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Автором собран и обработан ценнейший, в том числе и архивный материал, заново открывший и существенно скорректировавший важные вехи трагической биографии Булгакова. Тут и тайные протоколы заседаний Политбюро ЦК ВКП (б), и секретная переписка его член…

Authorised and fully illustrated insight into the life and career of the award-winning director, from his childhood film projects up to King Kong, together with Jackson's revealing personal account of his six-year quest to film The Lord of the Rings.…

Сколько разных людей мы встречаем! Одни помогают, другие обижают, третьи любят! С ними мы учим уроки жизни. Каждый человек на пути в чем-то наш учитель. Есть люди, которых мы любим или нет. В них мы смотримся как в зеркало, начиная лучше видеть самих…

The definitive biography of Joe Strummer, released with a new epilogue to mark the 60th anniversary of his birth.Chris Salewicz was an intimate friend of Strummer’s for over 25 years. Drawing on more than 300 interviews with family, friends and assoc…

Книга посвящена судьбам двух деятелей эпохи коренных преобразований России – Марии Спиридоновой (1884–1941) и Ларисы Рейснер (1895–1926). Едва ли эти женщины лично встречались в бурном потоке революционных событий, вращаясь в разных кругах и по-разно…

Fourteen-year-old Adrianna arrives on Casey’s doorstep with no possessions, no English, and no explanation. It will be a few weeks before Casey starts getting the shocking answers to her questions….Brought to Casey as a short-term emergency placement…

From one of our greatest living writers, comes a remarkable memoir of a forgotten England.'The war went. We sang in the playground, «Bikini lagoon, an atom bomb’s boom, and two big explosions.» David’s father came back from Burma and didn’t eat rice.…

‘The narrative is as suspenseful as any thriller. Truly, an excellent read’ Lynn Barber, Sunday TimesMarried for almost seventy years to the most famous woman in the world, Prince Philip is the longest-serving royal consort in British history. Yet hi…

From the founder of the worldwide 30% Club campaign comes a career book for women in a transforming world who don't just want to lean in, but instead, shatter the paradigm as we know it.‘I absolutely love her, I think she’s such a force for good’ Pan…

The inside story of the one of the most successful British stand-up comedians, as told by the person best qualified to reveal all about the man behind the comic, his wife of over 20 years – Pamela Stephenson.Once in a lifetime, there strides upon the…

From one of America’s greatest and most iconic writers: an honest and courageous portrait of age and motherhood.Several days before Christmas 2003, Joan Didion’s only daughter, Quintana, fell seriously ill. In 2010, Didion marked the sixth anniversar…

Britney Spears – the Princess of Pop – is making a comeback, and there isn't a person out there who hasn't heard about it. In this, a fully up-to-date and authoritative biography, Steve Dennis reveals all there is to know about the much-loved star.Hi…

The life of Hollywood’s number one movie actor, the elusive Robert De Niro, who shuns the limelight and rarely gives interviews, written by the leading film critic and biographer of Spielberg, Kubrick, Woody Allen and George Lucas.Robert De Niro is t…

Этого врача по праву называют отцом русской хирургии. В 18 лет он окончил Московский университет, а в 26 стал профессором. Ученый-анатом, естествоиспытатель и военный хирург, он побывал на Крымской и Кавказской войнах, спас тысячи жизней, впервые при…

An inspiring and heart-warming short story of canine devotion and bravery.A brave and loyal companion to the British soldiers in conflict in Afghanistan, Tangye began his years as a puppy mascot.Before long he was inseparable from the servicemen on t…

Little Drifters can either be read as a full-length eBook or in 4 serialised eBook-only parts.This is PART 2 of 4 (Chapters 7-10 of 24).The harrowing true story of a travelling Irish family bonded by love, broken apart by life, and then betrayed by t…

In Its Not What You Think Chris Evans had written himself a recipe for success. He was poised on the brink of seeing it become a reality. All the right ingredients were there: he was rich, famous; now he was the owner of his own radio station and med…

An inspiring and heart-warming short story of canine devotion and bravery.Animals have accompanied man into battle since war first waged.Gander, faithful friend to WWII Canadian soldiers, was smuggled onto a troop ship in 1940, where he was given a p…

The moving true story of a little girl with Asperger syndrome, controlled and abused by the one person she called her friend.Taylor had always struggled to make friends – she felt ‘different’. Taylor never knew her father and her mother wasn’t around…