Жанр "Биографии. Мемуары"

This penetrating, timely portrait of Robert Mugabe is the psychobiography of a man whose once brilliant career has ruined...

Patrick Hennessey's The Junior Officers' Reading Club is a lucid, witty account of all the horror, boredom and exhilaration of...

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

Charles Dickens is the acclaimed definitive biography by bestselling author Claire Tomalin

Charles Dickens was a phenomenon: a...

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

Rupert and Kirstin Isaacson were heartbroken...

Sniper One is the gritty, awe-inspiring true story that takes you right into the heart of the Iraq war from Sunday Times No.1...

The first publication of Kurt Cobain's diaries, which were found after his death in 1994. Genuinely moving, provocative and...

Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto in the thirteenth century, Vasari traces the development of Italian art across three centuries...

The bestselling, much-loved classic account of an English couple escaping to enjoy the fruits of French rural summer living - an...

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

The sensational second volume of Charles Moore's bestselling authorized biography of the Iron Lady

In June 1983 Margaret...

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...

Five women. One house. One extraordinary history.

Even today, Cliveden retains its royal mystique - it is where Meghan Markle...

The remarkable story of Bess of Hardwick, her ascent through Elizabethan society and the houses she built that shaped British...

In 1845, a Reading bookseller named John Snare came across the dirt-blackened portrait of a prince at a country house auction....

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

Steve Coogan was born and raised in Manchester in the 1960s, the fourth of six children. From an early age he entertained his...

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

Born the son of a Billingsgate market porter at the height of the Second World War, David Jason spent his early life dodging...

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...

Rod Stewart was born the working-class son of a Scottish plumber in North London. Despite some early close shaves with a number...

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...

How have the modern world, technology and our addiction to information changed who we are? What effect does it have on our...

Discover the extraordinary story of the woman who brought China into the modern age, from the bestselling author of Wild...

From the bestselling author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England, comes the story of King Edward III, who - like...

The twentieth century has been called 'the American Century'. Not since the days of the Roman emperors has there been such a...