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Shakespeare: The Illustrated Edition is an exquisitely illustrated, updated edition of Bill Bryson’s bestselling biography of William Shakespeare that takes the reader on an enthralling tour through Elizabethan England and the eccentricities of Shakespearean scholarship. With more than 100...

Winner of the 2016 EDGAR, AGATHA, MACAVITY and H.R.F.KEATING crime writing awards, this real-life detective story investigates how Agatha Christie and colleagues in a mysterious literary club transformed crime fiction. Detective stories of the Twenties and Thirties have long been stereotyped as...

A good mystery isn’t just entertainment; it’s a tonic for life’s hardships Like so many of us living through the upheaval of the last five years, journalist and Sunday Times bestselling writer Cathy Rentzenbrink found that to keep her spirits up, she needed a project to throw herself...

El encuentro con grandes autores de la literatura latinoamericana. Unas memorias deliciosas repletas de humor y pasión. Entre la ficción y el testimonio, el ensayo y la memoria, este libro da cuenta de algunas facetas de la vida de varios escritores a quienes Gonzalo Celorio tuvo la...

Bloomsbury presents In Other Words written and read by Jhumpa Lahiri _______________ 'A passionate love letter to language and to Italy ... a bold and quirkily engaging self-portrait' - Lee Langley, Spectator 'A writer of uncommon elegance and poise' - New York Times 'A fascinating account of...

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of The Pigeon Tunnel. Written and read by John le Carré. 'Out of the secret world I once knew, I have tried to make a theatre for the larger worlds we inhabit. First comes the imagining, then the search for reality. Then back to...

How It Feels To Be Colored Me was first published in The World Tomorrow in May 1928. In this autobiographical piece that focuses on race and 1920s America, Hurston reflects on her early childhood in an all-black Florida town and her first experiences in life where she felt "different." Hurston focuses on the similarities we all share and on her own self-identity in the face of difference. "Through it all," she says, "I remain myself."

Dive into Tove Jansson's spellbinding memoir and be transported to early 20th-century Helsinki where you'll experience the magic and fears of a childhood infused with the freedom and natural beauty of Finland. Hailed by Ali Smith for its evocative prose, Jansson's memoir unveils the enchantments of a world where winter ice is a playground of mysteries, balalaika parties radiate warmth, and Christmas takes on epic proportions when viewed from a child's eyes.

A classic portrait of immigrant life in the early decades of the twentieth century, A Walker in the City is a tour of tenements, subways, and synagogues—but also a universal story of the desires and fears we experience as we try to leave our small, familiar neighborhoods for something new.

It will come as a surprise to some readers that the greater part of Jorge Luis Borges's extraordinary writing was not in the genres of fiction or poetry, but in the various forms of non-fiction prose. His thousands of pages of essays, reviews, prologues, lectures, and notes on politics and...

In The Wife of Bath, Marion Turner tells the fascinating story of where Chaucer’s favourite character came from, how she related to real medieval women, and where her many travels have taken her since the fourteenth century, from Falstaff and Molly Bloom to #MeToo and Black Lives Matter.

Rahel Varnhagen: The Life of a Jewish Woman is the biography of a remarkable, complicated, troubled, passionate woman, an important figure in German romanticism, the person who in a sense founded the Goethe cult that would become central to German cultural life in the 19th century, as well as someone who confronted with unusual determination and bore the burden of being both a woman in a man's world and an assimilated Jew in Germany.

Wer Literatur als Zeitkritik und Erinnerungsarbeit verstehen will, der sollte Leben und Werke Ingeborg Bachmanns kennen. Der erfahrene Autor und Herausgeber Bert Alexander Petzold nimmt uns mit auf eine faktenreiche Kulturreise und erläutert verständlich, unterhaltsam und strukturiert Basiswissen zu Ingeborg Bachmann. Seit ihrer Geburt am 25. Juni 1926 wuchs Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973) im österreichischen Klagenfurt auf. Im Herbst 1945 begann Bachmann ein Studium der Germanistik, Psychologie und Philosophie in Innsbruck, welches sie anschließend in Graz und Wien fortführte.

Maddie Hickish chats to the comedian Joe Lycett in the Audible Studios. His debut book Parsnips Buttered, successfully solves all of modern life’s problems.

YouTube star Hannah Witton visits the Audible Studios to talk about her first book, Doing It: Let's Talk About Sex. After starting to create YouTube videos in 2011, Hannah now has over 300,000 subscribers and works with Radio 1, MTV and Awesomeness TV. Her varied videos are about books, films, travel and advice, with a focus on sex and relationships. In Doing It: Let's Talk About Sex, straight-talking Hannah tackles everything from masturbation and puberty to slut shaming and consent.

Audible exclusive. Chris Cleave discusses his new novel, Everyone Brave Is Forgiven, an epic story of love, loss, prejudice and incredible courage. Chris provides an insight in to how he as an author constructs his novels. Describing how he made the book as authentic as possible, the painstaking research and adding his own personal touches.

Bloomsbury presents These Precious Days written and read by Ann Patchett. A BARACK OBAMA TOP BOOK OF 2021 ‘A heartfelt and witty collection of essays on everything from marriage and knitting to the inevitability of death’ Guardian 'A pitch-perfect collection ... She can turn a sentence like...

Iniziato il 6 ottobre 1935 durante i giorni del confino politico, "Il mestiere di vivere" accompagna Cesare Pavese fino al 18 agosto 1950, nove giorni prima della sua morte, e diventa a poco a poco il luogo cui affidare i pensieri sul proprio mondo di scrittore e di uomo e, soprattutto, le confessioni ultime su quei drammi intimi che laceravano la sua esistenza.

Jan Gaspard ist wieder als Autor für "Offenbarung 23" tätig! In Vorfreude auf die nächste "O23"-Folge aus seiner Feder: Hört hier, was Jan Gaspard euch über sich erzählt! In diesem Interview mit dem Produzenten Sebastian Pobot gibt er spannende Einblicke in seine Arbeit, er erzählt von seinem Werdegang als Autor, davon, was ihn im Leben bewegt und was ihn an Verschwörungen und Verschwörungstheorien so fasziniert. Ein Muss für "O23"-Fans.

Saad grew up for the first few years of her life in Wales and now lives in Qatar in the Middle East, with her husband and two children. Saad's main motivation in life is to become a 'good ancestor'. This personal mission has influenced the writing of Me and White Supremacy, and Saad hosts a Good Ancestor podcast, in which she interviews guests from a wide range of personal and professional backgrounds.