This work presents the Billie Holiday story - her rise to the top from the slums and the streets, to the eventual slide down.

Julie Walters has been described as the nation's most popular actress and comedienne. She has been delighting us on screen and on stage for over 25 years and we have taken her to our hearts. Now she tells us her own story, in her own words. She was born in fifties Birmingham, daughter of an austere Irish Catholic mother. She was sent to school in a convent and from a young age always wanted to be an actress but to appease her mother she first went into nursing. This didn't last for long though and she soon went to join the Everyman Theatre in Liverpool. West End success followed, and she quickly replicated her success on film, earning an Academy Award nomination for her role opposite Michael Caine in Educating Rita. Julie's collaborations with her close friend Victoria Wood have given us, among others, the unforgettable character 'Mrs Overall' in Acorn Antiques and Petula in 'dinnerladies', and she's recently charmed a new generation of fans playing Mrs Weasley in the Harry Potter films and alongside Meryl Streep in 'Mamma Mia!', as well as co-starring with Helen Mirren in Calendar Girls. The winner of countless awards, Julie has continued to be in some of Britain's best TV drama and was awarded a CBE for her services to the theatre. A natural writer with an instinctive sense of timing, Julie's memoirs are warm, moving, painfully felt, fiercely intelligent - and totally entertaining.

Jeugdherinneringen van een jongen die  in 1940 op 6jarige leeftijd Den Helder ontvluchtte, samen met moeder en twee zusjes. Op zijn zestiende meldde hij zich aan als lichtmatroos waarna hij op zee volwassen werd. Uiteindelijk begon hij een kleine uitgeverij. De toenadering tot zijn vader leidt tot een aangrijpende ontknoping.

Autobiografisch verslag over de vlucht in 1968 van de schrijver uit Tsjechoslowakije.

Verslag van een meisje dat zich vrijwillig laat opnemen in een psychiatrische inrichting.

Autobiografisch relaas van een journalist die als zij-instromer in het basisonderwijs aan de slag gaat op een multiculturele Rotterdamse basisschool.

The female pilot who has won more than 125 air races and has been inducted into the Aviation Hall of Fame describes her childhood dreams of flight, her struggles with sexism, her career as a trainer of flight students, and more.

Born in the slums of Birmingham in 1903, Kathleen Dayus was brought up in extreme and often cruel poverty. Later, left a widow while she was still in her twenties, she had to give her four children into the care of Dr Barnardos homes. It took her eight years of troublesome work and determination to achieve an adequate standard of living before she was allowed to have them back. In Her People and Where There's Life, the author told the story of her life up to the return of her children. In All My Days she writes about her life in wartime Birmingham, coping with bombing, keeping her jewellery business going, and later, of her marriage and life over the last 40 years. Interspersed are heart-rending revelations of the lives of her parents and older sister.

The author recounts her nearly sixty-year involvement in British journalism, and describes how public attitudes toward women and the elderly have changed.