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The House of Hidden Meanings

A Memoir

2024 || Paperback || RuPaul || Veltman Distributie Import Books

From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and personal work to date-a brutally honest, surprisingly poignant, and deeply intimate memoir of growing up Black, poor, and queer in a broken home to discovering the power of performance, found family, and self-acceptance.

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Cold Crematorium

Reporting from the Land of Auschwitz

2024 || Hardcover || Jozsef Debreczeni || Veltman Distributie Import Books

A rediscovered classic of Holocaust literature translated for the first time - from journalist, poet and survivor József Debreczeni

'A timely reminder of man's inhumanity to man'

JUNG CHANG, author of Wild Swans

'Immensely powerful and deeply humane'

KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD, author of My Struggle

'It should be required reading'

JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER, author Everything Is Illuminated

When József Debreczeni arrived in Auschwitz in 1944, had he been selected to go 'left', his life expectancy would ...

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The Trading Game

A Confession

2024 || Paperback || Gary Stevenson || Veltman Distributie Import Books

'Compelling, intensely readable, unsettling. An unforgettable story of greed, financial madness and moral decay' Rory Stewart

'An incredibly important and timely book, very much of its era. The Wolf of Wall Street with a moral compass' Irvine Welsh

'Astonishing, enraging, extremely funny and exquisitely sad - a magnificent exposé of the 'masters of the universe' whose greed imperils us all. I cannot recommend this book highly enough' The Secret Barrister

*An outrageous, white-knuckle journey...

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The Chain

2024 || Paperback || Chimene Suleyman || Veltman Distributie Import Books

In January 2017, Chimene Suleyman was on her way to an abortion clinic in Queens, New York with her boyfriend, the father of her nascent child. It was the last day they would spend together. In an extraordinary sequence of events, Chimene was to discover the truth of her boyfriend's life: that she and many other women had been subtly, poisonously and patiently betrayed.



In this remarkable memoir, she explores how women are duped every day by individuals, but also how society itself a...

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Friendaholic

Confessions of a Friendship Addict

2024 || Paperback || Elizabeth Day || Veltman Distributie Import Books

THE NO.1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

‘Bravely revealing’ BERNADINE EVARISTO

‘Funny, moving, helpful and true, Friendaholic deserves a massive audience’ SATHNAM SANGHERA

‘This book is brilliant’ JO ELVIN

‘Essential reading… admirably candid and well-crafted’ GUARDIAN

As a society, there is a tendency to elevate romantic love. But what about friendships? Aren't they just as – if not more – important? So why is it hard to find the right words to express what these uniquely comp...

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The Book-Makers

A History of the Book in 18 Remarkable Lives

2024 || Hardcover || Adam Smyth || Veltman Distributie Import Books

The Book-Makers is a celebration of 550 years of the printed book, told through the lives of eighteen extraordinary men and women who took the book in radical new directions: printers and binders, publishers and artists, paper-makers and library founders. This is a story of skill, craft, mess, cunning, triumph, improvisation, and error.

Some of these names we know. We meet jobbing printer (and United States Founding Father) Benjamin Franklin. We watch Thomas Cobden-Sanderson conjure books tha...

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Only Say Good Things

Surviving Playboy and finding myself

2024 || Paperback || Crystal Hefner || Veltman Distributie Import Books

I was 21 years old when I found myself on the front stoop of the Playboy Mansion, its ornate front door feeling like a route to success. I want to tell the real story of my time there - the good and the bad, the dark and the light. The story I wish I'd heard as a young woman trying to find my way in the world. Before I showed up at a party, allowed myself to stay, and made the decisions that would shape my life.'

In 2008 the Playboy mansion became Crystal Harris's sanctuary - a shimmering ves...