Selvbiografier

Originally published in 1993, Discovering Your Self is a remarkable and original personal account of psychotherapy and psychosynthesis. Through it, Reinhard Kowalski, a consultant clinical psychologist and psychotherapist, charts his own development and growth in the context of the political and economic changes in the world outside.

Brunel made plenty of mistakes, some of them ruinously expensive. But he also designed and built several structures which are still with us to this day. For these we have to thank a man who was famously described as 'in love with the impossible'.

From twice Booker-shortlisted author Deborah Levy, a moving and revelatory collection exploring the muses that have shaped her life and work as a writerIn The Position of Spoons, Deborah Levy invites the reader into the interiors of her world, sharing her most intimate thoughts and experiences, as she traces and measures her life against the backdrop of the literary and artistic muses that have shaped her.From Marguerite Duras to Colette and Ballard, and from Lee Miller to Francesca Woodman and Paula Rego, we can relish here the richness of their work and, in turn the richness of the author's own.Each page draws upon Levy's life in exalting ways, encapsulating the wonderful precision and astonishing depth of her writing, as she seamlessly shifts between and meditates on questions of mortality, language, suburbia, gender, consumerism and the poetics of every day living. From the child born in South Africa, to her teenage years in Britain, to her travels across the world as a young woman, each page is a beautiful, tender composition of the questioning self: a portrait of Deborah Levy's writing life and intellectual vitality in all of its dimensions.

Das Buch hat Brief einer Unbekannten, Stefan Zweigs Novelle aus dem Jahr 1922, und die hierauf basierenden internationalen Verfilmungen der Jahre 1929¿2017 zum Gegenstand. Es sind Adaptionen u. a. aus der VR China, aus Deutschland, Finnland, Frankreich, Griechenland, Mexiko, Österreich, Südkorea und aus den USA. Der literarische Text und die medialen Artefakte werden unter intra-, inter- und transkulturellen Gesichtspunkten erst jedes für sich kontextualisiert, dann miteinander korreliert und interdisziplinär, intermedial und transmedial ausgeleuchtet. In den Fokus rücken dabei Aspekte jener tertiären Dunkelheit, die sich durch das Stülpen von Pattern aus der Zielkultur über Bilder, Symbole, Motive und Themen des Ausgangstextes auf diesen verzerrend, ummodelnd und verdunkelnd auswirkt. Aus dieser interkulturellen Dynamik entspringen dann Missverständnisse und Unverständnisse, sinnverzerrende Umdeutungen und äquivalente Wiedergaben des Ausgangstextes, die es zu reflektieren gilt.

An award-winning critical biography of Finland's towering leader, charting his statecraft, his political journey and his strategic bravado, carving out independence between Stalin and Hitler.

Originally published in 1988, Rotten to the Core? asks who was the real Neville Heath? The author deals with Heath the psychopath, but it also depicts the curious post-war society which allowed him to take root and to flourish, showing that Heath the confidence trickster - and murderer - was a man of his time.

Originally published in 1987, in this new approach to the case of William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw), Francis Selwyn looks both at the career of Joyce, the Irish-American-cum-Fascist bully-boy, and the changing nature of treason, altered by the events of the Second World War.

The Search documents Paul Besley's experiences of volunteering on a Mountain Rescue team where he is soon joined by Scout, his very own search dog. Paul's demons threaten to derail their training, until his past finally catches up with him and his life inescapably unravels.

'The first new Beatles story in decades - and the one that will make your heart burst.' CAITLIN MORAN'Leslie is one of those thinkers who can spin something smart and important out of just about anything .

What is it like to get so close to your dream that you can almost touch it, only to have it torn cruelly away? Anthony Potts knows the answer. He sacrificed everything in an all-consuming pursuit of his dream to become a professional footballer. It was a dream, like many others, seeded in childhood. He was born with some natural talent, but things did not come easy for him. Nevertheless, he persevered and the hard work paid off. He was part of the Tottenham side that won the 1990 FA Youth Cup, and he earned a place in the England youth team. Later, he was a member of Tottenham's first Premier League squad alongside Paul Gascoigne and Gary Lineker - but he never got to play for the first team in a competitive match. In this tell-all book, Anthony shares the inside story of his time at Spurs, including his friendship with Gazza. It is a story that rarely gets told - the story of a failed footballer. Anthony sacrificed everything in pursuit of his dream. Was it worth it? You be the judge.

Pironi: The Champion that Never Was relates the remarkable story of motor racing's forgotten man, ex-Ferrari F1 driver and offshore powerboat racer, Didier Pironi. The book charts an incredible journey which took the young Parisian to the heights of triumph and the depths of despair. Before he joined the legendary Ferrari stable, Pironi was already a Formula Renault, Le Mans and grand prix winner. By 1982, the time had surely come for the enigmatic Frenchman to become his country's first Formula 1 world champion. He was to come tantalisingly close to achieving that lifetime ambition, ahead in the world championship and in pole position for the German Grand Prix - before crashing so disastrously in practice. Over the next five years he fought a long and painful battle to return to the cockpit to reclaim the title that had eluded him that grim morning. It was not to be. Thereafter Didier turned his attention to offshore powerboating where his remarkable life would come to a shattering end in the icy waters of the English Channel.

Garry Johnson's life was never going to be average. He was born in Hackney, East London and spent his formative years in Borstal for young offenders where he wrote heartfelt poems that made a huge impact on those who read them. But Garry wanted more from life.

Set against the awesome splendour of some of Scotland's most spectacular scenery, Iain R. Thomson's classic book provides a sensitive, richly detailed account of the shepherd's life through the seasons and recreates the events that shaped the family's life in Glen Strathfarrar before the area was flooded as part of a huge hydro-electric project.

Ned Boulting's highly anticipated follow up to How I Won the Yellow Jumper