Книги жанра биографии и мемуары
«Я не собираюсь учить вас танцам. Я просто хочу научить вас летать, как птицы, гнуться, как молодые деревца под ветром, радоваться, как радуется под майским утром бабочка, дышать свободно, как облака, прыгать легко и бесшумно, как серая кошка». Когда на сцену выпархивала юная Айседора Дункан, «прекрасная босоножка», чтобы танцем «пересказать» музыку, картину, стихотворение и даже философский тракт…
НАСТОЯЩИЙ МАТЕРИАЛ (ИНФОРМАЦИЯ) ПРОИЗВЕДЕН ИНОСТРАННЫМ АГЕНТОМ БЫКОВЫМ ДМИТРИЕМ ЛЬВОВИЧЕМ, СОДЕРЖАЩИМСЯ В РЕЕСТРЕ ИНОСТРАННЫХ СРЕДСТВ МАССОВОЙ ИНФОРМАЦИИ, ВЫПОЛНЯЮЩИХ ФУНКЦИИ ИНОСТРАННОГО АГЕНТА 29.07.2022. Нет в России другого писателя, смерть которого была бы окружена таким количеством легенд, при полном отсутствии легенд о жизни.Национальная матрица, то есть сюжет русской жизни, придуманы Гогол…
НАСТОЯЩИЙ МАТЕРИАЛ (ИНФОРМАЦИЯ) ПРОИЗВЕДЕН ИНОСТРАННЫМ АГЕНТОМ БЫКОВЫМ ДМИТРИЕМ ЛЬВОВИЧЕМ, СОДЕРЖАЩИМСЯ В РЕЕСТРЕ ИНОСТРАННЫХ СРЕДСТВ МАССОВОЙ ИНФОРМАЦИИ, ВЫПОЛНЯЮЩИХ ФУНКЦИИ ИНОСТРАННОГО АГЕНТА 29.07.2022. Нет в России другого писателя, смерть которого была бы окружена таким количеством легенд, при полном отсутствии легенд о жизни.Национальная матрица, то есть сюжет русской жизни, придуманы Гогол…
НАСТОЯЩИЙ МАТЕРИАЛ (ИНФОРМАЦИЯ) ПРОИЗВЕДЕН ИНОСТРАННЫМ АГЕНТОМ БЫКОВЫМ ДМИТРИЕМ ЛЬВОВИЧЕМ, СОДЕРЖАЩИМСЯ В РЕЕСТРЕ ИНОСТРАННЫХ СРЕДСТВ МАССОВОЙ ИНФОРМАЦИИ, ВЫПОЛНЯЮЩИХ ФУНКЦИИ ИНОСТРАННОГО АГЕНТА 29.07.2022. Нет в России другого писателя, смерть которого была бы окружена таким количеством легенд, при полном отсутствии легенд о жизни.Национальная матрица, то есть сюжет русской жизни, придуманы Гогол…
The text in this ebook is fixed to preserve the layout of the book and it is not possible to enlarge the font size. It may be unsuitable for eink readers and mobile phones and we recommend you download a sample to your device before purchase.From #1 New York Times bestselling author Sherryl Woods, a rare and intimate look at Colonial Beach, Virginia.Rich in narrative history and local colour, A Sm…
Confessions of an unconventional modelIsobella Jade is no ordinary model – she is far too short for a start. At ‘almost five foot four’ in heels she found herself shunned by the major agencies and forced to take any job that came her way just to make ends meet.From nude photoshoots for leering amateur photographers to ‘arty’ crotch shots; from sex toy ads to lingerie shows. This is a tale from the…
Previously published as The Great Grisby‘You cannot help but fall in love with Grisby’ Jeffrey MassonIn this charming bestiary of exceptional dogs, Mikita Brottman reflects on the role dogs play in our world, explored through her relationship with her dog Grisby and the dogs of great writers and artists from literature, lore, and life.While gradually unveiling her eight-year love affair with her F…
LONGLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2014‘A symphonic poem about postwar England and Englishness … A masterpiece’ Financial TimesThe 1950s were not grey. In Jonathan Meades’s detailed, petit-point memoir they are luridly polychromatic. They were peopled by embittered grotesques, bogus majors, vicious spinsters, reckless bohos, pompous boors, drunks, suicides. Death went dogging everywhere. Sali…
Star of stage, screen and television, and one of only two people to be awarded two Knighthoods, Sir Derek Jacobi is one of Britain’s most distinguished actors.‘If you want to be an actor, don’t. If you need to be an actor, do.’The world of theatre could not have been further from Derek’s childhood: an only child, born in Leytonstone, London. With his father a department store manager and his mothe…
The one and only Fay Weldon tells the story of her turbulent and controversial life.From the 1930s to the 2000s, Fay Weldon has seen and lived our times. As a child in New Zealand, young and poor in London, unmarried mother, wife, lover, playwright, novelist, feminist, anti-feminist, spag-bol-cook, winer-and-diner, there are few waterfronts that she hasn’t covered, few battles she hasn’t fought. A…
Join Loose Women's Sherrie Hewson on her rollercoaster ride through the laughter, tears and tantrums of an extraordinary life lived on and off the screen.Sherrie Hewson is one of Britain's best loved telly stars. From her dazzling performances in the Carry On films to Russ Abbott's Madhouse, to her favourite character Maureen Holdsworth in Coronation Street to the green hills of Emmerdale, Sherrie…
BODACIOUS: THE SHEPHERD CAT is a heart-warming and charming tale in which Bodacious tells us about life as The Shepherd Cat on Black Sheep Farm.‘I am Bodacious, The Shepherd Cat , and this is my story. I wasn't always called Bodacious. I must have been called something else in my kitten-hood in the nearby city of Kilkenny, but it's all a bit of a mystery to My Human. As far as she's concerned, I a…
The third best-selling volume in the powerful story of Helen Forrester’s childhood and adolescence in poverty-stricken Liverpool during the 1930s.Helen has managed to achieve a small measure of independence. At seventeen, she has fought and won two bitter battles with her parents, the first for the right to educate herself at evening classes, the second for the right to go out to work.Though her p…
Professor by day, callgirl by night – a true storyJenny is left penniless by an ex-boyfriend and, in order to make ends meet, she finds herself juggling two lives – respected college-lecturer by day and $200-an-hour high class callgirl 'Tia' by night.Tia's clients range from the pitiful to the downright disturbing: there's the man obsessed with wearing her underwear, the client who wants her to pr…
The hugely popular Gareth Malone recounts the heart-warming stories and transformations behind the award-winning BBC2 series The ChoirFor the first time, Gareth reveals everything he has learned from working with so many groups of memorable people, including the record-breaking Military Wives and latest series of The Choir being shown this Autumn.Gareth was an unknown Choirmaster when he arrived o…