Биографии и мемуары

A brilliant, inventive and endlessly delightful memoir from Fay Weldon, one of our most respected commentators on sex, relationships and gender, that picks up where her acclaimed Auto da Fay left…

Originally published in 1992 and now available as an ebook.This biography of the now-notorious Tyson is a compelling exposé of secrets, misconceptions, hype, greed – and racism.Montieth Illingwor…

Многотомник "Красная Армия. Полковники. 1935-1945" представляет собой биографический справочник лиц командно-начальствующего состава, получивших воинское звание "полковник" в период с 1935 года п…

Многотомник "Красная Армия. Полковники. 1935-1945" представляет собой биографический справочник лиц командно-начальствующего состава, получивших воинское звание "полковник" в период с 1935 года п…

Офицерство в царской России всегда было особой «кастой», отличающейся как от солдат, так и от гражданских людей. Отстраненность от общества объяснялась, в частности, и тем, что офицеры не имели п…

Experienced foster carer, Rosie Lewis, takes on the heart-breaking case of Megan, a baby born with a drug addiction and a cleft palate.Addicted to drugs from birth because of her mother’s substan…

Перелистывая публикации столетней давности, трудно избавиться от ощущения роковой предопределенности событий, в которых действовала скрытая сила, весьма повлиявшая на распад империи, когда Россия…

В книге доктора исторических наук Андрея Борисовича Соколова на фоне драматических событий британской истории середины XVII века рассматривается биография Эдварда Хайда, первого лорда Кларендона,…

Память – вещь ненадежная, книга в этом плане – настоящее спасение для тех, кто осознает важность своего прошлого. Ирвин Ялом, автор мировых бестселлеров и популярный психолог, запечатлел на стран…

Margaret Thatcher is the towering figure of late-twentieth-century British politics. No other prime minister of modern times has sought to change Britain and its place in the world as radically a…

This book is a more personal history than has ever before been written by or about Marianne Faithfull. Anecdotal, conversational, intimate and revealing, this is her no-holds-barred account of he…

Former Metallica guitarist and founding member of Megadeth Dave Mustaine talks for the first time about his life in rock ‘n’ roll, finally telling the inside story of two of the most influential …

A powerful and compelling memoir of growing up with a schizophrenic father, who hid his mental illness behind a charismatic larger-than-life, gluttonous personality and found logical explanations…

The inside story of the ‘reluctant medium’, finally available in a mass-market A-format editionBetty Shine was originally an opera singer, but studied all forms of alternative healing, becoming a…

In 1956, fresh from Eton and Oxford, the 23-year-old Colin Clark (son of ‘Lord Clark of Civilisation’, brother of maverick Tory MP and diarist Alan) worked as a humble ‘gofer’ on the set of The P…

‘My mother-in-law Annie lived with us for 17 years and was picture-book perfect.’It took a while before the family realised that Annie was increasingly (as she would put it) 'Mutt and Jeff'. So P…

From the playing fields of Eton via the horrors of the Western Front to the pinnacle of political power in 20th-century Britain – a brilliant collective biography of Harold Macmillan, Lord Salisb…

Critically acclaimed, award-winning biography of CS Lewis, JRR Tolkien and the brilliant group of writers to come out of Oxford during the Second World War.C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and their fr…

This is Claire’s story, one of four individual journeys taken from Wherever You Are by The Military Wives.Claire Balneaves never thought she’d end up as a military wife. But when she met a young …

This is Louise’s story, one of four individual journeys taken from Wherever You Are by The Military Wives.Louise Baines always said she would never marry into the military. She was working behind…