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Lives in Writing(2015) LODGE, DAVIDA collection of essays on writers and writing by the Booker-shortlisted novelist and critic. Writing about real lives takes various forms, which overlap and may be combined with each other: biography, autobiography, biographical criticism, biographicalVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Black Prince of Florence(2017) FLETCHER, CATHERINE‘A spectacular, elegant, brilliant portrait of skulduggery, murder and sex in Renaissance Florence’ Simon Sebag Montefiore, Evening Standard, Books of the Year 1531 – after years of brutal war and political intrigue, the bastard son of a Medici Duke and aVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Emperor Who Never Was(2020) GANDHI, SUPRIYADara Shukoh was the heir-apparent to the Mughal throne in 1659, when he was executed by his brother Aurangzeb. Today Dara is lionized in South Asia, while Aurangzeb, who presided over the beginnings of imperial disintegration, is scorned. Supriya Gandhi’sVezava: Trda45,40 € -
Fortunes of Francis Barber(2021) BUNDOCK, MICHAELThe story of the extraordinary relationship between a former slave and England’s most distinguished man of lettersVezava: Mehka22,80 € -
Marie-Antoinette(2021) HARDMAN, JOHNA new look which fundamentally overturns our understanding of this famously “out of touch” queenVezava: Mehka24,70 € -
Edward the Confessor(2021) LICENCE, TOMAn authoritative life of Edward the Confessor, the monarch whose death sparked the invasion of 1066Vezava: Mehka21,61 € -
Idi Amin(2021) LEOPOLD, MARKThe first serious full-length biography of modern Africa’s most famous dictatorVezava: Mehka24,70 € -
Vast Conspiracy(2020) TOOBIN, JEFFREYThe International Bestseller The inspiration for Impeachment: American Crime Story The definitive account of the Clinton-Lewinsky sex scandals, A Vast Conspiracy casts an insightful eye over the extraordinary ordeal that nearVezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Henri Matisse(2014) SOOKE, ALASTAIR'One January morning in 1941, only a fortnight or so after his seventy-first birthday, the bearded and bespectacled French artist Henri Matisse was lying in a hospital bed preparing to die.' Diagnosed with cancer, the acclaimed painter, and rival of PicasVezava: Mehka12,61 € -
Sacred Willow(2017) ELLIOTT, MAITied in to Ken Burns' forthcoming (2017) TV series on Vietnam, to which the author is a major contributor, the reissue of a Pulitzer finalist memoir of a Vietnamese family in the 20th centuryVezava: Mehka28,03 € -
Conservative Revolutionary(2019) HAYTON, DAVIDA biography of the historian and public intellectual Sir Lewis Namier from his origins in a secular Jewish family in Poland to recognition as the most important historian of his day, whose ‘revolutionary’ method was enshrined in the verb to Namierise. --Vezava: Trda53,46 € -
Book of Pride(2019) FUNK, MASONTHE BOOK OF PRIDE captures the true story of the gay rights movement from the 1960s to the present, through richly detailed, stunning interviews with the leaders, activists, and ordinary people who witnessed the movement and made it happen.Vezava: Mehka28,04 € -
Girl Named Carrie(2022) SMITH, JERRIE MARCUSJerrie Marcus Smith remembers her great aunt Carrie as a humourless woman who always wore black and who, Jerrie says, ‘scared me to death’. Only as an adult did Jerrie grasp the impact of Carrie Marcus Neiman. Along with her brother, Herbert Marcus Sr, anVezava: Trda44,25 € -
Best Seat in the House(2022) NICKLAUS II, JACK,YAEGER, DONJack Nicklaus II shares stories, insights, and lessons he’s learned from his father, the Golden Bear, that will delight golf fans of all ages, encourage fathers, and inspire us to focus on what’s most important in life: family.Vezava: Mehka24,94 € -
Franz Kafka(2022) KILCHER, ANDREAS,SCHMIDT, PAVELThe first book to publish the entirety of Franz Kafka’s graphic output, including more than 100 newly discovered drawingsVezava: Trda66,53 € -
Schoolmaster's War(2021) REE, JONATHANThe wartime adventures of the legendary SOE agent Harry Rée, told in his own wordsVezava: Mehka22,80 €
