But the story of my life - my behaviour, my actions - now that's a slim little paperback, and I've never read it. The Fever…

Delivered in Stockholm on 7 December 2017, My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs is the lecture of the…

• Rok vydání 2001

In 2001, after over a decade in the business, the author quit stand-up, disillusioned and drained, and went off to direct a…

Clears a devastating path from the bygone Glasgow of the 1970s to the grim secrets of Gloucester in the mid 1990s.…

Alcestis is the story of a king, Admetus, who is able to escape death because his wife, Alcestis, has volunteered to die in…

A funny memoir of John Carey, best known for his provocative stance on the arts and the academic establishment. It shows his…

• Rok vydání 2010

It's not until 2010, when Elisa's decomposed body is found in the church where she went missing, that the two cases are…

Count Arthur Strong tells the story of his extraordinary journey from his humble early years as the only son of a…

• Rok vydání 1972

But in 1972 along came the American, Bobby Fischer: insolent, arrogant, abusive, vain, greedy, vulgar, bigoted, paranoid and…

As one of Britain's best and most-loved travel writers, Jan Morris has led an extraordinary life. On first publication in…

• Rok vydání 2022

\n\'Almost nothing in life is only what it seems.\'Soldier, journalist, historian, author of forty books, Jan Morris led an…

• Rok vydání 2022

\n\'[A] compelling meditation on Indian and Western art-making.\' The New YorkerFinding the Raga is Amit Chaudhuri\'s…

• Rok vydání 2021

\nLose yourself in this classic travelogue evoking the idyllic South of France by the king of travel writing and real-life…

• Rok vydání 2018

And 'The Satoshi Affair' chronicles the strange case of Craig Wright, the Australian web developer who may or may not be the…

• Rok vydání 2021

\nNecrophilia is not one of my failings, but I do like graveyards and memorial stones and such... Following the publication…

• Rok vydání 2010

Alan Bennett's A Life Like Other People's is a poignant family memoir offering a portrait of his parents' marriage and…

• Rok vydání 2013

I thought of life's many bounties, to have known the extremities of joy and sorrow, love, success and failure, fame and…

'An unknown place.' This was what Michael Frayn's children called the shadowy landscape of the past from which their family…

For 6,557 miles, from New York to Mississippi to Seattle, Chuck Klosterman decided to chase rock n roll and death across a…

• Rok vydání 1997

The political thriller of the year - UPDATED WITH A DEVASTATING NEW CHAPTER ON THE CHILCOT INQUIRY'Excellent' Sunday…

Henry Morton Stanley was a cruel imperialist - a bad man of Africa. Or so we think: but as Tim Jeal brilliantly shows, the…

Tells the story of the farmer's son from Tyneside who revolutionised wood-engraving and influenced book illustration for a…

At the outset of his career Ted Hughes described letter-writing as 'excellent training for conversation with the world', and…

• Rok vydání 2022

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\nThe rediscovered classic: an unforgettable memoir by a trailblazing black woman in post-war London, introduced by…

\n\'A pointed, svelte but diverse work.\' Irish TimesPart memoir, part manifesto, Some Answers Without Questions is an…

• Rok vydání 2024

\nA future classic of memoir by one of the greatest writers at work today\n…

As a young girl Gwen thought it impossible that she could ever succeed as an artist, and yet the observations of the small…

\nAn engrossing and frank coming-of-age memoir from one of the world\'s leading pianists.\n…

This is a memoir about hope - hope in others, hope in systems, and hope for the future. I've never quite known where to…

A sensitive and definitive account, The Sleep of Reason achieves a unique understanding of the James Bulger case, and comes…

Through his pioneering work in the legendary country-punk band, Uncle Tupelo, to his enduring legacy as the creative force…

• Rok vydání 2021

\nWayne Kramer, legendary guitarist and co-founder of quintessential Detroit proto-punk legends The MC5, tells his story in…

How did Gerry Adams grow from a revolutionary street activist - in perpetual danger of arrest and assassination - into the…

A guide to writing fiction by the Booker Prize-winning author of Vernon God Little.Part biography, part reflection and part…

• Rok vydání 2021

\nWho am I, again?\'Riotous, warm-hearted and revealing, and told with Lenny\'s trademark energy - expect recipes, comic…

\n\'Completely fascinating, revelatory . Eliot and Mary Trevelyan shared a close friendship - twenty-five years in each…

• Rok vydání 2023

\nEliot\'s celebrated poem The Waste Land on its centenary. \'A rattling good story\' Sunday Telegraph\'A work of art\'…

\nThe prize-winning biography of Wordsworth\'s beloved sister, champion, muse who was at the heart of the Romantic movement…

• Rok vydání 2018

Pronounced guilty of libel and sentenced to a year in prison, novelist Emile Zola went on the run. Michael Rosen brings to…

\nAn intimate and original memoir of grief and male friendship by one of Scotland\'s brightest young talents. \'With a…

• Rok vydání 2014

Presents exact and complete transcriptions of the journals kept by Sylvia Plath for the last twelve years of her life -…

• Rok vydání 2022

\nNot long after, Auster received a letter from Coetzee, suggesting they begin exchanging letters on a regular basis and,…

In 1797, Lucia, a beautiful statesman's daughter was married off to a powerful Venetian, only to be caught up in the…

\nBlazing a trail in the examination of controversial issues such as drug addiction (The Man with the Golden Arm) and…

Eliot - and of its author, a formidable woman sidelined by literary history. 'Heartbreaking and wonderfully told.' Susan…