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苦節10年の末に、小説『食堂かたつむり』でデビューを果たした著者。執筆、サイン会、取材と怒涛の日々を送る彼女に代わって、ペンギンが台所デビュー。まぐろ丼、おでん、かやくご飯…。

Astrid Lindgrens Figuren revolutionierten die Kinderliteratur. Jahrzehntelang begleitete sie dieser Schmerz, sie setzte sich bis ins hohe Alter für Frieden, Gerechtigkeit und die Rechte von Kindern ein und prägte mit ihrem Engagement und ihrem Werk ein ganzes Jahrhundert. Jens Andersen blickt in dieser umfassenden Biografie hinter die Fassade ihres weltweiten Erfolgs und erzählt das Leben der beliebten Bestsellerautorin neu.

Professor Yuval Noah Harari is a lecturer at the Department of History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Gaining his PhD from Oxford University, he has published several books and articles. His most recent works comprise the international bestseller Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind and, most recently Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow.

CELEBRATING 50 YEARS OF WRITING with fresh testimonials from fellow writers about why they love Stephen King and On Writing—and a few new words on the joy of writing from King himself. *ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE’S TOP 100 NONFICTION BOOKS OF ALL TIME* Immensely helpful and illuminating to any...

Publiée en 1935, cet essai offre un portrait exhaustif d'Érasme et de son influence chrétienne, humaniste et intellectuelle. Puis, en seconde moitié, décrit le débat qui l'oppose à Luther et aux réformateurs germaniques et qui s'achève par la victoire du schisme et du machiavélisme. Défaite d'Érasme qui se limite à un travail intellectuel, en chambre, et refuse de débattre publiquement avec ses adversaires notamment lors de la diète de Worms en 1521, ce qui rappelle la formule de Péguy (sur Kant) « il a les mains pures, mais il n'a pas de mains ».

An illuminating critical biography of one of our most influential nonfiction authors, New Yorker journalist Janet Malcolm. A titan of American letters, Janet Malcolm was a writer with a far-reaching impact and cultlike following, even as she actively opposed being a literary celebrity. For The...

Brought to you by Penguin. **ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY** In this remarkable work of autobiography, the son of the great comic novelist Kingsley Amis explores his relationship with his father and writes about the various crises of Kingsley's life, including the...

रघुवीर कुलकर्णी लिखित व्यक्तिचित्र - दोघीच अंजू ठाकूर नाना -नानी पार्कमध्ये चालत होती. ट्रॅकसूटमधून तिच्या...

சுதா மூர்த்தியின் நூல்களில் அதிகமான பாராட்டுக்களைப் பெற்றுள்ள நூல் இது. சுதா மூர்த்தியின் வாழ்க்கையில்...

Published in 1923, My Universities is the final instalment in the autobiographical trilogy by five-time Nobel Prize-nominee Maxim Gorky. Despite his failed attempts to enter the university at Kazan, Gorky forges an education of his own as he encounters an unusual array of characters–revolutionaries, religious fanatics, theological students and eccentric schoolteachers. Snatching cherished moments for reading books, a relief from the drudgery of his work in a bakery, Gorky comes to see the superficiality of a formal education.

Katherine Ryan is back with a new book, First Born Daughter exploring the psychology and reality of what it means to be a woman, a wife and a daughter today. Filled with Katherine's outspoken humour and wit, expect home truths, real talk and Katherine's inimitable honest opinions around the topics of women's rights, parenting, health, ageing and so much more that Katherine is at the heart of as she navigates the world we live in today.

The Nobel Lecture in Literature, delivered by Kazuo Ishiguro (The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans) at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, Sweden, on December 7, 2017. In their announcement of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy recognized the emotional force of...

A haunting meditation on love, loss, companionship, and finding one’s way through the dark, Raymond Carver’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is one of the most important and influential short story collections in contemporary literature. In his entry in the esteemed Bookmarked series, acclaimed author Brian Evenson offers his personal and literary take on this classic Carver collection.

それでも、ありうべき未来へ! コロナ時代に顕在化した政治的無責任、社会基盤の崩壊、人心の動揺…。「時代の神経」である作家の感応力が、深く見つめる。リアルでありながら、理想を手放さない稀有な思考。危機の時代の羅針盤。

仕事を通じて、そしてプライベートにおいて、寺山修司と親交のあった著者が、寺山修司の素顔や情熱やその思想を、自身の記憶と共に詳細に語る。 天才と呼ばれた男の半生…その中にある頑なな信念と苦悩、そして晩年における病魔との闘い… 寺山修司の作品が、唯一無二の存在感を持つ所以、そして寺山修司の職業が「寺山修司」である所以が、著者の記憶の中に静かに、しかしはっきりと刻まれている。 本オーディオブックは、今まで知ることの出来なかった寺山修司の素顔を、そして著者の北川氏だからこそ知ることの出来た寺山修司の「強さと弱さ」を、ゆっくりと静かに語りかける。 寺山修司を知る上で、これ以上の「入門」は他に類を見ない程の内容となっている。 ※本商品は『寺山修司入門』(春日出版刊 北川登園著ISBN:978-4-86321-130-8 309頁893円(税込))をオーディオ化したものです。(C)2009 Takanobu kitagawa

Hunter S. Thompson is roaring down the desert highway to Las Vegas with his attorney, the Samoan, to find the dark side of the American Dream. Armed with a drug arsenal of stupendous proportions, the duo engage in a surreal succession of chemically enhanced confrontations with casino operators, police officers, and assorted Middle Americans.

In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. His name was Christopher Johnson McCandless. He had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his...

The author and former politician Jeffrey Archer has been writing for over 40 years, is published in 97 countries and in more than 33 languages. He joins Robin Morgan in the Audible Studios to talk about This Was a Man, the final novel in his best-selling Clifton Chronicles series.

Named One of The New York Times Book Review’s Top Ten Books of the Year Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Kirkus Prize One of the best-reviewed books of the year, a raw and deeply moving memoir that “pulses with compassion and moral outrage” (The Wall Street...

Hugh Fraser is a man of many talents. He will probably be best known to you as an actor; he played Captin Hastings to David Suchet’s Poirot on over forty occasions. But he’s also been a musician and a composer and now, having narrated over 90 Agatha Christie audiobooks, he’s writing his own crime fiction. Hugh visits the Audible Studios to discuss his crime series, his pedigree as an audiobook narrator, and his time starring in the Inspector Maigret TV adaptations.