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The Twilight World
2022 || Hardcover || Werner Herzog || Veltman Distributie Import Books
The great filmmaker Werner Herzog, in his first novel, tells the incredible story of Hiroo Onoda, a Japanese soldier who defended a small island in the Philippines for twenty-nine years after the end of World War II
In 1997, Werner Herzog was in Tokyo to direct an opera. His hosts asked him, Whom would you like to meet? He replied instantly: Hiroo Onoda. Onoda was a former solider famous for having quixotically defended an island in the Philippines for decades after World War II, unaware the ...
The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain
Lyrics for Stacey Kent
2024 || Hardcover || Kazuo Ishiguro || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Memorably introduced by Ishiguro himself, The Summer We crossed Europe in the Rain collects the sixteen song lyrics he wrote for world-renowned American singer, Stacey Kent, which were set to music by her partner Jim Tomlinson.
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
2023 || Hardcover || Robert Louis Stevenson || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Robert Louis Stevenson's immortal tale of personality and evil, now in a wonderful new clothbound edition
'All human beings, as we meet them, are commingled out of good and evil: and Edward Hyde, alone in the ranks of mankind, was pure evil'
Published as a 'shilling shocker', Robert Louis Stevenson's dark psychological fantasy gave birth to the idea of the split personality. The story of respectable Dr Jekyll's strange association with 'damnable young man' Edward Hyde; the hunt through fog-bo...
Lucy by the Sea
2022 || Hardcover || Elizabeth Strout || Veltman Distributie Import Books
From the Pulitzer prize-winning author of MY NAME IS LUCY BARTON.
'It is a gift in this life that we do not know what awaits us'
In March 2020 Lucy's ex-husband William pleads with her to leave New York and escape to a coastal house he has rented in Maine. Lucy reluctantly agrees, leaving the washing-up in the sink, expecting to be back in a week or two. Weeks turn into months, and it's just Lucy, William, and their complex past together in a little house nestled against the sea.
Rich with em...
Before the Coffee Gets Cold
2023 || Hardcover || Toshikazu Kawaguchi || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A beautiful, moving story about a small Japanese cafe that offers its visitors the chance to travel back in time, to find an answer to the question: what would you do if you could go back? For fans of The Guest Cat and If Cats Disappeared from the World.
Orlando
2024 || Hardcover || Virginia Woolf || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Virginia Woolf's dazzling romp through four hundred years of English history.
I'm Glad My Mom Died
2022 || Hardcover || Jennette McCurdy || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Jennette McCurdy details how she overcame harrowing struggles as a child TV star-including anorexia and bulimia, addiction, severe obsessive-compulsive disorder and a traumatic relationship with her mother.
The Modern Fairies
the dazzling new novel from the author of Delphi
2024 || Hardcover || Clare Pollard || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Why don't they tell you it is the beautiful princess who becomes the evil queen; that they are just the same person at different points in their story?
Versailles, 1682: a city of the rich, a living fairy-tale, Louis XIV's fever dream. It's a place of opulence, beauty, and power. But strip back the lavish exterior of polite society, and you'll find a dark undercurrent of sexual intrigue and vicious gossip. Nobody is safe here - no matter how highly born they are.
No one knows this better than...
Persuasion
2016 || Hardcover || Jane Austen || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A pocket edition of Jane Austen's most sophisticated novel with an afterword by author and critic Henry Hitchings.