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READ BY THE AUTHOR With wry stories from his down-to-earth personal life and cutting-edge TV career, Fox News anchor Trace Gallagher reveals how the best advice sometimes comes from the most unexpected places. Dive into the real stories behind the headlines with Trace Gallagher, the Fox News @...

Edmond Biré retrace la destinée d’Armand de Pontmartin (1811-1890) et la place de ses écrits dans les lettres françaises. Entre biographie et étude critique, il suit le parcours d’un homme de plume au cœur du XIXe siècle, éclaire ses choix, son style et les idées qui traversent son œuvre, et interroge leur résonance.

From her Academy Award-nominated screenplays (When Harry Met Sally, Sleepless in Seattle, Julie & Julia) to her bestselling fiction and essays, Nora Ephron was one of the most gifted, prolific and versatile writers of our time. In this classic collection of magazine articles, Ephron does what...

The groundbreaking biography of Booker Prize-winning novelist and art historian Anita Brookner, from one of our leading literary biographers. Hermione Lee reveals the full story of a brilliant, idiosyncratic and complex woman and goes deep into Anita Brookner’s marvellous work in all its...

‘Joyous’ MATT HAIG ‘I want to press it into the hands of everyone I love’ DAISY BUCHANAN ‘Beautiful, moving, surprising’ PHILIPPA PERRY ‘Hugely readable’ OLIVER BURKEMAN ‘A gorgeous, immersive read’ SAMANTHA ELLIS One Christmas, Cathy Rentzenbrink finds herself drained by...

One Christmas, Cathy Rentzenbrink finds herself drained by life's upheavals. In need of comfort and escape, she turns to her first literary love: Agatha Christie. As Cathy delves into Agatha's novels and her mysterious disappearance in 1926, she discovers more than she expected. Beyond the hidden jewels, detectives and thrilling escapes on trains and automobiles, Cathy unearths an adventurer and innovator who hid - within the pages of her own books - the secrets of how she survived a personal crisis and started life again.

'An excellent, compassionate biography of the wildly prolific romantic novelist'. The Guardian 'Matthew Sweet has given the life-story of this icon of chiffon-and-pearls the telling it deserves - wry, affectionate, and very readable.' Louis Theroux 'The most genius, compelling, jaw-dropping...

Bloomsbury presents The Sum of Our Days by Isabel Allende, read by Blair Brown with a foreword read by Isabel Allende 'No amount of acrobatics can out do the absolute core of Allende's talent: her gift for writing' The Times In the wake of the tragic death of her daughter, Paula, Isabel Allende...

From a Nottingham alleyway to a global empire, Threads is the story of a truly unique British fashion icon. Read by Bill Nighy, this audiobook includes an exclusive interview between the actor and Sir Paul Smith. ‘I always say that you can find inspiration in everything. And if you can't, look...

In this inspiring narrative, Imagineer, explorer, and Disney Legend Joe Rohde offers a master class in creativity on a world-spanning journey to discover the origins of personal creativity, the power and potential of enterprising groups, and the remarkable parallels between collaboration and exploring the real world.

Raghunath Dhondo Karve was among the stormy and controversial figures of his time in Maharashtra. Born to Dhondo Keshav Karve, a social reformer who advocated for women’s rights and widow remarriage, RD Karve studied the subjects of birth control and the science of lovemaking. In 1927...

Award-winning poet and performer Saul Williams explores how artists today must respond to systemic violence and injustice—in the words of Paul Robeson, by choosing sides. Songs My Mother Taught Me is Williams' clear-eyed exploration of the role of the artist in these times by answering the question: what radicalized you? He answers by examining how his role models—writers and artists, from Amiri Baraka to local musicians in Brazilian bars to Palestinian hip-hop heads—have responded to imperialist violence, oppression, and genocide.

#1 New York Timesbestselling author Harlan Coben offers a look behind the curtain at his own writing process in an inspiring, candid memoir filled with indispensable insights and techniques. “For aspiring writers, Harlan’s advice, stories, and anecdotes are wise, proven, and valuable. For...

The extraordinary account of The New York Times's effort to save hundreds of lives during the 2021 Afghanistan evacuation, highlighting four exceptional young women who, having escaped the fate of their fellow countrywomen back home, now face the challenges of forging a new life in a new land, a...

From one of the foremost scholars on the subject, comes our most in-depth look at John Steinbeck as a writer deeply connected to the natural world. Among the many reasons that John Steinbeck has reached the highest tier of the American literary canon is what we have come to understand as his...

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Die Hörbuchbox „Was uns begleitet" aus der „Bibliothek Europa" präsentiert Meisterwerke der Literatur und Philosophie, kuratiert und jeweils individuell eingeführt von Sven Görtz, in großer Vielfalt der Genres, Themen und Epochen. Franz Werfel gelang 1924 mit seinem Komponisten-Roman „Verdi" ein gleichermaßen spannendes wie profundes Werk über kreative Originalität, menschliche Größe und den Kampf um ein Leben im Einklang mit sich selbst.

In between the partying, the drugs, the love affairs, the 'squalid overboogie' of it all, Eve Babitz made time to chronicle the world as she saw it in works like Eve's Hollywood; Slow Days, Fast Company and Sex and Rage. But Babitz considered her letters 'the kind of writing I do best,' calling...

Read by the author, William Fiennes. ‘Fiennes has exceptional gifts, and he has written a small masterpiece, a tribute to the power of place, family and memory’ – The Sunday Telegraph William Fiennes’ childhood was one of imagination and curiosity, bounded only by the horizon he saw from...

'As compelling as any du Maurier mystery - an extraordinary family saga wonderfully told' GYLES BRANDRETH 'Packed to the rafters with delicious details' FRANCES WILSON, SPECTATOR 'Daphne du Maurier's many fans will eagerly lap [this book] up ... a warm and intimate tribute' THE TIMES 'An...