Autobiography: Literary
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Up from the Depths: Herman Melville, Lewis Mumford, and Rediscovery in Dark Times
Professor Aaron SachsCurrent price €22.53Original price €26.50Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in BiographyA double portrait of two of Americas most influential writers that reveals the surp...
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Mother''s Boy: A Writer''s Beginnings
Howard JacobsonCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50'One of the all-time great memoirs' Daily Telegraph'Wonderful...candid, shrewd and moving' William Boyd'Laugh-out-loud glorious and uproarious' Sim...
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Spílexm: A Weaving of Recovery, Resilience, and Resurgence
Nicola I. CampbellCurrent price €24.23Original price €28.50If the hurt and grief we carry is a woven blanket, it is time to weave ourselves anew.In the Nekepmxcín language, spílxm are remembered stories, of...
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Look at the Lights, My Love
Annie ErnauxCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50A revelatory meditation on class and consumer culture, from 2022 Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux A New Yorker Best of the Week Pick A World Literatur...
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Home Truths: A Memoir
David WilliamsonCurrent price €27.63Original price €32.50The revealing and candid memoir of Australia's legendary playwright and screenwriter The definitive memoir of David Williamson, author of iconic dr...
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Stay: threads, conversations, collaborations
Nick FlynnCurrent price €27.63Original price €32.50Stay brings together nearly thirty years of work (poetry, memoir, essays, interviews, plays, film), in a mixed-media retrospective that shows nothi...
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The Broken House: Growing up Under Hitler The Lost Masterpiece
Horst KrügerCurrent price €13.59Original price €15.99'Exquisitely written... haunting... Few books, I think, capture so well the sense of a life broken for ever by trauma and guilt' Sunday Times 'An ...
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The Year of Magical Thinking (Collins Modern Classics)
Joan DidionCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light ...
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The Illustrated Letters of Virginia Woolf
Frances SpaldingCurrent price €18.69Original price €21.99The moving story of the life and work of novelist Virginia Woolf, revealed through her own letters to those closest to her. The letters - at times...
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Letters around a Garden
Rainer Maria RilkeCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99An intimate glimpse into the life and letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, one of the most important poets of the twentieth century. In July 1921, disp...
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Man Alive: A True Story of Violence, Forgiveness and Becoming a Man
Thomas Page McBeeCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50If he is to become a man, what sort of man should Thomas Page McBee be?To find out, McBee must confront the suffering he has endured at the hands o...
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Dissolve
Nikki GemmellCurrent price €20.39Original price €23.99'Every woman on Earth should read it' Caroline Overington, Weekend AustralianHaving lived through the humiliation and bewildering complexity of hea...
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White Girls
Hilton AlsCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50'I defy you to read this book and come away with a mind unchanged' John Jeremiah Sullivan'Als has a serious claim to be regarded as the next James...
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My Guru and His Disciple
Christopher IsherwoodCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY SIMON CALLOWIn 1939, as Europe approaches war, Isherwood, an instinctive pacifist, travels west to California, seeking a...
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Arrangements in Blue: Notes on Love and Making a Life
Amy KeyCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50'The book I've been waiting for my entire life' DOLLY ALDERTONIs it possible that life without romantic love isn't so bad?When poet Amy Key was gro...
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Thunderclap: A memoir of art and life & sudden death
Laura CummingCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50**SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMENS PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024****WINNER OF THE WRITERS' PRIZE 2024 | NON-FICTION**A beautifully illustrated new memoir of...
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Once Upon a Villa: Adventures on the French Riviera
Andrew KaplanCurrent price €28.89Original price €33.99Current price €28.89Original price €33.99Save 15% -
Hungry Heart: How the food we love shapes our lives: The Times Food Book of the Year
Clare FinneyCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99The Times Food Book of the Year. A soul-searching memoir for foodies everywhere. Let award-winning food writer Clare Finney take you on a passionat...
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Time Come: Selected Prose
Linton Kwesi JohnsonCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50Key to understanding Black British history The Sunday TimesSharp and still relevant Zadie SmithOne of the great poets of modern times, and a deep...
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Learning to Think.: A memoir about hardship, education, hellfire, family, finding a way to break free
Tracy KingCurrent price €18.69Original price €21.99Discover the inspirational coming-of-age memoir about modern poverty in Britain and the liberating power of education.'An astonishing tale, well st...
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An Ode to Darkness
Sigri SandbergCurrent price €16.84Original price €18.50WHEN DID YOU LAST SEE THE STARS?'Look at a satellite image of the Earth. Where it was once as dark as night, it is now lit up like a Christmas tree...
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Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature
Elizabeth WinklerCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50An extraordinarily brilliant and pleasurably naughty (André Aciman) investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting ...
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This Really Isn''t About You
Jean Hannah EdelsteinCurrent price €13.27Original price €15.99A most magnificent, beautifully written memoir - Nina Stibbe'Deft, witty and profound . . . had me turning the pages all night' - Jessie BurtonJean...
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From There to Here: A memoir from the award-winning New Zealand columnist, teacher, and international bestselling author
Joe BennettCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50From Willingdon to Lyttelton, a memoir about love, learning and the journey to thirty Joe Bennett is the author of countless columns, over twenty ...
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Smash Cut: A Memoir of Howard & Art & the ''70s & the ''80s
Brad GoochCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99The author of the acclaimed City Poet returns with a searing memoir of life in 1980s New York City-a colorful and atmospheric tale of wild bohemian...
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The Diaries of Franz Kafka
Franz KafkaCurrent price €27.19Original price €31.99Available for the first time in English, the complete, uncensored diaries of one of the twentieth centurys most influential writers 'The writing gl...
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The Scent of Flowers at Night: a stunning new work of non-fiction from the bestselling author of Lullaby
Leïla SlimaniCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99International bestseller Leïla Slimani's elegant meditation on life and death, art and beauty, translated by Sam Taylor 'A revelation - I have nev...
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Morbidities and The Concept of the New Literature
Clemson University Digital PressCurrent price €105.39Original price €123.99Current price €105.39Original price €123.99Save 15% -
The World of Yesterday: Memoirs of a European
Stefan ZweigCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.50Stefan Zweig's seminal memoir recalls the golden age of pre-war Europe - its seeming permanence, its promise and its devastating fall. Through the ...
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Let Me Tell You What I Mean
Joan DidionCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99Twelve early pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of Joan Didion. ...
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What Language Do I Dream In?: My Family''s Secret History
Elena LappinCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99Elena Lappin's life could be described as 'five languages in search of an author'. She now lives in London, but she was born in Russia and has live...
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Journey from the North: A Memoir
Storm JamesonCurrent price €27.63Original price €32.50After a lifetime of writing a novel every year, Storm Jameson turned to memoir with the ambition 'to write without lying'. The result was an extrao...
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Blue Portugal and Other Essays
Theresa KishkanCurrent price €22.61Original price €25.99Using the richness of braided essays, Theresa Kishkan thinks deeply about the natural world, mourns and celebrates the aging body, gently contests ...
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