A vingt-six ans, Cheryl Strayed pensait qu'elle avait tout perdu. N'ayant rien à perdre, elle a pris la décision la plus impulsif de sa vie: marcher onze à cent miles de la côte ouest de l'Amérique - depuis le désert de Mojave à l'État de Washington - et de le faire tout seul. Dans ce livre, elle compte capte les affres - mentale et physique - de son voyage.
A frank, smart and endearing literary memoir of growing up as the daughter of Apple founder Steve Jobs in the rapidly changing Silicon Valley of the tech boom. This is her poignant story of family, of growing up, and of a childhood spent between two imperfect but extraordinary homes - an unforgettable portrait of her complex relationship with her parents and their fascinating worlds.
Among the Dead in Rwanda, Bosnia, Croatia and Kosovo. In 1966, Clea Koff, a 23 year old graduate student was sent to Rwanda by the UN to work with a small team exhuming victims of the genocide. 'The Bone Woman' is a mesmerising account of her four years of gruelling investigations into these, and other murderous events - events which transformed her from an idealistic student to a war crimes veteran.
A shocking and moving investigation into the hidden abuses perpetrated by Colonel Gaddafi, Gaddafi's Harem reveals the appalling private life of one of the twentieth century's most malevolent dictators.
Millions have read Barack Obama's Dreams from my Father and think they know his story. Now, Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer David Maraniss has produced a startling biography which reveals the true narrative of Obama's early years.
Drawing on never-before-seen material, this is the definitive biography of the greatest international pop star of all time - Michael Jackson. Will achieve for Michael Jackson what Guralnick did for Presley and Goldman did for Lennon.
Describes how China's foremost male ballet dancer (and colonel in the People's Army) underwent China's first sex-change operation and became the Shanghai Ballet's prima ballerina. This memoir presents a personal and inspiring account of growing up in a body that feels alien and of braving pioneering surgery in communist China.
A masterly anthology of extracts from the journals and writings of travellers, explorers and adventurers throughout history, The Traveller's Daybook takes the reader on 366 unforgettable journeys - one for each day of the year.
Joanne Limburg thinks things she doesn't want to think, and does things she doesn't want to do. As a young woman, obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviours had come to completely dominate her life. She knew that something was wrong, but it would take many painful years of searching to find someone who could explain her symptoms. The Woman Who Thought Too Much is a vividly honest, beautifully told and darkly witty memoir about the quest to understand and manage a life with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder.
Now available in paperback: the first serious biography of the religion baiting, republican hating, chain smoking, coffee addicted, doo-wop loving, guitar virtuoso.
The murder trial of Oscar Pistorius will rivet the world's attention in a way no other case has since another famous sportsman, O J Simpson, was tried for the murder of his ex wife in 1994. Written by the acclaimed author of Invictus, this title tells the sensational insider story of Oscar Pistorius.
Physicist and polymath, as familiar with Hindu scriptures as he was with quantum mechanics, J Robert Oppenheimer, director of the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb, was the most famous scientist of his generation. This biography reveals a brilliant man, profoundly involved with some of the momentous events of the twentieth century.
A TOKYO ROMANCE IS A PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG ARTIST AND THE FANTASTICAL CITY THAT SHAPED HIM, AND A TIMELESS STORY ABOUT THE DESIRE TO TRANSGRESS BOUNDARIES: CULTURAL, ARTISTIC AND SEXUAL.
When Ian Buruma arrived in Tokyo in 1975, he found a feverish and surreal metropolis in the midst of an economic boom, where everything seemed new and history only remained in fragments. Through his adventures in the world of avant-garde theatre, his encounters with carnival acts, fashion photographers and moments on-set with Akira Kurosawa, Buruma underwent a radical transformation. For an outsider, unattached to the cultural burdens placed on the Japanese, this was a place to be truly free.
