Biografi, Autobiografi

Hinda was eighteen years old when an axe crashed through the front door of her home in Poland. Nazi soldiers swarmed inside and herded the family into an army truck and hauled them away for one lone …

H. Rider Haggard (1856–1925), author of King Solomon’s Mines, Allan Quatermain and She, was no stranger to the continent where his bestsellers were set. He lived in southern Africa from 1875 to 1881, …

The Jazz Singer by Samson Raphaelson is a groundbreaking story that captures the tension between tradition and modernity, set against the backdrop of America’s evolving cultural landscape. The novel …

WINNER OF THE SAWIRIS CULTURAL AWARD A multigenerational literary memoir that sheds new light on one of the Arab world’s most renowned Romantic poets, through the eyes of his granddaughter Ibrahim Na …

This captivating collection of short stories offers a profound exploration of the human experience through a series of engaging narratives. Each tale, from *The Wanderer of Istanbul* to *Redemption*, …

The first book in the ‘Biography of a novel’ series offers a compelling account of Virginia Woolf’s masterpiece. The fourth and best-known of Virginia Woolf’s novels, Mrs Dalloway is a modernist mast …

William Henry Hudson spent the first 18 years of his life living among the stunning landscape of the Argentine Pampas and studying the diverse flora and fauna there. This fascinating autobiography of …

This book contains a biographical and critical study of Keats written by Edward Thomas. It was originally published in 1916 and is here being republished with a new introductory biography on the auth …

In Bociany, Rosenfarb offers completely absorbing portrayals of Jews and Christians from several walks of life in the shtetl. Her primary characters are the scribe’s widow Hindele, her son Yacov, the …

A forensic psychiatrist’s corrective and innovative diagnosis of the conditions that led to Ernest Hemingway’s suicide Hemingway’s Brain is the first forensic psychiatric examination of Nobel Prize–w …