Книги жанра биографии и мемуары
Timely reissue of the second volume of Holmes’s classic biographies of one of the greatest Romantic poets.Richard Holmes’s biography of Coleridge transforms our view of the poet of ‘Kubla Khan’ forever. Holmes’s Coleridge leaps out of these pages as the brilliant, animated and endlessly provoking poet of genius that he was.This second volume covers the last 30 years of Coleridge’s career (1804-183…
The true story of 2 year-old Anna, abandoned by her natural parents, left alone in a neglected orphanage.Elaine and Ian had travelled half way round the world to adopt little Anna. She couldn’t have been more wanted, loved and cherished. So why was she now in foster care and living with me? It didn’t make sense.Until I learned what had happened. …Dressed only in nappies and ragged T-shirts the chi…
‘I’m going to love my baby and give her lots of attention,’ Jade said. ‘I’ll show my mum she’s wrong.’Jade, 17, is pregnant, homeless and alone when she’s brought to live with Cathy. Jade is desperate to keep her baby, but little more than a child herself, she struggles with the responsibilities her daughter brings.Cathy is worried as soon as Jade arrives: she’s never looked after a pregnant teena…
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSarah K has a secret.By day she’s a writer and level-headed single mother; by night she’s a submissive, living a real-life Fifty Shades of Grey that is thrilling beyond her wildest dreams.But this is no fantasy: Sarah’s story is all true.Daring, evocative and thrilling, but told with wit and honesty, this is an explosive account of life as a submissive, and of a secret w…
The number one bestselling memoir of one of New Labour’s three founding architects, now with a revealing new chapter updating this e-book edition.Peter Mandelson is one of the most influential politicians of modern times. ‘The Third Man’ is his story – of a life played out in the backroom and then on the frontline of the Labour Party during its unprecedented three terms in government.Much of the b…
Cathy Glass, international bestselling author, tells the shocking story of Zeena, a young Asian girl desperate to escape from her family.When 14 -year-old Zeena begs to be taken into care with a non-Asian family, she is clearly petrified. But of what?Placed in the home of experienced foster carer Cathy and her family, Zeena gradually settles into her new life, but misses her little brothers and si…
The most high-profile referee this country has ever seen, the controversial and opinionated Graham Poll exposes the myth that referees are the game’s silent men, and opens the lid on the shocking and often unbelievable world of football that few outsiders get to see.Seeing Red is Graham Poll’s incisive insight into football from his prime position as the man in black, the one in control, the eye t…
”She is Emily, Emily Marchionne: my life and my joy” in the book there are two interwoven stories between autobiography and romantic and dramatic tale. With an important message. In the first story we find Simone De Rosi, a sensitive guy, a dreamer who believes in love. Funny, dramatic situations are created around him that will change his life. In the course of the story he will fall by Emily Mar…
Книга представляет собой 5 том военного биографического справочника в 50 томах. В ней представлены подробные биографические справки о военных должностях, званиях и наградах с указанием числа, месяца, года, составленные на основе послужных карт, списков командно-начальствующего состава Красной Армии и приказов НКО. В 5 том вошли генерал-майоры с фамилиями на буквы Ж, З, И, К, получившие это звание …
Книга посвящена судьбам двух деятелей эпохи коренных преобразований России – Марии Спиридоновой (1884–1941) и Ларисы Рейснер (1895–1926). Едва ли эти женщины лично встречались в бурном потоке революционных событий, вращаясь в разных кругах и по-разному переживая одни и те же обстоятельства. Но именно взгляд с разных сторон позволяет вернее оценить судьбоносное революционное время. Мария Спиридонов…
Книга представляет собой 6 том военного биографического справочника в 50 томах. В ней представлены подробные биографические справки о военных должностях, званиях и наградах с указанием числа, месяца, года, составленные на основе послужных карт, списков командно-начальствующего состава Красной Армии и приказов НКО. В 6 том вошли генерал-майоры с фамилиями на букву К, получившие это звание в 1940 го…
Хрестоматия является специализированным изданием, призванным оказать помощь в формировании профессионально важных и личностных качеств военнослужащих железнодорожных войск и военных сообщений. В издании широко представлены исторические документы, воспоминания и дневники, публицистика и отрывки из произведений художественной литературы, стихотворения и песни, посвященные служебно-боевой деятельност…
Написал книгу о своей родословной. Занимался поисками родственных связей много лет. Мне семьдесят два. Родом с поморского села Койда Мезенского района. Детство и юность прошли в далёком заполярном посёлке Шойна, расположенном в северной части полуострова Канин. Фамилии, завязанные на наш род - Малыгины, Гудаевы, Миллер... Занятие захватывающее и очень интересное. Наверное, и полезное, потому что т…
A historical novel set in Tuscany in the 18th century, during the enlightened government of Pietro Leopoldo of Hapsburg Lorraine. Autobiographical memories of the Grand Duchess Maria Luisa, his wife and confidante. “Vienna 1792. Maria Ludovica of Bourbon, the Spanish Infanta, for many years Grand Duchess of Tuscany and now Empress of the Holy Roman Empire, watches impotently the sudden death of he…
La “Notte oscura dell’anima” può essere definito come uno sguardo critico ad una fase molto difficile che ognuno di noi prima o poi attraversa. Parla di un periodo propizio alla condanna o, per quanto sembri incredibile, ad una inusuale salvezza della persona. La “Notte oscura dell’anima” può essere definito come uno sguardo critico ad una fase molto difficile che ognuno di noi prima o poi attrave…