Жанр "Биографии. Мемуары"

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

Adam Andrusier...

Growing up in a Chinese takeaway in rural Wales, Angela Hui was made aware at a very young age of just how different she and her...

Maya Angelou's seven volumes of autobiography are a testament to the talents and resilience of this extraordinary writer. Loving...

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

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...

Dave Davies is the co-founder and lead guitarist of epoch-defining band the Kinks, a group with fifty million record sales to...

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...

From West Ham's cult hero, Julian Dicks, a hugely entertaining romp through football and the East End of the Eighties and...

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...

Alba used to live a hectic life, working as a book publicist in Italy, and yet she always felt like a woman on the run. And so...

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....

The pieces here span reflections on personal and collective identity, on home and family, on literature, language and politics,...