Жанр "Биографии. Мемуары"

The Tastemaker charts the singular life of a man who has been at the beating heart of music's most iconic moments for over sixty...

Kerri ni Dochartaigh was born in Derry at the very height of the Troubles. One parent was Catholic, the other Protestant. In the...

Wishing to leave behind the isolation of her Orkney island life, Amy Liptrot books a one-way flight to Berlin. She rents a...

What did your face look like before your parents were born? Who are you? What is your true self? These are the questions in Ruth...

Two days after the Winter Solstice in 2019 Kerri and her partner M moved to a small, remote railway cottage in the heart of...

Melodrama, biography, cold war thriller, drug memoir, essay in fragments, mystery - Fassbinder Thousands of Mirrors is cult...

‘I too wanted to forget that girl. Really forget her, that is, stop yearning to write about her. Stop thinking that I have to...

Global entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson reveals the secrets to success in business

In Business Stripped Bare, Sir Richard...

Steve Jobs was an American visionary who immeasurably altered the way the world uses technology. From the Apple II to minimalist...

What will you sacrifice for the truth?

Maria Ressa has spent decades speaking truth to power. But her work tracking...

'We never lose our inner freedom; the freedom to do what is right'

Lea Ypi grew up in one of the most isolated countries on...

The definitive biography of one of the greatest, most extraordinary runners and Olympic heroes of all time, from the author of...

Richard Askwith wanted more. Not convinced running had to be all about pounding pavements, buying fancy kit and racking up...

'Thick with rolls of gleaming new wire, the obstacle was designed to prevent a suicide bomber driving into the compound's thick...

In a small Polish village, Mala Kacenberg grew up in the comfort of her family. Until the Nazis arrived.

Her village was torn...

The former Prince of Wales has lived his whole life in the public eye, yet he remains an enigma. He was born to be king, but he...

When Ellen finished the Vendee Globe, yachting's toughest race aged just 24 the nation took her to it's heart. The depth of the...

Pearson English Active Readers present stories carefully written and graded across five levels for teachers of English who want...

Over more than five decades, legendary architect Moshe Safdie has built some of the world’s most influential and memorable...

As a child in the 1960s, Luke Jennings was fascinated by the rivers and lakes around his Sussex home. Beneath their surfaces, it...

In 2007, Bolton Crown Court sentenced Shaun Greenhalgh to four years and eight months in prison for the crime of producing...

A deliciously funny and sage guide to midlife – an unscientific, flaws-and-all account of one woman’s adventures and...

Charles Dickens was a superb public performer, a great orator and one of the most famous of the Eminent Victorians. Slight of...

I propose to open my mind as wide as possible to allow my readers the first ever glimpse at South Central from my side of the...

Shawnee chief Tecumseh was a man destined for greatness - the son of a prominent war leader, he was supposedly born under a lucky...

Where can a tin of tuna buy you clean clothes? Where is it easier to get ‘spice’ than paracetamol? Where does self-harm barely...

An ancestry test suggesting she shared some DNA with the Sami people, the indigenous inhabitants of the Arctic tundra, tapped...

Enid Lindeman stood almost six feet tall, with silver hair and flashing turquoise eyes. She stopped traffic in Manhattan,...

A beautifully written and compelling memoir of a largely unexplored area of medicine: transplant surgery.

Leading transplant...

‘The game isn’t what it seems from the outside. The game isn’t quite what I was expecting. The game doesn’t always work like the...