биографии и мемуары

Полный вариант заголовка: «The life and times of Salvator Rosa : Vol. 1 : in 2 volumes / by Lady Morgan».

The poet Rainer Maria Rilke visited Russia in 1900. In Yasnaya Polyana he met Count Leo Tolstoy, whom he considered to be the greatest artist and prophet. It is generally believed that the meeting took place in an atmosphere of perfect harmony. But w…

A journey through time to the origins of the phenomenon of Russian love. Three vectors of Russian love of the Golden Age (romantic, rational and innermost) in the Silver Age converged at one key point — the search for a new person. In the third part …

Maniac killer: psychology and classification. Do you know that maniacs are completely different? For example, local (their victims in certain areas), wandering (hunting in travel), power lovers (superiority over the victim), sweethearts (hedonists),…

Frank narrative of a soldier’s life at the Arctic Circle during World War II. A young man was drafted into the Red Army and brought to the shore of the Barents Sea just a few weeks before the German invasion. He spent the next three years on the fron…

Female killers: the most ruthless and dangerous. Among them there are loners, and there are those who killed along with their husbands and lovers. They killed children, men and women. Female serial killers are rare. Exit the comfort zone! Feel the h…

When I had a Little Sister by Catherine Simpson is a searingly honest and heartbreaking account of growing up in a farming family, and of Catherine’s search for understanding into what led her younger sister to kill herself at 46. It’s a story of sis…

PART 2 OF 3Tilly hates her stepfather, Dave. He abuses her mother, but she refuses to leave him.Frightened for her own safety, Tilly asks to go into foster care and is placed with Cathy. Tilly arrives with a graze on her cheek and Cathy becomes incre…

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of How to Fail ‘Elizabeth Day has revolutionised the way we see failure’ Stylist‘A beautiful timely and humane book’ Alain de Botton‘Most failures can teach us something meaningful about ourselves if we choose…