Биографии и мемуары

Cal Flyn was very proud when she discovered that her ancestor, Angus McMillan, had been a pioneer of colonial Australia. However, when she dug deeper, she began to question her pride. McMillan ha…

In 1992 Christina Lamb reported on the war the Afghan people were fighting against the Soviet Union. Now, back in Afghanistan, she has written an extraordinary memoir of her love affair with the …

A raw, intensely personal memoir of spiritual exploration from one of the world’s great commentators on religion.After seven years in a convent, which she left, dismayed by its restrictions, an e…

Анатолий Марченко – один из самых авторитетных участников диссидентского движения, проведший в лагерях и ссылках 18 лет и погибший после 117-дневной голодовки с требованием освободить всех политз…

Анатолий Марченко – один из самых авторитетных участников диссидентского движения, проведший в лагерях и ссылках 18 лет и погибший после 117-дневной голодовки с требованием освободить всех политз…

To mark the 20th anniversary of Kenneth Williams’ death, a beautiful coffee table book celebrating his life, including never-before-seen photographs, sketches and personal testimony from Williams…

It’s 1983 and best friends Vicky and Lucy swear that they will always be there for each other, that they’ll never let anyone come between them. But fast forward 4 years and life on the Canterbury…

Previously published as My Uncle Charlie.If you lived on the notorious Canterbury Estate in the ‘40s and ‘50s, then you knew there was one man you did not want to cross: Charlie Hudson.A solitary…

Still Got It, Never Lost It! tells the story of Louie Spence, star of Pineapple Dance Studios and ruthless judge on Dancing on Ice.‘I did everything my sisters did, that’s how my dancing days sta…

How one man turned a midlife crisis into the realisation of a childhood dream at 4pm at WincantonDominic Prince, journalist, documentary-maker, racing enthusiast and bon viveur hit the scales at …

In 2012 the Rolling Stones celebrate their 50th anniversary. Their story – the band's meteoric rise to fame, the Marianne Faithfull, Brian Jones and Altamont scandals, the groundbreaking hits – i…

An intense and emotive memoir of one girl’s difficult family upbringing in a Singaporean Chinese family during the Second World War.Lucy Lum was the third of seven children, born in Singapore in …

This major best-selling memoir of a poverty-stricken childhood in Liverpool is one of the most harrowing but uplifting books you will ever read.When Helen Forrester’s father went bankrupt in 1930…

A classic of mountaineering literature, The White Spider tells the story of the harrowing first ascent of the Eiger’s North Face, one of the most legendary and terrifying climbs in recorded histo…

The extraordinary story of an indomitable 95-year-old woman – and of the most extraordinary century in Ethiopia’s history. A new Wild SwansA hundred years ago, a girl was born in the northern Eth…

The key missing piece of Jon Krakauer’s multi million, multi territory bestseller and widely acclaimed Sean Penn film Into the Wild is finally revealed by his best friend and sister, Carine.The s…

A master of the innuendo and the raised eyebrow, Frankie Howerd – inimitable star of the classic ‘Carry On’ films – became a cult hero.As much at home in the Oxford Union as in high-camp pantomim…

Анатолий Марченко – один из самых авторитетных участников диссидентского движения, проведший в лагерях и ссылках 18 лет и погибший после 117-дневной голодовки с требованием освободить всех политз…

Книга литературоведа Ирины Панченко «Эссе о Юрии Олеше и его современниках» представляет интерес как для литературоведов, специалистов по русской литературе ХХ века, так и для широкого круга чита…

Книга, которая в настоящий момент находится перед вами, уникальна. Её отличие от других биографических работ о русском философе, религиозном мыслителе и публицисте Г. П. Федотове (1886 — 1951) за…