Жанр "Биографии. Мемуары"

In June 1979, the writer and civil rights activist James Baldwin embarked on a project to tell the story of America through the...

Her life. Her learnings. Her toolkit to live boldly.

How do we build enduring and honest relationships?
How can we discover...

'We, the black and the white, deeply need each other here if we are really to become a nation'

James Baldwin's impassioned...

In five elegant autobiographical meditations Calvino delves into his past, remembering awkward childhood walks with his father, a...

In Journey Through a Small Planet (1972), the writer Emanuel Litvinoff recalls his working-class Jewish childhood in the East End...

A new edition of the classic African American autobiography, now with with the inclusion of Douglass's other works.

The...

A renowned scholar investigates the "human crisis" that Albert Camus confronted in his world and in ours, producing a brilliant...

The haunting true stories of over 350 Holocaust survivors in their own words.

In the shouted words of a woman bound for...

Kompany... , Cheeseman...

Vincent Kompany relives a spectacular and unique season for Manchester City, in which as club captain he led the Blues to a...

Many children dream of becoming an astronaut when they grow up, but when a six-year-old Mike Massimino saw Neil Armstrong walk on...

Unorthodox is the bestselling memoir of a young Jewish woman’s escape from a religious sect, in the tradition of Ayaan Hirsi...

Richard E. Grant emigrated from Swaziland to London in 1982, with dreams of making it as an actor, when he unexpectedly met and...

'From an early age, locked doors, high fences and the secrets kept by businesses, buildings and people, fascinated me. I wanted...

Andrew Gimson, whose previous book Boris is the essential read on Johnson's earlier career, returns with a penetrating and...

"I thought life was going to be a brilliant comedy, and you were to be one of the many graceful figures in it."
While imprisoned...

'Above all, there was a belief in the revolution and the future, a feeling of having suddenly emerged into an era of equality and...

Solomon Northup's memoir recalls how he was kidnapped in Washington DC in 1841 and sold into slavery, describing the brutalities...

An indispensable introduction to the darker side of life, revealing the often strange and grisly stories behind the world's most...

"Even a name by which to be known among men, slavery had denied me." A standout among slave testimonies, the Narrative of William...

Martha Griffith Browne, a Southern slave-owner who became wedded to the cause of emancipation, wrote this "autobiography" of Ann,...

A good fit of illness proves the value of health; real danger tries one's mettle; and self-sacrifice sweetens character....

A classic story of trying circumstances and enduring hope, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave is...

Jess McDonald was a true crime junkie and Line of Duty sofa sleuth with a strong sense of justice. Under a year later, thanks to...

The wise, warm, defiant new book from literary legend Isabel Allende – a meditation on power, feminism and what it means to be a...

Little is known of the wife of England's greatest playwright. In play after play Shakespeare presents the finding of a worthy...

The ponds of Hampstead Heath are small oases; fragments of wild nature nestled in the heart of north-west London. For the best...

The Lives of Haydn, Mozart and Metastasio – Stendhal’s first published work – owes its inspiration to the audacious pragmatism of...

Published posthumously in 1930, Stendhal’s travel notes on his 1838 journey to southern France contain descriptions of cities...

In an examination of his laudanum addiction and the dreams and visions the drug engendered, Thomas De Quincey lays bare the...

Few writers have known Italy better than Stendhal: he was only seventeen when he first rode south across the Alps in the wake of...