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The Unreality of Memory
Notes on Life in the Pre-Apocalypse
2021 || Paperback || Elisa Gabbert || Veltman Distributie Import Books
A literary guide to digital anxiety, The Unreality of Memory collects thought-provoking and playful essays on the Internet age's media-saturated disaster coverage and our addiction to viewing and discussing the world's ills.
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A Private Spy
The Letters of John le Carre 1945-2020
2023 || Paperback || John le Carre || Veltman Distributie Import Books
John le Carré was a defining writer of his time. This enthralling collection letters - written to readers, publishers, film-makers and actors, politicians and public figures - reveals the playfully intelligent and unfailingly eloquent man behind the penname.
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'The symbiosis of author and editor, father and son, has resulted in a brilliant book, le Carré's final masterpiece' 5*, Jake Kerridge, Sunday Telegraph
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A Private Spy spans seven decades and chronicles not only le Carré's o...
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Madly, Deeply
The Alan Rickman Diaries
2023 || Paperback || Alan Rickman || Veltman Distributie Import Books
ALAN RICKMAN was a world-class actor, as well as a tireless political activist, an avid traveller and a devoted confidant and friend - and now, through his never-before-seen diaries, Rickman invites readers backstage and into his life
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Burning Questions
Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 to 2022
2023 || Paperback || Margaret Atwood || Veltman Distributie Import Books
In this brilliant selection of essays—including three new pieces—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 whether or not The Handmaid’s Tale is a dystopia to the importance of how to define granola—and seeks answers to Burning Questions such as...
• Why do people everywhere, in all cultures, tell stories? Including thoughts on the writing of The Handm...
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12 Bytes
How artificial intelligence will change the way we live and love
2022 || Paperback || Jeanette Winterson || Veltman Distributie Import Books
'Briskly and breezily, 12 Bytes joins the dots in a neglected narrative of female scientists, visionaries and code-breakers' Observer
Twelve eye-opening, mind-expanding and provocative essays from Sunday Times-bestselling author Jeanette Winterson
Drawing on her years of thinking and reading about Artificial Intelligence in its bewildering manifestations, Jeanette Winterson looks to history, religion, myth, literature, politics and, of course, computer science, to help us understand the radic...