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Kay Thompson’s larger-than-life story is an effervescent toast to show business with a shot of Auntie Mame and a twist of The Devil Wears Prada. A multi-threat entertainer and a world-class eccentric, Kay Thompson was the mentor/best friend of Judy Garland, the vocal guru for Frank Sinatra and...

The internationally bestselling author's meditation on memory and family. In this meditation on memory and what makes us who we are, Haruki Murakami recalls his relationship with his father – the son of a priest who might have become a priest himself had a clerical error not sent him to fight...

The untold story of the Edinburgh doctor who became Arthur Conan Doyle's model for Sherlock Holmes, and his adventures in the criminal underworld of Victorian Britain. Throughout nineteenth-century Edinburgh, the surgeon Joseph Bell was known for his extraordinary talent for detection and...

How does an effeminate boy–raised in Cowboyland with cattle and guns, hunting and trucks, sports and church, jocks and jerks, cruelty and small-mindedness–get from the Black Hills of South Dakota to the thrills and heartbreak of the white-hot lights of Broadway and the West End? The answer...

En ellas habla sobre la juventud y el paso del tiempo, el amor, el matrimonio y la paz, la soledad y la satisfacción. Toma como inspiración las conchas en la orilla para ofrecer un enfoque universal sobre las distintas etapas de la vida. Como madre de cinco, una escritora aclamada y una aviadora pionera, Lindbergh presenta una mirada realista sobre la modernidad tan amenazante como abrumadora, haciendo énfasis en las herramientas que nos complican la vida más allá de simplificarla y los múltiples compromisos que nos alejan de nuestras familias.

Writing Home is the first of four wonderfully entertaining collections of Alan Bennett's prose. It has been followed by Untold Stories, Keeping On Keeping On and, most recently, the Sunday Times bestseller, Enough Said. This audiobook is read by Alex Jennings, who played Alan Bennett himself in...

4º livro de Graciliano Ramos na voz de Erom Cordeiro chega à Supersônica! Publicado em 1945, Infância é um livro autobiográfico em que Graciliano Ramos retraça seus anos de formação.

George Orwell has never been more quoted and misquoted. Can he be rescued from the soundbites? George Orwell remains a work in progress. He is, or has become, a meme, a global writer, a national treasure, a London statue, a scholarly society, a Prize and a Journal, a trope and a show, various...

A rare collection of Beatrix Potter's own botanical art, and an exploration of the role these plants played in her personal and literary life. Beatrix Potter's Botanical collects and showcases 65 plants and fungi that Beatrix Potter made special study of in her often-overlooked career as a...

Llewelyn Powys’s penetrating portrait of James Thomson (B.V.) tracks the poet’s stark journey from army schoolmaster to the uncompromising author of The City of Dreadful Night. With vivid, unsentimental clarity, Powys illuminates Thomson’s friendships, London solitude, bouts of insomnia...

Toda novela genuina nace en diálogo o discusión con la tradición literaria. Entre los narradores hispanoamericanos contemporáneos son pocos los que escriben tan imbuidos de esa dinámica como el colombiano Juan Gabriel Vásquez. Este ensayo cuenta cómo Vásquez, en novelas como Los informantes, Historia secreta de Costaguana o El ruido de las cosas al caer se enfrenta a la angustia de la influencia y crea a sus precursores.

Bloomsbury presents Shakespeare's House by Richard Schoch, read by Mike Read. '[A] page-turning story' - Laurie Maguire, Times Literary Supplement 'A terrific addition to the Shakespeare library ... eye-opening.' - Michael Billington, Country Life Richard's Schoch's compelling history of...

Bloomsbury presents My Invented Country by Isabel Allende, read by Cynthia Farrell. 'A stunningly intimate memoir ... Allende is that rare writer whose understanding of story matches her mastery of language' ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY Isabel Allende was raised in her grandparents’ home in Chile...

Nerval, qui fréquente la bohème rive-gauche et le « Cénacle » romantique, se prend en 1836 d'une folle passion pour l'actrice Jenny Colon, qui incarne tous ses rêves mais qui le délaisse pour se marier avec un musicien. Elle constituera par la suite l'une des figures féminines idéales, où se mêlent, dans un syncrétisme caractéristique de la pensée de Nerval, Marie, Isis, la reine de Saba... Cette passion malheureuse détermine un des traits caractéristiques de son œuvre : l'épanchement du songe dans la vie réelle, le fantastique et le rêve étant pour lui sources d'inspiration.

Die Tagebücher Wolf Biermanns – ein zeithistorisches Ereignis Der Historiker Ilko-Sascha Kowalczuk ediert erstmals Auszüge aus dem Tagebuchwerk von Wolf Biermann. In »Ihr löscht das Feuer mit Benzin« finden sich bewegende Einblicke in das Leben und Denken eines Mannes, der wie kein...

A biography of the late Pulitzer Prize–winning American author Cormac McCarthy, from Tracy Daugherty, the New York Times bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist biography Larry McMurtry: A Life. Cormac McCarthy is hailed as one of America’s greatest novelists. In his body of work...

Zum 100. Todestag Rilkes: ein eindringliches Porträt des großen Dichters! Als Rainer Maria Rilke vor 100 Jahren starb, lagen ruhelose Jahrzehnte hinter ihm. Ob in der Künstlerkolonie Worpswede, bei dem Vorbild Rodin in Paris oder bei den Frauen, die ihn durchs Leben trugen, es hielt ihn nirgends lange. Der europaweit bestens vernetzte Einzelgänger, der bis zu Tolstoi nach Russland kam, wollte Bewegungsfreiheit, Berührungen, Resonanzen.

In this luminous memoir of secret drinking, fragile recovery, and the deep pull of religion, award-winning essayist Meghan O’Gieblyn seeks to understand why it is so hard to sustain the difficult work of personal change. "This is one of the best memoirs of the decade—a cool-water baptism, so...

“Part memoir, part meditation on the life and work of Agatha Christie . . . moving, enlightening, hopeful, and a joy to read.” —Paula Hawkins, New York Times bestselling author of The Blue Hour One recent Christmas, journalist and Sunday Times bestselling memoirist Cathy Rentzenbrink finds...

For readers of Kate Zambreno, Maggie Nelson, and Nathalie Léger, She Was Wild Grass offers an unflinching exploration of art, history, and self-discovery. The Beat Generation—the postwar literary revolution that canonized Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs—has long been mythologized as a...