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Una crónica de asombrosa honestidad sobre el amor en sus múltiples e imperfectas formas.Cuando su hija tenía poco más de un año, Leslie Jamison y su marido se separaron. Astillas es la disección afilada del desmoronamiento de ese matrimonio, y de la irrupcion explosiva de una crianza en solitario. Es eso, y, al mismo tiempo, muchisimo mas. Porque en el doloroso punto en el que confluyen la maternidad y el divorcio, la autora nos ofrece una exploracion implacable y conmovedora del amor en sus multiples y a menudo imperfectas formas.Tras el exito de sus celebrados ensayos El anzuelo del diablo, La huella de los dias y Gritar, arder, sofocar las llamas, Leslie Jamison vuelve con su obra mas personal hasta la fecha: el relato de la reconstruccion de una vida tras el fin de un matrimonio. Acostumbrada a lidiar con material sensible excavando en su propia psique e indagando en nuestras preguntas mas incontestables, se adentra ahora en un terreno nuevo para poner su incomparable capacidad de percepcion a analizar sus vinculos mas intimos: los que tiene con su hija, su ahora exmarido y sus padres, de los que ha heredado un complejo patron sentimental.Con una valentia extraordinaria, Jamison examina sus vulnerabilidades, contradicciones e intentos por encajar en un mundo donde las narrativas familiares se han hecho pedazos. Desde sus vivencias como hija del divorcio hasta las precarias conexiones que establece despues del suyo propio, la autora se adentra en la complejidad de las relaciones modernas para transitar el fracaso amoroso y la busqueda tenaz de una nueva identidad como mujer. Aunando lo emocional con lo intelectual, a traves de la experiencia propia pero tambien de reflexiones profundas sobre la naturaleza del compromiso y las expectativas impuestas y autoimpuestas de la feminidad, Leslie Jamison rinde en Astillas un homenaje al amor y al fracaso perpetuo, asi como a la dignidad que surge del intento incesante de salir adelante.

El nuevo libro de la autora Premio Nacional de las Letras EspañolasUn relato personal sobre su trayectoria literaria y sobre el oficio de la escritura«Riera es autora de una obra polifacética de repe

London had a special place in Agatha Christies heart. In her childhood, she would visit the capital to stay with her Auntie Grannie; as an adult, she owned several homes in the city. A re-occurring location in her stories, London is where Poirot and Hastings, and Tommy and Tuppence reside, and even Miss Marple cannot resist a trip up to town to do shopping in its department stores.With this refreshing take on the Queen of Crimes connections to the city in both her life and writing, Tina Hodgkinson follows in Christies footsteps, visiting her former homes, fashionable restaurants, luxury hotels and other London locations that she and her characters frequented. Discover the Apothecaries Hall in the City of London, where Agatha sat her medical exams, the hospital she worked in during the Second World War, the former headquarters of the Detection Club and the theatres, where her plays were performed.Christie wrote about the capital in every decade of her extensive literary career, and this detailed but accessible compendium will delight Christie fans both old and new.

In 1842, five years before they would become bestselling authors, Charlotte Bronte and her sister Emily arrived in Brussels. They were there to improve their French and German, but the years they spent in a pensionnat being taught by the charismatic Constantin Heger would do much more than polish their languages. It was a crucial turning point for both their writing and their personal lives. Each came away from Brussels a more mature and capable artist; Charlotte, having fallen lastingly in love with Heger, left with a broken heart and the inspiration for two novels, The Professor and Villette.Based on the Brontes letters, diaries and essays, as well as research into the Brussels of the time, this is a fascinating look at a formative period in the lives of two great writers. Tracing the influence of their Brussels years through their writing, MacEwan gives us insight into their artistic formation, and paints a vivid picture of the bustling 19th-century city that opened the sisters eyes to life beyond Haworth Parsonage.

On 12 May 2019, Manchester City became the first team to retain the Premier League title for a decade.Twenty years earlier, the same club was slogging its way fortuitously out of Division Two, having sunk ignominiously to the third tier, its glory days well behind it.Ordinarily, the tale of a sleeping giant awaking to stomp gleefully over the competition would be celebrated far beyond the core fanbase. But Citys success is tied inextricably to its takeover by the Abu Dhabi United Group in September 2008, an event that altered the clubs horizons beyond any plausible recognition. The injection of billions of pounds into the club and accusations that Abu Dhabi is sports washing its reputation have tarnished Citys domestic treble-winning season in 202223, as have serious charges of financial impropriety from the Premier League.Glory Days for the Waifs and the Strays charts this route from noble rags to uncomfortable riches and unpacks what it means when a teams lowest lows and highest highs occur improbably within a generation.It amounts to a story like no other in modern football. The distance travelled from there to here, the iconic human moments along the way, the greats on either side of the white line and the uniquely divisive means by which its been achieved. Manchester City have defined an era in English football. This is the tale of how that happened and why it matters.

In his irreverent and uncompromising bestselling And What Do You Do? former Minister of State and Privy Counsellor Norman Baker laid bare what the British royal family didnt want us to know, namely its extravagant use of public money and general bad behaviour.This glorious sequel goes even deeper in its analysis of royal finances, examining where the money comes from, how it is used and what has changed with the arrival of a new King and a new Prince of Wales.

The American-born folklorist and musician Margaret Fay Shaws passion for the Hebrides led her to the island of South Uist in 1929 and then to Canna in 1935 as the wife of the eminent folklorist John Lorne Campbell. Her extraordinary work in documenting and preserving traditional Gaelic songs and customs remains a vital resource for understanding Hebridean music, and the Campbells house on Canna is a unique collection of priceless material celebrating the Hebridean world. This vast archive also includes Margarets collection of still and film photography, which capture the essence of island life at a time when old traditions were vanishing. This book celebrates the legacy and life of a remarkable woman, who herself wrote with such wit and flair of her travels and adventures and which took her from turn of-the-century Pennsylvania to 1920s New York, Paris, Nova Scotia and the Hebrides, where she lived until her death in 2004.

After The Dance delves into the intriguing life of South African artist Le Roux Smith Le Roux (19141963), a brilliant yet obsessive outsider who was appointed Deputy Keeper of the Tate Gallery in 1950 at the age of thirty-six. Renowned for his sharp intelligence and methodical approach, Le Roux boldly questions the price paid by Director Sir John Rothenstein for the Degas sculpture, Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen. While Le Roux excels in his professional life, his personal relationships are chaotic. The biography unveils the complexities of a talented man whose life was tumultuous as it was remarkable. The narrative describes the Great Tate Affair (19521954), offering a fresh perspective that challenges the accepted narrative shaped by Rothensteins flawed account. Through meticulous research and compelling storytelling, this book invites readers to reconsider one of art historys most controversial episodes.