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Im Frühsommer 1940 trieb die Wehrmacht Flüchtlinge durch Westeuropa. Wer es nicht nach England schaffte, suchte Zuflucht in Lissabon: Tausende warteten im neutralen Portugal auf ein Schiff. Britische Spione und deutsche Agenten belauerten sich, Rohstoffeinkäufer suchten große Mengen an Sardinen für Hitlers Heer zu kaufen und wichtiger noch: das seltene und nicht zu ersetzende Wolfram für Panzerstahl.

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...

Bloomsbury presents Bread of Angels written and read by Patti Smith A radiant new memoir from beloved artist and writer Patti Smith, author of the National Book Award Winner Just Kids. God whispers through a crease in the wallpaper, writes Patti Smith in this indelible account of her life as an...

Society, films, song lyrics and our parents are adamant that a happy ending has to be couple-shaped. Catherine Gray took a whole year off dating to find single satisfaction. She lifted the lid on the reasons behind the global single revolution, explored the bizarre ways cultures single-shame, detached from 'all the good ones are gone!' panic and debunked the myth that married people are much happier.

Wie ein Sturm ist das Werk Emily Brontës in das Leben von Mithu Sanyal hineingefegt. Die erste Lektüre des Romans "Sturmhöhe: Wuthering Heights" hatte für die Autorin von "Identitti" lebensprägende, lebensverändernde Kraft. Mithu Sanyal hat ein mitreißendes Buch über das Leben und Schreiben der weltberühmten englischen Autorin geschrieben, der man zu Lebzeiten mangelnde Weiblichkeit vorwarf und deren Buch als gefährlich galt.

Bloomsbury presents The Descent: Witnessing Russia's Spiral into Madness Under Putin, written and read by Marc Bennetts An extraordinary first-hand account of Russia’s descent into totalitarianism, paranoia and madness. Marc Bennetts, foreign correspondent for The Times and The Sunday Times...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Named a Best Book of the Year by critics from both NPR and the New York Post! "The voice of a man who tasted the best of the American century and still left the party early, with his dignity intact." —The New Yorker From the pages of Spy and Vanity Fair to...

It is the story of a boy growing up in the war-torn Jerusalem of the 40s and 50s in a small apartment crowded with books in 12 languages and relatives speaking nearly as many. His mother and father, both wonderful people, were ill-suited to each other. When Oz was 12 and a half years old, his mother committed suicide - a tragedy that was to change his life. He leaves the constraints of the family and the community of dreamers, scholars, and failed businessmen to join a kibbutz.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE From two-time National Magazine Award winner Tom Junod, a searching, brilliantly stylized memoir about a charismatic, philandering father who tried to mold his son in his image, the many secrets he hid, the son’s obsessive quest to uncover...

The definitive critical study of Tolkien’s greatest works by the respected and world renowned Tolkien scholar Professor T.A. Shippey. Following the unprecedented and universal acclaim for The Lord of the Rings, the respected academic and world-renowned Tolkien scholar, Professor Tom Shippey...

Mit Maxim Gorki fanden neue Helden ihren Platz in der russischen Literatur: keine Aristokraten, keine Wohlhabenden, wie im 19. Jahrhundert üblich, sondern ganz einfache Leute aus dem Volk. Gorki, der als Alexei Maximowitsch Peschkow geboren wurde, erlebte selbst eine Kindheit voller Elend, Leid und Gewalt, die ihn prägte und später zum Begründer des sozialistischen Realismus werden ließ.

'This book is just about my favourite book of all time ... I'm not entirely convinced I could like somebody who didn't like this book ... it's funny and moving and gives you an insight into this extraordinary moment as the war is about to begin ... it's so vivid, and what's more, it's incredibly...

Brought to you by Penguin. *NARRATED BY BBC RADIO 1 PRESENTER, GREG JAMES* A brilliantly warm-hearted celebration of the lost art of having fun When Greg James was ten years old, his nylon shell suit-clad idols the Chuckle Brothers ('to me, to you') signed an autograph (from them, to him) with...

Thomas Mann - Meister der Gesellschaftsromane. Seine bis heute geschätzten, grandiosen Romane ließen Thomas Mann in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts zu einem der bedeutendsten deutschen Erzähler aufsteigen. Die erfahrenen Autoren Richard Braun und Bert Alexander Petzold (Hg.) nehmen uns mit auf eine faktenreiche Kulturreise und erläutern verständlich, unterhaltsam und strukturiert Basiswissen. Bereits sein Debütroman "Buddenbrooks" von 1901 wird ein großer Erfolg und verschafft Thomas Mann (1875-1955) fast 30 Jahre später den Nobelpreis für Literatur.

Bertolt Brecht (1898 - 1956) ist in Augsburg geboren und gilt als einer der einflussreichsten deutschen Dramatiker und Lyriker des 20. Jahrhunderts. Seit seiner Jugend schreibt er unablässig Gedichte und Dramen. Unter dem Eindruck des Ersten Weltkriegs regt ihn der Dramatiker Frank Wedekind zum Erstlingswerk Baal an, welches trotz Unterstützung Lion Feuchtwangers erfolglos in Leipzig uraufgeführt wird.

Tiziano Terzani, sapendo di essere arrivato alla fine del suo percorso, parla al figlio Folco di cos'è stata la sua vita e di cos'è la vita: "Se hai capito qualcosa, la vuoi lasciare lì in un pacchetto", dice. Così, all'Orsigna, sotto un albero a due passi dalla gompa, la sua casetta in stile tibetano, in uno stato d'animo meraviglioso, racconta di tutta una vita trascorsa a viaggiare per il mondo alla ricerca della verità.

When celebrated writer Joan Didion’s life was altered forever, she wrote a new chapter. In this adaptation of her iconic memoir, Didion transforms the story of the shattering loss of her husband and their daughter into a one-woman play performed by Tony Award winner Vanessa Redgrave, who originated the role on Broadway in 2007.

The Landscapes of Anne of Green Gables explores L. M. Montgomery's deep connection to the landscapes of Prince Edward Island that inspired her to write the beloved Anne of Green Gables series. From the Lake of Shining Waters and the Haunted Wood to Lover's Lane, you'll be immersed in the real places immortalized in the novels. Using Montgomery's journals, archives, and scrapbooks, Catherine Reid also explores the many similarities between Montgomery and her unforgettable heroine, Anne Shirley.

Scritta tra il 1943 e il 1944, durante la sua militanza nel Comitato di Liberazione Nazionale, viene pubblicata nel 1945, a guerra ormai conclusa...

“One of the great reporters of our time and probably the greatest biographer.” —The Sunday Times (London) From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Power Broker and The Years of Lyndon Johnson: an unprecedented gathering of vivid, candid, deeply moving recollections about his...