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A new investigation from Dr Mark Aldridge, exploring a lifetime of Agatha Christie’s Miss Jane Marple.

Alle wollen alt werden, niemand will alt sein. Der Widerspruch ist absurd, das Leiden daran real. Wie lernen wir, so gut wie möglich damit...

The comprehensive collection of letters spanning the adult life of one of the world’s greatest storytellers, now revised and expanded to include more than 150 previously unseen letters, with revealing new insights into The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion.....

A searing confessional infused with the darkest humor, Permanent Midnight chronicles the opiated abyss of a Hollywood screenwriter and his formidable climb into sobriety. Made into a film starring Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson, Permanent Midnight is revered by critics....

Combining biography, history, and politics, Our Man Down in Havana investigates the real story behind Greene's fictional one. This includes his many visits to a pleasure island that became a revolutionary island, turning his chance involvement into a political commitment....

At six years old, Terry was told by his headteacher that he would never amount to anything. He spent the rest of his life proving that teacher wrong....

This explosively entertaining memoir abounds in gossip, satire, historical apercus, and trenchant observations. Vidal’s compelling narrative weaves back and forth in time, providing a whole view of the author’s celebrated life, from his birth in 1925 to today....

Lit follows Mary Karr's descent into the inferno of alcoholism and madness - and her astonishing resurrection....

A classic of modern travel writing, An Area of Darkness is Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul’s profound reckoning with his ancestral homeland and an extraordinarily perceptive chronicle of his first encounter with India....

Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies investigates the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays became an act of blasphemy…and who the Bard might really be....

To celebrate the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen's birth, Lucy Worsley has written an Introduction to her Sunday Times Bestselling biography - the book that leads us into the rooms from which our best-loved novelist quietly changed the world.

Published in their entirety, Sylvia Plath's journals provide an intimate portrait of the writer who was to produce in the last seven months of her life some of the most extraordinary poems of the 20th century....

The Diary of Anaïs Nin is the published version of Anaïs Nin's own private manuscript diary, which she began at age 11 in 1914 during a trip from Europe to New York with her mother and two brothers....

In the fourth volume of her autobiography, The Heart of a Woman, Angelou's turbulent life breaks wide open with joy as the singer-dancer enters the razzle-dazzle of fabulous New York City....

Yeats is widely regarded as one of the most important English-language writers of the 20th century. A hero of the pen rather than the sword....

You may not know it, but you've met Augusten Burroughs. You've seen him on the street, in bars, on the subway, at restaurants...

Hunter Stockton Thompson (July 18, 1937 - February 20, 2005) was an American journalist and author who founded the gonzo journalism movement, a style in which the writer becomes a central figure and participant in the events of the narrative....

A richly evocative coming-of-age memoir set in the Florida orange groves of the 1960s by a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist....

Walden records the doctrines of transcendentalism that Thoreau lived, supported, and for which he became famous. He focuses on the concept of self-knowledge and encourages all people to find some way to learn more about themselves and the world around them....

In this book, C.S. Lewis tells of his search for joy, a spiritual journey that led him from the Christianity of his early youth into atheism and then back to Christianity....

Thoreau's classic account of the solitary life describes his attempts to simplify his life and sort out his priorities by living alone in a cabin beside Walden Pond for nearly two years....

Alexandra Fuller tells the idiosyncratic story of her life growing up white in rural Rhodesia as it was becoming Zimbabwe....

This is a book about ten women over the past three hundred years who have found walking essential to their sense of themselves, as people and as writers. Wanderers traces their footsteps....

Au début des années soixante, Thompson, alors journaliste à San Francisco, est fasciné par les Hell's Angels. Son article sur ces seigneurs de...

Published posthumously in 1964, A Moveable Feast remains one of Ernest Hemingway's most beloved works....

Fern had recently entered her 60s when a series of life-altering events threw her into the eye of the storm. Both her parents passed away, her 20-year marriage ended, and the pandemic was looming. Faced with an uncertain future, Fern decided that if she wanted to start over, now was the time. In The Older I Get, join Fern as she candidly shares her experiences of grief and loss, rebuilding confidence and exploring new passions, as well as the importance of finding friends you can put the world to rights with over a couple of Cosmos.

In January 2022, Bruce Eric Kaplan found himself confused and upset by the state of the world and the state of his life as a television writer in Los Angeles. He started a journal to keep from going mad, which eventually became They Went Another Way. The book’s through line traces his attempt to get a television project set up in the increasingly Byzantine world of Hollywood.

Drawing on deep archival research and decades of scholarship, Ann Schmiesing tells the affecting story of how the Grimms’ ambitious projects gave the brothers a sense of self-preservation through the atrocities of the Napoleonic Wars and a series of personal losses.

Herzzerreißend, mutmachend, witzig und zärtlich: ein autobiografischer Kurztext von Bestsellerautorin Sophie Kinsella Als Eve eines Morgens im Krankenhaus aufwacht, hat sie keinerlei Erinnerung, wie sie dort hingekommen ist. Ihr Mann Nick, der stets an ihrer Seite wacht, erklärt ihr, dass ihr ein bösartiger Hirntumor entfernt wurde. Von nun an muss Eve, eine gefeierte Bestsellerautorin, alles neu lernen – das Laufen, das Sprechen, das Schreiben. Und sie muss sich mit der Diagnose auseinandersetzen, womöglich nie wieder gesund zu werden.

Confessions by Leo Tolstoy, narrated by Gary Middleton, is a deeply introspective and philosophical work that chronicles Tolstoy’s spiritual journey and existential search for meaning. In this profound and honest memoir, Tolstoy confronts life's most difficult questions—regarding faith, purpose, and the human condition. This timeless work captures his struggle to reconcile the reality of life and death, eventually leading to a spiritual awakening.

In October of 1949, a few months after publication of George Orwell‘s masterpiece, Nineteen Eighty-Four, he received a letter from fellow author Aldous Huxley, a man who, 17 years previous, had seen his own nightmarish vision of society published in the form of the classic, Brave New World. What begins as a letter of praise soon becomes a brief comparison of the two novels, and an explanation as to why Huxley believes his own earlier work to be a more realistic prediction

Addict, thief, pimp, pusher, player—and most notably, groundbreaking writer. Donald Goines was all of these. As a kid, Donald Goines was the product of a middle-class family. After high school, he joined the Air Force—and discovered the heroin that would rule the remainder of his life. On the streets, he turned to writing when he was straight enough to keep at it. He used the language of the streets and he wrote of its people. Goines's success was immediate and exciting. But eventually those same streets claimed him.

Lew Wallace, a fascinating and multitalented historical figure, has consistently been overlooked and lost in academia, articles, and modern books. When he has been discussed, he has often been misrepresented and misunderstood. This is partly due to the sordid and profoundly controversial period in the United States during his lifetime. Yet, Lew wrote one of the most successful and influential novels of the 19th Century. The story he created, and the high-profile controversies he was intimately involved in, have lived on in numerous movies and television programs.

Ernest Hemingway's passion was writing, and he was inspired by a lifetime of daring adventures and encouraged by the many women in his life. His masculine, adventurous spirit appealed to women of all ages, including four wives and a long list of legendary actresses, and he frequently transformed the women in his life into memorable fictional characters.

While perhaps best remembered today as the beloved, iconic character Glinda the Good Witch in the 1939 film "The Wizard of Oz", Billie Burke enjoyed a long theatrical and film career in the early 20th century. Popular, red-haired comedienne Burke was the daughter of a woman possessing an indomitable spirit and a well-known circus clown from whom she took her name.

Heinrich Breloer hat mit seinem TV-Mehrteiler Die Manns unser Bild von Thomas Mann geprägt wie niemand sonst. Marcel Reich-Ranicki bezeichnete die Filme als "Glanzstück" und "Höhepunkt der deutschen Filmkunst". In Ein tadelloses Glück erzählt Breloer nun die ereignisreiche Vorgeschichte: Vom Aufstieg Thomas Manns, seiner Liebe zu Männern, seinem Werben um Katia Pringsheim und dem deutsch-jüdischen Bündnis ihrer Familien in den entscheidenden Jahren vor Beginn des Ersten Weltkriegs.

Известный писатель, кинодраматург, мастер детективного жанра Эдуард Анатольевич Хруцкий родился и всю жизнь прожил в Москве, поэтому практически все его детективные произведения так или иначе связаны с любимым городом, в котором каждый переулок, каждая улочка и подворотня хранят свои загадки и тайны. В этой аудиокниге вас ждут воспоминания писателя о детстве и юности, проведенных им в родном городе, о важных вехах его жизни начиная с Великой отечественной войны и заканчивая серединой девяностых годов прошлого столетия.

Алистер Маклин (1922–1987) — британский писатель, автор 28 остросюжетных романов и приключенческих рассказов, сценарист. Он входил в первую десятку самых продаваемых авторов мира; книги Маклина разошлись тиражом более 150 миллионов экземпляров, по его романам, сценариям и сюжетам было снято 18 фильмов. В 1983 году Университет Глазго присвоил писателю степень доктора литературоведения. С 1941 по 1946 год Маклин служил на флоте, принимал участие в военных операциях и полярных конвоях, что дало ему богатейший материал для творчества и определило тематику его лучших книг.

Книга записок, своего рода дневник о времени, написанный автором знаменитых гариков: "Это дневник, хотя все виденное и слышанное я пишу в него с запозданием — спохватился уже год спустя после ареста. Впрочем, нет — оправдывается вполне и в моем случае эта давняя усмешливая констатация: появилась возможность — вот он и сел писать. А что еще не выйдя на свободу — это детали, частности. Когда опомнился тогда и начал". Размышления и наблюдения Губермана о лагере, лишенном драматичных сюжетов и преувеличений.

Ирина Михайловна Пивоварова (1939–1986) — одна из самых лучших отечественных детских писателей. Маленькие читатели как самые чуткие, бесхитростные ценители детской книги с радостью принимают её искренний, светлый, жизнеутверждающий талант. В книгу вошла захватывающая и смешная повесть "Старичок в клетчатых брюках". Для среднего школьного возраста.

Por primera vez, el Premio Nacional de Literatura se arroja a rescatar sus recuerdos de infancia, haciendo un emocionante e impresionante recorrido por sus primeros años de vida y la historia de su familia, dando paso también al retrato de un mundo, el de las minas salitreras en el momento de su ocaso. Cuarto hijo de una pareja evangélica, su madre se dedicaba a cocinar para los mineros y el padre trabajaba sin descanso en los trabajos más duros de las minas.

Das kleine Mädchen Marina lügt gern und mit poetischer Hingabe. Ein Akt rebellischer Selbstbehauptung gegenüber einer Welt, in der es die strengen Regeln der Mutter gibt, um deren Liebe sie ringt, aber auch den glutäugigen Vater, der erst mittags aufsteht und sich an keinerlei Regeln zu halten scheint. Einer Welt, in der sie getauft und trotzdem jüdisch sein soll - wie ihr russischer Großvater, den die Mutter verachtet. Marina Jarre erzählt von der Kindheit im multikulturellen Riga der 1930er Jahre. Vom jähen Bruch, als sie nach der Trennung der Eltern zu ihren Großeltern ins faschistische Italien kommt.

Finding The Christmas Spirit And Other Essays is a collection of five critical and satirical essays by the English writer Michael Lieber. Collection Includes: Finding the Christmas Spirit, The great British Sunday roast, Lieber on Shakespeare, The Heart of Britannia and The London Riots of 2011.

Ani Gjika was born in Albania and came of age just after the fall of Communism, a time when everyone had a secret to keep and young women were afraid to walk down the street alone. When her family immigrates to America, Gjika finds herself far from the grandmother who helped raise her, grappling with a new language, and isolated from aging parents who are trying in their own ways to survive. When she meets a young man whose mind leans toward writing, as hers does, Ani falls in love-at least, she thinks it's love.

Âşık Veysel... Anadolu toprağından yeşermiş eşsiz bir gönül adamı. Acının toprağıyla yoğrulup hikmet kapısının eşiğine oturmuş söz ehli. Tabiatı, toprağı, karıncayı, dostu, aşkı, vatanı kendisine özgü söyleyiş tonuyla yeniden yoğurmuş halk ozanı. Sazıyla sözüyle Anadolu onda birleştirdi. Sevgi bir insanlık ideali oldu Âşık Veysel’in şahsında. Gözlerini kaybetti fakat neredeyse herkes onun gözü oldu. Sinan Yağmur, Âşık Veysel’i, ömrünü kuru kronolojiye değil unutulmaz kesitlerle yeniden canlandırıyor.