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Since childhood, Emily Clements' sense of self had always been shaped by the opinions of others and the need to be liked. When a stand-off with her best friend sees nineteen-year-old Emily stranded in Vietnam, she is alone for the first time and adrift in a new environment. With seemingly nothing to lose, she makes the biggest decision of her life - to stay. But Emily's attempts to bridge a yawning loneliness spur a downward spiral of recklessness, as she hurtles from one sexual encounter to the next. It will take a truly terrifying experience for her to understand that sex is both a...
Since childhood, Emily Clements' sense of self had always been shaped by the opinions of others and the need to be liked. When a stand-off with ...
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84,35 zł |
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The Existential Englishman is both a memoir and an intimate portrait of Paris - a city that can enchant, exhilarate and exasperate in equal measure. As Peppiatt remarks: 'You reflect and become the city just as the city reflects and becomes you'. This, then, is one man's not uncritical love letter to Paris. Intensely personal, candid and entertaining, The Existential Englishman chronicles Peppiatt's relationship with Paris in a series of vignettes structured around the half-dozen addresses he called home as a plucky young art critic. Having survived the tumultuous riots of 1968, Peppiatt...
The Existential Englishman is both a memoir and an intimate portrait of Paris - a city that can enchant, exhilarate and exasperate in equal measure. ...
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73,66 zł |
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Salt On Your Tongue: Women and the Sea
ISBN: 9781786891211 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'An ode to the ocean, and the generations of women drawn to the waves or left waiting on the shore' Guardian In Salt On Your Tongue, Charlotte Runcie explores what the sea means to us, and particularly what it has meant to women through the ages. In mesmerising prose, she explores how the sea has inspired, fascinated and terrified us, and how she herself fell in love with the deep blue. This book is a walk on the beach with Turner, with Shakespeare, with the Romantic Poets and shanty-singers. It's an ode to our oceans - to the sailors who brave their treacherous waters, to the women...
'An ode to the ocean, and the generations of women drawn to the waves or left waiting on the shore' Guardian In Salt On Your Tongue, Charlotte Run...
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61,80 zł |
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Running Free: Breaking Out from Locked-in Syndrome
ISBN: 9781472275790 / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Can you imagine being trapped inside your own body? Able to see and hear everything going on around you but unable to move or speak - the blink of an eye your only way of communicating. Fell-runner and fun-loving mother-of-three Kate Allatt's life was torn apart when what appeared to be a stress-related headache exploded into a massive brainstem stroke leading to locked-in syndrome. Totally paralysed, she became a prisoner inside her own body. Doctors warned her family she would never walk, talk or swallow or lead a normal life again. But they didn't know Kate. The words...
Can you imagine being trapped inside your own body? Able to see and hear everything going on around you but unable to move or speak - the blink of...
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82,55 zł |
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Marram: Memories of Sea and Spider Silk
ISBN: 9781913207106 / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Seven years after her mother's death, Leonie Charlton is still gripped by memories of their fraught relationship. In May 2017, Leonie trekked through the Outer Hebrides in the company of a friend and their Highland Ponies in search of closure.
Seven years after her mother's death, Leonie Charlton is still gripped by memories of their fraught relationship. In May 2017, Leonie trekked through ...
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73,05 zł |
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The State of Disbelief: A story of death, love and forgetting
ISBN: 9781780723792 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A revelatory book about death and mourning by a psychotherapist faced with sudden bereavement. When Juliet Rosenfeld's husband dies of lung cancer only seven months into their marriage, everything she has learnt about death as a psychotherapist is turned on its head. As she attempts to navigate her way through her own devastating experience of loss, Rosenfeld turns to her battered copy of Freud's seminal essay 'Mourning and Melancholia'. Inspired by the distinction Freud draws between the savage trauma of loss that occurs at the moment of death - grief - and the longer, unpredictable...
A revelatory book about death and mourning by a psychotherapist faced with sudden bereavement. When Juliet Rosenfeld's husband dies of lung cancer ...
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73,66 zł |
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Raw Speed - The Autobiography of the Three-Times World Speedway Champion
ISBN: 9781786062789 / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Double Speedway World Champion and former captain of the Great British speedway team, Tai Woffinden is one of the sport's biggest stars.
Double Speedway World Champion and former captain of the Great British speedway team, Tai Woffinden is one of the sport's biggest stars.
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95,54 zł |
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Into the Fire: My Life as a London Firefighter
ISBN: 9780552175463 / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ___________________'Deeply personal and blisteringly powerful.' Tom Marcus, author of SOLDIER SPYThe incredible true story of life as a London firefighter. What is it really like to be a firefighter?
___________________'Deeply personal and blisteringly powerful.' Tom Marcus, author of SOLDIER SPYThe incredible true story of life as a London firefig...
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56,19 zł |
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21st-Century Yokel
ISBN: 9781783527397 / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. From the Sunday Times bestselling author comes this unique blend of nature writing and memoir: longlisted for the Wainwright Prize 2018
From the Sunday Times bestselling author comes this unique blend of nature writing and memoir: longlisted for the Wainwright Prize 2018
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61,80 zł |
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The Girl in the Shadows: My Life in a Cult
ISBN: 9780552174893 / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Her father was the deluded and cruel leader of a cult based in South London who brainwashed those around him.Her father's paranoia and his need to completely control others led to Katy being imprisoned indoors and denied any kind of love or friendship.
Her father was the deluded and cruel leader of a cult based in South London who brainwashed those around him.Her father's paranoia and his need to com...
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50,56 zł |
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In Your Defence: True Stories of Life and Law
ISBN: 9781784163082 / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With remarkable candour, Sarah describes eleven cases which reveal what goes on in our criminal and family courts: these are tales of domestic fall out, everyday burglary, sexual indiscretion, and children caught up in the law.
With remarkable candour, Sarah describes eleven cases which reveal what goes on in our criminal and family courts: these are tales of domestic fall o...
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61,80 zł |
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For Freddie: A Mother's Final Gift to Her Son
ISBN: 9781789291322 / Twarda / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Part memoir, part love letter to her son, this is the inspirational book from the founder of You, Me & the Big C podcast, Rachael Bland.
Part memoir, part love letter to her son, this is the inspirational book from the founder of You, Me & the Big C podcast, Rachael Bland.
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95,54 zł |
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The Last Footman
ISBN: 9781843517658 / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the summer of 1964, twenty-one-year-old Gillies MacBain arrives in Dublin off the ferry from England with only his bicycle, a suitcase and a tent to his name. Young, handsome and charismatic, he begins work as a footman in one of the houses of the `dying aristocracy'. Thus begins his foray into the upper echelons of Irish society.
In the summer of 1964, twenty-one-year-old Gillies MacBain arrives in Dublin off the ferry from England with only his bicycle, a suitcase and a tent t...
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101,21 zł |
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Just One More Question: Stories from a Life in Neurology
ISBN: 9780241985380 / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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56,19 zł |
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Spies and Stars: MI5, Showbusiness and Me
ISBN: 9781526608802 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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56,19 zł |
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Autumn Light: Japan's Season of Fire and Farewells
ISBN: 9781526611468 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We cherish things, Japan has always known, precisely because they cannot last; it's their frailty that adds sweetness to their beauty. Returning to his home in Japan after his father-in-law's sudden death, Pico Iyer soon picks up the steadying patterns of his everyday rites: going to the post office in the day and engaging in spirited games of ping-pong in the evenings. But in a country whose calendar is marked with occasions honouring the dead, he soon finds himself grappling with the question we all have to live with: how to hold on to the things we love even though we know that they -...
We cherish things, Japan has always known, precisely because they cannot last; it's their frailty that adds sweetness to their beauty. Returning ...
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50,98 zł |
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A FORCE TO RECKON WITH!: THE VIRTUE OF A
ISBN: 9781532095993 / Miękka / 146 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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76,39 zł |
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The Shadow of His Wings: A Graphic Biography of Fr. Gereon Goldmann
ISBN: 9781621640714 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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70,88 zł |
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'The book is meant to spread joy, personal acceptance, and most of all understanding. Each of us is living our own private journey, and the more we know about each other, the healthier and happier the world will be.' Growing up gay in a traditional South Asian family in South Yorkshire, Tan France could never have imagined he'd become part of a worldwide phenomenon. One of the few people of colour at his school, he experienced racist bullies, found solace at his grandad's denim factory and eventually discovered his true calling at fashion college. Told...
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'The book is meant to spread joy, personal acceptance, and most of all understanding. Each of us is living our own pr...
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56,19 zł |
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A Killer's Confession: How I Brought My Daughter's Murderer to Justice
ISBN: 9781472266668 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A mother's fight to bring her daughter's killer, Christopher Halliwell, to justice 'I have lived every parent's worst nightmare. On what would have been my daughter's 29th birthday, Detective Superintendent Stephen Fulcher knocked on the door and told me my beautiful Becky was dead. Found buried in a shallow grave in a remote field, Becky had been brutally murdered.' When Becky Godden-Edwards was killed, her mother Karen awoke to a world where the truth was never guaranteed; where taxi driver Christopher Halliwell got away with murder and the police officer who found her daughter was...
A mother's fight to bring her daughter's killer, Christopher Halliwell, to justice 'I have lived every parent's worst nightmare. On what would have...
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45,31 zł |
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