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Socialist Defector(2019) GROSSMAN, VICTORCircumstances impelled Victor Grossman, a U.S. Army draftee stationed in Europe, to flee a military prison sentence: especially the icy pressures of the McCarthy Era. Grossman – a.k.a. Steve Wechsler, a committed leftist since his years at Harvard and, brVezava: Mehka29,33 € -
Quarantine Comix(2021) SMITH, RACHAELAn award-winning graphic memoir of lockdown life, Quarantine Comix is a funny, tender, heartfelt and insightful look at isolation.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Mirror for Monkeys(2021) SPURLING, JOHNThrough the prisms of memory and art, award-winning author John Spurling reimagines the tumultuous period of the Glorious Revolution and brings to life historical figures Dryden, Vanbrugh, Swift, Pope and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu as never before.Vezava: Trda18,17 € -
Dear Senthuran(2022) EMEZI, AKWAEKE'Unlike anything I've read . ' New York TimesIn letters addressed to their friends, to members of their family - both biological and chosen - and to fellow storytellers, Akwaeke describes the shape of a life lived in overlapping realities.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Other Colours(2015) PAMUK, ORHANA collection of immediate relevance and timeless value, ranging from lyrical autobiography to criticism of literature and culture, from humour to political analysis, from delicate evocations of Pamuk's friendship with his daughter Ruya to provocative discVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Roy Lancaster(2017) LANCASTER, ROYCelebrated plantsman Roy Lancaster's chance find of a Mexican tobacco plant in a local allotment sowed the seeds of his future career. In this, the story of his life with plants, we hear about his experiences at home and abroad and the plants, insects, biVezava: Trda35,05 € -
Celibacy, A Love Story(2019) BULL, MIMIMimi Bull grew up secure and happy in the love of family, friends, and neighbors, never questioning the unusual circumstances that caused her to be adopted in the late 1930s by an older woman with an adult daughter.Vezava: Mehka17,11 € -
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 € -
Reading With Patrick(2017) KUO, MICHELLEReading with Patrick is the true story of a teacher, a student who lost his way and the redemptive power of books.Vezava: Trda23,82 € -
Last Wilderness(2018) ANSELL, NEILShortlisted for the 2018 Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize, THE LAST WILDERNESS is a hauntingly beautiful memoir on nature and hearing loss, for readers of Macfarlane's THE OLD WAYS or John Lewis-Stempel's THE RUNNING HAREVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
English Library Journey(2022) BEVIS, JOHNA writer and book-lover’s eccentric quest: to obtain a membership card from every library authority in EnglandVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Our Zoo(2015) MOTTERSHEAD, JUNEA wonderfully nostalgic memoir detailing the fascinating lives of the working class family behind the phenomenally successful Chester Zoo.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Not Even This(2021) UNDERWOOD, JACKIn this book-length lyric essay, a father and poet reflects on how the birth of his daughter at a time of global existential crisis inspired him to rediscover the importance of poetry as a form of understanding and living with uncertaintyVezava: Trda24,94 € -
Three Things You Need to Know About Rockets(2018) FOX, JESSICAThis is a book for anyone who has ever thought "What if" - a true story about a woman who dared to follow her dreams...Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Sugar Upon My Lemons(2021) CONYERS, MARIAA memoir about love and loss during the pandemicVezava: Mehka15,43 € -
Thrown Away Child(2017) ALLEN, LOUISEA memoir covering Louise Allen’s abusive childhood in a foster home, how she survived and how she hopes to right old wrongs now by fostering children herself and campaigning for the improvement of foster care services.Vezava: Mehka12,61 €
