Биографии и мемуары

A biography of Borges, by his translator.Jorge Luis Borges, known as Georgie to his friends, married Elsa Astete Millán in 1967. Borges was sixty-eight years old at the time of the wedding; Elsa,…

В этой книге опубликованы рассказы двух представителей одной династии, в жизни которых содержалось много необычного, интересного. Все рассказы основаны на фактическом материале и привлекают внима…

Сборник включает два художественно-документальных рассказа и две статьи мировоззренческого характера, посвящённые идеям Антуана де Сент-Экзюпери и Ивана Ефремова.

History has forgotten Caroline of Ansbach and yet in her lifetime she was compared frequently to Elizabeth I and considered by some as ‘the cleverest Queen consort Britain ever had’.The intellect…

A radical look at Jane Austen as you’ve never seen her – as a lover of farce, comic theatre and juvenilia. The Genius of Jane Austen celebrates Britain’s favourite novelist 200 years after her de…

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 …

It’s Belfast, 1975. The city lies under the dark cloud of the Troubles, and hatred fills the air like smoke. But Tony Macaulay has just turned twelve and he’s got a new job. He’s going to be a pa…

The book presents a concise introduction to the life and works of Russian writer and critic Korney Chukovsky (1882—1969), meant specifically for an English reader. It is illustrated with exclusiv…

Данная книга переставляет собой авторскую версию биографии А. С. Пушкина, изложенную в трех книгах. Вторая книга: «Фадей Булгарин и Александр Пушкин. Сравнительное жизнеописание». Третья книг…

В этом кратком и простом изложении вы узнаете мой взгляд (ВИЧ-инфицированного человека) на статус, который нам присваивают после положительного анализа и на «нашенские» бытовые вопросы.

Книга посвящена калужскому периоду жизни Булата Окуджавы, когда он, молодой учитель, только делал первые шаги к всенародной известности. Именно тогда были заложены основные принципы его творчеств…

Данная книге представляет собой сравнительное жизнеописание известных российских писателей Ф.Булгарина и А.Пушкина. Оба писателя жили в одно историческое время и остро конкурировали между собой. …

Данная книга представляет собой новую версию биографии российского ученного-химика и литератора Михаила Ломоносова.

You are born into it or marry in. Loyalty is absolute, bloodshed revered and you kill or go to your grave before betraying The Family. This code of omertà is how the 'Ndrangheta became the world’…

In 1930 a sixteen-year-old boy left England to become one of the last of the ‘gentlemen adventurers’ – the fur traders of the Hudson’s Bay Company. In the Arctic he found adventure, love and loss…

A remarkably perceptive and vivid life of one of England's greatest radicals.The early years of the 19th-century were ones of misery and oppression. The common people were forced into conditions …