Transworld Publishers Ltd: Book Description The true story of one woman's struggle to keep her child and win freedom for... Zobraziť viac
As a young man struggling to find his voice as a writer, George Orwell left the comfort of home to live in the impoverished working districts of Paris and London. He would document both the chaos and boredom of destitution... Zobraziť viac
'You can live on a shilling a day in Paris if you know how. But it is a complicated business' As a struggling writer in his twenties, Orwell lived as a down-and-out among the poorest members of society. In this, his early memoir... Zobraziť viac
David Bailey burst onto the scene in 1960 with his revolutionary photographs for Vogue. Discarding the rigid rules of a previous generation of portrait and fashion photographers, he channelled the energy of London's newly informal street culture into... Zobraziť viac
In the first instalment of Clive James's memoirs we follow the young Clive on his journey from boyhood to the cusp of manhood, when his days of wearing short trousers are finally behind him. Battling with school, girls, ... Zobraziť viac
Will's mother's hokey homily, Waste not, want not... hisses in his ears as he oscillates furiously on the spot, havering on the threshold between the bedroom and the dying one... all the while cradling the plastic leech of the syringe ... Zobraziť viac
While Edna O'Brien's brilliant debut novel The Country Girls (1960) scandalized Ireland and was promptly banned, she has come to be regarded as one of that country's finest writers. In this frank memoir, she looks back with... Zobraziť viac
Ja Rule, actor, singer, songwriter, and one of the most multi-dimensional rap artists of his time, tells his compelling story—from his youth to his rise to international fame to his transformative two years in Federal prison ... Zobraziť viac
BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK The moving, playful memoir of Hans Rosling - Swedish statistics mastermind, researcher extraordinaire and author of the global bestseller, Factfulness. This is a book that contains very few numbers. Instead, it is about meetin Zobraziť viac
Editor in chief Alexandra Shulman kept a diary of Vogue's centenary year. And what an emotional and logistical minefield of a year: producing the 100th anniversary issue (that Duchess of Cambridge cover surprise), organizing the star-studded Vogue ... Zobraziť viac
Phoenix: From the moment Judi Dench appeared as a teenager in the York Mystery Plays it was clear that acting would be her... Zobraziť viac
Ebury Press: "a great book...if you need to be reminded that there is value to be discovered in experiences when they seem... Zobraziť viac
The young Walter Miller was a product of his time. Growing up Black in the Jim Crow American South, he was in trouble with the police before his fourteenth birthday. And, like so many young Black men, once he'd landed in the criminal justice system... Zobraziť viac
This is the biography of one of the titans of financial history over the last fifty years... Zobraziť viac
Hilarious and heartwarming, this memoir is the story of growing up in a strange land where you don't speak the language, everyone smells like milk, and to top it off, the Ayatollah wants you and your family dead... Zobraziť viac
The instant New York Times bestselling memoir of a young Jewish woman's escape from a religious sect, in the tradition of Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Infidel and Carolyn Jessop's Escape... Zobraziť viac
Original / British English: Princess Diana, one of the most famous and popular women in the world the Peoples Princess.Read here about Dianas short life, her marriage to Prince Charles, her war with the Royal Family... Zobraziť viac
Sebastian Mallaby's magisterial biography of Alan Greenspan, the product of over five years of research based on untrammeled... Zobraziť viac
The son of a black African father and a white American mother, Obama was only two years old when his father walked out on the family. Many years later, Obama receives a phone call from Nairobi: his father is dead... Zobraziť viac
