Жанр "Биографии. Мемуары"

Gandhi's non-violent struggles against racism, violence, and colonialism in South Africa and India had brought him to such a...

'We're not Christians, Christ stopped short of here, at Eboli.' Exiled to a remote and barren corner of Italy for his opposition...

The revelatory autobiography of a rugby colossus: Paul O'Connell. Winner of the Cross Sports Book Awards Rugby Book of the...

Discover the real Michael McIntyre through his remarkable and hilarious journey to comedy stardom in his first official...

For the last six years of his life, Roger Deakinkept notebooks. In them, he wrote his daily thoughts, impressions, feelings and...

Rupert Isaacson's The Horse Boy is one family's epic journey to rescue their son.

Rupert and Kirstin Isaacson were heartbroken...

Pugin was one of Britain’s greatest architects and his short career one of the most dramatic in architectural history. Born in...

Brian Keenan went to Beirut in 1985 for a change of scene from his native Belfast. He became headline news when he was kidnapped...

In 1960s Bristol, a family is overshadowed by tragedy

While Susan, a typically feisty seven-year-old, is busy being brave, her...

'A spectacular, elegant, brilliant portrait of skulduggery, murder and sex in Renaissance Florence' Simon Sebag Montefiore,...

During the second world war Eric Lomax was forced to work on the notorious Burma-Siam Railway and was tortured by the Japanese...

Edward VII, who gave his name to the Edwardian era but was always known as Bertie, was fifty-nine when he finally came to power...

Paul Lake was Manchester born, a City fan from birth. His footballing talent was spotted at a young age and, in 1983, he signed...

Written in alternating chapters, W or the Memory of Childhood, tells two parallel tales, in two parts. One is a story created in...

Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg - an awkward maths prodigy and a painfully shy computer genius - were never going to fit in...

The definitive biography of the late Leonard Cohen - singer-songwriter, musician, poet, and novelist.

The genius behind such...

A groundbreaking and fascinating biography of England's most famous queen, viewed through the women who influenced her...

Alexandra Heminsley thought she could swim. She really did.
It may have been because she could run. It may have been because she...

Jones... , Thompson...

Foreword by Chrissie Hynde

Without the Sex Pistols there would be no punk rock, and without Steve Jones there would be no Sex...

Elegant, provocative and hugely entertaining, Kingsley Amis's memoirs are filled with anecdotes, experiences and portraits of...

Shortlisted for the Whitbread biography award 2003

'Definitive' Daily Telegraph

Orwell has become one of the most potent...

The remarkable First World War diary of Private Harry Drinkwater, published for the first time

‘I saw several fellows fall,...

Harry's tales and insight into the game he's lived and breathed for 50 years.

'When a man walks on to a pitch there's always a...

What do they find attractive about me? An underage girl who just lies there, sobbing, looking up at them...as they come to me one...

The wry, perceptive and brilliantly evocative memoir of one of Britain's best-loved cooks

'All men should strive to learn...

A revolutionary collection from the award-winning columnist and bestselling author of How to Be a Woman and How to Build a...

The first definitive story of the greatest cyclist of all time.
'The whole point of a race is to find a winner... I chose to...

Cricket obsessive Miles Jupp hatches an ill-conceived plan to join the England cricket team in India

** Shortlisted for the...

The hotly anticipated cycling autobiography of the year from the world's best sprinter

The hottest sprinter in the world -...

The amazing story of the original gangster, drug dealer and overlord, Frank Lucas

Criminals are not born in a vacuum, and...