I Will Write To Avenge My People

Smith, Zadie

A profound and unparalleled literary voice, Zadie Smith returns with a resounding collection of essaysIn this eagerly awaited new collection, Zadie Smith brings her unique skills as an essayist to bear on a range of subjects that have captured her attention in recent years.She takes an exhilaratingly close look at artists Toyin Ojih Odutola, Kara Walker and Celia Paul. She invi...

Sarah Harkness

From an impoverished childhood in the Scottish highlands to Victorian London, this is the inspiring story of two brothers - Daniel and Alexander Macmillan - who built a publishing empire - and brought Alice in Wonderland to the world. Their remarkable achievements are revealed in this entertaining, superbly researched biography.Daniel and Alexander arrived in London in the 1830...

Anna Beer

Anna Beer investigates the lives and achievements of eight women writers, uncovering a startling and unconventional history of literatureMargery Kempe. Aemilia Lanyer. Aphra Behn. Lady Mary. Jane Austen. Warned not to write - and certainly not to bite - these women put pen to paper anyway and wrote themselves into history. ‘Smart, funny and highly readable... a tour de force.' ...

Dai George

An entertaining guide to history's mostinfluential and inspiring poets - fromHomer and Sappho to Shakespeare andFrank O'Hara - and how they can teachus to better understand the worldaround us.This book paints vivid pictures of aglobal assortment of renowned poetsthroughout history. ...

Fintan O'toole

A provocative but serious reflection on Shakespeare's greatest tragedies, showinghow the finest plays of Shakespeare have been made unintelligible and irrelevantto a modern audience in an attempt to fit a world of conservative values.The works of Shakespeare have become staples of literature. They are everywhere,from our early schooling to the lecture rooms of academia, from cl...

Ruta Sepetys

The nonfiction debut by #1 New York Times bestselling author Ruta Sepetys is now in paperback! Perfect for fans of Burn After Writing and Bird by Bird.Life is a story in motion. Each day, you add to your story, revise it, and view it from a different angle. You erase things. Tear pages out. And sometimes, in hindsight, wish you could put them back. A day is a story. A year is a...

Ernaux, Annie

Anne es una adolescente que, como las demás, intenta comunicarse y comprender el mundo que la rodea. Pero es en vano, porque ni las palabras de sus padres, ni las de Mathieu ?el estudiante al que conoce durante las vacaciones de verano?, ni tan siquiera las bellas y arrebatadas palabras de los libros que lee parecen reflejar la realidad que ella vive, y cada vez se siente más s...

Ernaux, Annie

«Pero tú no eres mi hermana, nunca lo fuiste. No hemos jugado, comido, dormido juntas. Nunca te toqué, nunca te besé. No sé de qué color tienes los ojos. Nunca te he visto. No tienes cuerpo ni voz, solo eres una imagen plana en unas cuantas fotos en blanco y negro. No conservo ningún recuerdo de ti. Llevabas dos años y medio muerta cuando nací yo. Tú eres la criatura del cielo,...

Ernaux, Annie

Thirteen books written by 2022 Nobel Laureate Annie Ernaux published by Seven Stories Press.Winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature, Annie Ernaux is considered one of Europe's most important contemporary writers. She has expanded the very meaning of literature and has asserted her feminism and class consciousness in the stories she tells.Spanning Annie Ernaux's English lan...

Ernaux, Annie

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREAnnie Ernaux's most recent book, dazzling and breathtaking, published in France in 2022, is about her affair with a man 30 years her junior."A sublime book." —Olivia de Lamberterie, Elle"Once again the work of the writer Annie Ernaux appears as both a rigorous study of life and an experiment. These fragments of living, however evanesc...

Ernaux, Annie

The diary of one of France's most important, award-winning writers during the year she had a passionate and secret love affair with a Russian diplomat.Getting Lost is the diary Annie Ernaux kept during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger, married man, a Russian diplomat. Her novel, Simple Passion, was based on this affair, but here her writing is imm...

Ernaux, Annie

Fui yo quien dejó a W., tras una relación de seis años. Por cansancio pero también al no verme capaz de cambiar mi libertad, recuperada tras dieciocho años de matrimonio, por una vida en común que él deseaba fervientemente desde el principio. Unos meses después, W. me anunció que se iba a vivir con una mujer cuyo nombre no quiso decirme. A partir de ese momento caí presa de los...