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Bloomsbury presents the 250TH BIRTHDAY EDITION of What Matters in Jane Austen? by John Mullan, read by Charles Armstrong ‘Almost as good as finding an unpublished novel’ The Lady 'Any new book on Austen raises the urgent question, Would I get more pleasure from reading this than from...

In this long-awaited and candid memoir, Hitchens re-traces the footsteps of his life to date, from his childhood in Portsmouth, with his adoring, tragic mother and reserved Naval officer father; to his life in Washington DC, the base from which from he would launch fierce attacks on tyranny of all kinds. Along the way, he recalls the girls, boys and booze; the friendships and the feuds; the grand struggles and lost causes; and the mistakes and misgivings that have characterised his life.

“2500 nautical miles to go, plenty of time to tell the story,” says Christian Williams as he begins his inspiring and entertaining tale of evolution from a distracted schoolboy to Washington Post journalist, Hollywood writer-producer and long-distance singlehanded sailor with more than 10 million views on YouTube. With an infectious curiosity that ranges from bilge pump mechanics to issues of philosophy of identity, the author never flags in his quest to learn what makes every life distinctive and yet defined by its intersection with others.

Edward Van Halen was a rock guitar legend who left an indelible mark on the music world with his innovative playing style and iconic riffs. This book, written by rock journalist veteran Steve Rosen, offers a personal and heartfelt account of their 26-year journey together, from Edward's early days as a struggling musician to his meteoric rise to fame with Van Halen. Steve shares intimate details about their relationship, Edward's creative process, and what it was like hanging out with the greatest guitarist on the planet.

“Bristling with urgency, empathy, and determination…this is investigative journalism at its best and most necessary.”—AudioFile The author's podcast, Letters from Sing Sing, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. This program is read by the author and features sound design and original archival...

The brilliant and sometimes scandalous lives of twenty-one women who made French history. From Eleanor of Aquitaine to Edith Piaf, Colette to Coco Chanel, discover the lives of 21 women who made French history. French women have always had so much more to say than ‘let them eat cake’! Whether kicking the English out of Orléans, marching on Versailles or running messages for the French resistance, their stories of courage, creativity and genius have long defined French history.

Exploring the importance of Ernest Hemingway's time in Italy to his writing and legacy From his World War I service in Italy through his transformational return visits during the decades that followed, Ernest Hemingway's Italian experiences were fundamental to his artistic development. Hemingway...

En Hitch 22, sus esperadas memorias, Christopher Hitchens, el escritor político por excelencia, repasa su vida hasta la actualidad, desde su infancia en Portsmouth, con una madre, de destino trágico, que le adoraba, y un padre reservado y distante, hasta su vida en Washington DC. En el camino recuerda los amigos, las batallas y las botellas, las grandes luchas y las causas perdidas, y los errores y las dudas que han definido su vida.

Soon after Henk Pröpper moves from Amsterdam to Paris, both the world and his heart almost come to a full stop. He undergoes major surgery and awakes in an empty city in lockdown. Paris is transformed into an abandoned stage. To quicken his recovery, Pröpper begins walking. He combs his immediate surroundings, he hunts for the past, discovering countless commemorative plaques and monuments that honour well- and lesser-known Parisians and keep their histories alive. Pröpper also reflects on his own life and the literature that has shaped him. 

The Independent Best Book for Walkers 2022 Where can a walk take you? It goes without saying, walking can connect us to our surroundings and free us from our worries. It can raise our heart rate and relax our minds. It can lead us across historic ground and inspire new thinking. In this...

The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio introduces Evelyn Ryan, an enterprising woman who kept poverty at bay with wit, poetry, and perfect prose during the “contest era” of the 1950s and 1960s. Stepping back into a time when fledgling advertising agencies were active partners with consumers, and...

The Real Osamu Dazai features twenty unforgettable tales—some autobiographical, others fictional—that chart the inner life of one of modern Japan's most brilliant and tormented writers. From darkly comic meditations on fashion and identity to heartrending accounts of childhood, love, and war, Dazai's prose is both timeless and emotionally raw.

Un ensayo sobre un año que nos cambió la vida para siempre. 1982 fue uno de los años más tumultuosos en la vida de Gabriel García Márquez. Terminaba el gobierno de Julio César Turbay Ayala, al cual se había opuesto toda la izquierda colombiana por sus métodos represivos y dignos de una...

A classic from the New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body. After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children (he had read somewhere that nearly 3 million Americans believed they had...

THE #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER -- NOW THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE 21 The long-running New York Times bestseller that has become a cultural phenomenon, Bringing Down the House is an action-filled caper carried out by the unlikeliest of cons -- supersmart geeks. Gambling pervaded the M.I.T. campus, and...

A classic from the New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body. After living in Britain for two decades, Bill Bryson recently moved back to the United States with his English wife and four children (he had read somewhere that nearly 3 million Americans believed they had...

These short, vivid biographies offer quick insights, big ideas, and timeless inspiration. Explore the stories behind the storytellers: from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Hemingway, Emily Dickinson to Franz Kafka, Goethe to Jack Kerouac, William Shakespeare to Arthur Miller, Charles Dickens to Toni Morrison. Short and sharp audio biographies for lovers of words and worlds.

Wer Franz Kafka liest, betritt eine Welt, in der Türen sich schließen, Regeln sich verschieben und ein einziger Satz das Gefühl auslöst, beobachtet und beurteilt zu werden. Dieses Hörbuch lädt Sie zu einer Kulturreise ein und vermittelt verständlich, unterhaltsam und klar strukturiert Basiswissen zu Leben und Werk Kafkas. Sie entdecken, wie aus Alltag, Bürokratie und innerer Unruhe eine Prosa entstand, die Angst, Komik und Erkenntnis zugleich erzeugt.

When best-selling mystery writer David Rosenfelt and his family moved from Southern California to Maine, he thought he had prepared for everything. They had mapped the route, brought three GPSs for backup, as well as refrigerators full of food, and stoves and microwaves on which to cook them. But traveling with 25 dogs turned out to be a bigger ordeal than he anticipated, despite RVs, the extra kibble, volunteers (including a few readers), and camping equipment.

昭和45年11月25日、三島由紀夫、自衛隊市ヶ谷駐屯地で割腹、介錯される――。一人の作家がクーデターに失敗し自決したにすぎないあの日、何故あれほど日本全体が動揺し、以後多くの人が事件を饒舌に語り記したか。