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  • Arts Reviews

    And How to Write Them

    by Celia Brayfield ...
    Whether your passion is film, music, books, visual arts, or the stage, you can get closer to it as a reviewer and establish a career in one of the most influential roles open to a writer. A great review can be read by millions, and writing it calls for a high degree of skill. Based on a lifelong passion, packed into a few hundred words, and often written in less than an hour, a review makes heavy ... Read more

    $19.30 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Writing Historical Fiction

    A Writers' and Artists' Companion

    by Celia Brayfield, Duncan Sprott ...
    Series series Writers’ and Artists’ Companions
    Writing Historical Fiction: A Writers' & Artists' Companion is an invaluable companion for a writer working in this challenging and popular literary genre, whether your period is Ancient Rome or World War II.PART 1 includes reflections on the genre and provides a short history of historical fiction.PART 2 contains guest contributions from Margaret Atwood, Ian Beck, Madison Smartt Bell, Ronan ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Writing Black Beauty

    Anna Sewell, the Creation of a Novel, and the Story of Animal Rights

    by Celia Brayfield ...
    The story of a remarkable woman who wrote a novel that not only became a classic, but also changed the way human society views and treats animals.Born in 1829 to a young Quaker couple, Anna Sewell grew up in poverty in London. She was fourteen when she fell and injured her ankle, which left her permanently disabled. Rejecting the life of a Victorian invalid, she developed an extraordinary empathy ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Deep France

    A Writer's Year in the Bearn

    by Celia Brayfield ...
    Novelist Celia Brayfield had never lived more than a taxi ride from Soho, until one day she decided to take a year off. With the computer and the cats in the back of the car, and the blessing of her student daughter, she drove South until the dawn came up in the Bearn, the most romantic, remote and rustic region of France.Deep France is the diary of a writer's year in a tiny French village, trying ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • The House on the Strand

    by Daphne du Maurier ...
    Series Book 125 - Virago Modern Classics
    FROM THE BESTSELLING WRITER OF REBECCA'The House on the Strand is prime du Maurier . . . ' NEW YORK TIMES'She wrote exciting plots . . . a writer of fearless originality' GUARDIAN'No other popular writer has so triumphantly defied classification . . . ' MARGARET FORSTERWhen Dick Young's friend, Professor Magnus Lane offers him an escape from his troubles i... ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Rebel Writers: The Accidental Feminists

    Shelagh Delaney • Edna O’Brien • Lynne Reid Banks • Charlotte Bingham • Nell Dunn • Virginia Ironside • Margaret Forster

    by Celia Brayfield ...
    'Make this your next inspirational read. Trust us, it's Oprah's Book Club worthy' ViceIn London in 1958, a play by a 19-year-old redefined women's writing in Britain. It also began a movement that would change women's lives forever. The play was A Taste of Honey and the author, Shelagh Delaney, was the first in a succession of young women who wrote about their lives with an honesty that dazzled ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • The Flight Of The Falcon

    by Daphne du Maurier ...
    Series Book 18 - Virago Modern Classics
    'She wrote exciting plots, she was highly skilled at arousing suspense' GUARDIAN'Daphne du Maurier is an excellent storyteller' KIRKUS REVIEWS'One of the last century's most original literary talents' DAILY TELEGRAPHAs a tour guide, Armino Fabbio leads a pleasant, if uneventful life - until he becomes circumstantially involved in the death of a peasant in Rome. The woman, he gradually lear... ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • On the Calculation of Volume (Book IV)

    by Solvej Balle ...
    Translated by Sophia Hersi Smith, Jennifer Russell ...
    The fourth installment of Balle’s expansive, and highly ambitious On the Calculation of Volume teems with new faces, new people, and voices from every corner of the western worldWe’re a little more than halfway through Balle’s hypnotic, monumental seven-volume novel about a woman set adrift within the walls of November 18th. Balle’s riveting project continues to wring ever more fascinating ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Hungry Hill

    by Daphne du Maurier ...
    Series Book 115 - Virago Modern Classics
    FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF REBECCA'Daphne du Maurier has no rival' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH'du Maurier is a magician, a virtuouso' GOOD HOUSEKEEPING'A storyteller of cunning and genius' SALLY BEAUMAN'I tell you your mine will be in ruins and your home destroyed and your children forgotten . . . but this hill will be standing still to confound you.' So curses M... ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Hearing Trumpet

    by Leonora Carrington, Olga Tokarczuk ...
    An old woman enters into a fantastical world of dreams and nightmares in this surrealist classic admired by Björk and Luis Buñuel.Leonora Carrington, painter, playwright, and novelist, was a surrealist trickster par excellence, and The Hearing Trumpet is the witty, celebratory key to her anarchic and allusive body of work. The novel begins in the bourgeois comfort of a residential corner of a ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

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  • On the Calculation of Volume (Book II)

    by Solvej Balle ...
    Translated by Barbara J. Haveland ...
    Tara Selter’s epic journey through November 18th continues in Book II of the masterly On the Calculation of Volume from one of Scandinavia’s most beloved writers.A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF 2024The first year of November eighteenth is coming to a close, and Tara Selter has returned to her hotel room in Paris, the place where it all began. As if perched at the edge of a precipice, she readies ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Grace

    an edge-of-your-seat atmospheric horror novel from the author of The Watchers

    by A.M. Shine ...
    SHE ESCAPED ONCE.NOW IT WANTS HER BACK.Everyone living on the island feels it. There are no visitors anymore. No children. No one willing to set foot there. Then Grace arrives.She's come to learn the truth about her birth parents and, in her search for answers, she soon feels the presence too – something lurking beneath the surface.The community is secretive, but one thing is clear: they are ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD