Biography & Memoirs

This is the story of ten women who chose the side of freedom and justice during the era of the Third Reich. They came from diverse European countries and held varying political affiliations, social backgrounds, creeds, and convictions. Yet they were courageous; they loathed...

De Vigan reconstructs a family history marked by silence, wounds and memory, with the tension of an intimate investigation... We are presented with a harrowing family chronicle, but also with a present-day reflection on the "truth" of writing. For the author, writing about her...

Sacks tells extraordinary neurological case histories with clinical precision and literary sensitivity, reshaping medical storytelling.

"You would give me inexplicable joy with a detailed description of your spiritual journey and also your outer life!" With these words, the young King Ludwig II of Bavaria asked Richard Wagner for the autobiography that would become one of the most unique and...

In 1949 — on the very day he received the verdict from the Norwegian court trying him for alleged treason — Hamsun, an eighty-nine-year-old man who had gone from being his country’s most beloved writer to its most hated, penned the final sentence of...

The Lorca case largely encapsulates the set of tensions that led to the fratricidal spiral of the Spanish Civil War. The investigation conducted by journalist Eduardo Molina Fajardo into the final days of García Lorca vividly documents how those fatal ingredients came to play...

Reading a book by Nora Ephron is like sitting down to dinner with a good friend. Within its pages, you'll find a menu of unmistakable wit, brimming with hilarious analyses of almost everything, from her aversion to handbags and wrinkles to juicy indiscretions about...

“I’m not asking if my memories are true. I don’t know what I’m asking. Like a bird, I gather twigs to build myself a shelter; there I will protect what will be born. I still don’t know what its form will be. To remember...

Translated into Spanish for the first time, May Goodness Be With You is, along with Everything Flows, the last book Vasili Grossman wrote. If Everything Flows is his political testament, May Goodness Be With You is his personal testament. In late 1961, when he...

In this book, the author revisits both her life and her writing, from youthful convictions and early missteps to the mature awareness that every artistic voice is always part of the political sphere. It is a meditation on what the novel can—and must—continue to...

In the spring of 1970, in the city of Pretoria, a boy named Joe discovers Muhammad Ali, the legendary boxer formerly known as Cassius Clay. In a country marked by distance, violence, and silence, the champion represents more than just a boxer: he is...

A chilling anonymous diary details the looting of Berlin by the Soviets in 1945 and the courageous role of women... To find out what really happened in the final days of World War II, you have to ask the women. That's the perspective of...

In general, the existing literature on the figure of Johann Sebastian Bach is serious and overly specialized. Although all fans of so-called classical or cultured music are clear that Bach is one of the few absolute and essential references, even though his work is...

I took a companion on my journey: an old and gentlemanly French poodle named Charley. Well, his real name is Charles le Chien. He was born in Bercy, on the outskirts of Paris, and was educated in France, and although he knows a bit...

From soldier of the king to architect of freedoms. The choice that transformed a continent. What drives a prestigious officer of the Spanish Army to abandon his lifelong loyalty and cross the ocean to join an uncertain political project? What happens in a man's...

What do Charles Dickens and Prince, a 19th-century British writer and a 20th-century American musician, have in common? For starters, Nick Hornby is passionate about both. But there's more. Coincidences—perhaps curious, perhaps significant—that connect them.

The death of his mother, Hélène Carrère d’Encausse — major figure of French intellectual life and expert on the Soviet world — opens the narrative toward the family’s past across four generations, tracing exiles, revolutions, wars, and remarkable contradictions. Carrère creates something rare: a...

A brilliant and moving account of the Ypi family and their struggle to maintain their dignity in a constantly changing world... Following the success of Free, Lea Ypi returns to unravel the past of her grandmother Leman, a past obscured by the Albanian secret...

In this book, Patrick Mackie transports us to the sumptuous and intoxicating 18th century to delve into the life and work of one of the most dazzling and influential composers in the history of music. From his youth in Salzburg, his journey to Paris...

This book is a sharp chronicle of the artist Andy Warhol and his scandalous relationships with the ten women he considered his 'superstars', beginning in 1964 and culminating four years later, when Warhol was shot and nearly died. 'Every now and then, someone would...