Selvbiografier

Steve's candid tales about Genesis, and his personal relationships with the other four band members. A great insight into this major rock band. He also regales stories of his career since leaving Genesis and the many different journeys that it has taken him on. His flair for the creative, and a great deal of levity make this a riveting read.

'So wise and so well done. It made me wish it were much longer than it is' Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie From the award-winning author of Five Star Billionaire and We, The Survivors comes a whirlwind personal history of modern Asia, as told through his Malaysian and Chinese heritage. If we are lucky we will find writing that grips us with its vitality, beauty and significance - Strangers on a Pier is like that' Deborah Levy In Strangers on a Pier, acclaimed author Tash Aw explores the panoramic cultural vitality of modern Asia through his own complicated family story of migration and adaptation, which is reflected in his own face. From a taxi ride in present-day Bangkok, to eating Kentucky Fried Chicken in 1980s Kuala Lumpur, to his grandfathers' treacherous boat journeys to Malaysia from mainland China in the 1920s, Aw weaves together stories of insiders and outsiders, images from rural villages to megacity night clubs, and voices in a dizzying variety of languages, dialects, and slangs, to create an intricate and astoundingly vivid portrait of a place caught between the fast-approaching future and a past that won't let go.

The follow-up to the acclaimed autobiographical comic collection Super Late Bloomer, documenting transgender artist Julia Kaye's life post-transition.

In this moving, revealing and highly readable memoir, Antony Penrose has composed a fitting tribute to his father, which also faces up to some of the more controversial aspects of Roland Penrose's life.

A biographical survey of the principal Surrealists by one of the last surviving members of the movement, bestselling author and artist Desmond Morris, who knew many of the key participants personally.

From their beginnings as teenagers experimenting in a San Fernando Valley garage dubbed "The Hell Hole" to headlining major music festivals around the world, Do What You Wanttells the whole story of Bad Religion's 40-year career in irreverent style.

On the occasion of the 5th anniversary of Bowie's death, photographer Masayoshi Sukita presents an extraordinary illustrated book on the celebrated musician, actor and producer. Text in English and German.

An exploration of female friendship and women in music, from the iconic singer-songwriter and bestselling author of Another Planet and Bedsit Disco Queen

A biography of Billy Joe Shaver, it recounts his struggle to break into the music business in Nashville. It describes his thirty-year career as a singer-songwriter in Nashville and Texas, his bouts with alcohol and drugs, and his pleasure in touring with his son Eddy and their band Shaver during the 1990s.

Iconic drummer Stephen Morris presses play once more to the tune of the long-awaited second volume of memoirs . . .

The history of Japan's unprecedented takeover of the global imaginary, as told through the eight packaged fantasies that charmed and changed the world most thoroughly from Hello Kitty and the Karaoke machine to the novels of Haruki Murakami.

The long buried story of three extraordinary female journalists who permanently shattered the official and cultural barriers to women covering war.

A powerful look at the history of racism through the prism of sport, showing how we can change things through education and understanding

The autobiography of Extreme Enduro motorcycling legend Graham Jarvis

Den anden april 1855 fyldte H.C. Andersen 50 år og samme dag afsluttede han sin selvbiografi, der fik titlen ”Mit livs Eventyr”. Få måneder senere udkom den, nemlig den 19. juli.Med et for det meste levende og medrivende sprog skildrer H.C. Andersen sit, som han skriver, rige og lyksaglige liv frem til tyve år før han dør. Og hvilket liv: Fra en fattig opvækst i Odense til feteret forfatter i ind- og udland, der tillige bliver professor på Københavns Universitet. Han overvinder store problemer med at stave, og hans gåpåmod, hans frygtløshed og hans gode evne til at skabe kontakter både herhjemme og i udlandet førte ham langt.Inden han blev student og efterfølgende udfoldede sig som forfatter, digter og dramatiker, læser vi om hans forsøg som skuespiller, sanger og balletdanser, og hvordan der bliver talt om, at han kunne blive bonde eller bogbinder, blive skrædder eller urmager, arbejde på kontor eller – som sin far – blive skomager, samt om hvordan han i Odense forsøgte sig som arbejdsdreng på henholdsvis en klædefabrik og en tobaksfabrik og i København som arbejdsdreng i et snedkeri.Det er mag.art Jens Staubrand der har redigeret denne udgave af H.C. Andersens “Mit livs Eventyr”. Han har tillige udvalgt bogens billederne og skrevet de uddybende informationer som billedteksterne indeholder.

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