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A comical and poignant memoir of a gay man living life as he pleased in the 1930s In 1931, gay liberation was not a movement--it was simply unthinkable. But in that year, Quentin …

'An impressive work of granular Dunesploitation.' - Empire Magazine Some writers build worlds. Others birth entire universes.  In the decades since its publication, Frank Herbert’s …

F . E. Sillanpään elämäkerta on elämänläheinen kuvaus Suomen ainoasta Nobel-kirjailijasta. Teos kertoo Sillanpään monivaiheisesta, myrskyisästä, syvien kriisien ja nousuvaiheiden …

** A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR **'Wild, brilliant and has all the intelligence to rival its subject. Five Stars.' - Frances Wilson, The Telegraph'Exuberant and wide-ranging' - …

Michael Reynolds was the supreme biographer of Ernest Hemingway. HBO’s film concentrates on Hemingway’s years with his third wife, the adventurous journalist Martha Gellhorn. This …

Gunnar Ekelöf 100 årDen femtonde september 1907 föddes Gunnar Ekelöf en av nittonhundratalets stora poeter i Sverige, om inte rentav den störste.   Vi uppmärksammar jubiléet med …

" "When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than …

The second volume of the remarkable autobiography of Arthur Koestler, author of Darkness at Noon. Taken together, Arthur Koestler's volumes of autobiography constitute an …

The first volume of the remarkable autobiography of Arthur Koestler, author of Darkness at Noon.In 1931, Arthur Koestler joined the Communist Party, an event he felt to be second …