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The Fighter of Auschwitz: The incredible true story of Leen Sanders who boxed to help others survive

The Fighter of Auschwitz: The incredible true story of Leen Sanders who boxed to help others survive

**A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER**‘He had the dream again last night… He taps the gloves of his unbeaten...
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€10.90
Einstein in Time and Space: A Life in 99 Particles

Einstein in Time and Space: A Life in 99 Particles

DROPOUT. PACIFIST. PHYSICIST. CASANOVA. REFUGEE. REBEL. GENIUS.THINK YOU KNOW EINSTEIN? THINK AGAINH...
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€20.50
Chess Queens: The True Story of a Chess Champion and the Greatest Female Players of All Time

Chess Queens: The True Story of a Chess Champion and the Greatest Female Players of All Time

‘Like The Queen’s Gambit, this isn’t really about chess, but power … Shahade is up for the fight’Sun...
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€13.50
Agatha Christie: A Very Ilusive Woman

Agatha Christie: A Very Ilusive Woman

** Shortlisted for the @CrimeFest H.R.F. Keating Award **‘A smart and highly entertaining portrait o...
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€13.30
The Well Dressed Revolutionary: The Odyssey of Michel Pablo in the Age of Uprisings

The Well Dressed Revolutionary: The Odyssey of Michel Pablo in the Age of Uprisings

Born in Alexandria in 1911, Michel Pablo became a leading figure in the Fourth International from it...
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€22.60
Sidney Reilly: Master Spy

Sidney Reilly: Master Spy

A revealing biography of Sidney Reilly, the early twentieth-century virtuoso of espionage “Mr. Morri...
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€20.90
The Double Life of Bob Dylan Vol. 1: A Restless, Hungry Feeling: 1941-1966

The Double Life of Bob Dylan Vol. 1: A Restless, Hungry Feeling: 1941-1966

'The definitive, scrupulously researched biography of a life steeped in mystery' ObserverThe definit...
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€25.00
Spinoza, Life and Legacy

Spinoza, Life and Legacy

A biography of the boldest and most unsettling of the early modern philosophers, Spinoza, which exam...
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€49.90
Sound: A Story of Hearing Lost and Found

Sound: A Story of Hearing Lost and Found

An astonishing personal journey from hearing to deafness and back again helps Bella Bathurst explore...
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€10.90
Visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil and the Salvation of Philosophy

Visionaries: Arendt, Beauvoir, Rand, Weil and the Salvation of Philosophy

'The question Eilenberger sets out to answer in this ambitious, enthralling book: what use is philos...
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€31.40
Orwell: The New Life

Orwell: The New Life

Over seventy years since his premature death, George Orwell (1903-50) has become one of the most sig...
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€24.40
The Black Russian

The Black Russian

The extraordinary story of Frederick Bruce Thomas, the son of former slaves who fled America to buil...
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€13.80
Dinner with Joseph Johnson: Books and Friendship in a Revolutionary Age

Dinner with Joseph Johnson: Books and Friendship in a Revolutionary Age

*Longlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize*In late eighteenth-century London, a group of extraordinar...
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€13.80
Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History

Journeys of the Mind: A Life in History

The end of the ancient world was long regarded by historians as a time of decadence, decline, and fa...
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€47.20
Prince Dracula: The Bloody Legacy of Vlad the Impaler

Prince Dracula: The Bloody Legacy of Vlad the Impaler

A war hero, a mass murderer and a Gothic legend the world has never forgotten Vlad the Impaler is o...
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€13.80

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