Biographies
Anna Zarkova
The Death of the White Fox
On October 2, 1996, Andrey Lukanov was shot in front of his home - a prominent politician of the Bulgarian transition to democracy, prime minister in two governments, deputy. By whom and why? To this day, none of the versions have
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Anne Eekhout
Mary
The year is 1816 when Mary Shelly, only eighteen years of age, creates the iconic story of Frankenstein’s monster. It is the same summer that Mary and her lover Percy Shelley visit Lord Byron and John Polidori at Lake Geneva. The
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Alberto Angela
Cleopatra: The Queen Who Challenged Rome and Conquered Eternity
“The political machinations, betrayal, and battles may appeal to those fans of George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series interested in a real-world game of thrones.” - Booklist
One of Italy’s most
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Stefan Zweig
Magellan
Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521), the first to circumnavigate the globe, sailed on behalf of the Spanish monarch from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean, and discovered the straights that now bear his name and the Philippines.
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Oliver Stone
★★★★★
Chasing the Light
An intimate memoir by the controversial and outspoken Oscar-winning director and screenwriter about his complicated New York childhood, volunteering for combat, and his struggles and triumphs making such films as Platoon, Midnight Ex
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Stefan Zweig
Sigmund Freud. Mental Healers
"Health is natural; sickness is unnatural: at least so it seems to man," is how Stefan Zweig begins his fascinating, often entertaining examinations of Franz Anton Mesmer, Mary Baker Eddy, and Sigmund Freud. "Bodily suffering is not assuaged by tech
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Lesley-Ann Jones
Who Killed John Lennon?
Late on 8 December 1980, the planet stopped spinning for millions when news broke that the world's best-loved rock star had been gunned down in cold blood in New York City. In this enthralling exploration, acclaimed music biographer and journa
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Edna O'Brien
James Joyce: A Life
"Joyce fans should thank their lucky stars." - The New York Times
Arguably the most influential writer of the twentieth century, James Joyce continues to inspire writers, readers, and thinkers today. Now Edna O'Brien, herself one o
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Petko Mangachev
Angel Kuyumdzhiyski. Life between Precipices and Peaks
It is really strange why in our recent Bulgarian history - in the period between the two world wars - the name of Angel Kuyumdzhiyski seems to have disappeared. Has such a person never existed? Who is the man called by his friends "Kuyum"?
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Jean-Jacques Annaud
A Life for the Cinema
Great works of art are often born of great dreams. Only 9 years old, Jean-Jacques Annaud told his mother that he would be a film director and nothing else. The goal had been achieved long ago, and some of this resolute child's films s
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Francisco Gerardo Haghenbeck
Mathematics for Fairies
This is the story of an exceptional woman, Ada Byron, who felt more comfortable among numbers, fairies and fauns, than in the tight corset of everyday reality. F. G. Haghenbeck presents us with a fascinating portrait of this complex,
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Encho Keryazov
Love Courageously. Conversations with Alexandra Alexandrova
Conversations with Alexandra Alexandrova
"Love Courageously" is a story about the love of circus art and the pursuit of dreams. Through this book, Encho Keryazov immerses himself in his memories and goes on the long way that he has been going on
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Andrea di Robiliant
Autumn in Venice
The remarkable story of Hemingway's love affair with both the city of Venice and the muse he found there - a young Italian girl who inspired him to complete his great final work.
In the autumn of 1948 Hemingway and his fourth wife travelled f
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Laurent Allen-Caron
The Lagerfeld Mystery
His appearance, as well as his life, are fascinating and intriguing. Karl Lagerfeld, the emperor of catwalks, the godfather of fashion, always hided behind masks. The moment we think we have grasped the essence of his secret, it becomes even more
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Nigel Nicolson
Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf's life as part of the avant-garde Bloomsbury Group has captured the imagination of millions. Now Nigel Nicolson, the distinguished son of British writers Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West - one of Woolf's closest friends
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Vladimir Gadzhev
Milcho Leviev. The Artist is Not a Lonely Island
The subject of the book is Milcho Leviev. In fact, he is not just the subject, he is a leitmotif. The main character. In music, the leitmotif is the central idea that unifies a thematic structure. In Gadzhev's book, Milcho Leviev's p
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Mihail Kremen
The Novel of Yavorov Part 1
"The Novel of Yavorov" is a unique piece of Bulgarian literature, an invaluable testimony to one of the most brilliant periods of our cultural history.
When the book came out of print in 1959, it instantly became a literary sensation. The sto
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Mihail Kremen
The Novel of Yavorov Part 1 (Hardcover)
"The Novel of Yavorov" is a unique piece of Bulgarian literature, an invaluable testimony to one of the most brilliant periods of our cultural history.
When the book came out of print in 1959, it instantly became a literary sensation. The sto
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Mihail Kremen
The Novel of Yavorov Part 2
"The problem Lora-Yavorov, seemingly sensational, can not be overlooked without being studied and clarified because it is connected with the fate of a great poet who died in the heyday of his creative powers.
The fact that not only the ge
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Mihail Kremen
The Novel of Yavorov Part 2 (Hardcover)
"The problem Lora-Yavorov, seemingly sensational, can not be overlooked without being studied and clarified because it is connected with the fate of a great poet who died in the heyday of his creative powers.
The fact that not only the ge
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Nina Berberova
Iron Woman
This captivationg reading chronicles a riveting moment in modern history through the eyes of Baroness Maria ("Moura") Ignatievna Zakrevskaya Beckendorff Budberg, a Russian aristocrat forced to employ great cunning to survive in the post-Re
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Carmen Domingo
Gala-Dali
As Gala rests in the main bedroom in the castle in Púbol, on the verge of dying, she reflects on her life. The life of someone who became the muse of the most important surrealist artists of the 1930s: Paul Éluard and Salvador D
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Julia Kristeva
I travel myself
One destiny, one pen. "Multiverse" - as Julia Kristeva says. A recognizable stranger, a close unknown woman, a calm rebel? In this book, for the first time, the distinguished French intellectual of Bulgarian origin shares her life, "traveling herse
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Michael Wolff
Fire and Fury
With extraordinary access to the West Wing, Michael Wolff reveals what happened behind-the-scenes in the first nine months of the most controversial presidency of our time in Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.
Since
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Katherine Pancol
Such a Beautiful Image
What is behind the beautiful image that Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis, known as Jackie Kennedy, creates by herself? Does her unusual fate, a true superproduction of the twentieth century, illuminated by the glamor of charm, power, money, and
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Zornitza Kratchmarova
Transformations. The Hidden Art of Christo and Jeanne-Claude
No galleries, no agents and no sponsors. In order to give life to their art, they were a step away from bankruptcy many times. They managed to reconcile two historic enemies - Jacques Chirac and Francois Mitterrand. Over half a century Christo an
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A. Scott Berg
Max Perkins: Editor of Genius
MAX PERKINS: Editor of Genius by A. Scott Berg took the literary world by storm upon its publication in 1978, garnering rave reviews and winning the National Book Award. A meticulously-researched and engaging portrait of the
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Werner Herzog
A Guide for the Perplexed: Conversations with Paul Cronin
This edition of Herzog on Herzog presents a completely new set of interviews in which Werner Herzog discusses his career from its very beginnings to his most recent productions.
Herzog was once hailed by Francois Truffaut as the most import
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Humphrey Carpenter
J. R. R. Tolkien. A Biography
The authorized biography of the creator of Middle-earth. In the decades since his death in September 1973, millions have read THE HOBBIT, THE LORD OF THE RINGS, and THE SILMARILLION and become fascinated about the very private man behind
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Marie-Dominique Lelièvre
CHANEL & CO: The Friends of Coco
To what extent a casual encounter or usual acquaintance can determine a human destiny? Especially when it comes to the unusual fate of Coco Chanel? From the orphanage in Aubazine through the Palace of Westminster to the
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David Evanier
Woody: The Biography
In this first biography of Woody Allen in over a decade, David Evanier discusses key movies, plays and prose as well as Allen's personal life. Evanier tackles the themes that Allen has spent a lifetime sorting through in art: morality, sexuality, Ju
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Frédéric Beigbeder
Oona & Salinger
"Oona & Salinger" takes us back to the past, to the postwar years, in order to meet us with Oona, the fifteen-year-old daughter of the great American playwright Eugene O'Neill, and with the author of the unforgettable novel "Catcher
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Francisco Gerardo Haghenbeck
The Secret Book of Frida Kahlo
When several notebooks were recently discovered among Frida Kahlo’s belongings at her home in Coyoacán, Mexico City, acclaimed Mexican novelist F. G. Haghenbeck was inspired to write this beautifully wrought fictional a
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Rumyana L. Stancheva
The Artist Georges Papazoff as a Writer
The painter Georges Papazoff was born in Yambol, Bulgaria, in 1894 and died in 1972 in Vence, France. A Bulgarian artist who worked in Germany before settling in France in 1924, during the twenties and thirties Papazoff had a flamboyant internation
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Dominique Bona
Romain Gary
The French-Russian writer had published over fifty novels under four different names, directed two movies, fought in the air force, and represented France as a consul. His marriages—first to the British writer Lesley Branch, then to the Ameri
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Gian Luigi Paracchini
The Prada Life
A unique look at the life Miuccia Prada - one of the world’s most revered, and reserved, fashion designers - this biography details the meteoric rise of the brand that forever changed the face of the fashion industry. This biography shows
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Renata Molho
Being Armani
Recounting the 30 years that turned Giorgio Armani into an international fashion icon, this investigation of the man and the myth he built around himself explores how he maintained a distinct identity in an industry built upon rap
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Jon Halliday
Mao: The Unknown Story
The most authoritative life of the Chinese leader ever written, Mao: The Unknown Story is based on a decade of research, and on interviews with many of Mao’s close circle in China who have never talked before — and with
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Minnie Gastel
The Versace Legend
An intimate portrait of an incredibly talented and respected fashion icon, this biography traces Gianni Versace’s life from his youth in Reggio Calabria, Italy, to his early shows at museums in Milan to his untimely, tragic murder by ser
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Laurence Benaïm
Yves Saint Laurent
This is the first biography of Yves Saint Laurent. It tells about the life of the big French fashion designer from his birth till his sad death.
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