Жанр "Биографии. Мемуары"

'I write about being a Black American woman, however, I am always talking about what it's like to be a human being. This is how...

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

William Morris – poet, designer, campaigner, hero of the Arts & Crafts movement – was a giant of the Victorian age, and his...

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...

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

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...

"I was what the older generation of prison officers called a 'care bear'. It was my job to work with the prisoners most in danger...

Most priests take confessions. This one is giving his.
Rob Halford, front man of global iconic metal band Judas Priest, is a...

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...

One of the most extraordinary mother and daughter stories of all time - Anne Boleyn, the most famous of Henry VIII's wives and...

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...

Henry Marsh has spent four decades operating on the human brain. In this searing and provocative memoir following his retirement...

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...

Ian Wright, Arsenal legend, England striker and TV pundit extraordinaire, is one of the most interesting and relevant figures in...

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...

Tim Lott's parents, Jack and Jean, met at the Empire Snooker Hall, Ealing, in 1951, in a world that to him now seems 'as strange...

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

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

Bono - artist, activist and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2 - has written his autobiography: honest and irreverent,...

In One-Man Band, the third volume in his epic survey of Orson Welles’ life and work, Simon Callow again probes in comprehensive...