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The Steps [Bok / Häftad]

<b>A bold and brilliant short work by the author of the Goldsmiths Prize-winning <i>Cuddy</i></b><br/><br/><b>November, 1971. Berlin, Germany. Opening night. </b><br/><br/>Klaus Kinski, Germany's most controversial actor, steps into the spotlight to a crowd of thousands.<br/><br/>After years of making movies abroad, he has returned to the stage for a much-publicized one-man performance about Jesus Christ. As the crowd turn on him and violence is threatened, it is also very nearly his last. After this week, he will never perform on stage again.<br/><br/>Exactly fifty years later, a hypochondriac writer, housebound by winter snowstorms, becomes fixated with video footage of Kinski at his most manic.<br/><br/>In this forensic analysis, he strays into the darker corners of modern culture, and finally begins to understand the compulsive urge that drives artists to the edge of sanity in their pursuit of perfection.<br/><br/><b><i>Jesus Christ Kinski</i> is a novel about a film about a performance about Jesus. It is a daring act of literary ventriloquism, a meditation on censorship, creativity, loneliness - and just how far our tolerance is tested by bad people who make great art.<br/></b><br/><b>Praise for Benjamin Myers</b><br/><b>'One of our finest, and most deftly imaginative, writers' <i>i news </i></b><br/><b>'Radical and gorgeous' Max Porter</b><br/><b>'A writer of extraordinary and incandescent talent' Alex Preston</b>

<b>** PRE-ORDER THE SEQUEL <i>I WANT TO DIE BUT I STILL WANT TO EAT TTEOKBOKKI NOW **</i></b><br/><br/><b>THE PHENOMENAL INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER | </b><b>TRANSLATED BY INTERNATIONAL BOOKER SHORTLISTEE ANTON HUR</b><br/><br/><b>'Will strike a chord with anyone who feels that their public life is at odds with how they really feel inside.' </b><i>Red</i><br/><i><br/>PSYCHIATRIST: So how can I help you?</i><br/> <i><br/> ME: I don't know, I'm - what's the word - depressed? Do I have to go into detail?</i><br/><br/> Baek Sehee is a successful young social media director at a publishing house when she begins seeing a psychiatrist about her - what to call it? - depression? She feels persistently low, anxious, endlessly self-doubting, but also highly judgemental of others. She hides her feelings well at work and with friends; adept at performing the calmness, even ease, her lifestyle demands. The effort is exhausting, overwhelming, and keeps her from forming deep relationships. This can't be normal.<br/><br/>But if she's so hopeless, why can she always summon a desire for her favourite street food, the hot, spicy rice cake, tteokbokki? Is this just what life is like?<br/><br/> Recording her conversations with her psychiatrist over 12 weeks, Baek begins to disentangle the feedback loops, knee-jerk reactions and harmful behaviours that keep her locked in a cycle of self-abuse. Part memoir, part self-help book, <i>I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki </i>is a book to keep close and to reach for in times of darkness.<br/><br/><b><i>I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki</i> comes in three different colours; the colour you receive will be chosen at random</b>

<b>Beautifully illustrated with more than 200 photographs, including never-before-seen images, <i>The Look</i> is a stunning journey through Michelle Obama's style evolution, in her own words for the first time.</b><br/><br/>In this celebration of style, from the moment she entered the public eye during her husband's U.S. Senate campaign through her time as the first Black First Lady of the United States and today as one of the country's most influential figures, Michelle Obama shares how she uses the beauty and intrigue of fashion to draw attention to her message.<br/><br/>Featuring the voices of Meredith Koop, Obama's trusted stylist, as well as her makeup artist Carl Ray, hairstylists Yene Damtew and Njeri Radway, and many of the designers who have dressed Obama for notable events, <i>The Look </i>brings readers behind the scenes not only to reveal how her most memorable looks came together but also to tell a powerful story about how we present ourselves.<br/><br/>Obama's intimate and candid stories illuminate how her approach to dressing has evolved throughout her life - from the colourful sheath dresses, cardigans, and brooches she wore during her time as First Lady to the bold suits, denim, and braids of her post-White House life and all the active looks and beautiful gowns in between.<br/><br/>In <i>The Look</i>, Michelle Obama explores the joy and the purpose of fashion and beauty and how - when wielded with grace and care - they can uplift and affirm the values one holds most dear. Confidence, she concludes, cannot be put on. But when you're wearing something that's intentional or beloved, clothing can make you feel like the best version of yourself.

In Spring 2017, Jess gave birth to her first daughter, Ottie. Ten weeks later her mother, the much-loved Labour politician Dame Tessa Jowell MP, was diagnosed with advanced brain cancer. This is the story of the year that Jess spent with her baby daughter in one arm, and her dying mother in the other - of becoming a mother whilst losing her own.<br/><br/>Though Tessa Jowell lived a life of public service, this is not the story of a public person. We Are Each Other tells, with a powerful lyricism and raw intensity, of a mother and a daughter walking both sides of life and death together, documenting the extraordinary human ability to love, grieve and renew, alongside the changing seasons of the natural world.<br/><br/>Despite the universality of bereavement and grief, our cultural expression of it remains awkward and inarticulate. How can it still be that death - the only certain thing about living - is so difficult for us to commune with? In We Are Each Other Jess seeks to write the book she desperately needed to read, and contributes to a roster of works advancing a shared language of love, griefand healing such as Clover Stroud's The Red of my Blood, Cathy Rentzenbrink'sThe Last Act of Love and Michelle Zauner's Crying in H Mart. It is not a book about grief, but one which writes grief itself: the internal journey from obliteration to renewal, which has no end, through which Jess discovers unknown capacities for resilience, love and courage.

The sexual assault that stunned the world. A courageous woman's rallying call for 'shame to change sides'. For the very first time, Gisele Pelicot tells her story.<br/><br/>In 2024, Gisele Pelicot inspired and moved millions of people with her astonishing courage and dignity as she chose to waive her right to anonymity in her legal fight against her husband and the 50 men accused of her sexual assault. Gisele Pelicot's call for shame to change sides in cases of sexual abuse, and the power of the messages she has sent out to the world, have generated an extraordinary public response and moved both women and men all over the world.

<b>A radiant new memoir from beloved artist and writer Patti Smith, author of the National Book Award Winner <i>Just Kids.</i></b><br/><i><br/>God whispers through a crease in the wallpaper</i>, writes Patti Smith in this indelible account of her life as an artist. A post-Second World War childhood unfolds in a condemned housing complex described in Dickensian detail: consumptive children, vanishing neighbours, an infested rat house, and a beguiling book of Irish fairytales. We enter the child's world of the imagination where Smith, the captain of her loyal and beloved sibling army, vanquishes bullies, communes with the king of tortoises and searches for sacred silver pennies.<br/><br/>The most intimate of Smith's memoirs, <i>Bread of Angels</i> takes us through her teenage years where the first glimmers of art and romance take hold. Arthur Rimbaud and Bob Dylan emerge as creative heroes and role models as Patti starts to write poetry, then lyrics, merging both into the iconic songs and recordings such as <i>Horses</i> and<i> Easter</i>, 'Dancing Barefoot' and 'Because the Night'.<br/><br/>She leaves it all behind to marry her one true love, Fred Sonic Smith, with whom she creates a life of devotion and adventure on a canal in St. Clair Shores, Michigan with ancient willows and fulsome pear trees. She builds a room of her own, furnished with a pillow of Moroccan silk, a Persian cup, inkwell and fountain pen. The couple spend nights in their landlocked Chris-Craft studying nautical maps and charting new adventures as they start their family.<br/><br/>As Smith suffers profound losses, grief and gratitude are braided through years of caring for her children, rebuilding her life and, finally, writing again - the one constant in a life driven by artistic freedom and the power of the imagination to transform the mundane into the beautiful, the commonplace into the magical, and pain into hope. In the final pages, we meet Patti on the road again, the vagabond who travels to commune with herself, who lives to write and writes to live.