Tagebücher & Memoiren

Autografen, die handschriftlichen Spuren, die ein Mensch hinterlassen hat, sind als unmittelbare Zeitzeugen aussagekräftige biografische Quellen. Grafologen und Psychologen extrahieren allein aus einer Unterschrift mitunter ganze Persönlichkeitsprofile, und auch der Laie schaut gerne mit Neugier und detektivischem Ehrgeiz auf das Schriftbild, bisweilen auch die Klaue (muss ein Genie sein!) prominenter Persönlichkeiten. Der brasilianische Schriftsteller, Verleger und Sammler Pedro Corrêa do Lago hält zwar nicht viel von der Grafologie, sammelt aber Autografen seit seiner Jugend mit einer Besessenheit, die ihm selbst nicht ganz geheuer ist: "Eigentlich müsste ich in einer Zwangsjacke stecken!" Im Laufe eines knappen halben Jahrhunderts hat er eine Sammlung zusammengetragen, die alle Dimensionen sprengt - sie umfasst rund 100.000 Dokumente: Briefe, Notizen, Tagebuchseiten, signierte Fotografien, Partituren, Manuskripte, Widmungsexemplare und andere handschriftliche Zeugnisse, von einem mittelalterlichen Pergament, das vier Päpste unterzeichneten, bis zu einer Buchwidmung inklusive Daumenabdruck von Stephen Hawking aus dem Jahre 2006. Die für diesen Band ausgewählten 140 Dokumente aus fast 900 Jahren stammen von Menschen aus Politik, Literatur, Kunst, Philosophie, Film, Musik und Wissenschaft, die ihren Platz im Who's Who der Geschichte behauptet haben und nicht im Meer des Vergessens untergegangen sind: Briefe von Lucrezia Borgia, Vincent van Gogh, Franz Kafka und Emily Dickinson, kommentierte Skizzen von Michelangelo, Jean Cocteau, Henri Matisse und Jackson Pollock, signierte Fotografien von Oscar Wilde, Rasputin, Emiliano Zapata, Sun Yat-sen, Josephine Baker und Allen Ginsberg, Handschriften von Giacomo Puccini, Jorge Luis Borges und Marcel Proust und viele Zeitzeugnisse mehr, darunter auch ein signierter Handabdruck von Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. Zauber der Schrift bietet spannende, manchmal anrührende und mitunter verblüffende Einblicke in das Tun und Treiben prominenter Persönlichkeiten der westlichen Kultur und öffnet über den persönlichen Schriftzug im Idealfall einen Zugang zu einer privaten, intimen Welt, die uns sonst verborgen bliebe.

From the indie rockstar of Japanese Breakfast fame, and author of the viral 2018 &i>New Yorker&/i> essay that shares the title of this book, an unflinching, powerful memoir about growing up Korean-American, losing her mother, and forging her own identity.

A deeply honest investigation of what it means to be a woman and a commodity from Emily Ratajkowski, the archetypal, multi-hyphenate celebrity of our time.

Ildikó von Kürthy hat sich einen Hund angeschafft. In ihrem Leben spielen nun Gassibeutel, schmutzabweisende Kleidung und Leberwurstkekse tragende Rollen."Hilde" ist ein persönliches Tagebuch aus der seltsamen und wunderbaren Welt der Hundefreunde. Der Ratgeber einer Ratlosen. Ein ehrliches, lustiges, rührendes und unglaublich peinliches Buch für Zweibeiner, die ursprünglich auch nie so werden wollten wie all die anderen verrückten Hundebesitzer.

Der Satz "Das Schwein da vorne ist meine Tochter!" birgt das Potenzial für ein Familiendrama à la Hollywood in sich und würde wohl den meisten Töchtern die Zornesröte ins Gesicht treiben. Allerdings ist alles eine Frage des Kontextes und in diesem Fall eine offensichtliche Zustandsbeschreibung gepaart mit unverhohlenem mütterlichem Stolz, denn - das lässt sich nicht bestreiten - Barbara Blasums Tochter Vera Isabelle kann auf eine wahrhaft tierische Karriere zurückblicken!In 33 Geschichten hat das Mutter-Tochter-Duo witzige, unglaubliche und zum Teil absurde Situationen festgehalten, die es erlebt hat oder über die die beiden unverhofft gestolpert sind - ob im Spargelfeld der Verwandten, im Manöver oder auf dem roten Teppich in Los Angeles. Und so verraten die beiden beispielsweise nicht nur, warum der Erfolg eines Kinofilms wortwörtlich in ihren Händen lag, sondern auch, wie sie zum Titel Lady samt Ländereien in Schottland gekommen sind. Hier zeigt sich ganz klar: Die besten Geschichten schreibt noch immer das Leben!

'I am most grateful for two things: that I was born in North Korea, and that I escaped from North Korea.'Yeonmi Park was not dreaming of freedom when she escaped from North Korea. She didn't even know what it meant to be free. All she knew was that she was running for her life, that if she and her family stayed behind they would die - from starvation, or disease, or even execution. This book is the story of Park's struggle to survive in the darkest, most repressive country on earth; her harrowing escape through China's underworld of smugglers and human traffickers; and then her escape from China across the Gobi desert to Mongolia, with only the stars to guide her way, and from there to South Korea and at last to freedom; and finally her emergence as a leading human rights activist - all before her 21st birthday.'Clear-eyed and devastating' Observer

A teenager's addiction from the parent's point of view - a real-time chronicle of the shocking descent into substance abuse and the gradual emergence into hope.

REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK • An anniversary edition of the bestselling collection of "Dear Sugar" advice columns written by the author of #1 New York Times bestseller Wild—featuring a new preface and six additional columns. Soon to be a Hulu Original series.For more than a decade, thousands of people have sought advice from Dear Sugar—the pseudonym of bestselling author Cheryl Strayed—first through her online column at The Rumpus, later through her hit podcast, Dear Sugars, and now through her popular Substack newsletter. Tiny Beautiful Things collects the best of Dear Sugar in one volume, bringing her wisdom to many more readers. This tenth-anniversary edition features six new columns and a new preface by Strayed. Rich with humor, insight, compassion—and absolute honesty—this book is a balm for everything life throws our way.

From the beloved New York Times bestselling author, speaker and activist Glennon Doyle.*****For many years, Glennon Doyle denied her discontent. At first, Glennon assumed these words came to her from on high but soon she realised they had come to her from within.

A raw, cerebral work devoted to the inextricability of pleasure and pain, and to the question of what role, if any, aesthetic beauty can play in times of great heartache or grief.

'The Beauty Myth' for the Instagram generation.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERTwo long-time friends share an intimate and urgent conversation about life, music and their enduring love of America, with all its challenges and contradictions, in this stunningly-produced expansion of their ground-breaking Higher Ground podcast, featuring more than 350 photographs, exclusive bonus content, and never-before-seen archival material.Renegades: Born in the USA is a candid, revealing, and entertaining dialogue between President Barack Obama and legendary musician Bruce Springsteen that explores everything from their origin stories and career-defining moments to their country's polarized politics and the growing distance between the American Dream and the American reality. Filled with full-colour photographs and rare archival material, it is a compelling and beautifully illustrated portrait of two outsiders-one Black and one white-looking for a way to connect their unconventional searches for meaning, identity, and community with the American story itself. It includes: Original introductions by President Obama and Bruce Springsteen Exclusive new material from the Renegades podcast recording sessions Obama's never-before-seen annotated speeches, including his "e;Remarks at the 50th Anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery Marches Springsteen's handwritten lyrics for songs spanning his 50-year-long career Rare and exclusive photographs from the authors' personal archives Historical photographs and documents that provide rich visual context for their conversation. In a recording studio stocked with dozens of guitars, and on at least one Corvette ride, Obama and Springsteen discuss marriage and fatherhood, race and masculinity, the lure of the open road and the call back to home. They also compare notes on their favourite protest songs, the most inspiring American heroes of all time, and more. Along the way, they reveal their passion for-and the occasional toll of-telling a bigger, truer story about America throughout their careers, and explore how their fractured country might begin to find its way back toward unity.

The autobiography of one of the greatest goalkeepers of all time.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARWinner of Non-Fiction Book of the Year, British Book Awards (Nibbies), 2022A self-portrait in 154 songs, by our greatest living songwriter'More often than I can count, I've been asked if I would write an autobiography, but the time has never been right. The one thing I've always managed to do, whether at home or on the road, is to write new songs. I know that some people, when they get to a certain age, like to go to a diary to recall day-to-day events from the past, but I have no such notebooks. What I do have are my songs, hundreds of them, which I've learned serve much the same purpose. And these songs span my entire life.' In this extraordinary book, with unparalleled candour, Paul McCartney recounts his life and art through the prism of 154 songs from all stages of his career - from his earliest boyhood compositions through the legendary decade of The Beatles, to Wings and his solo albums to the present. Arranged alphabetically to provide a kaleidoscopic rather than chronological account, it establishes definitive texts of the songs' lyrics for the first time and describes the circumstances in which they were written, the people and places that inspired them, and what he thinks of them now. Presented with this is a treasure trove of material from McCartney's personal archive - drafts, letters, photographs - never seen before, which make this also a unique visual record of one of the greatest songwriters of all time. We learn intimately about the man, the creative process, the working out of melodies, the moments of inspiration. The voice and personality of Paul McCartney sings off every page. There has never been a book about a great musician like it.Each volume is 480 pp, not available separately

The often hilarious, at times horrifying and occasionally heartbreaking diaries of a former junior doctor, and the story of why he decided to hang up his stethoscope.

However it arrives, wintering is usually involuntary, lonely and deeply painful.In Wintering, Katherine May recounts her own year-long journey through winter, sparked by a sudden illness in her family that plunged her into a time of uncertainty and seclusion.

Permanent Record is the essential and courageous memoir of Edward Snowden - the man who risked everything to expose the shocking mass surveillance used by governments across the world to spy on their own citizens.

The remarkable life of Lady in Waiting to Princess Margaret who was also a Maid of Honour at the Queen's Coronation - and is a character in The Crown this autumn. Anne Glenconner reveals the real events behind The Crown as well as her own life of drama, tragedy and courage, with the wonderful wit and extraordinary resilience which define her.

THE AWARDWINNING, INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'The Choice is a gift to humanity. One of those rare and eternal stories that you don't want to end and that leave you forever changed' DESMOND TUTU, Nobel Peace Prize LaureateIn 1944, sixteen-year-old Edith Eger was sent to Auschwitz.