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A dazzling journey into the eccentric, troubled, and luminous minds that shaped literature. In this bold and deeply researched blend of memoir, essay, literary analysis, and intellectual sleuth story, Montero draws on psychology, neuroscience, and literature, as well as the lives of writers and artists, to explore the connection between creativity and mental vulnerability.

Kay Thompson’s larger-than-life story is an effervescent toast to show business with a shot of Auntie Mame and a twist of The Devil Wears Prada. A multi-threat entertainer and a world-class eccentric, Kay Thompson was the mentor/best friend of Judy Garland, the vocal guru for Frank Sinatra and...

The internationally bestselling author's meditation on memory and family. In this meditation on memory and what makes us who we are, Haruki Murakami recalls his relationship with his father – the son of a priest who might have become a priest himself had a clerical error not sent him to fight...

The untold story of the Edinburgh doctor who became Arthur Conan Doyle's model for Sherlock Holmes, and his adventures in the criminal underworld of Victorian Britain. Throughout nineteenth-century Edinburgh, the surgeon Joseph Bell was known for his extraordinary talent for detection and...

George Orwell has never been more quoted and misquoted. Can he be rescued from the soundbites? George Orwell remains a work in progress. He is, or has become, a meme, a global writer, a national treasure, a London statue, a scholarly society, a Prize and a Journal, a trope and a show, various...

En ellas habla sobre la juventud y el paso del tiempo, el amor, el matrimonio y la paz, la soledad y la satisfacción. Toma como inspiración las conchas en la orilla para ofrecer un enfoque universal sobre las distintas etapas de la vida. Como madre de cinco, una escritora aclamada y una aviadora pionera, Lindbergh presenta una mirada realista sobre la modernidad tan amenazante como abrumadora, haciendo énfasis en las herramientas que nos complican la vida más allá de simplificarla y los múltiples compromisos que nos alejan de nuestras familias.

Writing Home is the first of four wonderfully entertaining collections of Alan Bennett's prose. It has been followed by Untold Stories, Keeping On Keeping On and, most recently, the Sunday Times bestseller, Enough Said. This audiobook is read by Alex Jennings, who played Alan Bennett himself in...

4º livro de Graciliano Ramos na voz de Erom Cordeiro chega à Supersônica! Publicado em 1945, Infância é um livro autobiográfico em que Graciliano Ramos retraça seus anos de formação.

A rare collection of Beatrix Potter's own botanical art, and an exploration of the role these plants played in her personal and literary life. Beatrix Potter's Botanical collects and showcases 65 plants and fungi that Beatrix Potter made special study of in her often-overlooked career as a...