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This is a charming and fiercely intelligent book, a love letter to Russian literature and an exploration of the answers these writers found to life's questions.
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Author: Viv Groskop Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 224 As Viv Groskop knows from personal experience, everything that has ever happened to a person has already happened in the Russian...
An inspiring, up-close portrait of tending to a honeybee hive-a year of living dangerously-watching and capturing the wondrous, complex universe of honeybees and learning an altogether different way of being in the world.
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Author: Helen Jukes Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 An inspiring, up-close portrait of tending to a honeybee hive-a year of living dangerously-watching and capturing the wondrous, complex universe of...
Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller is a portrait of a country hurtling toward revolution, a feminist rallying cry, and an unapologetic crash course in running a business under the law of entropy.
$12.00$32.99
Author: Nadia Wassef Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 240 The streets of Cairo make strange music. The echoing calls to prayer; the raging insults hurled between drivers; the steady crescendo...
The second instalment of Julie Andrews' internationally bestselling memoirs, begins with her arrival in Hollywood to make her screen debut in Walt Disney's Mary Poppins.
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Author: Julie Andrews Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 HOME WORK, the second instalment of Julie Andrews' internationally bestselling memoirs, begins with her arrival in Hollywood to make her screen...
With the benefit of unrestricted access to family members, close friends and fellow musicians, Philip Norman has created the definitive portrait of this brilliant insecure, often pain-racked man.
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Author: Philip Norman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Eric Clapton is acknowledged to be rock's greatest virtuoso, the unrivalled master of its most essential tool, the solid-body electric guitar....
A feminist exploration of the power of walking in nature, following in the footsteps of Gwen John, Georgia O'Keeffe, Frieda Lawrence, Clara Vyvyan, Simone de Beauvoir, Daphne du Maurier and Nan Shepherd.
$12.00$32.99
Author: Annabel Abbs Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 320 *Wanderlust Magazine's BEST travel books of 2021* 'Should be read by all women and those who love the outdoors.' - Booklist...
Shortlisted For The 2020 Baillie Gifford Prize. London, 1938. Alma Fielding, an ordinary young woman, begins to experience supernatural events in her suburban home.
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Author: Kate Summerscale Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 368 SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2020 BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 'A page-turner with the authority of history' PHILIPPA GREGORY 'As gripping as a novel....
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, a profoundly moving contemplation of the relationship between art and life. After finishing his powerful memoir The Return, Hisham Matar, seeking solace and pleasure, traveled to Siena, Italy.
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Author: Hisham Matar Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 144 From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Return comes a profoundly moving contemplation of the relationship between art and life. NAMED...
An elegant and absorbing tour of Tokyo and its residents. An exploration of Tokyo becomes a meditation not just on time, but on history, memory, and impermanence.
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Author: Anna Sherman Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 352 An elegant and absorbing tour of Tokyo and its residents From 1632 until 1854, Japan's rulers restricted contact with foreign countries,...
A fresh interpretation of the life of Galileo Galilei that sheds new light on his discoveries and how he was challenged by science deniers.
$17.50$45.00
Author: Mario Livio Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 304 A fresh interpretation of the life of Galileo Galilei, one of history's greatest and most fascinating scientists, that sheds new light...
Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best Biography. lively and insightful biographical celebration of the imaginative genius of Charles Dickens.
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Author: A N Wilson Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best Biography A lively and insightful biographical celebration of the imaginative genius of Charles...
From living in a tin-roofed shack north of Dar-es-Salaam to attaining the British Secret Intelligence Service's most senior operational rank, Daphne Park led a highly unusual life.
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Author: Paddy Hayes Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 328 From living in a tin-roofed shack north of Dar-es-Salaam to attaining the British Secret Intelligence Service's most senior operational rank, Daphne...
From one of the world's most renowned cave divers, a firsthand account of exploring the earth's final frontier: the hidden depths of our oceans and the sunken caves inside our planet.
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Author: Jill Heinerth Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 288 From one of the world's most renowned cave divers, a firsthand account of exploring the earth's final frontier: the hidden depths...
In this debut memoir, a James Beard Award-winning writer, whose childhood idea of fine dining was Howard Johnson's, tells how he became one of Paris's most influential food critics.
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Author: Alexander Lobrano Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 256 In this debut memoir, a James Beard Award-winning writer, whose childhood idea of fine dining was Howard Johnson's, tells how he...
From the Edgar-nominated author of the bestselling Mrs. Sherlock Holmes comes the true story of a woman's quest to Africa in the 1900s to find her missing fiance.
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Author: Brad Ricca Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 400 Brad Ricca's Olive MacLeod is my favorite sort of woman from history--bold and unconventional, utterly unsinkable--and her story is so full...
Noted art historian and biographer Sue Roe now tells the story of the Surrealists in Montparnasse.
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Author: Sue Roe Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 "Describes with plenty of colour how surrealism, from Rene Magritte's bowler hats to Salvador Dali's watches, was born and developed." -...
An authoritative, wide-ranging, and incredibly timely history of 1984--its literary sources, its composition by Orwell, its deep and lasting effect on the Cold War, and its vast influence throughout world culture at every level, from high to pop.
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Author: Dorian Lynskey Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 368 "Rich and compelling. . .Lynskey's account of the reach of 1984 is revelatory." --George Packer, The Atlantic An authoritative, wide-ranging, and...
Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award In this long-awaited and candid memoir, Hitchens re-traces the footsteps of his life to date.
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Author: Christopher Hitchens Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award In this long-awaited and candid memoir, Hitchens re-traces the footsteps of his life...
Filled with incident, discovery, and revelation, Dutch Light is a vivid account of Christiaan Huygens's remarkable life and career, but it is also nothing less than the story of the birth of modern science as we know it.
$25.00$49.99
Author: Hugh Aldersey-Williams Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 560 Filled with incident, discovery, and revelation, Dutch Light is a vivid account of Christiaan Huygens's remarkable life and career, but it...
Author: Meryle Secrest Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 320 The never-before-told true account of the design and development of the first desktop computer by the world's most famous high-styled typewriter...
