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  • BREAD OF ANGELS
    BREAD OF ANGELS
    PATTI SMITH
    A radiant new memoir from beloved artist and writer Patti Smith, author of the National Book Award Winner Just Kids. God whispers through a crease in the wallpaper, writes Patti Smith in this indelible account of her life as an artist. A post-Second World War childhood unfolds in a condemned housing complex described in Dickensian detail: consumptive children, vanishing neighb...
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    18,75 €

  • BOOK OF LIVES
    BOOK OF LIVES
    AUTHOR TBC CHATTO / MARGARET ATWOOD
    'She's taken our times and made us wise to them' ALI SMITH 'She's Margaret Atwood and she can do anything' ANN PATCHETT 'She saw it all coming' TIME 'The outstanding novelist of our age' SUNDAY TIMES Immerse yourself in the creative universe of Margaret Atwood for a riot of life, art and everything in between: the greatest writer of our time tells her own story Raised by sci...
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    37,50 €

  • NOBODY'S GIRL
    NOBODY'S GIRL
    VIRGINIA ROBERTS GIUFFRE
    The extraordinarily powerful memoir by the late Virginia Roberts Giuffre, the inspirational woman who stood up and spoke out about serial abusers Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. This is the memoir behind the headlines: intimate, fierce, unforgettable. In 2011, Virginia Roberts Giuffre hit the headlines as Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell's most outspoken victim: t...
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    31,25 €

  • THE SCAPEGOAT
    THE SCAPEGOAT
    LUCY HUGHES-HALLETT
    *PLUTARCH AWARD FOR THE BEST BIOGRAPHY OF 2024* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE DUFF COOPER PRIZE* 'SUBLIME' A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 'STUNNINGLY GOOD' THE TIMES BEST HISTORY BOOKS 2024 'COMPULSIVE' A PROSPECT BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 'BRILLIANT' A SPECTATOR BOOK OF THE YEAR 2024 'A delicious, grippingly paced tale of rogues, riotous sex, regicide and realpolitik' INDEPENDENT ...
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  • BOY FROM THE VALLEYS
    BOY FROM THE VALLEYS
    LUKE EVANS
    From his humble beginnings in a quaint Welsh mining village to the dazzling lights of Hollywood, much-loved star, Luke Evans takes us on a poignant and inspiring journey that spans from the heart of Wales to behind the scenes of the global stage. Growing up in a small village in the Rhymney Valley, Luke's life was shaped by his Jehovah's Witness upbringing, a path he'd eventua...
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  • WHO TAMES THE FLAMES?
    WHO TAMES THE FLAMES?
    CANYON HOHENSTEIN
    The First Flicker: A Glimpse Before the BurnGully is a seasoned wildland firefighter who quit the profession. Years later, as Montana faces its worst fire season in over 100 years, Gully is on the cusp of suicide. He calls his old friend and mentor, Elsen, searching for purpose in the only place he's ever found it. Upon his return, Elsen thrusts him into the most combustible ro...
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    18,75 €

  • KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL
    KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL
    ANTHONY BOURDAIN
    The classic bestseller from the star of Parts Unknown and No Reservations: 25th Anniversary edition, with a new introduction by Irvine Welsh. BEFORE THERE WAS THE BEAR, THERE WAS BOURDAIN. 'Elizabeth David written by Quentin Tarantino' A.A. Gill 'Fantastic: as lip-smackingly seductive as a bowl of fat chips and pungent aioli' Daily Telegraph After twenty-five years of sex, d...
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    16,25 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • TENDER MAPS
    TENDER MAPS
    ALICE MADDICOTT
    What do we mean by atmosphere? Some travellers are driven by the need to scale a natural wonder, to see a city's sights or a place of history. Others, like Alice Maddicott, travel in search of a particular scene, feeling or atmosphere, often inspired by music, literature and art. Taking us deep into our emotional and creative responses to place, this extraordinary book explore...
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  • GREENLIGHTS
    GREENLIGHTS
    MATTHEW MCCONAUGHEY
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Discover the life-changing memoir that has inspired millions of readers through the Academy Award(R)-winning actor's unflinching honesty, unconventional wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction."The No. 1 celebrity memoir of the past 10 years."--USA Today "McConaughey's book invites us to grapple with the les...
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    13,75 €

  • MORTAL MONARCHS
    MORTAL MONARCHS
    SUZIE EDGE
    'A brilliant, funny and thought-provoking book' - Jonn Elledge 'Compelling, provocative, and utterly brilliant' - Dr Estelle Paranque THIS PAPERBACK FEATURES ADDITIONAL MATERIAL ON HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH II How the monarchs of England and Scotland met their deaths has been a wonderful mixture of violence, infections, overindulgence and occasional regicide. In Mortal Mona...
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  • GOYA
    GOYA
    JANIS TOMLINSON
    The first major English-language biography of Francisco Goya y Lucientes, who ushered in the modern eraThe life of Francisco Goya (1746-1828) coincided with an age of transformation in Spanish history that brought upheavals in the country's politics and at the court which Goya served, changes in society, the devastation of the Iberian Peninsula in the war against Napoleon, and ...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • TOUCHED BY THE SUN
    TOUCHED BY THE SUN
    CARLY SIMON
    A chance encounter at a summer party on Martha's Vineyard blossomed into an improbable but enduring friendship. Carly Simon and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis made an unlikely pair - Carly, a free and artistic spirit still reeling from her recent divorce, searching for meaning, new love, and an anchor; and Jackie, one of the most celebrated, meticulous, unknowable women in American...
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    21,25 €

  • 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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  • THE COST OF LIVING
    THE COST OF LIVING
    DEBORAH LEVY
    From the twice-Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Hot Milk and Swimming Home : Dazzling, essential, entirely unlike anything else -- a memoir on modern womanhood, rejecting oppressive social expectations and turning instead towards a thrilling, transformative freedom What does it mean to be free? What kind of women are we allowed to become? What would it feel like to live w...
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    13,75 €

  • DEVOTION
    DEVOTION
    PATTI SMITH
    "Devotion is short enough to devour at one enjoyable sitting and thought-provoking enough to deserve re-reading."--Suzi Feay, Financial Times "Devotion shows rather than tells what it means to give a life to writing. "--Katherine Cooper, Hyperallergic A work of creative brilliance may seem like magic--its source a mystery, its impact unexpectedly stirring. How does an artist a...
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    11,25 €

  • 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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  • 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 €