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Manifesto
A rallying cry to never give up from the Booker prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other
Hardcover || Bernardine Evaristo || Veltman Distributie Import Books
The powerful, urgent manifesto on never giving up from Booker prize-winning trailblazer, Bernardine Evaristo
Bernardine Evaristo's 2019 Booker win - the first by a Black woman - was a revolutionary moment both for British culture and for her. After three decades as a trailblazing writer, teacher and activist, she moved from the margins to centre stage, taking her place in the spotlight at last. Her journey was a long one, but she made it, and she made history.
MANIFESTO is Bernardine Evaristo...
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Book of Days
2022 || Hardcover || Patti Smith || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A deeply moving and brilliantly idiosyncratic visual book of days by the National Book Award–winning author of Just Kids and M Train, featuring more than 365 images and reflections that chart Smith’s singular aesthetic—inspired by her wildly popular Instagram.
In 2018, without any plan or agenda for what might happen next, Patti Smith posted her first Instagram photo: her hand with the simple message “Hello Everybody!” Known for shooting with her beloved Land Camera 250, Smith start...
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3 Shades of Blue
Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans & The Lost Empire of Cool
2024 || Hardcover || James Kaplan || Veltman Distributie Import Books
From the New York Times bestseller, the story of jazz, told through the journeys of three towering artists
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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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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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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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The Creative Act
A Way of Being
2023 || Hardcover || Rick Rubin || Veltman Distributie Import Books
From the legendary music producer, a master at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their creativity, comes a beautifully crafted book many years in the making that offers that same deep wisdom to all of us
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...