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<p><b>A <i>Vogue</i> insiders' view of the world of Cristobal Balenciaga.</b></p><p>This essential companion to the world of Cristobal Balenciaga takes you through two decades of designs; from revolutionising the female silhouette in the Fifties, when he experimented with the semi-fitted shape, the sack dress, the cocoon and the babydoll, to the bold, fluid lines of his last two collections in the Sixties.</p><p>Featuring stunning photography from <i>Vogue</i>'s unique archive, as well as original illustrations, discover the world of Balenciaga via the most authoritative and prestigious source of reference on fashion. </p><p>Other titles in the <i>Vogue on</i> series include <i>Vogue on: Elsa Schiaparelli</i>; <i>Vogue on: Coco Chanel</i> and <i>Vogue on: Christian Dior</i>.</p>

Angela Merkel Autobiography [Bok / Häftad]

<p><b>*Pre-order now: the first book to look at the </b><b>unstoppable</b><b> rise of Formula One*</b><br/><br/>Few sports are as synonymous with money as Formula One. Its drivers are among the world's most highly paid athletes, and it costs more than a billion pounds to keep its ten teams ticking over. Celebrities and their entourages flock to glamorous locations around the world - Monaco, Miami, Las Vegas - to be seen on the grid or lounging on a superyacht.<br/><br/>This is a sport where money - the spending of it, the flaunting of it, the ruthless pursuit of it - matters.<br/><br/><i>Fast Money</i> will be the first book to treat F1 as the business it is. As one of the world's most popular sports, and with races in far corners of the globe, F1 is big business.<br/><br/>With unparalleled insight and decades of reporting, they describe the pivotal moments which have driven the sport to new heights - the influx of tobacco advertising, the Concorde agreement, television deals, the reign of Bernie Ecclestone, and the huge popularity of Drive to Survive. Featuring exclusive interviews with the sports major players and featuring never-before-heard stories, Fast Money reveals the multitude of deal that turned the sport from a pastime for wealthy enthusiasts into the world's most-watched annual sports series.</p>

<p>Based on four years of reporting; extensive travels with President Zelensky to the front; and dozens of interviews with him, his wife, his friends and enemies, his advisers, ministers and military commanders, The Showman tells an intimate and eye-opening story of the President&rsquo;s evolution from a slapstick actor to a symbol of resilience, revealing how he managed to rally the world&rsquo;s democracies behind his cause. Clear-eyed about the President&rsquo;s early failures as a peacemaker and his willingness to silence political dissent, the book offers a complex picture of a man struggling to break what he sees as a historical cycle of oppression that began generations before he was born. Even as the war drags on, Zelensky lays out his vision for its future course and, through his actions, demonstrates his strategy for countering the Russians and keeping the West on his side. The result is a riveting, up-close picture of the invasion as experienced by its number one target and improbable hero. The Showman, as a work of eyewitness journalism, provides an essential perspective on the war defining our age. As a study in leadership and human resolve, its appeal is timeless and universal.</p>

<p> <strong>The untold story behind the hit true crime podcast <em>The Clearing, </em>this unforgettable memoir traces one daughter's moving quest to understand her larger-than-life childhood as she searches for the truth about her father, the serial killer Edward Wayne Edwards.</strong> </p> <p>One evening in 2009, April Balascio was searching online, as she had been every night, for unsolved murders in the towns her family had lived growing up, when she stumbled across the latest investigations into the "Sweetheart Murders" cold case. All at once, the buried memories of her father's dark history were awakened, and she knew she had to take action. She picked up the phone to call a detective and the rest is infamous true crime history.</p> <p>In her unflinching memoir, Balascio bravely reveals an astonishing tale of a lifetime of manipulation, unexplained upheavals, and silent fear. Some part of her had always known what her father was capable of, but the full truth of how she came to these revelations is as riveting as it is quietly terrifying. Through searing storytelling, dedicated research, and intimate insight, <em>Raised by a Serial Killer</em> is a gripping, courageous memoir unlike any other.</p>

<p> <strong>A TOP BOOK FOR 2024 IN: <em>THE OBSERVER</em>, <em>INDEPENDENT</em>, <em>SUNDAY TIMES</em> AND <em>BOOKSELLER</em></strong> </p> <p> <strong>'He understands only the women he invents - the others not at all'</strong> </p> <p>Thomas Hardy is one of the most beloved and most-read British authors. His influence on literature and the minds of his readers is singular. But how is it that the novelist who created some of the most memorable and modern female characters in literature had such troubled relationships with real women?</p> <p>In this highly innovative book, acclaimed biographer Paula Byrne re-examines Hardy's life through the eyes of the women who made him - mother, sisters, girlfriends, wives, muses. The story veers from shocking scenes such as his obsession with the sight of a woman hanged, to poignant vignettes of unfulfilled passion, to fascinating details of working women's lives in the nineteenth century.</p> <p><em>Hardy Women</em> is the story of how the magnificent fictional women he invented would not have been possible without the hardship and hardiness of the real ones who shaped his passions and his imagination. It is only through understanding and witnessing these hardy women that we can truly enter the heart of this great novelist and poet.</p>