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For a world of devoted fans, a much-awaited new volume of absorbing stories and inspirational wisdom from one of our best-loved writers. Dedicated to the daughter she never had but sees all around her, Letter to My Daughter reveals Maya Angelou’s path to living well and living a life with...

The women of the iconic eighties band the Go-Go’s will always be remembered as they appeared on the back of their debut record: sunny, smiling, each soaking in her own private bubble bath with chocolates and champagne. The photo is a perfect tribute to the fun, irreverent brand of pop music...

Spirited and whip-smart, these laugh-out-loud autobiographical essays are "a masterpiece" from the Emmy Award-winning actress and comedy writer known for 30 Rock, Mean Girls, and SNL" (Sunday Telegraph). Before Liz Lemon, before "Weekend Update," before "Sarah Palin," Tina Fey was just a young...

Tina Jolas, esprit libre et rêveur, fut la compagne de René Char pendant plus de trente ans. Happée par un amour exigeant et absolu, elle fut pour sa fille une figure de grâce et de disparition. Avec une douceur infinie, Paule du Bouchet retrace ici un parcours de vie: des lieux, des instants, des événements formant cartographie de cette haute figure. La puissance de son écriture rend sensibles à la fois son désespoir d'enfant, la splendeur de cette mère "emportée" dans un ailleurs et l'amour indéfectible qui les lie.

Dottie Ponedel knows how to amuse with rouge. Her autobiography, the story of a pioneering woman makeup artist, whose career spanned the entire length of Hollywood's Golden Era from silent movies to the great films of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, puts a new foundation on the stars.

A heroine for our times, Etta Lemon campaigned for 50 years against the worldwide slaughter of birds for extravagantly feathered hats. Her legacy is the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (the RSPB), grown from an all-female pressure group of 1889 with the splendidly simple pledge: Wear No Feathers. Etta’s long battle against ‘murderous millinery’ triumphed with the Plumage Act of 1921 - but her legacy has been eclipsed by the more glamorous campaign for the vote, led by the elegantly plumed Emmeline Pankhurst.

A portrait in her own words of the female Lawrence of Arabia, the subject of the PBS documentary Letters from Baghdad, voiced by Tilda Swinton, and the major motion picture Queen of the Desert, starring Nicole Kidman, James Franco, Damian Lewis, and Robert Pattinson and directed by Werner Herzog...

This is the journal of a girl who lives far away in the arctic wilderness, in a tiny one room cabin far from roads and towns. Then she travels to a big city in another country to make her fortune as an escort.

An inspiring memoir, reminding us that whether life's lessons arrive through illness, trauma or any other unexpected upheaval, life really does love us. As a free-spirited, independent woman, Bronnie Ware was used to donning a variety of hats: singer, songwriter, author, speaker, traveller and adventurer. And as her soul would have it in her mid-40s, she felt the urge to add one more: mother.

Former first daughters share intimate stories and reflections from the Texas countryside to the storied halls of the White House and beyond. Born into a political dynasty, Jenna and Barbara Bush grew up in the public eye. As small children, they watched their grandfather become president; just...

Diana Frances Spencer se convirtió en la princesa Diana al esposarse con el príncipe Carlos de Gales. Conocida internacionalmente como Lady Di. Durante su matrimonio con el príncipe Carlos de Gales, heredero de la Corona Británica, tuvo dos hijos, los príncipes Guillermo y Enrique. Su polémica y fatídica muerte, acaecida el 31 de agosto de 1997 en el túnel de la plaza de l'Alma en París en un accidente de automóvil junto a su pareja, el egipcio Dodi Al-Fayed.

10 Jahre nach ihrem tragischen Tod deckt Heribert Schwan auf, wie Hannelore Kohl lebte und wie sie starb...

From living in a tin-roofed shack north of Dar es Salaam to becoming Baroness Park of Monmouth, Daphne Park led a most unusual life - one that consisted of a lifelong love affair with the world of Britain's secret services. In the 1970s, she was appointed to Secret Intelligence Service's most senior operational rank as one of its seven area controllers - an extraordinary achievement for a woman working within this most male-dominated and secretive of organizations.

A life of Matilda - empress, skilled military leader, and one of the greatest figures of the English Middle Ages.

La biografía de una mujer excepcional que marcó una época en la historia medieval a causa de sus acciones y dotes visionarias. También conocida como la Doncella de Orleáns, fue una famosísima heroína, militar y santa francesa, celebrándose su festividad el día del aniversario de su muerte, como es tradición en la Iglesia Católica, el 30 de mayo. ¡No se pierda este fabuloso audiolibro!

How do you tell the real story of someone misremembered - an icon and idol - alongside your own? Jenn Shapland’s celebrated debut is both question and answer: an immersive, surprising exploration of one of America’s most beloved writers, alongside a genre-defying examination of identity, queerness, memory, obsession, and love.

Seit Jahrzehnten ist Demi Moore ein Synonym für Berühmtheit. Fast ihr ganzes Leben - legendäre Filmrollen, Beziehungen mit berühmtesten Männern Hollywoods, Familienleben - war immer im Rampenlicht, offen für die ganze Welt. Aber was steht hinter diesem glänzenden Erfolg? Selbst als Demi die bestbezahlte Schauspielerin in Hollywood geworden war, wurde sie von ihrer Vergangenheit, Kindheitsängsten, Zweifeln und Unsicherheiten, Sucht und Körperbildproblemen ständig verfolgt.

The race is on, and Hillary Clinton is looking to transform herself into a candidate that middle-Americans might elect as our first woman president. Can she do it? Positioning herself for her 2008 presidential run, Hillary has put away the trappings of a liberal and wrapped herself in a cloak of moderation. The senator who had been one of the stars of the Democratic Party's left wing is now being packaged as a centrist, which castigates any attempts to expose her real agenda.

***As read on BBC Radio 4*** All families have their myths and legends. For many years Juliet Nicolson accepted hers – the dangerous beauty of her flamenco dancing great-great-grandmother Pepita, the flirty manipulation of her great-grandmother Victoria, the infamous eccentricity of her...

Patrick Vernon's landmark 100 Great Black Britons campaign of 2003 was one of the most successful movements to focus on the role of people of African and Caribbean descent in British history. Frustrated by the widespread and continuing exclusion of the Black British community from the mainstream popular conception of 'Britishness', despite Black people having lived in Britain for more than 1,000 years, Vernon set up a public poll in which anyone could vote for the Black Briton they most admired.