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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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Fevered Planet
How Diseases Emerge When We Harm Nature
2023 || Paperback || John Vidal || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Covid-19, monkeypox, bird flu, SARS, HIV, AIDS, Ebola; we are living in the Age of Pandemics - one that we have created. As the climate crisis reaches a fever pitch and ecological destruction continues unabated, we are just beginning to reckon with the effects of environmental collapse on our global health.
Fevered Planet exposes how the way we farm, what we eat, the places we travel to and the scientific experiments we conduct create the perfect conditions for deadly new diseases to emerge a...
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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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Bowie at the BBC
A life in interviews
2023 || Hardcover || David Bowie e.a. || Veltman Distributie Import Books
In this collection of BBC television and radio transcripts, Bowie's life story is told in his own words, across more than 35 appearances spanning over forty years.
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Shame Machine
Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation
2022 || Paperback || Cathy O'Neil || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A clear-eyed warning about the increasingly destructive influence of America’s “shame industrial complex” in the age of social media and hyperpartisan politics—from the New York Times bestselling author of Weapons of Math Destruction
“O’Neil reminds us that we must resist the urge to judge, belittle, and oversimplify, and instead allow always for complexity and lead always with empathy.”—Dave Eggers, author of The Every
Shame is a powerful and sometimes useful tool: When we pu...
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Please Miss
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Penis
2022 || Paperback || Grace Lavery || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A memoir of gender transition and recovery from addiction, a dance across genres, a ripping-up of the rulebook, Please Miss is unlike anything you’ve ever read before.
Grace Lavery is a reformed druggie, an unreformed omnisexual chaos Muppet, and a 100 per cent, all-natural, synthetic female hormone monster. How could her story be straightforward when she is anything but? The telling of her tale is kaleidoscopic, wild and audacious: Grace performs in a David Lynch remake of Sunset Boulevard...