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The Professor and the Parson: A Story of Desire, Deceit and Defrocking
ISBN: 9781788162128 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'I embarrassed myself by uncontrollable guffaws ... This is a truly wonderful story' A. N. Wilson, Spectator 'A white-knuckle roller-coaster ride of fibs and frauds' Sunday Telegraph 'An utterly mad, and wholly delightful story of chicanery and fantasy' Simon Winchester One day in November 1958, the celebrated historian Hugh Trevor-Roper received a curious letter. It was an appeal for help, written on behalf of a student at Magdalen College, with the unlikely claim that he was being persecuted by the Bishop of Oxford. Curiosity piqued, Trevor-Roper agreed to a meeting. It was to be...
'I embarrassed myself by uncontrollable guffaws ... This is a truly wonderful story' A. N. Wilson, Spectator 'A white-knuckle roller-coaster ride ...
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46,53 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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56,87 zł |
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The Ginger Child: On Family, Loss and Adoption
ISBN: 9781786497260 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A raw and heart-wrenching literary memoir about a queer couple's attempt to adopt a child. But would you take a ginger child? a social worker asks Patrick Flanery as he and his husband embark on their four-year odyssey of trying to adopt. This curious question comes to haunt the journey, which Flanery recounts with startling candour as he explores what it means to make a family as a queer couple, to be an outsider in a foreign country, to grapple with the inheritance of intergenerational loss, and to discover that the emotions we feel are sometimes as mysterious to ourselves as to others. ...
A raw and heart-wrenching literary memoir about a queer couple's attempt to adopt a child. But would you take a ginger child? a social worker asks ...
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51,70 zł |
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Flash Count Diary: A New Story About the Menopause
ISBN: 9781786898128 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Menopause hit Darcey Steinke hard. First came hot flushes. Then insomnia. Then depression. As she struggled to understand what was happening to her, she slammed up against a culture of silence and sexism. Some promoted hormone replacement therapy, others encouraged acceptance, but there was little that offered a path to understanding menopause in an engaged way. Flash Count Diary is a powerful exploration into aspects of menopause that have rarely been written about. It is a deeply feminist book, honest about the intimations of mortality that menopause signals but also an argument for the...
Menopause hit Darcey Steinke hard. First came hot flushes. Then insomnia. Then depression. As she struggled to understand what was happening to her, s...
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51,70 zł |
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Tell Me Who I Am: The Story Behind the Netflix Documentary
ISBN: 9781529362176 / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The story behind the Netflix documentary: The bestselling account of the bond between brothers and the shocking legacy of a dangerous mother
The story behind the Netflix documentary: The bestselling account of the bond between brothers and the shocking legacy of a dangerous mother
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56,87 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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51,70 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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67,22 zł |
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There Will Be No Miracles Here: A memoir from the dark side of the American Dream
ISBN: 9781788161978 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Casey Gerald's story begins at the end of the world: on New Year's Eve 1999, Casey gathers with the congregation of his grandfather's black evangelical church to witness the rapture. The journey that follows is a beautiful and moving story of a young man learning to question the dreams of success and prosperity that are the foundation of modern America. Growing up gay in an ordinary black neighbourhood in Dallas, his parents struggling with mental health problems and addiction, Casey finds himself on a remarkable path to a prestigious Ivy League college, to the inner sanctums of power on...
Casey Gerald's story begins at the end of the world: on New Year's Eve 1999, Casey gathers with the congregation of his grandfather's black evangelica...
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51,70 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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77,56 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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41,35 zł |
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The Grassling
ISBN: 9780141989624 / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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56,87 zł |
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The Bad Room: Held Captive and Abused by My Evil Carer. a True Story of Survival.
ISBN: 9780008388959 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. After years of physical and mental abuse, Jade thought her kindly foster mother would be the answer to her prayers. She was wrong ... this is her staggering true story. 'This must be what prison is like,' I thought as another hour crawled by. In fact, prison would be better ... at least you knew your sentence. You could tick off the days until you got out. In the Bad Room we had no idea how long we'd serve. After years of constant abuse, Jade thought her foster mother Linda Black would be the answer to her prayers. Loving and nurturing, she offered ten-year-old...
After years of physical and mental abuse, Jade thought her kindly foster mother would be the answer to her prayers. She was wrong ... this is her stag...
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41,35 zł |
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'BREATHTAKING' Dolly Alderton, 'REMARKABLE' Marian Keyes, 'LIFE-CHANGING' Emma Jane Unsworth, 'COMPELLING' Amy Liptrot, 'EXTRAORDINARY' Sali Hughes To everyone else, Terri White appeared to be living the dream, named one of Folio's Top Women in US Media and accruing further awards for the magazines she was editing. In reality, she was rapidly skidding towards a mental health crisis that would land her in a locked psychiatric ward as her past caught up with her. As well as growing up in a household in poverty, Terri endured sexual and physical abuse at the hands of a number of her...
'BREATHTAKING' Dolly Alderton, 'REMARKABLE' Marian Keyes, 'LIFE-CHANGING' Emma Jane Unsworth, 'COMPELLING' Amy Liptrot, 'EXTRAORDINARY' Sali Hughes ...
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77,56 zł |
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Clean: A remarkable walk along the cliff edge of life *2020 winner of the Christopher Bland Prize*
ISBN: 9781780724904 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ***2020 winner of the Christopher Bland Prize*** "Beautifully crafted and written, filled with darkness and light, compelling... She fights addiction with honesty and humour. And, like her, [we] come away changed forever." Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, RSL Christopher Bland Prize When Michele Kirsch's father is killed in a train crash, her mother gets the vapours and Michele gets extremely nervous. By her mid-teens, she has found salvation in valium. Her favourite words on the prescription sheet are "Take As Needed", which she interprets as Take All The Time. Later, as a wife and mother,...
***2020 winner of the Christopher Bland Prize*** "Beautifully crafted and written, filled with darkness and light, compelling... She fights addicti...
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46,53 zł |
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Dancing with the Octopus: The Telling of a True Crime
ISBN: 9781788165167 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Extraordinary' Kate Mosse 'Electric' Lemn Sissay 'Searing' Julia Samuel One Omaha winter day in 1978, when Debora Harding was just fourteen, she was abducted at knife-point, thrown into a van, assaulted, held for ransom, and left to die. But what if this wasn't the most traumatic, defining event in her childhood? Undertaking a radical project, Debora Harding dexterously shifts between the past and present to unravel her story. From the immediate aftermath to the possibility of restorative justice twenty years later, Dancing with the Octopus lays bare the social and political...
'Extraordinary' Kate Mosse 'Electric' Lemn Sissay 'Searing' Julia Samuel One Omaha winter day in 1978, when Debora Harding was just fourtee...
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87,92 zł |
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Confessions of a Stratcom Hitman
ISBN: 9781431429622 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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87,71 zł |
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Chemical Warrior: Syria, Salisbury and Saving Lives at War
ISBN: 9781472274540 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. GRIPPING, MOVING AND INSPIRING: the remarkable life of a world-leading expert in chemical weapons defence. "His work has saved lives and given hope." - Professor David Nott, bestselling author of War Doctor For thirty years, Hamish has served and volunteered in conflict zones around the world. As the army's foremost chemical weapons expert, he built a unique first-hand understanding of how to prevent attacks and train doctors on the frontline - saving countless lives in the process. After suffering near-death experiences time and again, Hamish discovered he had a ticking time bomb...
GRIPPING, MOVING AND INSPIRING: the remarkable life of a world-leading expert in chemical weapons defence. "His work has saved lives and given hop...
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103,48 zł |
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The Fear Talking: The True Story of a Young Man and Anxiety
ISBN: 9781909954441 / Miękka / 346 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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51,70 zł |
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Rag and Bone: A History of What We've Thrown Away
ISBN: 9781473663985 / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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67,22 zł |
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Mummy, Please Don’t Leave
ISBN: 9780008375638 / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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56,87 zł |
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