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What Writers Read
35 Writers on their Favourite Book
2022 || Hardcover || Pandora Sykes || Veltman Distributie Import Books
In this love letter to reading, curated by Pandora Sykes in aid of the National Literacy Trust, bestselling and beloved writers share their favourite books: the ones they hold most dearly, that they return to time and again and that helped make them the writers they are.
WITH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM :
NICK HORNBY * RUTH OZEKI * ANN PATCHETT * BENJAMIN ZEPHANIAH * MARIAN KEYES * ELIZABETH STROUT * DEBORAH LEVY * TESSA HADLEY * ELIF SHAFAK * GEORGE THE POET * LEILA SLIMANI * ALI SMITH * DEREK OWUSU ...
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The Light We Carry
Overcoming In Uncertain Times
2022 || Hardcover || Michelle Obama || Veltman Distributie Import Books
An upcoming title to be published by Penguin Random House UK.
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The Wim Hof Method
Activate Your Potential, Transcend Your Limits
2022 || Paperback || Wim Hof || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'I've never felt so alive' JOE WICKS
'The book will change your life' BEN FOGLE
My hope is to inspire you to retake control of your body and life by unleashing the immense power of the mind.
'The Iceman' Wim Hof shares his remarkable life story and powerful method for supercharging your strength, health and happiness. Refined over forty years and championed by scientists across the globe, you'll learn how to harness three key elements of Cold, Breathing and Mindset to master mind over matter ...
The Carbon Almanac
2022 || Paperback || The Carbon Almanac Network || Penguin
When it comes to the climate, we don't need more marketing or anxiety. We need established facts and a plan for collective action. The climate is the fundamental issue of our time, yet it seems we can barely agree on what is really going on, let alone what needs to be done.
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Shame Machine
Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation
2022 || Paperback || Cathy O'Neil || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A clear-eyed warning about the increasingly destructive influence of America’s “shame industrial complex” in the age of social media and hyperpartisan politics—from the New York Times bestselling author of Weapons of Math Destruction
“O’Neil reminds us that we must resist the urge to judge, belittle, and oversimplify, and instead allow always for complexity and lead always with empathy.”—Dave Eggers, author of The Every
Shame is a powerful and sometimes useful tool: When we pu...
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The Expectation Effect (Heruitgave)
how Your Mindset Can Transform Your Life
2022 || Paperback || David Robson || Canongate Books
People who believe ageing brings wisdom live longer.
Lucky charms really do improve athletic performance.
Taking a placebo, even when you know it is a placebo, can still benefit your health.
Welcome to The Expectation Effect.
David Robson takes us on a tour of the cutting-edge research happening right now that suggests our expectations shape our experience. Of course, you can't just think yourself thinner, happier or fitter, but using this book you can reframe many different facets of your li...
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Please Miss
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis
2022 || Paperback || Grace Lavery || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A memoir of gender transition and recovery from addiction, a dance across genres, a ripping-up of the rulebook, Please Miss is unlike anything you’ve ever read before.
Grace Lavery is a reformed druggie, an unreformed omnisexual chaos Muppet, and a 100 per cent, all-natural, synthetic female hormone monster. How could her story be straightforward when she is anything but? The telling of her tale is kaleidoscopic, wild and audacious: Grace performs in a David Lynch remake of Sunset Boulevard...
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Confidence Man
The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America
2022 || Paperback || Maggie Haberman || De Arbeiderspers
From the Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times reporter who has defined Donald J. Trump’s presidency like no other journalist: a magnificent and disturbing reckoning that chronicles his life and its impact, from his rise in New York City to his tortured postpresidency.
All of Trump’s behavior as president had echoes in what came before. In this revelatory and news-making book, Haberman brings together the events of his life into a single mesmerizing work. It is the definitive account of ...