Toward a Psychology of Uncertainty
Since trauma is a thoroughly relational phenomenon, it is highly unpredictable, and cannot be made to fit within the scientific framework Freud so admired. In Toward a Psychology of Uncertainty: Trauma-Centered Psychoanalysis, Doris Brothers urges...
Bilingual Aesthetics
Knowing a second language entails some unease; it requires a willingness to make mistakes and work through misunderstandings. The renowned literary scholar Doris Sommer argues that feeling funny is good for you, and for society. In Bilingual Aesth...
Diaries of Jane Somers
First published in 1984, under a pseudonym, as 'The Diary of a Good Neighbour' and 'If the Old Could ?', now published as 'The Diaries of Jane Somers', this is in many ways classic Lessing. As resonant with social and political themes as 'The Gold...
To Room Nineteen
From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, a collection of some of her finest short stories. For more than four decades, Doris Lessing's work has observed the passion and confusion of human relations, holding a mirror up to our selves in h...
Going Home
From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, a compelling account of her return to the land in which she grew up. In 1956, some seven years after departed for England, Doris Lessing returned home to Southern Rhodesia. It was a journey that w...
Art Treasure Hunt
Young children love a good game of "I Spy with My Little Eye." In this beautifully designed book they are playfully challenged to find details "hidden" in some of the world's greatest paintings. On each double-page spread, a la...
Liebe, Schmerz und das ganze verdammte Zeug
Vier großartige, liebevolle, traurige, grausame Geschichten: 'Mitten ins Herz', 'Männer', 'Geld', 'Paradies'. Es sind Geschichten, aus denen Doris Dörrie ihre Filme entwickelt, von denen 'Männer' der weltweit erfolgreichste deutsche Film seit Jahrzehnten wurde. Geschichten um eine Kindfrau, um Liebe und Langeweile, um Eifersucht, Geld und Erfolg. Geschichten von befreiender Frische.
Himlen bar inga moln
"Himlen bar inga moln så starka att de förmådde bära allt detta. När man en gång förstått att livet ändras i det hastiga ögonblickets till synes slumpvisa val, blir livet sedan aldrig likadant." Den framgångsrika författaren Maria återvä...
Mimmi är sur
Mimmi och mamma grälar. "Du är en riktig liten gris, Mimmi!" säger mamma. "Du då", mumlar Mimmi, "du är en kossa." Men hur skulle det se ut om Mimmi verkligen var en gris och mamma en ko. Och om pappa var en åsna.
Skammens boning
I ett litet hus i Härnösand bor Doris med sina föräldrar. Det är 1950-tal och folkhem, och Doris har långt, ljust hår och Amerikaklänningar. Men hon får inte le så att de trasiga, bruna tänderna syns, hon får inte berätta att pappa dricker Elakt v...
Landlocked
The fourth book in the Nobel Prize for Literature winner's 'Children of Violence' series tracing the life of Martha Quest from her childhood in colonial Africa to old age in post-nuclear Britain. In the aftermath of the Second World War, Martha Qu...
Making of the Representative for Planet 8
From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, this is the fourth instalment in the visionary novel cycle 'Canopus in Argos: Archives'. The handsome, intelligent people of Planet 8 of the Canopean Empire know only an idyllic existence on their...
Under My Skin
The first volume of the autobiography of Doris Lessing, author of 'The Grass is Singing' and 'The Golden Notebook', and Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007. Winner of the James Tait Black Prize 1994. Doris Lessing's autobiography begins ...
Small Personal Voice
An essential and definitive collection of the Nobel Prize for Literature winner's finest essays, reviews, reminiscences and interviews from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. 'The novelist talks as an individual to individuals, in a small personal voice....
Nobody's Perfect: Bill Bernbach and the Golden Age of Advertising
Nobody's Perfect: Bill Bernbach and the Golden Age of Advertising
Bilingual Aesthetics
Knowing a second language entails some unease; it requires a willingness to make mistakes and work through misunderstandings. The renowned literary scholar Doris Sommer argues that feeling funny is good for you, and for society. In Bilingual Aesth...