Жанр "Биографии. Мемуары"

No one is born a leader. But through sheer determination and by confronting life’s challenges, Ant Middleton has come to know the...

Divorced and struggling with deep-rooted mental health problems, Bella Mackie ended her twenties in tears. She could barely find...

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...

She made John Lennon blush and Marlon Brando clam up. She cold-shouldered Princess Diana and humiliated Elizabeth Taylor. Jack...

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...

Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate, was one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. He is one of Britain’s most important poets,...

A landmark new biography that presents the man behind the many myths. The first writer in English to go back to the original...

Lee... , John David

An extraordinary insight into life under one of the world’s most ruthless and secretive dictatorships – and the story of one...

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...

Kamkwamba... , Mealer...

When William Kamkwamba was just 14 years old, his family told him that he must leave school and come home to work on the farm –...

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...

Slash, Bozza...

It seems excessive…but that doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.

The mass of black curls. The top hat. The cigarette dangling from...

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...

From one of America's iconic writers, a portrait of a marriage and a life – in good times and bad – that will speak to anyone who...

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...