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  • THE PARIS TRILOGY
    THE PARIS TRILOGY
    COLOMBE SCHNECK
    'This is valuable writing. It has immense vitality. You will encounter a female narrator whose direct and bright-eyed stare at the world, and her self, is without shame or faux modesty. At the same time, it is also a deep study of existence, at various ages and stages in life.' -- Deborah Levy 'Swimming is a dreamy, bruised, and carnal book that pretty much no American would w...
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    13,75 €

  • SET MY HEART ON FIRE
    SET MY HEART ON FIRE
    IZUMI SUZUKI
    The first novel from Izumi Suzuki to be published in English: a candid, intimate exploration of passion, music and transgressionHope I’m in for a good time, I thought. Even if it’s just for tonight.Set in the underground bar and club scene of 1970s Tokyo, Set My Heart On Fire tells the story of Izumi in her turbulent twenties. Through a series of disarmingly frank vignettes, au...
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    14,99 €

  • SONNY BOY
    SONNY BOY
    AL PACINO
    To the wider world, Al Pacino exploded onto the scene like a supernova. He landed his first leading role, in The Panic in Needle Park, in 1971, and by 1975, he had starred in four movies?The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, Serpico, and Dog Day Afternoon?that were not just successes but landmarks in the history of film. Those performances became legendary and changed his li...
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    31,25 €

  • THERE AND BACK
    THERE AND BACK
    MICHAEL PALIN
    "A new millennium, and a new chapter for Michael Palin unfolds. With a Hemingway travel project testing his confidence, doubts creeping in about his abilities as a writer, the death of his great friend George Harrison and the last of his children leaving home, the dawn of the twenty-first century sees Michael at his most reflective yet. Over the next ten years, we watch through...
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    18,75 €

  • HOW TO SAY BABYLON
    HOW TO SAY BABYLON
    SAFIYA SINCLAIR
    Born in Montego Bay, Jamaica, where luxury hotels line pristine white sand beaches, Safiya Sinclair grew up guarding herself against an ever-present threat. Preaching fire and brimstone, her father, a volatile reggae musician and strict believer in a militant sect of Rastafari, railed against Babylon, the immoral, corrupting influence of the Western world just beyond their gate...
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  • WINNIE AND NELSON
    WINNIE AND NELSON
    JONNY STEINBERG
    'Gripping and profoundly moving' DAMON GALGUT 'Deft and operatic' OBSERVER A TIMES BEST BIOGRAPHY OF 2023 From one of South Africa's foremost nonfiction writers, a deeply researched, shattering new account of Nelson Mandela's relationship with Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. Drawing on never-before-seen material, Steinberg reveals the fractures and stubborn bonds at the heart...
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  • THE HYACINTH GIRL
    THE HYACINTH GIRL
    LYNDALL GORDON
    "Among the greatest of poets, TS Eliot protected his privacy while publicly associated with three women: two wives and a church-going companion. This presentation concealed a life-long love for an American: Emily Hale, a drama teacher to whom he wrote (and later suppressed) over a thousand letters. Hale was the source of "memory and desire" in The Waste Land; she is the Hyacint...
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    31,25 €

  • KEANU REEVES: MOST TRIUMPHANT
    KEANU REEVES: MOST TRIUMPHANT
    ALEX PAPPADEMAS
    Keanu Reeves: Most Triumphant is a tribute to and exploration of the magic behind one of Hollywood's most legendary and unknowable stars and the profound lessons we can learn from his success. There can be no doubt: Keanu Reeves is a phenomenon. He's at once a badass action star, a hunky dreamboat who People magazine has called "the Internet's boyfriend," a vintage motorcycle ...
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    23,75 €

  • THE SPLENDID AND THE VILE
    THE SPLENDID AND THE VILE
    ERIK LARSON
    "The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers a fresh and compelling portrait of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz On Winston Churchill's first day as prime minister, Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next twel...
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    13,75 €

  • MEGHAN
    MEGHAN
    ANDREW MORTON
    Andrew Morton's highly acclaimed biography of Meghan Markle, first published just before her marriage to Prince Harry, reflected on the impact that Meghan had already had on the ridged traditions of the House of Windsor. However, little did anyone know at that time how the forces at work would play out. How would this confident, assured actress and humanitarian campaigner cope ...
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    12,50 €

  • THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING
    THE YEAR OF MAGICAL THINKING
    JOAN DIDION
    Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generations to come. A single person is missing for you, and the whole world is empty John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their daughter fall ill. At first they thought it was flu, t...
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    12,50 €

  • EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT LOVE
    EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT LOVE
    DOLLY ALDERTON
    ***THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 5 BESTSELLER*** 'A wonderful writer, who will surely inspire a generation the way that Caitlin Moran did before her' Julie Burchill 'I loved it so much, I wanted it to go on forever, Dolly Alderton is so gifted at making people care. A rare talent' Marian Keyes When it comes to the trials and triumphs of becoming a grown up, journalist and former Sunday ...
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    13,75 €

  • SHOE DOG
    SHOE DOG
    PHIL KNIGHT
    In this candid and riveting memoir, for the first time ever, Nike founder and CEO Phil Knight shares the inside story of the company's early days as an intrepid start-up and its evolution into one of the world's most iconic, game-changing, and profitable brands. In 1962, fresh out of business school, Phil Knight borrowed 50 from his father and created a company with a simple mi...
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    13,75 €

  • ILLUSTRATED ISTANBUL
    ILLUSTRATED ISTANBUL
    ORHAN PAMUK
    Since the publication of Istanbul: Memories of a City, Orhan Pamuk has continued to add to his collection of photographs of Istanbul. Now, he has selected a range of photographs for the illustrated edition, linking each new image to his memoir. Orhan Pamuk was born in Istanbul and still lives in the family apartment building where his mother first held him in her arms. His port...
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    37,50 €

  • INSIDE A PEARL
    INSIDE A PEARL
    EDMUND WHITE
    ______________ 'Paris may well be White's pearl, but he is in fact the real pearl ... This wonderfully eccentric, conversational and personalised cultural history contains the essence of Edmund White ... Entertaining and wry, White is worldly-wise and wise' - Eileen Battersby, Irish Times 'Edmund White writing about his Paris years, with walk-on parts for Catherine Deneuve, Y...
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    16,25 €

  • JUST KIDS
    JUST KIDS
    PATTI SMITH
    This book presents a portrait of two young artist's ascent - Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe, 'Just Kids' begins as a love story and ends as an elegy. It intends to serve as a salute to New York City during the late sixties and seventies and to its rich and poor, its hustlers and hellions. ...
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    16,25 €

  • BORN ON A BLUE DAY
    BORN ON A BLUE DAY
    DANIEL TAMMET
    'Born On A Blue Day' is a fascinating and touching memoir from real-life Rain Man, Daniel Tammet, who has the extremely rare condition Savant Syndrome. ...
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    13,75 €

  • NAKED
    NAKED
    DAVID SEDARIS
    A riotous collection of memoirs which explores the absurd hilarity of modern life and creates a wickedly incisive portrait of an all-too-familiar world. It takes Sedaris from his humiliating bout with obsessive behaviour in 'A Plague of Tics' to the title story, where he is finally forced to face his naked self in the company of lunatics. At this soulful and moving moment, he b...
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    12,50 €

  • 84 CHARING CROSS ROAD
    84 CHARING CROSS ROAD
    HELENE HANFF
    This book is the very simple story of the love affair between Miss Helene Hanff of New York and Messrs Marks and Co, sellers of rare and secondhand books, at 84 Charing Cross Road, London'. DAILY TELEGRAPH Told in a series of letters in 84 CHARING CROSS ROAD and then in diary form in the second part THE DUCHESS OF BLOOMSBURY STREET, this true story has touched the hearts of tho...
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    11,25 €

  • SOURCE CODE
    SOURCE CODE
    BILL GATES
    Bill Gates is one of the most transformative figures of our age. In Source Code he takes us back to his beginnings. He describes with candour his childhood in Seattle, the centrality of family - his close relationship with his card-playing grandmother and his demanding but caring parents - his struggles to fit in, his rebelliousness, his first deep friendships and the impact of...
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    31,25 €

  • KNIFE
    KNIFE
    SALMAN RUSHDIE
    **Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 2024** A gripping account of survival and recovery from internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize-winner Salman Rushdie 'A masterpiece... Extraordinary' Daily Telegraph 'A story of hatred defeated by love' Guardian On the morning of 12 August 2022, Salman Rushdie was sitting onstage in upstate New York, preparing to give a lec...
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    13,75 €

  • DIDION & BABITZ
    DIDION & BABITZ
    LILI ANOLIK
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    25,00 €

  • LIVING ON A THIN LINE
    LIVING ON A THIN LINE
    DAVE DAVIES
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    16,25 €

  • KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL
    KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL
    ANTHONY BOURDAIN
    After twenty-five years of 'sex, drugs, bad behaviour and haute cuisine', chef and novelist Anthony Bourdain has decided to tell all. From his first oyster in the Gironde to his lowly position as a dishwasher in a honky-tonk fish restaurant in Provincetown; from the kitchen of the Rainbow Room atop the Rockefeller Center to drug dealers in the East Village, from Tokyo to Paris ...
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  • DEAR WRITER
    DEAR WRITER
    MAGGIE SMITH
    'How I wish I'd had access to this book when I was first starting out as a writer! Maggie Smith has created an offering here of great substance and generosity - walking writers of all levels through the sometimes wild and terrifying landscape of literary endeavour' ELIZABETH GILBERTDrawing from her twenty years of teaching experience, bestselling writing career and popular news...
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    23,75 €

  • THE THINKING MACHINE
    THE THINKING MACHINE
    STEPHEN WITT
    Nvidia is as valuable as Apple and Microsoft. It has shaped the world as we know it. But its story is little known. This is the definitive story of the greatest technology company of our times. 'Gripping and brilliantly told' Mustafa Suleyman, author of The Coming Wave In June 2024, thirty-one years after it was founded in a diner, Nvidia became the most valuable corporation ...
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    31,25 €

  • FAHRENHEIT-182: A MEMOIR
    FAHRENHEIT-182: A MEMOIR
    MARK HOPPUS
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    21,25 €

  • THE HOUSE OF HIDDEN MEANINGS
    THE HOUSE OF HIDDEN MEANINGS
    RUPAUL / RUPAUL
    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing to date--a brutally honest and deeply intimate memoir of growing up Black, poor, and queer in a broken home to discovering the power of performance and self-acceptance. A profound introspection of his life, relationships, and identity, The House of Hidden Meanings...
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    13,75 €

  • SOURCE CODE
    SOURCE CODE
    BILL GATES
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The origin story of one of the most influential and transformative business leaders and philanthropists of the modern age“A surprisingly candid memoir of the Microsoft mogul’s early years…Reading this book feels like watching someone take a well-known black-and-white sketch, fill in the details, and paint it in vivid color.” —GeekWireThe business ...
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    29,75 €

  • THUNDERCLAP
    THUNDERCLAP
    LAURA CUMMING
    **WINNER OF THE SALTIRE BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2024** **WINNER OF THE WRITERS' PRIZE 2024 NON-FICTION** **SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024** A beautifully illustrated new memoir of a life in art, a father and daughter, and what a shared love of a painting can come to mean. 'Brilliant' Edmund de Waal * 'Captivating' Nina Stibbe * 'Extraordinary' India ...
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    16,25 €