Skip to main content
Search Button
Canada Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


“christopher bray”

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “christopher bray”
Skip side bar filters

  • Sean Connery

    The measure of a man

    by Christopher Bray ...
    Sean Connery's personification of secret agent James Bond invigorated Britain and its cinema, allowing a cash-strapped, morale-sapped country in decline to fancy itself still a player on the world stage. But while Bond would make Connery the first actor to command a million dollar-plus fee, the man himself was forever pouring scorn on the fantasies audiences found it increasingly hard to separate ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Kingdom of Heaven with Boots On

    A Camino Tale

    by Christopher Bray ...
    The author of this memoir thought he was walking the Camino alone until, on the evening of the 4th of September 2017, a clairvoyant hospitelera told him someone was walking with him. It’s the son who killed himself 26 years earlier. After this revelation the pilgrimage to Santiago becomes a walk into a mirror: the further they walk onwards together, the deeper they return to the past. In this way ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Hallucinated Memories: The Linguistic Trap of the DRM Paradigm

    Semantics, Suggestion, and the Instant Fabrication of False Truths in Human Cognition

    by Christopher Bray ...
    Human memory is not a flawless video recorder; it is a highly suggestible, pattern-seeking engine that is incredibly easy to hack. The most elegant and terrifying proof of this is the Deese-Roediger-McDermott (DRM) Paradigm. In this psychological experiment, a researcher reads a list of related words: "bed, rest, awake, tired, dream, blanket." Later, when asked to recall the list, the vast ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • 1965

    The Year Modern Britain was Born

    by Christopher Bray ...
    There is Britain before 1965 and Britain after 1965 - and they are not the same thing.1965 was the year Britain democratised education, it was the year pop culture began to be taken as seriously as high art, the time when comedians and television shows imported the methods of modernism into their work.It was when communications across the Atlantic became instantaneous, the year when, for the first ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • The Illegal

    by Lawrence Hill ...
    Keita Ali is on the run.Like every boy on the mountainous island of Zantoroland, running is all Keita’s ever wanted to do. In one of the poorest nations in the world, running means respect. Running means riches—until Keita is targeted for his father’s outspoken political views and discovers he must run for his family’s survival.He signs on with notorious marathon agent Anton Hamm, but when Keita ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Circus: A Story from Circus

    by Claire Battershill ...
    The CBC Literary Award–winning title story from Claire Battershill’s debut collection, winner of the Canadian Authors Association Emerging Writer Award, and a finalist for the Canadian Authors Association Emerging Writer Award and the PEN International / New Voices Award.For as long as Susan can remember, the circus has been part of her family’s DNA – her mother was a gifted contortionist, and her ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

  • A Spectacle of Dust

    The Autobiography

    by Pete Postlethwaite ...
    Vibrant and candid memoirs of the late, great British character actor, Pete Postlethwaite.After training as a teacher, Pete Postlethwaite started his acting career at the Liverpool Everyman Theatre where his colleagues included Bill Nighy, Jonathan Pryce, Antony Sher and Julie Walters. After routine early appearances in small parts for television programmes such as THE PROFESSIONALS, Postlethwaite ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Robertson Davies

    Magician of Words

    by Nicholas Maes ...
    Series Book 24 - Quest Biography
    Born in Thamesville, Ontario, a student at Queen’s University in Kingston in the 1930’s, and editor and later publisher of the Peterborough Examiner from the 1940s to the mid-1960s, playwright, essayist, critic, professor, and novelist Robertson Davies (1913-1995) was one of Canada’s pre-eminent literary voices for more than a half-century.Davies, with his generous beard and donnish manner, was ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • In Two Minds

    A Biography of Jonathan Miller

    by Kate Bassett ...
    In Two Minds is the first comprehensive biography of Jonathan Miller – the story of one of post-war Britain's most intriguing polymaths. Descended from immigrants who fled Tsarist anti-Semitism to become shopkeepers in Ireland and London's East End, Miller was born into an intellectual milieu, between Bloomsbury and Harley Street – the son of a novelist and a leading child psychiatrist. Miller ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • London Peculiar and Other Nonfiction

    by Michael Moorcock ...
    Voted by the London Times as one of the best writers since 1945, Michael Moorcock was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize and won the Guardian Fiction Prize. He has won almost all the major Science Fiction, Fantasy, and lifetime achievement awards including the “Howie,” the Prix Utopiales and the Stoker. Best known for his rule-breaking SF and Fantasy, including the classic Elric and Hawkmoon ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fighting Proud

    The Untold Story of the Gay Men Who Served in Two World Wars

    by Stephen Bourne ...
    In this astonishing new history of wartime Britain, historian Stephen Bourne unearths the fascinating stories of the gay men who served in the armed forces and at home, and brings to light the great unheralded contribution they made to the war effort. Fighting Proud weaves together the remarkable lives of these men, from RAF hero Ian Gleed – a Flying Ace twice honoured for bravery by King George ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Clive James On Television

    by Clive James ...
    **A hilarious journey through the life and television of the 1970s and 80s, this nostalgic time capsule collects the treasured columns of Clive James.'The funniest writer in Britain' – Sunday Times**Clive James is the man who created TV criticism as a genre, bringing to it all the breadth of reference, intelligence and delight that he brought to more conventionally highbrow art forms. At a time ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD