Eccentricity exists particularly in the English, states Dame Edith Sitwell, because of "that peculiar and satisfactory knowledge of infallibility that is the hallmark and the birth...9999903206941Edith Sitwell
Penguin Books Ltd
viernes, 25 de octubre de 2024
A PortraitIt is his clear-sightedness, his candour, his steely strength of will, the immediacy of his writing, his insolence and cynicism, his love of liberty, his hatred of hypocrisy, his o...9999903206071Leslie A. Marchand
Century
viernes, 25 de octubre de 2024
A MemoirA moving and revealing exploration of ultra-Orthodox Judaism and one man's loss of faith Shulem Deen was raised to believe that questions are dangerous. As a member of the Skverers...9999903205623Shulem Deen
Graywolf Press
viernes, 25 de octubre de 2024
Three Daughters of ChinaA history of twentieth century China told as a real-life saga of a Chinese family over three generations.9999903205456Chang, Jung
Flamingo
viernes, 25 de octubre de 2024
A Hidden InheritanceTHE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2010 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD 264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them bigger than a matchbox: Edmund de Waal was entranced when ...9999903205265Edmund de Waal,
CCV
jueves, 24 de octubre de 2024
'A gorgeously candid account of acting and show business. And an intimate and heartfelt story of love, loss and a life spent together. It is an honour to be invited in on these dia...9999903204268Richard E. Grant
Simon & Schuster
sábado, 19 de octubre de 2024
A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young BoyThomas Buergenthal, now a Judge in the International Court of Justice in The Hague, tells his astonishing experiences as a young boy in his memoir A LUCKY CHILD. He arrived at Ausc...9999903204251Thomas Buergenthal
Profile Books Ltd
sábado, 19 de octubre de 2024
In 'Mao's Last Dancer', Li Cunxin tells his story, tracing his life from his early childhood among the Chinese peasantry and his being thrust into the world of ballet, through his ...9999903203841Cunxin Li
VISION Paperbacks
sábado, 19 de octubre de 2024
The childhood world of Hugo Hamilton is a confused place. His father, a brutal Irish nationalist, demands his children speak Gaelic at home whilst his mother, a softly spoken Germa...9999903201977Hugo Hamilton
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
viernes, 18 de octubre de 2024
As a little girl, Fatima Mernissi was often puzzled by the idea of the harem. Even if you accepted that men and women needed to be kept apart, she asked, why couldn't it be the wom...9999903200154Fatima Mernissi
Toronto ; Bantam Books, 1995.
jueves, 17 de octubre de 2024
The Prison Letters of George JacksonA collection of Jackson's letters from prison, "Soledad Brother" is an outspoken condemnation of the racism of white America and a powerful appraisal of the prison system that fail...9999903199557Jackson, George
Penguin Books
miércoles, 16 de octubre de 2024
This bestselling account of Howard Marks life as an international drug smuggler is now being turned into a major film starring Rhys Ifans, Chloe Sevigny and David Thewlis. Numerous...9999903198086Marks, Howard
Mandarin
viernes, 11 de octubre de 2024
A MemoirChristopher Hitchens traces his journey from a Portsmouth military family to Balliol College, and a career as a public intellectual, wit and controversialist. He provides vivid acc...9999903197522Christopher Hitchens
Atlantic Books
viernes, 11 de octubre de 2024
'No life can really be all black, right? Even during the darkest times, what got me through that bleakness was laughter and time. With enough of both of these things I reckon you c...9999903193623Nick Frost
Hodder
jueves, 3 de octubre de 2024
Stories of Courage, Redemption, and PeeBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: FILM, TELEVISION, MUSIC, THEATRE. Sarah Silverman's father taught her to curse - at the age of three. She was a chronic bedwetter - until she was old eno...9999903192909Sarah Silverman,
Faber & Faber
viernes, 27 de septiembre de 2024
The Diary of a Young GirlTraces the life of a young Jewish girl who kept a diary during the two years she and her family hid from the Germans in an Amsterdam attic.9999903192404Anne Frank
Pocket
jueves, 26 de septiembre de 2024
Why I Stayed, What I Learned, and What Millions of People Involved with Sociopaths Need to Know"I think, every once in a while, about the life I should be living, the one I fully expected to be enjoying right about now. In the life I was supposed to have, my husband and I wo...9999903191889Mary Jo Buttafuoco
Deerfield Beach, Fla. : Health Communications, c2004.
lunes, 23 de septiembre de 2024
Almost five centuries have passed since Cesare Borgia's death, yet his reputation still casts a sinister shadow. He stands accused of treachery, cruelty, rape, incest and, especial...9999903189718Sarah Bradford
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
miércoles, 18 de septiembre de 2024
This autobiographical volume describes the author's departure from Stroud, his walk to London, and his months in Spain on the eve of the Spanish Civil War. His other works include ...9999903184973Laurie Lee Leonard Rosoma...
Penguin
sábado, 7 de septiembre de 2024
While in rehab, James Frey finds a father figure in a shady mafia boss called Leonard. When Leonard returns to his dubious, prosperous life in the criminal underworld of Las Vegas,...9999903183082James Frey
John Murray Publishers
viernes, 6 de septiembre de 2024
Secret Diaries of a Junior DoctorTHE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS 'Painfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble and ...9999903182122Adam Kay
Picador
jueves, 5 de septiembre de 2024
Richard Madeley is fascinated by the speed of change in family life and how being a father has changed since the time of his father and grandfather. InFathers & Sons, Richard looks...9999903181842Richard Madeley
Pocket Books
jueves, 5 de septiembre de 2024
This heartbreaking, hilarious, and brutally honest memoir shares the deeply personal life story of a girl next door and her transformation into a household name. For more than f...9999903180586Katie Couric
Little, Brown and Company
miércoles, 4 de septiembre de 2024
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