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The Salt Path
The 85-Week Sunday Times Bestseller from the Million-Copy Bestselling Author
2019 || Paperback || Raynor Winn || Veltman Distributie Import Books
The author and her husband lost their home as a terminal diagnosis took away their future, embarking on the 630 mile South West Coast Path - an experience reflected on in this memoir which emphasises the restorative powers of nature.
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We Need To Talk About Xi
What We Get Wrong About the World's Most Powerful Leader
2024 || Paperback || Michael Dillon || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Meet the most powerful leader in the world.
Chinese premier Xi Jinping graces our television screens and news headlines on a regular basis. But even after a decade in power, he remains shrouded in mystery.
From growing up with a father purged in Mao's Cultural Revolution and his mission to eradicate poverty, to his persecution of Uyghur Muslims and paranoia about being likened to Winnie-the-Pooh, Xi Jinping is a man obscured by caricatures. In this short, essential primer, historian and write...
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Einstein in Time and Space
A Life in 99 Particles
2023 || Paperback || Samuel Graydon || Veltman Distributie Import Books
DROPOUT. PACIFIST. PHYSICIST. CASANOVA. REFUGEE. REBEL. GENIUS.
THINK YOU KNOW EINSTEIN? THINK AGAIN
His face is instantly recognisable. His name is shorthand for genius. Today, he's a figurehead as much as a man, symbolic of things larger than himself: of scientific progress, of the human mind, even of the age. But who was Einstein really?
The Nobel Prize-winning physicist who discovered relativity, black holes and E = mc2, dined with Charlie Chaplin in Hollywood and was the inspiration for ...
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I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki
the bestselling South Korean therapy memoir
2023 || Paperback || Baek Sehee || Veltman Distributie Import Books
THE PHENOMENAL KOREAN BESTSELLER, OVER 100,000 COPIES SOLD IN HARDBACK
TRANSLATED BY INTERNATIONAL BOOKER SHORTLISTEE ANTON HUR
'Will strike a chord with anyone who feels that their public life is at odds with how they really feel inside.' Red
PSYCHIATRIST: So how can I help you?
ME: I don't know, I'm - what's the word - depressed? Do I have to go into detail?
Baek Sehee is a successful young social media director at a publishing house when she begins seeing a psychiatrist about her - what ...
How to Be a Citizen
Six Ways to Live Well Together
2024 || Paperback || C.L. Skach || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Laws and rules are in place to protect us. They are what keeps our societies from descending into madness and chaos. Without them, how we would know our right from wrong, how would we improve our communities and how could we be better neighbours to one another without rules telling us what to do?
Cindy Skach feels differently. After years spent in some of the most complex corners of the world, reading and writing constitutions, trying to create order where it did not exist, she has come to re...
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The Russo-Ukrainian War
From the bestselling author of Chernobyl
2024 || Paperback || Serhii Plokhy || Veltman Distributie Import Books
BEST BOOKS 2023: FINANCIAL TIMES * THE TIMES * SUNDAY TIMES CULTURE * TLS
Do you know what is at stake in Ukraine? Urgent, compelling reading from the author of Chernobyl on the defining conflict of our times
On 24 February 2022, Russia stunned the world by launching an invasion of Ukraine. In the midst of checking on the family and friends who were now on the front lines of Europe's largest conflict since the outbreak of the Second World War, acclaimed Ukrainian-American historian Serhii Plo...
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Entangled Life
How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures
2024 || Paperback || Merlin Sheldrake || Veltman Distributie Import Books
Entangled Life is a mind-altering journey into a spectacular and neglected world, and shows that fungi provide a key to understanding both the planet on which we live, and life itself. 'One of those rare books that can truly change the way you see the world around you.
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The Comfort Book
2022 || Paperback || Matt Haig || Veltman Distributie Import Books
The instant number one bestseller. Reflections on hope, survival and the messy miracle of being alive from the bestselling author of The Midnight Library
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Happy-Go-Lucky
'Unquestionably the king of comic writing' Guardian
2023 || Paperback || David Sedaris || Veltman Distributie Import Books
David Sedaris returns with his first new collection of personal essays since the bestselling Calypso
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The Wild Silence
The Sunday Times Bestseller from the Million-Copy Bestselling Author of The Salt Path
2021 || Paperback || Raynor Winn || Veltman Distributie Import Books
The incredible Sunday Times No. 1 bestseller from the million-copy bestselling author of the phenomenon and 80-week Sunday Times bestselling The Salt Path
'Beautiful, a thrill to read . . . you feel the world is a better place because Raynor and Moth are in it' The Times
'Winn's writing transforms her surroundings and her spirits, her joy coming across clearly in her shimmering prose' i
'A beautiful, luminous and magical piece of writing' Rachel Joyce, author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of H...