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  • ONE LIFE
    WINTON, BARBARA
    The book that inspired major motion picture ONE LIFE, starring Sir Anthony Hopkins and Helena Bonham Carter. 'Remarkable' - GuardianSir Nicholas Winton rescued 669 children from Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia at the brink of World War II. Most never saw their parents again; nearly all left behind were murdered.This is his story. In 1938, 29-year-old 'Nicky' cancelled a ski holida...
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    16,25 €

  • ELON MUSK
    VLISMAS, MICHAEL
    A NEW EDITION OF MICHAEL VLISMAS' EYE-OPENING BIOGRAPHY OF ELON MUSK, NOW WITH NEW MATERIAL COVERING THE LATEST IN MUSK'S FAMILY AND BUSINESS LIFEIn 2022 Elon Musk - one of the richest and best-known people on earth - made headlines worldwide with his bid to buy Twitter, and he is often in the news for his entrepreneurial exploits and his controversial tweets. Who is this bound...
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    16,24 €

  • AMERICAN PROMETHEUS
    BIRD, KAI
    ***THE INSPIRATION FOR CHRISTOPHER NOLAN'S NEW FILM OPPENHEIMER***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR NONFICTION'Reads like a thriller, gripping and terrifying' Sunday TimesPhysicist and polymath, as familiar with Hindu scriptures as he was with quantum mechanics, J. Robert Oppenheimer - director of the Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb - ...
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    18,75 €

  • EDUCATED
    WESTOVER, TARA
    THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLER'An amazing story, and truly inspiring. The kind of book everyone will enjoy. IT'S EVEN BETTER THAN YOU'VE HEARD.' - Bill GatesSelected as a book of the year by AMAZON, THE TIMES, SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, NEW YORK TIMES, ECONOMIST, NEW STATESMAN, VOGUE, IRISH TIMES, IRISH EXAMINER and RED MAGAZINE A Book of the Decade, 2010-2020 (Independent)____...
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    15,75 €

  • NEVER FALL DOWN
    MCCORMICK, PATRICIA
    Eleven-year-old Arn is walking through the countryside in Cambodia. His whole town is walking with him. They're walking into one of the most tragic moments of history: the Killing Fields.Music will save him. Hope, luck and kindness will save him. This is his story.Based on the true story of Arn Chorn-Pond, this is an achingly raw and powerful novel about a child of war who beco...
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    12,00 €

  • THE DOUBLE BOND
    ANGIER, CAROLE
    'Meticulous and visionary ... The entwined complexities and contradictions of man and writer are caught in Angier's vastly detailed and intricately layered biography.' TheNew York Times Book ReviewPerhaps the most important writer to emerge from the death camps, Primo Levi spent sixty-five of his sixty-seven years in Turin, Italy, where he worked as a chemist by day and wrote a...
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    61,50 €

  • BLOOD AND WHISKEY : THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JACK DANIEL
    KRASS, PETER
    The first-ever biography of the man who created America's most famous whiskey Born in Lynchburg, Tennessee, in 1850, Jack Daniel became a legendary moonshiner at age 15 before launching a legitimate distillery ten years later. By the time he died in 1911, he was an American legend-and his Old No. 7 Tennessee sipping whiskey was an international sensation, the winner of gold med...
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    23,80 €

  • A PRIVATE SPY
    LE CARRÉ, JOHN
    John le Carre was a defining writer of his time. This enthralling collection letters - written to readers, publishers, film-makers and actors, politicians and public figures - reveals the playfully intelligent and unfailingly eloquent man behind the penname. _____'The symbiosis of author and editor, father and son, has resulted in a brilliant book, le Carre's final masterpiece'...
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    18,50 €

  • EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT LOVE
    ALDERTON, DOLLY
    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER WITH A NEW CHAPTER ON TURNING THIRTY'There is no writer quite like Dolly Alderton working today and very soon the world will know it' Lisa Taddeo, author Three Women'The book we will thrust into our friends' hands. Alderton feels like a best friend and your older sister all rolled into one and her pages wrap around you like a warm hug' Evening Standa...
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    16,00 €

  • A MEMOIR OF MY FORMER SELF A LIFE IN WRITING
    MANTEL, HILARY
    A guide to the mind of one of the great English novelists of the last half-century' Guardian'Like hearing the voice of an old friend' ObserverAs well as her celebrated career as a novelist, Hilary Mantel long contributed to newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from her own life and illuminating the world as she found it. This strand of her writing was an integral part of...
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    20,50 €

  • HIS NAME IS GEORGE FLOYD
    SAMUELS, ROBERT
    *WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN NON-FICTION**Finalist for the National Book Award for Non-fiction*'His Name Is George Floyd is essential for our times.' Ibram X. Kendi, author of How to Be an Antiracist'An intimate, unvarnished and scrupulous account of his life...brilliantly revealing.' NEW YORK TIMESYou know how he died. This is how he lived.Who was George Floyd? What did he...
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    18,75 €

  • THUNDERCLAP
    CUMMING, LAURA
    **SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024****WINNER OF THE WRITERS' PRIZE 2024 NON-FICTION**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 KnightOn the morning of 12 October 1654, a gunpowder explos...
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    19,25 €

  • STORIES I ONLY TELL MY FRIENDS
    LOWE ROB
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    12,60 €

  • CHURCHILL WALKING WITH DESTINY
    ROBERTS,ANDREW
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    22,76 €

  • MOTORCYCLE DIARIES
    GUEVARA, E
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    15,60 €

  • JUAN CARLOS
    PRESTON, P
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    25,20 €

  • GEORGE : A MAGPIE MEMOIR
    HUGHES,FRIEDA
    An Oprah Magazine Book of the Year 2023'A magical, endearing memoir ... the literary romance of the year' Oprah'This book pulses with a defiant wonder at the living world, as wild and unruly as our feathered hero' Polly Morland, author of A Fortunate WomanThen, just in time, before I swung the spade again, I saw, right by the blade and camouflaged by the leaves on the ground, a...
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    17,03 €

  • EXTRAORDINARY LIFE OF AN ORDINARY MAN
    NEWMAN,PAUL
    The raw, candid and critically acclaimed autobiography from one of the greatest icons of the 20th Century, now out in paperbackThe raw, candid, unvarnished memoir of an American icon. In 2008, Paul Newman tasked his best friend with interviewing the people who had shaped his life, in order to create an oral history of it. After hearing and reading what they had to say, Newman d...
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    16,00 €

  • SHAKESPEARE
    BRYSON, BILL
    Bill Bryson's biography of William Shakespeare unravels the superstitions, academic discoveries and myths surrounding the life of our greatest poet and playwright. Ever since he took the theatre of Elizabethan London by storm over 400 years ago, Shakespeare has remained centre stage. His fame stems not only from his plays - performed everywhere from school halls to the world's ...
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    15,48 €

  • REBEL
    MOHAMMED, RAHAF
    'Through her courageous resistance, she has, for a moment, drawn global attention to the ongoing struggle of Saudi women. The striking image of a young woman, wielding nothing but a cellphone, facing down the force of an oppressive government is an apt metaphor for this fraught moment in Saudi Arabia's history.'THE WASHINGTON POST A gripping true story of bravery and sacrifice ...
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    15,48 €

  • PARIS
    HILTON, PARIS
    PARIS: A MILLION MEANINGS IN A SINGLE NAME Heiress. Party girl. Problem child.Selfie taker. Model. Reality star.Self-created. The labels attached to Paris Hilton.Founder. Entrepreneur.Pop Culture Maker. Innovator. Survivor.Activist. Daughter. Sister.Wife. Mother.The roles Paris embraces as a fully realized woman.Paris rose to prominence as an heiress to the Hilton hotel empire ...
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    26,33 €

  • YEARBOOK
    ROGEN, SETH
    THE NEW YORK TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERHi! I'm Seth! I was asked to describe my book, Yearbook, for the inside cover flap (which is a gross phrase) and for websites like this one, so... here it goes!!!Yearbook is a collection of true stories that I desperately hope are just funny at worst, and life-changingly amazing at best. (I understand that it's likely the former, wh...
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    15,48 €

  • NEARER MY FREEDOM
    EDINGER, MONICA
    "Using Olaudah Equiano's autobiography as the source, the text shares Equiano's life story in found verse. Readers will follow his story from his childhood in Africa, enslavement at a young age, liberation, and life as a free man"-...
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    30,40 €

  • SPARE
    PRINCE HARRY THE DUKE OF SUSSEX
    SPARE, the memoir of Prince Harry, The Duke of Sussex, will be published globally on January 10, 2023, by Penguin Random House. It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother's coffin as the world watched in sorrow - and horror. As Diana, Princess of Wales, was laid to rest, billions wondered what the pri...
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    34,75 €

  • SURRENDER
    BONO
    A brilliant, very funny, very revealing autobiography-through-music. Maybe the best book ever written about being a rockstar' CAITLIN MORAN_______________________________________________________________Bono - artist, activist and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2 - has written his autobiography: honest and irreverent, intimate and profound, Surrender is the story of the rem...
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    38,75 €

  • MY NAME IS JASON. MINE TOO. : OUR STORY. OUR WAY.
    REYNOLDS, JASON
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    17,03 €

  • THE ACCIDENTAL FOOTBALLER
    NEVIN, PAT
    ***THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'A heroic outsider - a pleasure to read.' - The Guardian'A fulsome evocation of football before the Premier League.' - The i'Such a good storyteller...joyous.' - Financial Times'Honest, raw, revealing and very funny. How to live a life and career to the full. Insightful book about the most successful outsider inside football ever...' - Henry Winte...
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    15,48 €

  • LEWIS HAMILTON : THE BIOGRAPHY
    WORRALL, FRANK
    The biography of the record-breaking world championAfter equalling Michael Schumacher's records in both race wins, and world titles, in 2020, Lewis Hamilton became the joint-most successful racing driver of all time - and the most dominant and successful Briton ever to drive in Formula 1. Hamilton's debut season in 2007 won him fans around the world, and his place in Formula 1 ...
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    31,00 €

  • LIFE IN A COLD CLIMATE
    THOMPSON,LAURA
    'The book is a gem: fresh, intelligent and assured' Sunday TimesNancy Mitford was, in the words of her sister Lady Diana Mosley, 'very, very complex'. Her biographies and novels, her journalism, and the vast body of letters to her family, friends such as Evelyn Waugh, and to the great love of her life, Gaston Palewski, all tell an intriguing story. Drawing from these, as well a...
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    18,60 €

  • A PROMISED LAND
    OBAMA, BARACK
    The presidential memoirs of Barack Obama, the 44th president of the United States, will be published in two volumes. The first volume, titled A PROMISED LAND, is scheduled for global release on Tuesday, November 17, 2020, and will be issued simultaneously in 25 languages. In his own words, Barack Obama tells in A PROMISED LAND the story of his improbable odyssey from young man ...
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    54,25 €