Zbirka: Biografije: splošno
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Charlie Chaplin(2015) ACKROYD, PETERThe director holding the camera as well as acting in front of it?Peter Ackroyd's new biography turns the spotlight on Chaplin's life as well as his work, from his humble theatrical beginnings in music halls to winning an honorary Academy Award.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Experience(2001) AMIS, MARTINIn this remarkable work of autobiography, the son of the great comic novelist Kingsley Amis explores his relationship with his father and writes about the various crises of Kingsley's life, including the final one of his death.Vezava: Mehka20,89 € -
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Punkhouse in the Deep South(2021) COMETBUS, AARON,SATTERWHITE, SCOTTTold in personal interviews, this is the collective story of a punk community in an unlikely town and region, a hub of radical counterculture that drew artists and musicians from throughout the conservative South and earned national renown.Vezava: Mehka39,83 € -
Extraordinary Life of Jane Wood Reno(2020) HURCHALLA, GEORGEJournalist, activist, and adventurer, Jane Wood Reno (1913-1992) was one of the most groundbreaking and colourful American women of the twentieth century. Told by her grandson, George Hurchalla, this is an intimate biography of a free thinker who shattereVezava: Trda62,64 € -
Native Realm(2014) MILOSZ, CZESLAWAfter The Second World War, the author was exiled for many years from his home country of Poland. In this book, he evokes that homeland and his years away from it; how it nurtured him and how its divisions and destruction shaped a generation.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Enemies Within(2019) DAVENPORT-HINES, RICHARDWhat pushed Blunt, Burgess, Cairncross, Maclean and Philby into Soviet hands? With access to recently released papers and other neglected documents, this sharp analysis of the intelligence world examines how and why these men and others betrayedVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Famous Women(2001) BOCCACCIO, GIOVANNIGiovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375) devoted his last decades to compiling encyclopedic works in Latin. Among them is Famous Women, the first collection of biographies in Western literature devoted to women. This edition presents the first English translation bVezava: Trda47,68 € -
Landslide(2022) WOLFF, MICHAELThe SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER - now in paperbackVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Breathtaking(2021) CLARKE, RACHELA compassionate, heartbreaking and compelling account of an NHS doctor in the midst of the greatest public health crisis in living memory, with a new introduction from Michael Rosen - now a major TV dramaVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
End to End(2022) JONES, PAULA captivating and beautifully written account of riding Britain's longest place-to-place journey by bike, and its history.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Guns to God(2021) JACKSON, CLAUDThe real-life journey of a hardened drug dealer turned vicar as he finds hope through faith and the power to change.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Heroes(2001) PILGER, JOHNThe heroes of John Pilger's narrative are the many ordinary people he has witnessed coping with their lives in difficult and often brutal conditions: dissidents in the Soviet Union;Vezava: Mehka25,22 € -
Pauline Gower, Pioneering Leader of the Spitfire Women(2022) HILL, ALISONFlying ‘Anything to Anywhere’: the life of pilot Pauline Gower, MBE, who led the women of the Air Transport Auxiliary during WW2Vezava: Trda21,02 € -
Iron Girl in a Velvet Glove(2021) HOLDEN, TRIONAThe first-ever biography of a trailblazing star of yesteryear, 'a colourful tale, full of grit and glamour' (Kate Adie)Vezava: Trda28,26 € -
'You Dirty Old Man!'(2022) CLAYTON, DAVIDThe first definitive biography of one of Britain's most complex actors, Wilfrid BrambellVezava: Trda28,04 € -
Tangled Souls(2022) DISMORE, JANEThe glittering, poignant and sometimes shocking story of the love affair between two members of the Souls, the group of unconventional aristocrats at the heart of late Victorian societyVezava: Trda28,04 € -
Family Betrayal(2021) BURKE, DAVIDThe remarkable story of the Kuczynskis, a family of Soviet spies under cover in BritainVezava: Trda28,04 €
