Жанр "Биографии. Мемуары"

A new edition of Primo Levi’s classic memoir of the Holocaust, with an introduction by David Baddiel, author of Jews Don’t Count.

'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...

People ask me how come I m still alive, and I don t know what to say. When I was growing up, if you d have put me up against a...

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...

Will you do my eulogy?

With those words, Mitch Albom begins his long-awaited return to non-fiction. His journey to honour the...

In Happy-Go-Lucky, David Sedaris once again captures what is most unexpected, hilarious, and poignant about recent upheavals,...

From West Ham's cult hero, Julian Dicks, a hugely entertaining romp through football and the East End of the Eighties and...

A unique biography of football icon, George Best, written by journalist and broadcaster, Michael Parkinson

One of the most...

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

Chika Jeune came into Mitch Albom's life by chance. Growing up in the aftermath of the devastating 2010 Haiti Earthquake, at...

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...

What is it like to be a brain surgeon?

How does it feel to hold someone's life in your hands, to cut through the stuff that...

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...

Fully updated to include the 2017-18 season and Ronaldo's transfer to Juventus
Cristiano Ronaldo is one of the greatest...

"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...

The first biography to be written with the cooperation of the Lynott Estate, Cowboy Song is the definitive authorised account of...

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

Jennifer Worth came from a sheltered background when she became a midwife in the Docklands in the 1950s. The conditions in which...

What happens when your story doesn't end the way you thought it would?

When you realise - after getting married and having a...

Fourteen mountains on Earth tower over 8,000 metres above sea level, an altitude where the brain and body withers and dies. Until...

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...

Surfing only looks like a sport. To devotees, it is something else entirely: a beautiful addiction, a mental and physical study,...

The story of how Augustus rose from an obscure teenager to become Rome's first and greatest emperor.
Caesar Augustus schemed and...

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...