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  • The Spectator Best of Notes On ...

    From kippers to jeans and everything in between

    by William Moore, Gus Carter ...
    Book clubs and toffee apples. Hedgehogs and hangovers. Croquet, ferret racing… and everything in between.The Best of Notes on... gathers the funniest, sharpest and most wonderfully random pieces from The Spectator’s beloved miscellany column. For more than a decade, these short, sharp essays have uncovered the intrigue in the everyday and the delight in digression. Witty, unpredictable and ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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  • The Road to Little Dribbling

    More Notes From a Small Island

    by Bill Bryson ...
    Bill Bryson returns to his internationally beloved topic, Britain, with his first travel book in fifteen years.In 1995, Bill Bryson went on a trip around Britain to celebrate the green and kindly island that had become his home. The hilarious book he wrote about that journey, Notes from a Small Island, became one of the most loved books of recent decades.Now, in this hotly anticipated new travel ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Cunk on Everything

    The Encyclopedia Philomena - 'Essential reading for these slipshod times' Al Murray

    by Philomena Cunk ...
    *From the star of CUNK ON EARTH - BBC's landmark mockumentary, now on Netflix!*'This book is great because it covers everything in existence apart from the 95% of stuff not worth bothering with' Philomena Cunk, star of Charlie Brooker's Weekly Wipe, Moments of Wonder and Cunk on Earth, Cunk & Other Humans**'Essential reading for these slipshod times' Al MurrayOnce in a blue moon, a book comes ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Full English

    A Journey in Search of a Country and its People

    by Stuart Maconie ...
    A Sunday Times Book of the Week and Top 10 Bestseller A Times bestseller A Waterstones Paperback of the Year 2024 A Spectator Book of the YearWhat kind of country is England today?What does it mean to be English?Are we hungry for change or seeking old certainties?Join Stuart Maconie on an enlightening, entertaining journey through England, from Bristol's Banksy to Durham's beaches, from Cot... ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Modern Nature

    Journals, 1989 – 1990

    by Derek Jarman ...
    Series Book 1 - The Journals of Derek Jarman
    Read this meditative and inspiring diary of Derek Jarman's famous garden at Dungeness, which is also a powerful account of his life as an HIV positive man in the 1980s.In 1986 Derek Jarman discovered he was HIV positive and decided to make a garden at his cottage on the barren coast of Dungeness.Facing an uncertain future, he nevertheless found solace in nature, growing all manner of plants. While ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Chain Of Curiosity

    by Sandi Toksvig ...
    From the author of BETWEEN THE STOPS and TOKSVIG'S ALMANACSandi Toksvig - broadcaster, writer, actor and seeker of all things whimsical - has turned her probing mind to many of the most intriguing questions of our times in the pages of the Sunday Telegraph for many years. Now, for the very first time, these musings have been collected in one hilarious collection.In The Chain of Curiosity, Sandi ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Cunk on Everything

    The Encyclopedia Philomena

    by Philomena Cunk ...
    **A VULTURE BEST COMEDY BOOK OF 2023From the star of the “deeply funny, unexpectedly informative” (The Daily Beast) Netflix mockumentary Cunk on Earth, a helpful guide covering every single topic in the known universe, from Adam and Eve to Top Gun.**Once in a blue moon, a book comes along that changes the world. The Origin of Species. War and Peace. 1984. And now, Cunk on Everything: The ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Hope and Glory

    A People’s History of Modern Britain

    by Stuart Maconie ...
    In Hope and Glory Stuart Maconie goes in search of the days that shaped the Britain we live in today. Taking one event from each decade of the 20th century, he visits the places where history happened and still echoes down the years. Stuart goes to Orgreave and Windsor, Wembley and Wootton Bassett, assembling a unique cast of Britons from Sir Edmund Hillary to Sid Vicious along the way.It’s quite ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Pies and Prejudice

    In search of the North

    by Stuart Maconie ...
    A Northerner in exile, Stuart Maconie goes on a journey in search of the North, attempting to discover where the clich�s end and the truth begins. He travels from Wigan Pier to Blackpool Tower and Newcastle's Bigg Market to the Lake District to find his own Northern Soul, encountering along the way an exotic cast of chippy Scousers, pie-eating woollybacks, topless Geordies, mad-for-it Mancs, ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • London Orbital

    by Iain Sinclair ...
    London Orbital is Iain Sinclair's exceptional voyage of discovery into the unloved outskirts of the city'My book of the year. Sentence for sentence, there is no more interesting writer at work in English' John Lanchester, Daily TelegraphEncircling London like a noose, the M25 is a road to nowhere, but when Iain Sinclair sets out to walk this asphalt loop - keeping within the 'acoustic footprints' ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • At the Pond

    Swimming at the Hampstead Ladies' Pond

    by Jessica J. Lee, Amy Key, So Mayer, Sophie Mackintosh, Ava Wong Davies, Nina Mingya Powles, Deborah Moggach, Sharlene Teo, Leanne Shapton, Esther Freud, Margaret Drabble, Eli Goldstone, Nell Frizzell ...
    Tucked away along a shady path towards the north-east edge of Hampstead Heath is a sign: Women Only. This is the Kenwood Ladies' Bathing Pond.Floating in the Pond's silky waters, hidden by a canopy of trees, it's easy to forget that you are in the middle of London. On a hot day, thousands of swimmers from eight to eighty-plus can be found waiting to take a dip before sunbathing in the adjoining ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • City Trails - London

    by Lonely Planet Kids, Moira Butterfield ...
    Series series Lonely Planet Kids
    Here's a book about London that's seriously streetwise! Let Marco and Amelia, our Lonely Planet explorers, take you off the tourist trail and guide you on a journey through London that you'll never forget. This book is perfect for anyone who has been to London, plans to go there or is just interested in finding out more about this amazing city!Discover London's best-kept secrets, amazing stories ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus