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  • Hair Goes History

    by JD Taylor ...
    What if hair-something so intimate, so easily dismissed-has quietly shaped the course of history?In Hair Goes History, historian JD TAYLOR takes readers on an audacious and unexpectedly profound journey through time, revealing how hair enhancement, baldness, and the relentless pursuit of appearance have influenced power, identity, myth, and political destiny across civilizations.From Ancient Egypt ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Orwell

    The New Life

    by D. J. Taylor ...
    A fascinating exploration of George Orwell—and his body of work—by an award-winning Orwellian biographer and scholar, presenting the author anew to twenty-first-century readers.We find ourselves in an era when the moment is ripe for a reevaluation of the life and the works of one of the twentieth century’s greatest authors. This is the first twenty-first-century biography on George Orwell, with ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Born for Fairytales. Forced into Reality.

    by J.D. Taylor ...
    Born for Fairytales. Forced into Reality is a collection of poetry that explores the space between hope and heartbreak, fantasy and truth, loss and healing. Through intimate reflections on love, family, loneliness, therapy, and growth, J.D. Taylor invites readers into a journey of learning to let go of what could have been and make peace with what is.These poems are for the dreamers, the ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • On Nineteen Eighty-Four

    A Biography of George Orwell's Masterpiece

    by D.J. Taylor ...
    Series series Books About Books
    The essential backstory to the creation and meaning of one of the most important novels of the twentieth century—and now the twenty-first.Since its publication nearly seventy years ago, George Orwell's 1984 has been regarded as one of the most influential novels of the modern age. Politicians have testified to its influence on their intellectual identities, rock musicians have made records about ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beauregard

    Canine Warrior

    by JD Taylor ...
    He was trained to listen in the dark, to move where fear lived, and to protect without question.Beauregard: Canine Warrior is a powerful, cinematic novel inspired by the true legacy of military working dogs-those loyal soldiers who walked point into ambushes, saved lives without recognition, and were too often left behind. Set against the brutal backdrop of the Vietnam War, this story follows ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • The Spastic House

    by JD Taylor ...
    The Spastic House is set within a disability group home structured to support people who need it. Days follow routines. Medications are administered. Paperwork is completed. Staff rotate through shifts. Residents are cared for, supervised, and managed.Nothing and no one inside the house is intentionally cruel. Everyone has the best of intentions.The novel moves quietly between residents and staff, ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Deadly Enhancements

    Bayonet Books Anthology, #5

    by Jim Keen, Elias J. Hurst, Rachel E. Beck, Mark Everglade, MF Lerma, Armon Mikal, Tim C. Taylor, Nathan Pedde, D. L. Sellitto, Matthew Angelo, R. Scott Uhls, Rosie Record, Matthew A. Goodwin ...
    Series Book 5 - Bayonet Books Anthology
    An AI inhabits a human body.Targeted marketing invades a man's life… and mind.Programmers battle their own government in cyberspace.Every day, the line between man and machine blurs.Drones replace postal workers, AI-operated cars fill the streets, and our carefully curated digital lives become as critical as our actual ones. How do unchecked technological advances shape us? How do we shape them? ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hair Goes History

    by J.D. Taylor ...
    Throughout history, hair and historical figures have been closely intertwined. From political leaders like Hitler and Lincoln, to cultural icons like Elvis Presley and Brad Pitt, to media personalities like Don Lemon and Joy Reid, hair has played a crucial role in the ascent of many well-known figures. In fact, it could be argued that without the use of hair augmentation, many of these individuals ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Island Story

    by J. D. Taylor ...
    What is life like in England? Island Story weaves history and ideas telling a story of rebellion (think Brexit) and retail parks, migration and inertia, pessimism and disappearing ways of life, and a fiery, unrealized desire for collective belonging and power.Skeptical and inquisitive, Taylor cycled all round Britain with only a rusty bike and a tent, interviewing and staying with strangers from ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD

  • Negative Capitalism

    Cynicism in the Neoliberal Era

    by J.D. Taylor ...
    Negative Capitalism: Cynicism in the Neoliberal Era offers a new conceptual framework for understanding the current economic crisis. Through a ranging series of analyses and perspectives, it argues that cynicism has become culturally embedded in the UK and US as an effect of disempowerment by neoliberal capitalism. Yet despite the deprivation and collapse of key social infrastructure like ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Best British Short Stories 2023

    by Nicholas Royle, Alinah Azadeh, David Bevan, AK Blakemore, Gabriel Flynn, Jim Gibson, Lydia Gill, Miles Greenwood, Kerry Hadley-Pryce, Philip Jennings, Sharon Kivland, Alison Moore, Georgina Parfitt, Gareth E Rees, Leone Ross, John Saul, D. J. Taylor, Briony Thompson, Matthew Turner, Mark Valentine, David Wheldon ...
    Series Book 0 - Best British Short Stories
    Inspired by Giles Gordon and David Hughes's Best Short Stories series, which ran to ten volumes between 1986 and 1995, Best British Short Stories this year reaches its thirteenth volume.Best British Short Stories 2023 showcases an excellent and varied selection of stories, by British writers, first published during 2022 in magazines, journals, anthologies, collections, chapbooks and online.This ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bright Young People

    The Lost Generation of London's Jazz Age

    by D. J. Taylor ...
    "Jampacked and delicious, crammed with a cast of selfish, feckless, darling, talented, almost terminally eccentric, good-looking men and women." —Carolyn See, The Washington PostBefore the media circus of Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, and our modern obsession with celebrity, there were the Bright Young People, a voraciously pleasure-seeking band of bohemian party-givers and blue-blooded socialites ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD