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'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...

Date de sortie: 2011-10-10 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 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...

Date de sortie: 2010-09-02 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 5,49 €

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Lorsqu’il commence la rédaction de Si c’est un homme , Primo Levi (1919-1987) a vingt-six ans. Il vient de regagner l’Italie et de retrouver sa famille, après un an d’internement à Auschwitz. Une fiche de lecture spécialement conçue pour le numérique, pour tout savoir sur Si c'est un homme de Primo Levi Chaque fiche de lecture présente une œuvre clé de la littérature ou de la pensée. Cette présentation est cou...

Date de sortie: 2015-11-10 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 3,99 €

' 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...

Date de sortie: 2012-08-28 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 9,99 €

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...

Date de sortie: 2016-09-08 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 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...

Date de sortie: 2011-10-27 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 9,49 €

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1. The real Story after the fiction - Hey Jeanette, as always, loved to read you so much. Strange by the way to get through the reality wall... You're the one who made me read in english first. (i'm french). Loved you're fantasy, your poetry, your passion, your words through all of your books... With this book, it's kind of "i'm glad to meet you", get to know you a little... A Powerful book who praises (for me) the powers of poetry and love and loss... Made me think a lot about identity... Thanks for sharing. Thanks for your lively writing. Thanks.
2012-04-04

From the author of The Satanic Verses and Midnight's Children comes an unflinchingly honest and fiercely funny account of a life turned upside-down. On Valentine's Day, 1989, Salman Rushdie received a telephone call from a BBC journalist that would change his life forever: Ayatollah Khomeini, a leading Muslim scholar, had issued him with a fatwa. This is his own account of how he was forced to live in hiding for over a decade; at once intimate and explosive, this is the personal tale behind the ...

Date de sortie: 2012-09-18 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 10,99 €

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...

Date de sortie: 2011-04-05 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 9,49 €

'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...

Date de sortie: 2008-09-04 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 9,49 €

An exceptional new biography that shows how George Eliot wrestled with the question of marriage, in art and life When she was in her mid-thirties, Marian Evans transformed herself into George Eliot - an author celebrated for her genius as soon as she published her debut novel. During those years she also found her life partner, George Lewes - writer, philosopher and married father of three. After 'eloping' to Berlin in 1854 they lived together for twenty-four years: Eliot asked people to call he...

Date de sortie: 2023-03-23 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 17,99 €

Presented in one volume for the very first time, and updated with new archival discoveries, Early Auden, Later Auden reintroduces Edward Mendelson's acclaimed, two-part biography of W. H. Auden (1907–73), one of the greatest literary figures of the twentieth century. This book offers a detailed history and interpretation of Auden’s oeuvre, spanning the duration of his career from juvenilia to his final works in poetry as well as theatre, film, radio, opera, essays, and lectures. Early Auden,...

Date de sortie: 2017-04-25 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 29,99 €

** 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 ...

Date de sortie: 2022-09-08 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 11,99 €

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...

Date de sortie: 2013-04-04 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 8,49 €

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 ...

Date de sortie: 2018-04-05 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 8,49 €

C'est un récit autobiographique où je vous expose une période de ma vie qui fut assez sombre. Ce livre a une visée didactique pour ceux qui la comprendront.

Date de sortie: 2021-06-19 4,49 €

The first in Deborah Levy's essential three-part 'Living Autobiography' on writing and womanhood. 'Unmissable. Like chancing upon an oasis, you want to drink it slowly . . . Subtle, unpredictable, surprising' Guardian _________________________________ Taking George Orwell's famous essay, 'Why I Write', as a jumping-off point, Deborah Levy offers her own indispensable reflections of the writing life. With wit, clarity and calm brilliance, she considers how the writer must stake claim to that cont...

Date de sortie: 2014-02-06 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 6,99 €

"Philip Roth était-il à lui seul un Complot contre l’Amérique ? Oui, assurément, si on accepte que la littérature soit ce cocktail explosif de mots qui vous saute à la figure et fait trembler tout un pays et ses élites bien-pensantes en même temps que les lignes de la page. La bêtise à front bas, les hypocrisies sociales, le politiquement correct, le rêve américain qu’il retournait comme un gant pour en révéler chaque déchirure : l’œuvre romanesque de Philip Roth peut être...

Date de sortie: 2018-09-06 8,99 €

' 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...

Date de sortie: 2010-11-25 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 9,99 €

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...

Date de sortie: 2011-11-04 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 6,49 €

Dans cette évocation biographique et personnelle de la figure et de l’œuvre de Dostoïevski, Stefan Zweig dresse le portrait de celui qui fut pour lui l'un des trois maîtres du XIXe siècle, avec Balzac et Dickens, que plus que nul autre il a aimé et médité. A travers ses propres impressions, il éclaire ce que la lecture de Dostoïevski provoque au plus profond de chacun. « Dostoïevski semble s’ouvrir les veines pour peindre avec son propre sang le portrait de l’homme futur. Perso...

Date de sortie: 2019-01-11 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 3,99 €

Agatha Christie’s ‘most absorbing mystery’ – her own autobiography. Over the three decades since her death on 12 January 1976, many of Agatha Christie’s readers and reviewers have maintained that her most compelling book is probably still her least well-known. Her candid Autobiography, written mainly in the 1960s, modestly ignores the fact that Agatha had become the best-selling novelist in history and concentrates on her fascinating private life. From early childhood at the end of the...

Date de sortie: 2010-10-14 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 10,99 €

*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'...

Date de sortie: 2019-11-07 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 9,49 €

Les derniers feux de Kessel. Un livre d'amour fou. Un coup de foudre d'amitié entre deux grands écrivains, Kessel, géant brûlant sa vie et son œuvre, tout à sa démesure, et Georges Walter, le compagnon des dernières années, dont on mesurera ici à quel point il était son fils spirituel. Et le récit d'une course de vitesse contre le déclin et la mort, doublé d'une méditation, au bord de l'abîme, sur le sens même de l'œuvre du vieux lion – l'un poussant l'autre, pour le tenir de...

Date de sortie: 2016-01-14 13,99 €

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...

Date de sortie: 2010-02-04 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 3,99 €

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...

Date de sortie: 2012-05-17 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 5,99 €

"A book for any of us, gay or straight, who have had to find our family. Maupin is one of America’s finest storytellers."—Neil Gaiman "I fell in love with Maupin’s effervescent Tales of the City decades ago, and his genius turn at memoir is no less compelling. Logical Family is a must read."—Mary Karr In this long-awaited memoir, the beloved author of the bestselling Tales of the City series chronicles his odyssey from the old South to freewheeling San Francisco, and his evolution from c...

Date de sortie: 2017-10-03 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 8,99 €

From the legendary author of Things Fall Apart comes this long-awaited memoir recalling Chinua Achebe's personal experiences of and reflections on the Biafran War, one of Nigeria's most tragic civil wars Chinua Achebe, the author of Things Fall Apart , was a writer whose moral courage and storytelling gifts have left an enduring stamp on world literature. There Was a Country was his long-awaited account of coming of age during the defining experience of his life: the Nigerian Civil War, also kno...

Date de sortie: 2012-09-27 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 9,49 €

'Speak, memory', said Vladimir Nabokov. And immediately there came flooding back to him a host of enchanting recollections - of his comfortable childhood and adolescence, of his rich, liberal-minded father, his beautiful mother, an army of relations and family hangers-on and of grand old houses in St Petersburg and the surrounding countryside in pre-Revolutionary Russia. Young love, butterflies, tutors and a multitude of other themes thread together to weave an autobiography, which is itself a w...

Date de sortie: 2012-09-06 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 9,49 €

A memoir of land, family and perseverance from one of the most influential writers in America. In this moving and surprising book, Joan Didion reassesses parts of her life, her work, her history – and America’s. Where I Was From, in Didion's words, "represents an exploration into my own confusions about the place and the way in which I grew up, misapprehensions and misunderstandings so much a part of who I became that I can still to this day confront them only obliquely." The book is a haunt...

Date de sortie: 2010-06-24 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 6,49 €

En mai 2014, Hélène Pastor, la richissime héritière monégasque est assassinée à Nice, après avoir rendu visite à son fils hospitalisé. Son gendre est le commanditaire du meurtre. Patrick Boffa a été l’investigateur privé d’Hélène Pastor durant presque vingt-cinq ans. Il lève aujourd’hui le voile de la confidentialité pour raconter cette histoire de l’intérieur… les peurs et les angoisses d’une femme qui se savait menacée depuis le premier instant où cet homme est ...

Date de sortie: 2021-06-24 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 7,99 €

Gisèle a 4 ans lorsque commence la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Polonaise, née dans une famille juive, elle échappe de justesse à la rafle de sa famille ; son grand-père et sa mère sont déportés au camp d’extermination de Belzec, dont ils ne reviendront jamais. Désormais orpheline, elle ne survit que cachée chez des membres et amis de sa famille, jusqu’au moment où elle est dénoncée à la Gestapo par une de ses « protectrices ». Alors qu’elle se réfugie dans les bois, elle est ...

Date de sortie: 2020-07-27 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 8,99 €

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...

Date de sortie: 2015-09-10 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 9,49 €

" Il y a toujours un peu de l'auteur dans un personnage... Pourtant Astérix adore le sanglier, moi, j'ai horreur de ça ! " GOSCINNY " Il y a toujours un peu de l'auteur dans un personnage... Pourtant Astérix adore le sanglier, moi, j'ai horreur de ça ! " Que savons-nous réellement d'Astérix : quel est le secret de la potion magique ? Pourquoi le nom d'Astérix ? Pourquoi des Gaulois ? Quelles ont été les sources d'inspiration de René Goscinny ? Quelle était sa méthode d'écriture ? Co...

Date de sortie: 2014-11-20 12,99 €

'I drew my first breath on the 28th of January 1935, which was quite a good time for a future writer to be born in England...’ The only child in a lower-middle-class London family, David Lodge inherited his artistic genes from his musician father and his Catholic faith from his Irish-Belgian mother. Four years old when World War II began, David grew to maturity through decades of great social and cultural change - giving him plenty to write about. Candid, witty and insightful, Quite a Good Tim...

Date de sortie: 2015-01-29 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 11,99 €

'I don't believe in God, but I miss Him.' Julian Barnes' new book is, among many things, a family memoir, an exchange with his philosopher brother, a meditation on mortality and the fear of death, a celebration of art, an argument with and about God, and a homage to the French writer Jules Renard. Though he warns us that 'this is not my autobiography', the result is a tour of the mind of one of our most brilliant writers.

Date de sortie: 2008-09-04 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 9,49 €

Slipstream brilliantly illuminates the literary world of the latter half of the 20th century, as well as giving a highly personal insight into the life of Elizabeth Jane Howard, one of our most beloved British writers. Elizabeth looks back over the course of her eventful life, providing a story of as full of love, passion and betrayal as her novels. Born in London in 1923, she was privately educated at home, moving on to short-lived careers as an actress and model, before writing her first accla...

Date de sortie: 2011-02-28 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 7,49 €

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...

Date de sortie: 2000-09-28 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 8,49 €

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2016 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 ONDAATJE PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 WELLCOME PRIZE At the age of thirty, Amy Liptrot finds herself washed up back home on Orkney. Standing unstable on the island, she tries to come to terms with the addiction that has swallowed the last decade of her life. As she spends her mornings swimming in the bracingly cold sea, her days tracking Orkney's wildlife, and her nights searching the sky for the M...

Date de sortie: 2015-12-31 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 8,99 €

The classic story of the relationship between Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson, and a unique portrait of the Bloomsbury Group. 'A brilliantly structured account of the dramas, infidelities and deep emotional attachments' GUARDIAN 'An intimate and controversial account of his bisexual parents' open relationship' NEW YORK TIMES 'One of the most absorbing stories, built around two very remarkable people, ever to stray from Gothic fiction into real life' TLS The marriage was that between the ...

Date de sortie: 2013-07-25 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 3,99 €

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...

Date de sortie: 2010-06-01 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 9,49 €

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...

Date de sortie: 2010-12-15 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 9,49 €

A unique testimony to modern literature's most celebrated and enduring marriage. 'I first saw Harold across a crowded room, but it was lunchtime, not some enchanted evening, and we did not speak.' When Antonia Fraser met Harold Pinter she was a celebrated biographer and he was Britain's finest playwright. Both were already married - Pinter to the actress Vivien Merchant and Fraser to the politician Hugh Fraser - but their union seemed inevitable from the moment they met: 'I would have found you ...

Date de sortie: 2010-02-25 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 3,99 €

'Totally engrossing and deliciously feisty' Bernardine Evaristo A powerful, personal agenda-changing exploration of poverty in today's Britain. 'When every day of your life you have been told you have nothing of value to offer, that you are worth nothing to society, can you ever escape that sense of being 'lowborn' no matter how far you've come?' Kerry Hudson is proudly working class but she was never proudly poor. The poverty she grew up in was all-encompassing, grinding and often dehumanising....

Date de sortie: 2019-05-16 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 8,49 €

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...

Date de sortie: 2016-03-03 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 8,99 €

“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...

Date de sortie: 2012-05-29 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 6,99 €

“Raw and unsparing...as intimate and as painful as a therapy session, while chronicling the history of the band as it took shape in the Mod scene in 1960s London and became the very embodiment of adolescent rebellion and loud, anarchic rock ‘n’ roll.”   — Michiko Kakutani, New York Times One of rock music's most intelligent and literary performers, Pete Townshend—guitarist, songwriter, editor—tells his closest-held stories about the origins of the preeminent twentiet...

Date de sortie: 2012-10-08 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 8,99 €

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.

Date de sortie: 2011-12-01 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 3,49 €

Peter Godwin, an award-winning writer, is on assignment in Zululand when he is summoned by his mother to Zimbabwe, his birthplace. His father is seriously ill; she fears he is dying. Godwin finds his country, once a post-colonial success story, descending into a vortex of violence and racial hatred. His father recovers, but over the next few years Godwin travels regularly between his family life in Manhattan and the increasing chaos of Zimbabwe, with its rampant inflation and land seizures makin...

Date de sortie: 2012-03-14 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 5,99 €

'Always readable, illuminating and honest. It made me miss the real Terry.' - NEIL GAIMAN 'Sometimes joyfully, sometimes painfully, intimate . . . it is wonderful to have this closeup picture of the writer's working life.' - FRANK COTTRELL-BOYCE, OBSERVER 'Spins magic from mundanity in precisely the way Pratchett himself did.' - THE TELEGRAPH 'As frank, funny and unsentimental as anything its subject might have produced himself.' - MAIL ON SUNDAY -------- At the time of his death in 2015, award-...

Date de sortie: 2022-09-29 Genre:Biographies et mémoires 17,99 €

Il était une fois cinq frères liés comme les doigts d’une main… Le benjamin, Charles, les mène sur le chemin de la gloire. Et pourtant, après avoir été la cheville ouvrière de l’ambitieuse politique artistique de Louis XIV pendant vingt ans, il est brutalement évincé du pouvoir. L’académicien et écrivain polémiste, blessé, néanmoins toujours joueur, riposte et oppose des rêves fastueux à la réalité. Champion des Modernes contre les Anciens, il laisse paraître, au term...

Date de sortie: 2018-03-21 15,99 €