Биографии и Мемуары
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The Little Book of Zlatan is a celebration of one of the most charismatic, mercurial and talismanic footballers in the game, an individual so distinct, so talented and so perfect that he must refer to himself in the third person at all times. Throughout history, there have been many, many truly outstanding sportsmen and women. These are the individuals that have pushed the boundaries of their sport, set incredible new records or driven the human body to its physiological limits. Every day we...
| Автор | Malcolm Olivers |
‘Resilience can give you strength to keep moving forwards when you are caught in the rain or a storm, and keep you continuing on your journey through life. And it is a strength which resides in everyone.’Maya Yoshida, one of Southampton FC’s most admired players, is well known for his sense of humour on the field. However, underneath the convivial public persona is a man with unrivalled ambition, resilience and strength of character.Unbeatable Mind reveals the secrets behind Maya’s success and...
| Автор | Maya Yoshida |
An engaging and informative first-hand account of the last ‘grain race’ of maritime history, from respected travel writer Eric Newby.In 1939, a young Eric Newby – later renowned as a travel writer of exceptional talent – set sail aboard Moshulu, the largest sailing ship still employed in the transportation of grain from Australia to Europe. Every year from 1921 to 1939, the vessels involved in the grain trade would strive to find the shortest, fastest passage home – ‘the grain race’ – in the...
| Автор | Eric Newby |
The world’s greatest haulier – a rags-to-riches tale of British entrepreneurialsim.If you’ve never seen an Eddie Stobart truck, you’ve never driven down a British motorway.This is the extraordinary story of a multi-million pound business that spawned a middle-class motorway game. Of dynastic struggles that ended in a merchandising shop opposite Carlisle cathedral.A quintessentially British tale – written by the inimitable bestselling writer Hunter Davies, and with the full support of Eddie...
| Автор | Hunter Davies |
It would be hard to invent a group of personalities more extraordinary than the British Royal Family – known as 'The Firm' by Prince Philip. With an eye on the past, present and future, this book takes a look at how the family really operates and reveals how they behave behind closed doors.This ebook is made from the 2009 edition.With showbiz stars and sporting celebrities now attracting the adulation once afforded to royalty, The Firm questions what monarchy is for.Is it a hangover from the...
| Автор | Penny Junor |
Если вас внезапно остановят на улице и попросят назвать имя самого вдохновляющего и забавного актера, скорее всего, вам на ум придет именно его имя. Что заставило его в 2014 году покончить с собой? Ведь у него было все – «Оскар» за «Умницу Уилла Хантинга», 6 премий «Золотой глобус», множество наград за лучшие роли, лучшего комедийного актера, лучшего стенд-ап комика. Целый мир обязан Робину Уильямсу тем, что однажды в кромешной тьме зажегся луч радости и доброты, который пытался осветить все,...
| Автор | Дэйв Ицкофф |
The Puppet Master is back with the inside story.Written by one half of the Fluck and Law partnership, which produced Spitting Image for many years, this book will catch up with creative spirit Roger Law to investigate life at sixty through the eyes of the puppet master.Roger Law, the evil genius behind the mocking, caricature puppets of Spitting Image – which lampooned Margaret Thatcher, ridiculed the Royal Family and gave birth to 'The Chicken Song' – unburdens his tormented soul and tells the...
| Автор | Roger Law |
The fifth book from bestselling author and specialist foster carer Casey Watson.A recent census shows that there are at least 175,000 child carers in the UK, 13,000 of whom care for more than 50 hours a week. Many remain invisible to a system that would otherwise help them. Abigail is one of those children. This is her story.Ten-year-old Abigail has never known her father. Her mother, Sarah, has multiple sclerosis, and Abigail has been her carer since she was a toddler – shopping, cooking,...
| Автор | Casey Watson |
Originally published in 2000 and now available as an ebook. The bestselling autobiography of cricketing legend Ian Botham, includes his first-hand insight into the 1999/2000 winter tour to South Africa.Ian Botham’s bestselling autobiography is an intriguing cocktail of sex and drugs allegations, personal upheavals, confrontations with his peers, and remarkable achievements both on and off the field.From his heroic deeds against the Aussies art Headingly in 1981 through to the dark clouds...
| Автор | Ian Botham |
‘My future mother-in-law burst into tears when she heard her son was to marry an actress. There’s still something disturbing, I grant you, about the word “actress”. If an MP or some other outstanding person plays fast and loose with an actress the world is unsurprised. She is certainly no better than she should be, and probably French…’As well as being a mother (to the actresses Sophie and Emma Thompson) and a devoted carer to her own mother and mother-in-law, Phyllida Law is also a...
| Автор | Phyllida Law |
A family’s story of human tenacity, faith and a race for survival in the face of unspeakable horror and cruelty perpetrated by the Nazi regime against the Jewish people.Growing up in the safety of Britain, Jonathan Wittenberg was deeply aware of his legacy as the child of refugees from Nazi Germany. Yet, like so many others there is much he failed to ask while those who could have answered his questions were still alive.After burying their aunt Steffi in the ancient Jewish cemetery on the Mount...
| Автор | Jonathan Wittenberg |
What could cause a mother to believe that giving away her newborn baby is her only option? Cathy Glass is about to find out. From author of Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller Damaged comes a harrowing and moving memoir about tiny Harrison, left in Cathy’s care, and the potentially fatal family secret of his beginnings.When Cathy is first asked to foster one-day old Harrison her only concern is if she will remember how to look after a baby. But upon collecting Harrison from the hospital,...
| Автор | Cathy Glass |
‘Poetry meets mental health in Charly Cox’s brave and beautiful She Must Be Mad.’ Stylist Magazine‘Reading this book made me feel less alone.’ MashableShe Must be Mad explores coming-of-age: the pain and beauty of love, the relief and the agony of turning from girl to woman, the isolation of an untethered mind and the power and subjugation of the body.Charly captures the formative experiences of today’s young women from the poignant to the prosaic in writing that is at once witty, wry and...
| Автор | Charly Cox |
The fifteenth fostering memoir by Cathy Glass.Danny was petrified and clung to me in desperation as I carried him to my car. Trapped in his own dark world, he couldn't understand why his parents no longer loved or wanted him, and were sending him away.While Danny’s parents have everything they could wish for in material terms, they are unable to care for their only child. This is where Cathy comes in. On a cold dark evening Danny finds a place in her home where he can be himself; away from his...
| Автор | Cathy Glass |
Przerażająca, inspirująca i głęboko niepokojąca książka Sarah Helm jest wynikiem przełomowych badań historycznych. Przez dziesięciolecia historia Ravensbrück ukryta była za żelazną kurtyną i pozostawała mało znana. Wykorzystując świadectwa ujawnione po zakończeniu zimnej wojny i wywiady z ocalałymi, które nigdy wcześniej nie mówiły, Helm zagłębiła się w świat obozu i pokazała niewyobrażalny horror. W Ravensbrück przez sześć lat więźniarki bito, torturowano, zmuszano do niewolniczej pracy,...
| Автор | Sarah Helm |
Życie jest jak jazda na rowerze. Żeby utrzymać równowagę musisz się poruszać naprzód . – Albert Einstein Ètienne Klein, francuski fizyk i filozof nauki, wyruszył w podróż po Europie śladami Alberta Einsteina, zatrzymując się w czasach i miejscach, które stały się punktami zwrotnymi w losach genialnego uczonego: Aarau, gdzie szesnastoletni Einstein dumał nad tym, co by było, gdyby dosiadł okrakiem promienia światła; Zurych, gdzie w 1901 r. uzyskał dyplom inżyniera i zaczął pasjonować się fizyką...
| Автор | Ètienne Klein |
Pierwsza biografia Jonasza Kofty – piekielnie inteligentnego ironisty, poety-szydercy zdolnego do wychwycenia każdego paradoksu. Mówił, że jego warsztat twórczy to najtańszy długopis, bo często je gubi, i parę zwiniętych w kieszeni kartek, a najlepsze utwory pisze, kiedy jest czymś zaskoczony. A pisywał dla największych: Hanny Banaszak, Zdzisławy Sośnickiej, Maryli Rodowicz, Ireny Santor, Łucji Prus, Michała Bajora, Czesława Niemena, Jerzego Połomskiego i wielu innych. Dziś nikt nie chce się...
| Автор | Piotr Derlatka |
Жизнь и творческая карьера знаменитой «Бабушки мирового перфоманса». Автобиография Марины Абрамович – это вербальное высказывание, дышащее такой же силой и бесстрашием, как и ее в основном невербальные художественные перформансы. Она с присущим ей сухим юмором рассказывает о детстве и юности, которые прошли под жестким контролем авторитарной матери, о своем искусстве, пронизанном неисчерпаемым любопытством и желанием познать людей. Центральная часть аудиокниги посвящена ее отношениям и...
| Автор | Марина Абрамович |
W latach 90. ubiegłego wielu światy gangsterów i ówczesnych celebrytów mieszały się ze sobą praktycznie na co dzień. Aktorzy, sportowcy, gwiazdy estrady, a nawet dziennikarze i politycy nie widzieli niczego złego w pokazywaniu się w towarzystwie znanych przestępców. Czuli się nawet w pewien sposób nobilitowani, że znają kogoś z „miasta”. Gdyż dzięki temu mogli choćby liczyć na odzyskanie skradzionego samochodu, zmobilizowanie do efektywnej pracy ekipy remontowej czy dostawę kokainy. Gotowe na...
| Автор | Jarosław Sokołowski |
A passionate and heart-wrenching memoir of tragedy and perseverance from a former opioid addict in an opioid addicted community, and an up-close look at America’s new health crisis. Behind closed doors, thirty-six million people around the world abuse opioids, three million of them are in the US. Nick Bush was one of them. Forty-five thousand people in the US die annually from the disease, two lives lost to it were Nick’s sister and brother, three were his friends. Opioid...
| Автор | Nicholas Bush |
#1 Best Seller – Over 50,000 Copies Sold Hailed by Israel’s founder David Ben-Gurion, Days of Lead is a gripping best seller recounting the author’s life on the front line during Israel’s War of Independence. Exquisitely written with a poetically beautiful touch, Days of Lead is the page-turning true story of a young soldier’s brave escapades during Israel’s War of Independence in 1948. This incredible account is a story of...
| Автор | Moshe Rashkes |
Renowned activist Andy Parker's account of the story that shocked America, the murder of his daughter, reporter Alison Parker, on live television, and his extraordinary ensuing fight for commonsense gun safety legislation and doing "Whatever It Takes" to end gun violence. On August 26, 2015, Emmy Award–winning twenty-four-year-old reporter Alison Parker was murdered on live television, along with her colleague, photojournalist Adam...
| Автор | Andy Parker |
‘Ignored, abused and underpaid, the unsung heroines of the food chain are suddenly in the spotlight thanks to French till tapper Anna Sam.’ The Sun Can you scan 800 barcodes an hour? Can you smile and say ‘thanks’ 500 times a day? Do you never need to go to the toilet? Then working at a supermarket checkout could be just the job for you. Anna Sam spent 8 years as a checkout girl. Checkout: A Life on the Tills is a witty look at what...
| Автор | Anna Sam |
The hilarious, heart-warming and tear-jerking memoir from one of Britain's best-loved comedians and actors, Matt Lucas. Hello there. Welcome to my autobiography. Throughout this book I talk about my life and work, including Little Britain, Come Fly With Me, Bridesmaids, Les Miserables, Alice In Wonderland and, of course, Shooting Stars. The thing is, this is a bit different to most memoirs you may have read, because it comes in the form of an A-Z. For instance, B is for...
| Автор | Matt Lucas |