Búsqueda de Biographies & true stories

English / English non fiction / Biographies & true stories (196)

English / English non fiction / Biographies & true stories
  • THE WOMAN IN ME
    SPEARS, BRITNEY
    The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope. In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice-her truth-was undeniable, and it changed the course of her life and the lives of countless others.The Woman in Me reveals for the first time her in...
    En stock

    32,45 €

    Comprar
  • EDUCATED
    WESTOVER, TARA
    Tara Westover tenia disset anys la primera vegada que va posar el peu a una aula. Vivia amb la seva família a la muntanya . La família vivia tan aïllada de la societat que no hi havia ningú que garantís que els nens rebessin una educació i que intervingués en el moment que el germà gran de Tara es va convertir en violent. Aleshores, els pares van decidir educar-la. Va ser admes...
    En stock

    15,60 €

    Comprar
  • WHY BE HAPPY WHEN YOU COULD BE NORMAL?
    WINTERSON, JEANETTE
    The shocking, heart-breaking - and often very funny - true story behind Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit. In 1985 Jeanette Winterson's first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, was published. It was Jeanette's version of the story of a terraced house in Accrington, an adopted child, and the thwarted giantess Mrs Winterson.It was a cover story, a painful past written over and r...
    En stock

    14,30 €

    Comprar
  • STRANGER ON A TRAIN : DAYDREAMING AND SMOKING AROUND AMERICA
    DISKI, JENNY
    'I was so absorbed by her writing it was unreal . . .I find myself hungry to find the next morsel of who Jenny was and what her life was like' EMILIA CLARKE (on Why Didn't You Just Do What You Were Told?)In spite of the fact that her idea of travel is to stay home with the phone off the hook, Jenny Diski takes a trip around the perimeter of the USA by train. Somewhat reluctantl...
    En stock

    16,75 €

    Comprar
  • NOTES ON GRIEF
    NGOZI ADICHIE, CHIMAMANDA
    **DREAM COUNT, the searing, exquisite new novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is out now!** A devastating essay on loss and the people we love from the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun. 'Grief is a cruel kind of education. You learn how ungentle mourning can be, how full of anger.You learn how glib condolences can feel. You learn how much grief is about l...
    En stock

    12,70 €

    Comprar
  • YES PLEASE
    POEHLER, AMY
    The New York Times number one bestseller from the Saturday Night Live and Parks and Recreation star.In Amy Poehler's highly anticipated memoir, Yes Please, she offers up a big juicy stew of personal stories, funny bits on sex and love and friendship and parenthood and real life advice (some useful, some not so much).Powered by Amy's charming and hilarious, biting yet wise voice...
    En stock

    17,55 €

    Comprar
  • SAY NOTHING: A TRUE STORY OF MURDER AND MEMORY IN NORTHERN IRELAND
    RADDEN KEEFE, PATRICK
    Descripción:WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2019 A BARACK OBAMA BEST BOOK OF 2019 SHORTLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION 2019 TIME's #1 Best Nonfiction Book of 2019 A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'A must read' Gillian Flynn One night in December 1972, Jean McConville, a mother of ten, was abducted from her home in Belfast and never seen alive agai...
    En stock

    15,60 €

    Comprar
  • BIOGRAPHIC: MARILYN : GREAT LIVES IN GRAPHIC FORM
    GREENWOOD, KATIE
    Most people know that Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) was a Hollywood icon, and at one time the most famous movie star on the planet. What, perhaps, they don't know is that she lived in 42 different homes; that she loved Abraham Lincoln with a passion; that she was the first choice for the role of Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's; and that her absences while filming Let's M...
    En stock

    13,95 €

    Comprar
  • BORN A CRIME
    NOAH, TREVOR
    The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of a young man’s coming of age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed. Trevor Noah, host of The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, is one of the comedy’s brightest voices. A light-footed but sharp-minded observer of the absurdities of politics, race, and identity, his jokes and insi...
    En stock

    18,25 €

    Comprar
  • A KIND OF SPARK
    MCNICOLL, ELLE
    A KIND OF SPARK tells the story of 11-year-old Addie as she campaigns for a memorial in memory of the witch trials that took place in her Scottish hometown. Addie knows there's more to the story of these 'witches', just like there is more to hers. Can Addie challenge how the people in her town see her, and her autism, and make her voice heard?A story about friendship, courage a...
    En stock

    10,40 €

    Comprar
  • LET ME TELL YOU WHAT I MEAN
    DIDION, JOAN
    From one of our most iconic and influential writers: twelve pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of this legendary figure.Mostly drawn from the earliest part of her astonishing five-decade career, Didion writes about a Gamblers Anonymous meeting, a visit to William Randolph Hearst's castle at San Simeon, a reunion of WWII ve...
    En stock

    17,55 €

    Comprar
  • MANIFESTO
    EVARISTO, BERNARDINE
    'Promises to make for one of 2021's must-read memoirs' StylistLife-affirming memoirs make beautiful Christmas gifts. Discover a powerful, urgent manifesto on never giving up from Booker prize-winning trailblazer, Bernardine Evaristo. In 2019, Bernardine Evaristo became the first black woman to win the Booker Prize since its inception fifty years earlier - a revolutionary landma...
    En stock

    20,25 €

    Comprar
  • MY BROTHER
    KINCAID, JAMAICA
    Jamaica Kincaid's brother Devon Drew died of AIDS on January 19, 1996, at the age of thirty-three. Kincaid's incantatory, poetic, and often shockingly frank recounting of her brother's life and death is also a story of her family on the island of Antigua, a constellation centered on the powerful, sometimes threatening figure of the writer's mother. My Brother is an unblinking r...
    En stock

    21,25 €

    Comprar
  • PATRICIA HIGHSMITH: HER DIARIES AND NOTEBOOKS
    HIGHSMITH, PATRICIA
    It promises to be one of the literary highlights of 2021 - publication of the diaries of Patricia Highsmith, one of the most conflicted, fascinating novelists of the 20th century' Edward Helmore, Guardian'My secrets-the secrets that everyone has-are here, in black and white.'Published for the very first time for the centenary of her birth, Patricia Highsmith's diaries and noteb...
    En stock

    25,65 €

    Comprar
  • YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT WAR IS : THE DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL FROM UKRAINE
    SKALIETSKA, YEVA
    Published in association with the UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, with a foreword by Michael Morpurgo. Everyone knows the word 'war'. But very few understand what it truly means.When you find you have to face it, you feel totally lost, walled in by fright and despair. Until you've been there, you don't know what war is. 'Everyone, absolutely everyone, should read it.You will love...
    En stock

    14,30 €

    Comprar
  • WRITERS : THEIR LIVES AND WORKS
    DK
    Explore the fascinating lives and loves of the greatest novelists, poets, and playwrights. From William Shakespeare and Jane Austen to Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Toni Morrison, Writers explores more than 100 biographies of the world's greatest writers. Each featured novelist, playwright, or poet is introduced by a stunning portrait, followed by photography and illustrations of ...
    En stock

    31,25 €

    Comprar
  • I REMEMBER NOTHING AND OTHER REFLECTIONS : MEMORIES AND WISDOM FROM THE ICONIC WRITER AND DIRECTOR
    EPHRON, NORA
    'Memories, aphorisms and stern good advice from America's favourite naughty aunt' Independent on Sunday'This book is as grown-up as a dirty martini' Sunday Times'Sharp as a knife' Daily Express___In her final book, Nora Ephron reflects on life, growing older, and everything she will and won't miss. Filled with Nora's trademark wit, wisdom and warmth. * No one actually likes to ...
    En stock

    14,30 €

    Comprar
  • AMERICAN PROMETHEUS : THE TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY OF J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER
    BIRD, KAI
    ***THE INSPIRATION FOR CHRISTOPHER NOLAN'S FORTHCOMING NEW FILM OPPENHEIMER***WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NONFICTION 'Reads like a thriller, gripping and terrifying' Sunday TimesPhysicist and polymath, as familiar with Hindu scriptures as he was with quantum mechanics, J. Robert Oppenheimer - director of the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb - was the most f...
    En stock

    17,55 €

    Comprar
  • BIOGRAPHIC: SHAKESPEARE
    V CROOT
    The Biographies series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits, and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey each of them in vivid snapshots. The result is a quickfire journey through truths and trivia that is the most entertaining way to fol...
    En stock

    13,95 €

    Comprar
  • BOY : TALES OF CHILDHOOD
    DAHL, ROALD
    We all have our moments of brilliance and glory, and this was mine. This beautiful edition of Boy, part of The Roald Dahl Classic Collection, features official archive material from the Roald Dahl Museum and is perfect for Dahl fans old and new. So, enter a world where invention and mischief can be found on every page and where magic might be at the very tips of your fingers .....
    En stock

    12,70 €

    Comprar
  • BROTHER. DO. YOU. LOVE. ME.
    MANNI AND REUBEN COE
    WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH SHORTLISTED FOR BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDSReuben, aged 38, was living in a home for adults with learning disabilities and struggling to accept that he had Down's syndrome. Depressed and in a fog of anti-depressants, he hadn't spoken for over a year. Increasingly isolated, cut off from everyone and everything he loved, R...
    En stock

    15,60 €

    Comprar
  • INTO THE WILD
    KRAKAUER, JON
    Jon Krakauer's Into the Wild examines the true story of Chris McCandless, a young man who walked deep into the Alaskan wilderness and whose SOS note and emaciated corpse were found four months later. In April 1992, Chris McCandless set off alone into the Alaskan wild. He had given his savings to charity, abandoned his car and his possessions, and burnt the money in his wallet, ...
    En stock

    15,60 €

    Comprar
  • COFFEE FIRST, THEN THE WORLD : ONE WOMAN'S RECORD-BREAKING PEDAL AROUND THE PLANET
    GRAHAM, JENNY
    A WATERSTONES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 - SPORT'An amazing adventure... I was left in total awe' - Lorraine Kelly'Brilliant' - Mark Beaumont 'A compelling account of a truly remarkable achievement' - Tim Moore, travel writer16 countries, 124 days and 18,000 miles. This is the story of one woman’s solo lap of the planet by bike.‘The relief was immense: no longer was I talking, ...
    En stock

    15,60 €

    Comprar
  • THE DIARY OF A YOUNG GIRL
    FRANK, ANNE
    Anne Frank's The Diary of a Young Girl is an inspiring and tragic account of an ordinary life lived in extraordinary circumstances that has enthralled readers for generations. This Penguin Classics edition is edited by Otto H. Frank and Mirjam Pressler, translated by Susan Massotty, and includes an introduction by Elie Wiesel, author of Night.'June, 1942: I hope I will be able ...
    En stock

    13,95 €

    Comprar
  • REPLAY : MEMOIR OF AN UPROOTED FAMILY
    MECHNER, JORDAN
    1914. A teenage romantic heads to the enlistment office when his idyllic life in a Jewish enclave of the Austro-Hungarian Empire is shattered by World War I. 1938.A seven-year-old refugee begins a desperate odyssey through France, struggling to outrun the rapidly expanding Nazi regime and reunite with his family on the other side of the Atlantic. 2015. The creator of a world-fa...
    En stock

    32,50 €

    Comprar
  • ONE DAY, EVERYONE WILL HAVE ALWAYS BEEN AGAINST THIS
    AKKAD, OMAR EL
    One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This is an urgent and necessary reckoning about what it means to live in the West today. As an immigrant, Omar El Akkad believed the West offered freedom and justice for all. Over the past twenty years he reported on the various Wars on Terror, Ferguson, climate change, Black Lives Matter protests, and more.He won awards for his j...
    En stock

    23,45 €

    Comprar
  • CELEBRATING WOMEN
    GRISTWOOD, SARAH
    A captivating collection of women's writing – including poetry, letters, novels, memoir, and journals – that celebrates the joy of being a woman. This glorious collection takes a refreshing look at everything there is to enjoy about the experience of womanhood. Chapters include ‘Firsts’ with voices such as Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, and Marie Curie, the fir...
    En stock

    27,35 €

    Comprar
  • MY FAMILY AND OTHER ANIMALS
    DURRELL, GERALD
    Gerald Durrell's beloved classic memoir, now published as a beautiful Penguin Clothbound Classics edition‘When My Family and Other Animals was published it was as if someone had flung back the curtains, thrown up the windows and let in a stream of bright light’ - Kathryn Hughes, Guardian‘Gerald Durrell was magic’ - Sir David Attenborough‘Living in Corfu was rather like living i...
    En stock

    22,75 €

    Comprar
  • BREAD OF ANGELS
    SMITH, PATTI
    'Smith's eye for life's everyday transcendence rarely fails her' Sunday Times, 'Books of the Year''A triumph' Joseph O'Connor, Irish Times, 'Books of the Year''Quietly sacred, utterly beautiful' Service95A radiant new memoir from beloved artist and writer Patti Smith, author of the National Book Award Winner Just Kids.God whispers through a crease in the wallpaper, writes Patti...
    En stock

    19,95 €

    Comprar
  • MOTHER MARY COMES TO ME
    ROY, ARUNDHATI
    The incredible first memoir from the Booker-winning radical icon Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small ThingsTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERFOYLES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025AUDIBLE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025BLACKWELL'S NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025WINNER OF THE GOOGLE PLAY BEST OF 2025 AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS BOOK ...
    En stock

    23,45 €

    Comprar

01 02 03 04 05 06 07