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  • The Pirate Who's Afraid of Everything

    by Annabeth Bondor-Stone, Connor White ...
    Illustrated by Anthony Holden ...
    Series Book 1 - Shivers!
    Recommended for summer reading by The Huffington Post!"When Shivers sets sail, adventure—and laughs—abound."—Tom Watson, author of the Stick Dog seriesMeet Shivers, the scaredy-est pirate to ever sail the Seven Seas. Along with his best friend, Margo, and his loyal fishmate, Albee, Shivers battles a giant squid, discovers hidden treasures, and gets pooped on by a pigeon to save his parents from ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Poems That Make Grown Men Cry

    100 Men on the Words That Move Them

    by Anthony Holden, Ben Holden ...
    A life-enhancing tour through classic and contemporary poems that have made men cry: “The Holdens remind us that you don’t have to be an academic or a postgraduate in creative writing to be moved by verse….It’s plain fun” (The Wall Street Journal).*Grown men aren’t supposed to cry…*Yet in this fascinating anthology, one hundred men—distinguished in literature and film, science and architecture, ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Queen Mother

    by Anthony Holden ...
    By the author of Their Royal Highnesses, Charles, Prince of Wales and Olivier, this is a biography of the Queen Mother. ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Based on a True Story

    by Anthony Holden ...
    From poker to poetry, poisoners to princes, opera to the Oscars, Shakespeare to Olivier, Mozart to Murdoch, Anthony Holden seems to have rolled many writers’ lives into one. Author of 35 books on a ‘crazy’ range of subjects, this cocky Lancashire lad-turned-bohemian citizen of the world has led an apparently charmed life from Merseyside to Buckingham Palace, the White House and beyond. As he turns ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • He Played For His Wife And Other Stories

    by Anthony Holden, Natalie Galustian ...
    He Played For His Wife…And Other Stories continues a rich tradition of fictional writing on one of the world’s greatest games.A ghost at the table, a heads-up with Shakespeare, a high stakes stick-up, a hand played on Death Row, tales of pioneers and knaves, even a celestial argy-bargy – each story in this anthology reveals that when it comes to playing poker, no one can hide from their true ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Olivier

    by Anthony Holden ...
    This is a biography of Laurence Olivier, the actor, director, impresario, founder of the National Theatre, Oscar-winning film star and the first peer in the history of the profession. ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Man Who Wrote Mozart: The Extraordinary Life of Lorenzo Da Ponte

    by Anthony Holden ...
    “During his picaresque, chameleon career, [Da Ponte] was always on the move. Jew and Catholic, priest and womaniser, poet and bankrupt, shopkeeper and university professor, he began his long life in and around Venice and ended it in New York. It is hard to imagine a more flamboyant personal history, a gift to the biographer Anthony Holden, who relishes his subject’s sheer exuberance.” — Lucasta ... Read more

    $17.85 CAD

  • Poems That Make Grown Women Cry

    by Anthony Holden, Ben Holden ...
    The internationally bestselling collection of poetry so powerful that it has moved readers to tears. “Anthony and Ben Holden remind us that you don’t have to be an academic or a postgraduate in creative writing to be moved by verse” (The Wall Street Journal).One hundred women—distinguished in literature and film, science and law, theater and human rights—share poems that have stayed with them long ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Holden On Hold'em

    How to Play and Win at the Biggest Deal in Town

    by Anthony Holden ...
    Holden is an experienced poker player who does not pretend to be as expert as the world's top pros; but he can write better than them - and he knows most well enough to milk them for personalized advice, tips and subtle strategies.HOLDEN ON HOLD'EM thoroughly analyses the difference between home and casino play, between cash and tournament play, between internet poker and the real thing against ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Big Deal

    One Year as a Professional Poker Player

    by Anthony Holden ...
    BIG DEAL is the mesmerising story of a year spent by bestselling biographer Anthony Holden in the tough world of the professional poker player. He spent days and nights in the poker paradise of Las Vegas, in Malta and Morocco, even shipboard, mingling with the legendary greats, sharpening his game, perfecting his repartee, and learning a great deal about himself in the process.Poker, Holden would ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Bigger Deal

    A Year on the 'New' Poker Circuit

    by Anthony Holden ...
    Fifteen years on from Anthony Holden's undisputed classic BIG DEAL, the poker world has changed beyond recognition. When Holden played in the 1988 World Series of Poker there were 167 entrants competing for a prize of $270,000. At the 2006 WSOP, where this book climaxes, there were 8773 players and a first prize of some $12 million - the richest in any sport. What happened in the years between BIG ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • William Shakespeare

    His Life and Work

    by Anthony Holden ...
    Who was William Shakespeare? How did the 'rude groom' from Stratford grow up to be the greatest poet the world has known? Not for a generation, since the late Anthony Burgess's SHAKESPEARE (1970), has there been anything approaching a popular, mainstream biography of the greatest and most celebrated writer. Yet Shakespeare's life was as colourful, varied and dramatic as his works: the Warwickshire ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD