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Conquest of the Useless: Fever Dreams in the Jungle

Conquest of the Useless: Fever Dreams in the Jungle

A fever-dream journal documenting the making of cinema’s most infamous production, from the world's...
€18.20 -10%
€16.40
Patriot

Patriot

Patriot is the unforgettable life story of one of the most fearless and inspiring figures of our tim...
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€14.80
Broken Archangel: The Tempestuous Lives of Roger Casement

Broken Archangel: The Tempestuous Lives of Roger Casement

Celebrated reformer and proud Irish nationalist, romantic radical and vilified traitor, Roger Caseme...
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€16.40
Plato and the Tyrant: The Fall of Greece's Greatest Dynasty and the Making of a Philosophic Masterpiece

Plato and the Tyrant: The Fall of Greece's Greatest Dynasty and the Making of a Philosophic Masterpiece

A rare biographical portrait of the philosopher Plato, showing how the ideas in his masterwork, Repu...
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€30.00
Stalin's Library: A Dictator and his Books

Stalin's Library: A Dictator and his Books

A compelling intellectual biography of Stalin told through his personal library “[A] fascinating new...
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€14.70
Martin Van Buren: America's First Politician

Martin Van Buren: America's First Politician

A new biography of the 8th president of the United States, the first chief executive not born a Brit...
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€33.90
38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England and a Nazi in Patagonia

38 Londres Street: On Impunity, Pinochet in England and a Nazi in Patagonia

The unmissable new book by the winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize and author of the Sunday Times be...
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€21.30
Mark Twain

Mark Twain

Born in 1835, the man who would become America’s first, and most influen­tial, literary celebrity sp...
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€49.90
Horace: Poet on a Volcano

Horace: Poet on a Volcano

A biography of Horace, one of the most popular poets from antiquity, revealing the little-known man...
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€23.00
Straight Acting: The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare

Straight Acting: The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare

An alternative biography of Shakespeare seen through the lens of queer Elizabethan England.   From...
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€14.80
Enzo Ferrari: The Definitive Biography of an Icon

Enzo Ferrari: The Definitive Biography of an Icon

**DAILY MAIL BOOK OF THE WEEK** Soon to be an AppleTV+ series, this is the definitive account of ho...
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€16.20
Agent Zo: The Untold Story of Courageous WW2 Resistance Fighter Elzbieta Zawacka

Agent Zo: The Untold Story of Courageous WW2 Resistance Fighter Elzbieta Zawacka

Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction 2025   The incredible story of Elzbieta Zawacka,...
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€16.20
The Children of Hiroshima: The True Story Of How I Searched For My Family In The Ruins Of The City

The Children of Hiroshima: The True Story Of How I Searched For My Family In The Ruins Of The City

The incredible, heart-breaking and poignant diary of a woman searching for her niece and nephew in t...
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€12.20
Kubrick: An Odyssey

Kubrick: An Odyssey

‘Nobody could make a film like Stanley Kubrick.’ Steven Spielberg Kubrick’s interest in observing h...
€27.90 -10%
€25.00
Vergil: The Poet's Life

Vergil: The Poet's Life

A biography of Vergil, Rome’s greatest poet, by the acclaimed translator of the Aeneid “Ms. Ruden ha...
€16.30 -10%
€14.70

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