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Straight from the Heart
BONNIE TYLER'S LONG-AWAITED AUTOBIOGRAPHY
2023 || Paperback || Bonnie Tyler || Veltman Distributie Import Books
You know the name and you can't mistake the voice. Now you can read the incredible story of how a shy, music-loving teenager called Gaynor Hopkins morphed into legendary international superstar Bonnie Tyler and carved out an extraordinary career that is still going strong to this day.
After five decades in the business - during which time she has recorded some of the most iconic songs of all time, travelled the world and performed for royalty and the Pope - Bonnie is sharing her fascinating j...
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The Salt Path
The 85-Week Sunday Times Bestseller from the Million-Copy Bestselling Author
2019 || Paperback || Raynor Winn || Veltman Distributie Import Books
The author and her husband lost their home as a terminal diagnosis took away their future, embarking on the 630 mile South West Coast Path - an experience reflected on in this memoir which emphasises the restorative powers of nature.
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I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki
the bestselling South Korean therapy memoir
2023 || Paperback || Baek Sehee || Veltman Distributie Import Books
THE PHENOMENAL KOREAN BESTSELLER, OVER 100,000 COPIES SOLD IN HARDBACK
TRANSLATED BY INTERNATIONAL BOOKER SHORTLISTEE ANTON HUR
'Will strike a chord with anyone who feels that their public life is at odds with how they really feel inside.' Red
PSYCHIATRIST: So how can I help you?
ME: I don't know, I'm - what's the word - depressed? Do I have to go into detail?
Baek Sehee is a successful young social media director at a publishing house when she begins seeing a psychiatrist about her - what ...
Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing
'Funny, fascinating and compelling' The Times
2024 || Paperback || Matthew Perry || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'There's never been a more honest or raw memoir ... and it may just save lives' Daily Mail
'Funny, fascinating, compelling ... also a wonderful read for fans of Friends' The Times
The beloved star of Friends takes us behind the scenes of the hit sitcom and his struggles with addiction in this candid, funny, and revelatory memoir that delivers a powerful message of hope and persistence.
This is the riveting story of acclaimed actor Matthew Perry, who takes us along on his journey from childhoo...
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Unstoppable
The Ultimate Biography of Max Verstappen
2023 || Paperback || Mark Hughes || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A definitive and intriguing biography of Max Verstappen, Formula 1's superstar, Lewis Hamilton's great rival, and the winner of the 2021 and 2022 World Drivers' Championships.
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Children Reading for Pleasure in the Digital Age
Mapping Reader Engagement
2021 || Paperback || Natalia Kucirkova e.a. || SAGE
This book explores the ways in which reading for pleasure is changing in the era of globalisation and datafication. Raising the next generation of engaged readers requires knowledge of the enduring characteristics of engagement and markers of quality in books and e-books.
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Frankl, V: Man's Search For Meaning
The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust
2004 || Paperback || Viktor E. Frankl || Vintage Publishing
A prominent Viennese psychiatrist before the war, Viktor Frankl was uniquely able to observe the way that both he and others in Auschwitz coped with the experience. He noticed that it was the men who comforted others and who gave away their last piece of bread who survived the longest.
Research Methodologies in Translation Studies
2014 || Paperback || Gabriela Saldanha e.a. || St Jerome Publishing
As an interdisciplinary area of research, translation studies attracts students and scholars with a wide range of backgrounds, who then need to face the challenge of accounting for a complex object of enquiry that does not adapt itself well to traditional methods in other fields of investigation. This book addresses the needs of such scholars – whether they are students doing research at postgraduate level or more experienced researchers who want to familiarize themselves with methods ...
Hello Everybody!
One Journalist's Search for Truth in the Middle East
2010 || Paperback || Joris Luyendijk || Profile Books Ltd || ook als eBook
In Hello Everybody! a bestseller in his native Holland, Joris Luyendijk tells the story of his five yearsas a reporter in the Middle East. Young and inexperienced but fluent in Arabic, he speaks to stone throwers and soldiers, taxi drivers and professors, victims and aggressors chronicling first-hand experiences of dictatorship, occupation and war. But the more he witnesses, the less he understands and he becomes increasingly aware of the yawning gap between what he sees on the ground and wha...
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Vasilii Maklakov
A Russian liberal between autocracy and revolution 1869-1957
Paperback || Anthony Kröner || Aspekt B.V., Uitgeverij
A question which occupies many people in the West, and not only historians,
is the following: why did liberalism fail in Russia? Had there been no possibility
for a gradual development towards a constitutional monarchy which
many Western countries had shown, though perhaps over a prolonged period
of time?
The author has chosen the life of a well-known lawyer, Vasilii Maklakov, to
show how one person has tried to realize and put into practice the road towards
such a gradual development. Vasili...