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Жизнь Шарлотты Бронте – неустанная борьба Свободной Человеческой Личности, сумевшей житейские поражения «переплавить» в творческую победу и завоевавшей право на вечную жизнь в искусстве.

The heartbreaking true story of a young, troubled mother who needed help.The sixteenth fostering memoir by Cathy Glass.It is the first time Laura has been out since the birth of her baby when Cat…

William Wharton turns his microscopic gaze on his own life to narrate and scrutinize the untimely deaths of his daughter and her family. A moving story of one man’s rage against death, and spirit…

An astonishing first book, Apache is a story of courage, comradeship, technology and tragedy, during the ongoing war in Afghanistan.‘Apache’ is the first book to come from the cockpit of the most…

Casey tells the harrowing story of Connor, an eight year old boy from a broken home who comes to stay with her family.It’s a Saturday morning when Casey and Mike are asked to take in eight year o…

First published in 2005 and now available as an ebook. Des Lynam’s autobiography gives a frank and opinionated insight into the man behind the myth.Des Lynam is one of Britain's best-loved and mo…

Книгу журналиста и историка Льва Колодного составляют документальные очерки о судьбе выдающихся русских писателей. В прошлые времена судьба литераторов зависела от царей, в ХХ веке – от вождей. С…

Впервые собраны вместе статьи автора о творчестве и биографии Пушкина. Основное внимание уделено содержанию произведений: прозы, драм и поэм нашего поэта, выявлению основных смыслов, образов, пос…

Сознательная жизнь А. С. Пушкина пришлась на череду беспрерывных войн, которые вела Россия: Отечественная война 1812 года, заграничные походы русской армии 1813–1814 годов, Русско-иранская (1826–…

15 февраля 1989 года после более чем 9-летней войны генерал Громов выводит по мосту Дружбы из Республики Афганистан Ограниченный контингент советских войск. Однако генералы никогда не идут крайни…

Михаил Дёмин, настоящее имя Георгий Евгеньевич Трифонов (1926–1984), – русский писатель, сын крупного советского военачальника, двоюродный брат писателя Юрия Трифонова. В 1937 году потерял отца, …

В настоящей книге перед читателем разворачивается картина послевоенной Москвы, автор рассказывает о Нюрнбергском процессе, на котором присутствовал лично, о своей поездке в Америку, убийстве С. М…

One of the most photographed women in Britain, Coleen knows what it's like to live in the celebrity glare. The fully updated paperback of her number one bestselling style autobiography 'Welcome t…

A major in-depth biography of Sven-Goran Eriksson – the first foreign manager of the England football team – which chronicles his time in the hot seat, from taking over from Kevin Keegan, the sto…

The Bible For Blokes From The Daddy Of Breakfast RadioForeword by James Nesbitt.Christian O’Connell has been a man nearly all his life. Well, once he was a boy, then he was a teenager, then a man…

Betrayed by his club but beloved by the fans, former Chelsea manager Claudio Ranieri was a constant headline-maker in 2004. Occasionally puzzling, often eccentric, but always fascinating and refr…

A heart-warming nostalgia memoir from a member of the world famous dance troupe, The Tiller Girls. Based in London in the 1930s, 40s and 50s, Irene’s story will transport readers back to a more i…

A witty memoir about the trials of adolescence, the tribulations of family life and the embarrassment that ensues from having larger-than-life parentsNeville and Liz Hodgkinson bought into the Th…

A heartwarming collection of stories from a woman who brings together disadvantaged children and abandoned racehorses, with remarkable results.Thirteen-year-old Sophie hadn’t uttered a word to an…

Alan Whicker is quite simply a legend. A visionary and master of his craft, his television shows from the fifties to the nineties almost single handed invented the language of travel television a…