The Dolphin Letters offers an unprecedented portrait of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Hardwick during the last seven years of Lowells life (1970 to 1977), a time of personal crisis and creative innovation for both writers. Centred on the letters...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jan-2020, Hardback, Kirjastus: British Library Publishing, ISBN-13: 9780712353519)
In an age of emails, tweets and emojis, this beautiful selection of original love letters invites us into a privileged realm and reminds us why the written word is so expressive and revealing....Loe edasi...
This definitive assessment of the most famous twentieth-century ancient historian engages with his impact beyond as well as within the academy, analysing the means and nature of his impact, and telling how a scholar expelled from the United States fo...Loe edasi...
Hashi Mohamed powerfully exposes the alienating and segregating effect of social immobility in this country. Beautifully written, People Like Us makes a deeply personal case for a world in which anybody can reach success, but doesnt have to l...Loe edasi...
The Existential Englishman is both a memoir and an intimate portrait of Paris - a city that can enchant, exhilarate and exasperate in equal measure. As Peppiatt remarks: You reflect and become the city just as the city reflects and becomes yo...Loe edasi...
I like this London life . In an era when womens freedoms were fast expanding, they each sought a space where they could live, love and - above all - work independently. H....Loe edasi...
*** Amazon.com Best Books of 2019 ***A daughters tale of living in the thrall of her magnetic, complicated mother, and the chilling consequences of her complicity Every time I fail to become more like my mother, I become more like me....Loe edasi...
In this entertaining and surprisingly moving autobiography, Timmy shares his journey through TV stardom, cycling the Camino and his passion for art....Loe edasi...
Elected MP for Londonderry in 1955, Robin Chichester-Clark was at the forefront of Northern Irish politics for almost 20 years during one of the most turbulent periods for the province. A son and grandson of Northern Irish MPs, he held leading...Loe edasi...
The Art of Weeing in the Sink is a heartbreakingly honest account of a boys life as he grows up with undiagnosed autism in the North East of England. Richie overcomes huge challenges presented by the ignorance of his condition and ultimately e...Loe edasi...
AN APARTMENT ON URANUS is a bold, transgressive and necessary book which takes a personal experience as a starting point to question the foundations of a society which excludes heterodoxy and proclaims it deviancy or illness, putting forward a radica...Loe edasi...
This biography aims to become a definitive account by exploring what is known of Richards childhood and the impacts it had on his personality and view of the world. He would be cast into insecurity and exile only to become a royal prin...Loe edasi...
The stories of three individual careers combine seamlessly to tell the dramatic story of the RAF from the era of biplanes and into the jet age of the Cold War. How did the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) "cavalry of the air" tra...Loe edasi...
Kirstin McMillans childhood was a literal circus. By the time she was eight, she was working with her family under the glittering lights of the Ringling Brothers tent. But not all that glitters is gold. When her parents split and her father decid...Loe edasi...
Kirstin McMillans childhood was a literal circus. By the time she was eight, she was working with her family under the glittering lights of the Ringling Brothers tent. But not all that glitters is gold. When her parents split and her father decid...Loe edasi...
Kirstin McMillans childhood was a literal circus. By the time she was eight, she was working with her family under the glittering lights of the Ringling Brothers tent. But not all that glitters is gold. When her parents split and her father decid...Loe edasi...