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  • A House In Damascus - Before The Fall

    by Brian Stoddart ...
    As Syria confronts an uncertain future, A House in Damascus seeks to balance the Western view with the lives and views of the everyday people living in the world’s oldest continuing capital city Drawn from the author's experiences occurring immediately before the 2011-2012 social and political upheaval, each story traces the Old City of Damascus and its people's present through the past, capturing ... Read more

    $6.49 CAD

  • A Straits Settlement

    A Superintendent Le Fanu Mystery

    by Brian Stoddart ...
    In the third installment of the Le Fanu Mystery series, the intrepid superintendent is promoted to Inspector-General of Police in 1920s Madras, which proves to be more boring than he had envisaged.Instead of pushing papers across his desk, the Le Fanu focuses on the disappearance of a senior Indian Civil Service officer and an apparently unrelated murder. As the two incidents intertwine, the world ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • A Greater God

    by Brian Stoddart ...
    Series Book 4 - Superintendent Le Fanu Mysteries
    Superintendent Chris Le Fanu returns to Madras from Penang where he leaves his new Straits Chinese love interest, Jenlin Koh, and a tempting new post in police intelligence there. He finds Hindu-Muslim tension on the rise in Madras, and his friends and subordinates Mohammad Habibullah and Jackson Caldicott at loggerheads as a result. A series of Muslim murders around the Presidency adds more ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • The Madras Miasma

    The LE FANU Mysteries, #1

    by Brian Stoddart ...
    Series Book 1 - The LE FANU Mysteries
    Superintendent Chris Le Fanu heads a special 1920s Crime Unit in the Indian city of Madras but is in conflict with Commissioner Arthur Jepson who despises the Unit's use of investigative methods pioneered by Austrian criminologist Hans Gross. With nationalist demands rising, the European community wants hardline police action and his colleagues in the force prefer repression over negotiation but ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sport, Culture and History

    Region, nation and globe

    by Brian Stoddart ...
    Series series Sport in the Global Society
    In addition to being an internationally recognised pioneer of sports history, Brian Stoddart has also been a leading thinker and influence in the field. That influence has crossed several areas of history, sociology, business, politics and media aspects of sports studies, and has drawn deeply upon his own training in Asian studies. His work has been characterised by cross-disciplinary work from ... Read more

    $114.04 CAD

  • Land, Water, Language and Politics in Andhra

    Regional Evolution in India Since 1850

    by Brian Stoddart ...
    Series series South Asian History and Culture
    This book explains how access to and use of land, water and language helped shape Andhra politics in India from 1850 down to the present day. After independence, the debate over land reform and policies on irrigation has shaped the fortunes of various governments, while the debate over the make-up of the language-based state has stimulated separatist movements like the one in support of Telangana ... Read more

    $101.99 CAD

  • Cricket and Empire

    The 1932-33 Bodyline Tour of Australia

    by Ric Sissons, Brian Stoddart ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Sports Studies
    A great depression, worsening Anglo-Australian relations, the declining British Empire and the challenge from an Australia striving to find a national identity are the context which explain bodyline and its repercussions. Bodyline was a watershed in the history of cricket and politics were publicly seen as part of sport. This book offers a radical reappraisal of bodyline which challenges the ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

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    Series Book 1 - Wyndham and Banerjee series
    In Calcutta 1919, every truth has a price.Desperate for a fresh start, Captain Sam Wyndham arrives to take up an important post in Calcutta's police force.He is soon called to the scene of a horrifying murder. The victim was a senior official, and a note left in his mouth warns the British to leave India - or else.With the stability of the Empire under threat, Wyndham and Sergeant 'Surrender-not' ... Read more

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  • Soul on the Street

    by William Roache ...
    William Roache has been an actor on Britain's best-loved soap opera, Coronation Street, for over 50 years – making him the world's longest-serving soap star.As a young actor William auditioned for a TV drama that was likely to be running for only a few weeks. Now, almost 50 years later, he is the only original cast member and the soap's success has established him as a household name.Over the ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

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  • Harry's Game

    by Gerald Seymour ...
    A Sunday Times '100 best crime novels and thrillers since 1945' pick!A British cabinet minister is gunned down on a London street by an IRA assassin. In the wake of national outcry, the authorities must find the hitman. But the trail is long cold, the killer gone to ground in Belfast, and they must resort to more unorthodox methods to unearth him. Ill prepared and poorly briefed, undercover agent ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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  • The Prime Ministers

    The Parliamentary Book Award-winning account of Britain's leaders - a must-read for anyone interested in British politics and history

    by Iain Dale ...
    The ultimate guide to every Prime Minister there's ever been: 55 profiles by 55 different politicians, journalists and academics compiled by leading political commentator Iain DaleWinner of the 2020 Parliamentary Awards for Best Political Book by a Non-ParliamentarianA Times Political Book of the Year 2020*Featuring a foreword by Boris Johnson*-----It has almost been 300 years since Sir Robert ... Read more

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  • The Butterfly Lion

    by Michael Morpurgo ...
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    ILLUSTRATED BY CHRISTIAN BIRMINGHAM.A lyrical and moving tale of a young boy growing up in Africa, and his lifelong friendship with a white lion.“All my life I’ll think of you, I promise I will. I won’t ever forget you.”Bertie rescues an orphaned white lion cub from the African veld. They are inseparable until Bertie is sent to boarding school far away in England and the lion is sold to a circus. ... Read more

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