Art & Literature

This is the book that changed America....

In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley....

A quarter of a century after the plane crash that claimed the lives of John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn, and her sister Lauren, the magnitude of this tragedy remains fresh. Yet, Carolyn is still an enigmatic figure, a woman whose life in the spotlight was besieged with misogyny and cruelty.

Catherine Gray took a whole year off dating to find single satisfaction. She lifted the lid on the reasons behind the global single revolution....

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

CBS radio broadcaster William L. Shirer was virtually unknown in 1940 when he decided there might be a book in the diary he had kept in Europe during the 1930s...

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.....

Prisoner FF8282 gazes out from confinement on what he deems must be a glorious summer’s day, rays of sunlight bursting through the barred...

Social mobility is not a train you get to board after you've scraped together enough for the ticket. You have to build the whole bloody engine, with nothing but a spoon and hand-me-down psychological distress....

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....

Beginning with her experience as a medical actor who was paid to act out symptoms for medical students to diagnose, Leslie Jamison's visceral and revealing essays ask essential questions....

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.

A famous autobiographical account of life as a young soldier in the first World War trenches....

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....

Never before has a member of the Packer family co-operated with a writer to tell their story. In his biography The Price of Fortune, one of the nation's richest and most psychoanalyzed men opens up in an attempt to make sense of his roller-coaster life....

Long days of boredom in confinement, the general inefficiency of prison bureaucracy and a critically over-stretched prison service. The...

A flicker of light almost appears at the end of the tunnel for prisoner FF8282, as he is transferred to North Sea Camp near Boston...

Over 60 years after Virginia Woolf drowned in the River Ouse, Olivia Laing set out one midsummer morning to walk its banks, from source to sea. Along the way, she explores the roles that rivers play in human lives....

Wilbur Smith has lived an incredible life of adventure, and now he shares the extraordinary true stories that have inspired his fiction....

In a book distinguished by clarity and passion, Robert Zaretsky considers why Albert Camus mattered in his own lifetime and continues to matter today....

The glamorous extravagances and devastating lows of her time in Hollywood are revealed as never before in this fresh new biography of Dorothy Parker.

Paddy Gower has spent decades telling New Zealanders' stories. Now, he's telling his.

Britain's national icon, Michael Parkinson reads his long-awaited autobiography....

A Field Guide to Getting Lost draws on emblematic moments and relationships in Solnit's own life to explore issues of wandering, being lost, and the uses of the unknown....

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...

A compelling memoir by ABC News correspondent James Longman in which he discusses mental illness and trauma in families, what the latest genetic science is telling us, and how to not only persevere but thrive.

The incomparable George Hamilton returns with a superb offering of travails and anecdotes spanning his five decades on our airwaves and on our screens, always at the heart of Irish culture. Picking up where his first offering, The Nation Holds Its Breath, left off, George continues to illuminate the path that took him from the Cregagh Road in Belfast to the most extraordinary locations across the world.

Cairo, 1963: four years before her lone novel is finally published, the writer Enayat al-Zayyat takes her own life at age twenty-seven. For the next three decades, it's as if Enayat never existed at all. Years later, when celebrated Egyptian poet Iman Mersal stumbles upon Enayat's long-forgotten Love and Silence in a Cairo book stall, she embarks on a journey of reflection and rediscovery that leads her ever closer to the world and work of Enayat al-Zayyat.

Treinta gotas para apagar el incendio es el primer libro del periodista Johnatan Clavijo, en el cual se recogen cinco años de su ejercicio como columnista en el periódico El Mundo de Medellín, medio en el que logró publicar 123 textos, entre los años 2015 y 2020. Particularmente, en Treinta gotas para apagar el incendio, se destacan 30 de esas columnas, como un tejido de crónicas e historias que reflejan sus visiones periodísticas y humanas sobre Colombia y el mundo.

Soy Melba, la menor de cuatro hermanas. Soy el resultado de un amor imposible entre dos mundos, dos seres extraordinarios, dos patologías. Las Huérfanas es una excavación en la memoria del personaje monumental que fue mi mamá: Myriam De Nogales. Once años antes de tenerme mi mamá se lanzó por una ventana. Me lo contó cuando me llegó mi primer período, como un escabroso ritual de bienvenida a la pubertad. Soy Melba, la menor de cuatro hermanas. Soy el resultado de un amor imposible entre dos mundos, dos seres extraordinarios, dos patologías.

Fiona Foley Provocateur provides insights into the life of one of Australia’s most influential urban Aboriginal and activist artists. From her beginnings in Hervey Bay, Queensland, it follows her young adult life in Sydney where she co-founded Boomalli Aboriginal Artists Co-Operative in 1986, to her rise through the art world and, most recently, into an academic life.

This book reveals, for the first time, the story behind the writing of ‘Desiderata’. Beloved by millions, the poem was first published in 1927, but its true origins, along with the life of its author, have largely been lost to literary history. This account by actor and author Tim Dalgleish includes not only the story of ‘Desiderata’ but two additional, previously unpublished, chapters from a forthcoming biography of Max Ehrmann. This new material helps bring Max Ehrmann, the author of 'Desiderata', out of the shadows.

La biografía más completa y fiable de Gaudí. Una obra que huye de la leyenda y las falsas historias que han rodeado siempre su figura. La rigurosa investigación de Puig profundiza en aspectos poco conocidos del arquitecto catalán: su hondura intelectual y la transformación espiritual que protagonizó en el transcurso de su vida.

Un testimonio extraordinario que enseña la lección más valiosa: cómo dar sentido a nuestra vida. Considerado por The Washington Post como el libro de memorias más vendido de la historia, Martes con mi viejo profesor narra la experiencia vivida por Mitch Albom con Morrie Schwartz, uno de sus profesores de la universidad, al que vuelve a ver por casualidad muchos años después en una entrevista en televisión, en la que se entera de que su viejo profesor sufre ELA, una enfermedad degenerativa. Albom entra de nuevo en contacto con él y le propone verse todos los martes.

Una exitosa periodista que durante muchos años ocultó un gran secreto. El de su familia. Una familia al mismo tiempo profundamente disfuncional y tremendamente viva, vibrante. El padre, Rex, es un hombre carismático y entusiasta, que logra transmitir a sus hijos la pasión por vivir. Les enseña física, geología, les cuenta historias. Pero Rex es alcohólico, y cuando está borracho se convierte en una persona destructiva y poco de fiar. La madre es un espíritu libre, una pintora muy orgullosa de su arte que aborrece la idea de una vida convencional.

Seine zahlreichen Reisen führten den italienischen Schriftsteller und Abenteurer Giacomo Casanova in die Metropolen und an die Höfe Europas, wo er bedeutende Personen seiner Zeit traf. Doch auch die soziale "Unterschicht“ kommt in seinen Erinnerungen vor. Mit seinem berühmten sechsbändigen Hauptwerk "Geschichte meines Lebens“ hat Casanova der Nachwelt ein einzigartiges und farbenfrohes Sittengemälde des 18. Jahrhunderts hinterlassen.

La viva voce dell'intellettuale più lucida e appassionata del nostro tempo torna a visitarci per una formidabile resa dei conti sul potere, il femminismo, la fede, la letteratura. Ma soprattutto sulle dieci vite che ha vissuto con incantata sfacciataggine, senza paura, ripercorse oralmente nell'unica autobiografia organica possibile per una che ha attraversato il mondo correndo scalza, bruciando luminosamente ogni tappa. Alla vigilia di una morte che l'ha trovata gioiosa come una martire capace di cantare mentre avanza verso i leoni, Michela Murgia ha trascorso una settimana a raccontarsi a Beppe Cottafavi.

Christine Wirth erzählt vom Leben mit ihrer Mutter, die sie 2023 durch tragische Umstände verloren hat. Das Verhältnis innerhalb der kleinen Familie - bestehend aus den Eltern und Zwillingsschwestern - war geprägt von Liebe, Herzlichkeit und dem starken Glauben an Gott, der sie durch viele Schwierigkeiten getragen hat und ihnen zugleich unvergleichliche Momente der Freude und des Glücks schenkte. Shalom Mamele ist eine Verbeugung vor der Mutter der Autorin, humorvoll, nostalgisch, wehmütig und Mut machend zugleich. In dankbarer Erinnerung setzt Christine Wirth ihrem "Mamele" ein Denkmal.

Remo Remotti racconta la propria vita alternando agli episodi buffi o disperati le piú celebri tra le sue poesie. E ne approfitta per dare il meglio, ovvero assolutamente il peggio, di sé. A cento anni dalla nascita del suo autore, un libro esilarante, acre, caustico, spudorato.

Childhood Lost in Poverty is an account of the author’s childhood experiences, from infancy to young adulthood. The process enabled him to recognise how the poor parenting skills of his father, as well as his mother’s struggle to raise him and his sister up in poverty, compromised his relationships with his parents and affected his adult life.