Ergebnis für "The Bell" in Biografien & Erinnerungen

Bestsellerautor Olivier Guez verwebt die Lebensgeschichte von Gertrude Bell mit den Ereignissen im Nahen Osten nach dem Ersten Weltkrieg. Archäologin, Abenteurerin, Agentin des Britischen Empire: Gertrude Bell war mit Lawrence von Arabien seelenverwandt, eine enge Vertraute von Winston Churchill und die einzige Frau unter den mächtigen Männern Mesopotamiens. Sie liebte den Orient und wollte diese Region um jeden Preis befrieden. Bell war die missverstandene Tochter einer reichen viktorianischen Familie.

Brought to you by Penguin. How do we go on when a loved one betrays us? On a chilly day in March of 2020, in the early days of the pandemic, Belle Burden’s husband of twenty years announced, with no prior warning, that he was leaving her. His decision shocked Belle to her core: she believed he...

Im März 2020 hatte Belle Burden mit ihren Kindern und ihrem Mann im Ferienhaus der Familie auf Martha's Vineyard Zuflucht vor der Pandemie gesucht. Dann, ohne Vorwarnung oder Erklärung, verkündete ihr Mann, mit dem sie seit zwanzig Jahren verheiratet war, dass er sie verlassen würde. Mit fünfzig steht plötzlich ihr ganzes Leben auf der Kippe. Auf schmerzhafte Weise lernt sie, sich zu behaupten und auf eigenen Beinen zu stehen. Nach und nach stellt sie fest, dass sie viel stärker ist, als sie es jemals erwartet hätte.

The inspiration for the FX series Love Story: John F. Kennedy Jr. & Carolyn Bessette A NEW YORK TIMES, LOS ANGELES TIMES, AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER This “intimate and sympathetic portrait of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy that is as enthralling as she was” (Dana Thomas, New York Times bestselling...

Jeden Freitag führen euch Moderatorin Jacqueline Belle und Deutschlands bekanntester Strafverteidiger Dr. Alexander Stevens in die echte Welt der Verbrechen – so nah wie niemand sonst: Wie fühlt es sich an, einem Mörder die Hand zu geben? Welche Wahrheiten offenbaren Angeklagte dem eigenen Anwalt? Und kann jeder von uns auch selbst zum Täter werden? Zusammen öffnen wir für Euch die Türen hinter die Kulissen von Polizei, Justiz und Strafverteidigung. Einblicke, die sonst verborgen bleiben – in die Psyche der Täter, die Arbeit der Ermittler und die Dramen in den Gerichtssälen, ...

In 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby was the editor-in-chief of French Elle, the father of two young childen, a 44-year-old man known and loved for his wit, his style, and his impassioned approach to life. By the end of the year he was also the victim of a rare kind of stroke to the brainstem. After 20...

Whilst suffering from a condition whereby he was unable to speak and his only movement was the blinking of an eyelid, Jean-Dominique Bauby devised a code for each letter of the alphabet and dictated this book about his experiences and feelings. He died just after it was published. This moving...

The invention of the telephone changed the world. That’s no exaggeration. Phones are such ubiquitous features of our lives now that it can be difficult to imagine life without them, or to understand just how astonishing this invention truly was in the 19th century.

Turning her back on her privileged life in Victorian England, Gertrude Bell (1868-1926), fired by her innate curiosity, journeyed the world and became fascinated with all things Arab. Traveling the length and breadth of the Arab region, armed with a love for its language and its people, she not...

A thrilling memoir from one of the last living WW2 pilots, published to mark his 105th birthday 'Colin Bell DFC is one of the most remarkable people I've ever met' JAMES HOLLAND 'A terrific read, combining laugh-out-loud reminiscences with jaw-dropping accounts of aerial warfare' JOHN NICHOL...

Mord ist schon schrecklich genug, wenn er von Erwachsenen begangen wird, doch das Konzept erreicht eine völlig neue Ebene erschütternder Morbidität, wenn sich herausstellt, dass der Mörder ein junger Junge oder ein junges Mädchen ist. Ist es das Ergebnis schwerer Traumata, die sich auf die makaberste Art und Weise manifestieren? Ist es die Folge einer schweren psychischen Störung? Oder wurden sie von den Handlungen der Menschen beeinflusst, bei denen sie aufwuchsen?

In 1892, Gertrude Bell visited Persia (now Iran) shortly after the appointment of her uncle, Sir Frank Lascelles, as British minister in Tehran. Three years later came Persian Pictures, Gertrude Bell’s first written work, which presents a series of vivid sketches of Persian culture and society at the time. Bell explores various cities and landscapes, and encounters local characters along the way, providing a unique perspective on Persian life and customs.

As read on BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week' Shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award Longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize 'Sherman’s is a special book. Every sentence, every thought she has, every question she asks, every detail she notices, offers something. The Bells...

Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2025 'Thoroughly encapsulates the current state of the hurt business' Telegraph, Best Books of 2025 For fifty years Donald McRae has followed boxing. As criminality and corruption spread, his love for the sport dimmed. In 2018, grieving...

The incredible story of two wrestling legends who defined the sport in Britain in its glorious heyday. Big Daddy vs Giant Haystacks is a rags-to-riches tale of unlikely fame, family loyalty, tragic death and a uniquely British pop culture phenomenon. From the acclaimed author of Dynamite & Davey: The Explosive Lives of the British Bulldogs. As the 1970s began, Shirley Crabtree (Big Daddy) was a semi-retired wrestler, aged 40; the younger Martin Ruane (Giant Haystacks), a down-on-his-luck father of three.

Three years after his death at 91, J.D. Salinger remains our most mythic writer. The Catcher in the Rye (1951) became an American classic, and he was for a long time the writer for The New Yorker. Franny and Zooey and Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters introduced, by way of the Glass family, a new type in contemporary literature: the introspective, voluble cast of characters whose stage is the Upper East Side of New York. But fame proved a burden, and in 1953 Salinger fled to New Hampshire, spending the next half century in isolation.

Edwin Grosvenor writes of Bell's other extraordinary inventions: the first transmission of sound over light waves, metal detector, first practical phonograph, and early airplanes, including the first to fly in Canada. He also examines Bell's humanitarian efforts, including support for women's suffrage, civil rights, and speeches about what he warned would be a "greenhouse effect" of pollution causing global warming.

Belle de Jour is the nom de plume of a high-class call girl working in London. This is her story. From the summer of 2003 to the autumn of 2004 Belle charted her day-to-day adventures on and off the field in a frank, funny, and award winning web diary. Now, in her Intimate Adventures, Belle elaborates on those diary entries, revealing (among other things) how she became a working girl, what it feels like to do it for money, and where to buy the best knickers for the job.

A balanced account of game changes, conflicts and ambitions. The fall from popular grace of the previously adulated brother of the heir to the British throne as a consequence of his marriage to a beautiful and dynamic Hollywood starlet of colour makes for fascinating listening in best-selling royal author Lady Colin Campbell's balanced account. Lady Colin knows her royal history and psychology, and as the first seven years of her adult life were spent in the USA, she has a foot in both the American and British camps. 

‘Remarkable and haunting . . . a revelation’ Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber Eyes ‘A dazzling achievement, heartbreaking, glamourous, elegiac, revelatory and utterly gripping’ Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of The World: A Family History of Humanity ‘Truly beautiful and...