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  • 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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  • 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 €

  • RECKLESS
    RECKLESS
    CHRISSIE HYNDE
    By the time she was 14, Chrissie Hynde knew she had to get out of Akron, Ohio. Her perfect '50s American childhood upturned by a newly acquired taste for rock 'n' roll, motorbikes and the 'get down boys' seen at gigs in and around Cleveland - Mitch Ryder, the Jeff Beck Group, the Velvet Underground and David Bowie among the many. Wrapped up in the Kent State University riots an...
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    21,25 €

  • 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 €

  • MASTERING THE ART OF SOVIET COOKING
    MASTERING THE ART OF SOVIET COOKING
    ANYA VON BREMZEN
    Born in a surreal Moscow communal apartment where eighteen families shared one kitchen, Anya von Bremzen grew up singing odes to Lenin, black-marketeering Juicy Fruit gum at school, and longing for a taste of the mythical West. It was a life by turns absurd, drab, naively joyous, melancholy and, finally, intolerable. In 1974, when Anya was ten, she and her mother fled to the US...
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    19,99 €

  • COLUMBUS
    COLUMBUS
    LAURENCE BERGREEN
    He knew nothing of celestial navigation or of the existence of the Pacific Ocean. He was a self-promoting and ambitious entrepreneur. His maps were a hybrid of fantasy and delusion. When he did make land, he enslaved the populace he found, encouraged genocide, and polluted relations between peoples. He ended his career in near lunacy. But Columbus had one asset that made all th...
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  • 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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  • 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 €

  • MY ROMAN YEAR
    MY ROMAN YEAR
    ANDRÉ ACIMAN
    "In Roman Year, André Aciman captures the period of his adolescence that began when he and his family first set foot in Rome, after being expelled from Egypt. Though Aciman's family had been well-off in Alexandria, all vestiges of their status vanished when they fled, and the author, his younger brother, and his deaf mother moved into a rented apartment (eventually revealed to ...
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  • RECKLESS
    RECKLESS
    MIKE ROTHMILLER / DOUGLAS THOMPSON
    Drawing on new interviews and previously hidden police and intelligence files, Reckless finally reveals the full corruption of America's Camelot.For a time, John F. Kennedy ran the US and the world like a player with loaded dice. All his life, he expected to be serviced. For most, sex is an optional side order; for JFK, it was demanded: a manifestation of his majesty, his power...
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    12,50 €

  • I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS
    I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS
    MAYA ANGELOU
    Maya Angelou's phenomenal seven volume autobiography is now available on the Virago Modern Classics list.[Bokinfo]. ...
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    13,75 €

  • 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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  • 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 €

  • PATHEMATA
    PATHEMATA
    MAGGIE NELSON
    It's not the dream that matters, it's the telling of the dream - the words you choose, the risks you take in externalising your mind This is a dreamlike portrait of a body in struggle to connect with itself and others. As the narrator contends with chronic pain, and with a pandemic raging in the background, she sets out to examine the literal and symbolic role of the mouth in ...
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  • TROTSKY
    TROTSKY
    ROBERT SERVICE
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    21,25 €

  • STALIN
    STALIN
    ROBERT SERVICE
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    21,25 €

  • CATHERINE, THE PRINCESS OF WALES
    CATHERINE, THE PRINCESS OF WALES
    ROBERT JOBSON
    From the Sunday Times bestselling author and Royal correspondent, Robert Jobson - with his extensive connections within the royal household - this dynamic biography tells the full story of how Catherine, the Princess of Wales, became the woman she is today. Kate Middleton's life's story seems like a modern-day fairy-tale. An attractive, clever, and ambitious girl from unexcepti...
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    21,25 €

  • CARELESS PEOPLE
    CARELESS PEOPLE
    SARAH WYNN-WILLIAMS
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  • WALDEN
    WALDEN
    HENRY DAVID THOREAU
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  • SEASON OF THE SWAMP
    SEASON OF THE SWAMP
    YURI HERRERA
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    18,75 €

  • NOTES ON BEING A MAN
    NOTES ON BEING A MAN
    SCOTT GALLOWAY
    Bestselling author, NYU professor, and cohost of the Pivot podcast, Scott Galloway offers a path forward for men and parents of boys. Boys and men are in crisis. Rarely has a cohort fallen further and faster than young men living in Western democracies. Boys are less likely to graduate from high school or college than girls. One in seven men reports having no friends, and me...
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    21,25 €

  • VAGABOND
    VAGABOND
    TIM CURRY
    The outrageous, riotous memoir from the cult actor and star of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Clue and IT. Actor, rock 'n' roll singer, the prince of Halloween, confusing sex symbol. Many labels have been given to the inimitable Tim Curry over the years. All are true, and yet none are quite right. Here, for the first time, Curry reveals the raucous and true story of the man w...
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    31,25 €

  • PAUL WELLER: DANCING THROUGH THE FIRE: THE AUTHORISED ORAL HISTORY
    PAUL WELLER: DANCING THROUGH THE FIRE: THE AUTHORISED ORAL HISTORY
    DAN JENNINGS
    Across musical history, certain artists have transcended their craft to become cultural icons, leaving an indelible mark on the world of sound and style. Paul Weller, the legendary British musician, singer and songwriter, stands among the select few whose influence spans generations. His enduring popularity, traversing the explosive energy of The Jam to the sophisticated sounds...
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    23,75 €

  • 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 €