Жанр "Биографии. Мемуары"

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...

In Going Solo, the world's favourite storyteller, Roald Dahl, tells of life as a fighter pilot in Africa.

'They did not think...

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...

The Penguin Modern Classics edition of Ryszard Kapuscinski's The Emperor is translated by William R. Brand and Katarzyna...

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

The poignant story of the visionary surgeon who rebuilt the faces of the First World War's injured heroes, and in the process...

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...

Gies Miep, Gold...

For the millions moved by Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, here is Miep Gies's own astonishing story. For more than two...

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...

He is the goal-scoring legend of the Treble Triumph, a local hero in Manchester and back home in Norway. But when Ole Gunnar...

Inspired by the heroic war time escapades of his father, as well as drawing on his own experiences in the special forces,...

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...

The man. The legend. The autobiography.

Even people who don't know football know Pele. The best of a generation of Brazilian...

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...

Flying may not be all plain sailing, but the fun of it is worth the price. - Amelia Earhart

This fascinating autobiography by...

"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...