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  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

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

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

  • 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 €