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  • The Pursuit of Italy

    A History of a Land, its Regions and their Peoples

    by David Gilmour ...
    The book that explains the whole extraordinary course of Italian history like no other in EnglishThe Pursuit of Italy traces the whole history of the Italian peninsula in a wonderfully readable style, full of well-chosen stories and observations from personal experience, and peopled by many of the great figures of the Italian past, from Cicero and Virgil to Dante and the Medici, from Cavour and ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Perfect Order of Things

    A Novel

    by David Gilmour ...
    Like a tourist visiting his own life, David Gilmour's narrator journeys in time to reexamine those critical moments that created him. He revisits the terrible hurt of a first love, the shock of a parent's suicide, the trauma of a best friend's bizarre dissembling, and the pain and humiliation of unrelenting jealousy, among other rites of passage. Set within an episodic narrative arc stories about ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Extraordinary

    by David Gilmour ...
    From a Governor General’s Award–winning author comes a heart-rending novel about family, children and the end of life. Over the course of one Saturday night, a man and his half-sister meet at her request to spend the evening preparing for her assisted death. They drink and reminisce fondly, sadly, amusingly about their lives and especially her children, both of whom have led dramatic and ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Last Leopard

    A life of Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa

    by David Gilmour ...
    In 1957, Giuseppe Tomasi, the last Prince of the Sicilian Lampedusa family, died impoverished and unknown, leaving behind the manuscript of a book he had recently finished. The following year the book, The Leopard, was published in Italy and has since been widely translated and recognized as one of the great novels of the twentieth century. For over a quarter of a century, the reclusive man's ... Read more

    $11.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Relic Hunter, The

    by Christopher Cartwright ...
    Narrated by David Gilmore ...
    Series Audiobook 30 - Sam Reilly

    Unabridged

    15 hours 14 min

    A private jet crashes in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, killing everyone on board.One of the passengers was Darren Young, an entomologist who was meant to be working alone in Papua New Guinea, studying rare beetles.So why was he on a private jet on the other side of the world?And why, as his plane entered its fatal descent, did he send a text message to his wife containing just three simple words:“FIND ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Elixir of Life, The

    by Christopher Cartwright ...
    Narrated by David Gilmore ...
    Series Audiobook 31 - Sam Reilly

    Unabridged

    8 hours 8 min

    Kelly Robinson, a 24-year-old economics doctoral student, spent the day on a perilous climb to Abuna Yemata Guh, a 5th-century monolithic church carved into a sheer cliffside in Ethiopia.Inside, the chapel walls were covered with vibrant frescoes, their colors deep and rich, depicting serene biblical figures, saints, and angels.But then something happened that science couldn’t explain.Within hours ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Anathema

    by Kristopher Rufty ...
    Narrated by David Gilmore ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 56 min

    Hunter Jensen always dreamed of a big family house in the country. Thanks to the success of his latest novel, he’s finally able to make his dreams a reality in the tranquil town of Hargrave, North Carolina. Life is beautiful until his daughter Crystal tells him about the girl who lives in her closet. Her imaginary friendship is only the first of many disconcerting events that threaten to fracture ... Read more

    $31.00 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Film Club

    A True Story of a Father and a Son

    by David Gilmour ...
    From the 2005 winner of the Governor-General's Award for Fiction and the former national film critic for CBC television comes a delightful and absorbing book about the agonies and joys of home-schooling a beloved son. Written in the spare elegant style he is known for, The Film Club is the true story about David Gilmour's decision to let his 15-year-old son drop out of high school on the condition ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

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    Price of Retribution, The

    by Christopher Cartwright ...
    Narrated by David Gilmore ...

    Unabridged

    12 hours 20 min

    After the world’s most expensive diamond heist goes wrong, Jack Overton finds himself running from the man who had once been his master - England’s most powerful magistrate of the eighteenth century, Sir Robert Williams. With deep ties to one of the most violent Secret Societies in Europe, the honorable Sir Robert Williams will stop at nothing to catch him.There are few places in the western world ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Skeleton Crew

    by Christopher Cartwright ...
    Narrated by David Gilmore ...
    Series Audiobook 27 - Sam Reilly

    Unabridged

    13 hours 9 min

    A freak accident causes one of the largest cargo ships in the world, the Trident GS, to run aground while transiting the Suez Canal in Egypt.Maritime salvage expert Sam Reilly is flown in to find out what went wrong, and how to re-float the ocean-going behemoth. Something about the accident just doesn’t seem right…In Sudan, a team of archaeologists exploring the ancient tombs buried within the ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Ghost Ship

    by Christopher Cartwright ...
    Narrated by David Gilmore ...
    Series Audiobook 17 - Sam Reilly

    Unabridged

    6 hours 42 min

    In the dead of night, a decrepit, unmarked motor yacht drifts into the medieval port of Vernazza, Italy.The run-down vessel forms a jarring contrast to the pastel colored tower homes and terraced vineyards surrounding the natural harbor along the coast of Cinque Terre.Less than fifty yards away, a man wakes up on board a small rowboat, covered in blood.Lying next to him is a woman with two – ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Vostok Enigma, The

    by Christopher Cartwright ...
    Narrated by David Gilmore ...
    Series Audiobook 26 - Sam Reilly

    Unabridged

    10 hours 29 min

    In East Antarctica, a team of scientists drilled a hole in the Vostok ice sheet to take a sample of the subterranean lake 2.2 miles below the surface.It was the deepest drill ever performed through ice anywhere in the world.When the results of the core sample were published, it was highly scientific, and revealed a unique snapshot of the Earth’s atmosphere 15 million years ago.Within hours, elite ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus