Жанр "Биографии. Мемуары"

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...

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...

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,...

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

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

A brilliant biography of the young Orson Welles, from his prodigious childhood and youth, his triumphs with the Mercury Theatre,...

An Englishman's home is his castle. But what if it's French?

One Place de L'Eglise is a thousand-year-old Languedoc ruin....

After The Second World War, Czeslaw Milosz was exiled for many years from his home country of Poland. In Native Realm, he evokes...

In this non-fiction novel – road trip, confession, and erotic tour de force – Emmanuel Carrere pursues two consuming obsessions:...

In Living to Tell the Tale Gabriel Garcia Marquez - winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize for Literature and author of One Hundred Years...

Lynn Vera, L...

In the year of her 100th birthday, Dame Vera Lynn's fascinating and life-affirming wartime memoir from the forces' sweetheart's...

Whether he's initiating a coup d'etat against new regulations with the residents, or forging a bond with the 98-year old who once...

Quick-witted, charismatic and generous; angry, vicious and hurt; in pubs all over Cork City, Noelle McCarthy's mother Carol rages...

'They didn't think for one moment that they would find anything but a burnt-out fuselage and a charred skeleton; and they were...

You can live on a shilling a day in Paris if you know how. But it is a complicated business.

When he was a struggling writer...

The hilarious and heartwarming memoir from one of Britain's best-loved comedians and Women's Prize longlisted author, Dawn...

Wood Giles, Killen...

Are you considering escaping the city for a blissful new way of life in the countryside? Estate agents may be feeding you with...

Barker... , Edworthy...

Rewind to 1971, and Sue Barker's coach is sending his 15-year-old tennis protegee to a junior championship in France, alone, with...

As a teenager, Cox dreamed of sporting immortality. For four years he devoted himself to the game of golf. And then, one day, he...

Boy is Roald Dahl's extraordinary glimpse into his childhood and early life.

'An autobiography is a book a person writes...

They called for a break, and Gambon magicked up a cigarette from out of his beard. He and I were often to be found outside the...

C L R James, one of the foremost thinkers of the twentieth century, was devoted to the game of cricket. In this classic summation...