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Karren Brady’s 10 Rules for Success are the secret to getting ahead for working women everywhere!Combining advice on how to balance a family and career with tips on how to embrace ambition, this short guide boils down Karren’s advice for women everyw…

Abducted from Africa, sold in America.“A deeply affecting record of an extraordinary life”– Daily TelegraphA major literary event: a newly published work from the author of the American classic Their Eyes Were Watching God, with a foreword from Pulit…

Thelma Madine, star of Channel 4’s Big Fat Gypsy Weddings and fairy godmother of Gypsy weddings, reveals the drama, secrets and surprises involved in ten gypsy weddings.Through the tales of ten elaborate Gypsy wedding dresses Thelma offers a new wind…

The brilliantly funny and inimitable Alan Carr tells his life story in his own words, from growing up in a football-mad family in Northampton to his rise to become one of Britain’s best-loved comedians.‘Puberty had been unkind. Whereas it had come in…

В этой серии автобиографических рассказов, смешных, поэтичных и философских, Елена Якубсфельд открывает читателю свой неповторимый Париж: город и его обитателей, со всем их романтизмом, идиотизмом и меланхоличным волшебством.

Это только эпизод из различных случаев, происходивших в этом доме, известном теперь всем по книге Юрия Трифонова. А мы, пацаны, бегали туда с одним из братьев к своему младшему двоюродному брату в гости. А дед этого младшего был соратником Сталина. И…

В первой части книги Беломлинский вспоминает своих соратников по питерской юности Иосифа Бродского и Сергея Довлатова, рассказывает о своей дружбе с Евгением Евстигнеевым, описывает встречи с Евгением Леоновым, Людмилой Гурченко, Михаилом Казаковым, …

Leonard’s story starts as rugby started – in the amateur days, when the Cockney Carpenter began playing for Barking and Saracens in the days before multi-million pound business owners and sponsorship deals. His big break came when he was invited to j…

It seems excessive…but that doesn’t mean it didn’t happen.The mass of black curls. The top hat. The cigarette dangling from pouty lips. These are the trademarks of one of the world’s greatest and most revered guitarists, a celebrity musician known by…

How can you forget your past when it keeps coming back to haunt you? Judy Westwater, the Sunday Times bestselling author of Street Kid, was determined to turn her back on her cruel and violent childhood. She didn't stand a chance. All too soon hope t…

Chelsea and England footballer Frank Lampard charts his life story from childhood to young West Ham apprentice to multi-millionaire world footballing celebrity and lynchpin of the national team. Includes a full account of the 2005/06 season and the 2…

Natacha Tormey was born into the infamous religious cult known as The Children of God. Abused, exploited, and brainwashed by ‘The Family’, Natacha’s childhood was stolen.Born to French hippy parents attracted to the religious movement by the unusual …

Любой управленец стремится к увеличению прибыли. Что сделать, чтобы подчиненные получали радость от работы, достигая амбициозных целей? В книге вы получите ответ. Автор книги за 17 лет работы руководителем сформировала копилку практик, которые легко …

An inspiring and heart-warming short story of canine devotion and bravery.Smoky, a baseball-size mass of brown fur, was found in a foxhole in the depths of the New Guinea jungle in the middle of the Second World War. The soldier who found her took th…

The harrowing true story of a travelling Irish family bonded by love, broken apart by life, and then betrayed by their carers in a cruel convent in Ireland.“For those who we lost along the way, I tell this story. For all the children who suffered in …

From African goats to blue wildebeest, and potty pigs to dippy donkeys, Jo Hardy, now a qualified vet, is about to take on the world, one animal at a time.Jo is determined to go where vets are desperately needed. Heading out first to the townships of…

On 27 August 1979, Paul Burns's life changed for ever. Travelling through Warren Point in Northern Ireland when the IRA detonated two massive bombs, he was involved in a devastating explosion – eighteen soldiers were killed that day; Paul was one of …

Эта книга написана по воспоминаниям людей, жизнь которых связана с Большереченским районом Омской области. Инициатор, создатель и автор проекта «Народная летопись» — Ольга Данилочкина, член Российского союза писателей, талантливый журналист, автор не…