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Prisoner FF8282 gazes out from confinement on what he deems must be a glorious summer’s day, rays of sunlight bursting through the barred windows of his cell. Within the thick prison walls separating society from its dangerous criminals, a multitude of harrowing fates unfold, seldomly explored by the public. First-time offenders thrown in cells with hardened criminals, several inmates becoming heroin addicts and a system riddled with flaws. However, even in prison the sunlight cannot be kept out.

Carr, best known for his dark one-liners and signature laugh, didn't begin life as a comedian. After studying social science and political science at Cambridge, he began working for fuel company Shell. While there, he began reading self-help books and, feeling miserable, decided to make a change - he gave up his job and learned how to write jokes, got his first gig as a stand-up and changed his life!

The definitive critical study of Tolkien’s greatest works by the respected and world renowned Tolkien scholar Professor T.A. Shippey. Following the unprecedented and universal acclaim for The Lord of the Rings, the respected academic and world-renowned Tolkien scholar, Professor Tom Shippey...

It’s the 1990s: Britpop is dominating the charts, Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell stare out from the cover of every glossy magazine and British fashion is ripe for reinvention. Leading the charge is a twenty-something Mary Portas who has been brought in to revitalise the department store Harvey Nichols, at the time more likely to be associated with dowagers than daring designers.

Some say that the first hint that Bill Bryson was not of Planet Earth came when his mother sent him to school in lime-green Capri pants. Others think it all started with his discovery, at the age of six, of a woollen jersey of rare fineness. Across the moth-holed chest was a golden thunderbolt...

»Eine Formalie in Kiew« ist die Geschichte einer Familie, die einst voller Hoffnung in die Fremde zog, um ein neues Leben zu beginnen, und am Ende ohne jede Heimat dasteht. Erzählt mit dem bittersüßen Humor eines Sohnes, der stoisch versucht, Deutscher zu werden. Dmitrij Kapitelman kann besser sächseln als die Beamtin, bei der er den deutschen Pass beantragt.

A behind the scenes look at Bollywood and its stars from a true blue insider-outsider, veteran journalist Khalid Mohamed Bollywood Confidential! Khalid Mohamed grew up movie struck, watching films at halls near his house with his grandmother. Once he became a reporter at The Times of India, his...

Joanne "Jo" Rowling is known to readers the world over as J.K. Rowling, author of the best-selling book series of all time. The creator of Harry Potter was once a single mother writing in cafés and living on welfare, who experienced a fairytale-like rise from poverty and obscurity to becoming one of the richest and most influential women on the planet. And following her controversial stances in the cultural and political war over transgender rights, Rowling found herself a pariah in circles that had previously adored her.

O livro "Tratados da Terra e Gente do Brasil", de Fernão Cardim, é sem dúvida um dos grandes clássicos da literatura colonial brasileira. O autor, viajante, tem um olhar arguto sobre aquilo que vê, e bem transfere sua visão para estas páginas de redação pitoresca, das quais foram aqui selecionados os textos "Do modo que este gentio tem acerca de matar e comer carne humana" e "Das cerimônias que se fazem ao novo cavaleiro".

We Built This City, a new Mudlark book, full description to follow when available...

Extraídas do livro "Minha formação", as crônicas "A influência inglesa" e "O espírito inglês", de Joaquim Nabuco, trazem para o leitor de hoje vislumbres tanto do pensamento do célebre abolicionista quanto de sua autobiografia.

«الزّير سالم»، يتناول الكتاب سيرة عدي بن ربيعة التغلبي، الملقّب ب الزّير، أبو ليلى المهلهل. هو أحد فرسان قبيلة تغلب، التي كانت شمال شرق الجزيرة العربيّة، أطراف العراق والشّام. شاعرٌ، وأحد أبطال العرب في الجاهليّة.

El París de Hemingway era una fiesta... y el de Zoé Valdés una rumba. Numerosos personajes célebres de la farándula literaria y artística de los años ochenta —Julio Cortázar, Samuel Beckett, Alberto Moravia, Cioran, Dora Maar— se dan cita en este libro bullicioso, turbador y revelador, donde se suceden episodios de toda índole. En las páginas de «París era una rumba», Zoé Valdés habla de la capital francesa que descubrió en 1983, cuando tenía tan solo 23 años.

Fünfzig Jahre nach ihrem Tod fordern Ingeborg Bachmanns Briefe eine neue Perspektive auf Leben und Werk dieser Autorin, die uns heute aktueller denn je erscheint. Andrea Stolls Biografie beleuchtet das unübersehbare Spektrum Bachmannscher Ambivalenzen von seinen Ursprüngen her und führt uns vor Augen, wie diese ikonische Dichterin in eine Spirale von Selbstinszenierung und Selbstzerstörung geraten konnte.

“La mia vita sessuale è iniziata presto, più o meno a cinque anni, all’asilo delle suore Orsoline a Santiago del Cile.” Così inizia l’introduzione di Isabel Allende – scanzonata e nel tono lieve de La somma dei giorni – a questa raccolta delle sue più belle pagine dedicate...

Each night, when the hours of painting and drawing were over, Vincent van Gogh put pen to paper and poured out his heart through letters to his beloved brother Theo, his confidant and companion. No thought was too small, no element of his craft too insignificant, no happening too trivial. It was...

Called "a masterpiece" by The Guardian, this courageous and honest trilogy from Tove Ditlevsen, a pioneer in the field of genre-bending confessional writing, explores themes of family, sex, motherhood, abortion, addiction, and being an artist. This program contains all three volumes of her...

"Narrator Sophie Roberts's strong, polished, highly sophisticated voice effectively conveys the aura of fashionable society but maintains a firm narrative objectivity. Droll, fascinating, full of memorable characters and anecdotes, here is a perspective on a world and time that moved from...

In this deeply etched and haunting memoir, Vivian Gornick tells the story of her lifelong battle with her mother for independence. Gornick's groundbreaking book confronts what Edna O'Brien has called "the principal crux of female despair": the unacknowledged Oedipal nature of the mother-daughter bond. Born and raised in the Bronx, the daughter of "urban peasants," Gornick grows up in a household dominated by her intelligent but uneducated mother's romantic depression over the early death of her husband. 

Based on diaries that she kept from 1920-1932, the most famous du Maurier probes her own past, beginning with her earliest memories and encompassing the publication of her first book and her subsequent marriage. Here, the writer is open and sometimes painfully honest about the difficult...