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Beginning in 1987, as she embarks on an affair that she knows will be all-consuming and ending in 1995 with the publication of The First Stone and the furore that followed it, Garner reveals the inner life of a woman in love and a great writer at work. With devastating honesty and sparkling humour, she grapples with what it means for her sense of self to be so entwined with another - how to survive as an artist in a partnership that is both enthralling and uncompromising.

The first full-length biography of the Nobel laureate to appear in a quarter century, Mad at the World illuminates what has made the work of John Steinbeck an enduring part of the literary canon: his capacity for empathy. Angered by the plight of the Dust Bowl migrants who were starving even as they toiled to harvest California's limitless bounty and appalled by the country's refusal to recognize the humanity common to all of its citizens, Steinbeck took a stand against social injustice - paradoxically given his inherent misanthropy.

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. Traveling from the bureaucratic morass of Bombay to the ethereal beauty of Kashmir, from a sacred ice cave in the Himalayas to an abandoned temple near Madras, Naipaul encounters a dizzying cross-section of humanity: browbeaten government workers and imperious servants, a suavely self-serving holy man, and a deluded American religious seeker.

Die Autobiographischen Schriften sind der Schlüssel zum Werk von Thomas Bernhard. Sie kehren sein Innerstes nach außen. Keine Texte, die intimer, berührender sind als die fünf zwischen 1975 und 1982 geschriebenen Erzählungen, in denen der Autor seine traumatischen Kindheits- und Jugenderinnerungen beschreibt. Fünf aufwühlende Geschichten, gelesen von fünf der besten deutschsprachigen Schauspieler. Die Ursache. Eine Andeutung, gelesen von Ulrich Matthes. 1943: Dreizehnjährig wird Thomas Bernhard in ein Internat nach Salzburg geschickt.

Each working day from January 29 to November 1, 1951, John Steinbeck warmed up to the work of writing East of Eden with a letter to the late Pascal Covici, his friend and editor at The Viking Press. It was his way, he said, of "getting my mental arm in shape to pitch a good game." Steinbeck's...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Named a Best Book of the Year by Time, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Air Mail, Harper’s Bazaar, The Washington Post, and more! Joan Didion is revealed at last in this “vivid, engrossing” (Vogue), and outrageously provocative dual biography “that reads like a propulsive...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An extraordinary work from the author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Blue Nights In November 1999, Joan Didion began seeing a psychiatrist because, as she wrote to a friend, her family had had “a rough few years.” She described the sessions in a...

Nearly a decade ago, infamous literary 'it' girl Caroline Calloway created the proposal for a book she called School Girl while cutting up lines of Adderall with her Cambridge student ID. She promised followers and publishers alike that her life was a perfect fairytale up until the day she went to rehab. As her 2015 book deal crumpled without a manuscript, Calloway was called a scammer, a fraud and a one-woman Fyre Fest, although during this time she managed to get and remain 'amphetamine-sober'. She also promised herself that she would never again sell a book without a finished manuscript.

Un divorce forcément douloureux, une grande maison victorienne troquée contre un appartement en haut d'une colline dans le nord de Londres, deux filles à élever et des factures qui s'accumulent... Deborah Levy a cinquante ans quand elle décide de tout reconstruire, avec pour tout bagage, un vélo électrique et une plume d'écrivain. L'occasion pour elle de revenir sur le drame pourtant banal d'une femme qui s'est jetée à corps perdu dans la quête du foyer parfait, un univers qui s'est révélé répondre aux besoins de tous sauf d'elle-même.

Dans cet autoportrait écrit à vif, dans la brûlure, l’intensité et l’âpreté du quotidien, Chantal Akerman nous confie la matière même de toute son œuvre. Les mots sont autant d’images accolées entre elles, scotchées, coupées ; c’est l’écriture comme un montage en cours, le cinéma n’est jamais loin. C’est le même langage que la vie. L’autrice dévoile avec pudeur et douleur la relation avec sa mère, avec sa compagne, avec sa propre folie, qui la guette. Ma mère rit est une magnifique plongée dans les joies, les blessures ; dans le cœur de la réalisatrice.

Quando usciva dal Cinema Mirone, quel tornado di ragazzina si sentiva Jean Gabin dalla testa ai piedi. Ribelle, appassionata, braccata come lui, con una sigaretta immaginaria all'angolo delle labbra, Goliarda girava per la casbah di Catania come Jean per quella di Algeri. Poi se ne tornava a casa, dalla sua grande famiglia irregolare, resistente, chiassosa come una nave in festa. Io, Jean Gabin racconta tutto questo raccontando un pugno di giorni. È un tassello di quella che Goliarda Sapienza chiamava "autobiografia delle contraddizioni".

Este libro memorable ha cautivado a millones de lectores en todo el mundo. En él, la escritora Joan Didion, una de las autoras norteamericanas más reputadas de finales del siglo XX, narra con una fascinante distancia emocional la muerte repentina de su marido, el también escritor John Gregory Dunne. Este libro tan breve como intenso es, por consiguiente, una reflexión sobre el duelo y la crónica de una supervivencia.

Part history, part cultural biography, and part literary mystery, The Orientalist traces the life of Lev Nussimbaum, a Jew who transformed himself into a Muslim prince and became a best-selling author in Nazi Germany. Born in 1905 to a wealthy family in the oil-boom city of Baku, at the edge...

The inner workings of a writer's life, the interplay between experience and writing, are brilliantly recounted by a master of the art. Gay Talese now focuses on his own life, the zeal for the truth, the narrative edge, the sometimes startling precision, that won accolades for his journalism and best-sellerdom and acclaim for his revelatory books.

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, Lincolnshire, a D-category prison. Under a less strict regime, the prisoners can enjoy a more relaxed set of rules, while slowly preparing to someday rejoin the world outside the walls. However, a minor breach of conditions gets him sent off to the notorious HMP Lincoln facility for twenty-two days, where more traumatic experiences await. "Heaven" is the third book in Jeffrey Archer’s bestselling series The Prison Diaries.

"Sono nato nel segno della Bilancia: perciò nel mio carattere equilibrio e squilibrio correggono a vicenda i loro eccessi. Sono nato mentre i miei genitori stavano per tornare in patria dopo anni passati nei Caraibi: da ciò l'instabilità geografica che mi fa continuamente desiderare un altrove. Il sapere dei miei genitori convergeva sul regno vegetale, le sue meraviglie e virtù. Io, attratto da un'altra vegetazione, quella delle frasi scritte, voltai le spalle a quanto essi m'avrebbero potuto insegnare; ma la sapienza dell'umano mi restò ugualmente estranea." (Italo Calvino)

Esta es la historia de una familia que amaba reunirse, comer, beber, reír, bailar y discutir. Que amaba el sol y el hedonismo de los días de verano. Este es el testimonio abrumador de una mujer que se atreve a revelar un secreto que guardó durante años. Un secreto que ahoga la memoria, que oprime, que anula el placer para siempre, que baila al ritmo del miedo y se alimenta de la vergüenza y de la culpa.

The Durrells are probably the most celebrated literary family of the 20th century. Gerald turned them into celebrities with his tripartite memoir, beginning with My Family and Other Animals (1956) which told of his experiences with his widowed mother Louisa and three siblings during their time in 1930s Corfu. We know of the Durrells from their own writings and from the image of them created by TV, film and biographical accounts of specific figures. What we do not know is the truth.

"A volte i posti assomigliano semplicemente ai loro nomi", scrive Sandro Veronesi a proposito di Montevideo; a volte, invece, i luoghi, i volti, i fatti, hanno bisogno di altre parole per essere visti. È questa narrazione visiva a legare assieme, in un flusso unico eppure fatto di cose molto diverse, i reportage che compongono "Live".

A stunning, tragic memoir about John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, and his cousin Anthony Radziwill, by Radziwill’s widow. What Remains is a vivid and haunting memoir about a girl from a working-class town who becomes an award-winning television producer and marries a...