Autobiography: writers Books
Simon & Schuster To Name the Bigger Lie
Book Synopsis“Has the page-turning quality of a thriller.” —NPR “Strange and wonderful…A book for our times.” —The New York Times Book Review “Propulsive…mesmerizing…breathtaking.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) This unforgettable memoir traces the ramifications of a series of lies that threaten to derail the author’s life—exploring the line between fact and fiction, reality and conspiracy.In To Name the Bigger Lie, Sarah Viren “has pulled off a magic trick of fantastic proportion” (The Washington Post), telling the story of an all-too-real investigation into her personal and professional life that she expands into a profound exploration of the nature of truth. The memoir begins as Viren is researching what she believes will be a book about her high school philosophy teacher, a charismatic instructor who taught her an
£9.49
Simon & Schuster You Could Make This Place Beautiful: A Memoir
Book Synopsis“[Smith]...reminds you that you can...survive deep loss, sink into life’s deep beauty, and constantly, constantly make yourself new.” —Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling authorThe bestselling poet and author of the “powerful” (People) and “luminous” (Newsweek) Keep Moving offers a lush and heartrending memoir exploring coming of age in your middle age.“Life, like a poem, is a series of choices.” In her memoir You Could Make This Place Beautiful, poet Maggie Smith explores the disintegration of her marriage and her renewed commitment to herself in lyrical vignettes that shine, hard and clear as jewels. The book begins with one woman’s personal, particular heartbreak, but its circles widen into a reckoning with contemporary womanhood, traditional gender roles, and the power dynamics that persist even in many progressive homes. With the spirit of self-inquiry and empathy she’s known for, Smith interweaves snapshots of a life with meditations on secrets, anger, forgiveness, and narrative itself. The power of these pieces is cumulative: page after page, they build into a larger interrogation of family, work, and patriarchy.You Could Make This Place Beautiful, like the work of Deborah Levy, Rachel Cusk, and Gina Frangello, is an unflinching look at what it means to live and write our own lives. It is a story about a mother’s fierce and constant love for her children, and a woman’s love and regard for herself. Above all, this memoir is an argument for possibility. With a poet’s attention to language and an innovative approach to the genre, Smith reveals how, in the aftermath of loss, we can discover our power and make something new. Something beautiful.Trade Review“Rich in nuance and unrelenting in its honesty, Smith’s memoir is a bittersweet study in both grief and joy.” —TIME "This book is extraordinary." —Ann Patchett "A beautiful book...stunning." —Oprah Daily "A triumph" —Mary Louise Kelly, NPR "Smith turns to prose to chronicle the end of her marriage and the hard, beautiful work of loving and valuing herself." —People "Sparkling & brilliant. Maggie was able to put into words things I’ve always felt as a writer and a human." —Daisy Perez, CBS Mornings "[An] elliptical, inquisitive book" —Buzzfeed "This book is a gift." —Leslie Jamison, bestselling author of The Empathy Exams "Beautifully written... Smith should be just as celebrated for her prose." —Town and Country "Incredibly relatable...At turns devastating and darkly funny." —Columbus Monthly“You Could Make This Place Beautiful is about recognizing your own worth in your relationship, and in the world.” —Slate"A poet’s memoir... [Smith] has an uncanny ability to boil down giant ideas into tiny, dense sentences that are both playful and heartbreaking." —Shondaland"An anatomy of....an artist stepping into her own light, of a mother working out how to create a loving family on her own." —BOMB"Smith’s prose is as warm and welcoming as her poetry." —Chicago Review of Books "Smith opens her heart like a book, dog-earing moments both painful and joyous...Smith's conjuring of beauty through pain and her special blend of vulnerability and encouragement go down like a healing tonic.” —Booklist (starred review)"You Could Make This Place Beautiful is a sparklingly brilliant memoir-in-vignettes that only Maggie Smith could write. Yet this is a book for everyone—who among us has never had our world upended by the loss of a relationship? Maggie Smith’s powerful mastery of language, and amazing ability to portray life in all its rich messiness, is on full display in this bold, brutally candid, and yes, beautiful, book.” —Isaac Fitzgerald, New York Times bestselling author of Dirtbag, Massachusetts “In this lightning bolt of a debut memoir, Maggie Smith gives us the truth of healing in form as much as story: getting through is no pretty, linear narrative. It’s one chapter forward and five chapters back. You Could Make This Place Beautiful gave me back a part of myself I thought was gone for good: the knowledge that beauty isn’t something out there to find. It’s in us.” —Megan Stielstra, author of The Wrong Way to Save Your Life “Listen, you may not need me to tell you what you already know about the shining star that is Maggie Smith, but you can certainly add me to the chorus of those singing her praises about You Could Make This Place Beautiful. Among her singular gifts as a writer are the way she swiftly brings her poetry to her prose; her willingness to show up to the page with aspirational levels of vulnerability, grace, and joy; and a clarity of heart amid the heartbreak that together makes this a moving and gorgeous must read. —Elizabeth Crane, author of This Story Will Change“When personal tragedy strikes us, first we have to survive, then we have to begin healing. This exquisite book will help you do both. Reading Smith's memoir, I laughed and gasped and ugly-cried and somehow began to process ten years of my own pent-up, frozen grief. This book is nothing less than a cathartic miracle.” —Alissa Nutting, author of Made for Love
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Atria/One Signal Publishers You Could Make This Place Beautiful
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£16.99
Blackstone Publishing My Young Life Lib/E: A Memoir
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£67.50
Allen & Unwin Drawn Out: A seriously funny memoir
Book SynopsisDrawn Out is a hilarious, heartbreaking, heart-warming account of Tom Scott's tragicomic childhood, his manic student-newspaper days, his turbulent years stumbling through the corridors of power, his fallings out with prime ministers, his collaborations with comic legends John Clarke, A.K. Grant and Murray Ball, his travels to the ends of the earth with his close friend Ed Hillary, and more...'A first-class memoir of a highly memorable life. Here is an important (often hilarious) writer and immensely gifted cartoonist, insightfully chronicling quite momentous changes in our political and social landscape.'Jim Mora, New Zealand BooksTrade Review'A first-class memoir of a highly memorable life. Here is an important (often hilarious) writer and immensely gifted cartoonist, insightfully chronicling quite momentous changes in our political and social landscape.'Jim Mora, New Zealand Books
£23.16
Tidewater Press Imagined Truths: Myths from a Draft-Dodging Poet
£11.69
FreeHand Books How to Breathe Water
£21.04
Massey University Press Raiment: A Memoir
Book SynopsisPioneering New Zealand poet Jan Kemp's memoir of her first 25 years is a vivid and frank account of growing up in the 1950s, and of university life in the late 1960s and early 1970s. It tracks from an innocent Waikato childhoodto the seedy flats of Auckland, where anarchic student life, drugs, sexual experimentation and a failing marriage could not keep her away from poetry. She became one of the few young women poets of her era to be allowed into the then male poet club.Weaving its own patterns and colours, Raiment shines a clear-eyed light on the heady, hedonistic hothouse of our literary community in the 1970s and reveals what it took, back then, to be an independent woman.
£22.94
Editions Larousse Chagrin d'ecole
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£12.36
Les Belles Lettres Moi, Un Manuscrit
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£21.00
Le Livre de poche Ou on va, papa ?
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£9.45
Diaphanes AG Artaud 1937 Apocalypse – Letters from Ireland
Book SynopsisAntonin Artaud’s journey to Ireland in 1937 marked an extraordinary—and apocalyptic—turning point in his life and career. After publishing the manifesto The New Revelations of Being about the “catastrophic immediate-future,” Artaud abruptly left Paris for Ireland, remaining there for six weeks without money. Traveling first to the isolated island of Inishmore off Ireland’s western coast, then to Galway, and finally to Dublin, Artaud was eventually arrested as an undesirable alien, beaten by the police, and summarily deported back to France. On his return, he spent nine years in asylums, remaining there through the entire span of World War II. During his fateful journey, Artaud wrote letters to friends in Paris which included several “magic spells,” intended to curse his enemies and protect his friends from the city’s forthcoming incineration and the Antichrist’s appearance. (To André Breton, he wrote: “It’s the Unbelievable—yes, the Unbelievable—it’s the Unbelievable which is the truth.”) This book collects all of Artaud’s surviving correspondence from his time in Ireland, as well as photographs of the locations he traveled through. Featuring an afterword and notes by the book’s translator, Stephen Barber, this edition marks the seventieth anniversary of Artaud’s death.
£9.46
Bohlau Verlag Peter Lotar (1910-1986): Kulturelle Praxis und
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£53.41
Potemkinpress Sergei Eisenstein. a Biography
£18.00
Tuttle Publishing The Real Osamu Dazai
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£12.74
Paljor Publications Winds of Change: An Autobiography of a Tibetan
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£6.38
Ma Non Troppo Historias Curiosas de la Literatura: Anécdotas Y
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£16.70
Libros del Asteroide S.L.U. StopTime
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£21.40
Editorial Anagrama EL ESPIRITU DE MIS PADRES SIGUE SUBIENDO EN LA
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£17.94
Anagrama LOS INTIMOS
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£21.34
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Sur y Oeste / South and West
£18.16
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial El coste de vivir: Autobiografía en construcción
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£20.74
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Cosas que no quiero saber, Autobiografía en construcción / Things I Don't Want to Know: On Writing
£20.69
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Lo que quiero decir / Let Me Tell You What I Mean
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£17.75
Editorial Gedisa, S.A. El taller de las metamorfosis. Conversaciones con
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£14.01
Editorial Gedisa, S.A. La vida de Jorge Luis Borges una vida en el
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£21.73
Libros del Asteroide S.L.U. Una educación incompleta
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£19.60
Double 9 Booksllp John Barleycorn
Book SynopsisFirst distributed in 1913, John Barleycorn is the principal keen abstract composition on liquor in American writing. London offers intense speculations on Barleycorn along with his very own nearby story drinking vocation, which was chivalrous in scale. It is, notwithstanding, as a practice in life account that his book chiefly draws in the advanced peruser. London's life was unfortunately short however loaded with episode and experience. In John Barleycorn he keeps his initial difficulties in Oakland, his encounters as clam privateer, remote ocean sealer, homeless person, Yukon goldminer, understudy, nonconformist, and - eventually - top of the line creator. Long ignored by London hardliners (who wish he had never composed it) and utilized against him by pundits who might see him as a self-admitted inebriated, John Barleycorn should be commended for what it is: an exemplary of American life account.
£12.59
Alpha Edition The Memoirs of Victor Hugo
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£17.30
Frontpage Publications The Picture of My Early Life
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£13.49
The American University in Cairo Press Traces: A Memoir
Book SynopsisOne of Egypt’s greatest contemporary writers, Gamal al-Ghitani (1945–2015) was born into a family of modest means in the Egyptian countryside. He trained as a carpet maker before turning his attention to writing, publishing over a dozen novels and several collections of short stories. This haunting memoir, one of seven autobiographical "notebooks" written before Ghitani’s death, weaves together a series of vignettes in a style that mimics the uneven, discontinuous nature of memory itself. These fragments, or traces, are summoned from across the span of a singular lifetime, from Ghitani’s rural birthplace in Upper Egypt to Cairo, to the Arab world and beyond. We read of his childhood adventures, his erotic awakenings, his time as a political prisoner, and his reports from the battlefront in Iraq and the corridors of power in Syria. There are vivid passages that capture fleeting glances of strangers through car windows, flavors and scents of delicacies he still savored, dreams and sorrows of neighbors in the apartment blocks of Cairo before Nasser, as well as recollections of chance conversations at points of transit, in cafés and on elegant streets, and trysts with unnamed paramours. These memories, and Ghitani’s musings on memory’s own finitude and mutability, make Traces both memoir and a meditation on memory itself, in all its inscrutable workings and inevitable betrayals.Trade Review[A] novelist of vision and daring.Traces is a recollection of the poignant passage of time and the visceral traces it leaves in memory. Al-Ghitani’s work arrives safe and sound on a foreign shore in this exquisite, sensitive, and beautiful translation.
£18.99
Armida Publications Ltd Dark Tales
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£13.50
