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This spellbinding collection of stories once again gathers together folk tales from across England in one special volume. Drawn from The History Press popular Folk Tales series, herein lies a second treasure trove of tales from a wealth of talented storytellers performing in the country today.From wandering kings and ethereal fairies to battling dragons and the fabled Apple Tree Man, this book celebrates the distinct character of Englands different customs, beliefs and dialects, and is a treat for all who enjoy a good yarn.

O QUE ACONTECE QUANDO A PERFEIÇÃO DA VIDA NAS REDES SOCIAIS ESCONDE UM PESADELO REAL?Shari Franke, filha mais velha da famosa família do canal 8 Passengers, revela pela primeira vez a verdade por trá

A memoir from the writer of BENT with a foreword by Ian McKellenSherman takes us on a journey through America in the mid twentieth century, starting in New Jersey where he was born in the 1930s to a Jewish immigrant family ending on Broadway with the premier of his seminal play Bent starring Richard Gere. On route, we encounter other famous performers including Meryl Streep, Bee Gees, Joan Baez, but the scene-stealing character is always his father a charismatic narcissist who might have given Trump a run for his money. We stop off in Woodstock, Los Angeles and London a city Martin would eventually make home; he relays his story with self-depreciating humour as he struggles to make it in theatre, with his sexuality, and under the shadow of the inheritable disease that killed his mother tragically early a disease from which he finds himself finally free, as he turns forty in the books closing pages.

UNA BIOGRAFÍA REVELADORA DEL NUEVO PAPA LEÓN XIV, TRAZADO DESDE SU VOCACIÓN MISIONERA EN AMÉRICA LATINA HASTA SU ELECCIÓN COMO LÍDER GLOBAL DE LA IGLESIA.Aires de cónclave, humo blanco, un nuevo papa. En 2025, la eleccion de Robert Prevost como Leon XIV marco un hito para la Iglesia catolica: un pontifice cuya vida encarna un puente entre culturas y continentes en un mundo fragmentado. ¿Quien es el sucesor de Francisco y que huellas de su pasado iluminaran el rumbo de su pontificado?En estas paginas, la periodista Elise Ann Allen corresponsal en Roma del portal especializado Crux traza un perfil completo e inedito del nuevo pontifice. Desde su infancia en Chicago y su temprana vocacion como agustino hasta sus años como misionero en el Peru y su papel clave en el Vaticano como responsable de los obispos, Allen revela las experiencias que forjaron su caracter y lo consagraron como lider espiritual y ciudadano del mundo. Testimonios de allegados en Estados Unidos, Peru y Roma completan este retrato humano y cercano de una figura que hoy guia a la Iglesia en tiempos de incertidumbre y polarizacion.El libro culmina con un documento excepcional: la primera entrevista que Leon XIV concede oficialmente como papa. En un dialogo profundo y revelador, el nuevo pontifice comparte sus prioridades, sus convicciones y su vision para el futuro de la Iglesia.Elise Ann Allen nos ha regalado un retrato magistral y sorprendentemente intimo de nuestro nuevo papa, fruto de una exhaustiva investigacion y de decenas de entrevistas sobre el terreno, incluida una Con el propio papa. Un logro extraordinario.Austen Ivereigh, biografo del papa FranciscoDesde su condicion de reportera vaticanista, la tenacidad de Elise Ann Allen y su busqueda rigurosa de la verdad ayuda a desentrañar las campañas maliciosas vertidas contra el sucesor de Jorge Bergoglio y hacen de esta publicacion una fuente decisiva para comprender el inicio del pontificado de un agustino que descubrio su vocacion religiosa en el Peru.Pedro SalinasAllen, con la necesaria distancia de una testigo foranea, logra distinguir los resquicios de esperanza que a menudo somos incapaces de ver, esculpiendo la silueta de un pontifice convencido de la labor de una Iglesia comprometida en sanar las heridas de la violencia, la miseria y los abusos sexuales que dañan a tantos hermanos en nuestra region. Leon XIV sabe que la oscuridad persiste, pero tambien reconoce la terquedad de la luz.Gonzalo Banda

The Marquis de Sade, infamous for his obscene writing and his cruelty to women, nonetheless lived a life dominated by them - his charismatic mother, iron-willed mother-in-law, and his wife. A wife who, despite her husbands peccadilloes, and although their marriage was arranged in order for their families to combine financial and social capital, loved him devotedly for thirty years, through betrayal, imprisonment, and national turmoil.This biography reveals how Renee-Pelagie de Montreuil, Marquise de Sade, endured the chaos caused by her frenetically dissolute husband with grace, and how she carved out her own independence in an era when women were entitled to little of their own. She bore the Marquis three children, loved him, put up with his wild behaviour, edited his manuscripts for him, tried to help him escape prison by means legal and illegal, and acted throughout the decades of their marriage as his only reliable friend.Their complex relationship, set against the last years of the Ancien Regime in France, the Revolution and its aftermath, are brought to life with humour and compassion by Margaret Crosland, also the translator of Sades Gothic Tales. She shows how the Sade marriage symbolized the decay of the old aristocracy and conveys the struggle of one individual to establish her personal identity at a time when women in France had virtually no rights of their own.

A estreia literária de Dino DSantiago.Uma autobiografia emocional de um dos artistas portugueses mais reconhecidos da atualidade.Metade de um século passou sobre a independência da sua terra ancestra

Edição de luxo, forrada a veludo, com ilustrações do autor.As melhores, as mais insólitas e rocambolescas histórias dos últimos anos dO Homem Que Mordeu o CãoOnde podemos encontrar uma velha que viaj

When Brian Dillon was sixteen his mother died and he simply gave up all schoolwork. While he courted exam failure, his real education was going on elsewhere: with books, music, films and television. When at last he made it to university, his head was already full of avant-garde writing, art and ideas. Could academia live up to the hopes and dreams he had invested in it? Halfway through college his father died, and the stakes of reading and writing seemed even higher. Ambivalence explores what learning meant to its author, what it enabled and denied, between the ages of seventeen and twenty-six, when he left his native Dublin. Its at once a memoir of that city in the 1980s and 1990s, an uncynical portrait of the adolescent and early-adult mind, and an intimate defence of radical thinking about literature and life. In vivid present-tense fragments, Dillon describes his first encounters with writers such as Virginia Woolf, Walter Benjamin, Samuel Beckett, Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida. He recalls being seduced by ambivalence, ambiguity and androgyny on the page and in the life he hoped his reading would transfigure. The era he describes seemed to demand new ways of thinking about aesthetics and politics. Today, when rights are fragile, arts and humanities attacked, and students dismissed as radicals or narcissists, Ambivalence is an argument for the poetic and revolutionary force of changing yourself and even the world by changing what you know.

Os Virtuosos conta a história de três grandes presidentes que governaram o país, de 1894 a 1906.Prudente de Moraes foi o presidente responsável por livrar o Brasil das garras do autoritarismo militar

Silviano Santiago de corpo inteiro"O que você pretende com essas entrevistas? Vamos decidir antes." É a cartada que Silviano Santiago lança em João Pombo Barile, logo nas primeiras páginas deste livr

HOW DO YOU DEFEND DEMOCRACY WHEN THE RULES HAVE CHANGED?Presidents turning into monarchs. Tech tycoons and autocrats intent on global regime change. Armies of cyber trolls.The old order is at an end. The Hour of the Predator has come.Former political advisor Giuliano da Empoli takes us on an insiders journey through this new reality, from the Glass Palace of the UN to the Riyadh Ritz-Carlton, from top secret meetings to violent power struggles. We encounter dictators and tyrants, strongmen and AI billionaires - geopolitical predators, and the flailing leaders who desperately try to appease them.Just as in the age of the Borgias or the conquistadors, cynical scheming and brute force increasingly determine the course of international affairs. This is an urgent guide to our new world, and our uncertain future.PRAISE FOR THE HOUR OF THE PREDATORIn a masterful, evocative narrative, he captures the worst aspects of the conquest led by men like Donald Trump and Sam Altman LExpressDa Empoli is the chronicler of our troubled times [and] weaves a narrative as compelling as a novel or a Greek tragedyLe MondeDetails with a grim lucidity the many ills afflicting our new world Nouvel ObsA dark and dazzling book that lays bare the predators of our age La TribunePRAISE FOR THE WIZARD OF THE KREMLINA great book, casting light on the creatures that crawl and slither behind the Kremlins walls, on the mineral hardness of Putin, on the chaos engine that is his way of hurting us. Read this book and you will understand the Russian mind-fuck. Read it John SweeneyA captivating novel that sails close, perhaps too close, to reality Financial Times, Books of the YearHis novel has become a guide - devoured by many western politicians - to the mindset of the Kremlin Simon Kuper, Lunch with the FT, Financial TimesYou need to be credible, to get into a characters head and present their point of view... But it has to be entertaining, and it has to be convincing. His book succeeds on both measures Peter Conradi, Sunday TimesI doubt I have anywhere seen a cleverer portrayal of the Russian view of power, politics and the world, or a better explanation of how the col...

From a young age Carly Holmes has been in thrall to the creatures that live around us. Her childhood companion was a blind gander called Beep Beep who thought she was his wife. She nearly postponed her wedding when a pair of wrens nested in a hole by her back door and cut it very fine to fledge their chicks into an assorted audience of cats and magpies.This collection of essays, beautifully illustrated throughout, are each of them love letters to the Teifi valley and to the river that winds through Carlys days. The wild animals the badgers who visit nightly for peanuts; the juvenile osprey who learned to fish on the estuary across the lane; the young jackdaw she nurtured until it was healthy enough to ignore her whenever she went into the garden; the cuckoos she discovered in flagrante one afternoon on a lockdown walk are the very heart of it.Describing encounters and missed encounters with the wildlife that surrounds the Teifi, Love Letters on the River is a lyrical, honest and tender tribute to the many creatures both in the garden and beyond the garden wall that bring joy to Carlys life simply by existing. Includes a dozen black and white illustrations commissioned exclusively for this publication by acclaimed local artist Guy Manning.

Conheça os segredos da agencia mais temida do mundo.Desde a sua criaço, o serviço de espionagem de Israel tem uma norma: perseguir os supostos inimigos do Estado nos locais mais remotos do planeta. De criminosos de guerra nazistas a lideres do Hamas, a caçada e executada pelo temivel Kidon (Baioneta), a subunidade de assassinos de elite do Mossad.Com uma narrativa agil de documentario investigativo, Eric Frattini reconstitui 26 operaçes encobertas de assassinato e sequestro ao longo de sessenta anos de historia. Esta nova ediço inclui 10 capitulos ineditos, focados na moderna "guerra nas sombras" contra o terrorismo.

In 1920, Virginia and Leonard Woolfs Hogarth Press published Maxim Gorkys Reminiscences of Tolstoy and it was recognized almost immediately as one of the few masterpieces of modern biography. It is one of the most remarkable biographical pieces ever written, writes Leonard Woolf in his autobiography. It makes one hear, see, feel Tolstoy and his character as if one were sitting in the same room his greatness and his littleness, his entrancing and infuriating complexity, his titanic and poetic personality, his superb humour. In 1934, the book was expanded to include Gorkys memoirs of two other great Russian literary figures, Anton Chekhov and Leonid Andreyev. Almost a hundred years later, Reminiscences of Tolstoy, Chekhov and Andreyev is reissued in a superb new translation by Bryan Karetnyk.

Blending biography, memoir and art criticism, Fancy Work: Unpicking Past Lives explores the ever-shifting tensions between family, labour and gender through the history of embroidery, or fancy work. At the heart of the book is Alice Hattricks encounter with the embroidery designer May Morris and her circle: from her father William Morris to her mother Jane, an artists model and embroiderer herself, and M.F., Mays gender non-conforming partner for twenty years. Searching for guidance, Hattrick looks to Mays life alongside others who have found, in textiles, a means of resistance to understand better their own queer identity, family ties and fractious working conditions in an ableist society. In the ephemeral nature of textiles, Hattrick finds a mirror to archival research. How can the past help us to imagine alternative domestic circumstances and create unconstrained lives of our own, especially when not all traces remain? Expansive in thought, form and time, Fancy Work is a radical and thrilling work that reminds us that we can think differently, inviting us to place the needle in our own hands and stitch ourselves a loop in the chain.

Throughout 2024, Samar Yazbek met with hundreds of survivors from Gaza, posing a singular question: What were you doing on October 7, 2023? She has selected twenty-six of these narratives to share with the world. Yazbek captures the raw, chilling accounts of ordinary civilians aged thirteen to sixty-five, who have witnessed what history may one day remember as one of the most savage wars of our time. Their stories reveal a nightmarish dystopia, where each survivor has endured unimaginable loss homes shattered, loved ones vanished, limbs obliterated and many have been treated in hospitals ravaged by Israeli attacks. But these survivors remain determined to share their stories, and cling to the hope that their voices will resonate. The title, Your Presence Is a Danger to Your Life, is adapted from one of the flyers dropped on the residents of Gaza minutes before a bombing.

The leading authority on our contemporary prime ministers Dominic Grieve, GuardianAfter almost a decade and a half of Tory rule, the 2024 General Election saw the Conservatives suffer their worst-ever defeat: they received 7.14 million fewer votes than in 2019; 23.7 per cent is their lowest ever vote share; and their current 121 MP contingent is their smallest since 1832. Meanwhile, the rise of Reform threatens the partys very existence.How did it all go wrong so quickly, following Boris Johnsons record-setting win in 2019?From taking office amidst the cost of living and energy supply crises and the panic caused by Liz Trusss disastrous mini-budget, through the agenda-dominating Ukraine and Gaza wars and the Rwanda Asylum Plan, to the stunning 2023 local election results, Sunak at 10 is the definitive and jaw-dropping window into Rishi Sunaks premiership.

When *Titanic *left Southampton in 1912, neither the Aristocrat, The Countess of Rothes, nor the Able Seaman, Thomas Jones, imagined meeting, let alone navigating a tiny lifeboat together at night, among towering icebergs. But Jones put Noel Rothes at the tiller of his boat when he realised her calm capability, and for seven long hours they did all they could to shepherd at least twenty-five others to safety. Their ordeal forged an unlikely affinity that lasted until Noel died in 1956. Angela Young, Noels great-granddaughter, tells the stories of these two courageous *Titanic *survivors and considers why so very few people survived the tragedy.

Once upon a time, there was a tower on a hill, beyond the dark trees, somewhere north. An octagonal tower on two levels: glass upstairs and stone below, beneath a steep slate roof a folly, it was said. According to locals, a young woman named Annie who fell ill was confined to the tower by her father for three years and died there, alone. Fascinated by Annies story, Thea Lenarduzzi attempts to piece the past together in a formidable act of imagination, which, tugging at the strings of the how, why and who of stories, begins to unravel the very idea of storytelling itself. Veering between fiction, memoir, fairy tale and folklore, The Tower is an extraordinary book about power, abuse and why we dont always tell the story we set out to tell.

A Cool Head in Hell is a compelling historical narrative based on Harry Silmans diary, arguably the only contemporaneous account by a POW under the Japanese to survive WW2. In it, as well as in letters and later accounts, Silman details his experiences as a doctor in the British Army from the Dunkirk evacuation (in which he was amongst the last soldiers delivered to safety) to his deployment to Singapore and subsequent capture by Japanese troops.Silmans vivid diary entries take us through his time as a detainee in the notorious Changi prison camp, and as a forced labourer on the Burma Railway. His calm manner, resourcefulness, resilience and positive nature during such cruel conditions, in which survival was a daily gamble, stand out and his perspective is up-front, as he was tasked with care of so many ill, wounded and dying fellow combatants.Harrys diary, compiled on scraps and hidden improbably under the threat of extreme sanction,offers rare insight into the survival strategies and medical challenges endured by the prisoners of war, and the deep bonds they formed. The narrative is rich with personal anecdotes, including Harrys enduring friendship with an Anglican padre and his leadership in organising Jewish services, providing a poignant look at faith, community and solidarity in horrific circumstances.Astutely edited by Harrys daughter Jacqueline Passman, the book also reflects on the psychological and emotional aftermath of captivity, examining how Harrys experiences shaped him long after liberation.