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  • The Stand-In

    by David Helwig ...
    Series series ReSet
    A retired academic is called to a remote university to speak as the replacement for an old friend recently deceased in unusual circumstances. The Stand-In is a transcript of these lectures, revealing a sophisticated tale of art, fame, and adultery that unfolds through rambling anecdotes and flashes of scholarly grandstanding. Fiercely funny and bitterly ironic, The Stand-In has been called the ... Read more

    10,70 €

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  • Life

    A User's Manual

    by Georges Perec ...
    Translated by David Bellos ...
    In this ingenious book Perec creates an entire microcosm in a Paris apartment block. Serge Valene wants to make an elaborate painting of the building he has made his home for the last sixty years. As he plans his picture, he contemplates the lives of all the people he has ever known there. Chapter by chapter, the narrative moves around the building revealing a marvellously diverse cast of ... Read more

    8,99 €

  • Exteriors

    by Annie Ernaux ...
    Translated by Tanya Leslie ...
    Taking the form of random journal entries over the course of seven years, Exteriors concentrates on the ephemeral encounters that take place just on the periphery of a person's lived environment. Ernaux captures the feeling of contemporary living on the outskirts of Paris: poignantly lyrical, chaotic, and strangely alive. Exteriors is in many ways the most ecstatic of Ernaux's books – the first ... Read more

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  • Confabulations

    by John Berger ...
    'Language is a body, a living creature ... and this creature's home is the inarticulate as well as the articulate'. John Berger's work has revolutionized the way we understand visual language. In this new book he writes about language itself, and how it relates to thought, art, song, storytelling and political discourse today. Also containing Berger's own drawings, notes, memories and reflections ... Read more

    6,49 €

  • How to Make a Home

    by Edward Hollis ...
    Series Book 11 - The School of Life
    At a time when work and home life are becoming increasingly blurred, and modern technology brings the realm of the public into what used to be a personal and private space, Ed Hollis looks at what it means to make a home in today's world.Exploring the meaning of private and public space, the importance we place on physical objects and the demands we make of our home environment, How to Make a Home ... Read more

    10,80 €

  • Spring Cannot be Cancelled

    David Hockney in Normandy

    by Martin Gayford, David Hockney ...
    **We have lost touch with nature, rather foolishly as we are a part of it, not outside it. This will in time be over and then what? What have we learned?... The only real things in life are food and love, in that order, just like [for] our little dog Ruby... and the source of art is love. I love life.DAVID HOCKNEYPraise for David Hockney and Martin Gayford's previous book, A History of Pictures:'I ... Read more

    6,99 €

  • Autoportrait

    by Edouard Levé ...
    Translated by Lorin Stein ...
    In this brilliant and sobering self-portrait, Édouard Levé hides nothing from his readers, setting out his entire life, more or less at random, in a string of declarative sentences.Autoportrait is a physical, psychological, sexual, political, and philosophical triumph. Beyond "sincerity," Levé works toward an objectivity so radical it could pass for crudeness, triviality, even banality: the author ... Read more

    8,89 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • May Week Was In June

    More Unreliable Memoirs

    by Clive James ...
    Series Book 3 - Unreliable Memoirs
    **It is the middle of the Swinging Sixties, and Clive James doesn't have much to show for it. May Week Was In June is the third hilarious, tender instalment of memoir from the iconic author, poet and broadcaster.'Nobody writes like Clive James' – Spectator**Arriving at Cambridge University in a cold October in 1964, the young Clive James has yet to find a footing in the literary world. His move ... Read more

    Was 13,03 € Now 10,80 €

  • The Glass of Fashion

    A Personal History of Fifty Years of Changing Tastes and the People Who Have Inspired Them

    by Cecil Beaton ...
    Gorgeously repackaged, this reissue of the classic book presents the iconic photographer’s expert and witty reminiscences of the personalities who inspired fashion’s golden eras, and left an indelible mark on his own sense of taste and style. "The camera will never be invented that could capture or encompass all that he actually sees," Truman Capote once said of Cecil Beaton. Though known for his ... Read more

    17,37 €

  • Selected Poems of Lawrence Durrell

    by Lawrence Durrell ...
    In this new selection from the poetry of Lawrence Durrell (the first for thirty years), Peter Porter has drawn on the full range of the published work, from A Private Country (1943) to Vega (1973), and has provided a long overdue revaluation of Durrell's poetic career. In his detailed and generous introduction, Porter makes the case for A Private Country as one of the most accomplished debut ... Read more

    12,18 €

  • Always Unreliable

    Memoirs

    by Clive James ...
    Always Unreliable is the collected first three volumes of Clive James's eloquently witty autobiographies, Unreliable Memoirs, Falling Towards England and May Week Was in June.In Unreliable Memoirs we meet the young Clive James – dressed in shorts and growing up in post-war Sydney. With Falling Towards England, we find Clive living in a Swiss Cottage B&B, where he practises the Twist, anticipates ... Read more

    18,33 €

  • Art Deco Paintings & Prints

    by Gail Ellis ...
    IntroductionArt Deco derived from France in 1908 to 1939. The trend took off in the 1920’s and quickly flourished throughout many parts of the world. The Great Depression resulted in the style to tail off as people were looking for something new. The style began to wane further with the onset of the Second World War as people cared less for luxury and glamour as they had more important things to ... Read more

    3,00 €