Autobiografie a biografie

This fictionalised portrait of Joyce’s youth is one of the most vivid accounts of the growth from childhood to adulthood.

Prisoner FF8282 gazes out from confinement on what he deems must be a glorious summer’s day, rays of sunlight bursting through the barred windows of his cell. Within the thick prison walls separating society from its dangerous criminals, a multitude of harrowing fates unfold, seldomly explored by the public.

Long days of boredom in confinement, the general inefficiency of prison bureaucracy and a critically over-stretched prison service. The tediousness of prison life kicks in for prisoner FF8282, also known as author Jeffrey Archer, in the second volume of his best-selling series The Prison Diaries. Still his fellow inmates show inspiring spirit and courage, amid an otherwise gloomy prison landscape, revealing that even in the darkest hours light can always be found.

A flicker of light almost appears at the end of the tunnel for prisoner FF8282, as he is transferred to North Sea Camp near Boston, Lincolnshire, a D-category prison. Under a less strict regime, the prisoners can enjoy a more relaxed set of rules, while slowly preparing to someday rejoin the world outside the walls.

At the time of her death in 1815, twenty-nine-year-old Ellen Hutchins had catalogued over a thousand species of seaweed and plants from her native Bantry Bay. Ireland’s first female botanist, Ellen was a major contributor to nineteenth-century scientific discovery. And yet, like so many brilliant women lost in history, it is her personal story that will resonate today.

In early March 1867, Muir was injured while working at a wagon wheels factory: a tool he was using slipped and struck him in the eye. This accident changed the course of his life. He was confined to a darkened room for six weeks, worried he’d lost his sight forever. When he did recover, the world looked completely different and life had taken on a new meaning for him.

Audiobook A Very Strange Man: a Memoir of Aidan Higgins written by Alannah Hopkin.This is a love story, set in the Irish literary world between 1986 and 2015. When they were first introduced by the poet Derek Mahon, Alannah Hopkin was an arts journalist turned full-time writer and Aidan Higgins, twenty-three years her senior, was a literary stylist, often cited as the heir to Ireland’s great Modernist tradition.

Příběh statečné matky dvou dětí, kterou komunistický režim donutil k riskantní cestě za svobodou. Chtěla svému synovi splnit přání vystudovat architekturu, což bylo v tehdejším Československu s rodinným kádrovým profilem vyloučené. Dva roky příprav bez možnosti svěření se komukoli z rodiny či kamarádce.

Titul je složen z vyprávění a z dokumentů o osobnostech našeho kulturního života jako např. Eduard Bass, Josef Čapek, Helena Malířová, Gabriela Preissová, Alfons Mucha, Jaroslav Ježek, Václav Vydra a mnoho dalších.

Audiokniha Ač zemřeli - ještě mluví 4 - obsahuje vzpomínkovou kompilaci nejrůznějších rozhovorů a monologů známých osobností.