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Fi
The story of a mother grieving the sudden loss of her twenty-one-year-old child – from the award-winning and bestselling memoirist of Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight ‘Truly extraordinary’ HELEN MACDONALD ‘A mesmeric celebration... Will help others surviving loss – surviving life’ NEW YORK TIMES It’s midsummer in Wyoming and Alexandra Fuller is barely hanging on. Grieving her father and pining for her home country of Zimbabwe, reeling from a midlife breakup, freshly sober and piecing her way uncertainly through a volatile new relationship with a younger woman, Alexandra vows to get herself back on even keel. And then – suddenly and incomprehensibly – her son Fi, at twenty-one years old, dies in his sleep. From a sheep wagon deep in the mountains of Wyoming to a grief sanctuary in New Mexico to a silent meditation retreat in Alberta, Canada, Alexandra embarks on a journey up and down the spine of the Rocky Mountains trying to find out how to grieve herself whole.‘For anyone who’s ever loved and lost, or ever will; in short, a book for us all’ OPRAH DAILY‘A profound and gripping memoir about surviving unexpected, devastating loss’ SUNDAY TIMES‘Profound and defiantly enthralling’ WASHINGTON POST* A Book of the Year for the New York Times, Washington Post and Time *
Bless Me Father
A searingly honest memoir from Dexys’ iconic frontman, one of the great mavericks and creative geniuses of British music. At home, the prayerful eight-year-old altar boy was planning to attend college to train to be a priest. Elsewhere, he was thieving, lying, swearing, fighting and rarely out of trouble.In this astonishing memoir, Kevin takes us from the juvenile courts of his troubled teenage years to the early days of the New Romantic scene in the late ’70s. An unwavering passion for music and highly tuned sense of fashion and style ignited an unstoppable drive within him, compelling him down a path that led to his huge chart successes with Dexys Midnight Runners in the early 1980s. However, despite being celebrated as a creative genius, inner turmoil was never far away, and a terrifying series of self-sabotaging events were to follow – including a serious cocaine addiction – leaving him in the wilderness in the 1990s, bankrupt, living in a bedsit, on the dole.Always resilient in the face of adversity, after a massive upheaval Kevin found his way back. He charts his return journey, from shocking audiences with his pioneering embrace of gender fluidity with My Beauty, right through to Dexys’ triumphant appearance at Glastonbury in 2024.Vividly detailed, and with a truly rare degree of self-insight, this is Kevin''s own, deeply personal account of an extraordinary life, raw and unvarnished. A remarkable memoir, as compelling and original as you would expect from one of the pioneering icons of music history.
The Liars' Club
‘You’ll want to forget it and won’t be able to’ – Zadie Smith‘The essential American story’ – The Washington PostMy father comes into focus for me on a Liars’ Club afternoon. He sits at a wobbly card table weighed down by a bottle. Even now the scene seems so real to me that I can’t but write it in the present tense. Mary Karr grew up in a swampy East Texas refinery town in a volatile and defiantly loving family. In this funny, devastating, haunting memoir and with a raw and often painful honesty, she looks back at life with a painter mother, seven times married, whose outlaw spirit could tip over into psychosis, and a hard-drinking, fist-swinging father who liked nothing better than to spin tales with his cronies at the Liars’ Club. When it was published in 1995, The Liars’ Club raised the art of memoir to a new level and brought about a dramatic revival of the form. It is a classic that paints a harsh world redeemed by Karr’s warmth, intelligent humour and finely spun prose. The Liars’ Club is both heart-stopping and heart-felt. ‘Extraordinary’ – The Guardian‘Exceptionally powerful’ – The Observer‘Utterly gripping’ – The Sunday TimesPart of the Picador Collection, showcasing the best of modern literature.
Two Lights
Longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize 2024With dizzying acuity and insight, Roberts paints a portrait of a life and its landscapes, creating precious connections with wild creatures and places, from swans in the Cambrian Mountains to wolves in the Pacific Northwest.By walking at dawn and dusk, in the two lights of awakening and deepening - through the stripped, windswept hills of Wales, and the jungles and savannahs of Africa - he navigates from a soul-stripping sense of loss towards hope in the future. In the presence of wild creatures he finds a way back to life.
Street-Level Superstar
<p><b>WINNER OF THE 2025 PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZE</b><br><b>Rough Trade Book of the Year</b><br><b><i>Uncut</i> Book of the Year </b><br><b><i>Mojo </i>Book of the Year</b><br><br><b>A <i>Guardian</i> Book of the Year</b><b><br>A <i>Daily Mail</i> Book of the Year<br></b><b>A <i>Financial Times</i> Book of the Year</b><br><b>A Resident Book of the Year</b><br><b>A <i>Telegraph</i> Book of the Year<br>A <i>Daily Express</i> Book of the Year</b><br><b><br>'Will has finally written his masterpiece. I'm glad I could be of assistance' </b><b>LAWRENCE</b><br><br>Lawrence is the greatest pop star who never made it, his dreams of glory thwarted over the past five decades by bad luck and self-sabotage. At sixty-one, he set off on a new mission: to escape poverty, obscurity and the humiliation of kids at the bus stop laughing at him by writing a smash hit. But what is the cost of a dream?<br><br>In 1980, Lawrence formed Felt, releasing ten albums and ten singles in ten years. In 1991, he reinvented himself with novelty-pop outfit Denim. Signed to EMI, riding the wave of Britpop, in 1997, Denim's song 'Summer Smash' became Radio 1's Single of the Week and looked like a sure-fire hit. Then Princess Diana was killed in a car crash. All copies were melted down. Crushing depression, addiction and homelessness followed... but in the face of it all, Lawrence never gave up.<br><br>In <i>Street-Level Superstar</i>, bestselling author and journalist Will Hodgkinson follows Lawrence as he rebuilds his life. He gets mistaken for an old lady by an amorous pensioner, is reduced to dragging sacks of 2p coins to his local bank and wanders through London's distant suburbs in search of lyrical inspiration. As they walk together down rain-soaked streets, Will tells the story of Britain's most eccentric cult star. Will he write the greatest song the world has ever known before the year is out? And was it worth sacrificing everything - family, relationships, health, sanity - for art?</p>
Arctic Insanity
‘A true Boy’s Own adventure for the modern age’ – Daily Express When a friend told Jules Mountain he'd bought a helicopter in Canada and would need to ship it home to the Channel Islands by container, Jules thought that sounded crazy. Why not just fly it? Actually there were lots of good reasons. The lightweight aircraft had a range of 300 miles, was neither pressurised nor supplied with oxygen, and could fly for just three hours before running out of fuel. Whereas the shortest feasible route was 4,300 miles across the polar ice cap, with stretches across water that would take up to five hours to cross. It sounded impossible for even the most experienced pilot, and Mountain had only been flying helicopters for three years. But he'd never been one to duck a challenge...so he volunteered for the job. Arctic Insanity is the hair-raising story of what happened next, as the madcap adventurer battled extreme cold, zero-visibility whiteouts and near-misses with icebergs - landing along the way in some of the harshest places on earth - in his bid to get the aircraft (and himself) back to Europe in one piece.
The Invention of Charlotte Bronte
‘Heartbreaking … Fascinating … Unbearably poignant.’ - Daily Mail''Dramatic … Sensational ... Closely researched and compulsively readable.’ - The Lady‘Meticulously researched, erudite and utterly engaging … Magnificent.’ - Karen Powell, author of Fifteen Wild DecembersNovelist, sister, celebrity, wife, daughter: Charlotte Brontë played many roles. As the beloved author of Jane Eyre, she is one of the most radical talents of the nineteenth century. And one of the most mysterious.Based entirely on rarely seen private letters, this radical and moving biography sheds new light on the dramatic events of Brontë’s turbulent last years of grief, fulfilment and tragedy – and exposes the astonishing media scandal that followed her early death, when her friends and family battled to control how history would remember her.
High Priest
Look Behind the Scenes at the Life of the Father of American Witchcraft Casting new light on one of the first modern self-identifying Witches in the US, Jason Mankey invites you deep into Raymond Buckland''s life. Known for bringing Wicca to America, Buckland wrote more than forty titles, placing him among the most prolific occult authors of all time. Drawing on exclusive access to Buckland''s unpublished memoirs, personal letters from Gerald Gardner, and personal accounts from fellow authors of the Craft, including Silver RavenWolf, Thorn Mooney, and Selena Fox, Mankey reveals intimate details of Buckland''s remarkable journey. From his Romani roots and his childhood during WWII to his many media appearances and little-known hobbies, such as flying ultralight aircraft, this biography covers it all. Mankey also highlights the Buckland Museum of Witchcraft and Magick and shares various exercises from Buckland''s body of work, making this book a practical and fascinating tour de force. Includes a twelve-page color insert featuring photos of Buckland, his family, and memorabilia.
Zombie Proust
What is a writer''s life, and above all, what is left of it? This book is not a biography, but a quest; an expedition tracking what remains of the author of Remembrance of Things Past. What was it like to be in his remarkable presence? What was it like to be inside his skin-especially during his final years of intense reclusive absorption in the writing of his great book? Haunted places and abandoned sets, rare photographs, tinpot relics, half-erased fingerprints, flashes of light, piles of little memories serve as talismans to materialise the eponymous writer''s body and spirit in short, vivid chapters that resemble prose poems. Rich in detail, wry humour and quirky erudition, Zombie Proust brings back to life the invisible being, recalling his image as one summons a ghost.
The Man Who Changed the Way We Read
The story of Penguin Books, Allen Lane and how they changed the world, to celebrate the 90th anniversary of Penguin
'An invaluable and fascinating account' NICK HORNBY
'Outstanding' LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS
'A triumph . . . rich and humorous' ROGER LEWIS
By founding Penguin Books in 1935 and popularizing the paperback, Allen Lane not only changed publishing in Britain - he was also at the forefront of a social and cultural revolution.
In The Man Who Changed the Way We Read, Jeremy Lewis brings this extraordinary era brilliantly to life. Lane's books gave millions of people access to what had previously been the preserve of a wealthy few; they alerted the public to the threat of Nazi Germany; and Penguin itself became a cherished national institution, much like the BBC and the NHS, whilst at the same time challenging the status quo through the famous Lady Chatterley case.
This is the spellbinding story of how a complex, highly fallible man used his vision to change the world.
The Doors – Kompletní příběh
Kompletní příběh rockových bohů s nezaměnitelným soundem 60. let!
The Doors s Jimem Morrisonem zářili na hudební scéně pouhých sedm let, vydali jen šest studiových alb, a přesto zanechali nesmazatelný otisk v rockových dějinách. Světlo reflektorů se vždy upíralo především na ikonického frontmana, jehož svobodný duch a tragický osud dodnes inspirují umělce všech žánrů. K velkolepému úspěchu kapely však koncem šedesátých let přispěl také nezaměnitelný zvuk, hudební odvaha, vizionářství a souhra zbývajících členů kapely – klávesisty Raye Manzareka, kytaristy Robbyho Kriegera a bubeníka Johna Densmorea. Hypnotické rytmy, temné texty, improvizace a poezie pronikaly do lidské duše a dokázaly strhnout davy. V době, kdy se svět otřásal v základech, Doors nastavovali svým posluchačům pověstné zrcadlo: někdy plné psychedelických vizí, jindy neúprosně pravdivé. Na následujících stranách se vydáme po stopách jejich výjimečného příběhu, připomeneme si vznik zásadních alb – od převratného debutu po temné hlubiny posledního studiového počinu L.A. Woman. Také do detailů prozkoumáme mýty a legendy, k nimž před více než padesáti lety přispěla Morrisonova předčasná smrt. Oslavte s námi kapelu, která se ve své době stala kulturním zjevením a jejíž hudební odkaz dodnes jitří lidské city i fantazii. Zatímco se schyluje k bouři, dveře vnímání čekají. Probuďte v sobě ještěrčího krále, obraťte list a nechte se unášet na vlnách poetické psychedelie!
Rebel Rebel
The legacy of David Bowie is roughly 450songs, which he recorded or performed over half a century. They range fromcabaret to psychedelia to folk rock to glam rock to Philadelphia soul, fromavant-garde instrumentals to stadium anthems. Cataloging Bowie’s songs from thedawn of his career in 1963 to his Hollywood stardom in 1976, examining them in theorder of their composition and recording, and digging into what makes them work,Rebel Rebel and its sequel Ashes to Ashes have become standardreferences for Bowie fans. The newedition of Rebel Rebel is a fully-updatedrevision, taking into account Bowie demos and alternate takes released in theyears after his death. It’s enhanced by a decade’s worth of new informationabout Bowie’s recording process, his influences, his contemporaries, and hislive performances, all of which shed light onto the evolution of hissongwriting. It shows how Bowie exploited studio innovations, and delves intothe roles of his supporting musicians, particularly major collaborators likeMick Ronson and Tony Visconti. This book aligns Bowie’s music with histimes, planting his work in the context of its era. You’ll see what Bowie’swork owes to novelists like Keith Waterhouse, Jack Kerouac, George Orwell, RayBradbury, and William S. Burroughs. To films like Performance, 2001:A Space Odyssey, and A Clockwork Orange. To rival songwriters andperformers like Marc Bolan, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Lou Reed, ScottWalker, Elvis Presley, the Bee Gees, Isaac Hayes, James Brown, Pete Townshend,and John Lennon. With guest appearances by everyone from Frank Sinatra to Cher.
Sonita
One woman’s extraordinary journey from child bride to global changemakerAt just 10 years old, Sonita Alizada was nearly sold into marriage. By the time she turned 16, her price was set at $9,000 – a sum meant to buy her future for someone else’s benefit. In a world where nearly 15 million girls are forced into marriage each year, Sonita’s story is a heartbreaking but all-too-common reality. Yet, she refused to let her fate be sealed.In her eponymous memoir, Sonita shares her powerful journey from the streets of Afghanistan to international stages as a rap artist and activist. Breaking through oppressive traditions and laws, she escaped her destiny as a child bride and transformed her pain into music that resonated across the globe.This book is not just her story, it’s a call to action. Sonita’s message is clear: Dreams have the power to change lives. Weaving together her family’s harrowing escape from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, her rise as a human rights advocate, and her belief in the transformative power of hope, Sonita''s story will leave readers galvanised to fight for a world where every girl’s voice is heard.
Lev XIV. - Apoštol pokoja
Obklopení jasnou oblohou a hlukom Ríma nikto nečakal, že nový pápež bude zvolený už v druhý deň konkláve. Ďalším prekvapením bolo, že je to Američan pochádzajúci z multikultúrnej rodiny. Pokojný a skromný misionár, ktorý oddane slúžil tam, kde to bolo potrebné. No jeho kroky postupne smerovali vyššie. Meno, ktoré zrazu pozná celý svet, vzbudzuje zvedavosť.
Aký bol život Leva XIV. predtým, ako začal jeho príbeh zaujímať každého človeka na svete? Veľkou inšpiráciou pre misijnú službu a zmýšľanie tohto muža bola spiritualita svätého Augustína. Lenže akým skúškam musel čeliť, kým sa stal hlavou katolíckej cirkvi? Dokáže nový nástupca stolca svätého Petra priniesť svetu nádej a cestu k pokoju?
Pápež Lev XIV.: Srdce rehoľníka, hlas Cirkvi
Kto je muž, ktorý sa stal 267. nástupcom svätého Petra? Prečo je jeho zvolenie považované za významný moment v dejinách Cirkvi? A čo znamená jeho výzva k jednote v čase, keď Cirkev prechádza tak výraznými zmenami?
Autor prináša jedinečný pohľad na život i myšlienkový svet pápeža Leva XIV. – prvého pápeža zo Spojených štátov, prvého augustiniána v tejto službe, no predovšetkým pokorného misionára, ktorého formovalo prostredie chudobných v Peru a spiritualita svätého Augustína. Kniha mapuje život Róberta Francisa Prevosta od momentov, keď sa ako dieťa hral na kňaza, až po rok 2025, keď bol na konkláve zvolený za hlavu Katolíckej cirkvi.
Jesús Colina, renomovaný vatikánsky novinár, však ponúka viac než len životopis. Vďaka jeho analýzam a prenikavému pohľadu na globálny stav kresťanstva približuje čitateľovi širší význam pontifikátu Leva XIV. a výzvy, ktorým Cirkev čelí.
Táto kniha je nielen svedectvom o nádeji; vízii budúcnosti Cirkvi, ale aj pozvaním na osobné zamyslenie nad vlastným miestom a poslaním v jej živote.
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Once Upon a Time
A quarter of a century after the plane crash that claimed the lives of John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn, and her sister Lauren, the magnitude of this tragedy remains fresh. Yet, Carolyn is still an enigmatic figure, a woman whose short life in the spotlight was besieged with misogyny and cruelty.
Amidst today's cultural reckoning about the way our media treats women, Elizabeth Beller "reveals the true woman behind the mystery, and what a woman she turns out to be: fabulous, fierce, fashionable, flawed…formidable" (J. Randy Taraborrelli, New York Times bestselling author). When she began dating America's prince, Carolyn was thrust into an overwhelming spotlight filled with cruelly relentless paparazzi who reacted to her reserve with a campaign of harassment and vilification.
To this day, she is still depicted as a privileged princess-icy, vapid, and drug-addicted. She has even been accused of being responsible for their untimely death, allegedly delaying take-off until she finished her pedicure. But now, the truth is finally unveiled.
A fiercely independent woman devoted to her adopted city and career, Carolyn relied on her impeccable eye and drive to fly up the ranks at Calvin Klein in the glossy, high-stakes fashion world of the 1990s. When Carolyn met her future husband, John was immediately drawn to her strong-willed personality, effortless charm, and high intelligence. Their relationship would change her life and catapult her to dizzying fame, but it was her vibrant life before their marriage and then hidden afterwards, that is truly fascinating.
Based on in-depth research and exclusive interviews with friends, family members, teachers, roommates, and colleagues, and featuring never-before-seen family photos, this comprehensive biography reveals a multifaceted woman worthy of our attention regardless of her husband and untimely death.
Maggie Alphonsi: Winning the Fight
Shortlisted for the Sports Book Awards Autobiography of the YearMaggie Alphonsi is not only a national sporting icon, the face of international women’s rugby and star player of the England side that won the World Cup in 2014. She is also an inspirational and totemic figure who transcends sport. The compelling story of her life makes her achievements even more extraordinary. Hers is an against-all-the-odds tale, becoming the best player in the world despite having to battle against racism, sexism, and prejudice.It is a book forged from the raw emotion, passion, and testimony of an iconic player, who rose to the elite of world sport when the world was seemingly stacked against her. It is a moving and revealing story of a woman who was not prepared to be defined by anyone but herself and gives the reader a unique insight into how she met her goals.''Maggie has changed the way the game is played forever'' - The Sunday Times
The Light Room
'Kate Zambreno has invented a new form. It is a kind of absolute present, real life captured in closeup' Annie Ernaux, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 'The Light Room is both a gift and a beacon' Sinead Gleeson, author of Constellations'Kate Zambreno has performed a miracle, capturing real, lived time from within the exhaustion of pandemic-era parenthood. The Light Room reminded me of that fundamental magic of writing - that the details of another person's life, so precisely and honestly rendered, can instantly loosen the edges of your own life and make you feel less alone' Jenny Odell, bestselling author of How to Do NothingIn The Light Room, Zambreno offers her most profound and affecting work yet: a candid chronicle of life as a mother of two young daughters in a moment of profound uncertainty about public health, climate change, and the future we can expect for our children. Moving through the seasons, returning often to parks and green spaces, Zambreno captures the isolation and exhaustion of being home with a baby and a small child, but also small and transcendent moments of beauty and joy. Inspired by writers and artists ranging from Natalia Ginzburg to Joseph Cornell, Yuko Tsushima to Bernadette Mayer, Etel Adnan to David Wojnarowicz, The Light Room represents an impassioned appreciation of community and the commons, and an ecstatic engagement with the living world. How will our memories, and our children's, be affected by this time of profound disconnection? What does it mean to bring new life, and new work, into this moment of precarity and crisis? In The Light Room, Kate Zambreno offers a vision of how to live in ways that move away from disenchantment, and toward light and possibility.
No Obvious Distress
''Striking, surprising, and technically excellent, the poems resonate way beyond their endings'' Roger Robinson''Deft, daring, devastating and delightful'' Pádraig Ó Tuama''Astonishing. These poems glimmer with a white-hot beauty that is hard won, and that sings'' Sarah RuhlPatient is a normal appearing woman in no obvious distress.On an ordinary day, out with her three-year-old in the park, Amanda Quaid received a life-changing call - the back pain she had been living with for years was actually a rare and aggressive form of cancer. In an instant, life became a series of sterile rooms, medical charts and body-altering treatments which completely upend Amanda''s marriage, work and family life as she knows it.Poetry became a lifeline for Amanda, a form to organize the chaos and pain of day-to-day life into order and beauty. In inventive and arresting poems that explore desire, marriage, motherhood and mortality, No Obvious Distress is a powerful memoir-in-verse about Amanda''s unique experience. But it is also a tender, witty and universal collection that asks how we can continue to live and love in times of uncertainty.
Čítanie o slávnych osobnostiach je mnohokrát inšpirujúce. Motivujú nás biografie slávnych umelcov, známych hercov alebo významných politikov.
Absolútne prvou biografiou všetkých čias je zrejme Excellentium Imperatorum Vitae, ktorú napísal grék Cornelius Nepos a opisoval v nej životy viacerých gréckych vojenských generálov. Neskôr mal už skoro každý významný vodca svoju biografiu, vrátane Cicera, Júliusa Cézara alebo Alexandra veľkého.
Pri čítaní životopisných kníh máme jedinečnú možnosť sledovať dlhú cestu, ktorú museli títo slávni ľudia prejsť. Uvidíme množstvo pádov a chýb, kvôli ktorým sa ale tieto osoby nevzdali a zobrali ich ako príležitosť zlepšiť sa vo všetkyćh oblastiach. Mnoho v sebe skrývajú aj úprimné rozhovory, ktoré sú často otvorenými vyznaniami a v tejto kategórii nájdete isto aj knihu o človeku, ktorého považujete za svoj vzor a je pre vás inšpiráciou.
Môžete si vybrať, či budete čítať o danej osobe z pohľadu iného človeka, alebo či siahnete po autobiografii. Obidve možnosti majú svoje čaro.
Je všeobecnou pravdou, že dobrá kniha môže ovplyvniť smerovanie nášho života. Pri biografickej literatúre to platí stonásobne, pretože v ruke držíme príbeh reálneho človeka, z ktorého môžeme čerpať mnoho inšpirácie a tipov.
Nájdete tu biografie z oblasti biznisu, filmu a hudby, histórie, literatúry, športu, mafie a podsvetia, náboženstva, politiky, osobností vedy a umenia.
