Жанр "Биографии. Мемуары"

Evelyn Waugh's first book: a portrait of one of the greatest artists of the nienteenth century, from one of the greatest writers...

In the last years of her life, Teresa Lim's mother, Violet Chang, had copies of a cherished family photograph made for those in...

Matt Baker's first ever book is a year spent on the farm; told through the seasons this is his diary of the natural world, his...

Start your year with the uplifting and heartwarming life lessons from a truly inspirational man, Captain Sir Tom Moore

'One...

A fascinating personal account of a revolution in British farming

Sarah Langford had left her country roots behind to live and...

Payne Les, Payne...

A landmark biography of one of the twentieth century's most compelling figures, rewriting much of the known narrative.

Les...

For forty years we've been watching Phillip - from children's TV to Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat and This...

Captain Sir Tom Moore's story is all our stories . . .

Born at the tail end of the Spanish flu epidemic, Tom Moore was raised...

Enter the world of Gyles Brandreth - broadcaster, actor, writer, former politician - as he takes us on an extraordinary journey...

A moving portrait of the landscape that shaped the life of Laurie Lee, the beloved author of Cider With Rosie

'Before I left...

'It was the land, the earth, the deep humming background to my very being'

In 2016, days before they were unjustly evicted...

Watch. The. Ball.

It's just you. Standing at the crease. Waiting. The bowler is running. His arm swinging. The ball - 155...

A moving memoir from a woman who made a fortune in a man's world and then gave it all away...soon to be turned into a film

In...

Robert Maxwell was a very British success. Born an Orthodox Jew, he escaped the occupation of Czechoslovakia, fought in the...

Olivia Potts' mother died when she just twenty-five. Stricken with grief, she did something life changing and rather ridiculous:...

Me You: Not A Diary is a pocket diary without the diary part. Or the pocket.

It includes everything you loved about the...

Missing cat?
Molly the pet detective is on the case.

Molly the cocker spaniel spent the first years of her life unloved and...

Even in darkness, love brings hope.

Gustav and Fritz Kleinmann are father and son in an ordinary Austrian Jewish family when...

The Gypsy Code is a true story of secret identity, revenge and forbidden love that's perfect for fans of Running with the Firm,...

One morning in war-torn Damascus, a starving man drags a piano into a rubbled street. Everything he once knew has been destroyed...

The gripping, jaw-dropping rise and fall of Sir Philip Green, the self-styled 'king of the high street'

Sir Philip Green is no...

From Evelyn Waugh, the author of beloved novels such as Brideshead Revisited, A Handful of Dust and Vile Bodies, this is the...

'In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart ...'

A deeply moving and unforgettable portrait...

Nobel Prize-winning author Canetti spent only a few weeks in Marrakesh, but it was a visit that would remain with him for the...

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...