Memorias

C’EST LA VIE (REDGERS, GWYN)

It was the writer Hunter Davies, though he does not know it, who prompted me to write this book. He, like me, had reached the ripe age of 80 and he wrote a long article, composed of 80 paragraphs, which appeared in the Sunday Times Magazine. The article listed the joys of being 80. I was inspired by much of what he wrote, such as his paragraph 40 which read: ?I am still working at 80. You just stagger on, hoping to get away with it, writing this sort of stuff, for example ?. ?It was a time when I had recently written My Speaking Journey of 30 years and also Those Trinity Years. Although writing books had not featured in my bucket list, an interest in scribbling had taken hold. I was flirting with the concept of memoirs, but I certainly had no interest in a full chronological biography. However, Hunter Davies?s scheme of ?80 items? made me think further.The result is this compilation of 80 separate chats illustrating the fun and follies of my 80 years. I am pleased to share both my pleasures and my observations with you, and ask you to forgive the faults of memory and the occasional repetitions which are boun

KANE FROM CANADA (KANE, MARY;ROBERTS, JANE)

George Kane (1916?2008) was at heart a farm boy from Saskatchewan. In the early part of his memoir he looks back on his family background, schooldays in St Peter?s Abbey in Muenster and university years in Vancouver, Toronto, and Northwestern universities before he set off for London on an Imperial Order of Daughters of the Empire two-year graduate scholarship in September 1938. He was never to live in Canada again. Kane spoke rarely about his wartime years, when he served as an officer in the British Army. The greater part of his memoir focuses on 1939?1945, giving a new picture of P.O.W. life in Germany???and escape attempts. In later life Kane won international acclaim as a medieval scholar. The final chapter, to 1965, includes discussion of the origins of his Piers Plowman editions. At the University of London Kane taught in University College and later held chairs at Royal Holloway (1955?1965) and King?s College (1965?1976); afterwards he held the William Rand Kenan Jr. Professorship of English at the University of North Carolina (1976?1987).

EL VIAJE . LUCHA CONTRA LA BESTIA INTERIOR (CALLONI, SARA)

Esta es la historia de Alessia, una chica de 30 años que, después de encontrar a la interlocutora adecuada, comienza a estudiar su propio pasado, y así puede comprender la razón de sus diversos comportamientos. Estos siempre le han hecho pensar que es una persona que encierra una "bestia" oscura en sí misma, que incluso aunque en algunos aspectos de su vida permanecía dormida, siempre estaba allí; nunca la abandonó, no le permitió tener amistades y alcanzar la felicidad anhelada. Después de tomar conciencia de ello, descubre lo que realmente quiere de la vida, y lo que debe hacer para convertirse finalmente en una mujer orgullosa de sí misma, y lista para amar de verdad a quienes la rodean.

MEMORIAS PEDRO PEÑA . DEL CÓMICO DE LA GRACIA SERIA AL ABUELO MANOLO (PEÑA VÁZQUEZ, MARÍA ISABEL)

“Valgo más por lo que callo que por lo que hablo.” Con esta frase, querido lector, don Pedro Peña se define a sí mismo. Una persona íntegra, sin aristas, amante padre de familia, buen esposo y divertido abuelo. Un hombre que ha pasado a engrosar el olímpico firmamento de las plateas españolas por cuanto aportó al panorama escénico contemporáneo en sus distintas facetas: intérprete, director, libretista... Quien espere encontrar en estas memorias insultos o vanos chismes contra compañeros de profesión, ha escogido el libro equivocado. Se trata éste de un relato ameno, original, único por cuanto aporta al panorama teatral de los últimos 60 años. Anécdotas, sufrimientos, lágrimas, risas, logros, decepciones... Por sus páginas pasan los más grandes actores de su tiempo, y todos ellos retratados con la enorme humanidad y la humildad que siempre han caracterizado a don Pedro Peña Allén, “el cómico de la gracia seria”. Juan José Montijano

THE FAMILY OF THE PRIEST (MEFFE, DOMENIC)

Domenic Meffe is all about moving forward. Yet 17 years after coming to Canada as a boy in 1965, the busy entrepreneur felt the undeniable pull of his Italian roots. Returning to his hometown in Molise unleashed powerful memories which revived a 200-year-old family legend of such tremendous spiritual and physical passion that most families would rather have left it alone. Fearless in his honesty and unremitting in his pride of his priestly ancestor, Meffe shares in The Family of the Priest the grit and the glory of his family tree and invites us to judge his history as we examine our own.

DON’T EVEN (FLETCHER, TANIA;RASIDI, PHILIPPA)

Every woman has an intimate story to tell, whether it be an awkward first date, a meaningful long term relationship, or a month long tryst that crashed and burned. These experiences, whether you know it or not, all serve to shape and influence the person you are today. Not one experience is a waste of time and only if you're willing to reflect on them, will you discover the hidden truths and invaluable lessons the universe always intended for you. That casual hook up you didn't expect to fall for, the heartthrob that unceremoniously dumped you or the crazy nut bar you almost got a restraining order against? We know those guys. They have been the stories we told our friends, and though some a painfully raw, they are honest. They are us. This book takes you through a whirlwind of motions and hilarious encounters in our quest to find the ultimate unicorn. In this candid tell-all, we reveal the good, the bad and the wonderfully orgasmic in hopes that our experiences will help you on your own journey as you navigate through the dating world.?

LA INDUSTRIA, LA PRENSA Y LA POLÍTICA . NICOLÁS MARÍA DE URGOITI (1869-1951) (CABRERA CALVO-SOTELO, MERCEDES)

Biografía del empresrio Nicolás María de Urgoiti (1869-1951), promotor del proceso de concentración de la industria del papel desde la fundación de La Papelera Española en 1901 y fundador del diario " El Sol " en 1917 y de la editorial Calpe en 1918. La interferencia de sus muchos intereses, le lanzaron a la esfera pública y le llevaron a abandonar la dirección de La Papelera y a perder " El Sol " .

DEEP IN A DREAM. LA LARGA NOCHE DE CHET BAKER (GAVIN,JAMES)

«Gavin ha escrito una biografía muy documentada -decenas de entrevistas, reseñas de la época, testimonios inéditos-, utilizando a la vez el punto de vista del sociólogo, el crítico musical y el biógrafo. El resultado es una de las mejores biografías sobre Chet Baker, un retrato conciso del artista y la época que le tocó vivir.» Publishers Weekly «Jazz, talento, amores, pérdidas y drogas: Chet Baker es el representante del cool jazz con más carisma. Su vida y su obra se funden a la perfección en la biografía de Gavin. Un libro apasionante y trágico, como la vida del propio Baker.» Booklist

MI VIDA RURAL EN ARAGON (ARBUÉS POSSAT JOSÉ)

Por su estructura y por su contenido, este libro podría ser una autobiografía, si bien limitada a unos días muy concretos dentro de una época relativamente corta y que comprende desde los doce años a los veintiún años del autor, es decir, entre 1945 y 1956, fracción tiempo que resultó ser decisiva para la evolución de las estructuras socioeconómicas, no solo en Aragón, sino en toda España. Pero también fue una etapa singular y maravillosa en la vida del protagonista, que, adolescente, vivía en un entorno libre, en constante contacto con la naturaleza y en el seno de una familia representativa del mundo rural. Tanto aquellas generaciones como las siguientes encontrarán en este hermoso libro, la manera de entender esta parte de nuestro pasado que, en definitiva, es de todos.