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Let Me Tell You What I Mean
2024 || Paperback || Joan Didion || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Twelve early pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of Joan Didion.
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Abominations
Selected Essays from a Career of Courting Self-Destruction
2024 || Paperback || Lionel Shriver || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
The first essay collection from one of the most acclaimed writers of our time. ‘This trenchant, unrepentant collection reminds you that she’s a brilliant writer… Order a copy in case she’s cancelled by Christmas’ THE TIMES (Book of the Year)
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Keats
A Brief Life in Nine Poems and One Epitaph
2024 || Paperback || Lucasta Miller || Vintage Publishing
*A BOOK TO LOOK FORWARD TO IN 2021 IN THE TIMES, FINANCIAL TIMES, DAILY MAIL, SUNDAY TIMES AND GUARDIAN*The epitaph John Keats composed for his own gravestone - 'Here lies one whose name was writ in water' - seemingly damned him to oblivion.
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Keeping an Eye Open
Essays on Art (Updated Edition)
2024 || Paperback || Julian Barnes || Vintage Publishing
The updated edition of Julian Barnes’ best-loved writing on art, with seven new exquisite illustrated essays‘Flaubert believed that it was impossible to explain one art form in terms of another, and that great paintings required no words of explanation.
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The Gifts of Reading
2024 || Paperback || Robert Macfarlane || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
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The Ministry of Truth
A Biography of George Orwell's 1984
2024 || Paperback || Dorian Lynskey || Pan Macmillan
In The Ministry of Truth, Dorian Lynskey charts the life of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four: one of the most influential books of the 20th Century, a perennial bestseller, and a work that remains more relevant than ever in today's tumultuous world.
The Penguin Freud Reader
2024 || Paperback || Sigmund Freud || Penguin Books Ltd
Here are the essential ideas of psychoanalytic theory, including Freud's explanations of such concepts as the Id, Ego and Super-Ego, the Death Instinct and Pleasure Principle, along with classic case studies like that of the Wolf Man. Adam Phillips's marvellous selection provides an ideal overview of Freud's thought in all its extraordinary ambition and variety. Psychoanalysis may be known as the 'talking cure', yet it is also and profoundly, a way of reading.
Here we can see Freud's writings...
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Feel Free
Essays
2024 || Paperback || Zadie Smith || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
A collection of insightful and funny essays from the bestselling and award-winning author. Includes essays on a range of subjects including literature, film, music icons, Brexit, the presidency of Donald Trump and climate change. For fans of David Foster Wallace's "A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again".
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Figures in a Landscape
People and Places
2024 || Paperback || Paul Theroux || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
The author of "Deep South" and "The Great Railway Bazaar"'s body of work is mined for its best bits, brought together here, with profiles of famous people such as Oliver Sacks and Robin Williams, reflections from Theroux's own reading, and extracts from the iconic travel writing.
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The Diary of a Young Girl
The Definitive Edition of the World’s Most Famous Diary
2024 || Paperback || Anne Frank || Van Ditmar Boeken B.V.
Aged thirteen when Anne Frank went into the secret annexe, Anne kept a diary in which she confided her innermost thoughts and feelings, movingly revealing how the eight people living under these extraordinary conditions coped with the daily threat of discovery and death, petty misunderstandings and the unbearable strain of living like prisoners.