A Family Ghost Laid to RestIn 1919 Sian Busby's great-grandmother, drowned two of her new babies and was sentenced to imprisonment in Broadmoor. This event has resounded throughout the generations of the fam...9999903397861Sian Busby
Short Books, Limited
jueves, 13 de noviembre de 2025
A Lancashire ChildhoodWilliam Woodruff had the sort of childhood satirised in the famous Monty Python Yorkshireman sketch. The son of a weaver, he was born on a pallet of straw at the back of the mill a...9999903397700Woodruff, William
Abacus
martes, 11 de noviembre de 2025
Editor of GeniusThe talents Maxwell Perkins nurtured were known worldwide: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe among numerous others. But the man himself remained a mystery, a back...9999903396246A. Scott Berg
Simon and Schuster
lunes, 3 de noviembre de 2025
My Grandparents in Love and WarA family history of surpassing beauty and power: Ian Buruma's account of his grandparents' enduring love through the terror and separation of two world warsDuring the almost six ye...9999903395829Ian Buruma
Editors Varis
lunes, 3 de noviembre de 2025
Wheather tracing his ancestry-a wonderfully improblable melodrama-come-true involving perilous border crossings in search of missing relatives, societies in the throes of revololut...9999903394709Ustinov, Peter
Penguin Books Ltd
viernes, 31 de octubre de 2025
Cider with Rosie, As I Walked Out One Midsummer Morning, A Moment of WarSpanning the first twenty-three years of his remarkable life, Laurie Lee's celebrated autobiographical trilogy is presented here in one delightful volume. Beginning with Cider with...9999903394440Laurie Lee,
Penguin Books Ltd
viernes, 31 de octubre de 2025
Being the First Part of the Confessions of Anthony BurgessA portrait of the author's first forty years, from his childhood in Manchester to the moment when he began writing seriously after being told he was dying of a brain tumor.9999903394266Anthony Burgess
London : Penguin, 1988.
viernes, 31 de octubre de 2025
99 Glimpses of Princess MargaretFrom the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize, the funny and tragic, bestselling biography of The Queen's sister, Princess Margaret. Perfect for fans of Netflix's The Crown. A GUARD...9999903393849Craig Brown
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
jueves, 30 de octubre de 2025
The Unauthorized BiographyNow, for the first time, Marlon Brando's larger-than-life story is revealed in this uncompromising, intimate, and definitive account by bestselling Hollywood biographer Charles Hig...9999903393450Charles Higham
Editors Varis
miércoles, 29 de octubre de 2025
A Life's Journey in 99 StepsGeoff Nicholson has been walking his whole life. Wherever he is and wherever he goes in the world, he walks and writes about what he sees and feels. Here he reflects on the nature ...9999903392057Geoff Nicholson
Editors Varis
sábado, 25 de octubre de 2025
Marina Tsvetaeva was, with Akhmatova, Mandelstam and Pasternak, one of the four great Russian poets of this century. In a tragic time her fate was perhaps the most tragic of all. B...9999903385240Viktorii?a? Shveit?s?er
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
viernes, 10 de octubre de 2025
A Memoir of Love, Sicily, and Finding HomeSoon to be a limited Netflix series starring Zoe Saldana! This Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick and New York Times bestseller is "a captivating story of love lost and found" (Ki...9999903379546Tembi Locke
Editors Varis
sábado, 4 de octubre de 2025
A Memoir of Love, Exile and CrosswordsThis work is a personal reminiscence and a guide to solving crossword puzzles. Each chapter starts with a clue and uses anecdote, history and autobiography to solve it, in the proc...9999903379188Balfour, Sandy
Atlantic Books
sábado, 4 de octubre de 2025
THE CONTROVERSIAL SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER. Candid, fearless and provocative - the author of American Psycho on who he is and what he thinks is wrong with the world today. Bret Ea...9999903378716Bret Easton Ellis
Penguin
sábado, 4 de octubre de 2025
The Life of Dorothy ThompsonA personal and public biography of American journalist Dorothy Thompson. She was the first American woman to head a foreign news bureau, the first correspondent personally expelled...9999903376361Peter Kurth
Little, Brown and Company
martes, 30 de septiembre de 2025
Memoirs of a Wartime ChildhoodThe true, devastating story of a Jewish child's survival in wartime Poland, while the rest of her family were killed by the Nazis. Like the Diary of Anne Frank, but by a survivor w...9999903375999Janina David
Editors Varis
martes, 30 de septiembre de 2025
Beginning with her illegitimate birth, Chris Kitch had always felt the outcast. This is her story, sparely told, of the long road down to bag lady and drug addict, and the slow slo...9999903375081Chris Kitch
London : Orion, 1996.
sábado, 27 de septiembre de 2025
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