Literární biografie v angličtině

Elizabeth Gilbert

It's 3 a.m. and Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on the bathroom floor. She's in her thirties, she has a husband, a house, they're trying for a baby - and she doesn't want any of it. A bitter divorce and…

Haruki Murakami

In 1982, having sold his jazz bar to devote himself to writing, Murakami began running to keep fit. A year later, he'd completed a solo course from Athens to Marathon, and now, after dozens of such…

George Orwell

James Baldwin

Ndaba Mandela

David Sedaris

Stephanie Land

Abraham Verghese, Paul Kalanithi

Tara Westover

Kamala Harris

Annie Ernaux

Garrard Conley

Originally published by Grove Press in 1965.

Joan Didion

Just before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne's and Joan Didion's only daughter, Quintana, fell ill. At first they thought it was flu, then pneumonia, then complete sceptic shock. She was put into…

Audre Lorde

Dan Morain

Jaroslav Najman

This book describes – in English - the author's emigration from Czechoslovakia triggered by a historical event in August 1968. All events in this book are based on recollection of the author's memories…

Esmé Weijun Wang

Kniha je první monografií pozoruhodného švýcarského umělce Florina Granwehra (1942-2019), který i přes své především curyšské působení udržoval zajímavé styky i s českým prostředím, především díky své…

Caitlin Doughty

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Paperback edition of the autobiography from the bodybuilder turned actor turned businessman turned politician. Chronicles his embodiment of the American Dream, including his high-stakes journey to the…

James Baldwin

Sounds a clarion warning to the world.

Susanna Kaysen