Michael - Biography & Memoir 1

'The book is great: moving but also properly funny.' Hadley Freeman, The Guardian 'A memoir with an unusual sense of purpose. . . pithy, highly readable' The Times The entire world knows Michael J. ……続きを見る

Defining 70s music is a challenge. Spinning out of the Motown sound, funk, soul, and R & B influenced the burgeoning soft and hard rock genre. Smooth jazz replaced the big band sound popular since W……続きを見る

**#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century • “The Art Thief, like its title character, has confidence, élan, and a great sense of t……続きを見る

A funny, highly personal, gorgeously written account of what it's like to be a 30-year-old man who is told he has an 80-year-old's disease. "Life is great. Sometimes, though, you just have to put up……続きを見る

Prince Rogers Nelson, a musician from Minneapolis, started a musical revolution with the hits “1999,” “Little Red Corvette,” “When Doves Cry,” “Purple Rain,” “Batdance,” and more, challenging even t……続きを見る

So much has been left unsaid about the passing of legendary music innovator Prince Rogers Nelson. Prince, a prolific musician from Minneapolis, started a musical revolution with the hits “1999,” “Li……続きを見る

It is necessary for a prince wishing to hold his own to know how to do wrong, and to make use of it or not according to necessity. ーNiccolò Machiavelli, The Prince Greed. Lies. Corruption. These ar……続きを見る

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A moving account of resilience, hope, fear and mortality, and how these things resonate in our lives, by actor and advocate Michael J. Fox. The entire world knows M……続きを見る

Now in paperback, the national bestselling riches-to-rags true story of an advertising executive who had it all, then lost it allーand was finally redeemed by his new job, and his twenty-eight-year-……続きを見る

Dit is een verhaal wat mij 80 jaar gekost heeft om het naar buiten te brengen. Het gaat over mijn kinderjaren gedurende de tweede wereldoorlog, maar vooral over de jaren daarna, die veel erger waren. 続きを見る

Wilhelmina was a young child when Germany invaded The Netherlands in 1940 and then occupied the country for five years. By the end of the war, her mother was imprisoned in a labour camp and her fath……続きを見る

This is the definitive, the official, the most lavish, the completely-different-to-anything-done-before Pythons' autobiography, reissued to coincide with the eagerly-anticipated live shows. Over for……続きを見る

Marianne grew up in a small German town during WW2. After meeting an Englishman on a cruise ship, she eloped to Australia and began her own family. Now aged 90, she lives in Queensland. 続きを見る

You ain't nothing but a "Hound Dog" ... with these words shouted into the microphone she will always be remembered: Big Mama Thornton. Who is this woman who sang the megahit "Hound Dog" before Elvis……続きを見る

Michael A. Singer, author of The Untethered Soul, tells the extraordinary story of what happened when, after a deep spiritual awakening, he decided to let go of his personal preferences and simply l……続きを見る

“In June a few years ago I set out to visit some of the World War One battlefields of Europe – the slope and valley and river and plain that the Newfoundland Regiment trained on, and fought over and……続きを見る

Michael Palin's bestselling diaries of the 1980s. After a live performance at the Hollywood Bowl, The Pythons made their last performance together in 1983 in the hugely successful MONTY PYTHON'S MEA……続きを見る

I don't feel sorry for myself. Today everything is all right. I look at it is this way, it can't ever be as bad as it was then...' Sean Hogan was just eight years old when he was confined in the not……続きを見る

The story of the winners of the world's most prestigious prize, now updated to include the 2009 recipients. The Nobel Prize is widely regarded as the most prestigious award one can receive. The Priz……続きを見る

In 1971, Michael Blakemore joined the National Theatre as Associate Director under Laurence Olivier. The National, still based at the Old Vic, was at a moment of transition awaiting the move to its ……続きを見る

When unexpected grief brings two families together, how do they start their journey to healing? Join Michael and Gina Spehn--bestselling authors and founders of the New Day Foundation--as they tell ……続きを見る

In the first multi-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln to be published in decades, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame offers a fresh look at the life of one of America’s greatest presidents. Incorpo……続きを見る

Drawing on unique sources, Michael Bloch describes the career of the Duke of Windsor during the Second World War.As a military liaison officer in France during 1939-40, he issued warnings which, had……続きを見る

"Well reported and heartfelt, Ruhlman communicates the passion that draws the acolyte to this precise and frantic profession."ーThe New York Times Book Review Just over a decade ago, journalist Mich……続きを見る

The wedding of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and Catherine Middleton took place on Friday, 29 April 2011 at Westminster Abbey, London. Prince William, second in the line of succession to Queen ……続きを見る

"Rihanna: Love in a Hopeless Place (The unauthorized story of her struggle with Chris Brown)" is a compelling, original, and gripping exploration of recording superstar Rihanna's tumultuous relation……続きを見る

Following the collapse of his business, Michael Faulkner and his wife moved from Scotland to a cabin on Islandmore, an uninhabited island on Strangford Lough. With no mains electricity, an erratic w……続きを見る

How do you get an idea for a game? What’s involved in developing it and making an initial prototype? How important is play-testing, and whom do you involve in that process? What are the tips for wr……続きを見る

Born in India in 1937, Michael Foss's childhood was spent between the cold, grey austerity of Britain under threat, and the brightly lit and teeming vitality of wartime India. Here, beautifully evok……続きを見る

'I hugely admire him ... This book is not just a show-off catalogue of his greatest hits. It is a shaming, chilling list of injustices' A.N. Wilson 'A fascinating and passionate record of the author……続きを見る