Жанр "Биографии. Мемуары"

Lewkowicz... , Calvin...

One of the last great untold stories of the Holocaust, The Survivor is an astonishing account of one man's unbreakable spirit,...

The urgent and unforgettable true story of post-Katrina New Orleans . . .

In August 2005, as Hurricane Katrina blew in, the...

The powerful, urgent memoir and manifesto on never giving up from Booker prize-winning trailblazer, Bernardine Evaristo

In...

A highly entertaining and moving journal chronicling J. R. Ackerley's time in India

In the 1920s, the young J. R. Ackerley...

A sparkling new translation of one of the greatest travel books ever written: Marco Polo's seminal account of his journeys in the...

'They are memorials to times and countries whose best is probably past and gone . . . I was lucky to have known them when I did,...

John Healy's The Grass Arena describes with unflinching honesty his experiences of addiction, his escape through learning to play...

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...

Every Thursday morning in a living room in Iran, over tea and pastries, eight women meet in secret to discuss forbidden works of...

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...

For many years, Camilla was portrayed in a poor light, blamed by the public for the break-up of the marriage between Prince...

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...