Биографии и Мемуары
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Minu üllitis pole kirjutatud päris tavaliste kaanonite järgi. Need on mälestustekillud, lükitud ajateljele, nagu mu elu on kulgenud, üritamata anda mastaapsemat sündmuste raamistikku. Esitan asju nii, nagu mina neid nägin ja näen. Lisatud omi mõtteid maailma asjade kohta. Kohati antud ka taustainfot, sest noorem põlvkond ei orienteeru ülearu hästi nõukogude elu ja olu eripäras. Päevikut ei ole ma kunagi pidanud. Selle kirjutise jaoks ei istunud ma raamatukogus ega uurinud algallikaid...
| Автор | Toomas Leito |
Pariis, 1919: Coco Chanelil on edukalt loonud oma moefirma ja teel tuntuse poole Euroopa kõrgseltskonnas. Kuid kui tema väljavalitu Boy Capel autoõnnetuses surma saab, kaotab naine otsekui põhjuse elada. Ootamatu kohtumine Vene Balleti impressaarioga, tsarinna taskurätt ja selle müstiline aroom annab aga Coco elule uue eesmärgi – ta tahab taasluua selle vaimustava lõhna, tõelise armastuse parfüümi. Oma otsingutel kohtub ta karismaatilise Dimitri Romanovi, geniaalse helilooja Igor Stravinski,...
| Автор | Michelle Marly |
SOLDIER, ESCAPER, SPYMASTER, POLITICIAN – Airey Neave was assassinated in the House of Commons car park in 1979. Forty years after his death, Patrick Bishop’s lively, action-packed biography examines the life, heroic war and death of one of Britain’s most remarkable 20th century figures.Airey Neave was one of the most extraordinary figures of his generation. Taken prisoner during WW2, he was the first British officer to escape from Colditz and using the code name ‘Saturday’ became a key figure...
| Автор | Patrick Bishop |
“You have the luck of Croesus on stilts (as my Auntie Vi would have said) if you’ve had the sort of career, ups and downs, warts and all that I have in that wondrous little corner of show business called musical theatre.”One of the most successful and distinguished artists of our time, Andrew Lloyd Webber has reigned over the musical theatre world for nearly five decades. The winner of numerous awards, including multiple Tonys and an Oscar, Lloyd Webber has enchanted millions worldwide with his...
| Автор | Эндрю Ллойд Уэббер |
A new memoir from Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author Cathy Glass, now with an exclusive preview of Cathy’s inspiring new title, Please Don’t Take My Baby, coming out on April 25th.Eight-year-old Aimee was on the child protection register at birth. Her five older siblings were taken into care many years ago. So no one can understand why she was left at home to suffer for so long. It seems Aimee was forgotten.The social services are looking for a very experienced foster carer to...
| Автор | Cathy Glass |
Based on a true story, The Forgotten Child is a heart-breaking memoir of an abandoned newborn baby left to die, his tempestuous upbringing, and how he came through the other side.It’s a freezing winter’s night in 1954. A baby boy, a few hours old, is left by his mother, wrapped in nothing but two sheets of newspaper and hidden amongst the undergrowth by a canal bank. An hour later, a late-shift postman is walking wearily home when he hears a faint cry. He finds the newspaper parcel and discovers...
| Автор | Richard Gallear |
‘A superbly researched and groundbreaking account of Soviet espionage in the Thirties … remarkable’ 5* review, TelegraphOn the trail of Soviet infiltrator Agent Blériot, in this bestseller, Svetlana Lokhova takes the reader on a thrilling journey through Stalin’s most audacious intelligence operation.On a sunny September day in 1931, a Soviet spy walked down the gangplank of the luxury transatlantic liner SS Europa and into New York. Attracting no attention, Stanislav Shumovsky had completed his...
| Автор | Svetlana Lokhova |
‘The Muslim Mother Teresa’ Huffington PostImprisonment. Mutilation. Persecution. Edna Adan Ismail endured it all – for the women of Africa.Edna saw first-hand how poor healthcare, lack of education and ancient superstitions had devastating effects on Somaliland’s people, especially its women. When she suffered the trauma of FGM herself as a young girl at the bidding of her mother, Edna’s determination was set.The first midwife to practise in Somaliland, Edna became a formidable teacher and...
| Автор | Edna Adan Ismail |
In horse racing greatness is defined by speed. Being the second fastest counts for little. You have to win. And win. And keep winning until every challenger of your generation is put to the sword. Of the twelve horses lined up on Newmarket Heath that 2011 day, one would do just that. And more. To become the greatest racehorse that has ever lived.Frankel was born on 11 February 2008, with four white socks and a blaze, from impressive equine lines on both his parents’ sides. Simon Cooper revisits...
| Автор | Simon Cooper |
In 2017 the Salvator Mundi was sold at auction for $450m. But is it a real da Vinci? In a thrilling narrative built on formidable research, Ben Lewis tracks the extraordinary journey of a masterpiece lost and found, lied and fought over across the centuries.In 2017, Leonardo da Vinci’s small oil painting, the Salvator Mundi was sold at auction for $450m. In the words of its discoverer, the image of Christ as saviour of the world is ‘the rarest thing on the planet by the greatest human being who...
| Автор | Ben Smith Lewis |
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year 2020 A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year 2020‘The Putin book that we’ve been waiting for’ Oliver Bullough, author of Moneyland‘Books about modern Russia abound … Belton has surpassed them all. Her much-awaited book is the best and most important on modern Russia’ The TimesA chilling and revelatory expose of the KGB’s renaissance, Putin’s rise to power, and how Russian black cash is subverting the world.In Putin’s People, former...
| Автор | Catherine Belton |
INSPIRATION FOR THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE OFFICIAL SECRETSFEATURING A NEW INTRODUCTIONIn January 2003, 28-year-old GCHQ translator Katharine Gun received an email from the US National Security Agency that would turn her world upside down. The message requested Katharine’s assistance in co-ordinating an illegal US-UK spy operation which would secure UN authorisation for the Iraq invasion. Horrified, she decided to leak the information to the British press.Katharine’s decision would change her life...
| Автор | Thomas Mitchell M. |
On the 250th anniversary of Captain Cook’s successful navigation to the coast of Australia, this is Alistair MacLean’s absorbing story of one of Britain’s great national heroes, from his obscure beginnings to his sudden and violent death at the age of fifty-one.When James Cook was hacked to death by Hawaiian islanders on 14 February 1779, he was already considered the greatest explorer of his age. Born in obscurity but gripped by a boundless passion for new horizons, he became the greatest...
| Автор | Alistair MacLean |
The urgent, explosive story of Russia’s espionage efforts against the West from the Cold War to the present – including their interference in the 2016 presidential election. Like a scene from a le Carre novel or the TV drama The Americans, in the summer of 2010 a group of Russian deep cover sleeper agents were arrested. It was the culmination of a decade-long investigation, and ten people, including Anna Chapman, were swapped for four people held in Russia. At the time it was seen simply as a...
| Автор | Gordon Corera |
‘This is the book that has been wanting to be written for decades: the ragged fringe of Britain as a laboratory for the human spirit’ Adam NicolsonOver the course of a year, leading historian and nature writer David Gange kayaked the weather-ravaged coasts of Atlantic Britain and Ireland from north to south: every cove, sound, inlet, island.The idea was to travel slowly and close to the water: in touch with both the natural world and the histories of communities on Atlantic coastlines. The story...
| Автор | David Gange |
The true story of a 6-year-old boy with a dreadful secret.Oskar’s school teacher raises the alarm. Oskar’s mother is abroad and he has been left in the care of ‘friends’, but has been arriving in school hungry, unkempt, and with bruises on his arms, legs and body. Experienced foster carer Cathy Glass is asked to look after him, but as the weeks pass her concerns deepen. Oskar is far too quiet for a child of six and is clearly scared of something or someone.And who are those men parked outside...
| Автор | Cathy Glass |
The explosive, untold story of how Russia mastered the art and science of targeted assassination‘A real life thriller, packed with characters that even John le Carré couldn't dream of. If this doesn't scare you, then you're not paying attention.’ Oliver BulloughThey thought they had found a safe haven in the green hills of England. They were wrong. One by one, the Russian oligarchs, dissidents, and gangsters who fled to Britain after Vladimir Putin came to power dropped dead in...
| Автор | Heidi Blake |
When the papers say that people in London are behaving normally, they’re telling the truth. Everyone is pretending as hard as possible that nothing is happening … I don’t think Hitler will destroy London, because London, if its legs are blown away, is prepared to hobble on crutches.In summer 1939, war was brewing. Eileen Alexander was a bright young graduate just leaving Cambridge and newly smitten with Gershon Ellenbogen, a fellow student who had inadvertently involved her in a car crash. Her...
| Автор | Eileen Alexander |
A global history of botany and plant collecting in 18th century based on original research in many languages.Joseph Banks, botanist for Cook’s great voyage to the South Pacific on The Endeavour, was a child of the Enlightenment. He believed that reason, in the shape of scientific knowledge, was the key to political and economic progress. He was also what Malcolm Gladwell terms ‘a connector’. In the second half of the 18th century, people who wanted something done in science and exploration went...
| Автор | Jordan Goodman |
THE GLOBALIST is the first in-depth biography of an international power-broker who was instrumental in shaping the global economy that we know today.PETER SUTHERLAND played a defining role in world history over the past 25 years and was arguably the most influential Irish person ever to have lived. He was Ireland’s youngest ever attorney general; the youngest ever European Commissioner; UN special representative for migration; and special adviser to the Vatican.His landmark achievement was the...
| Автор | John Walsh |
"See on hoogne ja haarav lugu geniaalsest tennisevirtuoosist, kaheksateistkümne suure slämmi võitjast, kes kõigest hoolimata on alati jäänud iseendaks. Ühe vähese ajakirjanikuna tunneb raamatu autor René Stauffer Federeri ning teda ümbritsevat väga lähedalt ‒ ta on aastaid Federeriga kaasa reisinud, näinud oma silmaga, kuidas Federer 2016. aastal ootamatult hooaja katkestas ja kuidas ta pärast kriisi taas tippu tõusis. Stauffer kirjeldab põhjalikult, millised inimesed, treenerid ja...
| Автор | Rene Stauffer |
„Tugeva lennukipõrina kostudes põrkume tagasi vaguniustelt … silmipimestav valgus! Kindlasti on see vaenlase lennuk, mis viskas valgustuspomme. Hoiame hinge kinni, kartes iga hetk kärgatavat pommiplahvatust. Lennuk ületab madalas kaares rongi ja valguspommide kustudes heidab silmapilkselt uued. Nii vaheldub kolm korda. Ähvardav siluett tiirleb lõpmatuseni rongi kohal, hoides meid pideva hirmu all.“ Saima Parbo oli tavaline eesti koolitüdruk, kelle turvaline lapsepõlv sai lõplikult läbi päeval,...
| Автор | Saima Parbo |
This is a completely original book on Eric Morecambe, one of the UK’s best-loved entertainers. Containing diary entries, unseen photographs and personal letters, this is the most revealing book yet on Morecambe.Posthumously voted 'Comedian of the Century' in 1999 and reaching number 4 in the recent 'Comedian's Comedian Top 50' on Channel 4, Eric Morecambe remains one of Britain's greatest and best-loved comedians.But even at the height of his success, Eric Morecambe...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
Jacek Baliński i Bartek Strowski w poprzednich dwóch tomach książki udowodnili, że wiedzą, jak przeprowadzić rzeczowe wywiady z ludźmi, którzy nadają ton rapowej scenie. Trzecia część „To nie jest hip-hop. Rozmowy” po prostu musiała powstać. Taco Hemingway, Oskar i Steez83 (PRO8L3M), KęKę, Pezet, Miuosh, Włodi – długo by wymieniać znakomitości, które uświetniły dwie pierwsze książki. Polski hip-hop jest jednak na tyle bogatym i fascynującym zjawiskiem, że autorzy nie mieli najmniejszego problemu...
| Автор | Jacek Baliński |