A Short History of England
The Elephant Within Us
Thinking the Twentieth Century
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Jerusalem: the Biography
The History of History: A Novel of Berlin
The Detour
What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank
Stop What You're Doing and Read This!
Before I Go to Sleep
Steve Jobs
by: Walter Isaacson
Category: Biography
Price: € 41,25 >> € 37,50
From bestselling author Walter Isaacson comes the landmark biography of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. In 'Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography', Isaacson provides an extraordinary account of Jobs' professional and personal life. Drawn from three years of exclusive and unprecedented interviews Isaacson ...
This Party's Got to Stop
by: Rupert Thomson
Category: Biography
Price: € 14,85 >> € 13,50
In his first venture into non-fiction, the celebrated novelist Rupert Thomson has produced one of the most extraordinary and unforgettable memoirs of recent years.
On a warm, sunny day in July 1964, Thomson returned home from school to discover that his mother had died suddenly while playing tennis. ...
Recommended by: Joni (Book of the Year)
Just Kids
by: Patti Smith
Category: Biography
Price: € 14,85 >> € 13,50
A prelude to fame, 'Just Kids' recounts the friendship of two young artists - Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe - whose passion fueled their lifelong pursuit of art. In 1967, a chance meeting between two young people led to a romance and a lifelong friendship that would carry each to international ...
Recommended by: Joni
The Cello Suites
by: Eric Siblin
Category: Biography
Price: € 14,85
One autumn evening, not long after ending a stint as a pop music critic, Eric Siblin attended a recital of Johann Sebastian Bach's Cello Suites - and fell deeply in love. So began a quest that would unravel three centuries of mystery, intrigue, history, politics, and passion.
'The Cello Suites' is ...
The Hare with Amber Eyes
by: Edmund de Waal
Category: Biography
Price: € 14,85 >> € 13,50
264 wood and ivory carvings, none of them larger than a matchbox: potter Edmund de Waal was entranced when he first encountered the collection in the Tokyo apartment of his great uncle Iggie. Later, when Edmund inherited the 'netsuke', they unlocked a story far larger than he could ever have imagined.
The ...