del mundo literario en español a través de esta crónica, subjetiva y necesaria, de las relaciones que mantuvo con sus principales protagonistas en España y América Latina.
