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Billie Holiday
Palkitun kirjailijan lumoava muotokuva jazzin kuningattaresta.Billie Holiday on musiikkimaailman kiistaton ikoni. Elämänmakuinen taiteilijaelämäkerta hyppää kiiltokuvaimagon taakse …
Book Of Colour
Her first work of fiction, this journey around the writer's father and grandfather is set largely in Mauritius and concerns childhood, madness, fears of miscegenation - and a pig. …
Daisy Bates in the Desert: A Woman's Life Among the Aborigines
In 1913, at the age of 54, Daisy Bates went to live in the deserts of South Australia. Brilliantly reviewed, astonishingly original, this "eloquent and illuminating portrait of an …
The Feast of the Wolf
Dreaming the Karoo: A People Called the /Xam
A spellbinding new book by the much-acclaimed writer, a journey to South Africa in search of the lost people called the /Xam - a haunting book about the brutality of colonial …
Old Man Goya
An account of the life of Francisco de Goya from 1792 when he was 47 and contracted a serious illness which left him totally deaf. Through times of war and political turmoil he …
Emperor's Last Island
The Emperor's Last Stand is a book about St Helena, an island with a sad, strange history, and about the tangle of stories and myths, absurdities and simple facts that have …
Thin Paths
Shortlisted for the 2011 Costa Biography Award and the 2012 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize Julia Blackburn and her husband moved to a little house in the mountains of …
I Dream of Popo
With tender language and striking art, I Dream of Popo follows a young girl as she and her family emigrate from Taiwan to San Diego, leaving behind the narrator's maternal …
With Billie
During the 1970s a young woman called Linda Kuehl, planning to write a biography of Billie, recorded interviews with more than 150 people. Kuehl died in 1978 and her book never …