Caroline Sandersonová
autor
Listen with Father
''Blazes with love'' Keggie Carew ''Warm and insightful'' Polly Morland ''A love song to classical music'' Rachel Joyce Listen with Father is a book about the transformative power of listening, and about how we remember those we have loved and lost. At four years old, Caroline Sanderson fell in love with the music of Mozart after listening to it with her father. At eight, she fell even harder for the songs of David Bowie. Her dad made many gentle attempts to persuade her back to his world of classical music, but it wasn’t until after he died that she returned to it, in memory of him. In a beguiling blend of memoir and biography, we follow Sanderson as she set out to listen, with great care and attention, to the music her dad loved, to work out why he so appreciated it and whether she could too. From hearing Mozart recitals in Salzburg to visiting Sibelius’s house near Helsinki and playing Robert Schumann at home on the piano, this is a beautifully touching and absorbing story of a beloved father, told through the classical music he cherished. ''A tender meditation on listening – to music, to memory and to the conversations we wish we’d had'' Freya Bromley, author of The Tidal Year ''Like the best classical music, it ignites our imagination, and is a deeply human adventure in music''s power to affect our emotional lives'' Lily Dunn, author of Sins of My Father
Jane Austen
‘This delicious acorn of a book is as spare, elegant and to-the-point as the literary oak it describes.’– Emma ThompsonJane Austen lived to just 41, never married, never had children, lived all her life in the south of England and rarely strayed far from the genteel and orthodox social circle into which she was born. She completed only six novels and achieved little fame in her lifetime. Yet, over 200 years after her death, she remains one of our most revered writers, and one of the most regularly adapted for television and film.Her novels are beloved by readers all over the world who continue to be inspired, beguiled and delighted by her often comic and always shrewd insights into the calculations and complexities of human hearts and minds.Jane Austen: The Life of a Literary Titan gets to the heart of this enigmatic woman, and to the enduring qualities in her work which make it so universally loved and admired.
Vypredané
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Adele
Britská zpěvačka a skladatelka Adele, držitelka několika cen Grammy a Ceny kritiků BRIT Awards, se okamžitě po vydání první desky 19 v roce 2008 dostala na první místa hitparád. Fanoušky i hudební kritiky po celém světě uchvátil její hluboký hlas a soulový projev, v němž se, navzdory jejímu věku, odrážejí její vnitřní emoce.Hity jako Chasing Pavements, Rolling in the Deep nebo Someone Like You se dostaly nejen na první místa hitparád v mnoha zemích, ale především do uší a srdcí tisíců fanoušků, které si Adele získala svým nezaměnitelným hlasem a bezprostředností. Tento životopis nabízí pohled na místa jejího dětství a dospívání, zvraty v pracovním a osobním životě, které formovaly její projev a určovaly směr jejího úspěchu.
