Literární biografie v angličtině

Florence Given

Nicholas Pileggi

Katherine May

Jeanette Winterson

In 1985 Jeanette Winterson's first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was published. It was Jeanette's version of the story of a terraced house in Accrington, an adopted child, and the thwarted…

Paul Kalanithi

Haruki Murakami

In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he'd completed a solo course from Athens to Marathon, and now, after dozens of such…

Stanley Tucci

Donna Leon

Glennon Doyle Melton

Hervé Guibert

Cheryl Strayed

Cheryl Strayed

Steven Scott, Justin Eisinger, George Takei

Annie Ernaux

Joan Didion

Just before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne's and Joan Didion's only daughter, Quintana, fell ill. At first they thought it was flu, then pneumonia, then complete sceptic shock. She was put into…

James Bowen

Since Bob had appeared, I'd made huge strides in my life. For more than a decade I'd been a homeless drug addict. I'd been lost to the world and forgotten what was important in life. Now I'd got myself…

James Patterson

Hisham Matar

Now in paperback, this is the true story of Hisham Matar's return to Libya, 22 years after his father was kidnapped and taken to prison there. He never saw his father again, but the fall of Gaddafi…

James Rebanks

Tom Michell

A true story about a penguin living at a boarding school with the teacher who saved its life. Tom Michell pulled a penguin from an oil slick off the coast of Uruguay, and he then smuggled it over the…

Amy Liptrot

Annie Ernaux

Erling Kagge

'A philosophical adventurer or perhaps an adventurous philosopher' New York Times'As an explorer Erling Kagge is world class, as a writer he is equally gifted' Sir Ranulph FiennesThroughout recorded…

Michelle Obama

Beautifully illustrated with more than 200 photographs, including never-before-seen images, The Look is a stunning journey through Michelle Obama&rsquo,s style evolution, in her own words for the…