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  • Audiobook

    The Coroner’s Lunch

    Narrated by Clive Chafer ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - The Dr. Siri Paiboun Series

    Unabridged

    7 hours 27 min

    Laos, 1975. The Communist Pathet Lao has taken over this former French colony. Dr. Siri Paiboun, a seventy-two-year-old Paris-trained doctor, is appointed national coroner. Although he has no training for the job, there is no one else: the rest of the educated class have fled.He is expected to come up with the answers the party wants, but crafty and charming Dr. Siri is immune to bureaucratic ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    The Woman Who Wouldn’t Die

    Narrated by Clive Chafer ...
    Series Audiobook 9 - The Dr. Siri Paiboun Series

    Unabridged

    7 hours 43 min

    The long-awaited follow-up to Slash and Burn and the ninth installment in Colin Cotterill's bestselling mystery series starring the inimitable Lao national coroner, Dr. SiriIn a small Lao village, a very strange thing has happened. A woman was shot and killed in her bed during a burglary; she was given a funeral and everyone in the village saw her body burned. Then, three days later, she was back ... Read more

    $27.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ancient Greece A History

    A comprehensive study of one of the most important periods in human history from the fall of Troy to the rise of Alexander the Great

    by H Cotterill ...
    Ancient Greece A History examines Greek art, literature and philosophy, with a focus on tragedy, art, philosophy, sculpture and the glorious architecture of classical Greece. In this history, the author wished to show the inner life of Ancient Greece, and captures the spirit of the country and its achievements. Cotterill leads the reader through the enduring achievements of Ancient Greece with ... Read more

    $4.23 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust'

    The Story from Chapbook to Poem

    Series series Chronicles & Essays
    Complete and unabridged, with 60 full-page plates by Johan Christian Dahl, J. M. W. Turner and Hans Heyerdahl. Where the Faust legend came from and what Goethe made of it - the historical magician, the chapbooks, Marlowe's play and the two parts of the poem. Cotterill had edited Goethe's Iphigenie for English readers and writes as a teacher who knows the text line by line. This edition is bound ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Looking at the Stars

    What if the only thing you had left were the stories in your head?Amina’s homeland has been ravaged by war, and her family is devastated . . .The women of the family – Amina, her two sisters and their mother – have no choice but to leave their home town, along with thousands of others, and head for a refugee camp.But there are even more challenges ahead . . . ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Coroner's Lunch

    Series Book 1 - A Dr. Siri Paiboun Mystery
    **ALL-TIME BESTSELLER: The first “wonderfully fresh and exotic mystery” starring the beloved psychic septuagenarian coroner (New York Times Book Review).Dr. Siri finds himself caught in the political intrigues and mystical underpinnings of 1970s Laos!**Laos, 1978: Dr. Siri Paiboun, a 72-year-old medical doctor, has unwillingly been appointed the national coroner of the new socialist Laos. His lab ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • Colin Cotterill: The Unreliable Diarist – An Illustrated Memoir

    Discover the surprising and comical journey of an acclaimed mystery author through his candid and self-deprecating memoir.In this delightfully unreliable and illustrated memoir, acclaimed mystery author Colin Cotterill rummages through his warped diaries for a candid, self-deprecating romp through his life—from suburban London childhood mishaps and hitchhiking across 1970s America to globe ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nurse On Call

    The True Story of a 1950s District Nurse

    'Never had I seen so many fleas! Startled by the daylight, they leapt in all directions, particularly mine. Quickly I peeled off her stockings and threw them on the fire, but by now the fleas had invaded her combinations. As for the fur coat, I shuddered to think ...'Training in a hospital in the 1930s, Edith Cotterill's long hours on the wards included encouraging leeches to attach to patients (a ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Disco for the Departed

    Series Book 3 - A Dr. Siri Paiboun Mystery
    The septuagenarian coroner—and bodily host of an 1,000-year-old Shaman—tackles another strange case in 1970s Laos in this murder mystery with a touch of humor and mysticism.Dr. Siri Paiboun, reluctant national coroner of the People’s Democratic Republic of Laos, is summoned to a remote location in the mountains of Huaphan Province, where for years the leaders of the current government had hidden ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Thirty-Three Teeth

    Series Book 2 - A Dr. Siri Paiboun Mystery
    Dr. Siri Paiboun, one of the last doctors left in Laos after the Communist takeover, has been drafted to be national coroner. He is untrained for the job, but this independent seventy-two-year-old has an outstanding qualification for the role: curiosity. And he does not mind incurring the wrath of the party’s hierarchy as he unravels mysterious murders, because the spirits of the dead are on his ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust'

    Unraveling the Mysteries of Faust in Literature

    In 'The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust', H. B. Cotterill delves into the complexities of the Faustian narrative, weaving together historical analysis, literary critique, and philosophical exploration. This scholarly work examines the evolution of the Faust legend, tracing its origins from folklore to its climactic representation in Goethe's seminal play. Cotterill employs a rigorous analytical ... Read more

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  • The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust'

    Enriched edition.

    In "The Faust-Legend and Goethe's 'Faust,'" H. B. Cotterill offers a comprehensive examination of one of literature's most compelling tales—the Faust legend. Through meticulous analysis, Cotterill weaves together historical contexts, literary styles, and philosophical themes that have evolved since the legend's inception. His engaging prose not only illuminates Goethe's dramatic treatment of Faust ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus