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  • Scandal

    How homosexuality became a crime

    by David Boyle ...
    Why was homosexuality made illegal in the UK in the summer of 1885, so suddenly and unexpectedly – leading to the persecution of tens of thousands over the next eight decades?This book looks at the strange story behind that decision, and the furore that tore apart Irish society the previous year – and retraces the journey of the author’s ancestor who fled from arrest at the height of the affair ... Read more

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  • Abandoned In The Dark

    by David Boyle ...
    Abandoned in the Dark is a collection of unnerving stories which are grounded in reality, journeys that promise to keep you awake at night and get your heart pound- ing. "Abandoned in the Dark" and "Close Call," among other similar stories collected here, delve into our universal feeling of dread and will ruthlessly steal your breath away. "Behind the Curtain," a uniquely unsettling sexual tale ... Read more

    $7.95 CAD

  • Blondel's Song

    The capture, Imprisonment and Ransom of Richard the Lionheart

    by David Boyle ...
    On his way back from the crusades, one of England's most famous and romantic medieval kings was ship-wrecked and stranded near Venice. Trying to make his way home in disguise, he was arrested and imprisoned and effectively disappeared. He didn't return home for another fifteen months, and at enormous cost - a quarter of the entire wealth of England was paid to win his release.The extraordinary ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Get Sh!t Done

    by David Boyle ...
    GET SH!T DONE was written for the leader who ends every week exhausted but somehow still feels behind. The one who's involved in everything, deciding everything, fixing everything - and watching the business move slower because of it, not faster. That's not a talent problem. That's a leadership problem.David Boyle has spent decades in business, automotive, management, and leadership, and what he's ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • What if Money Grew on Trees?

    Asking the big questions about economics

    by David Boyle ...
    Asking the big questions about economics. What if...? are the two words that sow the seeds for human speculation, experimentation, invention, evolution, revolution, and change. In an uncertain age, economists are asking, What if growth stopped growing?; scientists, What if light speed were overtaken?; and politicians, What if the third world became the first? What If Money Grew On Trees? ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Abandoned In The Dark

    by David Boyle ...
    Abandoned in the Dark is a collection of unnerving stories which are grounded in reality, journeys that promise to keep you awake at night and get your heart pound- ing. "Abandoned in the Dark" and "Close Call," among other similar stories collected here, delve into our universal feeling of dread and will ruthlessly steal your breath away. "Behind the Curtain," a uniquely unsettling sexual tale ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Remains of the Way

    by David Boyle ...
    A Brexit thriller where Adrian Matison, junior Treasury mandarin, follows the clues left by his friend, murdered on the Pilgrim's Way and discovers a forgotten government agency, founded in Henry VIII's time, is behind the efforts to leave Europe. ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • The Piper

    by David Boyle ...
    It is the summer of 1990. The first Gulf War looms, the satanic abuse panic rages, and one strange market town, unchanged for decades, suddenly and disastrously runs out of money. The crisis brings together the mayor and the man he wronged four decades before. This is a haunting tale of passing time, and a Pied Piper story for our own era, of the Blitz, the explosion of money, of clone towns, the ... Read more

    $8.23 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Understanding The Communist Manifesto

    by David Boyle ...
    Series series Words That Changed the World
    The Communist Manifesto is one of the world's most influential political documents. Written by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, it presented the Communist League's program and purposes. It explained the goals of communism and the theory underlying the movement. Among other topics, this volume discusses and brings to life the reasons why the document was written, how it was received by the people ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

  • Tickbox

    by David Boyle ...
    The word 'tickbox' emerged recently as a cynical angle on official or corporate incompetence. They had 'ticked the box' - people said - but failed to act. It is increasingly used to describe this gap between official spin and reality.Yet, says David Boyle in this powerful expose of tickbox culture, that is just the tip of a vast tickbox iceberg. The only people who remain blind to this gap are ... Read more

    Was $9.99 CAD Now $4.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Little Outside-in-the-Snow and other stories

    by David Boyle ...
    How did that cat get so helpful - and so human?The princess left outside one snowy night who feels she can't ever come inside again...The gipsy boy waiting to hear his fate as the will of his guardian is read to his unpleasant relatives...The author explains that he believes in fairies, and says a little bit about why in a final essay. These authentic but contemporary folk tales don’t quite prove ... Read more

    $5.52 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wizard

    by David Boyle ...
    Dotty finds herself in Browntown and saves the world with the help of a cow, a salmon and a small dog - a modern version of the Oz tale. ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD