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Joanne "Jo" Rowling is known to readers the world over as J.K. Rowling, author of the best-selling book series of all time. The creator of Harry Potter was once a single mother writing in cafés and living on welfare, who experienced a fairytale-like rise from poverty and obscurity to becoming one of the richest and most influential women on the planet. And following her controversial stances in the cultural and political war over transgender rights, Rowling found herself a pariah in circles that had previously adored her.

"Onde procede essa impressão universal de Londres, seguida dessa sensação de finalidade, que talvez seja toda subjetiva?" Extraída do livro "Minha formação", a crônica "Londres", de Joaquim Nabuco, traz para o leitor de hoje vislumbres tanto do pensamento do célebre abolicionista quanto de sua autobiografia.

El París de Hemingway era una fiesta... y el de Zoé Valdés una rumba. Numerosos personajes célebres de la farándula literaria y artística de los años ochenta —Julio Cortázar, Samuel Beckett, Alberto Moravia, Cioran, Dora Maar— se dan cita en este libro bullicioso, turbador y revelador, donde se suceden episodios de toda índole. En las páginas de «París era una rumba», Zoé Valdés habla de la capital francesa que descubrió en 1983, cuando tenía tan solo 23 años.

Bloomsbury presents My Salinger Year, written and read by Joanna Rakoff. The much-loved, irresistibly funny memoir of literary New York which was an international bestseller and enchanted readers around the world – now a major film starring Sigourney Weaver and Margaret Qualley, My New York...

Fünfzig Jahre nach ihrem Tod fordern Ingeborg Bachmanns Briefe eine neue Perspektive auf Leben und Werk dieser Autorin, die uns heute aktueller denn je erscheint. Andrea Stolls Biografie beleuchtet das unübersehbare Spektrum Bachmannscher Ambivalenzen von seinen Ursprüngen her und führt uns vor Augen, wie diese ikonische Dichterin in eine Spirale von Selbstinszenierung und Selbstzerstörung geraten konnte.

Bloomsbury presents Hemingway's Faith by Mary Claire Kendall, read by Regina Reagan Mary Claire Kendall grapples with Hemingway’s faith and does so commendably. She doesn’t explain him or explain him away, but she does get us closer to his Catholic heart. Those wishing to know the heart of...

Once again, the poet casts her spell as she resumes one of the greatest personal narratives of our time. In this continuation, Angelou relates how she joins a "colony" of Black American expatriates in Ghana--only to discover no one ever goes home again...

On July 19, 2001, Jeffrey Archer—politician and international best-selling author—was sentenced to four years in prison for perjury. He became Prisoner FF8282 and spent the first three weeks of his sentence in a high-security prison that housed some of Britain's most violent criminals. He was moved to the Lifer's wing—because of the security it provided—where he became a trusted confidant to fellow convicts. Prisoners and guards alike asked for his autograph and sought his advice—though one cellmate sold a story about Archer to the British tabloids.

Zen monk Santoka Taneda (1882 - 1940) is one of Japan's most beloved modern poets, famous for his "free-verse" haiku, the dominant style today. This book tells the fascinating story of his life, liberally sprinkled with more than 300 of his poems and extracts from his essays and journals - compiled by his best friend and biographer Sumita Oyama and elegantly translated by William Scott Wilson.

आचार्य अत्रे म्हणजे महाराष्ट्रावर प्रचंड प्रभाव टाकणारे व्यक्तिमत्व... पु.लं. जेव्हा अत्र्यांवर लिहितात तेव्हा...

Featuring an introduction by Neil Gaiman! “J. Michael Straczynski is, without question, one of the greatest science fiction minds of our time.” -- Max Brooks (World War Z) For four decades, J. Michael Straczynski has been one of the most successful writers in Hollywood, one of the few to...

The bestselling biography of Britain's 'Queen of Crime' by acclaimed historian Lucy Worsley OBE 'Every Christie fan should read this' - THE TIMES To Lucy Worsley, Agatha Christie was 'thrillingly, scintillatingly modern'. She went surfing in Hawaii, she loved fast cars, and she was intrigued by...

Aristocrat, literary celebrity, ‘Rose Queen’, devoted wife, lesbian, recluse, iconoclast – Vita Sackville-West was many things, but she was never straightforward. Her life is re-told here in a dazzling new biography. In this stunning portrait of Vita Sackville-West, Matthew Dennison traces...

This is the story of an independent woman who is a model for our time—photographer Toby Molenaar. It begins in Holland during World War II, when her country is decimated by the occupying German army and she is literally left to starve. As a little girl, she learns to be self-sufficient—survival is the order of the day. Courage, indomitable spirit, an open mind, and accountability only to herself are the stuff of this fascinating and inspirational story.

आपल्यावर दिशाभूल करता असा आरोप झाल्यावर टिकाकाराला खास आपल्या शैलीत उत्तर देताना लिहिलेला...

A collection of insightful and uproariously funny non-fiction by the bestselling author of INFINITE JEST - one of the most acclaimed and adventurous writers of our time. A SUPPOSEDLY FUN THING... brings together Wallace's musings on a wide range of topics, from his early days as a nationally...

A story of love and grief. ‘I became a widower and a father on the same day’ says Joseph Luzzi. His book tells how Dante’s ‘The Divine Comedy’ helped him to endure his grief, raise their infant daughter, and rediscover love. Where do we turn when we lose everything? In 2007, Joseph...

In 1938, with the Japanese army approaching from Nanking, Huan Hsu’s great-great grandfather, Liu, and his five granddaughters, were forced to flee their hometown on the banks of the Yangtze River. But before they left a hole was dug as deep as a man, and as wide as a bedroom, in which was...

Poet, artist, visionary and author of the unofficial English national anthem 'Jerusalem', William Blake is an archetypal misunderstood genius. In this radical new biography, we return to a world of riots, revolutions and radicals, discuss movements from the Levellers of the sixteenth century to the psychedelic counterculture of the 1960s, and explore the latest discoveries in neurobiology, quantum physics and comparative religion to look afresh at Blake's life and work—and, crucially, his mind. 

The following recording is from the late 1950s.