биографии и мемуары
Innocent
Cathy Glass
Innocent is the shocking true story of little Molly and Kit, siblings, aged 3 years and 18 months, who are brought into care as an emergency after suffering non-accidental injuries.Aneta and Filip, the children’s parents, are distraught when...
The Speckled People
Hugo Hamilton
‘This is the most gripping book I've read in ages … It is beautifully written, fascinating, disturbing and often very funny.’ Roddy DoyleThe childhood world of Hugo Hamilton, born and brought up in Dublin, is a confused place. His father, a...
Call Me Evil, Let Me Go
Sarah Jones
Sarah had lived in fear for over a decade. Humiliated, ostracised and brainwashed, her spirit had been crushed. But as the realisation of what she was subjecting her children to began to sink in, she found new strength and determination – the...
Giving up the Ghost
Hilary Mantel
From the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of ‘Wolf Hall’, a wry, shocking and beautiful memoir of childhood, ghosts, hauntings, illness and family.At no. 58 the top of my head comes to the outermost curve of my great-aunt, Annie Connor....
Too Scared to Tell
Cathy Glass
The true story of a 6-year-old boy with a dreadful secret.Oskar’s school teacher raises the alarm. Oskar’s mother is abroad and he has been left in the care of ‘friends’, but has been arriving in school hungry, unkempt, and with bruises on his...
Agatha Christie: A Life in Theatre
Julius Green
A revealing and witty new examination of how Agatha Christie became the world’s most successful and popular female playwright, including details of never-before-published scripts and stories.Agatha Christie is revered worldwide for her books and...
Some Sunny Day
Dame Vera Lynn
The remarkable autobiography of the last great wartime icon.Born Vera Welch on 20 March, 1917 in the East End of London, Dame Vera Lynn’s career was set from an early age – along with her father, who also did a ‘turn’, she sang in Working Men’s...
The World I Fell Out Of
Melanie Reid
The Sunday Times BestsellerFrom the award-winning writer of The Times Magazine's 'Spinal Column': a deeply moving, darkly funny, inspirational memoir‘It’s beautiful – full of love and light – and an exploration into not only how,...
Captain Cook
Алистер Маклин
On the 250th anniversary of Captain Cook’s successful navigation to the coast of Australia, this is Alistair MacLean’s absorbing story of one of Britain’s great national heroes, from his obscure beginnings to his sudden and violent death at the...
Too Scared to Tell: Part 3 of 3
Cathy Glass
PART 3 OF 3The true story of a 6-year-old boy with a dreadful secret.Oskar’s school teacher raises the alarm. Oskar’s mother is abroad and he has been left in the care of ‘friends’, but has been arriving in school hungry, unkempt, and with...
Patrick O’Brian
Nikolai Tolstoy
An intimate portrait of Patrick O’Brian, written by his stepson Nikolai Tolstoy.Patrick O’Brian was one of the greatest British novelists of the twentieth century, securing his place in literary history with the bestselling Aubrey–Maturin...
Happy Fat
Sofie Hagen
‘Perfect, kind, hilarious and persuasive’ Lena Dunham‘You need this book. Your mum needs this book. Your best friend needs this book. Everyone needs a dose of Happy Fat!’ Julie Murphy‘I am a fat person and I love my body. I feel lucky to be able...
When I Had a Little Sister
Catherine Simpson
When I had a Little Sister by Catherine Simpson is a searingly honest and heartbreaking account of growing up in a farming family, and of Catherine’s search for understanding into what led her younger sister to kill herself at 46. It’s a story...
The Saboteur
Пол Кикс
In the tradition of ‘Agent Zigzag’ comes a breathtaking biography of WWII’s ‘Scarlet Pimpernel’ as fast-paced and emotionally intuitive as the best spy thrillers. This celebrates unsung hero Robert de La Rochefoucauld, an aristocrat turned...
Erdogan Rising
Hannah Lucinda Smith
‘Essential reading for anyone interested in Turkey and its future.’ Literary Review‘Essential reading full stop.’ Peter Frankopan‘It is a must.’ The TimesWho is Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and how did he lead a democracy on the fringe of Europe into...
My Midsummer Morning
Alastair Humphreys
A Financial Times Summer Book of 2019Seasoned adventurer Alastair Humphreys pushes himself to his very limits – busking his way across Spain with a violin he can barely play.In 1935 a young Englishman named Laurie Lee arrived in Spain. He had...
Born Trump
Emily Jane Fox
As a writer at Vanity Fair covering the Trump family, Emily Jane Fox has spent the last year doing a deep dive into the lives of the President’s children. Born Trump is the explosive narrative of her findings as an insider within the most...
Innocent: Part 2 of 3
Cathy Glass
Innocent can either be read as a full-length eBook or in 3 serialised eBook-only parts.This is PART 2 of 3Innocent is the shocking true story of little Molly and Kit, siblings, aged 3 years and 18 months, who are brought into care as an...
Innocent: Part 3 of 3
Cathy Glass
Innocent can either be read as a full-length eBook or in 3 serialised eBook-only parts.This is PART 3 of 3Innocent is the shocking true story of little Molly and Kit, siblings, aged 3 years and 18 months, who are brought into care as an...
From Russia with Blood
Heidi Blake
The explosive, untold story of how Russia mastered the art and science of targeted assassination‘A real life thriller, packed with characters that even John le Carr? couldn't dream of. If this doesn't scare you, then you're not...
Damaged, A Baby’s Cry and The Night the Angels Came 3-in-1 Collection
Cathy Glass
Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author and foster carer Cathy Glass’ three inspirational memoirs, Damaged, A Baby’s Cry and The Night the Angels Came, now available for the first time in a single volume.Damaged is the heartbreaking...
I Carried a Watermelon
Katy Brand
’Massively enjoyable’ Dawn FrenchI Carried a Watermelon is a love story to Dirty Dancing. A warm, witty and accessible look at how Katy Brand’s life-long obsession with the film has influenced her own attitudes to sex, love, romance, rights and...
Under Pressure
Richard Humphreys
‘One of the finest memoirs published in recent years.’ Dan Jones‘An utterly fascinating and wonderfully detailed insight into the hidden world of the modern submarine.’ James HollandA candid, visceral, and incredibly entertaining account of what...
In the Shadow of Vesuvius
Daisy Dunn
Ash spewed into the sky. All eyes were on Vesuvius. Pliny the Elder sailed towards the phenomenon. A teenage Pliny the Younger waited. His uncle did not come back.In a dazzling new literary biography, Daisy Dunn introduces Pliny the Younger, the...
Saving Danny
Cathy Glass
The fifteenth fostering memoir by Cathy Glass. Danny was petrified and clung to me in desperation as I carried him to my car. Trapped in his own dark world, he couldn't understand why his parents no longer loved or wanted him, and were...
Footsteps
Richard Holmes
Richard Holmes’s great work of biographical exploration, published alongside its sister volume ‘Sidetracks’.In 1985, Richard Holmes published a small book of essays called ‘Footsteps’ and the writing of biography was changed forever. A daring...
Born to Be Posthumous
Mark Dery
The definitive biography of Edward Gorey, the eccentric master of macabre nonsense.’A genius book about a bookish genius’ Daniel Handler, author of A Series of Unfortunate EventsFrom The Gashlycrumb Tinies to The Doubtful Guest, Edward...
Punished
Vanessa Steel
‘Punished’ is the inspiring true story of an unusual little girl, Vanessa, whose childhood was devastated by torture and abuse at the hands of her sadistic mother. Vanessa was nearly destroyed until she discovered a secret that ultimately saved...
Интересы партии превыше всего. Биография Си Чжунсюнь
Ван Сяоцян
Книга познакомит вас с видным членом Коммунистической партии Китая, руководителем по политической работе и Народно-освободительной армии.
Авторы расскажут о жизненных перипетиях, взлетах и падениях, недюжинном упорстве, честности, преданности...
Наследуя старое, открывать новое. Биография Гу Му
Лю Хуэйюань
Это книга о судьбе Гу Му – видного реформатора и преданного делу революции деятеля Коммунистической партии Китая.
Еще юношей вступив в ряды подпольщиков, в годы антияпонского сопротивления Гу Му проявил себя как храбрый воин и талантливый...
Особому делу – особый подход. Биография Жэнь Чжунъи
Ли Цыянь
Книга рассказывает о жизни и политической деятельности Жэнь Чжунъи – убежденного сторонника реформ и выдающегося члена Коммунистической партии Китая.
Еще студентом он включился в политическую жизнь страны и проработал на благо Китая более 70...
Служить, а не искать выгоду. Биография Сян Наня
Ся Мэн
Эта книга расскажет о жизненном пути Сян Наня – одного из выдающихся деятелей Коммунистической партии Китая, смелого и талантливого реформатора.
В годы войны – антияпонская пропаганда, в мирное время – кампания по механизации сельского...
В батальоне правительственной связи. Воспоминания семнадцатилетнего солдата. 1943—1945
Михаил Грачев
В книге Михаила Карповича Грачева (1926–2018) рассказано о судьбе совсем еще юного парня, в 17 лет призванного в Красную армию и дошедшего до самого берлинского Рейхстага. Несмотря на то что М.К. Грачев был распределен в батальон НКВД...
Валентин Фалин – уникальная фигура советской дипломатии
Валентин Фалин
Валентин Михайлович Фалин – уникальное и незабываемое явление советской дипломатии, политики, науки. Квинтэссенция уникальности его личности в том, что и знания, и опыт, и характер, и судьба выковали в нем принципы и бесстрашие. За то, что он не...
For The People
Anelia Schutte
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 the coast of South Africa centred around a picturesque lagoon and popular with tourists.But...
Через три войны. Воспоминания командующего Южным и Закавказским фронтами. 1941—1945
Иван Владимирович Тюленев
Через три войны прошел автор этой книги, генерал армии Иван Владимирович Тюленев (1892—1978). Он остался в российской военной истории обладателем единственного сочетания высших боевых наград. Полный Георгиевский кавалер, кавалер трех орденов...
Mummy’s Little Helper
Casey Watson
The fifth book from bestselling author and specialist foster carer Casey Watson.A recent census shows that there are at least 175,000 child carers in the UK, 13,000 of whom care for more than 50 hours a week. Many remain invisible to a system...
A Dark Secret: Part 2 of 3
Casey Watson
Part 2 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 drove his previous guardians to release him of their care. It soon unfolds, however, that this...
Dream. Believe. Achieve. My Autobiography
Jonathan Rea
‘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 determined or more deserving.’ – Carl FogartyWithin the staggeringly dangerous and high-pressure...
Finding Stevie
Cathy Glass
Finding Stevie is a dark and poignant true story that highlights the dangers lurking online.When Stevie’s social worker tells Cathy, an experienced foster carer, that Stevie, 14, is gender fluid she isn’t sure what that term means and looks it...
Dr Johnson and Mr Savage
Richard Holmes
A classic reissue of Richard Holmes’s brilliant book on Samuel Johnson’s friendship with the poet Richard Savage, which won the James Tait Black Prize for Biography.Dr Johnson & Mr Savage is the story of a mysterious eighteenth-century...
Napoleon
Adam Zamoyski
‘Napoleon is an out-and-out masterpiece and a joy to read’ Sir Antony Beevor, author of StalingradA landmark new biography that presents the man behind the many myths. The first writer in English to go back to the original European sources, Adam...
The Globalist
John Walsh
THE GLOBALIST is the first in-depth biography of an international power-broker who was instrumental in shaping the global economy that we know today.PETER SUTHERLAND played a defining role in world history over the past 25 years and was arguably...
Murder in the Graveyard
Don Hale
‘An Extraordinary story of innocence and persecution, determination and grit … it had me rattling through the pages’ SOPHIE DRAPERA gripping true crime investigation into the longest miscarriage of justice in British legal history.In September...
Life as a Unicorn
Amrou Al-Kadhi
From a god-fearing Muslim boy enraptured with their mother, to a vocal, queer drag queen estranged from their family, this is a heart-breaking and hilarious memoir about the author’s fight to be true to themself‘It should be read far and wide’...
Why Bowie Matters
Will Brooker
A unique, moving and dazzlingly researched exploration of the places, people, musicians, writers and filmmakers that inspired David Jones to become David Bowie, what we can learn from his life’s work and journey, and why he will always...
Barefoot Pilgrimage
Andrea Corr
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 mortality following the loss of a beloved father; in part, a reflection on an unlikely journey with her...
Bonkers
Olivia Siegl
A Real Mum’s Hilariously Honest Tales of Motherhood, Mayhem and Mental Health ‘A wonderful book all mums should read!’ Gemma Atkinson’A book to be shared the world over.’ ’ I do believe this book will save lives!’ ’This book made me proud to be...
The Personals
Brian O’Connell
The Personals reveals how classified ads are not just a few commercial lines of text in print or online – they can be a treasure trove of fascinating human stories; stories of love, loss, loneliness, redemption and hope.Some people do Sudoku,...
The Front Runner (All the Truth Is Out Movie Tie-in)
Matt Bai
Now a major motion picture starring Hugh Jackman.When politics went tabloid…In May 1987, Colorado Senator Gary Hart seemed like a no-brainer for the Democratic party’s presidential nomination. He was articulate, dashing, refreshingly progressive...
