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Veltman Distributie Import Books (39)
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Divine Felines: The Cat in Japanese Art
with over 200 illustrations
2023 || Hardcover || Rhiannon Paget || Veltman Distributie Import Books
From Hello Kitty to Maneki Neko--Japan is the epicentre of global cat culture!
Whether lurking in corners or taking center stage, cats are a ubiquitous presence in Japanese art. Depending on the situation, they may invite good fortune, prompt the viewer to meditate on a tale or provide evidence of an unseen world of magic and supernatural happenings.
In 200 charming woodblock prints, paintings, screens and figurines spanning three centuries, Japanese art expert Rhiannon Paget celebrates the r...
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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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300,000 Kisses
Tales of Queer Love from the Ancient World
2023 || Hardcover || Luke Edward Hall e.a. || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Steeped in honey, Juventius,
your golden eyes, and as sweet too
when I press my lips to them -
three hundred thousand kisses
is not close to enough
For centuries, evidence of queer love in the ancient world was ignored or suppressed. Even today, only a few, famous narratives are widely known - yet there's a rich literary tradition of Greek and Roman love that extends far beyond this handful of stories. Here, the poet Seán Hewitt and painter Luke Edward Hall collect together, for the first ti...
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Murakami T
The T-Shirts I Love
2021 || 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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Number One Is Walking
My Life in the Movies and Other Diversions
2022 || Hardcover || Steve Martin || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Number One Is Walking is Steve Martin's cinematic legacy - an illustrated memoir of his legendary acting career with stories from his most popular films and artwork by New Yorker cartoonist Harry Bliss.
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Supersonic
The Complete, Authorised and Unabridged Interviews
2021 || 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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Entangled Life
How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures - The Illustrated Edition
2023 || Hardcover || Merlin Sheldrake || Veltman Distributie Import Books
The smash-hit Sunday Times bestseller now illustrated with over 100 spectacular full-colour images, showcasing this wondrous and wildly various lifeform as never before
'Astonishing ... it seems somehow to tip the natural world upside down' Observer
'Completely mind-blowing ... reads like an adventure story' Sunday Times
*WINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY BOOK PRIZE 2021*
*WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR CONSERVATION WRTITING 2021*
*SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2021*
*SHORTLISTED FO...
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The Magic of MinaLima
Celebrating the Graphic Design Studio Behind the Harry Potter & Fantastic Beasts Films
2022 || Hardcover || MinaLima e.a. || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A full-colour illustrated compendium chronicling the magical twenty-year journey of acclaimed art and design studio, MinaLima, the creative genius behind the graphics for the Harry Potter film series.
Who's Afraid of Gender?
2024 || Hardcover || Judith Butler || Veltman Distributie Import Books
ONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF 2024 ACCORDING TO THE TIMES, GUARDIAN, FINANCIAL TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, THE INDEPENDENT, THE GLOBE AND MAIL, AND TIME
Shouldn't we know what we're arguing about?
From one of the most influential thinkers of our time, an enlightening, essential account of how gender is understood today
Judith Butler, the ground-breaking philosopher whose work has redefined how we think about gender and sexuality, confronts the attacks on gender that have become central to ri...