Жанр "Биографии. Мемуары"

The definitive biography of one of the greatest writers of the the twentieth century.

Over seventy years since his premature...

Dark, fierce and raw, Notes on Heartbreak is a love story told in reverse...
Reeling from a broken heart, Annie Lord revisits...

In the 1790s an extraordinary group of friends changed the world. Disappointed by the French Revolution's rapid collapse into...

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...

Jennifer Worth's bestselling memoirs of her time as a midwife have inspired and moved readers of all ages.

Now, in In the...

A new edition of Primo Levi’s classic memoir of the Holocaust, with an introduction by David Baddiel, author of Jews Don’t Count.

I am, I Am, I Am is a memoir with a difference - the unputdownable story of an extraordinary woman's life in near-death...

Aged thirty-one, Catrina Davies was renting a box-room in a house in Bristol, which she shared with four other adults and a...

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

Misconceptions have stalked Andy Cole like a hatchet-man defender determined to cut him down to size. Now, in his candid and...

This final book in Jennifer Worth's memories of her time as a midwife in London's East end brings her story full circle. As...

What was it like to be Elvis Presley? What did it feel like when impossible fame made him its prisoner? As the world's first rock...

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...

A story of heartbreak and survival by the step-sister of Anne Frank.

Eva was arrested by the Nazis on her fifteenth birthday...

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

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

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 this memoir of loss, acclaimed writer and comedian Rob Delaney grapples with the fragile miracle of life, the mysteries of...

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....

Benvenuto Cellini is an artist-craftsman, one of the greatest sculptors in the renaissance, passionately devoted to art, the...

At the time of his death in 2015, award-winning and bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett was working on his finest story yet -...

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:...

In Living to Tell the Tale Gabriel Garcia Marquez - winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature and author of One Hundred Years...

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...