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Momentos clave
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Liz Mohn, miembro del Consejo de administración de Bertelsmann AG y esposa del fallecido Reinhard Mohn, rememora los momentos más importantes que han marcado su vida. Liz Mohn, esposa del fallecido fundador del grupo de empresas de comunicación Bertelsmann, Reinhard Mohn, rememora los momentos (...)
The Wagner Clan
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For more than three decades Jonathan Carr (1942-2008) served as a foreign correspondent, initially in Geneva, Paris and Brussels, later as bureau chief of the Financial Times and the Economist in Germany. A regular visitor to the Bayreuth festival, his interest grew steadily in the saga of the (...)
One Man and His Plot
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Writer of The Times Diary, Michael Leapman, became a tenant of an allotment next to Brixton Prison for 35p a year in 1974 when food and energy shortages inspired many people to attempt self-sufficiency. This book tells the story of the plot and the author's first year of cultivating it, written (...)
English Captain
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Barcelona is colour, noise, heat, dust, violent traffic and quick-moving people. Many of the men carry rifles slung on their backs… Tom Wintringham (1898-1949) was a pioneer of the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War, and commander of the British Battalion in the bloody Battle of Jarama (...)
Small Hours
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Lachlan MacKinnon s fourth collection opens with a gathering of lyrics and descriptive poems: observing rites of passage (elegies, wedding poems), offering nuanced accounts of places and their patchwork afterlives (the Midlands, a Suffolk sketchbook), or meditations on historical figures (...)
Starlust
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I go in my bedroom and lie on my bed and soon as I set eyes on Nick it s like magic… (Alison, 14)Starlust is a stunning oral history of pop music fandom in all its glorious, unexpurgated ecstasies and deliriums. Through first-hand accounts collected from interviews, diaries, letters and (...)
Burned
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A BRUTALISED VICTIM IN THE WILDS A solitary tent is found to contain the body of a half-buried woman. She s been stoned to death. There are lash marks across her back. One of her hands has been cut off.A LONE VOICE Two years earlier internet reporter Henning Juul lost his son, Jonas, in a (...)
Somebody
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Marlon Brando will never cease to fascinate us: for his triumphs as an actor (On the Waterfront, The Godfather, Last Tango in Paris), as well as his disasters; for the power of the screen portrayals he gave, and for his turbulent, tumultuous personal life. Seamlessly intertwining the man and the (...)
Into the Abyss
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Why do explorers put themselves in dangerous situations? And, once the worst possible situation occurs, how do they find the resources to survive?In answering these questions, Benedict Allen weaves a series of tales from his own experience as well as that of other explorers including Columbus, (...)
Collected Prose
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The celebrated author of The New York Trilogy, Moon Palace and The Book of Illusions presents here a highly personal collection of essays, prefaces and occasional pieces written for magazines and newspapers. Ranging in subject from Walter Raleigh to Kafka; Hawthorne to the high-wire artist Philippe (...)