биографии и мемуары
Поэт и Царь. Из истории русской культурной мифологии: Мандельштам, Пастернак, Бродский
Глеб Морев
Сталин, потрясенный стихами Мандельштама и обсуждающий его талант с Пастернаком, брежневское политбюро, которое высылает Бродского из СССР из-за невозможности сосуществовать в одной стране с великим поэтом, – популярные сюжеты, доказывающие...
Житие опытного странника. Мои мысли и размышления
Григорий Распутин
Григорий Распутин (Новых) (1896–1916) – человек-загадка. Он прошел путь от простого крестьянина из сибирской глубинки до близкого друга царя и его семьи. О нем ходили противоречивые толки при жизни, не утихают они и по сей день. Для одних он...
Кронштадт и Питер в 1917 году
Ф. Ф. Раскольников
Во время лекции в цирке «Модерн» 20 октября я сильно простудился и слег в постель. «Поздравляю, революции началась! Зимний дворец взят, и весь Петроград в наших руках», – возвестил мне утром 26 октября один из товарищей, входя в мою комнату. Я...
Искусство разбивать сердца
Надежда Романова
Мы играли в игру, где я убегаю как можно дальше от друга, все равно приближаясь к нему.
The Wife’s Tale
Aida Edemariam
WINNER OF THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2019 AN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEAR A CBC BOOK OF THE YEARThe extraordinary story of an indomitable 95-year-old woman – and of the most extraordinary century in Ethiopia’s history. A new Wild SwansA hundred years...
Secret Pigeon Service
Gordon Corera
Gordon Corera uses declassified documents and extensive original research to tell the story of MI14(d) and the Secret Pigeon Service for the first time.‘This is an amazing story’ Simon Mayo, BBC Radio 2Between 1941 and 1944, sixteen thousand...
September 1, 1939
Ian Sansom
This is a book about a poet, about a poem, about a city, and about a world at a point of change. More than a work of literary criticism or literary biography, it is a record of why and how we create and respond to great poetry.This is a book...
The Good Mothers
Alex Perry
You are born into it or marry in. Loyalty is absolute, bloodshed revered and you kill or go to your grave before betraying The Family. This code of omert? is how the 'Ndrangheta became the world’s most powerful mafia. The Good Mothers is...
Inside Out
Demi Moore
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA Daily Mail Book of the Year. A Mail on Sunday Book of the Year.Famed American actress Demi Moore at last tells her own story in a surprisingly intimate and emotionally charged memoir. For decades, Demi Moore has been...
Little Labours
Ривка Голчен
AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEARA droll and dazzling compendium of observations, stories, lists, and brief essays about babies.‘Beguiling … A wunderkabinett of baby-related curios … A peculiar book, and astonishing in its effect.’ Boston GlobeOne...
The Lost Properties of Love
Sophie Ratcliffe
What if you could tell the truth about who you are, without risking losing the one you love? This is a book about love affairs and why we choose to have them; a book for anyone who has ever loved and wondered what it is all about.How do you...
A Death in Belmont
Sebastian Junger
A compelling portrait of 1960s America that takes as its starting point the brutal events of 11 March 1963, the day on which the lives of three complete strangers – a black handyman, an Italian-American carpenter and a second-generation Jewish...
Jog On
Bella Mackie
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER‘Bella’s brilliant love letter to running turns into an extraordinarily brave and frank account of her battle with anxiety. A compassionate and important book’ Joe Lycett‘Perfect for resetting a glum January mindset’...
Bloody Brilliant Women
Cathy Newman
‘A litany of fresh heroes to make the embattled heart sing’ Caitlin Moran‘Newman is a brilliant writer’ ObserverA fresh, opinionated history of all the brilliant women you should have learned about in school but didn’t.For hundreds of years we...
Exactly
Simon Winchester
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2018Bestselling author Simon Winchester writes a magnificent history of the pioneering engineers who developed precision machinery to allow us to see as far as the moon and as close as the...
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Hunter S. Thompson
‘We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold. I remember saying something like, “I feel a bit lightheaded; maybe you should drive …”’Hunter S. Thompson is roaring down the desert highway to Las...
Why Dylan Matters
Richard F. Thomas
A GUARDIAN AND INDEPENDENT BEST MUSIC BOOK OF 2017.‘At last an expert classicist gets to grips with Bob Dylan’ Mary Beard‘Thomas’s elegant, charming book offers something for everyone – not just the super-fans’ IndependentWhen the Nobel Prize...
Life and Death in Shanghai
Nien Cheng
A first-hand account of China's cultural revolution.A first-hand account of China's cultural revolution. Nien Cheng, an anglophile and fluent English-speaker who worked for Shell in Shanghai under Mao, was put under house arrest by Red...
Lost in Motherhood
Grace Timothy
Previously published as Mum Face.Best described as The Wrong Knickers for mums, in this wry, resonant and darkly funny memoir, journalist Grace Timothy explores motherhood as an issue of identity.What begins as shock and then denial of how your...
Unmasked
Эндрю Ллойд Уэббер
“You have the luck of Croesus on stilts (as my Auntie Vi would have said) if you’ve had the sort of career, ups and downs, warts and all that I have in that wondrous little corner of show business called musical theatre.”One of the most...
No Win Race
Derek A. Bardowell
A SUNDAY TIMES SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEARA FINANCIAL TIMES SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEARLONGLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR‘Personal, political, powerful and about so much more than race and sport.’ Bernadine Evaristo In the eighties,...
Memories, Dreams, Reflections
Карл Густав Юнг
‘I can understand myself only in the light of inner happenings. It is these that make up the singularity of my life, and with these my autobiography deals’ Carl JungAn eye-opening biography of one of the most influential psychiatrists of the...
What Does This Button Do?
Bruce Dickinson
‘I was spotty, wore an anorak, had biro-engraved flared blue jeans with “purple” and “Sabbath” written on the thighs, and rode an ear-splittingly uncool moped. Oh yes, and I wanted to be a drummer…’Bruce Dickinson – Iron Maiden’s legendary front...
The Education of an Idealist
Samantha Power
‘Her highly personal and reflective memoir … is a must-read for anyone who cares about our role in a changing world’ Barack ObamaTHE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEARAN ECONOMIST BOOK OF THE YEARA TIMES LITERARY...
Maybe Esther
Katja Petrowskaja
The poignant, searching, haunting story of one family’s entanglement with twentieth-century historyAN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER‘Intensely involving … a fervent meditation on love and loss, with a remarkable cast of characters’ Financial...
Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces
Michael Chabon
Michael Chabon, author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Manhood for Amateurs and Moonglow, returns with a collection of heartfelt, humorous and insightful essays on the meaning of fatherhood.You are born into a family and those...
Say Nothing
Patrick Radden Keefe
WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2019SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION 2019TIME’s #1 Best Nonfiction Book of 2019A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER‘A must read’ Gillian FlynnOne night in December 1972, Jean...
Boy Erased
Garrard Conley
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING LUCAS HEDGES, RUSSELL CROWE AND NICOLE KIDMAN, AND WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY JOEL EDGERTON‘A necessary, beautiful book’ Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs to You‘A brilliant memoir’ GuardianThe son of a...
The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly
Jean-Dominique Bauby
‘Locked-in syndrome: paralysed from head to toe, the patient, his mind intact, is imprisoned inside his own body, unable to speak or move. In my case, blinking my left eyelid is my only means of communication.’In December 1995, Jean-Dominique...
An Intimate History of Premature Birth
Sarah DiGregorio
Inspired by Sarah DiGregorio’s harrowing experience giving birth to her premature daughter, Early is a compelling and empathetic blend of memoir and rigorous reporting that tells the story of neonatology – and explores the questions raised by...
Toast
Nigel Slater
Now a critically-acclaimed play at London’s The Other Palace Theatre.‘Remarkable' Observer'Acutely observed, poignant and beautifully written' Daily Telegraph‘My mother is scraping a piece of burned toast out of the kitchen...
Surprisingly Down to Earth, and Very Funny
Limmy
The hysterical, shocking and incredibly intimate memoir from one of the most original and unique comedians alive today.Hello! I’m Brian Limond, aka Limmy. You might know me from Limmy’s Show. Or you might not know me at all. Don’t worry if you...
Brave
Rose McGowan
"My life, as you will read, has taken me from one cult to another. BRAVE is the story of how I fought my way out of these cults and reclaimed my life. I want to help you do the same." -Rose McGowanA revealing memoir and empowering manifesto...
The Ravenmaster
Christopher Skaife
'Packed with insight and anecdote, his story brings the Tower ravens to vivid life, each bird with a personality of its own. I've been fortunate enough to tour the Tower and meet the ravens a few times in years past; after reading this...
Chasing Hillary
Amy Chozick
Hillary Clinton dominated Amy Chozick’s life for more than a decade. Here, she tells the inside story of Clinton’s pursuit of the US presidency in a campaign book like no other.‘A breathtaking, page-turning masterpiece’ Mary KarrA NEW YORK TIMES...
The Art of Resistance
Justus Rosenberg
A gripping memoir written by a 96-year-old Jewish Holocaust survivor about his escape from Nazi-occupied Poland in the 1930's and his adventures with the French Resistance during World War IIIn 1937, as the Nazi Party tightened its grip on...
The Man Who Was Saturday
Patrick Bishop
SOLDIER, ESCAPER, SPYMASTER, POLITICIAN – Airey Neave was assassinated in the House of Commons car park in 1979. Forty years after his death, Patrick Bishop’s lively, action-packed biography examines the life, heroic war and death of one of...
Zucked
Roger McNamee
This is the dramatic story of how a noted tech venture capitalist, an early mentor to Mark Zuckerberg and investor in his company, woke up to the serious damage Facebook was doing to our society and set out to try to stop it.If you had told...
The Forgotten Child
Richard Gallear
Based on a true story, The Forgotten Child is a heart-breaking memoir of an abandoned newborn baby left to die, his tempestuous upbringing, and how he came through the other side.It’s a freezing winter’s night in 1954. A baby boy, a few hours...
Challenge Accepted!
Celeste Barber
‘Prepare to laugh’ – Reese Witherspoon253 steps to becoming an anti-it girl.Funny woman, Instagram star and international comedy sensation, Celeste Barber’s Challenge Accepted! is a raucous, hilarious and outspoken guide to life, unwanted gas...
No Beast So Fierce
Dane Huckelbridge
The deadliest animal of all time meets the world's most legendary hunter in a classic battle between man and wild. But this pulse-pounding narrative is also a nuanced story of how colonialism and environmental destruction upset the natural...
Sea People
Christina Thompson
‘Wonderfully researched and beautifully written’ Philip Hoare, author of Leviathan‘Succeeds in conjuring a lost world’ Dava Sobel, author of Longitude‘Fascinating and satisfying’ Simon Winchester, author of The Map that Changed the WorldFor more...
Fall and Rise: The Story of 9/11
MItchell Zuckoff
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER‘The farewell calls from the planes… the mounting terror of air traffic control… the mothers who knew they were witnessing their loved ones perish… From an author who’s spent 5 years reconstructing its horror, never...
Targeted
Brittany Kaiser
In this explosive memoir, a political consultant and technology whistleblower reveals the disturbing truth about the multi-billion-dollar data industry, revealing to the public how companies are getting richer using our personal information and...
События и лица. Мемуары журналиста
Владимир Николаевич Лукашук
В книге собраны материалы о встречах со знаменитыми личностями и событиях, свидетелем которых был автор в ходе своей профессиональной деятельности. Приводятся уникальные фото и любопытные факты о людях, которые у всех на слуху: А. Пугачёва, Ф....
Иероним Босх. Жизнь и творчество
Валерия Косякова
Что скрывается за гротескной, местами комичной эстетикой Иеронима Босха? Какое отношение к современному ему обществу художник выражал через свои эксцентричные сюжеты? Чем инфернальное Средневековье Босха так цепляет нас? Откуда на холсте...
Записки сдержанного оптимиста
Игорь Борисович Малинский
«Записки сдержанного оптимиста» – это попытка взглянуть на свою жизнь, жизнь моего поколения с высоты прожитых лет. И, конечно, не без юмора и лёгкого философствования. Надеюсь, прочитанное не оставит равнодушными ни моих сверстников, ни...
Эмигрантка в Стране Вечного Праздника. Часть третья. Что осталось от праздника?
Диана Луч
В этой автобиографической повести описывается от первого лица жизнь эмигрировавшей в Европу россиянки. Книга рассчитана на широкий круг читателей. Помимо описания реальных событий, в ней присутствует критический анализ происходящего и авторские...
Война в Южной Африке. Мемуары британского разведчика
Роберт Баден-Пауэлл
В 1896 году на территории, заселенной племенами народа матабеле вспыхнуло грандиозное восстание, создавшее серьезную угрозу жизни тысячам британских и голландских поселенцев. По колонии прокатилась волна погромов и зверских убийств белых...
Патриция Корнуэлл: судмедэксперт в литературе. Серия «Пестрая лента»
А. Владимирович
Краткая биография Патриции Корнуэлл, основательницы популярного направления в современной криминальной литературе – романов о расследованиях судмедэкспертов.
