A landmark new collection of poems from the author of Cider with RosieLaurie Lee is beloved for his writing on a lost rural world. His evocative poetry springs from his deep connection with nature, as he tracks the seasons chang...Daugiau...
The second volume in Simone de Beauvoir’s celebrated autobiography recalls her formative years in Paris when she began to emerge as a public figureFirst published in 1960, The Prime of Life offers an intimate, captivating...Daugiau...
An astonishing memoir of the Holocaust through the eyes of a child, and an exquisite meditation on memory and trauma Aharon Appelfeld was the beloved only child of middle-class Jewish parents living in what is now Ukraine at the outbreak...Daugiau...
Candid, insightful, moving . . . a memoir, a chronicle of and commentary on Americas abortive civil-rights movement -The New York Times In this deeply personal book, Baldwin reflects on the experiences that shaped him as a w...Daugiau...
The undisputed masterpiece of négritude and a poetic milestone of anti-colonialism Guardian We shall speak. We shall sing. We shall shout. This blazing autobiographical poem by the founder of the négritude movement became a...Daugiau...
This small book contains multitudes Marina WarnerFor those who have suffered for and in love, this may prove to be one of the most useful books they will ever read Nicholas Lezard, GuardianAn extraordinary, uncompromi...Daugiau...
A landmark new collection of poems from the author of Cider with RosieLaurie Lee is beloved for his writing on a lost rural world. His evocative poetry springs from his deep connection with nature, as he tracks the seasons chang...Daugiau...
Fantastic. The benchmark for great food writing Anthony Bourdain The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite Between Meals is the gourmand and journalist A.J. Lieblings delectable account of his tim...Daugiau...
An extraordinary selection of the letters of Che Guevara Always be capable of feeling deeply any injustice committed against anyone, anywhere in the world Che Guevara was an inveterate letter writer and diarist throughout his...Daugiau...
Evelyn Waughs first book, Rossetti, is an intimate account of Dante Gabriel Rossettis tragic and mysterious life: the story behind some of the greatest poetry and painting of the nineteenth century. Shot through with Waughs char...Daugiau...
The incredible memoir of Elaine Brown - the first woman leader of the Black Panthers Here I was, a woman, proclaiming supreme power over the most militant organization in America In 1974 Elaine Brown became the first woman le...Daugiau...
The gripping true story of one mans ten year expedition from a village in West Africa to the Arctic Circle WITH A NEW AFTERWORD BY THE AUTHOR Scorching heat, rich, fertile soil, and treacherous snakes marked the landscape in w...Daugiau...
Powerful and poetic ... For anyone interested in the myth of Che Guevara ... this book is essential reading Colm Tóibķn, Observer We were an army of shadows, of ghosts, walking as if to the beat of some dark psychic mechanism... ...Daugiau...
Guevara was a figure of epic proportions. These diaries, stark and moving, will be his most enduring monument Observer The final diaries of Che Guevara begin in 1966, when he travelled to Bolivia to foment a revolution, and end just two...Daugiau...
A Latin American James Dean or Jack Kerouac Washington Post Its true; Marxists just wanna have fun... a revolutionary bestseller Guardian At the age of twenty-three, Ernesto Che Guevara and his friend Alberto Granado set...Daugiau...
A funny, sad novella about how we got here from there, and how, in our youth, our eyes saw things differently The Times A private meeting, chance encounters and a mysterious tour of Lisbon haunt this moving homage to Tabucchis adopte...Daugiau...
Hilarious, subversive, sharp without being lethal, and loving without an ounce of sentiment, Shirley Jacksons more-or-less autobiographical account of life as a mother of four and faculty wife (and brilliant writer) is an eternal, comic joy Amy B...Daugiau...
Utterly, agonisingly compulsive ... a masterpiece Liz Jensen, GuardianFollowing one womans journey from a troubled girlhood in working-class Copenhagen through her struggle to live on her own terms, The Copenhagen Trilogy...Daugiau...
The ground-breaking work of the poet who paved the way for generations of women writers, in a new selection by her daugher and literary executor, Linda Gray Sexton When Anne Sexton took her own life in October 1974, she left behind a body...Daugiau...
Selected as a Book of the Year 2019 by The Times and Telegraph Astonishing. . . Like the great Russian novels, these testimonials ring with emotional truth - Caroline Moorehead, Guardian Extraordinary stories about what it was...Daugiau...
A brave, beautiful book that could double as a handbook to accompany anyone on their journey through cancer Jackie Kay, New Statesman The Cancer Journals is an intimate, poetic and invigorating account of the experience of breast cancer...Daugiau...
A moving portrait of the landscape that shaped the life of Laurie Lee, the beloved author of Cider With Rosie Before I left the valley I thought everywhere was like this. Then I went away for 40 years and when I came back I rea...Daugiau...
It was the discovery of the essays celebrating his childhood and youth that altered my perception of Camus, from a thinker to a writer whose intellectual lucidity was a product of the wealth - the sensual immediacy and clarity - that had been heape...Daugiau...
Tiepolo: the last breath of happiness in Europe The eighteenth-century Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo spent his life creating frescoes that are among the glories of Western art, yet he remains shrouded in mystery. Who was he? An...Daugiau...
A darkly funny account of family life from the author of The Haunting of Hill House and The Lottery Sometimes, in my capacity as a mother, I find myself sitting open-mouthed and terrified before my own children As well as bei...Daugiau...
Stands in the absolute first rank of books about the resistance in World War II. If you wish to read about a man more courageous and honourable than Jan Karski, I would have no idea who to recommend Alan Furst It is 1939. Jan Karski,...Daugiau...
A peculiar genius with no modern equivalent, except possibly Kafka - Jonathan Miller Regarded as a central part of Kapuscinskis work, these vivid portraits of life in the depths of Poland embody the young writers mastery of literary reportage W...Daugiau...
A masterpiece, as fresh and shocking as if it were written yesterday Craig Brown Ive been told that no one sings the word hunger like I do. Or the word love. Lady Sings the Blues is the inimitable autobiography of one...Daugiau...
Advertisements for Myself is a comprehensive collection of the best of Norman Mailers essays, stories, interviews and journalism from the Forties and Fifties, linked by anarchic and riotous autobiographical commentary. Laying bare the heart of a wi...Daugiau...
You will be a great hero, a general, Gabriele dAnnunzio, Ambassador of France! For his whole life, Romain Garys fierce, eccentric motherhad only one aim: to make her son a great man. And she did. This, his thrilling, wildly romantic autobiogr...Daugiau...
As fresh, poignant and individual as his paintings Lucy Beckett, TLS, Books of the Year 2018 Here is my soul. Look for me here; here I am, here are my pictures, my roots Marc Chagall, one of the twentieth centurys most pop...Daugiau...
One summer afternoon A.J.A. Symons is handed a peculiar novel called Hadrian the Seventh and, captivated by this forgotten masterpiece, determines to learn everything he can about its mysterious author. Symons proceeds as a detective might, investiga...Daugiau...
The young naturalist W. N. P. Barbellion described this remarkably candid record of living with multiple sclerosis as a study in the nude. It begins as an ambitious teenagers notes on the natural world, and then, following his diagnosis at the age...Daugiau...
This extraordinary re-creation of the life of a medieval Italian merchant, Francesco di Marco Datini, is one of the greatest historical portraits written in the twentieth century. Drawing on an astonishing cache of letters unearthed c...Daugiau...
Magical Daily Mail I finished it with an ache in my heart and a tear in my eye Spectator From the author of Cider With Rosie, Village Christmas is a moving, lyrical portrait of England through the changing years and seasons. ...Daugiau...
A brilliant companion piece to Wide Sargasso Sea, this is Jean Rhyss beautifully written, bitter-sweet autobiography, covering her chequered early years in Dominica, England and Paris. Jean Rhys wrote this autobiography in her old age, n...Daugiau...
An intimate inside look at the mind of Georges Simenon, immortalized here in his journals.In the 1960s, Simenon bought three leather-bound journals, planning to leave a record of his life and career for his sons. He was 57 years old, a...Daugiau...
No marriage of a major twentieth-century writer lasted longer than Vladimir Nabokovs. From their meeting in 1921, Vladimirs letters to his beloved Vera form a narrative arc that tells a forty-six year-long love story. This book features these lette...Daugiau...
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The author left his childhood home in the Cotswolds when he was nineteen, but it remained with him throughout his life until, many years later, he returned for good. This collection brings to life the sights, sounds, landscapes and traditions of his...Daugiau...
The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition was perhaps the most ambitious, elaborate and confident of all the British attempts to master the South Pole. Like the others it ended in disaster, with the Endeavour first trapped and then crushed to pieces i...Daugiau...
Tells a story of crazed road trips fuelled by bourbon and black acid, of insane judges and giant porcupines, of girls, guns, explosives and, of course, bikes....Daugiau...
Every Thursday morning in a living room in Iran, over tea and pastries, the author and other women meet in secret to discuss forbidden works of Western literature. This book tells how they lose themselves in the worlds of Lolita, and share their own...Daugiau...
Presents the life-affirming call to spiritual arms from world-renowned spiritual teacher. Part adventure narrative, part travelogue, part spiritual guide, this title is suffused with his perspective on life....Daugiau...
The author was a masterful letter writer whose correspondents included Umberto Eco, Primo Levi, Gore Vidal and Pier Paolo Pasolini. This book offers a collection of his letters....Daugiau...
The stooping figure of my mother, waist-deep in the grass and caught there like a piece of sheeps wool, was the last I saw of my country home as I left it to discover the world Abandoning the Cotswolds village that raised him, the young Laurie Lee...Daugiau...
The author was still a young man when he decided to fight for the Republican cause in Spains civil war. But though he braved icy, storm-swept mountains alone to contact Republican sympathisers, he was immediately suspected of being a Nationalist spy...Daugiau...
After The Second World War, the author was exiled for many years from his home country of Poland. In this book, he evokes that homeland and his years away from it; how it nurtured him and how its divisions and destruction shaped a generation....Daugiau...
Singer-songwriter and co-founder of the Smiths (1982-1987), the author has been a solo artist for twenty-six years, during which time he has had three number 1 albums in England in three different decades. This ttile deals with these works....Daugiau...
