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Burning Questions
Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2021
2022 || Hardcover || Margaret Atwood || Veltman Distributie Import Books
In this brilliant selection of essays, the award-winning, best-selling author of The Handmaid's Tale and The Testaments offers her funny, erudite, endlessly curious, and uncannily prescient take on everything from debt and tech to the climate crisis and freedom and the importance of how to define granola—and seeks answers to Burning Questions such as...
• Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories?
• How much of yourself can you give away without evaporating?
• How can we...
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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 Long Song of Tchaikovsky Street
a Russian adventure
Hardcover || Pieter Waterdrinker || Veltman Distributie Import Books
‘History doesn’t repeat itself, it rhymes.’
One day in 1988, an enigmatic priest knocks on Pieter Waterdrinker’s door with an unusual request: will he smuggle seven thousand bibles into the Soviet Union? Pieter agrees, and soon finds himself living in the midst of one of the biggest social and cultural revolutions of our time, working as a tour operator ... with a sideline in contraband.
Thirty years later, from his apartment on Tchaikovsky Street in Saint Petersburg, where he lives w...
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The grannies - Lullabies
Hardcover || Uitgeverij Harlekijn Holland, Soest
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Who's Watching Brussels?
Why the EU Deserves Better Watchdogs
2024 || Hardcover || Lise Witteman || Follow the Money
Hundreds of thousands of euros from alleged bribes stashed in a suitcase. Deleted text messages setting out deals worth billions of euros. There's no shortage of drama in the EU's unofficial capital.
How is this possible? And how do we keep 'Brussels' under control?
These are crucial questions for the fledgling democracy that is the European Union – especially now that leaders with little interest in democratic values are coming to power in a growing number of member states. And the gap be...
Enlivening Instruction with Drama and Improv
A Guide for Second Language and World Language Teachers
2021 || Hardcover || Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor e.a. || Taylor & Francis
This engaging and complete resource has everything you need to bring drama and theatre techniques into the ESL, EFL, or World Language Classroom. Are your students reluctant to speak out in class? Do they lack confidence in their language skills? The dynamic drama games in this book are the perfect catalyst to transform your students into engaged learners, and help them build confidence and language skills. The interactive theatre games and techniques are specifically designed for use in Seco...
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Murakami T
The T-Shirts I Love
Hardcover || Haruki Murakami || Veltman Distributie Import Books
The international literary icon opens his eclectic closet: Here are photographs of Murakami’s extensive and personal T-shirt collection, accompanied by essays that reveal a side of the writer rarely seen by the public.
Considered "the world's most popular cult novelist" (The Guardian), Haruki Murakami has written books that have galvanized millions around the world. Many of his fans know about his 10,000-vinyl-record collection, and his obsession with running, but few have heard about a mo...
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Changing World Order
Why Nations Succeed or Fail
2023 || Hardcover || Ray Dalio || Simon & Schuster
Learning the lessons from the past helps us to understand how we can make the most of the opportunities in the turbulent times ahead
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Supersonic
The Complete, Authorised and Unabridged Interviews
Hardcover || Oasis || Veltman Distributie Import Books
The first-ever authorised book from Oasis, one of the biggest bands on the planet.
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Knife
Meditations After an Attempted Murder
2024 || Hardcover || Salman Rushdie || Veltman Distributie Import Books
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize-winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring a brutal attempt on his life, thirty years after the fatwa that was ordered against him
On the morning of 12 August 2022, Salman Rushdie was standing onstage at the Chautauqua Institution in upstate New York, preparing to give a lecture on the importance of keeping writers safe from harm, when a man in black – black clothes, black mask – rushed down the aisle towards...