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A Tiny Speck of Black and Then Nothing

by Emily Midorikawa ...

A young woman on a journey of self-discovery in Japan is plunged into danger when her friend disappears, in this novel from an award-winning author.Anna Layne was only nine years old when her mother abandoned the family home and returned to Japan without her. Raised by her English father, Anna has spent the following years trying to come to terms with this estrangement. Now twenty-one and a recent ... Read more

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A young woman on a journey of self-discovery in Japan is plunged into danger when her friend disappears, in this novel from an award-winning author.Anna Layne was only nine years old when her mother abandoned the family home and returned to Japan without her. Raised by her English father, Anna has spent the following years trying to come to terms with this estrangement. Now twenty-one and a recent
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A Secret Sisterhood

The Literary Friendships of Jane Austen, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, and Virginia Woolf

by Emily Midorikawa, Emma Claire Sweeney ...

Two female writers and best friends bring to light the literary friendships of four iconic female authors.Male literary friendships are the stuff of legend; think Byron and Shelley, Fitzgerald and Hemingway. But the world's best-loved female authors are usually mythologized as solitary eccentrics or isolated geniuses. Coauthors and real-life friends Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney prove ... Read more

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Two female writers and best friends bring to light the literary friendships of four iconic female authors.Male literary friendships are the stuff of legend; think Byron and Shelley, Fitzgerald and Hemingway. But the world's best-loved female authors are usually mythologized as solitary eccentrics or isolated geniuses. Coauthors and real-life friends Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney prove
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Out of the Shadows

Six Visionary Victorian Women in Search of a Public Voice

by Emily Midorikawa ...

Queen Victoria's reign was an era of breathtaking social change, but it did little to create a platform for women to express themselves. But not so within the social sphere of the séance--a mysterious, lamp-lit world on both sides of the Atlantic, in which women who craved a public voice could hold their own.Out of the Shadows tells the stories of the enterprising women whose supposedly ... Read more

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Queen Victoria's reign was an era of breathtaking social change, but it did little to create a platform for women to express themselves. But not so within the social sphere of the séance--a mysterious, lamp-lit world on both sides of the Atlantic, in which women who craved a public voice could hold their own.Out of the Shadows tells the stories of the enterprising women whose supposedly
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A Secret Sisterhood: The Hidden Friendships of Austen, Bronte, Eliot and Woolf

The Hidden Friendships of Austen, Bronte, Eliot and Woolf

by Emma Claire Sweeney, Emily Midorikawa ...

Narrated by Maggie Mash ...

Unabridged

10 hours 34 min

Drawing on letters and diaries, some of which have never been published before, this book will reveal Jane Austen’s bond with a family servant, the amateur playwright Anne Sharp, how Charlotte Brontë was inspired by the daring feminist Mary Taylor, the transatlantic relationship between George Eliot and the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and the underlying erotic charge that ... Read more

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Drawing on letters and diaries, some of which have never been published before, this book will reveal Jane Austen’s bond with a family servant, the amateur playwright Anne Sharp, how Charlotte Brontë was inspired by the daring feminist Mary Taylor, the transatlantic relationship between George Eliot and the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and the underlying erotic charge that
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A Tiny Speck of Black and Then Nothing

Winner of the Lucy Cavendish Prize for Fiction

by Emily Midorikawa ...

Narrated by Jacqui Bardelang ...

Unabridged

10 hours 21 min

'Exquisitely written and utterly compelling' SUSAN BARKER'The soul of a stylish mystery and the pace of an old-fashioned thriller' MOHAMMED HANIF'Elegant, edgy and cinematic' EMMA CLAIRE SWEENEYAnna has never met anybody like Loll: a British hostess at the Moonglow bar in the Japanese city of Osaka. With her blonde wigs and shimmering dresses, Loll cuts a mesmerising figure. But Anna is troubled ... Read more

$75.99 CAD

'Exquisitely written and utterly compelling' SUSAN BARKER'The soul of a stylish mystery and the pace of an old-fashioned thriller' MOHAMMED HANIF'Elegant, edgy and cinematic' EMMA CLAIRE SWEENEYAnna has never met anybody like Loll: a British hostess at the Moonglow bar in the Japanese city of Osaka. With her blonde wigs and shimmering dresses, Loll cuts a mesmerising figure. But Anna is troubled
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Out of the Shadows

Six visionary Victorian women in search of a public voice

by Emily Midorikawa ...

Narrated by Rachael Beresford ...

Unabridged

10 hours 10 min

Queen Victoria's reign was an era of breathtaking social change, but it did little to create a platform for women to express themselves. But not so within the social sphere of the séance—a mysterious, lamp-lit world on both sides of the Atlantic, in which women who craved a public voice could hold their own.Out of the Shadows tells the stories of the enterprising women whose supposedly clairvoyant ... Read more

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Queen Victoria's reign was an era of breathtaking social change, but it did little to create a platform for women to express themselves. But not so within the social sphere of the séance—a mysterious, lamp-lit world on both sides of the Atlantic, in which women who craved a public voice could hold their own.Out of the Shadows tells the stories of the enterprising women whose supposedly clairvoyant
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Jane Austen's Best Friend

The Life and Influence of Martha Lloyd

by Zöe Wheddon ...

Narrated by Jayne Entwistle ...

Unabridged

9 hours 24 min

The book will take the form of a "recipe for friendship" as Martha Lloyd is best known for her housekeeping and recipe book.All fans of Jane Austen everywhere believe themselves to be best friends with the beloved author and this book shines a light on what it meant to be exactly that. Jane Austen's Best Friend: The Life and Influence of Martha Lloyd offers a unique insight into Jane's private ... Read more

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The book will take the form of a "recipe for friendship" as Martha Lloyd is best known for her housekeeping and recipe book.All fans of Jane Austen everywhere believe themselves to be best friends with the beloved author and this book shines a light on what it meant to be exactly that. Jane Austen's Best Friend: The Life and Influence of Martha Lloyd offers a unique insight into Jane's private
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Long Distance

Stories

by Aysegül Savas ...

Narrated by Aysegül Savas ...

Unabridged

5 hours 29 min

Longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award, FictionFinalist for The Story PrizeNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER, VULTURE, AND ELECTRIC LITERATUREFrom the acclaimed author of one of Barack Obama's favorite books of 2024 The Anthropologists, comes a masterful collection of stories about distance and closeness in the age of connectivity.<... ... Read more

$20.00 CAD

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Longlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award, FictionFinalist for The Story PrizeNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER, VULTURE, AND ELECTRIC LITERATUREFrom the acclaimed author of one of Barack Obama's favorite books of 2024 The Anthropologists, comes a masterful collection of stories about distance and closeness in the age of connectivity.<...
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Sympathy Tower Tokyo

A Novel

by Rie Qudan ...

Narrated by Hanako Footman ...

Unabridged

4 hours 4 min

“Provocative…Masterfully subtle.” —The New York Times“An architectural feat in itself.” —Financial TimesThe award-winning, bestselling Japanese phenomenon: a speculative, prophetic novel following a young and brilliant celebrity architect in Tokyo who takes on her most controversial project yet—perfect for readers of Klara and the Sun and Chain-Gang All-Stars.Welcome to the Japan ... ... Read more

$24.99 CAD

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“Provocative…Masterfully subtle.” —The New York Times“An architectural feat in itself.” —Financial TimesThe award-winning, bestselling Japanese phenomenon: a speculative, prophetic novel following a young and brilliant celebrity architect in Tokyo who takes on her most controversial project yet—perfect for readers of Klara and the Sun and Chain-Gang All-Stars.Welcome to the Japan ...
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The Golden Age of Murder

by Martin Edwards ...

Narrated by Leighton Pugh ...

Unabridged

16 hours 31 min

Winner of the 2016 EDGAR, AGATHA, MACAVITY and H.R.F.KEATING crime writing awards, this real-life detective story investigates how Agatha Christie and colleagues in a mysterious literary club transformed crime fiction.Detective stories of the Twenties and Thirties have long been stereotyped as cosily conventional. Nothing could be further from the truth.The Golden Age of Murder tells for the first ... Read more

$47.99 CAD

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Winner of the 2016 EDGAR, AGATHA, MACAVITY and H.R.F.KEATING crime writing awards, this real-life detective story investigates how Agatha Christie and colleagues in a mysterious literary club transformed crime fiction.Detective stories of the Twenties and Thirties have long been stereotyped as cosily conventional. Nothing could be further from the truth.The Golden Age of Murder tells for the first
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The Austen Escape

by Katherine Reay ...

Narrated by Emily Sutton-Smith ...

Unabridged

8 hours 38 min

When Mary Davies travels to Jane Austen’s Bath for a historical getaway, she expects a luxurious escape from reality. Instead she finds her friendship at a crossroads, her love life upended, and her heart on a journey she never expected.Mary Davies finds safety in her ordered and productive life. Working as an engineer, she genuinely enjoys her job and her colleagues—particularly a certain ... Read more

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When Mary Davies travels to Jane Austen’s Bath for a historical getaway, she expects a luxurious escape from reality. Instead she finds her friendship at a crossroads, her love life upended, and her heart on a journey she never expected.Mary Davies finds safety in her ordered and productive life. Working as an engineer, she genuinely enjoys her job and her colleagues—particularly a certain
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Enemies and Neighbors

Arabs and Jews in Palestine and Israel, 1917-2017

by Ian Black ...

Narrated by Michael Page ...

Unabridged

20 hours 4 min

In Enemies and Neighbors, Ian Black, who has spent over three decades covering events in the Middle East and is currently a fellow at the London School of Economics, offers a major new history of the Arab-Zionist conflict from 1917 to today.Laying the historical groundwork in the final decades of the Ottoman Era, when the first Zionist settlers arrived in the Holy Land, Black draws on a wide range ... Read more

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In Enemies and Neighbors, Ian Black, who has spent over three decades covering events in the Middle East and is currently a fellow at the London School of Economics, offers a major new history of the Arab-Zionist conflict from 1917 to today.Laying the historical groundwork in the final decades of the Ottoman Era, when the first Zionist settlers arrived in the Holy Land, Black draws on a wide range
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