Жанр "Биографии. Мемуары"

Julian Green was born to American parents in Paris in 1900, and spent most of his life in the French capital. Paris is an...

How I Came to Know Fish (1974) is Ota Pavel's magical memoir of his childhood in Czechoslovakia. Fishing with his father and his...

This autobiography is about growing up in Egypt. It is also an investigation into childhood perception in which the author uses...

Presenting the desperate conflict of the First World War through the eyes of an ordinary German soldier, Ernst Junger's Storm of...

Gandhi's non-violent struggles against racism, violence, and colonialism in South Africa and India had brought him to such a...

A witty account of Waugh's time in Abyssinia as a war correspondent

In 1935 Italy declared war on Abyssinia and Evelyn Waugh...

'We're not Christians, Christ stopped short of here, at Eboli.' Exiled to a remote and barren corner of Italy for his opposition...

Deep Country is Neil Ansell's account of five years spent alone in a hillside cottage in Wales.

'I lived alone in this cottage...

The revelatory autobiography of a rugby colossus: Paul O'Connell. Winner of the Cross Sports Book Awards Rugby Book of the...

Discover the real Michael McIntyre through his remarkable and hilarious journey to comedy stardom in his first official...

Robert Penn's It's All About the Bike: The Pursuit of Happiness on Two Wheels is a paean to the humble bike; it's the story of...

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...

Describing Tolstoy's crisis of depression and estrangement from the world, A Confession is an autobiographical work of...

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...

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...

An intelligent, yet emotionally honest portrait of one of the 20th century's influential, engimatic thinkers.

'Monk's...

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...