Жанр "Биографии. Мемуары"

The perfect gift for fans of All Creatures Great and Small, this is a charming collection of classic stories from James Herriot's...

'Don't think, dear' said Balanchine. 'Just do.'
For centuries, being a ballerina has been synonymous with being beautiful, thin,...

A thrilling escapade through the Soviet Union of the ’90s and early 2000s by a tour guide turned smuggler turned novelist, that...

Frantumaglia invites readers into Elena Ferrante's workshop. The bestselling Italian author of My Brilliant Friend opens her desk...

In January 2020, Amy Bloom travelled with her husband Brian to Switzerland, where he was helped by Dignitas to end his life while...

Inspired by her encounter with the surviving roses that Orwell is said to have planted in his cottage in Hertfordshire, Rebecca...

Richard Thompson came of age during an extraordinary moment in 1960s Britain — as music began to reflect a great cultural...

This updated edition of the bestselling and wildly popular I Am the Secret Footballer features a new introduction and an...

Critically-acclaimed and bestselling author Paul Morley’s long-awaited biography of Factory Records co-founder and Manchester...

In this book Richard Ayoade — actor, writer, director, and amateur dentist — reflects on his cinematic legacy as only he can: in...

David Byrne, co-founder of the group Talking Heads, has been riding a bicycle as his principal means of transportation since the...

The diary and essays of Brian Eno republished twenty-five years on with a new introduction by the artist in a beautiful hardback...

In the first book by a British writer about this extraordinary football manager, lifelong Liverpool fan Anthony Quinn has crafted...

The Tastemaker charts the singular life of a man who has been at the beating heart of music's most iconic moments for over sixty...

Why were so many authors of the greatest works of literature consumed by alcoholism? In The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing...

Robert Webb tried to follow the rules for being a man:
Don’t cry
Drink beer
Play rough
Don’t talk about feelings
Looking...

Kerri ni Dochartaigh was born in Derry at the very height of the Troubles. One parent was Catholic, the other Protestant. In the...

Over sixty years after Virginia Woolf drowned in the River Ouse, Olivia Laing set out one midsummer morning to walk its banks,...

Wishing to leave behind the isolation of her Orkney island life, Amy Liptrot books a one-way flight to Berlin. She rents a...

An international bestseller which has sold over a million copies in the UK, Dreams From My Father is a refreshing, revealing...

What did your face look like before your parents were born? Who are you? What is your true self? These are the questions in Ruth...

At the age of thirty, Amy Liptrot finds herself washed up back home on Orkney. Standing unstable on the island, she tries to come...

Two days after the Winter Solstice in 2019 Kerri and her partner M moved to a small, remote railway cottage in the heart of...

At the age of seventeen, after a childhood in a foster family followed by six years in care homes, Norman Greenwood was given his...

Melodrama, biography, cold war thriller, drug memoir, essay in fragments, mystery - Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors is cult...

Getting Lost is the diary kept by Annie Ernaux during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger, married...

‘I too wanted to forget that girl. Really forget her, that is, stop yearning to write about her. Stop thinking that I have to...

Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist’s defining work, The Years is a narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told...

A powerful meditation on ageing and familial love, I Remain in Darkness recounts Annie Ernaux’s attempts to help her mother...

Rembrandt is among the few outstanding artists of universal appeal, his striking self-portraits lauded the world over – yet he...