Жанр "Биографии. Мемуары"

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...

During the second world war Eric Lomax was forced to work on the notorious Burma-Siam Railway and was tortured by the Japanese...

Born the son of a Billingsgate market porter at the height of the Second World War, David Jason spent his early life dodging...

As a child, Helen Macdonald was determined to become a falconer, learning the arcane terminology and reading all the classic...

Edward VII, who gave his name to the Edwardian era but was always known as Bertie, was fifty-nine when he finally came to power...

Rod Stewart was born the working-class son of a Scottish plumber in North London. Despite some early close shaves with a number...

Alexandra Heminsley had high hopes: the arse of an athlete, the waist of a supermodel, the speed of a gazelle. Defeated by gyms...

Paul Lake was Manchester born, a City fan from birth. His footballing talent was spotted at a young age and, in 1983, he signed...

Written in alternating chapters, W or the Memory of Childhood, tells two parallel tales, in two parts. One is a story created in...

Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg - an awkward maths prodigy and a painfully shy computer genius - were never going to fit in...

The definitive biography of the late Leonard Cohen - singer-songwriter, musician, poet, and novelist.

The genius behind such...

How have the modern world, technology and our addiction to information changed who we are? What effect does it have on our...

A groundbreaking and fascinating biography of England's most famous queen, viewed through the women who influenced her...

Discover the extraordinary story of the woman who brought China into the modern age, from the bestselling author of Wild...

From the bestselling author of The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England, comes the story of King Edward III, who - like...

The twentieth century has been called 'the American Century'. Not since the days of the Roman emperors has there been such a...

Alexandra Heminsley thought she could swim. She really did.
It may have been because she could run. It may have been because she...

Jones... , Thompson...

Foreword by Chrissie Hynde

Without the Sex Pistols there would be no punk rock, and without Steve Jones there would be no Sex...

Elegant, provocative and hugely entertaining, Kingsley Amis's memoirs are filled with anecdotes, experiences and portraits of...

The evocative tale of an idyllic childhood in the English countryside.

The classic evocative tale of an idyllic childhood in...

Shortlisted for the Whitbread biography award 2003

'Definitive' Daily Telegraph

Orwell has become one of the most potent...

The autobiography of the greatest living English football manager of his generation

The Sunday Times no.1 bestselling memoir...

The remarkable First World War diary of Private Harry Drinkwater, published for the first time

‘I saw several fellows fall,...

Harry's tales and insight into the game he's lived and breathed for 50 years.

'When a man walks on to a pitch there's always a...

What do they find attractive about me? An underage girl who just lies there, sobbing, looking up at them...as they come to me one...