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  • 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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    16,25 €

  • ALL THE WAY TO THE RIVER
    ALL THE WAY TO THE RIVER
    ELIZABETH GILBERT
    In her first non-fiction book in a decade, the no. 1 bestselling writer who taught millions of readers to live authentically (Eat Pray Love) and creatively (Big Magic) shows how to break free. In 2000, Elizabeth Gilbert met Rayya. They became friends, then best friends, then inseparable. When tragedy entered their lives, the truth was finally laid bare: the two were in love. T...
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    18,75 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • TAYLOR SWIFT
    TAYLOR SWIFT
    CHAS NEWKEY-BURDEN
    The #1 New York Times Bestseller As Taylor releases her 11th album, THE TORTURED POET'S DEPARTMENT, catch up on the full story of Taylor Swift's stratospheric rise to fame; all any dedicated Swifty needs to know about the pop superstar who's taking over the world A small-town girl with incredible talent - and the strength and determination to realise her dream - Taylor Swift ...
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    13,75 €

  • SUPER-INFINITE
    SUPER-INFINITE
    KATHERINE RUNDELL
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    16,25 €

  • BLACK TEACHER
    BLACK TEACHER
    BERYL GILROY
    The rediscovered classic: an unforgettable memoir by a trailblazing black woman in post-war London, introduced by Bernardine Evaristo ('I dare anyone to read it and not come away shocked, moved and entertained.') Benjamin Zephaniah: 'A must-read. Her life makes you laugh. Her life makes you cry. Get to know her.' Jacqueline Wilson: 'A superb but shocking memoir about a brillian...
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    13,75 €

  • 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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    25,00 €

  • INVISIBLE YET ENDURING LILACS
    INVISIBLE YET ENDURING LILACS
    GERALD MURNANE
    This collection of essays leads the reader into the searching and wildly fertile imagination of Gerald Murnane, one of the masters of contemporary Australian writing, author of the classics 'Border Districts' and 'Tamarisk Row', and winner of the Patrick White Literary Award. `Someone has written that all art aspires to the condition of music. My experience is that all art, inc...
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    14,99 €

  • EUGENIE
    EUGENIE
    DESMOND SEWARD
    From 1853 to 1870 Eugénie de Montijo was Empress of the French, sharing the Second Empire with her husband Napoleon III. The last woman to reign over France, she personifies the allure glimpsed in Winterhalter's portraits and the music of Jacques Offenbach. It was 'eighteen years of self-indulgence, folly and wild gaiety, of love affairs and unbelievable elegance', a survivor w...
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    14,99 €

  • LITTLE WEIRDS
    LITTLE WEIRDS
    JENNY SLATE
    'Magical' MINDY KALING 'Funny and poignant and beautiful' JOHN MULANEY 'It made me remember I was alive' GEORGE SAUNDERS To see the world through Jenny Slate's eyes is to see it as though for the first time, shimmering with strangeness and possibility. As she will remind you, we live on an ancient ball that rotates around a bigger ball made up of lights and gases that are sc...
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    12,50 €

  • FAKE LAW
    FAKE LAW
    THE SECRET BARRISTER
    Could the courts really order the death of your innocent baby? Was there an illegal immigrant who couldn't be deported because he had a pet cat? Are unelected judges truly enemies of the people? Most of us think the law is only relevant to criminals, if we even think of it at all. But the law touches every area of our lives: from intimate family matters to the biggest issues i...
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    18,75 €

  • IMITATION GAME
    IMITATION GAME
    JIM OTTAVIANI
    Alan Turing (1912-1954) was the mathematician credited with cracking the German Enigma code during World War II, enabling the Allies to defeat the Nazis. After the war, Turing went on to launch modern computer science through his creation of the universal Turing machine and the Imitation Game, an artificial-intelligence test that is still in use today. Turing kept his code-brea...
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    17,50 €

  • TENEMENTAL
    TENEMENTAL
    VIKKI WARNER
    A heartfelt coming-of-age memoir about taking the unbeaten path, owning a home, and holding it all--including yourself--together. Detouring from the traditional timeline of marriage-kids-house, twenty-six-year-old Vikki Warner skips straight to homeownership. She buys a downtrodden three-story house in Providence, Rhode Island, and suddenly finds herself responsible for a rotat...
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    16,25 €

  • THE INNOCENT ANTHROPOLOGIST
    THE INNOCENT ANTHROPOLOGIST
    NIGEL BARLEY
    This witty introduction to the life of the social anthropologist describes Barley's experiences in the Cameroons. In his first foray into fieldwork, Barley discovers that the society of the Dowayo people refuses to conform to the rules of his new discipline. ...
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    16,25 €

  • THE GRASS ARENA
    THE GRASS ARENA
    JOHN HEALY
    John Healy's The Grass Arena describes with unflinching honesty his experiences of addiction, his escape through learning to play chess in prison, and his ongoing search for peace of mind. This Penguin Classics edition includes an afterword by Colin MacCabe. In his searing autobiography Healy describes his fifteen years living rough in London without state aid, when begging car...
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    12,50 €

  • LIVES OF LEONARDO DA VINCI
    LIVES OF LEONARDO DA VINCI
    GIORGIO VASARI / MATTEO BANDELLO / PAOLO GIOVIO / SABBA DA CASTIGLIONE
    For many people the greatest artist, and the quintessential Renaissance man, Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) was a painter, architect, theatre designer, engineer, sculptor, anatomist, geometer, naturalist, poet and musician. His Last Supper in Milan has been called the greatest painting in Western art. Illegitimate, left-handed and homosexual, Leonardo never made a straightforwar...
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    13,75 €

  • BLOWING THE BLOODY DOORS OFF
    BLOWING THE BLOODY DOORS OFF
    MICHAEL CAINE
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    16,25 €

  • CARELESS PEOPLE
    CARELESS PEOPLE
    SARAH WYNN-WILLIAMS
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    21,25 €