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  • What Doesn't Kill Us

    by Ajay Close ...
    A killer stalks the streets of Leeds, a city in England's industrial north. Every man is a suspect. Every woman is at risk. But in a house on Cleopatra Street, women are fighting back.It's the eve of the 1980s. Police officer Liz Seeley joins the squad investigating the murders. With a violent boyfriend at home and male chauvinist pigs at work, she is drawn to a feminist collective led by the ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • What We did in the Dark

    by Ajay Close ...
    I made what may be called a rash and foolish marriage to a man I scarcely knew.1904: Cathie longs for adventure. A whirlwind romance with soldier and artist Herbert Jackson offers this and more, but Herbert is violently jealous and she is soon fighting for her freedom – and her life. A fictionalised account of Catherine Carswell's first marriage, What We Did in the Dark is a compelling portrait of ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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    What Doesn't Kill Us

    by Ajay Close ...
    Narrated by Molly Hannan ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 54 min

    A killer stalks the streets of Leeds, a city in England's industrial north. Every man is a suspect. Every woman is at risk. But in a house on Cleopatra Street, women are fighting back.It's the eve of the 1980s. Police officer Liz Seeley joins the squad investigating the murders. With a violent boyfriend at home and male chauvinist pigs at work, she is drawn to a feminist collective led by the ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    A Petrol Scented Spring

    by Ajay Close ...
    Narrated by Jilly Bond ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 9 min

    The day after her wedding, Donella Ferguson Watson wakes up shackled to a man haunted by the past. The lonely days become weeks, months. Her husband Hugh, a prison doctor, will offer no explanation for their sexless marriage. She comes to suspect the answer lies with a hunger-striking suffragette who was force fed and held in solitary confinement. But what really happened between Hugh and his ... Read more

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  • The Stories

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  • Come Home Charlie & Face Them

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  • The Penguin Book of the British Short Story: 2

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    by Evelyn Waugh ...
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    In this unique collection of short stories composed between 1910-62, Evelyn Waugh's early juvenilia are brought together with later pieces, some of which became the inspirations for his novels. 'Mr Loveday's Little Outing' is a blackly comic tale of a mental asylum and its favourite resident; 'Cruise' sees a hilarious series of letters from a naïve young woman as she travels with her family; 'A ... Read more

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