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Man Ray: The Artist and His Shadows
Arthur LubowCurrent price €20.39Original price €23.99A biography of the elusive but celebrated Dada and Surrealist artist and photographer connecting his Jewish background to his life and art Man Ray ...
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Rest in Pieces: The Curious Fates of Famous Corpses
Bess LovejoyCurrent price €14.10Original price €16.99In the long run, we're all dead. But for some of the most influential figures in history, death marked the start of a new adventure. The famous dec...
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An Event, Perhaps: A Biography of Jacques Derrida
Peter SalmonCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99Who was Jacques Derrida? For some, he is responsible, at least in part, for the contemporary crisis of truth. For the far right, he is one of the a...
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The Lindsays of Balcarres: A Century of an Ancient Scottish Family in Photographs
Ludovic LindsayCurrent price €62.89Original price €73.99The Lindsays of Balcarres began with the rediscovery of some dusty photograph albums at the home of the author's late father in Fife. The wealth of...
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Unmasking Our Leaders
Michael CockerellCurrent price €22.53Original price €26.50Our political leaders spend their careers spinning their images and polishing their achievements; Michael Cockerell has spent his professional life...
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Hume: A Very Short Introduction: A Very Short Introduction
James A. HarrisCurrent price €13.59Original price €15.99David Hume, philosopher, historian, economist, librarian, and essayist, was one of the great figures of the European Enlightenment. Unlike some of ...
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Shoemaker of Dreams: The Autobiography of Salvatore Ferragamo
Salvatore FerragamoCurrent price €24.23Original price €28.50Ladies and gentlemen, the least important part of this book is the life story of an Italian shoemaker. We can all write our autobiography, and if I...
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Margery Kempe: A Mixed Life
Anthony BaleCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99This is a new account of the late-fourteenth-century mystic and pilgrim Margery Kempe. Kempe, who had 14 children, travelled all over Europe and re...
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Speaking East: The Strange and Enchanted Life of Isidore Isou
Andrew HusseyCurrent price €27.63Original price €32.50A vibrant account of both the sensuous cultural scene of postwar Paris and the life of an alluring icon of modern art. Isidore Isou was a young...
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Louis-Ferdinand Céline: Journeys to the Extreme
Damian CataniCurrent price €37.99Original price €39.99Louis-Ferdinand Céline was one of the most innovative novelists of the twentieth century, and his influence both in his native France and beyond re...
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Jean Sibelius: Life, Music, Silence
Daniel M. GrimleyCurrent price €37.99Original price €39.99Few composers have enjoyed such critical acclaim or longevity as Jean Sibelius, who died in 1957 aged 91. Always more than simply a Finnish natio...
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Hearing Beethoven: A Story of Musical Loss and Discovery
Robin WallaceCurrent price €20.39Original price €23.99Were all familiar with the image of a fierce and scowling Beethoven, struggling doggedly to overcome his rapidly progressing deafness. That Beethov...
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Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music
Alex RossCurrent price €18.69Original price €21.99An absolutely masterly work Stephen Fry Alex Ross, renowned author of the international bestseller The Rest Is Noise, reveal...
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Red Knight: The Unauthorised Biography of Sir Keir Starmer
Michael AshcroftCurrent price €22.53Original price €26.50Sir Keir Starmer has played many parts during his life and career. He went from schoolboy socialist to radical lawyer before surprising many by joi...
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Quentin Crisp: The Profession of Being. A Biography
Nigel KellyCurrent price €23.38Original price €27.50English writer and raconteur Quentin Crisp (1908-1999) became a celebrity and gay icon at the age of 60 with the publication and televising of h...
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Cora Du Bois: Anthropologist, Diplomat, Agent
Susan C. SeymourCurrent price €40.49Original price €44.99Although Cora Du Bois began her life in the early twentieth century as a lonely and awkward girl, her intellect and curiosity propelled her into a ...
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The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
Jeff GuinnCurrent price €15.73Original price €18.502018 Edgar Award FinalistBest Fact CrimeA thoroughly readable, thoroughly chilling account of a brilliant con man and his all-too vulnerable prey (...
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