John Aubrey's racy portraits of the great figures of 17th-century England stand alongside Pepys's diary as a vivid evocation of the period. Aubrey was born in 1626, the son of a Wi...9999903340362John Aubrey
Boydell Press
sábado, 5 de julio de 2025
The Authorized BiographyThe fascinating biography that illuminates the man whose work changed modern culture ? Gives a complete biographical view of Campbell's life and a personal perspective of who he w...9999903340140Stephen Larsen Robin Lars...
Park Street Press
sábado, 5 de julio de 2025
A Child's Life in SarajevoIn a voice both innocent and wise, touchingly reminiscent of Anne Frank's, Zlata Filipovic's diary has awoken the conscience of the world. Now thirteen years old, Zlata began her d...9999903338550Filipovi?, Zlata
Editors Varis
martes, 1 de julio de 2025
Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to SurviveNOW A NETFLIX SERIES STARRING MARGARET QUALLEY & ANDY MACDOWELL. BARACK OBAMA'S SUMMER READING PICK, 2019. BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK. Educated meets Nickel and Dimed in Step...9999903337461Stephanie Land
Orion
domingo, 29 de junio de 2025
Once in a lifetime, there strides upon the stage someone who can truly be called a legend. Such a person is the inimitable, timeless genius who is Billy Connolly. His effortlessly ...9999903336242Stephenson, Pamela
HarperCollins Entertainment
viernes, 27 de junio de 2025
David Niven recalls his time in Hollywood during its heyday. He recounts stories and anecdotes of the stars, producers, directors, tycoons and oddballs, many of whom were his frien...9999903336044David Niven
Sevenoaks, Kent : Coronet Books, 1976.
viernes, 27 de junio de 2025
His Part in My VictoryBritain's looniest war hero completes the third volume of the Milligan memoirs. The nineteenth battery forge into Tunis, cocksure and carefree. They climb on aqueduct with no trous...9999903335610Milligan, Spike
Editors Varis
viernes, 27 de junio de 2025
Published in 1845, this autobiography powerfully details the life of the internationally famous abolitionist Frederick Douglass from his birth into slavery in 1818 to his escape to...9999903332701Frederick Douglass
Penguin Books Ltd
miércoles, 18 de junio de 2025
Hailed by Toni Morrison as "required reading," a bold and personal literary exploration of America's racial history by "the single best writer on the subject of race in the United ...9999903331766Ta-Nehisi Coates
Random House Trade Paperbacks
martes, 17 de junio de 2025
'The Holocaust is a drug and I have entered an opium den . . . I will discover that there is no end to the dealers I can find for just one more hit. My parents don't even realize ...9999903328636Bernice Eisenstein
Pan Books
martes, 10 de junio de 2025
My Fight for Human Rights in Iran 'POWERFUL AND SOMETIMES SHOCKING ...' SUNDAY TIMES In this powerful book, Dr Shirin Ebadi, Iranian human rights lawyer and activist, tells of her fight for reform inside Iran,...9999903327929Shirin Ebadi
Rider & co
viernes, 6 de junio de 2025
My life with Peter Cook and Dudley MooreJudy Huxtable, a beautiful Swinging Sixties model and actress, met and fell in love with Peter Cook in 1967. They were together during the memorable hit shows 'Behind the Fridge' a...9999903326274Judy Cook,
Piatkus Books
jueves, 5 de junio de 2025
One Child's Courage to SurviveDave Pelzer was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother, a mother who played tortuous, unpredictable games - games that left one of her three sons...9999903323877Pelzer, Dave
Orion mass market paperback
martes, 27 de mayo de 2025
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
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
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
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