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The Storyteller
Tales of Life and Music
2022 || Paperback || Dave Grohl || Veltman Distributie Import Books
The long-awaited autobiography of the legendary Nirvana and Foo Fighters rock star, Dave Grohl
Literary Theory / 2nd edition
An Introduction
2008 || Paperback || Terry Eagleton || Wiley
A quarter of a century on from its original publication, Literary Theory: An Introduction still conjures the subversion, excitement and exoticism that characterized theory through the 1960s and 70s, when it posed an unprecedented challenge to the literary establishment. Eagleton has added a new preface to this anniversary edition to address more recent developments in literary studies, including what he describes as "the growth of a kind of anti-theory", and the idea that literary theory has ...
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Creativity
A Short and Cheerful Guide
2022 || Paperback || John Cleese || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Creativity is usually regarded as a mysterious, rare gift that only a few possess. John Cleese begs to differ, and in this short, immensely practical and often very amusing guide he shows it's a skill that anyone can acquire. Drawing on his lifelong experience as a writer, he shares his insights into the nature of the creative process, and offers advice on how to get your own inventive juices flowing.
'Humorous and practical ... Whether you're hoping to write a novel or paint a masterpiece, y...
Exit Wounds
a Story of Life, Love and Occasional Wars
2024 || Hardcover || Peter Godwin || Canongate Books
Climbing Days
2024 || Paperback || Dorothy Pilley || Canongate Books
A forgotten classic of 1920s mountaineering literature; Dorothy Pilley broke new ground for women in a sport dominated by men with her true account of adventure, endurance and daring
Raising Hare
2024 || Hardcover || Chloe Dalton || Canongate Books
Imagine you could hold a baby hare and bottle-feed it. Imagine that it lived under your roof and lolloped around your bedroom at night, drumming on the duvet cover when it wanted your attention. Imagine that, over two years later, it still ran in from the fields when you called it and snoozed in your house for hours on end. This happened to me.
When lockdown led busy professional Chloe to leave the city and return to the countryside of her childhood, she never expected to find herself custodi...
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Overpaid, Oversexed and Over There
How a Few Skinny Brits with Bad Teeth Rocked America
Paperback || David Hepworth || Veltman Distributie Import Books
The Beatles landing in New York in February 1964 was the opening shot in a cultural revolution nobody predicted. Suddenly the youth of the richest, most powerful nation on earth was trying to emulate the music, manners and the modes of a rainy island that had recently fallen on hard times.
The resulting fusion of American can-do and British fuck-you didn’t just lead to rock and roll’s most resonant music. It ushered in a golden era when a generation of kids born in ration card Britain, wh...
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Technofeudalism
What Killed Capitalism
2023 || Paperback || Yanis Varoufakis || Veltman Distributie Import Books
*A GUARDIAN BEST FORTHCOMING BOOK OF 2023*
The #1 bestselling economist opens our eyes to the new power that is reshaping our lives and the world.
No one noticed when capitalism was ... replaced.
Perhaps we were too distracted by the pandemic, or the endless financial crises, or all those cute cats on TikTok. But under cover of them all, a new and more exploitative system has been taking hold: technofeudalism.
Drawing on stories from Greek Myth and pop culture, from Homer to Mad Men, world-fa...
Full-time Adventurer
A fascinating story about leaving everything behind and the search for ultimate freedom
2024 || Paperback || Tamar Valkenier || Kosmos Uitgevers
Op haar achtentwintigste besloot sterrenchef en recherchepsycholoog Tamar Valkenier afstand te doen van al haar bezittingen en haar veilige leven. Ze koos voor het avontuur. Twee jaar lang fietste ze de wereld rond. Eerst in het 'veilige' Europa en daarna almaar verder. Ze reisde vier maanden door Mongolië met haar paard, kameel en hond en liep 600 kilometer door Jordanië.
Met Miriam Lancewood, bekend van 'Mijn leven in de wildernis' doorkruiste Tamar het hooggebergte van Nieuw-Zeeland, ter...
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Bergplaas
My Story, The relationship between people and nature
Paperback || Irene van Lippe-Biesterfeld || KNNV Uitgeverij || met inkijkexemplaar
In 1998, Princess Irene of The Netherlands bought Bergplaas, a 5000 hectare farm in the heart of the South African Karoo. And so began a highly personal, fifteenyear- long journey during which she embarked on the ambitious plan to return the land to its original pristine habitat and to enable people from around the world to rediscover their reconnection with nature.
Princess Irene writes from the heart, beautifully depicting the harsh climate and conditions of the Karoo's semi-desert while a...