Biographies
Biographies et autobiographies en anglais
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HIS NAME IS GEORGE FLOYD (LIVRE EN ANGLAIS)
SAMUELS ROBERT / OLORUNNIPA TOLUSE
- Penguin
- 26 May 2023
- 9781529176414
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JANE AUSTEN REMEDY : IT IS A TRUTH UNIVERSALLY ACKNOWLEDGED THAT A BOOK CAN CHAN
WILSON RUTH
- Alison and busby
- 22 May 2023
- 9780749029456
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SECRET BARRISTER NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH(THE) (LIVRE EN ANGLAIS)
SECRET BARRISTER
- Picador
- 16 May 2023
- 9781529057065
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BOOKS AND ISLANDS IN OJIBWE COUNTRY (LIVRE EN ANGLAIS)
ERDRICH LOUISE
- Daunt books
- 29 March 2023
- 9781914198502
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Based on nearly a decade of reporting, Invisible Child follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani Coates, a child with an imagination as soaring as the skyscrapers near her Brooklyn homeless shelter. Born at the turn of a new century, Dasani is named for the bottled water that comes to symbolise Brooklyn''s gentrification and the shared aspirations of a divided city. As Dasani moves with her family from shelter to shelter, this story traces the passage of Dasani''s ancestors from slavery to the Great Migration north.
Dasani comes of age as New York City''s homeless crisis is exploding. In the shadows of this new Gilded Age, Dasani leads her seven siblings through a thicket of problems: hunger, parental drug addiction, violence, housing instability, segregated schools and the constant monitoring of the child-protection system.
When, at age thirteen, Dasani enrolls at a boarding school in Pennsylvania, her loyalties are tested like never before. Ultimately, she faces an impossible question: What if leaving poverty means abandoning the family you love?
By turns heartbreaking and revelatory, provocative and inspiring, Invisible Child tells an astonishing story about the power of resilience, the importance of family and the cost of inequality. -
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ARRANGEMENTS IN BLUE : NOTES ON LOVE AND MAKING A LIFE (RELIÉ)
KEY AMY
- Penguin
- 15 May 2023
- 9781787333895
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RADICAL : A LIFE OF MY OWN (TRADE PAPERBACK)(LIVRE EN ANGLAIS)
GUO XIAOLU
- Chatto windus
- 15 May 2023
- 9781784744878
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FRIENDAHOLIC : CONFESSIONS OF A FRIENDSHIP ADDICT (RELIÉ) (LIVRE EN ANGLAIS)
DAY ELIZABETH
- Fourth estate
- 6 April 2023
- 9780008374891
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DAVID BOWIE MADE ME GAY : 100 YEARS OF LGBT MUSIC (LIVRE EN ANGLAIS)
BULLOCK DARRYL W
- Duckworth
- 25 February 2023
- 9780715654927
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UNTYPICAL: HOW THE WORLD ISN''T BUILT OF AUTSISTIC PEOPLE - AND WHAT WE SHOULD ALL DO ABOUT IT
Pete Wharmby
- Harper collins uk
- 16 March 2023
- 9780008529260
It''s time to remake the world - the ground-breaking book on what steps we should all be taking for the autistic people in our lives.
The modern world is built for neurotypicals: needless noise, bright flashing lights, small talk, phone calls, unspoken assumptions and unwritten rules - it can be a nightmarish dystopia for the autistic population. In Untypical, Pete Wharmby lays bare the experience of being ''different'', explaining with wit and warmth just how exhausting it is to fit in to a world not designed for you.
But this book is more than an explanation. After a late diagnosis and a lifetime of ''masking'', Pete is the perfect interlocutor to explain how our two worlds can meet, and what we can do for the many autistic people in our schools, workplaces and lives. The result: a practical handbook for all of us to make the world a simpler, better place for autistic people to navigate, and a call to arms for anyone who believes in an inclusive society and wants to be part of the solution. -
RED MEMORY : LIVING, REMEMBERING AND FORGETTING CHINA'S CULTURAL REVOLUTION
BRANIGAN TANIA
- Faber
- 16 February 2023
- 9781783352647
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A monumental work that reveals the flawed private person behind the ferocious intellectual public persona
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THE LIGHT WE CARRY: OVERCOMING IN UNCERTAIN TIMES
Michelle Obama
- Viking
- 14 November 2022
- 9780241621240
An upcoming title to be published by Penguin Random House UK.>
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THE SECRET HEART - JOHN LE CARRE: AN INTIMATE MEMOIR
Suleika Dawson
- Harper collins uk
- 18 October 2022
- 9780008533021
A Telegraph Book to Read for Autumn 2022 A Times Best Non-fiction Book for Autumn 2022 ''A profound character study of a great writer'' The Times ''Very sharp and funny'' Daily Telegraph The astonishing new portrait of the master of spy fiction, by the woman he kept secret for almost half his life John le Carre led a life entirely constructed of secrets. First as a British ''spook'' during the Cold War, then as a world-renowned writer of espionage fiction, but also in his personal involvements. He guarded his private life with fierce determination, so that even when he finally permitted his life story to be written, there was still one element he insisted be excluded: the women.
Married with children for virtually all his adult life, le Carre - David Cornwell - had a number of secret affairs, usually conducted abroad with women encountered by chance on his travels. These relationships were always intense, dramatic, even tragic, yet each was destined to last no more than a few months. But there was one love affair that withstood the test of time; just one woman in all his life whom he took into the innermost sanctum of his writing and his heart.
The Secret Heart is the account of Suleika Dawson''s unique and enduring love affair with John le Carre. Written with fearless honesty and insight, the book sheds a bold new light on one of the foremost British writers of the 20th century and offers an alternative measure of the man over the literary legend. -
THE EXTRAORDINARY LIFE OF AN ORDINARY MAN - A MEMOIR
Paul Newman
- Century hutchinson
- 27 October 2022
- 9781529197068
The raw, candid, unvarnished memoir of an American icon Several years before he died in 2008, Paul Newman commissioned his best friend to interview actors and directors he worked with, his friends, his children, his first wife, his psychiatrist, and Joanne Woodward, to create an oral history of his life. After hearing and reading what others said about him, Newman then dictated his own version of his life. Now, this long-lost memoir-90% Newman''s own narrative, interspersed with wonderful stories and recollections by his family, friends, and such luminaries as Elia Kazan, Tom Cruise, George Roy Hill, Martin Ritt-will be published. This book will surprise and even shock people, it reveals unknown sides of Paul Newman: funny and tragic, charming and insightful, personal and professional. Newman''s traumatic childhood is brilliantly detailed: his terrible relationship with his mother (he says she always considered him purely a decoration, not an actual child), his complicated relationship with his father (who once insisted eight-year-old Paul walk home several miles with a broken leg). He talks with extraordinary honesty, insight and humor, about his insecurities as a teenager, his lack of success with women, his feelings of failure. Tales of his army years feel like a movie in itself. His college years, his early yearnings to be an actor, learning his craft, his acting rivals at the beginning of his career (Brando and Dean), his films (good and bad) - he spares no one, including himself. He discusses the complicated relationship he had with his first wife, his son Scott''s death, and his guilt about that death. Perhaps the most moving material in the book comes when he discusses Joanne Woodward-their love for each other, his dependence on her, even their sexually charged life together.
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A personal and powerful essay on loss from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun .
''Grief is a cruel kind of education. You learn how ungentle mourning can be, how full of anger. You learn how glib condolences can feel. You learn how much grief is about language, the failure of language and the grasping for language'' On 10 June 2020, the scholar James Nwoye Adichie died suddenly in Nigeria.
In this tender and powerful essay, expanded from the original New Yorker text, his daughter, a self-confessed daddy''s girl, remembers her beloved father. Notes on Grief is at once a tribute to a long life of grace and wisdom, the story of a daughter''s fierce love for a parent, and a revealing examination of the layers of loss and the nature of grief. -
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