Biography & Memoirs

More than two hundred wooden and ivory figurines, none larger than a matchbox, are the origin of this fascinating book in which Edmund de Waal describes the journey they have taken over the years. A journey full of adventures, war, love and loss, which...

These memoirs, written during his exile and following the news of the disaster caused by the Nazi regime, are both a recollection of the past and a warning for future generations, The World of Yesterday recalls the golden age of literary Vienna—its seeming permanence,...

In this collection of her finest and best-known short essays, Natalia Ginzburg explores both the mundane details and inescapable catastrophes of personal life with the grace and wit that have assured her rightful place in the pantheon of classic mid-century authors. Whether she writes...

Stefan Zweig, recognized as one of the greatest biographers of all time, examines with his usual insight and subtlety the lives and works of three great writers, fascinated by Tolstoy's lucidity, Casanova's impartiality, and Stendhal's ambiguity. He considers all three "poets of their lives"...

'Waypoints is a memoir making a difference! I wanted to tell the stories and share the experiences that have shaped me, but to do that I needed to challenge myself and spend some time in my own company, away from the distractions of everyday...

Alex Halberstadt’s quest takes him across the troubled, enigmatic land of his birth, where decades of Soviet totalitarianism shaped and fractured three generations of his family. In Ukraine, he tracks down his paternal grandfather—most likely the last living bodyguard of Joseph Stalin. He revisits Lithuania,...

A decade ago, Caitlin Moran burst onto the scene with her instant bestseller, How to Be a Woman, a hilarious and resonant take on feminism, the patriarchy, and all things womanhood. Moran’s seminal book followed her from her terrible 13th birthday through adolescence, the...

OK--- In this harrowing and hilarious memoir, Jennette McCurdy, star of the television series iCarly and Sam & Cat, recounts her struggles as a child actress -- eating disorders, addictions and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother -- and how she regained control...

After a childhood spent on Hollywood film sets, Meghan Markle fought hard for stardom. But even when she landed her breakthrough role on Suits, her dream of worldwide celebrity remained elusive until she met the man who would change her life—Prince Harry. Their whirlwind...

Pedro Martinez de Luna, Benedict XIII, Pope Luna. Three different ways of naming the same character who has gone in history, due to the firmness of his convictions against Rome, as obstinacy personified by. Few know the true dimension of who really engineered the...

Three years ago Volodymyr Zelenskyy swept Ukraine's presidential election as the only candidate whose only political experience had been on the small screen. During the three seasons of the series The People's Servant, this charismatic actor played the role of a high school History...

This book is an invitation for the reader who wants to learn about the thought of this Jesuit, philosopher, theologian and martyr. The figure of Ignacio Ellacuría is fascinating because both his life and his death are the perfect example of his radical commitment...

Marie Curie, a woman born into a run-down family and in a country, Poland, under the iron grip of the Russian Empire... Marie Curie was the youngest one at home and had a weakened mental health after the death of her mother. Marie Curie,...

The second volume of the Diaries of Rafael Chirbes, which brings together various notebooks written between 2005 and 2007. These are the years of the slow gestation, full of doubts that even lead him to consider abandoning literature, of the novel that would mean...

At twenty-two, Suleika Jaouad had her whole life ahead of her, until cancer cut it short. Some time later, she became known in the United States for her column in the New York Times entitled "Life, Interrupted", in which she narrated in real time...

Zoé Valdés grew up in Havana back in the sixties, as a restless and sappy girl, between the deprivations and the iron control of the Castro dictatorship. At that time, she did not know that, a few years later, she would become the most...

Jeff Bezos is the father of Amazon. He is the greatest genius in business since Rockefeller. A guy with overflowing talent and an example to emulate, or the worst CEO in the world according to the unions, Jeff dreams of one day taking the...

This exhaustive and detailed book contains unpublished secrets and revelations about the life of the two-time president of Venezuela, a visionary statesman who sought to modernize the country's economy and political system and managed to defeat two military uprisings, but who ended up being...

A literary event: the devastating diaries and notebooks of a writer who was very protective of her privacy. These texts cover Highsmith's entire life, from her student days to her last years in Switzerland, and allow us to accompany her in her youthful doubts...

The politician and lawyer Antonio Ledezma, who was Mayor of the Metropolitan District of Caracas, narrates with extreme rigor how he was kidnapped, on two occasions, by the security organs of the Venezuelan regime, He describes the characteristics of the prisons used by the...