A MemoirThe Serene City beckons, promising Paradise regained for Ruth Cracknell and her husband, Eric, as they set forth on a carefully planned holiday. Up and over the bridges, through th...9999903279853Ruth Cracknell
Penguin Books Ltd
viernes, 21 de febrero de 2025
Nigel Nicolson grew up in the world of Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsberries, one of three sons of the uncoventional parents, MP Harold Nicolson and his author and bi-sexual wife, V...9999903279846Nigel Nicolson
London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1997.
viernes, 21 de febrero de 2025
A LifeMartha Gellhorn's reporting tracks many of the flashpoints of the 20th century: witnessing the Depression in a state of righteous fury, risking her life in the Spanish Civil War, a...9999903279808Caroline Moorehead
Chatto & Windus
viernes, 21 de febrero de 2025
A biography of the imprisoned leader of the African National Congress who, with his wife Winnie, continues to struggle for black majority rights in South Africa.9999903278931Benson, Mary
Penguin Putnam~trade
miércoles, 19 de febrero de 2025
A tour de force of prose which captures all the poetry and drama of a child's experience of Dublin in the 30s and 40s. The author's crystal-clear recollections, recounted with spar...9999903278924Hugh Leonard,
Penguin
miércoles, 19 de febrero de 2025
Edward Fitzgerald, 1763-1798A biography of the 18th century revolutionary Edward Fitzgerald, the son of Emily Lennox, one of the sisters featured in ARISTOCRATS. The book naturally follows on from ARISTOCRATS...9999903278917Tillyard, Stella
Chatto and Windus
miércoles, 19 de febrero de 2025
In late 1995, the little-known Ogoni region in Nigeria became a fable for our times. Ken Saro-Wiwa, a renowned poet and environmentalist, was campaigning to protect his Ogoni peopl...9999903278887Ken Wiwa
Toronto : Alfred A. Knopf Canada, c2000.
miércoles, 19 de febrero de 2025
Taken together, Arthur Koestler's volumes of autobiography constitute an unrivalled study of twentieth-century man and his dilemma. Arrow in the Blue ended with his joining the Com...9999903278801Arthur Koestler
Vintage
miércoles, 19 de febrero de 2025
An American EpicThe Fords: An American Epic chronicles three generations of Fords and of the dramatic conflict between fathers and sons that played out against the backdrop of America's greatest i...9999903278771Peter Collier David Horow...
Pocket
miércoles, 19 de febrero de 2025
With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on ea...9999903278719Primo Levy
London : Abacus, 1987.
miércoles, 19 de febrero de 2025
A Story of Resistance, Friendship and Survival in AuschwitzOn an icy dawn morning in Paris in January 1943, 230 French women resisters were rounded up from the Gestapo detention camps and sent on a train to Auschwitz - the only train, in t...9999903277736Caroline Moorehead
Vintage
martes, 18 de febrero de 2025
Paris, Sappho and Art : the Lives and Loves of Natalie Barney and Romaine BrooksNatalie and Romaine met in London during World War I and their partnership lasted until Natalie died 52 years later. They were both American expatriates; unconventional, energetic,...9999903276241Diana Souhami
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
viernes, 14 de febrero de 2025
A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to PeaceIt is said that in war heaven and earth change places not once, but many times. When Heaven and Earth Changed Places is the haunting memoir of a girl on the verge of womanhood in a...9999903276227Le Ly Hayslip Jay Wurts
DoubleDay
viernes, 14 de febrero de 2025
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