Жанр "Биографии. Мемуары"

In 2016, Sheila Hancock sat down to write a book about a serene and fulfilled old age. This is not that book.

In Old Rage, one...

Psychiatrist: So how can I help you?

Me: I don't know, I'm - what's the word - depressed? Do I have to go into detail?

Baek...

First published in 1946, following on from Portrait of Elmbury, the second in the series shows an England which now seems almost...

Smith Ken, Millard...

Could you leave behind the bustle of modern society and spend your days immersed in nature? In The Way of the Hermit,...

This powerful and provocative memoir charts critically acclaimed actor David Harewood’s life from working class Birmingham to the...

“I’d managed to puncture a hole between our universe and the parallel one where all the celebrities lived.”

Adam Andrusier...

The extraordinary tale of Oskar Schindler, the Aryan who saved hundreds of Jews in Nazi-occupied Poland, is now legendary, but as...

Who was Queen Victoria?
A little old lady, potato-like in appearance, dressed in everlasting black? She was also a passionate...

Paris Fury is Tyson's rock, the wife he thanks for all his success. Both from Traveller families, she married him at 19 and is...

Henry VIII is well known for his tumultuous relationships with women, and he is often defined by his many marriages. But what do...

Maya Angelou's seven volumes of autobiography, beginning with I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, are a testament to the talents and...

What happened to the books that were too valuable to burn?

Alice Urbach had her own cooking school in Vienna, but in 1938 she...

The memoir from the writer and music PR legend, Barbara Charone

First as a journalist and then a publicist at Warner Brothers...

In September 1941, a young American woman strides up the steps of a hotel in Lyon, Vichy France. Her papers say she is a...

It is 1964 and Maya Angelou is on her way back home, leaving behind her beloved - and now seriously teenage son Guy, to finish...

In 2022 Queen Elizabeth II celebrated seventy years as Queen and Head of the Commonwealth. She was Britain's longest reigning...

Otto Rosenberg is 9 and living in Berlin, poor but happy, when his family are first detained. All around them, Sinti and Roma...

Short and oddly built, with a head too big for his body, extremely short-sighted, unable to stay still, dressed in colourful...

West of Eden is the definitive story of Hollywood, told, in their own words, by the people on the inside: Lauren Bacall, Arthur...

Possibly the most colourful figure in the history of Western music, Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) was certainly the most eloquent....

In One-Man Band, the third volume in his epic survey of Orson Welles’ life and work, Simon Callow again probes in comprehensive...

A brilliant biography of the young Orson Welles, from his prodigious childhood and youth, his triumphs with the Mercury Theatre,...

An Englishman's home is his castle. But what if it's French?
One Place de L'Eglise is a thousand-year-old Languedoc ruin....

In this non-fiction novel – road trip, confession, and erotic tour de force – Emmanuel Carrere pursues two consuming obsessions:...

Lynn Vera, L...

In the year of her 100th birthday, Dame Vera Lynn's fascinating and life-affirming wartime memoir from the forces' sweetheart's...

Whether he's initiating a coup d'etat against new regulations with the residents, or forging a bond with the 98-year old who once...

Quick-witted, charismatic and generous; angry, vicious and hurt; in pubs all over Cork City, Noelle McCarthy's mother Carol rages...

The hilarious and heartwarming memoir from one of Britain's best-loved comedians and Women's Prize longlisted author, Dawn...

Wood Giles, Killen...

Are you considering escaping the city for a blissful new way of life in the countryside? Estate agents may be feeding you with...

Barker... , Edworthy...

Rewind to 1971, and Sue Barker's coach is sending his 15-year-old tennis protegee to a junior championship in France, alone, with...