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For a world of devoted fans, a much-awaited new volume of absorbing stories and inspirational wisdom from one of our best-loved writers. Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelou’s path to living well and living a life with...

In Russian literary marriages, the wives of some of the most famous authors of all time did not resent taking a "secondary position", although to call their position secondary does not do justice to the vital role these women played in the creation of some of the greatest literary works in history. Living under restrictive regimes, many of these women battled censorship and preserved the writers' illicit archives, often risking their own lives to do so. They established a tradition all their own, unmatched in the West.

His books have sold millions and include classics like Mere Christianity, The Screwtape Letters, and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. Yet C. S. Lewis was not always a literary giant of Christian faith. How did he evolve from staunch atheism to become one of the most beloved and renowned Christian authors of our time?

In 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plague: Understanding that her pregnancy will mark her and her family as social failures, she knows she cannot keep the child. In a France where abortion was illegal, she attempted, in vain, to self-administer the abortion with a knitting needle. Fearful and desperate, she finally located an abortionist and ended up in a hospital emergency ward where she nearly died. In Happening, Ernaux sifts through her memories and her journal entries dating from those days.

Pippa Malmgren is a market economist, high-tech entrepreneur, and former presidential advisor. She has launched a video series called Fifty Shades of Economics which explores economics in an accessible way, and is the author of the new book Signals; The Breakdown of the Social Contract and the Rise of Geopolitics, which she discusses in this exclusive Audible Sessions interview.

Drawing from the author's original, uncensored journals, Fire follows Anaïs Nin's journey as she attempts to liberate herself sexually, artistically, and emotionally. While referring to her relationships with psychoanalyst Otto Rank and author Henry Miller, as well as a new lover, the Peruvian Gonzalo More, she also reveals that her most passionate and enduring affair is with writing itself.

Carr, best known for his dark one-liners and signature laugh, didn't begin life as a comedian. After studying social science and political science at Cambridge, he began working for fuel company Shell. While there, he began reading self-help books and, feeling miserable, decided to make a change - he gave up his job and learned how to write jokes, got his first gig as a stand-up and changed his life!

After the publication of Atlas Shrugged in 1957, Ayn Rand occasionally lectured in order to bring her philosophy of Objectivism to a wider audience and apply it to current cultural and political issues. These taped lectures and the question-and-answer sessions that followed added not only an eloquent new dimension to Ayn Rand's ideas and beliefs, but a fresh and spontaneous insight into Ayn Rand herself.

It is a unique audiobook dedicated to all those individuals who have a burning desire in their hearts to write. The author discusses 11 powerful ingredients that will help one become a prolific writer. The instructions that the author has shared will greatly influence the listener's writing quality and is meant to make his road to success as a writer less jerky. The audiobook further discusses how world class writers have overcome their drawbacks through sheer hard work patients determination and will.

"I intend to do everything...I shall anticipate pleasure everywhere and find it too, for it is everywhere! I shall involve myself wholly...everything matters!" This first selection from Susan Sontag's diaries (from 1947-1963) takes us from early adolescence through to when Sontag was in her early 30s. It is an astonishingly affecting and honest self-portrait which is also a fascinating, revealing account of an artist and critic being born. We see Sontag honing her skills and fashioning herself, by a supreme act of will, into an intellectual force.

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, STARRING JASON SEGAL AND JESSE EISENBERG, DIRECTED BY JAMES PONSOLDT An indelible portrait of David Foster Wallace, by turns funny and inspiring, based on a five-day trip with award-winning writer David Lipsky during Wallace’s Infinite Jest tour In David...

Two new BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisations of Roald Dahl's gripping autobiographical stories. These two compelling adaptations, based on Roald Dahl’s real-life tales of his of his boyhood and youthful overseas adventures, celebrate his remarkable life and commemorate his genius. Boy Dahl’s...

ദ് ഹിന്ദു, ദ് സ്റ്റേറ്റ്സ്മാന്‍, പേട്രിയട്ട്, ദ് ഡെക്കാണ്‍ ഹെറാള്‍ഡ്, യു എന്‍ ഐ തുടങ്ങി വിവിധ പത്ര മാധ്യമങ്ങളില്‍ ഏഴുപതിറ്റാണ്ടോളം പ്രവര്‍ത്തിച്ചുകൊണ്ട് സ്വതന്ത്ര്യാനന്തര ഇന്ത്യയുടെ ചരിത്രത്തിനൊപ്പം സഞ്ചരിച്ച ഒരു മാധ്യമപ്രവര്‍ത്തകന്റെ അനുഭവക്കുറിപ്പുകളാണ് പുസ്തകം. ഞാന്‍ എന്ന ഭാവത്തെ ബോധപൂര്‍വ്വം അകറ്റിക്കൊണ്ട്, ബി ആര്‍ പി ഭാസ്കര്‍ താന്‍ ഭാഗമാവുകയും സാക്ഷിയാവുകയും ചെയ്ത ചരിത്രാനുഭവങ്ങളെ വസ്തുനിഷ്ഠമായി ജാഗ്രതയോടെ ഈ കൃതിയില്‍ ആവിഷ്കരിക്കുന്നു. ഇന്ത്യയിലെ മാധ്യമ ചരിത്രത്തിലെ വെളിച്ചം കാണാത്ത അധ്യായങ്ങള്‍ എന്ന വിശേഷണത്തിനര്‍ഹമായ പുസ്തകം.

Upon her mother’s death from Alzheimer’s, Annie Ernaux embarks on a daunting journey back through time, as she seeks to “capture the real woman, the one who existed independently from me, born on the outskirts of a small Normandy town, and who died in the geriatric ward of a hospital in the suburbs of Paris.” She explores the bond between mother and daughter, tenuous and unshakable at once, the alienating worlds that separate them, and the inescapable truth that we must lose the ones we love.

A compelling memoir by ABC News correspondent James Longman in which he discusses mental illness and trauma in families, what the latest genetic science is telling us, and how to not only persevere but thrive.

In The World of J.R.R. Tolkien, you will join Dr. Dimitra Fimi to delve into Tolkien’s complex and multilayered mythology, examining all these ingredients and more. In these 10 lectures, you will explore and appreciate Middle-earth as medieval, mythological, and modern, a literary creation that was shaped by forces old and new. And you may be surprised to discover just how much of Tolkien’s legendarium was constructed posthumously, with his son Christopher compiling and publishing many of Tolkien’s later works after his death.

Joining us in the Audible Studios to talk about his 13th novel, The Golden House, is critically acclaimed British-Indian novelist and writer Sir Salman Rushdie. Born in Bombay, British India, Salman Rushdie has become literary nobility, lauded for his ability to combine magical realism with historical fiction, focusing on the connections between Eastern and Western civilisations.

The Gulag Archipelago 1918-1956 has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher...

தமிழ்ச் சிறுகதைகளுக்கு புதிய வார்ப்பும் வடிவமும் வனப்பும் வழங்கியவர் ஜெயகாந்தன். சிறுகதை இலக்கியத்துக்கு விரிவான வாசகப் பரப்பை உருவாக்கியவரும் அவரே.

'You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed...' Julian Barnes's new book is about ballooning, photography, love and grief; about putting two things, and two people, together, and about tearing them apart. One of the judges who awarded him the 2011 Man Booker Prize described him as 'an unparalleled magus of the heart'. This book confirms that opinion.