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“chris mikul”

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  • My Favourite Dictators

    The Strange Lives of Tyrants

    by Chris Mikul ...
    “I’m personally against seeing my pictures and statues in the streets, but it’s what the people want.” — Saparmurat Niyazov, dictator of Turkmenistan Dictators may be among the worst people in history, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t laugh at them. In My Favourite Dictators, Chris Mikul tells the stories of eleven of the twentieth century’s most colourful and reviled human beings, including ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Cult Files

    by Chris Mikul ...
    The Cult Files explores the history, features and beliefs of seventeen cults through the ages. Riveting, sometimes amusing, often horrifying stories show the inside workings of these groups, and trace their history -and often their demise. The book includes the Aum Shinrikyo followers, who killed twelve people in a poison gas attack on the Tokyo subway; and the Peoples Temple, in which Jim Jones ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Bizarrism Vol 1

    the revised and expanded edition

    by Chris Mikul ...
    Bizarrism is a collection of strange-but-true tales, featuring a grand parade of eccentrics, visionaries, crackpots, cult leaders, artists, theorists and outsiders of every stripe. First published in 1999, this new, fully revised and expanded edition revisits a host of unique individuals, including:   William Chidley, who believed that, when it comes to sex, we’ve all been making a terrible ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Eccentropedia

    The Most Unusual People Who Have Ever Lived

    by Chris Mikul ...
    An A-Z of eccentrics! 250 true stories of the most original and outrageous people on earth, from bad poets to transsexual evolutionary theorists this encyclopedic guide covering ancient times to the present, includes reams of material never seen in book form before. Famous eccentrics like King Ludwig, Salvador Dalí and Howard Hughes rub shoulders with a host of lesser-known, but equally colorful ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Bizarrism II

    by Chris Mikul, Glenn Smith ...
    Bizarrism II collects further tales of high weirdness from around the world, including: • The curious death of Sherlock Holmes scholar Richard Lancelyn Green. • Baroness Eloise de Bosquet and the mystery of Floreana • The strange odyssey of William Seabrook writer, adventurer, cannibal. • JLB Smith’s obsessive search for the coelacanth. • The cult that promised eternal life. • The unexpectedly ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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    $5.99 CAD

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  • How to be Well Read

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    by John Sutherland ...
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    $10.99 CAD

  • Lights Out for the Territory

    by Iain Sinclair ...
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  • Dreaming To Some Purpose

    by Colin Wilson ...
    Colin Wilson is the bete-noir of the Oxbridge literary establishment. He never went to university, let alone Oxbridge, yet wrote The Outsider, a brilliant account of the pain of being alive today, when he was just twenty-four. It sold millions of copies around the world, and he was acclaimed as one of the leading intellectuals of the age, finding a huge audience with the anti-establishment, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Bibliomaniac

    An Obsessive's Tour of the Bookshops of Britain

    by Robin Ince ...
    In this warm and witty celebration of the written word, the popular comedian and presenter takes the reader on a journey across Britain as he explores his lifelong love of books and bookshops. Why play to 12,000 people when you can play to 12? In Autumn 2021, Robin Ince's stadium tour with Professor Brian Cox was postponed due to the pandemic. Rather than do nothing, he decided he would instead go ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Curiosities of Literature

    A Book-lover's Anthology of Literary Erudition

    by John Sutherland ...
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    $15.99 CAD

  • Weird Deaths

    by Harold Warwick ...
    Hilarious ways people have met their deaths, from the unusual to the absurd. Plus lots of stories on people who didn't die, but others thought they had kicked the bucket.These deaths are similar to the Darwin Awards, where people died by accident in the most weird ways thought possible.Crazy ways to die include:Death by MolassesDeath by ChessDeath by HoardingDeath by LaughingDeath by ArousalDeath ... Read more

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