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Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2022
Taking the form of random journal entries over the course of seven years, Exteriors concentrates on the ephemeral encounters that take place just on the periphery of a person’s lived environment. Ernaux captures the feeling of contemporary living on the outskirts of Paris: poignantly lyrical, chaotic, and strangely alive. Exteriors is in many ways the most ecstatic of Ernaux’s books – the first in which she appears largely free of the haunting personal relationships she has written about so powerfully elsewhere, and the first in which she is able to leave the past behind her.
"Słońce i stal" - pierwszy polski przekład klasycznego, autobiograficznego i kontrowersyjnego eseju Yukio Mishimy, w którym koncentruje się na upodobaniu do sztuk walki i odkrywaniu fizycznych możliwości ciała. Książka ta (pisana w latach 1965-1968) uchodzi za punkt zwrotny w karierze wybitnego japońskiego pisarza oraz przez niektórych również uważana jest za zapowiedź jego samobójczej śmierci. Wybitny znawca twórczości Mishimy i jego przyjaciel John Nathan ("Mishima. Życie" PIW, 2022) tak przedstawia znaczenie tego eseju: "W >Słońcu i stali
A vastly entertaining and unique history of the interaction between spying and showbiz, from the Elizabethan age to the Cold War and beyond.
'A treasure trove of human ingenuity' The Times
Written by two experts in their fields, Stars and Spies is the first history of the extraordinary connections between the intelligence services and show business.
We travel back to the golden age of theatre and intelligence in the reign of Elizabeth I. We meet the writers, actors and entertainers drawn into espionage in the Restoration, the Ancien Régime and Civil War America. And we witness the entry of spying into mainstream popular culture throughout the twentieth century and beyond - from the adventures of James Bond to the thrillers of John le Carré and long-running TV series such as The Americans.
From a bitter and poverty-stricken childhood to a career as the most acclaimed and best loved writer in the English-speaking world, Charles Dickens had a life as full of incident as any of those he created in his novels of life in Victorian England. The enormous quantity of work, his public readings and his difficult relationships has made him a figure of enduring fascination.
In this biography Jane Smiley reveals Charles Dickens as his contemporaries would have done, getting to know him more intimately than ever before. At the same time Smiley offers interpretations of almost all of Dickens' major works, showing how 'his novels shaped his life as much as his life shaped his novels.
Based on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs conducted over two years - as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues - this is
the acclaimed, internationally bestselling biography of the ultimate icon of inventiveness. Walter Isaacson tells the story of the rollercoaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose
passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing.
Although Jobs cooperated with this book, he asked for no control over what was written, nor even the right to read it before it was published. He put nothing off limits.
He encouraged the people he knew to speak
honestly. And Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally so, about the people he worked with and competed against.
His friends, foes, and colleagues provide an unvarnished view of the passions, perfectionism, obsessions, artistry, devilry, and compulsion for control that shaped his approach to business and the innovative products that resulted. And as Isaacson shows in a new afterword commemorating the tenth anniversary of Jobs's death, that vision
remains even more vital today.
One great artist inspires another, as former Children's Laureate and twice winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal Anthony Browne creates a beautiful story about Frida Kahlo.
The artwork of Frida Kahlo inspires former Children's Laureate and twice winner of the Kate Greenaway Medal Anthony Browne in this beautiful and surreal picture book. Stunning illustrations tell the story of a lonely young girl who discovers the power of the imagination to set you free. A tribute to an iconic artist exploring themes of belonging, creativity and hope, this is an exquisite and touching picture book.
Wolff's previous books on this president - Fire and Fury and Siege - titillated us with inside tales from a dysfunctional White House; terrified us a bit with gut-wrenching episodes of Diet Pepsi-fuelled craziness. They were warm-up acts. Low energy in comparison. Now we get the real deal. Landslide cuts deeper than any previous book about this president, indeed about any president.
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Waris Dirie (the name means desert flower) lives a double life – by day she is a famous model and UN spokeswoman on women’s rights in Africa, at night she dreams of her native Somalia. Waris, one of 12 children, was born into a traditional family of desert nomads in East Africa. She remembers her early childhood as carefree- racing camels and moving on with her family to the next grazing spot – until it came her turn to meet the old woman who administered the ancient custom imposed on most Somalian girls: circumcision. Waris suffered this torture when she was just five years old. Then, aged 12, when her father attempted to arrange a marriage with a 60 year old stranger in exchange for five camels – she took flight. After an extraordinary escape through the dangerous desert she made her way to London and worked as a maid for the Somalian ambassador until that family returned home. Penniless and speaking little English, she became a janitor in McDonalds where she was famously discovered by a fashion photographer. Her story is a truly inspirational and extraordinary self-portrait of a remarkable woman whose spirit is as breathtaking as her beauty.
An inspirational look at some of the most amazing women in history, complete with creative fill-in elements to spark imagination.
Every page of this book is filled with aspirational and astounding stories about the most influential women to have ever lived. What's more, readers can step into the lives of these inspirational figures with unique activities, creative questions to answer and captivating topics to give thought to.
With quirky artwork to bring each story to life, readers can travel the globe and discover remarkable women from across the world, from every kind of profession, with every kind of talent. From American aviator Amelia Earhart and Danish spy Brita Tott, to the Polish physicist Marie Curie and Mexican activist Eufrosina Cruz.
‘You cannot find peace by avoiding life’ Virginia Woolf
An intimate portrait of Virginia, the best-known and most influential Bloomsbury author of them all – ‘All you need to know about the modernist, feminist icon’ TIME OUT
‘A gem’ SUNDAY TIMES
‘As a short introduction to Virginia Woolf this deceptively brief book could hardly be bettered and achieves high status instantly as a significant work of reference in its own right’ THE TIMES
Virginia Woolf was undoubtedly one of the literary giants of the twentieth century. She was a central figure in the Bloomsbury Group, and her writings were works of astonishing originality.
Nigel Nicolson is the son of Vita Sackville-West, who was Virginia Woolf’s most intimate friend, and for a short time her lover. He spent many days in her company and he has threaded his recollections of her throughout this unique narrative of her life.
A properly analytic, and always entertaining, account of Warhol's effort to record the encounter between his awkward, shamed and failing body and the corporeal lustre for which he longed.This is as smart and serious account as you could desire
TIME OUT
Throughout, Koestenbaum's engagements with Warhol's life and art, tinged with poetic brilliance and surgical dispassion, feel very high-stakes indeed, making this book an engrossing battle of wills
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Kultowa trylogia po raz pierwszy bez skreśleń i cenzury! Kariera literacka Stanisława Grzesiuka to największa kariera PRL-u. Jego książki znikały w kilka tygodni z księgarskich półek, a czytelnicy pisali listy do wydawnictwa z prośbą o interwencję. I choć on sam nie chciał nazywać się pisarzem, jego kultową trylogię przeczytało kilka milionów Polaków. Z okazji 100-lecia urodzin porównano pierwsze wydania z rękopisem i przywrócono wszystkie fragmenty usunięte przez cenzurę. Stanisław Grzesiuk (1918–1963) – pisarz, pieśniarz, zwany bardem Czerniakowa. Urodzony w Małkowie koło Chełma. Od drugiego roku życia mieszkał w Warszawie, gdzie spędził dzieciństwo i młodość. W trakcie okupacji aresztowany i wysłany na roboty przymusowe do Niemiec, następnie do obozów koncentracyjnych. W lipcu 1945 roku wrócił do kraju; leczył się na gruźlicę płuc, która była konsekwencją pobytu w obozie. Autor autobiograficznej trylogii "Boso, ale w ostrogach", "Pięć lat kacetu", "Na marginesie życia". Pochowany na cmentarzu wojskowym na Powązkach. Obok Stefana Wiecheckiego zaliczany do grona najbardziej zasłużonych twórców kultury warszawskiej ulicy.
Na ulicy Krochmalnej 92 był wielki, biały budynek z tablicą "Dom Sierot". I tam Frania po raz pierwszy zobaczyła Panadoktora. Stał przed głównym wejściem i czekał na dzieci, żeby się z nimi przywitać. Babcia, gdy to opowiada, a lubi tę część, mówi: "Pandoktor się do nas uśmiechał. Jak tylko go zobaczyłam, to wiedziałam, że Pandoktor to dobry człowiek". I mówi "Pandoktor" tak, jakby to był jeden wyraz.Wzruszająca opowieść o wychowankach warszawskiego Domu Sierot i o ich ukochanym opiekunie, Januszu Korczaku - pedagogu, który poświęcił całe życie, broniąc praw dziecka i żądając ich równouprawnienia.
LEGO. I chyba nie trzeba mówić już nic więcej. Każdy je zna. Każdy się nim bawił. Każdy kupił kiedyś na prezent. I prawie każdy na swój sposób je kocha. „Historia LEGO” to niezwykła opowieść o trzech pokoleniach, które od dziewięćdziesięciu lat tworzą jedną z najbardziej rozpoznawalnych marek na świecie. Książka Jensa Andersena, wybitnego duńskiego biografa i dziennikarza, to nie tylko inspirująca historia rozwoju globalnej firmy, ale przede wszystkim fascynująca opowieść o wyjątkowej rodzinie, która prawie od stulecia walczy o prawo do nieskrępowanej zabawy. Biografia LEGO, bogato ilustrowana wcześniej niepublikowanymi zdjęciami, jest wspaniałą propozycją zarówno dla fanów LEGO, którzy chcieliby poznać kulisy powstania swoich ulubionych klocków, jak i dla wszystkich, którzy chcieliby zgłębić i zrozumieć ten światowy fenomen.
Known for her glamorous beauty, soap-opera personal life and magnetic screen presence, Elizabeth Taylor was the twentieth century’s most famous film star. Including unseen photographs and unread private reflections, this authorised biography is a fascinating and complete portrait worthy of the legend and her legacy.
Elizabeth Taylor captures this intelligent, empathetic, tenacious, volatile and complex woman as never before, from her rise to massive fame at the age of twelve in National Velvet to becoming the first actor to negotiate a million-dollar salary for a film, from her eight marriages and enduring love affair with Richard Burton to her lifelong battle with addiction and her courageous efforts as an AIDS activist.
Using Elizabeth’s unpublished letters, diary entries and off-the-record interview transcripts as well as interviews with 250 of her closest friends and family, Kate Andersen Brower tells the full, unvarnished story of the classic Hollywood star who continues to captivate audiences the world over.
Sansewiera di Torno, a właściwie Andrzej Marian Tomaszewski, z wykształcenia prawnik (adwokat, sędzia sądów powszechnych, radca prawny), w młodości kabareciarz, sprinter rekordzista, także sędzia piłki ręcznej, z zamiłowania człowiek sztuki szeroko pojętej, instrumentalista, m.in. w dojrzałym wieku zaczął malować i pisać bajki dla dzieci, wiersze i poematy, a także kolekcjoner i hazardzista. Wychowany w atmosferze historii (potomek powstańca wielkopolskiego) i tradycji, prawnuk tajemniczego ogrodnika. Oddany mąż i tato, obecnie również kochający dziadek. Po prostu barwny człowiek z niespotykanym poczuciem humoru, kochający życie, posiadający wiele talentów. Współczesny człowiek renesansu, który znalazł wreszcie czas na opisanie całego swojego życia, udowadniając przy tym, że trzeba w nim być aktorem, a nie statystą.
'Deborah James has captured the heart of the nation' - The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge @KensingtonRoyal
'Brave, bright, beautiful' - Lorraine Kelly
'Deborah's ability to find positivity in the darkest of places is an inspiration to us all' - Davina McCall
'This book has shaken me awake. I gulped it down in one sitting, then sat and cried... [But] hope is a character on every single page' - Christie Watson
I was alive when I should have been dead. In another movie, I missed the sliding door and departed this wondrous life long ago. Like so many others, I had to learn to live not knowing if I have a tomorrow, because, statistically, I didn't. At the age of 35, I was blindsided by incurable bowel cancer - I was given less than an 8 per cent chance of surviving five years. Five years later, my only option was to live in the now and to value one day at a time.
How do you turn your mind from a negative spiral into realistic and rebellious hope? How do you stop focusing on the why and realise that 'why not me' is just as valid a question?
When Deborah James was diagnosed with incurable bowel cancer at just 35, she learned a powerful lesson: the way we respond to any given situation empowers or destroys us. And with the right skills and approach, we can all face huge challenges and find strength and hope in the darkest of places.
How to Live When You Could Be Dead will show you how. It will awaken you to question your life as if you didn't have a tomorrow and live it in the way you want to today. By harnessing the power of positivity and valuing each day as though it could be your last, you'll find out, as Deborah did, that it is possible to live with joy and purpose, no matter what.
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