Жанр "Биографии. Мемуары"

'Nobody in the world was more inadequate to act the heroine than I was.'

Why did Agatha Christie spend her career pretending...

From the moment Judi Dench appeared as a teenager in the York Mystery Plays it was clear that acting would be her career. Trained...

The book every Timothee Chalamet fan should own!

Timothee Chala... may I?! This book is a celebration of the actor, style-icon...

When Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual plants, the work drew them into an...

In April 1992, Chris McCandless set off alone into the Alaskan wild. He had given his savings to charity, abandoned his car and...

Daniel and Alexander arrived in London in the 1830s at a crucial moment of social change. These two idealistic brothers,...

With fascinating revelations from those who knew her best and special access to unseen royal papers granted by Elizabeth II...

The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope.

In June...

The long-awaited memoir from iconic, beloved actor and living legend Sir Patrick Stewart.

From his acclaimed stage triumphs to...

Chris Stewart’s Driving over Lemons told the story of his move to a remote mountain farm in Las Alpujarras – an oddball region of...

The Almond Blossom Appreciation Society finds Chris and his family still living on their farm, El Valero, and with its easy...

A concise collection of Alan Bennett's latest diaries - and more.

Following the phenomenally successful Writing Home and...

Most people think I save dogs, but really they saved me.

Niall Harbison is a dog hero based in Thailand. He spends his days...

Park... , Chai...

North Korea is an open-air prison from which there is no escape. Only a handful of men and women have succeeded.

Jihyun Park...

This is the remarkable story of a local lad who grew up in the shadow of Upton Park and became ‘Mr West Ham’: a one-club man who...

The profoundly moving and deeply intimate story of one Jewish family's fate in the Holocaust, following the thread from Germany...

Imagine going from neurologist to dermatologist, orthopaedic surgeon to obstetrician, assassin to saviour - all in one day....

I sometimes fear we shall never wake till we are jerked out of it by the roar of bombs.
In 1936, George Orwell volunteered as a...

If there is one man to whom I do feel myself inferior, it is a coalminer.

In the mid-1930s, George Orwell was given an...

Three francs will feed you till tomorrow, and you cannot think further than that…

As a young man struggling to find his voice...

‘Each of us is born, I believe, with a unique mission, a purpose in life that only we can fulfill. We are linked by a shared...

Anaesthetising a fish, x-raying a frog and hospitalising a walrus are all in a day's work for the world's wildest veterinarian....

In 1943 a bomber crashes into the Pacific Ocean. Against all odds, one young lieutenant survives. Louise Zamperini had already...

A miracle of still-plentiful hair, raw sex-appeal, and strutting talent . The frontman of one of the most influential and...

The inside story of the one of the most successful British stand-up comedians, as told by the person best qualified to reveal all...

Old friends and new faces join the scholars, rogues and countrymen of Brensham with its crooked village street and crooked church...

This is the first book of the famous trilogy of English country life, The Brensham Trilogy, by John Moore.

A wonderful and...

In 1992, Ben Watt, a member of the band Everything But The Girl, contracted a rare life-threatening illness that baffled doctors...

In 2016, Sheila Hancock sat down to write a book about a serene and fulfilled old age. This is not that book.

In Old Rage, one...

First published in 1946, following on from Portrait of Elmbury, the second in the series shows an England which now seems almost...