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The reissued classic from “master of language” (The New York Times) John Edgar Wideman—a “superb” (The New York Times Book Review) memoir in five essays about fathers, and Wideman's vexed relationship with his own. An essential chronicler of Black American experience for over half a...

The first biography of Sue Townsend, the brilliant and satirical mind behind the iconic teenage diarist Adrian Mole. Sue Townsend grew up in working class Leicestershire and left school at 14. In the 70s she was a young single mother working in youth and community services, writing on the side...

The dramatic, untold story of the world’s biggest creative rivalry This is the epic, never-before-told story of two titans of modern industry, two utterly different visionaries who came to shape the world like never before. Richard Rogers and Norman Foster studied together at Yale University...

A powerhouse portrait of Jimmy Breslin, the acclaimed writer who pummeled politicians, profiled Mafia kingpins, and gave voice to the poor and powerless. Sometimes a towering figure from our past can help us understand our present. Jimmy Breslin is that figure—a journalist who spent most of...

From Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter Steve Fainaru and former Washington Post managing editor Philip Bennett comes the extraordinary story of foreign correspondent Anthony Shadid’s journey through war and revolution in the Middle East. In the historic decade following 9/11, Anthony Shadid...

Bestselling author John Kenney writes a luminous, powerful memoir about the long tail of grief—the ways it hides, the ways it shapes us, and what it means, finally, to mourn someone fully, even if it takes half a lifetime to find the words. When John Kenney's mother died, the Boston Globe ran her obituary. After writing his bestselling novel about an obituary writer, I See You've Called in Dead, Kenney couldn't stop thinking about the impossibility of summing up a person's life in that small format, in just 74 words.

Bestselling author Lesley M.M. Blume documents the frenzied race to write the definitive account of the Manson murders—a race that included the likes of literary icons Truman Capote and Joan Didion. Three years after Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood took the literary world by storm and made...

In der Stilistik Thomas Manns liegt dieses markant-prägnant-charmante Element, das einen sofort in seinen Bann zieht. Bei seinen Tagebüchern herrscht durchaus ebenfalls diese ganz eigene Stimmung, allerdings überwiegend in einer starken Reduzierung der Gedankengänge auf ziemlich kurze, nicht ausgearbeitete spontane Sätze und unmittelbare Eindrücke, was dem Tagebuch-Genre geschuldet ist. Dennoch interessant aufgrund der Persönlichkeit Manns und seinem Austausch mit prominenten Literatur-Größen wie Hermann Hesse, Peter Suhrkamp, Franz Werfel u. a.

Every life has many doors and any novel that tells of breakdown must draw us through to unexpected places; places of fear, intensity and muddled thought, but also of what feels to me – in retrospect - like a sort of shimmering that vibrates on through the rest of life when the experience is...

He had been, in all the important ways, an impeccable father. And he had been, in all the important ways, a terrible son. James Wood grew up in a household shaped by evangelical fervour, social ambition and the peculiar faultlines of English class. His mother, Sheila, was anxious, aspirational...

Where are the women writers? Has their work been lost to history? Or did it ever exist at all? Were there really women writing in the ninth, tenth and eleventh centuries? (Or indeed, in the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth?) And were any of them any good? Many people have a hard time naming a...

'Lyrical... enjoyable' Mail on Sunday William Morris inspires us to widen our horizons. Once celebrated as a poet, he is now best known for his wallpaper and textile designs. But he was also a pioneering manufacturer who invested in the wellbeing of his workforce; a traveller in the wildernesses...

The extraordinary life of the pioneering New York Times architecture critic who changed how Americans saw our cities. For fifty years, Ada Louise Huxtable (1921–2013) was the preeminent writer on architecture in America and a passionate voice in defense of civic beauty and the public good. The...

An intimate encounter with four young poets on their way to literary fame in the legendary grit and glitter of postwar New York "I defy readers to withstand the romance of the moment Kindley so beautifully describes and to resist the urge to relive it through the New York School Poets’ verse...

Der größte deutschsprachige Dramatiker des 20. Jahrhunderts unterhielt einen regen Briefverkehr – und was für einen! Im Rausch des geschriebenen Wortes offenbart Brecht an zahlreichen Stellen seinen brillanten Geist in Form philosophischer Geistesblitze, aphoristischer Gedankenstreiche, rauschender Liebeserklärungen an diverse Herzensdamen und wunderbarer einzigartiger Situationskomik im Austausch mit Freunden und Arbeitskollegen. Zwischendurch gewürzt mit einzelnen Stücken aus seinem reichhaltigen Fundus an elegant-burlesken Liedtexten und Gedichten.

An illuminating new life of the peerless thinker, artist and author of Ways of Seeing Tom Overton got to know John Berger around 2010, after he gave his archive to the British Library: a kind of homecoming to the city of his birth, after a life lived mostly in self-imposed exile in Switzerland...

A devastating and exhilarating memoir about the re-emergence of memory after sexual violence, recovery and rebuilding a life Rosie Price was twenty-three, starting a life and a career in London, when her world was turned upside down by the re-emergence of a memory of rape. As she tried to piece...

Shortlisted for the Booker, the Whitbread Prize and the Women's Prize for Fiction, Shena Mackay has been one of the UK's most fascinating writers for over sixty years Born in Edinburgh, she grew up in Kent and came to fame before she was twenty when she published Dust Falls on Eugene...

The fascinating, never-before-told story of Arcangela Tarabotti, a 17th century Venetian nun who set the European literary world alight, advocating for women and combatting misogyny in her time. Set amid the extravagance of 17th-century Venice, Arcangela unearths the biography of an iconoclastic...

The life and works of Daphne du Maurier—one of the greatest storytellers of the last century—continue to beguile and fascinate readers across the world. Her blockbuster Rebecca has sold millions of copies worldwide and stands the test of time as one of the most influential books in literary...