Memoarer & Biografier

<b>Born to an American myth and raised in the wilds of Graceland, Lisa Marie Presley was never truly understood...until now. Before her death in 2023, she'd been working on a raw, riveting, one-of-a-kind memoir for years, recording countless hours of breathtakingly vulnerable tape, which has finally been put on the page by her daughter, Riley Keough.</b>

<strong>The hotly anticipated book from 'one of the all-time pop-culture greats' (<em>New York</em> magazine) that chronicles her shocking life and unyielding determination to not only survive but achieve her dreams.</strong> <br/><br/><strong>'Intense and compelling'</strong> SUNDAY TIMES <br/><br/><strong>'A gripping and powerful coming-of-age story'</strong> TELEGRAPH <br/><br/><strong>'A masterpiece'</strong> GREG JAMES, BBC RADIO 1 <br/><br/>Julia Fox is famous for many things: her captivating acting, such as her breakout role in the film <em>Uncut Gems</em>; her trendsetting style, including bleached eyebrows, exaggerated eyeshadow and cutout dresses; her mastery of social media. But all these share the trait for which she is <em>most</em> famous: unabashedly and unapologetically being herself. <br/><br/>This commitment to authenticity has never been more on display than in <em>Down the Drain</em>. Fox recounts her turbulent path to cultural supremacy: her parents' volatile relationship that divided her childhood between Italy and New York City and left her largely raising herself; a possessive and abusive drug-dealing boyfriend whose torment continued even from within Rikers Island; her own trips to jail as well as to a psychiatric hospital; her work as a dominatrix that led to a complicated entanglement with a sugar daddy; a heroin habit that led to New Orleans trap houses and that she would kick only after the fatal overdose of her best friend; her own near-lethal overdoses and the deaths of still more friends from drugs and suicide; an emotionally explosive, tabloid-dominating romance with a figure she dubs "The Artist"; a whirlwind, short-lived marriage and her trials as a single parent striving to support her young son. <br/><br/>Yet as extraordinary as her story is, its universality is what makes it so powerful. Fox doesn't just capture her evolution from grade-school outcast to fashion-world icon, she captures her transition from girlhood to womanhood to motherhood. Family and friendship, sex and death, violence and love, money and power, innocence and experience-it's all here, in raw, remarkable and riveting detail. <br/><br/>More than a year before the book's publication, Fox's description of it as "a masterpiece" in a red carpet interview went viral. As always, she was just being honest. <em>Down the Drain</em> is a true literary achievement, as one-of-a-kind as its author.

<i>The saying goes that "God only gives you what you can handle." Well God didn't grow up in my atheist, Wiccan, fame-laden, oversexed, teetotalling, drug-free, cloistered, chaotic, non-communicative, workaholic, feral-feeling house.'</i><br/><br/>For Moon Unit, daughter of musician Frank Zappa and his 'manager', Gail, processing a life so unique, so punctuated by the whims of creative urges, the tastes of popular culture and the calculus of celebrity, has at times been eviscerating. But it is her deep sense of humour and unshakeable humility that keeps her - and this memoir - pinned to the ground.<br/><br/>A child-star at age 14 after her accidental international hit single (recorded with her father), 'Valley Girl', turned her into a reluctant celebrity, Moon Unit Zappa's life has been utterly extraordinary from her birth in 1967 into a family that was already blessed/cursed as music royalty thanks to the acknowledged genius of Frank. But what are the consequences of growing up in a family who spend most of their time naked arguing about sexual/extra-marital liaisons and practising white magic in a free-for-all state of nonconformist, virtuoso abandon?<br/><br/><i>Earth to Moon</i> is a reckoning with self-esteem, the ghosts of the past and a mother and a father who, in the process of leaving their mark upon on the world, scarred their first daughter on home soil. Brutally self-deprecating and funny as hell, it belies a rose-tinted perspective on the 70s and 80s west coast American scene, from within the belly of the beast of the rock and roll world.

Rainer Maria Rilkes brev till hustrun Clara om mötet med Cézannes bilder på den retrospektiva utställningen 1907 och om vägen in i ett nytt sätt att se. De bilder som omnämns i texten återges i färg. Översättning av Helga Krook.

Vem var det som egentligen anlände först till platsen där Olof Palme lönnmördades den 28:e februari 1986? Den här frågan dväljas än idag i debatten då det aldrig har utretts eller klargjorts på ett tillfredsställande sätt. Det som anförts i ärendet håller inte, av flera skäl, för en kritisk granskning. Uppenbarligen existerar det avvikelser som omgående bör förtydligas.<br/><br/> I tidiga vittnesutsagor från nära vittnen återfinns en "yngling" varande bredvid den fallne personen. Den här "ynglingen" kom sedermera att utraderas i efterföljande förhör av anledningar som är okända.<br/><br/> Men år 2023 framträdde den här "ynglingen" och önskade framföra sina upplevelser. Han går under namnet Robert Barestrand och var 16 år gammal vid tiden för mordet år 1986.<br/><br/> Hans utsagor gällande de händelser han genomgick under tonåren kommer att anföras på ett obefläckat vis, skildrande hur Robert kom till insikten om vem som arrangerade och genomförde mordet, och i slutändan även varför. Robert erhöll i samband med allt även kännedom om vad som verkligen hände med M/S Estonia, fartyget som förliste på Östersjön den 28:e september 1994...<br/><br/> Det här en beskrivning av en tonårings resa och hur en ung kille blev djupt intrasslad i händelser som i modern tid utgör nationens mörkaste stunder...

Utan att förhäva mig över mina framgångar inom den fantastiskt<br/> roliga MC-sporten vill jag berätta roliga minnen.<br/> Allt från hur det började, tävlandet, mekandet, utvecklande av motorer, resor, kamrater och<br/> andra bekantskaper.

<b>An intimate and revelatory biography of Yoko Ono from the bestselling author of </b><i><b>Beautiful Boy</b></i><br/><br/> John Lennon once described Yoko Ono as the world's most famous unknown artist. 'Everybody knows her name, but no one knows what she does.' She has only been important to history insofar as she impacted Lennon. Throughout her life, Yoko has been a caricature, curiosity and often a villain - an inscrutable seductress, manipulating con artist and caterwauling fraud. The Lennon / Beatles saga is one of the greatest stories ever told, but Yoko's part has been missing - hidden in John's formidable shadow, further obscured by flagrant misogyny and racism. This definitive biography of Yoko Ono's life will change that. In this book, Yoko Ono takes centre stage. <br/><br/> Yoko's life, independent of Lennon, was an amazing journey. <i>Yoko</i> spans from her birth to wealthy parents in pre-war Tokyo, her refugee status during the war, and her arrival onto the avant-garde art scene in London, Tokyo and New York City. It delves into her groundbreaking art, music, feminism and activism. We see how she coped under the most intense, relentless and cynical microscope as she was saddled with the most heinous crime imaginable then: breaking up the greatest rock-and-roll band in history. <br/><br/> We see Yoko Ono through her own eyes, from a vantage point we have never seen before. Drawing from Yoko's personal letters, journals, films and videos and unpublished manuscripts, as well as access to her surviving family, closest friends, past collaborators and enemies, David Sheff covers the 90 years of Yoko's rollercoaster life.<br/><br/><b><i>Yoko </i>is a harrowing, moving, propulsive and vastly entertaining biography of a woman whose story has never been accurately told. The book not only rehabilitates Yoko Ono's reputation but elevates it to iconic status.</b>