Literaire non-fictie algemeen (55)
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Mit dem Rücken zur Wand
Roman nach einer wahren Geschichte
2022 || Paperback || Hera Lind || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Sara ist alleinerziehende Mutter zweier Kinder. Als sie überraschend das Haus ihrer Großmutter erbt, könnte sie aufatmen, wäre da nicht ihr Vater im Nachbarhaus, der ihre Kindheit zur Hölle werden ließ. Er war gewalttätig. Gegen Sara und ihre Mutter. Jahre sind seitdem vergangen, und weil es finanziell eng ist, bezieht Sara mit ihrer Familie das Haus. Doch der Vater nebenan wird wieder zur Gefahr. Diesmal lässt Sara sich seine Attacken aber nicht mehr gefallen. Sie ist erwachsen. Und ...
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A Therapeutic Journey
Lessons from the School of Life
2023 || Paperback || Alain de Botton || Veltman Distributie Import Books
The essential guide to mental health from the bestselling author of The School of Life
This is a book about getting unwell. About losing direction and hope. About imagining that we have let ourselves and everyone down.
But it is also a book about getting better. About regaining the thread, rediscovering meaning and finding a way back to connection and joy.
Here, Alain de Botton follows the arc of a mental health journey, from crisis to recuperation; the moments we realize we cannot cope; the ...
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A Memoir of My Former Self
A Life in Writing
2023 || Paperback || Hilary Mantel || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'I breathed in stories, as soon as I breathed in air. Sometimes I think I wasn't born, but I just came out of an ink blot.'
'Mantel's idiosyncratic and magisterial voice comes through on every page, carrying readers across an astonishing array of subject matter with ease. This is a treasure' Publishers Weekly
As well as her celebrated career as a novelist, Hilary Mantel long contributed to newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from her own life and illuminating the world as she found it...
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Infectious Generosity
The Ultimate Idea Worth Spreading
2023 || Paperback || Chris Anderson || Veltman Distributie Import Books
From the bestselling author, media pioneer, and curator of TED, an inspiring book about one of humankind’s defining but overlooked impulses, and how we can super-charge its potential to build a hopeful future
“I flew through these pages with an increasing sense of joy. I hope that millions read this book.”—Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love
Let’s face it: Recent years have been tough on optimists. Hopes that the Internet might bring people together have been crushed by the...
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This is Europe
The Way We Live Now
2023 || Paperback || Ben Judah || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A portrait of Europe as youve never before seen it, told through twenty extraordinary stories of the people who live and breathe it.
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Untitled
2023 || Paperback || Tim Marshall || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Space: the biggest geopolitical story of the coming century - new from the multi-million-copy bestselling author of Prisoners of Geography
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Madly, Deeply
The Alan Rickman Diaries
2023 || Paperback || Alan Rickman || Veltman Distributie Import Books
ALAN RICKMAN was a world-class actor, as well as a tireless political activist, an avid traveller and a devoted confidant and friend - and now, through his never-before-seen diaries, Rickman invites readers backstage and into his life
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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 ...
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Super-Infinite
The Transformations of John Donne - Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2022
2023 || Paperback || Katherine Rundell || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2022. A standout scholar, a sparkling and very modern biography of John Donne: the poet of love, sex, and death.
'Masterly.' Observer
'Wonderful, joyous.' Maggie O'Farrell
'Frankly brilliant.' Sunday Times
'Unmissable.' Simon Jenkins
'Every page sparkles.' Claire Tomalin
'A triumph.' Matt Haig
'Stylish, scholarly and gripping.' Rose Tremain
John Donne lived myriad lives. Sometime religious outsider and social disaster, sometime celebrity p...
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Why Women Grow
Stories of Soil, Sisterhood and Survival
2024 || Paperback || Alice Vincent || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Twice Wainwright Prize-longlisted author Alice Vincent offers a stunning meditation on why women are drawn to the soil, featuring contributions from Ali Smith, Hazel Gardiner and Cosey Fanni Tutti