Literární biografie v angličtině

Matthew Perry

There are few shows in our lifetime that have garnered over a billion views, that have reached a global audience of 220 countries, that elicits an emotional reaction from a theme song, or that defined…

Tomáš Baťa, Antonín Cekota

The book Reflections and Speeches is one of the basic sources of Tomas Bata´s philosophy. Tomas Bata never excelled in his desire to preserve his thoughts and write his memories. He lived mostly in the…

Douglas Hurd

Deirdre Bair

In 1971 Deirdre Bair was a journalist with a recently acquired PhD who managed to secure access to Nobel Prize-winning author Samuel Beckett. He agreed that she could write his biography despite never…

Jaroslav Najman

This book describes – in English - the author's emigration from Czechoslovakia triggered by a historical event in August 1968. All events in this book are based on recollection of the author's memories…

Xiaolu Guo

Award-winning author Xiaolu Guo's extraordinary memoir is a handbook of life lessons: how to be an artist when censorship kills creativity, how to be a woman when sexual abuse is commonplace, how to…

Shaun Bythell

William Kamkwamba

This immensely engaging tale relates how an enterprising teenager in Malawi builds a windmill from scraps he finds around his village and brings electricity--and a future--to his family.

Salman Rushdie

From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring - and surviving - an attempt on his life thirty years after the fatwa that…

Bradley Trevor Greive, Cameron Bloom

The life-affirming story, accompanied by beautiful photographs, of how an abandoned magpie chick helped one family overcome tragedy.

Peter Slevin

Suzanne O'Sullivan

Maya Angelou

A reissue of the third title in the bestselling autobiography series. In this volume, music and her son are the focus of her life and she is on the edge of a new world with marriage, show business and…

David Lodge

Zuzana Palovic

In the beginning of the 21st century, Europe opened its borders to the countries from behind the Iron Curtain. Since then, over 100 million citizens, including Slovaks gained the freedom to move West…

Anna Pasternak

Drawing on both archival and family sources, this is a revealing account of the critical role played by Olga Ivinskaya in Boris Pasternak's life and how their own love story inspired the great literary…

Angela Levin

Emmeline Pankhurst

Don't miss Meryl Streep as Emmeline Pankhurst in the major motion picture Suffragette. Emmeline Pankhurst grew up all too aware of the prevailing attitude of her day: that men were considered superior…

Antonín Cekota

The book Entrepreneur extraordinary Tomas Bata is one of the basic in Bata literature. Written by Antonin Cekota, editor-in-chief of the Bata corporate newspaper and a close friend of Tomas Bata. Both…

Tom Felton

THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 'Uproarious memoir packed with anecdotes about the Harry Potter films' Daily Mail 'Very funny and fascinating' Mail on Sunday 'Brave and brilliant'…

Reinhard Kleist

Britney Spears

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…

Sharon Stone, one of the most renowned actresses in the world, suffered a massive stroke that cost her not only her health, but her career, family, fortune, and global fame. In The Beauty of Living…