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Embarking on the long road to recovery, Michael was soon ready to start writing about his near-death experience. Combining stunning new prose poems by one of Britain's best loved poets and the moving coronavirus diaries of his nurses, doctors and wife Emma-Louise Williams, this is a beautiful book about love, life and the NHS.

Shooting an Elephant tells the story of a police officer in Burma who is called upon to shoot an aggressive elephant. Loosely based on Orwell's own experiences, the tightly written essay weaves together fact and fiction indistinguishably, and leaves the reader contemplating the heavy topic of colonialism.

The COVID diaries of the alternative rock star and bestselling author of SING BACKWARDS AND WEEP

Dick and Angel Strawbridge share more charming stories from their life at the Chateau-de-la-Motte Husson. The follow-up to the massive Sunday Times bestseller, A Year at the Chateau.

A collection of funny personal essays from Seth Rogen, one of the writers of Superbad and Pineapple Express and one of the producers of The Disaster Artist, Neighbors, and The Boys.

In this hilarious, heartfelt memoir, the star of Mr. Show and Breaking Bad spin off Better Call Saul opens up about the highs and lows of showbiz, his cult status as a comedy writer, and what it's like to reinvent himself at age fifty as an action-film ass-kicker.Bob Odenkirk's career is inexplicable. And yet he will try like hell to explicate it for you. Charting a "e;Homeric"e; decades-long "e;odyssey"e; from his origins in the seedy comedy clubs of Chicago to a dramatic career full of award nominations-with a side-trip into the action-man world that is baffling to all who know him-it's almost like there are many Bob Odenkirks! But there is just one, and one is plenty.Bob embraced a life in comedy after a chance meeting with Second City's legendary Del Close, then somehow made his way to a job as a writer at Saturday Night Live. While surviving that legendary gauntlet by the skin of his gnashing teeth, he stashed away the secrets of comedy writing-eventually employing them in the immortal "e;Motivational Speaker"e; sketch for Chris Farley, honing them on The Ben Stiller Show, and perfecting them on Mr. Show with Bob and David.In Hollywood, Bob demonstrated a bullheadedness that would shame Sisyphus himself, and when all hope was lost for the umpteenth time, the phone rang with an offer to appear on Breaking Bad-a show about how boring it is to be a high school chemistry teacher. His embrace of this strange new world of dramatic acting led him to working with Steven Spielberg, Alexander Payne, and Greta Gerwig, and then, in a twist that will confound you, he re-re-invented himself as a bona fide action star. Why? Read this and do your own psychoanalysis-it's fun!Featuring humorous tangents, never-before-seen photos, wild characters, and Bob's trademark unflinching drive and humour, Comedy Comedy Comedy Drama is a classic showbiz tale told by a determined idiot.

"e;A compelling origin story of a time that really wasn't so long ago but through the lens of tragedy feels like forever. Kobe-ologists will devour this book, reveling in the anecdotes about his intensity & the engaging game recaps."e; -Associated Press"e;Every superhero needs an origin story."e; -Jeff PearlmanThe inside look at one of the most captivating and consequential figures in our culture-with never-before-heard interviews.Kobe Bryant's death in January 2020 did more than rattle the worlds of sports and celebrity. The tragedy of that helicopter crash, which also took the life of his daughter Gianna, unveiled the full breadth and depth of his influence on our culture, and by tracing and telling the oft-forgotten and lesser-known story of his early life, The Rise promises to provide an insight into Kobe that no other analysis has.In The Rise, readers will travel from the neighborhood streets of Southwest Philadelphia-where Kobe's father, Joe, became a local basketball standout-to the Bryant family's isolation in Italy, where Kobe spent his formative years, to the leafy suburbs of Lower Merion, where Kobe's legend was born. The story will trace his career and life at Lower Merion-he led the Aces to the 1995-96 Pennsylvania state championship, a dramatic underdog run for a team with just one star player-and the run-up to the 1996 NBA draft, where Kobe's dream of playing pro basketball culminated in his acquisition by the Los Angeles Lakers.In researching and writing The Rise, Mike Sielski had a terrific advantage over other writers who have attempted to chronicle Kobe's life: access to a series of never-before-released interviews with him during his senior season and early days in the NBA. For a quarter century, these tapes and transcripts preserved Kobe's thoughts, dreams, and goals from his teenage years, and they contained insights into and told stories about him that have never been revealed before.This is more than a basketball book. This is an exploration of the identity and making of an icon and the effect of his development on those around him-the essence of the man before he truly became a man.

Hvordan skrive et portrett av et helt vanlig menneske som har levd et normalt og stille liv, tilbaketrukket fra offentligheten? Olga Engen (1926 - 2017) levde sitt liv i beskjedne kår, født i det huset smeden på Hell bygde under en skyggefull åsrygg, død i et moderne sykehjem i Asker. Underveis bar hun tre etternavn, Lundemo etter sin far, Ekle etter den første ektefellen og Engen etter mannen hun møtte og giftet seg med sent i livet. Olgas bok er et forsøk på en biografi om dette livet, om et helt alminnelig menneske fra arbeiderklassen på bygda, en kvinne som aldri stakk seg ut, fornøyd med å forbli i det stillfarent nøytrale. Olgas livsløp så nesten ubegripelige endringer i samfunnet, sosialt, politisk og teknologisk. Samtidig møtte hun sin andel av prøvelser og motgang, motvirket av livsglede, ustoppelig pågangsmot og total hengivenhet til rollen som enslig mor. Olgas bok er også en vemodig kjærlighetshistorie.

The instant number one bestseller. Reflections on hope, survival and the messy miracle of being alive from the bestselling author of The Midnight Library

The true story of how a ten-year-old's charity challenge created an endowment and led through young philanthropy to a career in medicine. A light-hearted but poignant parent-child journey, its excitement and suspense, purpose and fulfilment, recalled by the girl as a young woman. A portrait of coastal Suffolk, its cultural and natural heritage.

Rottejegerne er betegnelsen på de norske motstandsfolkene som utførte de aller skitneste jobbene under andre verdenskrig: De likviderte angivere, torturister og andre nordmenn som jobbet for tyskerne. I etterkrigstiden har denne delen av krigshistorien blitt fortiet. I dette sensasjonelle og upubliserte romanmanuskriptet som ble skrevet i årene etter krigen, forteller Kompani Linge-løytnanten og Norges mest berømte motstandsmann Max Manus om rottejegerne. I sentrum står forfatterens alter ego Freddy og en gruppe veteraner. De forsøker å finne sin plass i samfunnet og kjærligheten, men døyver de vonde minnene fra krigen med alkohol og andre utskeielser. «Rottejegeren» er et hardkokt og levende tidsbilde av Norge på slutten av 1940-tallet. Det er en fortelling om krigens virkelige pris - fra en person som visste bedre enn de fleste hva han snakket om. «Det er deilig å kjenne den vidunderlige følelsen av trygghet som berøring av pistol alltid gir ham,» skriver Manus og legger til: «Men minnene forlater ham aldri.»

Gripende og levende lydbok om kampen for å forstå en families krigshistorie. Om stein og jord er som få andre bøker om krigen. Samtidig angår den oss alle, med sin gripende og levende beskrivelse av hvilken kamp det kan være å prøve å forstå sin egen historie. I romanen kommer fortelleren over en tekst skrevet av hans egen morfar - om erfaringene som nazisoldat under andre verdenskrig. Oppdagelsen blir startskuddet for en unik beretning hvor Peter Strassegger fletter to historier sammen. Begge er like fengslende som de er tankevekkende, og har handling fra så ulike steder som Østfronten, Tyskland og Bryne. På den ene siden hører vi om morfarens opplevelser, skildret slik at vi kan lukte festene på bierstubene og kjenner smaken av skyttergravsjorda i munnen. På den andre får vi et bilde av forfatteren selv, som kjemper for å forstå sin egen historie. For hvordan skal etterkommere forholde seg til fortiden? Kan NS-frontkjempernes barnebarn og oldebarn frigjøre seg fra sin egen arv?

Jackie Kennedy er vakker, sofistikert og vurderer å forlate sin mann; en ung og ambisiøs senator. Livet i offentlighetens søkelys er nådeløst, spesielt med en mann som er utro og som knapt har tid til å trøste da hun føder et dødfødt barn. En invitasjon til Aristoteles Onassis' luksuriøse yacht ender med å forandre hennes liv. Maria Callas er verdens beste sopran, på høyden av karrieren. En dag introduseres hun for Aristoteles Onassis, verdens rikeste mann og gresk, som henne selv. Fastlåst i et barnløst ekteskap og presset fra operasjefer og nådeløse journalister, er møte med denne smarte og sjarmerende mannen en vidunderlig livsomveltning. Litt etter litt vikler Maria og Jackies liv seg inn i hverandre i et farlig spill av hemmeligheter, skandaler og løgner. Begge vil ha Ari for seg selv - men hvor langt er de villige til å gå for kjærligheten?

The essential guide to Karl Lagerfeld's tenure at Chanel from his early days in the 1980s, charting his constant reinvention of the fashion house that maintained Chanel as the most illustrious couture house in the world.

An inspiring and laugh-out-loud guide to building the kind of confidence it really takes to live the life of your dreams, from Impact Theory co-founder and growth mindset guru Lisa Bilyeu.Lisa Bilyeu grew up in London, where she was told her dreams of Hollywood were a little too big for a girl. After all, in her traditional Greek culture, who cared about prestigious awards when you could be a housewife? Lisa cared. Except after graduating from college, meeting the man of her dreams, and moving to Los Angeles, a housewife was exactly what Lisa became - for eight years! Radical Confidence is the story of how Lisa unpaused her life to co-found a company that went from zero to a billion dollars in just five years and become a leader in the world of personal development. Transforming herself with a growth mindset, Lisa learned to face her insecurities and inadequacies, embrace new challenges, solve her own problems, tell her negative voice to shut up and become the hero of her own life by life-hacking her way to feeling confident.Radical Confidence is deeply personal and filled with insight and practical tools for honest self-assessment, mastering emotions and staying motivated. With humour and honesty, this book teaches you how to be driven by your insecurities to create the life of your dreams.

Belfast 1972. It's the bloodiest year of the Northern Irish 'Troubles', and 16-year-old Eimear O'Callaghan, a Catholic schoolgirl in West Belfast, bears witness in her new diary. What follows is a unique and touching perspective into the daily life of an ordinary teenager coming of age in extraordinary times. The immediacy of the diary entries are complemented with the author's mature reflections written 40 years later. The result is poignant, shocking, wryly funny, and, above all, explicitly honest. Belfast Days is unique book that comes at a time when Northern Ireland is desperately struggling to come to terms with the legacy of its turbulent past. It provides a powerful juxtaposition of the ordinary everyday concerns of a 16-year-old girl--who could be any girl in any British or Irish city at this time, worrying about her hair, exams, boys, clothes, discos--with the unimaginable horror of a society slowly disintegrating before her eyes, a seemingly inevitable descent into a bloody civil war, fuelled by sectarianism, hatred, and fear. Written by an experienced broadcaster and journalist who rediscovered her 1972 diary on the eve of the publication of the Saville Report (also known as the Bloody Sunday Inquiry), Belfast Days demonstrates how one person's examination of her own 'story' provided her with a new perspective on one of the darkest periods in 20th-century Irish and British history. "...the writing is extraordinary." --Stephen Dubner, author of Freakonomics "Brigid Jones in a war-zone." --Anne Cadwallader, author of Lethal Allies "Eimear O'Callaghan's 1972 eloquent eye-witness testimony salutes the hard work, the persistence and the breathtaking courage of those who fought against tyranny and oppression for so many, many years!" --The Celtic Connection, September 2015 [Subject: Memoir, History, Irish Studies, British Studies]

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER.An unorthodox guide to making things worth making, from 'the father of the iPod and iPhone' and the creator of Nest.Everyone deserves a mentor. For every career crisis, every fork in the road, you need someone to talk to. Someone who's been there before, who knows exactly how wobbly and conflicted you feel, who can give it to you straight:Here's how to think about choosing a job.Here's how to be a better manager.Here's how to approach design.Here's how to start a company.Here's how to run it.Tony Fadell learned all these lessons the hard way. He spent the first 10 years of his career in Silicon Valley failing spectacularly, and the next 20 building some of the most impactful devices in history - the iPod, iPhone, and Nest Learning Thermostat. He has enough stories and advice about leadership, design, startups, mentorship, decision making, devastating screwups, and unbelievable success to fill an encyclopedia.So that's what this book is. An advice encyclopedia. A mentor in a box.But Tony's doesn't follow the standard Silicon Valley credo that you have to radically reinvent everything you do. His advice is unorthodox because it's old school. Because it's based on human nature, not gimmicks.Tony keeps things simple: he just tells you what works. He gives you exactly what you need to make things worth making.PRAISE FOR BUILD'This is the most fun - and the most fascinating - memoir of curiosity and invention that I've ever read.'Malcolm Gladwell,Host of the Revisionist History podcast. Author of Outliers and Talking to Strangers.'Whether you're looking to build a great product, a creative team, a strong culture, or a meaningful career, Tony's guidance will get you thinking and rethinking.'Adam Grant,Author of Think Again & Host of the TED podcast WorkLife

Translation of: Ich trug den gelben Stern.

"e;Sheer joy!"e; - Patrick Barclay"e;Fascinating, funny and poignant."e; - Henry Winter"e;Brilliant, non-judgemental, superbly researched and anecdote-laden."e; - Guillem Balague"e;Wonderfully evocative."e; - Michael Cox, The Athletic"e;Cracking tales from the terraces amid betrayal in the boardrooms."e; - Tim Marshall, author of "e;Dirty Northern B*st*rds!"e; and Other Tales from the Terraces: The Story of Britain's Football Chants"e;If 1970s football is due a reappraisal, Get It On is an exhilarating place to start."e; - Tom Lines, When Saturday Comes***Four years after the crowning glory of 1966 and a decade after the abolition of the maximum wage, a brash new era dawned in English football. As the 1970s took hold, a new generation of larger-than-life footballers and managers came to dominate the sport, appearing on television sets in vivid technicolour for the first time.Set against a backdrop of three-day weeks, strikes, political unrest, freezing winters and glam rock, Get It On tells the intriguing inside story of how commercialism, innovation, racism and hooliganism rocked the national game in the 1970s. Charting the emergence of Brian Clough, Bob Paisley and Kevin Keegan, and the fall of George Best, Alf Ramsey and Don Revie, this fascinating footballing fiesta traces the highs and lows of an evolutionary and revolutionary era for the beautiful game.Jon Spurling has been interviewing footballers for twenty-five years, including legends George Best and Jack Charlton, European Cup-winning captains Emlyn Hughes and John McGovern and pioneering black footballers Cyrille Regis and Brendon Batson. Get It On presents these heroes of the era in their unvarnished and uncompromising glory and explores how the 1970s was the most groundbreaking decade in English football history.