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Lit(2010) KARR, MARYThe long awaited sequel to the beloved and bestselling ‘The Liars’ Club’ and ‘Cherry’ – a memoir about a self-professed ‘blackbelt sinner’s’ descent into the inferno of alcoholism and madness, and her astonishing resurrection.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
One Pair of Hands(2011) DICKENS, MONICAMonica discovered the pleasure of daily banter with the milkman and grocer's boy and the joy of doing an honest day's work, all the while keeping a wry eye on the childish pique of her employers.Vezava: Mehka28,03 € -
Christopher Isherwood Diaries Volume 1(2011) ISHERWOOD, CHRISTOPHERIn 1939, Christopher Isherwood and W H Auden emigrated together to the United States. This title describes Isherwood's search for a new life in California; his work as a screenwriter in Hollywood, his pacifism during World War II and his friendships withVezava: Mehka51,62 € -
Invisible Writing(2005) KOESTLER, ARTHURThe second volume of the remarkable autobiography of Arthur Koestler, author of Darkness at Noon. Taken together, Arthur Koestler's volumes of autobiography constitute an unrivalled study of a twentieth-century life.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Fates Worse Than Death(2013) VONNEGUT, KURTThis is the second volume of Vonnegut’s autobiographical writings – a collage of his own life story, snipped up and stuck down alongside his views on everything from suicidal depression to the future of the planet and Andrew Lloyd Webber. this rare glimpsVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
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Must You Go?(2011) FRASER, LADY ANTONIAA unique testimony to modern literature's most celebrated and enduring marriage.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Bend for Home(2016) HEALY, DERMOTOne day, years after he's moved away from his childhood home in rural Ireland, Dermot Healy returns to care for his ailing mother. his mother, whose stories young Dermot has heard so often that he believes they are his own;Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
In the Blood(2007) MOTION, SIR ANDREW'A wonderful read.' Irish Times'Sad, gripping and powerful.' Margaret Drabble'Superbly clear, intimate and evocative.' New York TimesFrom the former poet laureate, Andrew Motion, In the Blood is an unforgettable evocation of family, school and country lifVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Performing Flea(2014) WODEHOUSE, P.G.In this series of letters to William Townend, a fellow-writer and friend since their schooldays at Dulwich College, Wodehouse discusses in some detail his literary outlook, writing methods and constant hunt for new plots.Vezava: Trda21,03 € -
Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake(2013) QUINDLEN, ANNAIn Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake, New York Times bestseller and winner of the Pulitzer Prize Anna Quindlen shares the events of her own life to illuminate our own. From childhood memories to manic motherhood to middle age, Quindlen tells life as she hasVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Kurt Vonnegut: Letters(2014) VONNEGUT, KURTThis collection of Vonnegut’s letters is the autobiography he never wrote – from the letter he posted home upon being freed from a German POW camp, to notes of advice to his children: ‘Don’t let anybody tell you that smoking and boozing are bad for you.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Cold Cream(2009) MOUNT, FERDINANDA pitch-perfect memoir, brilliantly funny, wise and moving, of family, friends and political life over the last sixty yearsVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
What Am I Doing Here?(1998) CHATWIN, BRUCEIn this collection of profiles, essays and travel stories, Chatwin takes us to Benin, where he is arrested as a mercenary during a coup; and to Nepal where he reminds us that 'Man's real home is not a house, but the Road, and that life itself is a journeyVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Country Girl(2013) O'BRIEN, EDNAI thought of life's many bounties, to have known the extremities of joy and sorrow, love, success and failure, fame and slaughter, to have read in the newspapers that as a writer I was past my sell-by date, yet regardless, to go on writing and reading, toVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Boy(2011) DAHL, ROALDTells the story of unadulterated childhood - sad and funny, macabre and delightful - that inspired Britain's favourite storyteller and also speaks of an age which vanished with the coming of the Second World War.Vezava: Mehka15,41 €