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“david gilmour”

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  • 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 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

    $8.99 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

    $11.99 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

    $7.99 CAD

  • 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 British in India

    Three Centuries of Ambition and Experience

    by David Gilmour ...
    A SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, SPECTATOR, NEW STATESMAN, TLS BOOK OF THE YEARThe British in this book lived in India from shortly after the reign of Elizabeth I until well into the reign of Elizabeth II. Who were they? What drove these men and women to risk their lives on long voyages down the Atlantic and across the Indian Ocean or later via the Suez Canal? And when they got to India, what did they ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Cities of Spain

    by David Gilmour ...
    Unlike France and England, Spain has not been dominated by its capital, and the focus of its history shifts from city to city over the centuries, illuminating different features of the country's past. Toledo, Cordoba, Seville and Madrid have at various times managed to establish a political and cultural supremacy, Cadiz and Barcelona dominated the economy in the 18th and 19th centuries. Salanca ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Hope of All the Earth

    An Advent Devotional

    by David Gilmour ...
    Advent can be a difficult time of year, especially for those in the deepest and darkest throes of waiting for things to get better. Yet we know that the message of Advent is ultimately hope for the hopeless, peace in the chaos, joy for the joyless, and love for the unloved. The darkness has not overcome the light of Christ, so we rejoice even as we wait for all to be restored and made new. Advent ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD

  • Esperanza de todos

    Un Devocional de Adviento

    by David Gilmour ...
    El Adviento puede ser una temporada difícil, especialmente para los que están en medio de una profunda y oscura espera a que las cosas mejoren. Aun así, sabemos que el mensaje de Adviento es fundamentalmente esperanza para los desesperados, paz en el caos, gozo para los tristes y amor para los no amados. Las tinieblas no han vencido la luz de Cristo, entonces nos regocijamos aún en la espera que ... Read more

    $13.73 CAD

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  • The Stones of Britain

    A History of Britain through its Geology

    by Jon Cannon ...
    'Cannon has a keen descriptive eye and a striking, lyrical turn of phrase . . . a rich, warm, authoritative book' TLSThis is the definitive tale of how our island history is written in stone.The Stones of Britain is about how rocks make places, exploring the connection between geology and landscape, the stones beneath the surface and the history that has played out above it. It movingly ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Caught (TV tie-in edition)

    by Lisa Moore ...
    Shortlisted for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize and the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Selected as an Amazon.ca Best Book and for The Globe 100 Books in 2013."In the creation of David Slaney, Lisa Moore brings us an unforgettable character, embodying the exuberance and energy of misspent youth. Caught is a propulsive and harrowing read."—Patrick deWitt, author of The Sisters BrothersInternationally ... Read more

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  • Cleopatra

    Histories, Dreams and Distortions

    by Lucy Hughes-Hallett ...
    'Brilliant and discursive' Antonia Fraser, Sunday Times'Hughes-Hallett's exemplary reappraisal … throws a searching light on two thousand years of male erotic fantasy' Joan Smith, New StatesmanWinner of the FAWCETT PRIZE and EMILY TOTH AWARDIn the 2,000 years since her death, Cleopatra has been recreated over and over again by poets, artists and filmmakers, each time in a form that... ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD