Libros más populares en España●Literaria

"Las Cartas a Lucilio" forman un conjunto de 124 piezas publicadas en veinte libros. Séneca fraguó en estas cartas su obra cumbre, el testamento vital del filósofo, en el que están innumerables preocupaciones, vivencias y lecturas del autor. Son el único ejemplar que se conserva de una correspondencia filosófica en la Antigüedad y constituyen una pedagogía en acción, mostrando las técnicas que usa un maestro para hacer progresar al discípulo. Se detecta en ellas cierto método y un av...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2018-09-20 17,99 €

'Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional' A compelling mediation on the power of running and a fascinating insight into the life of this internationally bestselling writer. A perfect reading companion for runners. In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he'd completed a solo course from Athens to Marathon, and now, after dozens of such races, he reflects upon the influence the sport has had on his life and on his writing...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2011-10-10 Género:Biografías y memorias 9,49 €

The international classic and bestseller, Maya Angelou's memoir paints a portrait of 'a brilliant writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman' (BARACK OBAMA). 'I write about being a Black American woman, however, I am always talking about what it's like to be a human being. This is how we are, what makes us laugh, and this is how we fall and how we somehow, amazingly, stand up again' Maya Angelou In this first volume of her seven books of autobiography, Maya Angelou beautifully evokes h...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2010-09-02 Género:Biografías y memorias 5,49 €

Isabel Burdiel restituye la figura de la novelista española por excelencia, personalidad clave del siglo XIX. Emilia Pardo Bazán, una de las grandes novelistas del siglo XIX europeo, extraordinariamente popular y traducida en vida a numerosas lenguas, contribuyó de manera decisiva (como Clarín, Galdós y otros grandes de su época) al cambio de registro novelístico y a la construcción de la esfera cultural y del canon literario decimonónicos. Insertó abiertamente en la discusión públic...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2019-02-21 10,99 €

' You think it will never happen to you, that it cannot happen to you, that you are the only person world to whom none of these things will ever happen, and then, one by one, they all begin to happen to you, in the same way they happen to everyone else. ' In Winter Journal , Paul Auster moves through the events of his life in a series of memories grasped from the point of view of his life now: playing baseball as a teenager; participating in the anti-Vietnam demonstrations at Columbia University...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2012-08-28 Género:Biografías y memorias 9,99 €

'So bold and so vulnerable at the same time. I don't know how she did it' - Phoebe Waller-Bridge Now with an introduction from Dolly Alderton, author of Everything I Know About Love, revealing how a new generation of women can take inspiration from Nora's sharp wit and wisdom about life. * Never marry a man you wouldn't want to be divorced from. * If the shoe doesn't fit in the shoe store, it's never going to fit. * When your children are teenagers, it's important to have a dog so that someone i...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2008-09-04 Género:Biografías y memorias 9,49 €

The shocking, heart-breaking - and often very funny - true story behind Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. In 1985 Jeanette Winterson's first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit , was published. It was Jeanette's version of the story of a terraced house in Accrington, an adopted child, and the thwarted giantess Mrs Winterson. It was a cover story, a painful past written over and repainted. It was a story of survival. This book is that story's the silent twin. It is full of hurt and humour and a f...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2011-10-27 Género:Biografías y memorias 9,49 €

La llegada del coronavirus en marzo de 2020 ha supuesto enfermedad, dolor y muerte y la alteración radical de nuestra forma de vivir. Este libro es una crónica del confinamiento en una quintana aislada de Asturias que ha vivido un economista político jubilado y que registra sus vivencias y trabajos a lo largo de este año de pandemia. Por un lado, se recogen los once escritos realizados, de los que una gran mayoría son reflexiones centradas en temáticas asturianas. Por otro, se incluyen tre...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2021-03-02 8,99 €

FRAGMENTO "En Atocha pasé una infancia solitaria, estoica y feliz. Yo ahora me explico muchas cosas, cuando recuerdo que a los nueve o diez años subía solo a las gradas de cemento de la Tribuna Este, una hora antes del partido, y me pegaba a las vallas que separaban la zona de pie de la zona de asientos. Allí, ni la gente ni las vigas de hierro me tapaban la visión del campo. Atocha olía a selva. Se mezclaba el tufo fermentado y dulzón del mercado de frutas con el aroma fresco de la hierb...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2016-07-11 Género:Biografías y memorias 2,99 €

The first collection of memoirs from the author who inspired the BBC and Channel 5 series All Creatures Great and Small . This edition contains If Only They Could Talk and It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet . Fresh out of Glasgow Veterinary College, to the young James Herriot 1930s Yorkshire seems to offer an idyllic pocket of rural life in a rapidly changing world. But from his erratic new colleagues, brothers Siegfried and Tristan Farnon, to incomprehensible farmers, herds of semi-feral cattle, a pi...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2012-05-17 Género:Biografías y memorias 5,99 €

In 1929 Robert Graves went to live abroad permanently, vowing 'never to make England my home again'. This is his superb account of his life up until that 'bitter leave-taking': from his childhood and desperately unhappy school days at Charterhouse, to his time serving as a young officer in the First World War that was to haunt him throughout his life. It also contains memorable encounters with fellow writers and poets, including Siegfried Sassoon and Thomas Hardy, and covers his increasingly unh...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2000-09-28 Género:Biografías y memorias 8,49 €

You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed… In Levels of Life Julian Barnes gives us Nadar, the pioneer balloonist and aerial photographer; he gives us Colonel Fred Burnaby, reluctant adorer of the extravagant Sarah Bernhardt; then, finally, he gives us the story of his own grief, unflinchingly observed. This is a book of intense honesty and insight; it is at once a celebration of love and a profound examination of sorrow. **ONE OF THE GUARDIAN...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2013-04-04 Género:Biografías y memorias 8,49 €

Quizá Cioran (1911-1995) —en palabras de Saint-John Perse, «el mayor prosador de la lengua francesa desde Paul Valéry»— sea uno de los escritores y pensadores más controvertidos del siglo XX, no ya por la naturaleza de sus reflexiones, sino por la contundencia de las mismas Lector voraz de Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, y también de Heidegger, Simmel o Weininger, a los diecisiete años se inscribe en la facultad de Filosofía de Bucarest. Sufre importantes crisis de insomnio y pasa las noche...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2015-10-19 Género:Biografías y memorias 6,99 €

“A modern classic of courage and excitement.” —The New Yorker • The source for the iconic prison-escape film starring Steve McQueen Henri Charrière, nicknamed "Papillon," for the butterfly tattoo on his chest, was convicted in Paris in 1931 of a murder he did not commit. Sentenced to life imprisonment in the penal colony of French Guiana, he became obsessed with one goal: escape. After planning and executing a series of treacherous yet failed attempts over many years...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2012-05-29 Género:Biografías y memorias 10,99 €

FREDERICK FORSYTH HAS SEEN IT ALL. AND LIVED TO TELL THE TALE… At eighteen , Forsyth was the youngest pilot to qualify with the RAF. At twenty-five , he was stationed in East Berlin as a journalist during the Cold War. Before he turned thirty, he was in Africa controversially covering the bloodiest civil war in living memory. Three years later, broke and out of work, he wrote his game-changing first novel, The Day of the Jackal . He never looked back. Forsyth has seen some of the most exhilara...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2015-09-10 Género:Biografías y memorias 9,49 €

Christy Brown was born a victim of cerebral palsy. But the hapless, lolling baby concealed the brilliantly imaginative and sensitive mind of a writer who would take his place among the giants of Irish literature. This is Christy Brown's own story. He recounts his childhood struggle to learn to read, write, paint and finally type, with the toe of his left foot. In this manner he wrote his bestseller Down all the Days .

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2014-07-31 Género:Biografías y memorias 9,49 €

THE SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING MEMOIR OF SPY-WRITING LEGEND JOHN LE CARR É 'As recognizable a writer as Dickens or Austen' Financial Times From his years serving in British Intelligence during the Cold War to a career as a writer, John le Carré has lived a unique life. In this, his first memoir, le Carré is as funny as he is incisive - reading into the events he witnesses the same moral ambiguity with which he imbues his novels. Whether he's interviewing a German terrorist in her des...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2016-09-08 Género:Biografías y memorias 9,49 €

Evgenia Ginzburg, profesora de Historia y Literatura en la Universidad de Kazán, madre de dos hijos y esposa de Pavel Aksonov, miembro del Comité Central Ejecutivo de la URSS, se negaba a creer, en febrero de 1937, lo que ya era evidente. Dos años antes, el asesinato de Kírov había marcado el inicio de las inquietudes, de las sospechas y de los interrogantes. En una palabra, de lo que iban a ser las grandes purgas en el seno del partido bolchevique. Evgenia necesitó un tiempo para entender...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2014-10-01 10,99 €

'SIMPLY EXTRAORDINARY' New York Times 'It's such a savage thing to lose your memory, but the crazy thing is, it doesn't hurt one bit. A blackout doesn't sting, or stab, or leave a scar when it robs you. Close your eyes and open them again. That's what a blackout feels like.' For Sarah Hepola, alcohol was 'the gasoline of all adventure'. She spent her evenings at cocktail parties and dark bars where she proudly stayed till last call. Drinking felt like freedom, part of her birthright as an enligh...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2015-06-23 Género:Biografías y memorias 5,49 €

For Gertrude Stein and her companion Alice B. Toklas, life in Paris was based upon the rue de Fleurus and the Saturday evenings and ‘it was like a kaleidoscope slowly turning’. Picasso was there with ‘his high whinnying spanish giggle’, as were Cezanne and Matisse, Hemingway and Fitzgerald. As Toklas put it – ‘The geniuses came and talked to Gertrude Stein and the wives sat with me’. A light-hearted entertainment, this is in fact Gertrude Stein’s own autobiography and a roll-call...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2001-04-26 Género:Biografías y memorias 9,49 €

From a childhood of gothic proportions in a vicarage on the Welsh borders, through adolescence, leaving herself teetering on the brink of the 1960's, Lorna Sage vividly and wittily brings to life a vanished time and place and illuminates the lives of three generations of women. Lorna Sage’s memoir of childhood and adolescence is a brilliantly written bravura piece of work, which vividly and wickedly brings to life her eccentric family and somewhat bizarre upbringing in the small town of Hanmer...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2013-07-25 Género:Biografías y memorias 6,99 €

A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY WINNER OF THE PRIX FEMINA ETRANGER 2020 Following on from the critically acclaimed Things I Don't Want to Know , discover the powerful second memoir in Deborah Levy's essential three-part 'Living Autobiography'. 'I can't think of any writer aside from Virginia Woolf who writes better about what it is to be a woman' Observer _________________________________ 'Life falls apart. We try to get a grip and hold it together. And then we realise we don't want to ...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2018-04-05 Género:Biografías y memorias 8,49 €

El testimonio emocionante de un chico de los años 70 El universo del precoz autor narrado por él mismo, sus influencias literarias, musicales, sus premios, sus amores, sus costumbres. Además, tres cuentos rescatados del olvido se suman a este diario, prologado por Luna Miguel. Félix Francisco Casanova escribió Yo hubiera o hubiese amado paralelamente a la novela El don de Vorace , publicada en Demipage. Aparecen en este libro, los cuentos: • Wences, poeta maldito • Edificio • Orl...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2015-07-09 Género:Biografías y memorias 6,99 €

How to get on well with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love? How to live? This question obsessed Renaissance nobleman Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-92), who wrote free-roaming explorations of his thought and experience, unlike anything written before. Into these essays he put whatever was in his head: his tastes in wine and food, his childhood memories, the way his dog's ears twitched when it was dreaming, events in the appalling civil wars raging aroun...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2011-04-05 Género:Biografías y memorias 9,49 €

Agatha Christie’s personal memoirs about her travels to Syria and Iraq in the 1930s with her archaeologist husband Max Mallowan, where she worked on the digs and wrote some of her most evocative novels. Think you know Agatha Christie? Think again! To the world she was Agatha Christie, legendary author of bestselling whodunits. But in the 1930s she wore a different hat, travelling with her husband, renowned archaeologist Max Mallowan, as he investigated the buried ruins and ancient wonders of S...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2013-08-29 Género:Biografías y memorias 6,99 €

A Guest at the Feast is Colm Tóibín's touching memoir. A Guest at the Feast moves from the small town of Enniscorthy to Dublin, from memories of a mother who always had a book on the go to the author's early adulthood, from a love of literature to the influences of place and family. Tóibín's captivating memoir is the story of a writer coming of age and his connections between home, work and love. It is a perfect gem of a book.

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2011-12-01 Género:Biografías y memorias 3,49 €

From one of America’s greatest and most iconic writers: an honest and courageous portrait of age and motherhood. Several days before Christmas 2003, Joan Didion’s only daughter, Quintana, fell seriously ill. In 2010, Didion marked the sixth anniversary of her daughter’s death. ‘Blue Nights’ is a shatteringly honest examination of Joan Didion’s life as a mother, a woman and a writer. Recently widowed, and becoming increasingly frail, ‘Blue Nights’ is Didion’s attempt to understa...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2011-11-04 Género:Biografías y memorias 6,49 €

In the summer of 1941, as the Germans invade Russia, newspaper reporter Vasily Grossman is swept to the frontlines, witnessing some of the most savage atrocities in Russian history. As Grossman follows the Red Army from the defence of Moscow, to the carnage at Stalingrad, to the Nazi genocide in Treblinka, his writings paint a vividly raw and devastating account of Operation Barbarossa during World War Two. Grossman’s notebooks, war diaries, personal correspondence and newspaper articles are m...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2010-06-01 Género:Biografías y memorias 9,49 €

FROM THE INTERNATIONALLY BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF WHAT I LOVED AND A WOMAN LOOKING AT MEN LOOKING AT WOMEN 'Provocative but often funny, encyclopedic but down to earth . . . an extraordinary double story' Oliver Sacks 'It is Hustvedt's gift to write with exemplary clarity of what is by necessity unclear' Hilary Mantel , Guardian While speaking at a memorial event for her father, the novelist Siri Hustvedt suffered a violent seizure from the neck down. Was it triggered by nerves, emotion - or someth...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2010-02-04 Género:Biografías y memorias 3,99 €

This winter, take the time to reflect on an extraordinary year with this perfectly distilled set of essays from one of our wisest and most humane thinkers From the critically acclaimed author of Feel Free, Swing Time, White Teeth and many more 'There will be many books written about the year 2020: historical, analytic, political and comprehensive accounts. This is not any of those - the year isn't half-way done. What I've tried to do is organize some of the feelings and thoughts that events, so ...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2020-07-28 Género:Biografías y memorias 5,49 €

Las bibliotecas definen a sus dueños y a los libros. Como en los estratos geológicos de un yacimiento, permiten ir desenterrando los restos de todos nuestros particulares naufragios. Pero, sobre todo, los libros poseen una sorprendente capacidad colonizadora y como un ejército victorioso ganan los altillos, los aparadores o las cestas de mimbre donde duermen los gatos. Podremos deshacernos de muchos, pero hay libros indispensables que nos obligan a poseerlos, a conservarlos para hojearlos de ...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2017-04-24 5,49 €

Una obra de divulgación de uno de los escritores más influyentes en lengua castellana del siglo XX En ella se recoge infinidad de datos acerca de la vida de Cortázar, desde Buenos Aires a París, a partir de un conocimiento completo de su obra. De carácter ameno, el lector descubrirá a la vez, de manera precisa y sorprendente, a la persona y al escritor. Cuenta, además, con un prólogo del escritor nicaragüense Sergio Ramírez, amigo personal de Cortázar. Una biografía completa sobre un...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2015-10-19 Género:Biografías y memorias 6,99 €

SHORTLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE Chosen as 'BOOK OF THE YEAR' by Observer, Guardian, Telegraph, Irish Times, New Statesman, Times Literary Supplement, Herald When Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her mid-thirties, she found herself inhabiting loneliness on a daily basis. Increasingly fascinated by this most shameful of experiences, she began to explore the lonely city by way of art. Moving fluidly between the works and lives of some of the city's most compelling artists, Laing conduct...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2016-03-03 Género:Biografías y memorias 8,99 €

Fans of Murder on the Orient Express won't want to miss out on this insight into the life of arguably the greatest crime writer in the world, as Laura Thompson turns her highly acclaimed biographical skills to Agatha Christie. 'Laura Thompson's outstanding biography . . . is a pretty much perfect capturing of a life' Kate Mosse, Book of the Year 2007 It has been 100 years since Agatha Christie wrote her first novel and created the formidable Hercule Poirot. In this biography, Laura Thompson desc...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2013-03-28 Género:Biografías y memorias 3,99 €

' One day there is life . . . And then, suddenly, it happens there is death. ' So begins Paul Auster's moving and personal meditation on fatherhood, The Invention of Solitude . The first section, 'Portrait of an Invisible Man', reveals Auster's memories and feelings after the death of his father. In 'The Book of Memory' the perspective shifts to Auster's role as a father. The narrator, 'A.', contemplates his separation from his son, his dying grandfather and the solitary nature of writing and st...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2010-11-25 Género:Biografías y memorias 9,99 €

As seen in the new movie The Post, directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Meryl Streep, here is the captivating, inside story of the woman who piloted the Washington Post during one of the most turbulent periods in the history of American media. In this bestselling and widely acclaimed memoir, Katharine Graham, the woman who piloted the Washington Post through the scandals of the Pentagon Papers and Watergate, tells her story - one that is extraordinary both for the events it encompasses and ...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2018-03-29 Género:Biografías y memorias 3,99 €

The book opens and we are inside the wave: thirty feet high, moving at twenty-five mph, racing two miles inland. And from there into the depths of the author's despair: how to live now that her life has been undone? Sonali Deraniyagala tells her story - the loss of her two boys, her husband, and her parents - without artifice or sentimentality. In the stark language of unfathomable sorrow, anger, and guilt: she struggles through the first months following the tragedy -- someone always at her sid...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2013-03-12 Género:Biografías y memorias 5,49 €

A delightful compendium of writings that perfectly express the wit and wisdom of Stephen Fry. A hilarious collection of the many articles written by Stephen Fry for magazines, newspapers and radio. It includes selected wireless essays of Donald Trefusis, the ageing professor of philology brought to life in Fry's novel The Liar , and the best of Fry's weekly column for the Daily Telegraph . Perfect to dip into but just as enjoyable to read cover to cover, this book, perhaps more than any other, s...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2010-12-15 Género:Biografías y memorias 9,49 €

'Utterly, agonisingly compulsive ... a masterpiece' Liz Jensen, Guardian Following one woman's journey from a troubled girlhood in working-class Copenhagen through her struggle to live on her own terms, The Copenhagen Trilogy is a searingly honest, utterly immersive portrayal of love, friendship, art, ambition and the terrible lure of addiction, from one of Denmark's most celebrated twentieth-century writers. 'Sharp, tough and tender ... wrenching sadness and pitch-black comedy ... Ditlevsen can...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2021-01-26 Género:Biografías y memorias 9,49 €

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK AWARDS 2020* 'A bravura performance, highly entertaining' Evening Standard The Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending takes us on a rich, witty tour of Belle Epoque Paris, via the life story of the pioneering surgeon Samuel Pozzi. In the summer of 1885, three Frenchmen arrived in London for a few days' shopping. One was a Prince, one was a Count, and the third was a commoner, who four years earlier had been the subject of one of John Singer Sargent'...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2019-11-07 Género:Biografías y memorias 9,49 €

' Reporter is just wonderful. Truly a great life, and what shines out of the book, amid the low cunning and tireless legwork, is Hersh's warmth and humanity. Essential reading for every journalist and aspiring journalist the world over' John le Carré In the early 1950s, teenage Seymour Hersh was finishing high school and university - while running the family's struggling dry cleaning store in a Southside Chicago ghetto. Today, he is one of America's premier investigative journalists, whose fear...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2018-06-05 Género:Biografías y memorias 9,49 €

El eclipse de Yukio Mishima es un retrato íntimo y personal del autor que revolucionó las letras niponas. Ishihara aborda la compleja personalidad de quien fue su maestro y protector, analizando la persona y el personaje a través de su obra, sus espejismos y su patológico culto al cuerpo. «La foto que más me gusta es una que le tomaron cerca de Yotsuya-Mitsuke, cuando aún era un funcionario. No tendría más de veinte años y su cara refleja el cansancio de la doble vida que llevaba, la d...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2015-09-16 Género:Biografías y memorias 10,99 €

Fiona MacCarthy makes a breakthrough in interpreting Byron's life and poetry drawing on John Murray's world-famous archive. She brings a fresh eye to his early years: his childhood in Scotland, embattled relations with his mother, the effect of his deformed foot on his development. She traces his early travels in the Mediterranean and the East, throwing light on his relationships with adolescent boys - a hidden subject in earlier biographies. While paying due attention to the compelling tragicom...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2014-10-23 Género:Biografías y memorias 3,99 €

A rich and varied collection of essays. Pugnacious and savage, eloquent and unpredictable, Paul Johnson sets out to entertain and to inform and to shake the complacency of his readers. These essays selected from the best of his weekly pieces in The Spectator over the last five years, range widely. All his essays are liberally peppered with his astonishing knowledge of the highways and byways of the last thousand years of English history.

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2013-10-31 Género:Biografías y memorias 3,99 €

Join Gervase Phinn in the classroom where he faces his greatest challenge: keeping a straight face as teachers and children alike conspire to have him laughing out loud . . . 'So funny, it will echo things that happen in your own life' 5***** Reader Review 'A wonderful, entertaining and enjoyable read. The humour is infectious' 5***** Reader Review ______ 'Could you tell me how to spell "sex" please?' Gervase Phinn thinks he's heard just about everything in his two years as a school inspector, b...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2003-03-06 Género:Biografías y memorias 8,49 €

A New York Times Notable Book   The Professor and the Madman is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary—and literary history. The making of the OED was one of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken. As definitions were collected, the overseeing committee, led by Professor James Murray, was stunned to discover that one man, Dr. W. C. Minor, had submitted more than ten tho...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2009-10-13 Género:Biografías y memorias 10,99 €

** S hortlisted for the @CrimeFest H.R.F. Keating Award ** 'A smart and highly entertaining portrait of a literary powerhouse' - THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR 'A riveting portrait' - GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR *** ' Christie lovers should read this biography for the same reason they read her novels.' - The Times 'A model of how to combine biographical information, analysis and literary criticism into a propulsive narrative' - Daily Telegraph 'Worsley's book excels in bringing a broader historical ...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2022-09-08 Género:Biografías y memorias 11,99 €

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE ONDAATJE PRIZE 'The best book I read last year by a mile. . . so beautifully written that anyone would be hooked' Laura Hackett, Sunday Times, Best Summer Books 'Wonderfully funny and poignant. . . a tale of family secrets and political awakening amid a crumbling regime' Luke Harding, Observer 'We never lose our inner freedom; the freedom to do what is right' Lea Ypi grew up in one of the most isolated countries on earth, a place where communist ideals h...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2021-10-28 Género:Biografías y memorias 9,49 €

La periodista Casey Cep cuenta las historias del libro inacabado de Harper Lee... El 11 de julio de 1960, Harper Lee publicó su primera novela: Matar a un ruiseñor . El éxito fue instantáneo. Durante su primer año, vendió medio millón de ejemplares. A los dos años, se estrenó la adaptación cinematográfica, que obtuvo tres Óscar. La excelente acogida de la obra desató las expectativas de los lectores y de la crítica por el siguiente libro de la autora. Pero pasaban los años y ese l...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2020-11-13 Género:Biografías y memorias 8,99 €

‘ I love it! Hilarious and thought-provoking! ’ - Fearne Cotton ‘The Bridget Jones of self-improvement’ - Sunday Times Marianne Power was stuck in a rut. Then one day she wondered: could self-help books help her find the elusive perfect life? She decided to test one book a month for a year, following their advice to the letter. What would happen if she followed the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People ? Really felt The Power of Now ? Could she unearth The Secret to making her dreams come ...

Fecha de lanzamiento: 2018-09-06 Género:Biografías y memorias 4,99 €