Биографии и мемуары

Separated from her real mother at birth, Anya grew up in terror of her drunken bullying uncle. Beaten, humiliated and sexually abused by him from the age of six, she thought her life couldn't get…

Выдающийся украинский, советский поэт, писатель, публицист, сценарист, журналист, редактор и общественный деятель Виталий Коротич размышляет о времени и переломных событиях, вспоминает друзей и е…

From the author of the ever-popular Flashman novels, a collection of film-world reminiscences and trenchant thoughts on Cool Britannia, New Labour and other abominations.In between writing Flashm…

The Lost Diaries is a wide-ranging anthology of the world's greatest diarists, each of them channelled onto paper through the considerable psychic force that is Craig Brown.Arranged on a day-to-d…

To wolf expert, Shaun Ellis, wolves aren’t just his work, they’re also his family. An extraordinary man, Shaun has been fascinated by wolves all his life, living as part of their pack for two yea…

Penelope Fitzgerald’s fascinating portrait of the tragic poet and her life at the heart of the Bloomsbury set.Thomas Hardy hailed her as ‘far and away the best living woman poet’; the formidable …

An unbearably moving, intensely passionate, deeply personal account of life as seen through the eyes of one of America’s best-loved novelists.‘When I began writing this history, I let go of my do…

In 1938, with the Japanese army approaching from Nanking, Huan Hsu’s great-great grandfather, Liu, and his five granddaughters, were forced to flee their hometown on the banks of the Yangtze Rive…

The hapless and hilarious tale of a life lived under the constant and ruthless reign of a chocolate biscuit…Lumped into 'the too fat for potatoes group' by her mother, carefree eating isn't somet…

In the tradition of ‘Agent Zigzag’ comes a breathtaking biography of WWII’s ‘Scarlet Pimpernel’ as fast-paced and emotionally intuitive as the best spy thrillers. This celebrates unsung hero Robe…

The nostalgic memoir of a young man, eldest of fourteen, growing up in 40s Wednesbury. The heartbreaking true account of his son struggling to come to terms with his father’s dementia. A tribute …

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…

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 …

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.

Если можно говорить «повезло» о человеке, тяжело раненном и комиссованном, то Мансур Абдулин именно везунчик. Ему повезло, что, попав на фронт осенью кровавого 1942 года, он начал воевать в подра…

Двадцатый том представляет собой биографический справочник, основанный на списках генералов по старшинству, списках по Генеральному штабу, приказах по Военному ведомству Российской империи и друг…