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  • The Coach-horn

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by An Old Guard ...
    This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design. With mock-serious confidence, this lively coaching manual teaches the art of sounding a coach-horn properly. Its author, an experienced horn-maker and driver, explains the difference between coach-horns and post-horns, arguing that shorter, well-made instruments are more practical than fashionable but cumbersome ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

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    A Poor Man at the Gate Series, #4

    by Andrew Wareham ...
    Series Book 4 - A Poor Man at the Gate Series
    Tom and Lady Verity intend to place their dynasty in a position of economic, social and political leadership in England. Captain Matthew Star returns to England and makes a love match with their daughter, Charlotte, much to her mother’s displeasure. There is social unrest in the country and riots become commonplace. The problem of unemployment in and around Tom’s estate is solved by encouraging a ... Read more

    $8.05 CAD

  • Privilege Preserved

    A Poor Man at the Gate Series, #5

    by Andrew Wareham ...
    Series Book 5 - A Poor Man at the Gate Series
    Tom Andrews and Joseph Star’s sons enjoy success in the world of commerce. In America, Henry Star is growing wealthy from illicit deals, but is implicated in a murder. Meanwhile, the settlers in New York State are facing dangers as disease strikes. There are shady dealings in Bombay involving slaves and opium-running. ... Read more

    $7.92 CAD

  • Illusions Of Change

    A Poor Man at the Gate Series, #6

    by Andrew Wareham ...
    Series Book 6 - A Poor Man at the Gate Series
    The Depression is over and fears of revolution have subsided, but there is still resentment over the previous year’s hangings. Robert is carrying out some very controversial actions on behalf of the government under cover of his bank’s business in America. Mad King George finally dies and a new reign appears to offer the possibility of change, but the realities of political and economic existence ... Read more

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  • The Old Order

    A Poor Man at the Gate Series, #7

    by Andrew Wareham ...
    Series Book 7 - A Poor Man at the Gate Series
    Tom becomes involved in the sordid suicide of Lord Castlereagh, the Foreign Secretary, and plays a major part in the cover up, earning much political gratitude for the whole family. Meanwhile, James marries well and begins to lay the foundations of a political career. The hunt for Tom’s attacker, Godby Fletcher, leads to America. Joseph, busy with his inventions, faces tragedy which may be too ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Crime and Punishment in Victorian London

    A Street Level View of the City's Underworld

    by Ross Gilfillan ...
    Discover the seamy history of nineteenth-century England that has inspired countless crime novels and films.Victorian London: All over the city, watches, purses, and handkerchiefs disappear from pockets; goods migrate from warehouses, off docks, and out of shop windows. Burglaries are rife, shoplifting is carried on in West End stores, and people fall victim to all kinds of ingenious swindles. ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Inside Dickens' London

    by Michael Paterson ...
    A fascinating, evocative account of 19th-century London, so well-known from Charles Dickens' much-loved novels.Inside Dickens' London draws on descriptions of life in the capital from original letters, diaries and newspapers, as well as Dickens' own social commentary, to paint a vivid portrait of a city undergoing massive social changes. No author has ever described the city of London as well as ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Journal of Beatrix Potter from 1881 to 1897

    by Beatrix Potter ...
    This ebook has been optimised for viewing on colour devices. Between the ages of 15 and 30 Beatrix Potter kept a secret diary written in code. When the code was cracked by Leslie Linder more than 20 years after her death, the diary revealed a remarkable picture of upper middle-class life in late Victorian Britain. This book provides an illuminating insight into the personality and inspiration of ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Complete Oom Schalk Lourens Stories

    by Herman Charles Bosman ...
    The entire sequence of Bosman’s famous Oom Schalk Lourens stories, in one volume for the first time. Edited from authoritative sources, and accompanied by original illustrations, this gathering represents a feast of South Africa’s best-loved tales. The sixty pieces include all-time favourites like “In the Withaak’s Shade”, “Makapan’s Caves” and “Willem Prinsloo’s Peach Brandy”, the Boer War ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Vice Of Virtue

    A Poor Man at the Gate Series, #10

    by Andrew Wareham ...
    Series Book 10 - A Poor Man at the Gate Series
    George IV dies and the rambunctious age of the Regency passes with him. Joseph Andrews is determined to atone for his weakness, in doing so he risks family unity. George Star flourishes in his ruthless money-making ventures, while the Railway Age is born, to the profit of some and dismay of others. In India, Wolverstone learns of a sinister plot involving poison, and Luke Star is facing unexpected ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Victorian Dawn

    A Poor Man at the Gate Series, #12

    by Andrew Wareham ...
    Series Book 12 - A Poor Man at the Gate Series
    The families face new challenges as the Victorian Age arrives. It is a new era but many of the old problems persist; food prices remain high, the poor remain hungry and the threat of civil unrest is ever-present. Furthermore, the health of the people is endangered as the cities grow but are unable to cope with swelling populations. The overcrowding increases the risk of deadly diseases, and wealth ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Stand and Deliver!

    A History of Highway Robbery

    by David Brandon ...
    Why is the highwayman largely perceived as a romantic, glamorous and gallant figure? How is it that men who were really nothing more than bandits, who were often gratuitously violent, sometimes murderers and rapists as well, have become the swashbuckling heroes of history? To put their roles in context, the book probes into the economic, social and technological factors that at certain times made ... Read more

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