Diary Biography

Fearless: Diary of a Badass Reporter is the narrative of a most uncommon and astonishing life - where even as a teenager Julie Blacklow displayed qualities that marked her as a natural for reporting. Courage, tenacity, and a willingness to get in anyone's face if it served her mission to help people were in her DNA. Her intolerance of injustice made her especially popular - or unpopular depending on which side of the fence you sat. Blacklow was among the first women in television news in America.

Renowned as a BBC journalist, Victoria Derbyshire has spent 20 years finding the human story behind the headlines. In 2015 she was diagnosed with breast cancer. With honesty and openness, she decided to live out her treatment and recovery in the spotlight in a series of video diaries. Victoria has kept a diary since she was nine years old, and in Dear Cancer, Love Victoria she shares her day-to-day experiences of life following diagnosis and coming to terms with a future that wasn't planned.

Diario de una ninfómana es el conmovedor relato de una mujer francesa, de buena familia, licenciada en dirección de empresas, que narra su evolución vital a través de las relaciones sexuales que va teniendo: con los sepultureros de un cementerio, con un árabe muy aficionado a la Coca-Cola, con un policía sin escrúpulos, con desconocidos en lugares imprevistos... Multitud de vivencias que asume con la máxima libertad que tiene cualquier persona: la que uno se concede a sí mismo y no la que se ve obligado a tener.

The diary of Michael Dougherty, a young Irish soldier in the American Civil War, kept while imprisoned in various Confederate prison camps. As Dougherty notes, in 1863 “At 5 p.m. we were overpowered, cut off from the division and 127 of our regiment, among whom was your humble servant, were compelled to surrender.”

Born in Chains is a first-hand account of living in abject poverty in South Africa. Clinton Chauke was born in 1994 into a Vatsonga household and has faced all the challenges of growing up at the edges of society: first in rural Limpopo, then in a village bordering the Kruger National Park, and finally in a squatter camp near Pretoria. Navigating a world of racism and tribalism and confronting urban life as a country ‘bumpkin’, the author depicts the lifelines and pitfalls of a young life.

Throughout history, women have shared their wisdom through personal stories told to their daughters, granddaughters, and anyone who sought their guidance. Stories of victories and losses, triumphs and struggles, love and hate. Diary of a Small Island Girl: Volume 1-3 Special Edition combines the self-published volumes under the first three books. It also includes some new and updated entries.

This work investigates Bram Stoker, his life, his friends, his associations and in so doing we find clues to the real truth behind the tale of Dracula. We enter the dark world of the vampire, its past, present and future. We delve into the dark recesses within the mind of man and come away with mysteries only guessed at in each age. We discover that to be dead, really dead, is indeed glorious.

OSS Against the Reich presents the previously unpublished World War II diaries of Colonel David K.E. Bruce, London branch chief of America's first secret intelligence agency, as he observed the war against Hitler. The entries include eyewitness accounts of D-Day, the rocket attacks on England, and the liberation of Paris....

En 1905, Margarete Böhme presentó al público una arriesgada y verosímil historia. Mediante el reflejo exacto del diario hallado de una joven, del que Böhme se presentaba como «editora», se daba noticia de una adolescente burguesa que se ve forzada, por las artimañas de un entorno hipócrita, a un episodio de prostitución. Considerada como «la narración autobiográfica más notoria de principios del siglo xx y la más exitosa comercialmente», Diario de una perdida vendió millones de ejemplares y varias versiones en la gran pantalla.

Off the Record: Untold Stories from a Reporter's Diary by Ajith Pillai tells you the truth behind some of the most historic events that have occurred in India. The book tells you about the lives of journalists, the dangers that they face, the thrill of being on the tail of a big story and the horrors they witness. This book also talks about the amount of truth that journalists are actually allowed to portray along with the secrets that they unearth.

Everyone wants to escape their boring, stagnant lives full of inertia and regret. But so few people actually have the bravery to run - run away from everything and selflessly seek out personal fulfillment on the other side of the world where they don’t understand anything and won’t be expected to. The world is full of cowards. Tim Anderson was pushing 30 and working a string of dead-end jobs when he made the spontaneous decision to pack his bags and move to Japan.

October 8, 1918: Amid the last of the Allies' attempts to defeat the Germans, Sgt. Alvin York of Tennessee found himself and his platoon of only 17 men trapped in the thick of heavy machine gun fire. Rather than retreating or calling upon the artillery to take out the nest, York single-handedly took out 25 Germans, dropping them one by one, and captured many more. This is one of the many tales of York's famed heroism, which were heralded as some of the most impressive battle stories in the history of modern warfare. Sergeant York contains the legendary soldier's war diaries.

Usha Uthup, India's undisputed icon of pop music, has enthralled an entire generation of listeners with her unforgettable voice and continues to do so. Completing fifty years as a professional singer in 2020 was just another milestone in her fabled career. In this vivid biography, which was originally written in Hindi, Vikas Kumar Jha captures the entire arc of Uthup's career in music.

Para los lectores, hay pocas experiencias tan asombrosas e inolvidables como la primera lectura de Kafka. No importa lo que uno haya leído antes: cruzarse con una de sus novelas o cuentos, con un fragmento de sus diarios, es aprender a leer de un modo nuevo. La prosa precisa y de resonancias alegóricas; la capacidad para urdir tramas perfectas donde la lógica de la pesadilla convive con el grotesco; el modo de narrar la inapelable arbitrariedad del poder; el don único de volver verosímil lo que en principio parece imposible de alcanzar ese estatuto.

Io sono Marilyn, sembra dire ogni parola di questo racconto struggente fatto di bellezza extraterrestre e sprecata, di amore infinito e sfinito, della donna più bella mai esistita, della donna più triste mai vissuta. Marilyn è un viaggio tra le lenzuola profumate di un’anima fragile in un corpo da bomba atomica. Marilyn icona, Marilyn desiderata dagli uomini di potere perché ambita e inarrivabile, Marilyn amante e mai moglie, Marilyn puttana e santa, Marilyn sopravvissuta a sua madre. Marilyn, la vita come un sogno a occhi aperti.

After 15 years traveling the world in the high-tech industry, Tory Anderson found himself driving his first busload of kids. What started as an act of desperation turned into a life-changing experience that led to courage he was lacking and love he didn’t know he had. Bus Driver Diaries puts you in the driver’s seat with Tory to experience the world that unfolds on a bus in between school and home. Amid the noise and frustration, you will find a world of beauty, wonder, and humor. After listening to this book, every sighting of a school bus will bring a smile to your face.

Diego Gómez Pickering nos regala en este libro sus apuntes de los días que vivió como embajador en Reino Unido. Historia, paisajes, retratos, literatura y política son sólo algunos de los recorridos que encontraremos en Diario de Londres, unas deliciosas viñetas que nos despertarán el deseo de saber más sobre la Gran Bretaña.

Eighteen Moons is the extraordinary and moving story of Andi and John and how they set out to have the family they longed for. Not many people noticed the end of a multibillion-pound industry that touched many, many thousands of lives...but this devoted couple lived through the final wave of International Surrogacy in both India and Thailand, then finally (before it had barely begun) in Nepal on the roof of the world.

This is the true story of a young dancer, whose naïve dream of working in the Far East turns into a nightmare. She finds herself in a plethora of situations, which she is ill-equipped to deal with. Dancing her way across South Korea with two friends, she is propositioned by the Mafia, turned away by the British Embassy, caught in a student riot, and taken to Korean brothels.

Napoleon famously observed that "history is a set of lies agreed upon", and Edward Steers Jr. investigates six of the most amazing frauds ever to gain wide acceptance in this engrossing book. The controversies that Steers presents show that there are two major factors involved in the success of a hoax or forgery - greed and the desire to believe.