Títulos en Arte y literatura

A spirited and truly compelling literary biography of the immortal travel writer, journalist and twentieth-century trans pioneer, Jan Morris. When Jan Morris joined the 1953 Everest expedition and was first to get news of the ascent back to the young Queen Elizabeth in London, she became the...

Questa è la storia di un ragazzo che sentiva di non trovarsi nel posto giusto. E così è andato a cercarsene un altro. In famiglia c'erano pochi soldi: quando si andava in pizzeria si sceglieva il piatto che costava meno, non quello che piaceva davvero. Il suo destino sembrava già segnato. Non aveva un talento particolare a cui affidarsi né un grande sogno da inseguire, e ogni volta che cercava di esprimere un desiderio trovava qualcuno che gli diceva che non era per lui. Così si era convinto che certi pensieri non se li poteva permettere.

Joan Figueras i Oliveras tenía 5 años cuando pasó su primera noche en Portlligat, en casa de los Dalí. Era el verano de 1948, Salvador y Gala acababan de regresar de su estancia de casi diez años en Estados Unidos; allí, Dalí ya se cotizaba, mientras que en España era casi un desconocido. Dalí escogió a Joan como modelo para realizar el Niño Jesús de La Madona de Portlligat (representada por Gala).

¿Cómo contar la historia de uno mismo? Y, en ese ejercicio, ¿hasta qué punto se construye o se reconstruye la identidad? En este libro autobiográfico, Piedad Bonnett parte de sus vivencias para reflexionar sobre los factores que definen nuestra cotidianidad. Nos habla, con sensibilidad y lucidez, de aquello que determina la experiencia de las mujeres -la educación, el matrimonio, la maternidad, los tabúes asociados al cuerpo y la violencia de género- y también de la ansiedad, el miedo, la rebeldía, las ansias de libertad y las obsesiones que impulsan el proceso de la escritura.

My Russia is an autobiography that traces Jill Dougherty's fascination with Russia and shares the insights into the country, its people, and its leader she has gleaned through forty years of reporting. Listeners will see Russia's evolution through the eyes of the dedicated and compassionate woman they have watched on cable since 1983.

Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, led an unusual but meaningful life. Through his lifetime, he sold millions of albums and his songs can be heard almost everywhere. Moreover, almost everyone knows at least one of his songs. Although there is no doubt that he is indeed extremely successful, he did not achieve it instantly. In fact, he also experienced struggles and obstacles along the way. Fortunately, he was able to overcome all of it, and his determination to be an outstanding artist never faded.

Controverso, rivoluzionario, emozionante, sorprendente... È impossibile elencare tutti gli aggettivi che potrebbero descrivere la figura di Michelangelo Merisi detto il Caravaggio. Non basterebbe lo spazio. Eppure, in poco meno di vent'anni anni di carriera artistica, Caravaggio ha lasciato un segno indelebile nella storia dell'arte mondiale. Ha emozionato i suoi contemporanei del XVI secolo, così come ogni suo quadro lascia a bocca aperta ancora oggi tutti noi.

Tom Fletcher is not just a guitarist in McFly, a songwriter with twenty-one top ten singles, and a successful YouTube vlogger, but is a children's author too! He has written a series of picture books for children with band mate Dougie, and has now published his first solo novel, The Christmasaurus. He joins Robin Morgan in the Audible Studios.

By the acclaimed journalist and New York Times best-selling author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, this day-by-day eyewitness account of the momentous events leading up to World War II in Europe is the private, personal, utterly revealing journal of a great foreign correspondent.

Fue un novelista, dramaturgo y poeta francés nacido en 1910, cuya obra expresa una profunda rebelión contra la sociedad y sus costumbres, hablando sin pudor de la criminalidad, los prejuicios, el homosexualismo, etcétera, por lo que su lectura fue muy resistida en muchos países, pero alabado en otros.

"I have had a life which, for variety and romance, could, I think, hardly be exceeded. I have known what it was to be a poor man and I have known what it was to be fairly affluent. I have sampled every kind of human experience. I have known many of the most remarkable men of my time. I have had a long literary career after a medical training which gave me the MD of Edinburgh...I have traveled as Doctor to a whaler for seven months in the Arctic and afterwards in the West Coast of Africa." - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Amy Tan has touched millions of people with haunting and sympathetic novels of cultural complexity and profound empathy. With the same spirit and humor that characterize her acclaimed novels, she now shares her insight into her own life and how she escaped the curses of her past to make a future of her own. She takes us on a journey from her childhood of tragedy and comedy to the present day and her arrival as one of the world's best-loved novelists.

'You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed...' Julian Barnes's new book is about ballooning, photography, love and grief; about putting two things, and two people, together, and about tearing them apart. One of the judges who awarded him the 2011 Man Booker Prize described him as 'an unparalleled magus of the heart'. This book confirms that opinion.

Now a docuseries from Ken Burns on PBS! The #1 New York Times bestseller from Walter Isaacson brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography that is “a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it…Most important, it is a powerful story of an exhilarating mind and...

Harris is the author of young adult series Jessica Cole under the pseudonym Sarah Sky. Having worked as a journalist over many years, Harris is now publishing her first adult novel, The Colour of Bee Larkham’s Murder. Sarah J Harris talks to us about this latest novel, what brought her into the world of synaesthesia and face blindness and how it was important for her to get the stamp of approval from those communities.

Sin blanca en París y Londres es el vívido relato del tiempo que Orwell pasó entre los más pobres de la sociedad, un recorrido por los bajos fondos. Fue la primera obra que publicó Orwell, escrita cuando era un escritor primerizo, y narra su primer contacto con la pobreza. En este audiolibro, Orwell describe meticulosamente un mundo de miseria y penalidades.

Nace un tejedor de sueños es el despertar de un escritor y es la liberación de un pueblo. Mientras Ngũgĩ va a estudiar a la Universidad de Makerere, en Uganda, su pueblo se defiende del Imperio británico. En aquellos tiempos convulsos es cuando nace uno de los intelectuales más importantes de nuestra época, formándose como periodista, escritor de cuentos, dramaturgo y novelista.

Well-known as Pete in Gavin & Stacey, Adrian Scarborough is also known for his roles in The History Boys and The King’s Speech as well as his accomplished theatre career. Adrian talks to us about his role as the cruel Dennis in The Darkwater Bride, tells us what Pete in Gavin & Stacey has in common with Shakespeare’s Richard III and remembers his voice-over training back in drama school.

Joining us in the Audible Studios to discuss her latest title, Five Years from Now, is best-selling romance author Paige Toon.

A philosophy graduate, Paige Toon has become the go-to author for heartwarming chick lit and romance fiction. Having published 11 novels amongst other novellas and young adult fiction, the release we discuss in this interview, Five Years from Now, published in 2018.

Paige Toon talks to us about her love of the romance genre and what we can expect from her latest book.

En Juventud, la segunda parte de las memorias noveladas del premio Nobel de Literatura J.M. Coetzee, el narrador, un estudiante en la Sudáfrica de los años cincuenta, lleva tiempo planeando escapar de su país natal: del sofocante amor de su madre, de un padre cuyos errores lo persiguen y de lo que parece ser una revolución inminente.