The Autobiography of a Spy'To this day I am convinced that he was not an ideologue. Spying was just his way of being above lesser mortals.' Nigel WestIn the annals of espionage, one name towers above all ot...9999903323051Kim Philby; introduction ...
London : Arrow, 2003, c1968.
viernes, 23 de mayo de 2025
Draws on more than forty interviews with Steve Jobs, as well as interviews with family members, friends, competitors, and colleagues to offer a look at the co-founder and leading c...9999903323020Isaacson, Walter
Simon & Schuster
viernes, 23 de mayo de 2025
The Life of Richard BurtonRichard Burton: star. The roaring boy from the Welsh coal valleys who came to sport on the banks of the old Nile, playing great Antony to Elizabeth Taylor's Cleopatra. From the Wes...9999903322146Bragg, Melvyn
Teach Yourself Books
jueves, 22 de mayo de 2025
The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese DaughterÿþTbright autumn afternoon in Truro, the Napier family celebrates one couple's golden wedding anniversary and another's marriage. But for one member of the clan, the day turns dark...9999903322139Mah, Adeline Yen
Penguin Putnam~trade
jueves, 22 de mayo de 2025
The Life of Richard BurtonRichard Burton: star. The roaring boy from the Welsh coal valleys who came to sport on the banks of the old Nile, playing great Antony to Elizabeth Taylor's Cleopatra. From the Wes...9999903321873Bragg, Melvyn
Teach Yourself Books
miércoles, 21 de mayo de 2025
Michael Caine reveals the truth about his childhood and the years of struggle to make it in the entertainment business. He talks about his relationships - on and off the screen - w...9999903321880Michael Caine
Vintage
miércoles, 21 de mayo de 2025
This autobiography is the story of a major rock singer finding an outlet in Band Aid and Live Aid for his remarkable talent and sense of moral outrage.9999903321705Geldof, Bob
Penguin Putnam~mass
miércoles, 21 de mayo de 2025
Wilfred Thesiger is the last of the great British eccentric explorers, renowned for his travels through some of the most inaccessible places on earth. As a child in Abyssinia he wa...9999903321552Wilfred Thesiger
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
miércoles, 21 de mayo de 2025
A re-issue of the evocative and nostalgic account of Lee's country childhood in a secluded Cotswold valley. Lee describes a vanished rural world of village schools and church outin...9999903321286Lee, Laurie
Penguin
miércoles, 21 de mayo de 2025
And Other Low JointsTHE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER 'Warmly funny, dry and mischievous . . . Genuine and brilliant.' Daily Mail Paul O'Grady is one of Britain's very best loved entertainers. He is known...9999903318965Paul O?Grady,
Transworld Publishers
sábado, 17 de mayo de 2025
Birkenhead, 1973. The eighteen-year-old Paul O'Grady gets ready for a big Saturday night out on the town. New white T-shirt, freshly ironed jeans, looking good. As he bids farewell...9999903318958Paul O'Grady
Bantam
sábado, 17 de mayo de 2025
'This is the most gripping book I've read in ages ... It is beautifully written, fascinating, disturbing and often very funny.' Roddy Doyle The childhood world of Hugo Hamilton, ...9999903317807Hamilton, Hugo
Fourth Estate
viernes, 16 de mayo de 2025
A Personal History"Eloquent, aware and scrupulous . . . a rich and instructive examination of the Cold War past." --The New York TimesIn 1978 a romantic young Englishman took up residence in Berlin ...9999903317012Timothy Garton Ash
Vintage
jueves, 15 de mayo de 2025
A MemoirA vivid memoir of food and family, survival and triumph, Love, Loss, and What We Ate traces the arc of Padma Lakshmi ??s unlikely path from an immigrant childhood to a complicated ...9999903313496Padma Lakshmi
HarperCollins
viernes, 9 de mayo de 2025
A Memoir of Childhood'This is a book like no other. It is the work of a philosopher who was also an imaginative writer, and whose philosophy was sustained by a devotion to aesthetics and psychoanalysis...9999903306375Wollheim, Richard
Black Swan
sábado, 19 de abril de 2025
??Often, at the hour of day when the savannah grass is streaked with silver, and pale gold rims the silhouettes of the hills, I drive with my dogs up to the Mukutan, to watch the s...9999903305507Kuki Gallmann
Penguin Books Ltd
jueves, 17 de abril de 2025
TWO LIVES tells the remarkable story of Seth's great uncle and aunt. His great uncle Shanti left India for medical school in Berlin in the 1930s and lodged with a German Jewish fam...9999903302780Seth, Vikram
Abacus
viernes, 11 de abril de 2025
Mikey was born into a Romany Gypsy family. They lived in a closeted community, and little is known of their way of life. After centuries of persecution Gypsies are wary of outsider...9999903300847Mikey Walsh,
Hodder Pb
miércoles, 9 de abril de 2025
BRITISH BOOK OF THE YEAR: AUDIOBOOK WINNER 2024 NERO BOOK AWARDS WINNER 2023 WINNER, NON FICTION BOOK 2023, BOOKS ARE MY BAG AWARDS SHORTLIST, BOOKSHOP.ORG INDIE CHAMPIONS SHORTL...9999903300823Fern Brady
Editors Varis
miércoles, 9 de abril de 2025
Stories from a South African ChildhoodThe compelling, inspiring, (often comic) coming-of-age story of Trevor Noah, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed. One of the comed...9781473635302Trevor Noah
Hodder
martes, 8 de abril de 2025
2018 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Dr King's death Compiled from his own words, this history-making autobiography IS Martin Luther King: the mild-mannered, inquisitive child an...9780349112985Martin Luther King (Jr.)
Abacus
martes, 8 de abril de 2025
'It promises to be one of the literary highlights of 2021 - publication of the diaries of Patricia Highsmith, one of the most conflicted, fascinating novelists of the 20th century'...9999903297833Patricia Highsmith
Weidenfeld and Nicolson
lunes, 7 de abril de 2025
Casanova had been judged a Don Juan of the salons, cold and indifferent to women, but in this account, Lydia Flem rediscovers him as she believes he really was - an ardent hero of ...9999903297178Lydia Flem
Penguin Books Ltd
sábado, 29 de marzo de 2025
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