Книги жанра биографии и мемуары
Очерк об отдыхе с семьёй в самом любимом месте. Люди и животные, необычный спорт и разнообразное времяпровождение, таинственные надписи и забавные ситуации — об этом и не только, коротко и с юмором. Для тех, кто хочет вспомнить о лете и детстве и кто не против помечтать о новом летнем отдыхе. Продлите своё лето!
Очерк об отдыхе с семьёй в самом любимом месте. Люди и животные, необычный спорт и разнообразное времяпровождение, таинственные надписи и забавные ситуации — об этом и не только, коротко и с юмором. Для тех, кто хочет вспомнить о лете и детстве и кто не против помечтать о новом летнем отдыхе. Продлите своё лето!
Книга написана на основе воспоминаний оперного певца. О том, как мальчишка из глубинки оказался на прослушивании у великого Ф. И. Шаляпина, который оценил его талант, поддержал в самом начале творческого пути. Верьте в себя, будьте честными в достижении цели — и вы добьетесь успеха!
В книгу вошли две документальные повести: «Дом с Маленьким принцем в окне» об удивительном человеке, знаменитом французском писателе и лётчике Антуане де Сент-Экзюпери и «По дороге к солнцу» о пути выхода из душевного кризиса после расставания с любимым человеком, находящемся в алкогольной зависимости. В книгу также вошёл очерк об известном российском певце, обладателе красивейшего баритона, Петре…
A TOP 10 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2018 SPORTS BOOK AWARDSLONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017The incredible true story of four ordinary working mums from Yorkshire who took on an extraordinary challenge and broke a world record along the way.Janette, Frances, Helen and Niki, though all from Yorkshire, were four very different women, all juggling full time …
It’s 1983 and best friends Vicky and Lucy swear that they will always be there for each other, that they’ll never let anyone come between them. But fast forward 4 years and life on the Canterbury Estate has gotten very messy.Lucy has fallen for local policeman’s son, Jimmy. And Vicky is madly in love with Paddy, the charming but ruthless local bad boy. The boys are bitter enemies and determined to…
The Times for over 150 years has been providing the most respected and perceptive verdicts on the lives of outstanding individuals. The Times Great Military Lives is an authoritative and fascinating collection of obituaries depicting the great military commanders of the 19th and 20th centuries.The obituaries collected in this volume are of outstanding military commanders all of whom were remarkabl…
The moving true story of a little girl with Asperger syndrome, controlled and abused by the one person she called her friend.Taylor had always struggled to make friends – she felt ‘different’. Taylor never knew her father and her mother wasn’t around much. She just didn’t understand people, and was alone and scared much of the time.That was until, aged just 11, an older married man called Tom befr…
Nine-year-old Archie and his five-year-old sister, Bobbi, are taken into emergency police protective custody after an incident of domestic violence at their family home.Rosie collects the children from their out-of-hours foster carer on New Year’s Day and instantly recognises Archie from a domestic violence workshop she helped with. Rosie remembers that when asked what he enjoyed most about the co…
Nine-year-old Archie and his five-year-old sister, Bobbi, are taken into emergency police protective custody after an incident of domestic violence at their family home.Rosie collects the children from their out-of-hours foster carer on New Year’s Day and instantly recognises Archie from a domestic violence workshop she helped with. Rosie remembers that when asked what he enjoyed most about the co…
Cruel To Be Kind is the true story of Max, aged 6. He is fostered by Cathy while his mother is in hospital with complications from type 2 diabetes.Cruel To Be Kind is the true story of Max, aged 6. He is fostered by Cathy while his mother is in hospital with complications from type 2 diabetes. Fostering Max gets off to a bad start when his mother, Caz, complains and threatens Cathy even before Max…
The shocking story of a young girl forced into prostitution by her own father, and her painful journey to escape her horrific childhood and build a new life for herself and her sons.Maria's dad was a pimp, living in a world of thieves and street-walkers. Her mother, tiring of turning tricks for her husband, walked out, leaving the children in his chaotic, violent and sometimes cruel care. By the a…
Will You Love Me can either be read as a full-length eBook or in 3 serialised eBook-only parts.This is PART 2 of 3 (Chapters 10-16 of 27).You can read Part 2 one week ahead of release of the full-length eBook and paperback.The eleventh memoir and latest title from the internationally bestselling author and foster carer Cathy Glass. This book tells the true story of Cathy’s adopted daughter Lucy.Lu…
First published in 1983, Heroes and Contemporaries reveals a new aspect of David Gower’s personality – that of an astute and intelligent observer of the game and of his fellow players.In this book he has chosen a collection of the people in cricket he most admires and has written about them in conversational style, with immediacy and critical appreciation.Gower’s encounters with these people behin…
Bestselling author and foster carer Casey Watson tells the heartbreaking true story of a teenage mother and baby in need of a safe and loving home.At fourteen, Emma is just a child herself – and one who’s never been properly mothered. She has been in foster care several times already and when she discovered she was pregnant, and refused to have an abortion, her mother threw her out of the house.Ca…