Letters, Diaries, Biographies kategória termékei

Polley, S: Run Towards the Danger - Confrontations with a Body of Memory

Oscar-nominated screenwriter, director, and actor Sarah Polley's Run Towards the Danger explores memory and the dialogue between her past...

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Harriet Jacobs's slave narrative is remarkable for its candid exposure of the sexual abuse suffered by slaves at the hands of their owner...

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - The internationally bestselling classic

'There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you' In this first volume of her seven books of autobiography, Maya Angelo...

Love, Pamela - A Memoir

TO LIVE AND DREAM IS A WICKED DANCE. MY DREAMS OFTEN COME TRUE? A CURSE, AND A BLESSING. PAMELA ANDERSON's blond bombshell image was ubiq...

Patriot - A Memoir

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER • BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: THE NEW YORKER, THE ATLANTIC, NPR • The ...

Murakami T - The T-Shirts I Love

"This is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--Copyright page.

Happy-Go-Lucky

The latest instalment from always funny, sometimes bizarre humourist David Sedaris. Praise for Theft By Finding The writing here is funni...

Brazen - How I found the courage to escape my past and follow my dreams

**THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** From the star of Netflix's My Unorthodox Life, a riveting, inspiring memoir. Julia Haart tells the story ...

If You Only Knew - Autobiography

The only autobiography of "the greatest violinist of his generation" (Yehudi Menuhin) The road to the pinnacle of violin-playing has not ...

Andy Warhol "Giant" Size, Mini format - Mini Format

The bestselling visual biography of one of the twentieth century's most innovative, influential artists Andy Warhol "Giant" Size is the d...

Everyday Ubuntu - Living better together, the African way

A guide to Ubuntu - the South African philosophy that emphasises the common humanity and interconnectedness of all people.

Murakami T - The T-Shirts I Love

The international literary icon opens his eclectic closet: Here are photographs of Murakami's extensive and personal T-shirt collection, ...

Called Out of Darkness - A spiritual confession

Anne Rice has written twenty-eight novels - magnificent tales of other worldly beings, novels set centuries ago and in contemporary times...

Night

When Elie Wiesel died in July 2016, the White House issued a memorial statement in which President Barack Obama called him "the conscienc...

The Wife's Tale

A hundred years ago, a girl was born in the northern Ethiopian city of Gondar. Before she was ten years old, Yetemegnu was married to a m...

Hit Refresh: A Memoir by Microsoft's CEO

Microsoft's CEO tells the inside story of the company's continuing transformation, while tracing his own journey from a childhood in Indi...

The Woman in Me

In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice - her truth - was unde...

The Photographer at Sixteen

In July 1975, Magda Szirtes died in the ambulance on the way to hospital after she had tried to take her own life. She was fifty-one year...

Breaking Through

Katalin Karikó began life as a butcher's daughter in communist Hungary. Raised in a one-room home of clay and straw with no running water...

Joseph Anton - A Memoir

A compelling and frank account of one of the most extraordinary stories in recent literary history - Salman Rushdie and the fatwa. - Abou...

The Young Man

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE Annie Ernaux's most recent book, dazzling and breathtaking, published in France in 2022, is ...

Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black, new edition - Collected Stories

"Legendary as an underground actress, female adventurer, and East Village raconteur, Cookie Mueller's first calling was to the written wo...

The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt

At once a heart-wrenching personal narrative and a unique historical document, The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt is the ultimate exa...

The Art Thief - A true story of love, crime and a dangerous obsession

This is the true story of art thief Stephane Breitwieser, who stole over 300 art pieces in the course of 200 heists.

Charles III - New King - New Court

How would - or could - he fill the shoes of the record-breaking Elizabeth II? With fresh debates about the monarchy, political upheavals ...

Barracoon - The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

New York Times Bestseller . TIME Magazine's Best Nonfiction Book of 2018 . New York Public Library's Best Book of 2018 . NPR's Book Conci...

Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much

"Jen's provocative, laugh-out-loud debut takes us inside her journey of self-discovery, leading us through stories of a childhood "girl c...

Love Letters of Great Men

Your letter gave me more delight than anything in the world

Blood and Oil in the Orient

In his lively and witty quasi-autobiography, Essad Bey tells us the story of his childhood in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, and of his...

The Mandela Brief - Sydney Kentridge and the Trials of Apartheid

Sydney Kentridge carved out a reputation as South Africa's most prominent anti-apartheid advocate - his story is entwined with the countr...

Letter to His Father

Franz Kafka wrote this letter to his father, Hermann Kafka, in November 1919. Max Brod, Kafka's literary executor, relates that Kafka act...

Knife - Meditations After an Attempted Murder

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of en...

Selected Letters of Martha Gellhorn

"A literary landmark. Gellhorn's prose . . . is at its finest in the letter form."-Francine du Plessix Gray, The New York Times Book Revi...

Here and Now - Letters 2008-2011

"[A] civilized discourse between two cultivated and sophisticated men. . . . It's a pleasure to be in their company." -Michael Dirda, The...

Prairie Fires - The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder

Born in Blackness - Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War

In a sweeping narrative that traverses 600 years, one that eloquently weaves precise historical detail with poignant personal reportage, ...

Sociopath - The Eye-opening True Story Everyone's Talking About

'Deliciously wicked and insightful.' - The Guardian 'Addictively page-turning.' - The Telegraph 'Thought-provoking and surprisingly life-...

Letters of Note - Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience

An updated edition of this compulsive collection of the world's most entertaining, inspiring and powerful letters, curated by the founder...

Royal Sisters - Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret

In Royal Sisters, Anne Edwards, author of the best-selling Vivien Leigh: A Biography and Matriarch: Queen Mary and the House of Windsor, ...

Letter to Father

Der vorliegende Brief an den Vater gilt als Schlüssel zu Werk und Leben des Prager Dichters Franz Kafka. Anklage und Selbstanalyse zuglei...

107 Days

For the first time, and with surprising and revealing insights, former Vice President Kamala Harris tells the story of one of the wildest...

Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story - A Life of David Foster Wallace

The acclaimed New York Times-bestselling biography and "emotionally detailed portrait of the artist as a young man" (Michiko Kakutani, Th...

The Illustrated Letters of Jane Austen - Selected and Introduced by Penelope Hughes-Hallett

This handsome celebration of Austen's letters is illustrated with portraits, facsimile letters, topographical engravings and fashion plat...

Rosemary - The Hidden Kennedy Daughter

The revelatory, poignant story of Rosemary Kennedy, the eldest and eventually secreted-away Kennedy daughter, and how her life transforme...

Above the Clouds - How I Carved My Own Path to the Top of the World

The most accomplished mountain runner of all time contemplates his record-breaking climb of Mount Everest in this profound and free-flowi...

Myself and Other Animals

A posthumous work from the beloved conservationist and naturalist Gerald Durrell, to celebrate the centenary of his birth, with a new for...

Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors

Melodrama, biography, cold war thriller, drug memoir, essay in fragments, mystery - Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors is cult critic Ian Pe...

Spare Us!: A Harrody

He was born into an ancient powerful dynasty and, through no fault of his own, became one of the most recognisable men on the planet. ...

War Diary

The artist and writer Yevgenia Belorusets was in her hometown of Kyiv when Russia's invasion of Ukraine began on the morning of February ...

Fatherhood

Matt and Liz Logelin had it all: a perfect marriage, a gorgeous new home in LA, and a baby girl on the way. Just twenty-seven hours after...

Diana - Icons of Style

A style icon, a trendsetter, a princess: Lady Diana epitomised 80s and 90s style. With a well-earned place in the fashion hall of fame...

Dearest Father

In this open letter to his father - a letter which was never sent - Kafka tries to come to terms with one of the most deeply rooted obses...

Brazen - My Unorthodox Journey from Long Sleeves to Lingerie

"A riveting, inspiring memoir of one woman's escape from an extremist religious sect and an extraordinary rise from housewife to shoe des...

How to Be Old - Lessons in Living Boldly from the Accidental Icon

One of Elle's Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of 2024 A personal memoir in which Lyn Slater, known on Instagram as “Accidental Icon,” b...

Book of Lives - A Memoir of Sorts

'Fat and satisfying' Observer * 'I loved it' Dua Lipa * 'Deliciously naughty' iNews * 'Beautifully told' Woman & Home * 'Spellbinding' FT...

Mortal Monarchs - 1000 Years of Royal Deaths

'A brilliant, funny and thought-provoking book' - Jonn Elledge 'Compelling, provocative, and utterly brilliant' - Dr Estelle Paranque How...

An Autobiography of Trauma - A Healing Journey

An intimate memoir from Peter Levine, renowned developer of Somatic Experiencing and bestselling author of Waking the Tiger “A personal a...

Letters to Véra

No marriage of a major twentieth-century writer is quite as beguiling as that of Vladimir Nabokov's to Véra Slonim. She shared his deligh...

The Castle on Sunset - Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont

Since 1929, Hollywood's brightest stars have flocked to the Chateau Marmont as if it were a second home. An apartment building-turned-hot...

Greyhound - A Memoir

Combining history, reportage, and nature writing with intimate moments of reflection, Greyhound tells of the journey from miscarriage to ...