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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...

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.

“To say I have a memory like a sieve would be an insult to sieves. I have a memory like a basketball filled with glue. I have a memory like a plastic croissant on a windowsill that someone is pointing to and saying, it looks so real.” In this exquisite, darkly comic debut, we meet a poet...

Based on the authors' long-running podcast, The Swinging Christies brings Agatha Christie into vivid focus as a real woman writing contemporary crime fiction while navigating a tumultuous and thrilling decade. Widely perceived as a writer of cosy, old-fashioned mysteries rooted in the interwar...

A moving (and wickedly funny) diary of the legendary New Yorker staff writer Calvin Tomkins’s one hundredth year. Calvin Tomkins and The New Yorker—two of the most storied names in American writing—were both born in the same year, 1925. As the magazine toasted its centenary, Tomkins began...

Dieses Hörbuch enthält folgende Essays: Die Spike, Eine Hinrichtung, Erinnerungen an eine Buchhandlung, Einen Elefanten erschießen, Down the Mine, Nord und Süd, Die spanische Bohne ausschütten, Marrakesch. Geboren in der ehemaligen britischen Kolonie Indien verlief das Leben von George Orwell alles andere als geradlinig.

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.

Take a tour of New York City as inspiration, place and context in the work of America's greatest playwright of the 20th century, brought to life with images from Miller's time and today. Readers of the work of Arthur Miller will be familiar with the presence of NYC in much of his work. In Arthur...

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.

‘A searing feat of grace and tenderness’ OCEAN VUONG, author of The Emperor of Gladness The extraordinary memoir of grief and belonging from Dylan Thomas Prize-winning poet, Kayo Chingonyi. Did leaving begin the hold that writing would have over my life as I wrote into this most expansive of...

A vibrant story of the tumultuous, tortuous life of Sherwood Anderson, the quintessentially American writer and author of Winesburg, Ohio. Literary father of the Lost Generation, leading figure of the Chicago literary renaissance, pioneer of the American short story, and author of the monumental...

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.

First, water freezes. Second, fuel freezes. By third the sky is jammed. Fourth and the mountains are saying it: time, time to go. Up in the furthest reaches of the Indian Himalaya, where land touches sky, snakes the Manali-Leh Highway: the highest-altitude long road in the world, comprised of...

A multigenerational memoir of working-class womanhood in 20th century Britain, centring on the extraordinary family history of one of our greatest living novelists - Pat Barker Patricia Margaret Drake was not a wanted child. Born in 1943 in the working-class north-east of England, her arrival...