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Romantic Outlaws(2016) GORDON, CHARLOTTE***AS READ ON BBC RADIO 4***NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER'A gripping account of the heartbreaks and triumphs of two of history's most formidable female intellectuals, Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley.Vezava: Mehka16,81 € -
Eminent Hipsters(2014) FAGEN, DONALDPresents an autobiographical portrait that touches on everything from the cultural figures that mattered the most to him as a teenager, to author's years in the late 1960s at Bard College, to an account of a recent tour he made with Boz Scaggs and MichaelVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Flaneuse(2017) ELKIN, LAURENFlaneuse [flanne-euhze], noun, from French. Feminine form of flaneur [flanne-euhr], an idler. In this book, the author defines her as 'a determined resourceful woman keenly attuned to the creative potential of the city, and the liberating possibilities ofVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces(2019) CHABON, MICHAELMichael Chabon, author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Manhood for Amateurs and Moonglow, returns with a collection of heartfelt, humorous and insightful essays on the meaning of fatherhood.Vezava: Mehka12,61 € -
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave(2015) DOUGLASS, FREDERICKAn autobiography of author who was born into slavery in Maryland in 1818. He describes his life as a slave - the cruelty he suffered at the hands of plantation owners; his struggles to educate himself in a world where slaves are deliberately kept ignorantVezava: Mehka12,61 € -
House Full of Daughters(2017) NICOLSON, JULIETIn the nineteenth-century slums of Malaga, the salons of fin-de-siècle Washington DC, an English boarding school during the Second World War, Chelsea in the 1960s, these women emerge for Juliet as people in their own right, but also as part of who she isVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
World I Fell Out Of(2021) REID, MELANIEThe Sunday Times Bestseller From the award-winning writer of The Times Magazine's 'Spinal Column': a deeply moving, darkly funny, inspirational memoirVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Undertaking(1998) LYNCH, THOMASLike all poets, inspired by death, Lynch is, unlike others, also hired to bury the dead or cremate them and to tend to their families in a small Michigan town where he serves as the funeral director. These are essays of rare elegance and grace, full of fiVezava: Mehka22,42 € -
Uncanny Valley(2021) WIENER, ANNA‘Joan Didion at a startup’ Rebecca Solnit ‘Impossibly pleasurable’ Jia Tolentino ‘This is essential reading’ StylistVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
American Duchess(2020) PASTERNAK, ANNA‘A profoundly moving meditation on love, loyalty, and, ultimately, forgiveness’ AMANDA FOREMAN 'Attempts to redress the balance and emphasises Simpson's intelligence, independence and unwillingness to ruin the life of the man she loved’ OBSERVERVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Boy Without Hope(2018) WATSON, CASEYA BOY WITHOUT HOPE is the heart-breaking story of a boy who didn’t know the meaning of love. A history of abuse and neglect has left Miller destined for life’s scrap heap. But in this turbulent story of conflict and struggle, Casey Watson is determined toVezava: Mehka14,01 €
