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Girl From Hockley(2006) DAYUS, KATHLEENA new edition of a wonderful Birmingham working-class childhood. As memorable as William Woodruff's Nab End series.Vezava: Mehka19,62 € -
Love Letters of Dylan Thomas(2014) THOMAS, DYLANFascinating insight into the tempestuous life of one of our great poets through his letters, including those to the two great loves of his life. Featuring a bold new livery in celebration of the Dylan Thomas centenary.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Mallowan’s Memoirs(2010) MALLOWAN, MAXAgatha Christie’s widower’s recollections of his archaeological triumphs and life with Agatha.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Letters written in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark(2009) WOLLSTONECRAFT, MARYLetters written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark (1796) is both an arresting travel book and a personal memoir. In it Wollstonecraft describes the sublime landscape and the events and people she encounters. This edition includes revVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
For Bread Alone(2006) CHOUKRI, MOHAMED,BOWLES, PAULDriven by famine from their home in the Rif, Mohamed's family walks to Tangiers in search of a better life. But things are no better there. Eight of his siblings die of malnutrition and neglect, and one is killed by his father in a fit of rage. This is aVezava: Mehka15,43 € -
Red Sky at Sunrise(2014) LEE, LAURIEPresents a sequence of early recollections, beginning with the dazzling lights and sounds of my first footings on earth in a steep Cotswold valley some three miles long.Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
All Made Up(2012) GALLOWAY, JANICEOne of our greatest contemporary authors writes about sex, school and adolescence in 1970s small-town Scotland.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Lit(2010) KARR, MARYThe long awaited sequel to the beloved and bestselling ‘The Liars’ Club’ and ‘Cherry’ – a memoir about a self-professed ‘blackbelt sinner’s’ descent into the inferno of alcoholism and madness, and her astonishing resurrection.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
One Pair of Hands(2011) DICKENS, MONICAMonica discovered the pleasure of daily banter with the milkman and grocer's boy and the joy of doing an honest day's work, all the while keeping a wry eye on the childish pique of her employers.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Christopher Isherwood Diaries Volume 1(2011) ISHERWOOD, CHRISTOPHERIn 1939, Christopher Isherwood and W H Auden emigrated together to the United States. This title describes Isherwood's search for a new life in California; his work as a screenwriter in Hollywood, his pacifism during World War II and his friendships withVezava: Mehka51,62 € -
Invisible Writing(2005) KOESTLER, ARTHURThe second volume of the remarkable autobiography of Arthur Koestler, author of Darkness at Noon. Taken together, Arthur Koestler's volumes of autobiography constitute an unrivalled study of a twentieth-century life.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Fates Worse Than Death(2013) VONNEGUT, KURTThis is the second volume of Vonnegut’s autobiographical writings – a collage of his own life story, snipped up and stuck down alongside his views on everything from suicidal depression to the future of the planet and Andrew Lloyd Webber. this rare glimpsVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Gig(2009) ARMITAGE, SIMONExplores how music and the muse intertwine in work and in life. This title includes stories, anecdotes, jokes, absurdities, the odd informal homily, pitfalls and pratfalls, and Yorkshire life and death. It is about the dream and reality of what you are, aVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
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Must You Go?(2011) FRASER, LADY ANTONIAA unique testimony to modern literature's most celebrated and enduring marriage.Vezava: Mehka18,21 €