SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD.This is the secret history of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.Wonderland is part of our cultural heritage. But beneath the fairy tale lies the complex history of the author and his subject. Charles Dodgson was a quiet academic but his second self, Lewis Carroll, was a storyteller, innovator and avid collector of ‘child-friends’. Carroll’s imagination was to give Alice Liddell, his ‘dream-child’, a fictional alter ego that would never let her grow up.This is a biography that beautifully unravels the magic of Alice. It is a history of love and loss, innocence and ambiguity. It is the story of one man’s need to make a Wonderland in a changing world.

Про людей этой профессии чаще всего узнаешь, когда их трудная миссия окончена и часто — не по их вине. Яркой звездой вспыхнуло в тридцатые годы прошлого столетия имя польского разведчика Ежи Сосновского, блестящего аристократа и секс-символа Берлина 30-х годов. Его процесс в Берлине в 1935 году привлек внимание всей мировой прессы.О жизни и судьбе удачливого агента 2-го отдела польского Главного штаба, действовавшего в Германии под именем барона Георга фон Сосновски, и его последних днях, рассказывает эта книга. Материалом для ее создания послужили недавно рассекреченные немецкие, польские и советские архивы спецслужб.

Впервые в наши дни издается избранная народно-хозяйственная публицистика Александра Ивановича Чупрова (1842-1908), выдающегося представителя отечественной экономической науки, профессора Московского университета, автора учебников, на которых воспитывалось несколько поколений ученых, деятелей просвещения, промышленников, предпринимателей. В своих трудах ученый отразил не только Россию вчерашнюю, но и смело заглянул в ее завтрашнюю судьбу. Научное наследие А.И.Чупрова вошло в золотой фонд общеевропейской культуры рубежа XIX-XX веков. Издание приурочено к 100-летию со дня кончины А.И.Чупрова.

Книга Галины Григорьевны Костенко — это сборник коротких рассказов о детстве в послевоенной Махачкале. Мы видим мир глазами маленькой девочки, непоседливой, озорной и задающей много вопросов взрослым, которые не особенно стараются на них отвечать.»Давно хотела написать книгу о моем дедушке Иване Григорьевиче. О моем детстве, проведенном с ним, всего восемь лет. Я могла бы его не знать, если бы он не позвал мою маму Ульяну Ивановну в Махачкалу. Это были мои счастливые годы детства в тяжелые послевоенные годы. Они были тяжелыми для моей мамы, которая годом раньше до моего рождения похоронила сынишку Геннадия. Меня могло бы не быть на свете, если бы его спасли врачи. Но я есть. Я последыш. Завершаю ушедшее поколение.Хочу, чтобы мои сыновья, внуки и будущие правнуки знали о том поколении, в котором прошло мое детство. Надеюсь, читателям понравятся мои рассказы».

With four years in the Parachute Regiment, ten years in the SAS and two Everest summits to his name, no one is better equipped than Jay Morton to reveal what it takes to become the best of the best.Soldier is Jay Morton’s masterclass in mindset, strategy and excellence. Drawing on his extraordinary personal experience, it provides in-depth, comprehensive lessons and practical takeaways.Whether serving as an elite soldier, training as a high-level shooter or becoming an expert in HALO (high-altitude, low-opening) and HAHO (high-altitude, high-opening) parachuting, Jay has always strived to be at the very top of the game.More than most, Jay knows that military service develops skillsets you’d never dreamed of having, and which can be applied to our day-to-day lives. We are prone to underestimating ourselves, but physical and mental endurance and resilience – as well as realising our own full potential – are well within our reach.

Vivienne Westwood is one of the icons of our age. Fashion designer, activist, co-creator of punk, global brand and grandmother; a true living legend. Her career has successfully spanned five decades and her work has influenced millions of people across the world.For the first and only time, Vivienne Westwood has written a personal memoir, collaborating with award-winning biographer Ian Kelly, to describe the events, people and ideas that have shaped her extraordinary life. Told in all its glamour and glory, and with her unique voice, unexpected perspective and passionate honesty, this is her story.For the first and only time, she is both writing and collaborating on a unique personal memoir and authorised biography: partly her own voice, partly through contributions from her vast network of friends, family and associates. Ian Kelly (award-winning biographer of, amongst others, fashion maverick Beau Brummell and the original self-publicist, Giacomo Casanova) brings the insights of a historian and friend of Vivienne to the life and works of one of the major influences of our age in this wonderful, insightful collaboration.

The men of Captain Scott’s Polar Party were heroes of their age, enduring tremendous hardships to further the reputation of the Empire they served by reaching the South Pole. But they were also husbands, fathers, sons and brothers.For the first time, the story of the race for the South Pole is told from the perspective of the women whose lives would be forever changed by it, five women who offer a window into a lost age and a revealing insight into the thoughts and feelings of the five heroes.Kathleen Scott, the fierce young wife of the expedition leader, campaigned relentlessly for Scott’s reputation, but did her ambition for glory drive her husband to take unnecessary risks? Oriana Wilson, a true help-mate and partner to the expedition’s doctor, was a scientific mind in her own right and understood more than most what the men faced in Antarctica. Emily Bowers was a fervent proponent of Empire, having spent much of her life as a missionary teacher in the colonies. The indomitable Caroline Oates was the very picture of decorum and everything an Edwardian woman aspired to be, but she refused all invitations to celebrate her son Laurie’s noble sacrifice. Lois Evans led a harder life than the other women, constantly on the edge of poverty and forced to endure the media’s classist assertions that her husband Taff, the sole ‘Jack Tar’ in a band of officers, must have been responsible for the party’s downfall. Her story, brought to light through new archival research, is shared here for the first time.In a gripping and remarkable feat of historical reconstruction, Katherine MacInnes vividly depicts the lives, loves and losses of five women shaped by the unrelenting culture of Empire and forced into the public eye by tragedy. It also reveals the five heroes, not as the caricatures of legend, but as the real people they were.

Книга строителя, ученого и мецената Вячеслава Заренкова дает точные и емкие ответы на острые вопросы сегодняшней повестки дня. Сборник станет надежным навигатором в отважном путешествии по оживленным, полным неизвестности, порой извилистым дорогам современной жизни.Представленные в издании выразительные высказывания позволят быстро и безошибочно сориентироваться практически в любой ситуации, занять правильную позицию, выработать четкий план действий и в кратчайшие сроки достичь максимального результата.

After her grandmother died, Hadley Freeman travelled to her apartment to try and make sense of a woman she’d never really known. Sala Glass was a European expat in America — defiantly clinging to her French influences, famously reserved, fashionable to the end — yet to Hadley much of her life remained a mystery. Sala’s experience of surviving one of the most tumultuous periods in modern history was never spoken about.When Hadley found a shoebox filled with her grandmother’s treasured belongings, it started a decade-long quest to find out their haunting significance and to dig deep into the extraordinary lives of Sala and her three brothers. The search takes Hadley from Picasso’s archives in Paris to a secret room in a farmhouse in Auvergne to Long Island and to Auschwitz.By piecing together letters, photos and an unpublished memoir, Hadley brings to life the full story of the Glass siblings for the first time: Alex’s past as a fashion couturier and friend of Dior and Chagall; trusting and brave Jacques, a fierce patriot for his adopted country; and the brilliant Henri who hid in occupied France — each of them made extraordinary bids for survival during the Second World War. And alongside her great-uncles’ extraordinary acts of courage in Vichy France, Hadley discovers her grandmother’s equally heroic but more private form of female self-sacrifice.A moving memoir following the Glass siblings throughout the course of the twentieth-century as they each make their own bid for survival, House of Glass explores assimilation, identity and home — issues that are deeply relevant today.

Growing up with him was like being in my own war zone, living in perpetual fear of when the bombs would fall.I was terrified of becoming him, and in moments I could feel I might. He still lives within me grimly like some battered demon spright. And I’m fearful of his shadow. The rage, and his blood. There are some moments when he arrives and I want to tear up the whole world with my bare hands, and all I really want is love. I want him away now. Please. Just go.In this extraordinary memoir, Tom Mitchelson offers a deeply moving story of hope and love triumphing over adversity. It is gripping account of what it’s like for a child to grow up in an explosively violent home and explores the enormously complicated relationship Tom had with his dad, well into adulthood.Tom grew up with identical triplet sisters and they would watch as their dad would abuse their mum, shouting obscenities in her face, brutally drag her around the house and inflict other unspeakable cruelties. It went on for years and the family never told a soul.Tom knew his dad was a monster, yet he loved him. He was both friend and foe. Someone to fear and at the same time someone Tom felt he had to defend. When Tom became the protegee of his comprehensive school teacher, that story too turned dark.Tom followed a career in comedy and undercover journalism and it was only after his father’s death, and becoming a father himself, that he could begin to face up to his past, leading him on a powerful journey of self-discovery.Don’t Ask Me About My Dad is an inspirational story of our time: a rare account by someone from a deprived background speaking about the complexities of a defining relationship and finding the restorative power of fatherhood, resilience and, ultimately, how the truth can set you free.

The extraordinary early life in India and England of one of the world’s leading public intellectualsWhere is ‘home’? For Amartya Sen, home has been many places — Dhaka in modern Bangladesh, the little university town of Santiniketan, where he was raised as much by his grandparents as by his parents, Calcutta where he first studied economics and was active in student movements, and Trinity College, Cambridge, to which he came aged 19.Sen brilliantly recreates the atmosphere in each of these. He remembers his river journeys between Dhaka and his parents’ ancestral homes and wonderfully explores the rich history and culture of Bengal. In 1943 he witnessed the disastrous unfolding of the Bengal Famine, and the following year the inflaming of tensions between Hindus and Muslims. In the years before Independence, some of his family were imprisoned for their opposition to British rule.Central to Sen’s formation was the intellectually liberating school in Santiniketan founded by Rabindranath Tagore (who gave him his name Amartya) and exciting conversations in the Coffee House on College Street in Calcutta. In Cambridge, he engaged with many of the leading economists and philosophers of the day, especially with the great Marxist thinker Piero Sraffa, who provided a direct connection not only to Wittgenstein, but to Antonio Gramsci and the anti-fascist battles in Italy in the 1920s. After years in Europe and America, the book ends when he returns to Delhi in 1963.Home in the World shows how Sen’s experience shaped his ideas — about economics, philosophy, identity, community, famines, gender inequality, social choice and the power of discussion in public life. The joys of learning and the importance of friendship are powerfully conveyed. He invokes some of the great thinkers of the past and his own time — from Ashoka in the third century BC and Akbar in the sixteenth, to David Hume, Adam Smith, Karl Marx, John Maynard Keynes, Maurice Dobb, Kenneth Arrow and Eric Hobsbawm. Above all, Sen emphasises the importance of enlarging our views as much as we can, of human sympathy and understanding across time and distance, and of being at home in the world.

Legendary jockey, Frankie Dettori, shares his remarkable life story in this astonishingly intimate autobiography.When Lanfranco ‘Frankie’ Dettori arrived on British shores in 1985, aged just 14, he couldn’t speak a word of English. Having left school just a year earlier and following in the footsteps of his father, he was eager to become a stable boy and apprentice jockey, willing to do everything it took to make it. This was his first, but certainly not his last, leap of faith.Despite his slight size, Frankie’s impact upon the British racing scene was immediate and significant. Brimming with confidence, charisma and personality, and with what was clearly a precocious talent, in 1990 he became the first teenager since Lester Piggot to win over 100 races in a single season. By 1996, Frankie was already established as a celebrity in the sport and an adopted national treasure, but it was his extraordinary achievement of winning all seven races in a single day at Ascot that cemented his reputation as the greatest rider of his generation.Nearly 25 years later, and having won the Longines World’s Best Jockey for three consecutive years running, Frankie has demonstrated an unparalled level of longevity at the pinnacle of his sport. But his story is not simply one of uninterrupted success, but also of personal anguish, recovery and restoration – both in and out of the saddle.Now, Frankie compellingly reveals the lows to his highs; the plane crash that nearly killed him, the drugs ban that nearly made him quit the sport, and the acrimonious split from Godolphin that threatened his future. But Leap of Faith is also a story of love – for the sport he continues to dominate to this day, the great horses of his era (Stradivarius, Golden Horn, and of course Enable), and most importantly for his family, who have supported him every step of the way.Heartfelt and poignant, this is not simply a memoir, but a celebration of perseverance and defying the odds.

Dawn O’Porter has been thinking a lot about life.Mostly from a cupboard (and she’s definitely not hiding from her children).Fearless, funny and unflinchingly real, Life in Pieces is a diary of a time we’ll all remember forever – laughing through the tears, finding comfort in the chaos and (in Dawn’s case, at least) discovering the life-changing properties of a midday margarita.So if you need a shake-up in your life, here’s the tonic – with a perfect splash of tequila…

A moving and powerful inter-generational memoir about story and memory.Mine is a family of readers and writers. Our house is filled with books. There are contemporary design books on the coffee table in the living room, legal books in my husband’s home office, and piles of children’s books for when my grandchildren visit. However, the side table next to my bed is piled with books about the Holocaust. Framed maps of shtetls line my office walls and pictures of relatives killed in the Holocaust are displayed on our family gallery walls.Sometimes I feel like I exist across two polarized realities, experiencing great fulfillment from family, friends, and a meaningful career, and, at the same time, finding the joy of my life tempered by its shadows. In the darker corners of my mind live ghosts and demons who visit me from the shtetls in Ukraine where my family came from. Some of the details that make these visions so vivid are imagined because I grew up in a family where memories were too terrible to speak of.This is the true story of four generations who have been dealing with the Holocaust and its aftermath. We are four generations, survivors and survivors of survivors, storytellers and memory keepers. And we’re still here.

Inventory of a Life Mislaid follows Marina Warner’s beautiful, penniless young mother Ilia as she leaves southern Italy in 1945 to travel alone to London. Her husband, an English colonel, is still away in the war in the East as she begins to learn how to be Mrs Esmond Warner, an Englishwoman.With diamond rings on her fingers and brogues on her feet, Ilia steps fearlessly into the world of cricket and riding. But, without prospect of work in a bleak, war-ravaged England, Esmond remembers the glorious ease of Cairo during his periods of leave from the desert campaign. There, they start a bookshop, a branch of W. H. Smith’s. But growing resistance to foreign interests, especially British, erupts in the 1952 uprising, and the Cairo Fire burns the city clean.Evocative and imaginative, at once historical and speculative, this memoir powerfully resurrects the fraught union and unrequited hopes of Warner’s parents. Memory intertwines richly with myth, the river Lethe feeling as real as the Nile. Vivid recollections of Cairo swirl with ever-present dreams of a city where Warner’s parents, friends and associates are still restlessly wandering.

Told with Clive James’s unassailable sense of humour and self-effacing charm, Unreliable Memoirs is a hilarious and touching introduction to the story of a national treasure. A million-copy bestseller, this classic memoir is a celebration of life in all its unpredictable glory.With an introduction by political satirist and journalist P. J. O’Rourke.I was born in 1939. The other big event of that year was the outbreak of the Second World War, but for the moment that did not affect me.In the first instalment of James’s memoirs we follow the young Clive on his journey from boyhood to the cusp of manhood, when his days of wearing short trousers are finally behind him. Battling with school, girls, various relatives and an overwhelming desire to be a superhero, Clive’s adventures growing up in the suburbs of post-war Sydney are hair-raising, uproarious and almost too good to be true…

Книга «Princess». Издательство: Bantam Books. Год выпуска: 2004. Переплет: Мягкий переплет. Количество страниц: 304. Автор: Sasson Jean. Стандарт: 1. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.

Книга «Old Rage». Издательство: Bloomsbury. Год выпуска: 2022. Переплет: Твердый переплет. Количество страниц: 272. Автор: Hancock Sheila. Стандарт: 10. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.

Книга «Strong Woman. The Truth About Getting to the Top». Издательство: Harper Collins. Год выпуска: 2013. Переплет: Мягкий переплет. Количество страниц: 280. Автор: Brady Karren. Стандарт: 1. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.

Книга «One on One». Издательство: 4th Estate. Год выпуска: 2012. Переплет: Мягкий переплет. Количество страниц: 358. Автор: Brown Craig. Стандарт: 1. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.

Книга «Sea State. A Memoir». Издательство: 4th Estate. Год выпуска: 2022. Переплет: Мягкий переплет. Количество страниц: 228. Автор: Lasley Tabitha. Стандарт: 1. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.

Книга «Captain Toms Life Lessons’». Издательство: Penguin. Год выпуска: 2021. Переплет: Твердый переплет. Количество страниц: 145. Автор: Moore Tom. Стандарт: 1. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.

Книга «The Hard Road Out One Womans Escape from N.Korea’». Издательство: Harper Collins. Год выпуска: 2023. Переплет: Мягкий переплет. Количество страниц: 199. Автор: Park Jihyun. Стандарт: 10. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.

Книга «The Accidental Memoir». Издательство: 4th Estate. Год выпуска: 2018. Переплет: Твердый переплет. Количество страниц: 128. Автор: Makis Eve. Стандарт: 1. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.

Книга «The Last Train». Издательство: Harper Collins. Год выпуска: 2022. Переплет: Мягкий переплет. Количество страниц: 400. Автор: Bradley Peter. Стандарт: 10. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.

Книга «The Tastemaker». Издательство: Faber and Faber. Год выпуска: 2023. Переплет: Твердый переплет. Количество страниц: 272. Автор: King Tony. Стандарт: 10. Возрастная категория: 18+. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.

Книга «The World I Fell Out Of». Издательство: 4th Estate. Год выпуска: 2020. Переплет: Мягкий переплет. Количество страниц: 384. Автор: Reid Melanie. Стандарт: 1. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.

Книга «Theroux The Keyhole. Diaries of a grounded documen». Издательство: Macmillan. Год выпуска: 2021. Переплет: Твердый переплет. Количество страниц: 368. Автор: Theroux Louis. Стандарт: 1. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.

Книга «Where the Children Take Us. How One Family Achieve». Издательство: 4th Estate. Год выпуска: 2022. Переплет: Твердый переплет. Количество страниц: 216. Автор: Asher Zain E. Стандарт: 1. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.

Книга «This Book Could Save Your Life». Издательство: Harper Collins. Год выпуска: 2022. Переплет: Твердый переплет. Количество страниц: 294. Автор: West Ben. Стандарт: 1. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.

Книга «Making It». Издательство: Bluebird. Год выпуска: 2021. Переплет: Твердый переплет. Количество страниц: 282. Автор: Blades Jay. Стандарт: 1. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.

Книга «A Place for Everything». Издательство: HQ. Год выпуска: 2021. Переплет: Мягкий переплет. Количество страниц: 374. Автор: Wilson Anna. Стандарт: 1. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.

Книга «Good Grief. Embracing life at a time of death». Издательство: HQ. Год выпуска: 2022. Переплет: Мягкий переплет. Количество страниц: 351. Автор: Mayer Catherine. Стандарт: 1. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.

Книга «A Class Act». Издательство: Harper Collins. Год выпуска: 2021. Переплет: Мягкий переплет. Количество страниц: 278. Автор: Beckett Rob. Стандарт: 1. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.

Книга «Reflections». Издательство: Century. Год выпуска: 2021. Переплет: Твердый переплет. Количество страниц: 272. Автор: Willoughby Holly. Стандарт: 1. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.

Книга «Would It Surprise You To Know…?». Издательство: Century. Год выпуска: 2022. Переплет: Твердый переплет. Количество страниц: 314. Автор: Archer-Morgan Ronnie. Стандарт: 1. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.

Книга «Walking the Invisible». Издательство: HQ. Год выпуска: 2022. Переплет: Мягкий переплет. Количество страниц: 262. Автор: Stewart Michael. Стандарт: 1. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.

Книга «First Man In. Leading from the Front». Издательство: Harper Collins. Год выпуска: 2019. Переплет: Мягкий переплет. Количество страниц: 307. Автор: Middleton Ant. Стандарт: 1. Возрастная категория: отсутствует. Страна производитель: Соединенное королевство.