Жанр "Биографии. Мемуары"

Unorthodox is the bestselling memoir of a young Jewish woman’s escape from a religious sect, in the tradition of Ayaan Hirsi...

As a young man Frederick Douglass (1818–1895) escaped from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland. He was fortunate to have been taught...

The man. The legend. The autobiography.

Even people who don't know football know Pele. The best of a generation of Brazilian...

Richard E. Grant emigrated from Swaziland to London in 1982, with dreams of making it as an actor, when he unexpectedly met and...

'From an early age, locked doors, high fences and the secrets kept by businesses, buildings and people, fascinated me. I wanted...

For many years, Camilla was portrayed in a poor light, blamed by the public for the break-up of the marriage between Prince...

Andrew Gimson, whose previous book Boris is the essential read on Johnson's earlier career, returns with a penetrating and...

Flying may not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price. - Amelia Earhart

This fascinating autobiography by...

According to Winston Churchill, Alan Turing made the single biggest contribution to the Allied victory over Nazi Germany with his...

"I thought life was going to be a brilliant comedy, and you were to be one of the many graceful figures in it."
While imprisoned...

Initially published as six articles in the Electrical Experimenter magazine, My Inventions is the autobiography of the visionary...

First published as John Barleycorn, Jack London's autobiographical novel is a harrowing account of a life undermined by...

The Innocents Abroad is Mark Twain's humorous narrative of his own travels across Europe. It began life as a series of newspaper...

'Above all, there was a belief in the revolution and the future, a feeling of having suddenly emerged into an era of equality and...

Flood... , Wilson...

Why did Florence Nightingale introduce pie charts? How did Lewis Carroll regard Pythagoras? Who learned calculus from her nursery...

Solomon Northup's memoir recalls how he was kidnapped in Washington DC in 1841 and sold into slavery, describing the brutalities...

Award-winning architecture writer Ike Ijeh introduces 50 of the world's most influential architects and a selection of their most...

An indispensable introduction to the darker side of life, revealing the often strange and grisly stories behind the world's most...

"Even a name by which to be known among men, slavery had denied me." A standout among slave testimonies, the Narrative of William...

Martha Griffith Browne, a Southern slave-owner who became wedded to the cause of emancipation, wrote this "autobiography" of Ann,...

A good fit of illness proves the value of health; real danger tries one's mettle; and self-sacrifice sweetens character....

A classic story of trying circumstances and enduring hope, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave is...

The eldest was a razor-sharp novelist of upper-class manners; the second was loved by John Betjeman; the third was a fascist who...

Jess McDonald was a true crime junkie and Line of Duty sofa sleuth with a strong sense of justice. Under a year later, thanks to...

The wise, warm, defiant new book from literary legend Isabel Allende – a meditation on power, feminism and what it means to be a...

Little is known of the wife of England's greatest playwright. In play after play Shakespeare presents the finding of a worthy...

At the end of her bestselling memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe - a Brazilian-born man of...

The ponds of Hampstead Heath are small oases; fragments of wild nature nestled in the heart of north-west London. For the best...

The Lives of Haydn, Mozart and Metastasio – Stendhal’s first published work – owes its inspiration to the audacious pragmatism of...

Published posthumously in 1930, Stendhal’s travel notes on his 1838 journey to southern France contain descriptions of cities...