Биографии и мемуары

Штат Нью-Йорк, рубеж 1960–1970-х годов. Мальчик подвергается унизительному нападению со стороны учителя. Мистера Макэнери не устраивает, что Джонатану тринадцать, а веси тот от силы тридцать кило…

Книга Александра Толстикова, Марии Вяжевич, Рашиды Красновой и Наталии Шушанян, написанная в жанре биографических очерков-интервью, знакомит заинтересованного читателя с выдающимися российскими д…

Порой случаются мелкие встречи с всякой живностью и начинаешь задумываться об окружающих. И начинаешь ценить мимолетность бытия и ценить всё вокруг.

The 15:17 to Paris is the amazing true story of friendship and bravery, and of near tragedy averted by three heroic young men who found the unity and strength inside themselves when they – and 50…

Previously published as ‘Nujeen’‘She is our hero. Everyone must read her story. She will inspire you’ Malala YousafzaiAn inspiring tale of a young disabled girl and her escape from the hell of wa…

LIVES THAT NEVER GROW OLDPart of a radical series – edited by Richard Holmes – that recovers the great classical tradition of English biography. Gilchrist’s ‘The Life of William Blake’ is a biogr…

‘Fascinating … so enlightening that suddenly maths doesn’t seem so fearsome as it once did’ SIMON WINCHESTERFrom Aristotle to Ada Lovelace: a brief history of the mathematical ideas that have for…

When Zoe was taken into care at the age of 13, she thought she was finally going to escape from the cruel abuse she had suffered throughout her childhood. Then social services placed her in a res…

The long-awaited, no-holds-barred memoir from the legendary Aerosmith frontman. Finally, all the lurid tales of debauchery, sex, drugs and rock n' roll are told straight from the horse's lips as …

Written by Bill Hick's lifelong friend, producer, and co-creator, Kevin Booth offers the inside story into the man who was only along for the ride for a tragically short time, yet left an indelib…

The official companion to ITV’s hotly anticipated new drama, The Victoria Letters delves into the private writings of the young Queen Victoria, painting a vivid picture of the personal life of on…

The most intimate account of a serving prime minister ever published, this is the gripping inside story of David Cameron’s government as told by senior figures, including the Prime Minister, Geor…

‘When I was very young I took my uncles for granted, and it never occurred to me that everyone else in the world was not like them.’In this, only her second book, Penelope Fitzgerald turned her n…

They have come in search of many things – nirvana, exhilaration, a sense of self. But over the course of the next week, their holidays take a terrifying turn when they become entangled in a nail-…

The warm, funny memoir of Gregor Fisher, the much loved Scottish actor best known for Rab C. Nesbitt, told as he uncovers his dramatic family history.Growing up in the Glasgow suburbs, Gregor was…

102 Boulevard Haussmann, an elegant address in Paris’s eighth arrondissement.Upstairs lives Madame Williams, with her second husband and her harp. Downstairs lives Marcel Proust, trying to write …

Руденко – Главный обвинитель от СССР на Нюрнбергском процессе, Генеральный прокурор СССР с 1953 по 1981 год. Деятельность Романа Руденко на посту главного стража законности страны продолжалась 27…

Очередной том исторических расследований Александра Звягинцева переносит нас во времена Российской Империи: читатель окажется свидетелем возникновения и становления отечественной системы власти и…

For the first time, Casey Watson’s The Girl Without a Voice, Torey Hayden’s Beautiful Child and Mary MacCracken’s Lovey are combined in an exclusive e-book bundle. Discover the moving stories of …

Герварт Вальден (1878–1941) – немецкий галерист и основатель интернационального художественного движения «Штурм», живший в 1930-е годы в Москве. В первой отечественной биографии Вальдена его деят…