A prelude to fame, Just Kids recounts the friendship of two young artists - Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe - whose passion fueled their lifelong pursuit of art. In 1967, a chance meeting between two young people...
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in Culinary Underbelly
After twenty-five years of sex, drugs, bad behaviour and haute cuisine, chef and novelist Anthony Bourdain has decided to tell all. From his first oyster in the Gironde to his lowly position as a dishwasher in a...
"The Kite Runner" tells a story of fierce cruelty and fierce yet redeeming love. Both transform the life of Amir, Khaled Hosseini`s privileged young narrator, who comes of age during the last peaceful days of the...
At the age of seventeen, Eustace Conway ditched the comforts of his suburban existence to escape to the wild. Away from the crushing disapproval of his father, he lived alone in a teepee in the mountains. Everything...
