Жанр "Биографии. Мемуары"

Growing up in a dilapidated house by the sea where men were forbidden, Sally's childhood world was filled with mystery and...

Over the course of a year, leading historian and nature writer David Gange kayaked the weather-ravaged coasts of Atlantic Britain...

In a dazzling, lively new literary biography, Daisy Dunn weaves together the lives of two Roman greats: Pliny the Elder, author...

At university when I made new friends and confidantes, I couldn’t explain how I’d become a teenage mother, or shoplifted books...

After nearly three decades reporting conflict from all over the world for the BBC, Fergal Keane has gone home to Ireland to tell...

From the acclaimed and bestselling biographer Jonathan Bate, a luminous new exploration of Shakespeare and how his themes can...

It was the most extraordinary year. In a book brimming with poetry and nature writing, biography and adventure, Adam Nicolson...

Ben Law’s incredible sense of the land and his respect for age old traditions offers a wonderful insight into the life of Prickly...

Longlisted for the Orwell Prize and the Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction; both conservative and subversive, Burke’s beliefs...

Famed American actress Demi Moore at last tells her own story in a surprisingly intimate and emotionally charged memoir.

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The amazing tale of a resourceful and unscrupulous early-19th-century American adventurer who forges his own kingdom in the wilds...

An anecdote-driven narrative of the classic footballer's ‘DOs and DO NOTs’ from the ever-popular Arsenal legend and football...

Karren Brady is an inspiration to women everywhere, and her incredible success is borne of her passion, impressive business...

101 chance meetings, juxtaposing the famous and the infamous, the artistic and the philistine, the pompous and the comical, the...

Fully updated to include Sir Chris Hoy's incredible, record-breaking golds at London 2012 (making him his country's greatest ever...

Stevens... , Swan...

A decade in the making, based upon hundreds of interviews and extensive new material, Pulitzer Prize winners Mark Stevens and...

Bestselling royal historian David Starkey’s captivating biography is a radical re-evaluation of Henry VIII, the British...

'One day you'll write a book about this club. Or, more to the point, about me. So you may as well know what I'm thinking and save...

The true story of one of Scotland’s most notorious and romantic heroes.
He was a spy, a clan-chief, a traitor. A polyglot, a...

In this electrifying autobiography, Rik stands naked in front of his vast legions of fans and disciples and invites them to take...

In December 1991, Allende's daughter Paula, aged 26, fell gravely ill and sank into a coma. This book started as a letter to...

The diary of Jean-Dominique Bauby who, with his left eyelid (the only surviving muscle after a massive stroke) dictated a...

A powerful account of the life of Tamerlane the Great (1336-1405), the last master nomadic power, one of history’s most extreme...

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to own your own set of islands?
20 years ago it happened to Adam Nicolson. His...

This book is the life story and family history of Adeline Yen Mah. Adeline was born in China at a time of great change and...

It is the autobiography of Giorgio Bassani, told in a time span of around 15 years, a time where the ambiguous and mysterious...

David Attenborough is one of the most influential and admired figures in English television. When 26, he applied for a job in the...

'God put me on this earth to raise sheer hell.' Richard Burton
'I was a sinner. I slugged some people. I hurt many people. And...

An extraordinary memoir about what it means to be a writer, a woman and a mother with Bell's Palsy by award-winning...

Venice, 1522. Sensitive intelligence arrives from the east confirming the European powers' greatest fear: the vastly rich Ottoman...