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#1 New York Times bestselling author Patricia Cornwell finally tells the story that rivals all of the works that precede it: her own. Patricia Cornwell is best known for her international bestselling thriller series about forensic pathologist Dr. Kay Scarpetta. Every story comes from somewhere...

'A remarkable achievement' LOUISE KENNEDY 'A deeply moving memoir, raw with loss, yet luminous with love' SARAH WATERS 'What a kind, honest book. What a gift of love' DAVID MITCHELL 'Essential reading from an all-time great' SARA COLLINS Ghost Stories is Siri Hustvedt's most personal work yet, a...

In drei Rückblenden erzählt ein ehemaliger Schulkamerad aus Heide (Dithmarschen) von Klemens Greller, der heute als Leo Greller ein gewisser Bekanntheitsgrad als schräger Popsänger in Hamburg genießt.

Романист и преподаватель писательского мастерства Хавьер Пенья изучил жизни сотни великих писателей и писательниц и рассказывает малоизвестные истории: смешные, печальные, счастливые, стыдные и неприглядные. Здесь встретятся Лев Толстой и Владимир Набоков, Франц Кафка и Айзек Азимов, Маргарет Этвуд и Жозе Сарамаго, Сьюзен Зонтаг и Чарльз Диккенс и многие другие. Вы увидите любимых литераторов с новой стороны, узнаете про их тайны, страсти, надежды и неудачи.

Das England des 16. Jahrhunderts war eine brutale Welt, geprägt von politischen Intrigen, religiösen Kämpfen und grassierenden Seuchen. Und dennoch wurde das elisabethanische Zeitalter zu einer überragenden Blütezeit der englischen Literatur. Ihr Wegbereiter war Christopher Marlowe: Im gleichen Jahr wie William Shakespeare wurde er als Sohn eines Schusters geboren. Allen Widrigkeiten zum Trotz erkämpfte er sich ein Stipendium in Cambridge, ließ sich in den Spionagedienst der Königin verwickeln und schuf einige der spektakulärsten Meisterwerke der englischen Literatur.

A partir de centenares de entrevistas con amigos, colaboradores y empleados próximos a Anna, Amy Odell despliega una inspiradora historia de poder y ambición en un universo, el de las revistas de moda, tan fértil en glamour como en mezquindades. De niña, Anna Wintour carecía de cualquier interés por la ropa, pero cuando en la adolescencia descubrió las minifaldas y los cortes de pelo bob, se obsesionó. Su padre, un influyente periodista británico y figura clave en su vida, vaticinó que terminaría siendo directora de Vogue. Ella no cejó en su empeño hasta lograrlo.

'The portrait of a fascinating, eccentric, and indomitable woman . . . an incandescent novel' Elle 'No author has yet captured Frida's tragic life in words as sensually and passionately as this' Grazia 'Like wandering through a painting - riotous with colour, overflowing with imagery... it...

Parallel Lives tells the human stories behind 72 writers, from Homer to Joyce. Paired in 36 chapters, Austen beside Emily Brontë, Dickens beside Victor Hugo, Dostoyevsky beside Nietzsche, each portrait reveals how time, place, temperament, and sheer stubbornness shaped what these writers became.

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Unspeakable and The Problem with Everything comes a new collection of must-listen essays. "For the last five or six years, on many afternoons around 4 or 5 pm, I've been overcome with the sensation that my life is effectively over. Note the...

A vivid collection of trademark classic Tyrus stories, from his personal and professional life, that offer unfiltered insights into the heart of the nation while holding leaders accountable and celebrating the diverse experiences that define the American spirit. In his third captivating...

A lively and captivating journey through the world of the Transcendentalists, America’s first group of public intellectuals, whose visionary ideas reinvented our culture and politics and remain an inspiration today. “An impeccable and often dazzling behind-the-scenes look at the Concord...

Though numerous biographies have been published on William Faulkner, readers are often presented conflicting interpretations of his life and work. Faulkner’s view of himself and his own family was mercurial, and it is widely acknowledged that Faulkner was an unreliable narrator of his own life. As a result, biographies of Faulkner echo and complicate the multitude of ways he portrayed himself, accepting that truth, if it exists, is subjective. Like his work, Faulkner’s own life, then, is not only open to different readings but welcomes them within the landscape of his oeuvre.

This book is a biographical story that is both inspirational and historic in its nature. It serves to describe how important it is for us as human beings to seek to honor God in our lives and to guide others to that same blessing. I describe specific instances in my life to show others how special he is, but I also reveal how lighthouses were directly connected to those moments. I show how THE MIGHTY LIGHTHOUSE was not just a coincidental favorite interest of mine but was divinely placed in my life as a blessing that would ultimately be used to serve as a major part of my ministry.

Taylor Sheridan is often spoken about in terms that feel larger than the man himself. He is framed as a rescuer, a restorer, a figure who rode into a fading landscape and brought something old back to life. The Western, once a dominant force in American storytelling, had for years drifted into the margins, surviving in fragments but rarely commanding attention at scale. Then came Sheridan, and suddenly the genre was not only visible again, but central. His name became synonymous with its revival, and his work began to define how modern audiences understood the American frontier.

In ihrem Tagebuch erzählt Gabriele von Arnim ein Jahr lang über Abschiede, über Gegenwartsängste und das Ringen um Zukunftszuversicht, über Abschiede von sich selbst, von Lebenslust und über die Unausweichlichkeit des letzten Abschieds. Abschiede sind unsere täglichen Lebensgefährten und Lehrmeister. Aber Abschied ist nicht nur Verlust und Traurigkeit, Abschied ist auch befreiend.

When it became clear that Christopher would not have time to finish this biography, Nina promised him that she would complete it, patching together with her own voice the gaps that remained. If the book began as a tribute from Priest to Ballard, it is now also a love story written by Nina for Christopher.

After seeing a friend run the London Marathon, Sophie decided to give it a go. Collapsing two miles from the finish line, her first attempt was a disaster, but she picked herself up and kept going on a path that would take her to races all over the world across the Alps and even the Sahara Desert for the famous 150-mile Marathon des Sables. Sophie has now run all six World Marathon Majors, completed 15 marathons and three ultra-marathons, and run the entire length of the Thames Path, from source to sea.

Jorge Luis Borges (1899—1986) is one of the most influential literary figures of the twentieth century. His short stories, poems, essays, and translations explore Argentine mythology, mysticism, philosophical ideas, and myriad other topics. This Very Short Introduction gives an engaging...

Als Kind einer Zugezogenen im Hunsrück zwischen Hochdeutsch und breitem Pfälzer Dialekt erwies sich Sprechen als ein so zweischneidiger Akt der Anpassung, dass sie lieber verstummte.

A best-selling novelist turns to memoir in this compelling story of a son’s love, a mother’s obsession, and the malevolent grip of the past. Indian-American author Manil Suri grew up in a large, crumbling apartment in Bombay (now Mumbai), which his parents, who were Hindu, shared with three...