Жанр "Биографии. Мемуары"

Harry Freedman uncovers the spiritual traditions that lie behind Leonard Cohen's profound and unmistakable lyrics.

The singer...

This stunning visual celebration of the world's most celebrated novelists, poets, and playwrights tells the fascinating stories...

This stunning visual celebration of the world's most celebrated artists tells the fascinating stories of their lives and...

From the moment Judi Dench appeared as a teenager in the York Mystery Plays it was clear that acting would be her career. Trained...

The book every Timothee Chalamet fan should own!

Timothee Chala... may I?! This book is a celebration of the actor, style-icon...

Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air is the true story of a 24-hour period on Everest, when members of three separate expeditions were...

Daniel and Alexander arrived in London in the 1830s at a crucial moment of social change. These two idealistic brothers,...

The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope.

In June...

The long-awaited memoir from iconic, beloved actor and living legend Sir Patrick Stewart.

From his acclaimed stage triumphs to...

In 1974, the homeless Miss Shepherd moved her broken down van into Alan Bennett's garden. Deeply eccentric and stubborn to her...

A concise collection of Alan Bennett's latest diaries - and more.

Following the phenomenally successful Writing Home and...

Most people think I save dogs, but really they saved me.

Niall Harbison is a dog hero based in Thailand. He spends his days...

Park... , Chai...

North Korea is an open-air prison from which there is no escape. Only a handful of men and women have succeeded.

Jihyun Park...

This is the remarkable story of a local lad who grew up in the shadow of Upton Park and became ‘Mr West Ham’: a one-club man who...

The profoundly moving and deeply intimate story of one Jewish family's fate in the Holocaust, following the thread from Germany...

I sometimes fear we shall never wake till we are jerked out of it by the roar of bombs.
In 1936, George Orwell volunteered as a...

‘Each of us is born, I believe, with a unique mission, a purpose in life that only we can fulfill. We are linked by a shared...

Anaesthetising a fish, x-raying a frog and hospitalising a walrus are all in a day's work for the world's wildest veterinarian....

A miracle of still-plentiful hair, raw sex-appeal, and strutting talent . The frontman of one of the most influential and...

Justine Picardie spent years puzzling over the truth about Coco Chanel, peeling away the accretions of romance and lies. Since...

The inside story of the one of the most successful British stand-up comedians, as told by the person best qualified to reveal all...

Old friends and new faces join the scholars, rogues and countrymen of Brensham with its crooked village street and crooked church...

This is the first book of the famous trilogy of English country life, The Brensham Trilogy, by John Moore.

A wonderful and...

In 1992, Ben Watt, a member of the band Everything But The Girl, contracted a rare life-threatening illness that baffled doctors...

In 2016, Sheila Hancock sat down to write a book about a serene and fulfilled old age. This is not that book.

In Old Rage, one...

Psychiatrist: So how can I help you?

Me: I don't know, I'm - what's the word - depressed? Do I have to go into detail?

Baek...

First published in 1946, following on from Portrait of Elmbury, the second in the series shows an England which now seems almost...

Smith Ken, Millard...

Could you leave behind the bustle of modern society and spend your days immersed in nature? In The Way of the Hermit,...

This powerful and provocative memoir charts critically acclaimed actor David Harewood’s life from working class Birmingham to the...

“I’d managed to puncture a hole between our universe and the parallel one where all the celebrities lived.”

Adam Andrusier...