Literary 81

Secret lives, scandalous turns, and some very funny surprises ー these essays by leading kids’ lit bloggers take us behind the scenes of many much-loved children’s books. Told in lively and affectio……続きを見る

The new boss is in… In the course of minutes, twenty-one year old Jonathan Antonucci, barely out of the closet gay man from suburban New York, finds himself a multi-millionaire. His great uncle Char……続きを見る

'The best vicar ever' Caitlin Moran 'Sex, drugs, death, religion, more sex... it has got it all' Guardian FATHOMLESS RICHES is the Reverend Richard Coles' warm, witty and wise memoir in which he div……続きを見る

While F. Scott Fitzgerald was writing the novels we remember him for today, he was also publishing short stories in popular magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post and Esquire. Although many of ……続きを見る

The autobiography of Denise Robins, the 100-million-copy bestselling Queen of Romance, first published in 1965, and available now for the first time in eBook. Apart from writing over two hundred nov……続きを見る

Fiona MacCarthy makes a breakthrough in interpreting Byron's life and poetry drawing on John Murray's world-famous archive. She brings a fresh eye to his early years: his childhood in Scotland, emba……続きを見る

Extrait : Ce jour-là, comme chaque matin à l'heure du travail, l'avenue du Maine s'encombrait de gens qui marchaient à pas précipités et de tramways surchargés qui roulaient à grande vitesse vers le……続きを見る

The childhood and early life memoir of Antonia Fraser, one of our finest narrative historians. Antonia Fraser's magical memoir describes growing up in the 1930s and '40s, but its real concern is wit……続きを見る

Wendy Cope has long been one of the nation's best-loved poets, with her sharp eye for human foibles and wry sense of humour. For the first time, Life, Love and the Archers brings together the best o……続きを見る

An unlikely journalist, a murder case in Mississippi, and a fascinating literary true crime story in the style of Jon Ronson, for fans of "Serial." A notorious white supremacist named Richard Barret……続きを見る

**A ROCK AND ROLL MEMOIR FROM GLYN JOHNS, THE LEGENDARY PRODUCER FEATURED IN THE NEW DOCUMENTARY SERIES The Beatles: Get Back “Few figures in rock history have a more impressive résumé than Glyn Joh……続きを見る

The writing in this book is so bad, it deserves its own taxonomy of suckitude. Gillian Flynn, Mary Roach, Dave Eggers, Rick Moody, Chuck Palahniuk, Amy Tan, A.J. Jacobs, Daniel Clowes, Jeff Greenwal……続きを見る

Though both parents were alive, Richard and his four brothers lived in an orphanage for five years! It was in 1959, five floors of dormitories at fifty children a floor, with nuns’ cells on each flo……続きを見る

Jeder kennt Nscho-tschi, die schöne Schwester Winnetous. Aber wie steht es mit der Gebieterin des Hadschi Halef Omar? Oder der morgenländischen Königin und Großen Mutter Marah Durimeh? Und wer weiß ……続きを見る

"Dying to Marry" is a story about the price of true love. Deepak has found the woman of his dreams, and poverty seems to be the only obstacle in their plans to marry. Some stories are hard to forget……続きを見る

In a warm night's sky when but a child / When thoughts and hours away I whiled / I saw a thing hung there on high / That flashed within my widened eye / Four stars against the sky arrayed / My mind ……続きを見る

Boonlua Debyasuvarn was born to a noble Siamese family in 1911 and not only witnessed, but participated in, the great events of her century. She was talented, intelligent, and determined to make her……続きを見る

A timely re-examination of the life of Australia's best-loved poet and storyteller - the man whose works captured the essence of the Australian spirit. In 1886, a nervous young lawyer and aspiring w……続きを見る

A deeply considered and provocative new look at major American writersーincluding Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, and W.H. AudenーEdward Mendelson’s Moral Agents is also a work of critical biography in ……続きを見る

Ezra Pound was one of the most important figures of Modernism in English literature. Ironically, it was his work on behalf of other more so than his own contributions that created this reputation. J……続きを見る

Nelson Mandela brought the poetry of Ingrid Jonker to the attention of South Africa and the wider world when he read her poem “Die kind” (The Child) at the opening of South Africa’s first democratic……続きを見る

'No one writes a better crime novel than Charles Willeford' Elmore Leonard I Was Looking For a Street tells the story of the author's childhood and adolescence as an orphan, as he moves from railroa……続きを見る

The Filipino writers in English in this volume were the "young writers" who came to Manila from the provinces or entered the university in the mid-30s, and whom the first generation rememb……続きを見る

Within the pages of this volume run writers and their lives, writers and their works, writers and their readers. Anyone seriously interested in the history, development, and future of Philippine lit……続きを見る

An international bestseller and National Book Award winner, Sherwin B. Nuland’s How We Die has become the definitive text on perhaps the single most universal human concern: death. This new edition ……続きを見る

A Confession is a short work on the subject of melancholia, philosophy and religion by the acclaimed Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy. It was written in 1879 to 1880, when Tolstoy was of late-middle age……続きを見る

HE’S WRITTEN MORE THAN 80 BOOKS. HE’S SOLD MILLIONS OF COPIES ACROSS THE WORLD. HE IS THE MAN BEHIND A DOZEN SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 HITS, SPENDING OVER 120 WEEKS IN THE BESTSELLER CHARTS. BUT YOU PROBA……続きを見る

_______________ 'Superb … Booth's psychology is subtler than Motion's and more convincing' - Peter J. Conradi, Spectator 'Booth's diligence is unquestionable and even readers who think they know the……続きを見る

Aujourd'hui, on ne peut plus douter du fait que les SS étaient des maîtres en la matière pour effacer toutes les traces de leurs crimes. C'était sans compter sur la mémoire. La mère de Sylvia Pourba……続きを見る

Le Frisson de la Victoire est une histoire vraie : Rita et Marcel se rencontrent en 1936 sur les bancs de l'université de Bruxelles et partagent les mêmes valeurs éthiques et morales, et donc un rej……続きを見る