Биографии и мемуары

The story of a man who gives up the rock ‘n’ roll dream… to play bowls.Alex Marsh wanted to be a rock star – but it didn’t work out. Instead he toiled…

Written to commemorate the centenary of Karl Marx's birth, Max Beer, an Austrian historian of the socialist and Marxist movements, presents a cle…

«Мне 62 года, я родился в Тифлисе в 1849 году. Отец мой, Юлий Федорович Витте, был директором департамента государственных имуществ на Кавказе. Мать м…

A moving collection of 6 short stories – Helpless, A Small Boy’s Cry, Two More Sleeps, Unexpected, Just a Boy and At Risk – previously available as in…

A new memoir from Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author Cathy Glass, now with an exclusive preview of Cathy’s inspiring new title, Please…

В этом произведении, написанном в жанре «автофикшн», на основе личных биографических данных и воспоминаний, показана жизнь простого русского мальчика …

Эта книга была создана на основе рассказов немецких генералов. Автор излагает мнение немецких стратегов о Красной армии и об армиях союзников, приводи…

A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK ‘Esther Safran Foer has written of her family in a way that is both uniquely and heartbreakingly her story and a deeply…

A small town’s struggle for freedom against apartheid‘They call her Nobantu. I call her mother.’Anelia Schutte grew up in Knysna – a beautiful town on…

‘Extraordinary’ Daily MailAs seen on BBC BreakfastHorrifying, heartbreaking and eye-opening, these are the stories, the patients and the cases that ha…

Выдающийся актер театра и кино Михаил Ульянов рассказывает о пройденном за без малого 80 лет жизни. Вместе с автором читатель вспомнит сыгранных им ге…

Presented by acclaimed biographer Prof. Michael W. Higgins, Ph.D., this course explores the life and literary genius of Thomas Merton. When Thomas Mer…

The Lost Diaries is a wide-ranging anthology of the world's greatest diarists, each of them channelled onto paper through the considerable psychic for…

‘A brilliant vivid and intimate new memoir’ The Daily Mail’For over a decade Kate Fall was the most influential woman in British politics.’ Alice Thom…

SOLDIER, ESCAPER, SPYMASTER, POLITICIAN – Airey Neave was assassinated in the House of Commons car park in 1979. Forty years after his death, Patrick …

Vocal health tips, stories from the tour bus, and action items to improve your voice and boost your self-confidence from an award-winning musician and…

Stuart just wanted his father to love him, but he was made to believe he was too naughty to be loved. Finally David Howarth was sent to prison for abu…

It’s the story where it all started: A homestead for generations, with 1000 years of life and struggles to survive, as well as moments of happiness. I…

Experienced foster carer, Rosie Lewis, takes on the heart-breaking case of Megan, a baby born with a drug addiction and a cleft palate.Addicted to dru…

«Отдохни!» – еженедельный журнал о жизни знаменитостей: обо всем, что происходит с нашими любимыми звездами, известными личностями и светскими персона…

Andrea Corr’s Barefoot Pilgrimage is a compelling and honest memoir.In part, an exercise in coming to terms with and making sense of life and mortalit…

‘If I had to lose my record to anyone, I couldn’t be happier that it was Jonathan. Family connections aside, there is nobody more talented, more deter…

Лидия Владимировна Савельева (1937–2021) – прапраправнучка Александра Сергеевича Пушкина, доктор филологических наук. В мемуарах она рассказывает о де…

Crucible of Terror recounts in searing detail Liebster?s torturous journey through five Nazi concentration camps, including the notorious Auschwitz. I…

In a fusion of fact and fiction, nineteenth-century women institutionalized as hysterics reveal what history ignored" City of Incurable Women is a bri…

Шесть уникальных женщин. Абсолютно разных. Каждая – целый мир, о каждой можно написать отдельную книгу. Зачем было объединять их под одной обложкой? Г…

‘Grant whips up moments of intense emotion and life with the briefest of words and images. Throughout it all, food is the life source, comfort, energi…

History of Friedrich II of Prussia – Volume 14 by Thomas Carlyle <br/> libreka classics – These are classics of literary history, reissued and made av…

WINNER OF THE 2019 PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZEThe fascinating history of Christopher Columbus’s illegitimate son Hernando, guardian of his father’s flam…

The Tin Ring by Zdenka Fantlova is read by Ann Rachlin. A unique and incredible story of love, human endurance, and willpower. How a 17-year-old girl …

From the author of the ever-popular Flashman novels, a collection of film-world reminiscences and trenchant thoughts on Cool Britannia, New Labour and…

‘Joan Didion at a startup’ Rebecca Solnit‘Impossibly pleasurable’ Jia Tolentino‘This is essential reading’ StylistAt twenty-five years old, Anna Wiene…

‘I’m so sorry, Casey,’ my link worker John said, sounding weary. ‘I know this is probably the worst time I could ring you, but we desperately need som…

‘There is no doubt that [Quartered Safe Out Here] is one of the great personal memoirs of the Second World War’ John KeeganLife and death in Nine Sect…

An extraordinary account of survival in Syria&amp;#39;s most notorious military prisons that is written with «brutal clarity – and yet, there is a poe…

Постимпрессионизм – это условное собирательное название объединенных направлений в европейской живописи конца XIX–начала XX в., основоположниками кото…

Роман о жестоких событиях моего детства, в которой было насилие, жестокие избиения и кромешный ад. Содержит нецензурную брань.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERAn extraordinary insight into life under one of the world’s most ruthless and secretive dictatorships – and the story of one …

Он взял Казань и Астрахань, создал современное Государство Российское, а его вычеркнул из проекта памятника «Тысячелетие России» император Александр I…

The touching and nuanced portrait of the rise and fall of Nazi Germany through the eyes of a resourceful German boy. <br/> Ludwig is an odd and introv…

Диана Арбенина, пожалуй, самая загадочная женщина на нашей сцене. Тысячи фанатов, которые горячо преданы ей много лет, ждут этой книги очень давно. Эт…

Part 3 of 3Just when Casey thinks her foster care duties are done, she’s asked to look after Sam, a troubled nine-year-old with a violent streak who d…

Путеводитель знакомит читателя с Петербургом Достоевского: историческими районами города, где с 1837 по 1881 год жил писатель и где проживали герои по…

The original authorised biography, and the only one written by an author who actually met J.R.R. Tolkien.In the 25 years since Tolkien’s death in Sept…