Книги жанра биографии и мемуары
The sensational sequel to ‘Papillon’.‘Banco’ continues the adventures of Henri Charriere – nicknamed Papillon – in Venezuela, where he has finally won his freedom after thirteen years of escape and imprisonment. Despite his resolve to become an honest man, Charriere is soon involved in hair-raiding exploits with goldminers, gamblers, bank-robbers and revolutionaries – robbing and being robbed, his…
Иллюстрированный сборник художественно-публицистических эссе о знаменитостях, ныне живущих и уже ушедших, чья жизнь неразрывно связана с городом на Неве — Санкт-Петербургом. Эта книга — результат работы Екатерины Асмус радиожурналистом, впервые была выпущена на грант Комитета по печати СПб в 2013 году. Герои книги — Михаил Шемякин, Марк Шагал, Юлий Ким, Эмир Кустурица, Эрнест Ясан, Александр Трауг…
Иллюстрированный сборник художественно-публицистических эссе о знаменитостях, ныне живущих и уже ушедших, чья жизнь неразрывно связана с городом на Неве — Санкт-Петербургом. Эта книга — результат работы Екатерины Асмус радиожурналистом, впервые была выпущена на грант Комитета по печати СПб в 2013 году. Герои книги — Михаил Шемякин, Марк Шагал, Юлий Ким, Эмир Кустурица, Эрнест Ясан, Александр Трауг…
SHE FINALLY THOUGHT SHE WAS SAFE…Toni Maguire, author of Don't Tell Mummy, takes up the story of her tragic childhood where she left off, revealing the awful truth about what happened when her father, sent to jail for abusing her, was released, and came home…Toni Maguire's father abused her from the age of six, and was only found out when Toni fell pregnant, losing the child from a botched abortio…
Десятая книга из серии «Военачальники СССР» представляет собой подробные военные биографии советских военачальников, служивших в РККА и получивших персональное воинское звание комдив с 1935 года по 1940 год. В этот том вошли комдивы с фамилией на букву К, кроме комдивов НКВД и РККФ — они войдут в отдельные тома. Книга составлена по архивным документам РГВА — таким, как приказы НКО СССР, списки ком…
Девятая книга из серии «Военачальники СССР» представляет собой подробные военные биографии советских военачальников, служивших в РККА и получивших персональное воинское звание комдив с 1935 года по 1940 год. В этот том вошли комдивы с фамилией на букву К, кроме комдивов НКВД и РККФ — они войдут в отдельные тома. Книга составлена по архивным документам РГВА — таким, как приказы НКО СССР, списки ком…
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…
All that you ever wanted to know – and never imagined – about what goes on behind-the-scenes at one of the world's most prestigious plastic surgeon's office.‘“I don't care if I die,” she said. “I waited my whole life to look good. I'm not going one more day looking the way I do … if I'm not happy, nothing else matters.’”What is it that drives women, and men, to the extreme measure of cosmetic surg…
Here for the first time is the full horror and madness of sharing a house, told by someone who’s been there. Birmingham pulls no punches: from dead rats in the kitchen to tent-dwelling lodgers in the living room, you’ll run for the safety of living alone.‘A rat died in the living room at King Street and we didn’t know. There was at least six inches of compacted rubbish between our feet and the flo…
A candid, moving and inspirational memoir about a high-flying business man who is forced to re-evaluate his life and values when he suddenly loses everything and goes to work in Starbucks.Michael Gill had it made. He was educated, wealthy and well-connected. He had a creative and lucrative advertising job, which he loved and which he was good at, and a model family and home life. Then he loses it …
Journalist, presenter, broadcaster, husband, father, vigorous all-rounder: Alan Partridge. Star of action blockbuster Alpha Papa; a man with a fascinating past and an amazing future.I Partridge: We Need To Talk About Alan is the memoir of Alan Partridge, the nation’s favourite broadcaster. It is a work of heart-breaking majesty.Genuinely one of the best books of the last fifteen to twenty years, I…
The long awaited story of one of Britain’s greatest comic legends.'Some people walk on stage and the audience warms to them. You can't explain it, and you shouldn't try. It's an arrogant assumption to say you 'decide' to become a comedian. The audience decides for you.' Eric Sykes, December 2001From his early days writing scripts for Bill Fraser and Frankie Howerd through decades of British radio …
‘A letter is handed to you. In broken English, it tells you that you must now vacate your farm; that this is no longer your home, for it now belongs to the crowd on your doorstep. Then the drums begin to beat.’As the land invasions gather pace, the Retzlaffs begin an epic journey across Zimbabwe, facing eviction after eviction, trying to save the group of animals with whom they feel a deep and end…