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  • There's No 'F' In Wonderful

    by Bill Broady ...
    A disillusioned, drug-soaked intellectual is escaping 'The Heat' – both literal and metaphorical – by relocating to a new town in the North. What follows is a surreal immersion into the region's club culture, where fevered dancing, shadowy relationships, and the rituals of nightlife blur the boundaries between reality and delirium. Employment as a croupier leads to encounters with a cast of ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • In This Block There Lives a Slag…

    And Other Yorkshire Fables

    by Bill Broady ...
    A cracking collection of short stories from the author of the stupendous ‘Swimmer’.In the title story of this sharp, clever collection of short stories, an odd-job man arrives home to his Bradford council block to find a message waiting for one of its inhabitants…in ten-foot-high letters. With his white van and set of ladders, he’s the chief suspect. But who is the mysterious Slag that has the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Swimmer

    by Bill Broady ...
    She swims into the medals and then into oblivion – a sensuous, searing, compact debut from an outstanding British writer.This is a striking, supple and direct debut from an English writer that both promises an exceptionally exciting future and provides an unusual, accomplished and saleable debut. It’s a character piece, charting the life of a girl who becomes besotted with butterflies and swimming ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Night-Soil Men

    by Bill Broady ...
    Series series
    Book of the Day: New StatesmanBroady's major work of fiction, nearly a decade in the writing, explores the origins and development of the Independent Labour Party – the working-class political movement founded in Bradford in 1893. Detailing the exploits, fortunes, and relationships of three central characters: passionate Fred Jowett, ruthless Philip Snowden (later, the Labour Party's first ... Read more

    $14.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    by Paul O'Grady ...
    Paul O'Grady is one of Britain's very best loved entertainers. He is known and adored by millions, whether as the creator of the acid-tongued Blonde Bombsite, Lily Savage, or the presenter of the fantastically successful, award-winning Paul O'Grady Show on Channel 4.Now, in his own unique voice, Paul O'Grady tells story of his early life in Irish Catholic Birkenhead that started him on the long ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Sealed with a Kiss: Exclusive Short Story

    by Fiona Walker ...
    Digital download exclusive short story: a wonderfully warm comedy of mistaken identity from the incomparable Fiona Walker, ahead of her new novel The Love Letter.Allegra North's second thoughts about splitting with childhood sweetheart Francis need a first-class stamp. But with her unfinished letter to him still in her handbag, she can't find the right words to express her regrets. Invited to a ... Read more

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  • Collected Poems

    by Roger McGough ...
    Roger McGough is one of Britain's best loved poets and this collection 'charts [his] passage from youthful exuberance to the wry reflection of his later years. What remains the same throughout the 40 years is the poet's winning wit, accessibility and abiding readability' Independent ----------------------------------'Time has confirmed ... that McGough's talent was much more substantial than many ... Read more

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  • Book of Matches

    by Simon Armitage ...
    'A firework display of technique, versatility and passion.' Independent on Sunday'The crafted sincerity of this potent, lyrical collection, in which an absolutely contemporary voice concisely expresses common concerns, is everything that poetry should be.' Times Literary Supplement'The first poet of serious artistic intent since Philip Larkin to have achieved popularity . . . it is possible that ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • Best British Short Stories 2021

    by Nicholas Royle, Julia Armfield, A. J. Ashworth, Iphgenia Baal, Emma Bolland, Tom Bromley, Gary Budden, Jen Calleja, Robert Dewa, John Foxx, Josephine Galvin, Uschi Gatward, Meave Haughey, Hilaire, Alice Jolly, Isha Karki, Yasmine Lever, Simon Okotie, Mel Pryor, Douglas Thompson, Matthew Turner ...
    Series Book 11 - Best British Short Stories
    The nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its eleventh year.Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or, more accurately, by its title. This critically acclaimed series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British writers, whether based in the UK or elsewhere. The editor's brief is wide ranging, covering ... Read more

    $10.89 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • British As A Second Language

    by David Bennun ...
    David Bennun had lived in Africa his whole life. At the age of 18 he came to Britain, the mother country. The country he had read about in Punch magazine or seen in films like Chariots of Fire. He was in for a shock. A very big shock indeed: 'I could not have been less prepared had I spent my life up to that point listening to 30-year-old broadcasts of the Light Programme.'In this timely follow-up ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • My First Colouring Book

    by Lloyd Jones ...
    Love, angels, addiction and death; they're all here in My First Colouring Book, a collection of short stories from award-winning novelist Lloyd Jones. Themed on all the colours of the rainbow - and a few extra - these stories and essays paint a picture of criss-crossing lives. They are spoken by an unexpected variety of voices: a young girl has adventures in the night, a surgeion becomes a ... Read more

    $9.49 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Secret Scripture

    A Novel

    by Sebastian Barry ...
    **FINALIST FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE“[Barry writes] in language of surpassing beauty. . . . It is like a song, with all the pulse of the Irish language, a song sung liltingly and plaintively from the top of Ben Bulben into the airy night.” —The New York TimesAn epic story of family, love, and unavoidable tragedy from the acclaimed author of Old God's Time and The Newer World**Sebastian Barry's novels ... Read more

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