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HEAD OF ZEUS, 2025
Frantz Fanon was born in Martinique, a French colony, in 1925. As a young man, he volunteered to fight in de Gaulle's army for the liberation of France, and trained to become a doctor and psychiatrist.
Price: 5 295 Ft
WHITE RABBIT, 2023
From the mountains of Algeria to the squats of South London via sectarian Northern Ireland, Ten Thousand Apologies is the sordid and thrilling story of the country's most notorious cult band, Fat White Family.
Price: 6 125 Ft
HARPER COLLINS PUBLISHERS, 2015
Agatha Christie’s personal memoirs about her travels to Syria and Iraq in the 1930s with her archaeologist husband Max Mallowan, where she worked on the digs and wrote some of her most evocative novels.
Price: 3 850 Ft
ATLANTIK, 2019
Jeder kennt die skurrile, aber stets freundliche Miss Marple und den exzentrisch-pedantischen Poirot, jeder kennt den Namen ihrer Schöpferin Agatha Christie, doch wer war der Mensch hinter der Schreibmaschine?
Price: 10 150 Ft
CENTURY, 2024
To the wider world, Al Pacino exploded onto the scene like a supernova.
Price: 10 700 Ft
PROFILE BOOKS, 2017
There's a provocative sermon on private education given before the University at King's College Chapel, Cambridge, and 'Baffled at a Bookcase' offers a passionate defence of the public library.
Price: 4 290 Ft
FABER & FABER, 2014
Already a bestseller, this is a wonderfully entertaining collection of Alan Bennett's prose writings.
Price: 5 550 Ft
CANONGATE, 2022
Alan Rickman remains one of the most beloved actors of all time across almost every genre, from his breakout role as Die Hard's villainous Hans Gruber to his heart-wrenching run as Professor Severus Snape, and beyond.
Price: 9 850 Ft
CANONGATE, 2023
Alan Rickman remains one of the most beloved actors of all time across almost every genre, from his breakout role as Die Hard's villainous Hans Gruber to his heart-wrenching run as Professor Severus Snape, and beyond.
Price: 5 550 Ft
ALMA BOOKS, 2024
On 17th September 1820, accompanied by his friend Joseph Severn, John Keats left London for Italy on board the Maria Crowther in a desperate bid to restore his health.
Price: 6 950 Ft
BLOOMSBURY, 2022
Dostoevsky's life was marked by brilliance and brutality. Sentenced to death as a young revolutionary, he survived mock execution and Siberian exile to live through a time of seismic change in Russia, eventually accepted into the Tsar's inner circle.
Price: 5 295 Ft
HODDER & STOUGHTON, 2014
Sir Alex Ferguson's compelling story is always honest and revealing he reflects on his managerial career that embraced unprecedented European success for Aberdeen and 26 triumphant seasons with Manchester United.
Price: 7 225 Ft
DE CAPO PRESS, 2004
Robert Capa, one of the finest photojournalists and combat photographers of the twentieth century, covered every major conflict from the Spanish Civil War to the early conflict in Vietnam.
Price: 7 795 Ft
WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON, 2000
ENDURANCE is the story of one of the most astonishing feats of exploration and human courage ever recorded. In 1914 Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 men set sail for the South Atlantic on board a ship called the Endurance.
Price: 5 550 Ft
ALLEN & UNWIN, 2023
This definitive biography of Anna Wintour chronicles the steep climb of an ambitious young woman who would, with singular and legendary focus, become the most powerful woman in media.
Price: 6 250 Ft
HARPER COLLINS PUBLISHERS, 2009
Winner of British Sports Book Awards: Autobiography 2010
Price: 5 295 Ft
VINTAGE BOOKS, 2014
Alan Turing was the mathematician whose cipher-cracking transformed the Second World War. Taken on by British Intelligence in 1938, as a shy young Cambridge don, he combined brilliant logic with a flair for engineering.
Price: 4 725 Ft
PENGUIN BOOKS, 2019
A magnificently fresh and unexpected biography of Churchill, by one of Britain's most acclaimed historians
Price: 7 125 Ft
KIEPENHEUER & WITSCH, 2024
16 Jahre trug Angela Merkel die Regierungsverantwortung für Deutschland, führte das Land durch zahlreiche Krisen und prägte mit ihrem Handeln und ihrer Haltung die deutsche und internationale Politik und Gesellschaft.
Price: 28 800 Ft
MUNHAKSA, 1995
Anne Frank: Anne Frank naplója koreai nyelven
Price: 16 800 Ft
PLAZA JANÉS, 2016
Todo sobre Stephen King nos descubre a uno de los autores más prolíficos y de mayor éxito de nuestro tiempo.
Price: 1 998 Ft
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SIMON & SCHUSTER, 2013
The most interesting parts of the book are those that deal with his impoverished Austrian upbringing in the wake of Germany's defeat in the Second World War, and his discovery of bodybuilding as a ladder to a better world
Price: 4 825 Ft
VIRGIN BOOKS, 2016
South African born Elon Musk is the renowned entrepreneur and innovator behind PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity.
Price: 4 725 Ft
PIPER VERLAG GMBH, 2020
Die Ausnahmepädagogin, die ihr Leben den Kindern widmete - Rom, 1896.
Price: 9 550 Ft
FISCHER TASCHENBUCH VERLAG, 2011
Mein Leben ist glücklich und erfolgreich, bis auf die Tatsache, dass ich im falschen Körper wohne.
Price: 3 622 Ft
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VIKING, 2020
A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making-from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy
Price: 12 990 Ft
CANONGATE, 2016
An international bestseller which has sold over a million copies in the UK, Dreams From My Father is a refreshing, revealing portrait of a young man asking big questions about identity and belonging.
Price: 4 725 Ft
SPURL EDITIONS, 2016
I Am Not Ashamed is more than just tawdry memoir. It is a book that also possesses an unforeseeable transcendence within.
Price: 9 995 Ft
CENTURY, 2023
Barbra Streisand is by any account a living legend, a woman who in a career spanning six decades has excelled in every area of entertainment.
Price: 14 990 Ft
PENGUIN, 2019
*** WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018 ***
Price: 3 750 Ft
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PAN BOOKS, 2013
Twenty-seven years ago, Shin Dong-hyuk was born inside Camp 14, one of five sprawling political prisons in the mountains of North Korea.
Price: 4 725 Ft
SIMON & SCHUSTER, 2005
The celebrated first memoir from arguably the most influential singer-songwriter in the country, Bob Dylan.
Price: 7 850 Ft
SIMON & SCHUSTER, 2022
The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan’s first book of new writing since 2004’s Chronicles: Volume One—and since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016.
Price: 24 595 Ft
GALLERY UK, 2022
Bob Mortimer’s life was trundling along happily until suddenly in 2015 he was diagnosed with a heart condition that required immediate surgery and forced him to cancel an upcoming tour.
Price: 4 825 Ft
HODDER & STOUGHTON, 2015
Marking the fiftieth anniversary of Winston Churchill's death, Boris Johnson explores what makes up the 'Churchill Factor' - the singular brilliance of one of the most important leaders of the twentieth century.
Price: 8 350 Ft
FONTANA PRESS, 1995
An eye-opening biography of one of the most influential psychiatrists of the modern age, drawing from his lectures, conversations, and own writings.
Price: 6 250 Ft
SERPENT'S TAIL, 2020
In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad.
Price: 4 725 Ft
BLACK SWAN, 2016
When Carrie Fisher discovered the journals she kept during the filming of the first Star Wars movie, she was astonished to see what they had preserved -
Price: 4 725 Ft
ONE WORLD, 2021
Poet and essayist Cathy Park Hong fearlessly and provocatively blends memoir, cultural criticism, and history to expose fresh truths about racialized consciousness in America.
Price: 5 995 Ft
PENGUIN BOOKS, 2003
A silent comedy star whose legendary slapstick routines are recognisable to this day, Chaplin's My Autobiography is an incomparably vivid account of the life of one of the greatest filmmakers and comedians, with an introduction by David Robinson.
Price: 4 125 Ft
HARPER COLLINS PUBLISHERS, 2024
THERE IS ONLY ONE CHER …
Price: 8 675 Ft
WILLIAM MORROW, 2015
From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy Seal Chris Kyle recorded the most career sniper kills in United States military history.
Price: 5 295 Ft
L'ARTILLEUR, 2024
On connaît Mozart l’enfant prodige, mais connaît-on Mozart le fils ?
Price: 11 550 Ft
TWELVE, 2022
There have been other biographies of Roger Federer, but never one with this kind of access to the man himself, his support team, and the most prominent figures in the game, including such rivals as Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, and Andy Roddick.
Price: 10 725 Ft
VINTAGE BOOKS, 2024
Restless outsider, masher-up of form and convention, Katherine Mansfield’s career was short but dazzling.
Price: 4 725 Ft
SIGNET BOOK, 2014
The true diversity of the American experience comes to life in this superlative collection of autobiographies--including those of Benjamin Franklin, Frederick Douglas, Mark Twain, and more...
Price: 1 150 Ft
EBURY PRESS, 2012
The action begins in West Des Moines, Iowa, where Corey Taylor, frontman of Slipknot and Stone Sour, systematically set about committing each of the Seven Deadly Sins. He has picked fights with douche bags openly brandishing guns.
Price: 6 425 Ft
FABER & FABER, 2022
In 2018, boundary-breaking visual and sonic artist Cosey Fanni Tutti received a commission to write the soundtrack to a film about Delia Derbyshire, the pioneering electronic composer who influenced the likes of Aphex Twin and the Chemical Brothers.
Price: 8 125 Ft
PENGUIN CLASSICS, 2014
After The Second World War, Czeslaw Milosz was exiled for many years from his home country of Poland. In Native Realm, he evokes that homeland and his years away from it; how it nurtured him and how its divisions and destruction shaped a generation.
Price: 4 125 Ft
KAMPA VERLAG, 2019
Price: 12 650 Ft
TWO ROADS, 2018
In 1954, a young television presenter was offered the opportunity of a lifetime - to travel the world finding rare and elusive animals for London Zoo's collection, and to film the expeditions for the BBC.
Price: 7 225 Ft
TWO ROADS, 2019
With charm, erudition, humour and passion, the world's favourite natural history broadcaster documents some of his expeditions from the late 1950s onwards' Sunday Express
Price: 7 225 Ft
TWELVE, 2024
There's an old saying that Russia without corruption isn't Russia. Alexey Navalny refuses to accept this proposition.
Price: 8 895 Ft
PENGUIN BOOKS, 2024
Think you know your kings and queens? Think again.
Price: 4 125 Ft
HARPER COLLINS PUBLISHERS, 2022
DEBBIE HARRY is a musician, actor, activist and the iconic face of New York City cool.
Price: 5 295 Ft
SIMON & SCHUSTER, 2020
Unorthodox is the bestselling memoir of a young Jewish woman’s escape from a religious sect, in the tradition of Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s Infidel and Carolyn Jessop’s Escape, featuring a new epilogue by the author.
Price: 7 850 Ft
SEVEN DIALS, 2023
Take a journey to Château-de-la-Motte Husson in the spellbinding memoir from Sunday Times bestselling authors, Dick and Angel Strawbridge.
Price: 12 250 Ft
SEVEN DIALS, 2021
Like many couples, Dick and Angel had long dreamed of living in France, but where others might settle for a modest bolthole in the French countryside, the Strawbridges fell in love with a 19th-century fairytale château.
Price: 5 550 Ft
PENGUIN, 2019
*Winner of Autobiography of the Year at the National Book Awards 2018*
Price: 4 550 Ft
FIG TREE, 2024
Returning as a luxury hardback to gift and to treasure, Everything I Know About Love is a celebration of our female friendships, of our messy years, and of growing up together.
Price: 7 490 Ft
HARPER COLLINS PUBLISHERS
Doris Lessing, Nobel-díjas író önéletrajza angol nyelven.
Price: 5 650 Ft
BLACK SWAN, 2017
Faster. Higher. Stronger. No one has embodied the ideals of the Olympic movement quite like Eric Liddell, star of the Oscar-winning film Chariots of Fire.
Price: 4 695 Ft
PENGUIN BOOKS, 2018
Star of stage and screen. Tireless supporter of charity. Marathon runner. Political campaigner. Fashion icon. Human. There is no one quite like Eddie Izzard. This is the story of how he broke through.
Price: 4 125 Ft
PENGUIN BOOKS, 2024
In 1944, sixteen-year-old ballerina Edith was sent to Auschwitz and endured unimaginable experiences. When the camp was finally liberated, she was pulled from a pile of bodies, barely alive.
Price: 4 725 Ft
RIDER, 2017
The Choice is Edith Egers unforgettable story. It shows that hope can flower in the most unlikely places.
Price: 5 550 Ft
GRANTA, 2011
The first part of the Nobel Prize winner's classic autobiography, reissued by Granta in a stunning new paperback edition. The Tongue Set Free is so beautifully written.
Price: 5 550 Ft
ATRIUM-VERLAG, 2018
Nachdem Erich Kästner 1933 von den Nazis als Autor verboten worden war, entschloss er sich, ein geheimes Tagebuch zu führen.
Price: 17 075 Ft
WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON, 2021
As a child, Erno Rubik became obsessed with puzzles of all kinds. To him, they weren't just games - they were challenges that captured his imagination, creativity and perseverance.
Price: 5 550 Ft
BRAZEN, 2024
Strong Female Character is a game-changing memoir on sexism and neurodiversity.
Price: 6 125 Ft
FABER & FABER, 2019
In her majestic biography of Walter Gropius, charismatic founder of the Bauhaus, Fiona MacCarthy argues that his visionary ideas still influence the way we live, work, and think today.
Price: 9 650 Ft
SIGNET BOOK, 2005
Born into a life of bondage, Frederick Douglass secretly taught himself to read and write. It was a crime punishable by death, but it resulted in one of the most eloquent indictments of slavery ever recorded.
Price: 1 150 Ft
PENGUIN BOOKS, 2025
Ever since he was a kid, kicking broken footballs on the streets of East London in the shadow of Canary Wharf's skyscrapers, Gary wanted something better.
Price: 4 550 Ft
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KNOPF, ALFRED A, 2014
Geoffrey C. Ward, distilling more than thirty years of thinking and writing about the Roosevelts.
Price: 15 425 Ft
MACLEHOSE PRESS, 2020
When you run the film backwards the figure in the pool emerges and lands neatly back on the diving board while the water beneath her heals. So, if we run life backwards, we move from its the end to its very beginning.
Price: 5 550 Ft
SIMON & SCHUSTER, 2017
New York Times bestseller—now a major motion picture directed by and starring James Franco!
Price: 6 175 Ft
BLOOMSBURY, 2024
The singer and poet Leonard Cohen was deeply learned in Judaism and Christianity, the spiritual traditions that underpinned his self-identity and the way he made sense of the world.
Price: 5 295 Ft
ONEWORLD PUBLICATIONS, 2023
On 8 June 218 AD, a fourteen-year-old Syrian boy, egged on by his grandmother, led an army to battle in a Roman civil war. Against all expectations, he was victorious.
Price: 4 725 Ft
ICON BOOKS, 2024
Almost everything we think we know about Jane Austen is wrong. Her novels don't confine themselves to grand houses and they were not written just for readers' enjoyment.
Price: 4 725 Ft
FISCHER TASCHENBUCH, 2016
Herta Müller hat spätestens nach der Verleihung des Literatur-Nobelpreises im Jahr 2009 faszinierte Leserinnen und Leser in aller Welt gefunden.
Price: 7 475 Ft
Price: 7 195 Ft
WILLIAM COLLINS, 2016
An extraordinary insight into life under one of the world’s most ruthless and secretive dictatorships – and the story of one woman’s terrifying struggle to avoid capture/repatriation and guide her family to freedom.
Price: 4 825 Ft
FONTHILL MEDIA, 2018
`Cooperman! The Life of Tommy Cooper' is a hilarious look at one of Britain's best-loved comedians. For almost four decades, Tommy Cooper was the most popular entertainer in the country, and certainly the most imitated.
Price: 12 850 Ft
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BASIC BOOKS, 2017
In Significant Figures, acclaimed mathematician Ian Stewart introduces the visionaries of mathematics throughout history.
Price: 9 425 Ft
BANTAM, 1995
Arguably the greatest science fiction writer who ever lived, Isaac Asimov also possessed one of the most brilliant and original minds of our time.
Price: 3 395 Ft
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2009
Published in 1913, this harrowing, autobiographical 'A to Z' of drinking shattered London's reputation as a clean-living adventurer and massively successful author of such books as White Fang and The Call of the Wild.
Price: 4 825 Ft
ARROW BOOKS, 2018
He had it all. A $40 million NFL contract. Fame. Adoration.
Price: 3 095 Ft
ALMA BOOKS, 2014
The True Story Behind the Theory of Everything
Price: 5 350 Ft
FAYARD, 2016
Jean-Paul Belmondo se livre. Son enfance marquée par la guerre, sa mere courage, l'atelier de son pere sculpteur, ses premieres amours. Il nous entraîne dans les pas dilettantes de son service militaire en Algérie.
Price: 4 275 Ft
SIMON & SCHUSTER, 2024
LeBron James is the greatest basketball player of the twenty-first century and vying with Michael Jordan as the greatest of all time. The reigning king of the game, LeBron wears the crown like he was born with it.
Price: 6 950 Ft
ATRIA BOOKS, 2021
A hilarious and whip-smart collection of essays, offering an intimate look at bisexuality, gender, and, of course, sex. Perfect for fans of Lindy West, Samantha Irby, and Rebecca Solnit—and anyone who wants, and deserves, to be seen.
Price: 10 750 Ft
MONORAY, 2023
In David Bowie Rainbowman, Jérôme Soligny tells the story of David Bowie the musician with the help of those intimately involved with the creation of his music.
Price: 16 695 Ft
GOTHAM BOOKS, 2008
Me and a Guy Named Elvis looks at Presley from a friend’s perspective, offering readers the man rather than the icon ? including insights into the creative frustrations that lead to Elvis’s abuse of prescription medicine and his tragic death.
Price: 4 125 Ft
QUERCUS, 2022
*A memoir and self-help manual by one of the country's most treasured comedians - for anyone who feels stuck in a rut but doesn't have the tools or self-belief to shake things up*
Price: 5 550 Ft
KIWI TASCHENBUCH, 2017
Mit Anfang zwanzig geschieht dem Erzähler in Joachim Meyerhoffs drittem Roman das Unerwartete: Er wird auf der Schauspielschule in München angenommen und zieht in die großbürgerliche Villa seiner Großeltern.
Price: 6 895 Ft
FOURTH ESTATE, 2017
Joan Didion’s savage masterpiece, which, since first publication in 1968, has been acknowledged as an unparalleled report on the state of America during the upheaval of the Sixties Revolution.
Price: 4 350 Ft
FOURTH ESTATE, 2017
Joan Didion’s hugely influential collection of essays which defines, for many, the America which rose from the ashes of the Sixties.
Price: 4 850 Ft
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SHURKAMP TASCHENBUCH, 2012
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EDIZIONI ANFORA, 2010
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DOM QUIXOTE, 2006
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VIVIANE HAMY, 2005
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AMFORA, 2005
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EINAUDI, 2009
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