Биографии и мемуары

The story of a man who gives up the rock ‘n’ roll dream… to play bowls.Alex Marsh wanted to be a rock star – but it didn’t work out. Instead he toiled away in the big city – only to give up his c…

The story of Emma and Carl Jung's highly unconventional marriage, their relationship with Freud, and their part in the early years of Psychoanalysis.Emma Jung was clever, ambitious and immensely …

Виктор Сенча – писатель, публицист; по образованию военный врач-эксперт и юрист. В своей книге «Пуговица Дантеса» исследует причины гибели великого русского поэта. И не только. Со смертью Пушкина…

Сборник статей офицера правоохранительных органов в отставке. Факты, наблюдения, личное мнение. Автор не претендует в своих выводах на истину в последней инстанции, а лишь дает информацию к размы…

War-time love story set in Abyssinia, Eritrea and the Yemen 1935-1945. Amedeo Guillet is still alive and living in County Meath, Ireland. Khadija is lost.This is the story of Amedeo Guillet – an …

Монография Меира Ландау «Русское эхо с „Титаника“», первая книга из серии «„Титаник“. Без легенды», посвящена русским пассажирам «Титаника» и отдельным пассажирам третьего класса. В книге автор п…

В новом издании уже известной книги начинающего автора Василия Маслова «Морские рассказы» опубликованы уже известные читателю рассказы с некоторыми изменениями и дополнениями, а также новые истор…

Ее семья потеряла всё - родину, дом, положение... Новый статус "беженцы" в чужой стране гарантировал им только жизнь. Жизнь, в которой прошлое было растоптано, а будущее - проклято. Межнациональн…

Новое издание мемуаров Ольги Адамовой-Слиозберг, написанных в 1950-е – 1960-е годы, повествуют о двадцати годах тюрем, лагерей и ссылок, через которые ей пришлось пройти в сталинские годы. Автор …

Agatha Christie’s personal memoirs about her travels to Syria and Iraq in the 1930s with her archaeologist husband Max Mallowan, where she worked on the digs and wrote some of her most evocative …

The definitive inside account of the Falklands War, written by Margaret Thatcher herself.On 21 May 1982, the British people watched with a mixture of pride and fear as their troops landed under h…

A full and revealing biography of one of the century’s greatest English writers and an icon to a generation.Dame Iris Murdoch has played a major role in English life and letter for nearly half a …

A lyrical, haunting, multi-generational memoir of one family’s tempestuous century in Iraq from 1900 to the present.The Chalabis are one of the oldest and most prominent families in Iraq. For cen…

So as not to seem completely self-indulgent to his friends and family, Conor started his year-long trip around the world with a three-month stint volunteering in the Little Princes Orphanage in w…

An inspiring and searingly honest memoir of how one woman had the strength and courage to change her life. Sylvia Harris was homeless, her children had been taken from her, and she was using crac…

Эдит Ева Эгер в юном возрасте была отправлена вместе со своей семьей в Аушвиц. Там ее родители погибли в газовой камере, а Эдит и ее сестра испытали на себе все ужасы отвратительных лагерей смерт…

The sensational sequel to ‘Papillon’.‘Banco’ continues the adventures of Henri Charriere – nicknamed Papillon – in Venezuela, where he has finally won his freedom after thirteen years of escape a…

Touching true stories from the heyday of the Butlin’s holiday camps.‘When I got to the camp I felt as if I’d suddenly walked into Utopia – it was so colourful, so warm, so friendly. There were li…

With women falling at his feet, Luke happily entertains his long list of regular clients, whilst his reputation leads him into some new and exotic encounters – including a steamy threesome onboar…

The Empress of Crime's life was the ultimate detective story – revealed for the first time in this forthright and perceptive biography.While Ngaio Marsh had a flamboyant public persona, she was f…