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“james meeks”

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  • People's Act Of Love

    by James Meek ...
    Praised in over a dozen countries around the world, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, named a Globe and Mail Book of the Year and distinguished as a national bestseller, The People’s Act of Love has been compared to the works of such Russian masters as Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky. In a Siberian town caught between a zealous cult and bullying soldiers, a stranger named Samarin arrives. Claiming to ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • To Calais, In Ordinary Time

    by James Meek ...
    'Inventive and original' The Times'Fans of intelligent historical fiction will be enthralled' Hilary MantelShortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize for Historical FictionLonglisted for the Orwell Prize for Political FictionThree journeys. One road.England, 1348. A gentlewoman flees an odious arranged marriage, a proctor sets out for a monastery in Avignon and a young ploughman i... ... Read more

    $14.29 CAD

  • The Museum of Doubt

    by James Meek ...
    "Outstanding" stories from the bestselling author—"as though David Lynch had been let loose on the set of a drawing-room comedy" ( The Times).The Museum of Doubt is a collection of surreal and unnerving short stories from award-winning writer James Meek. The array of characters who populate Meek's vague and elusive worlds are driven by paranoia and doubts, as well as hopes and fears of things only ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How to Get Out Of Debt... And Into Praise

    by James Meeks ...
    Money is a spiritual issue. The failure to handle it properly can impede the vitality of our relationship with Christ and others. Reverend James Meeks offers this practical manual to help believers obtain freedom from debt so they can properly love and serve others in need. He exhorts people to get out of debt and encourages them that it's possible. He gives readers a definitive method to get out ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • The Heart Broke In

    by James Meek ...
    A scientist obsessed with evolution but unable to have children, a malaria researcher trying to choose between freedom and love, and a washed-up TV svengali whose life goes into free fall—The Heart Broke In follows these characters through a riveting exploration of what conscience means in the 21st century, and how we attempt to make our lives count for something. It is a glorious drama, as well ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Children of Albion Rovers

    by Laura Hird, Irvine Welsh, Paul Reekie, James Meek, Gordon Legge, Alan Warner ...
    Children of Albion Rovers is the best-selling and critically acclaimed collection of novellas that features six of the most exciting young writers to emerge from Scotland in the 90s: award-winning authors Irvine Welsh, Alan Warner, Gordon Legge, and James Meek and introducing the striking new talents of Laura Hird and Paul Reekie. Children of Albion Rovers is a world of tripped-out crematorium ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD

  • Private Island

    Why Britain Now Belongs to Someone Else

    by James Meek ...
    “The essential public good that Margaret Thatcher, Tony Blair and now Cameron sell is not power stations, or trains, or hospitals. It’s the public itself. it’s us.”In a little over a generation the bones and sinews of the British economy – rail, energy, water, postal services, municipal housing – have been sold to remote, unaccountable private owners, often from overseas. In a series of brilliant ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • We Are Now Beginning Our Descent

    by James Meek ...
    Adam Kellas’s world—his life—is not just crumbling, but cracking. An aspiring novelist, Kellas was in the midst of writing a thriller about terrorists and destruction in September 2001 when real life overtook his fictional plot. The terrible events of 9/11 left him scarred, disconnected from the people around him and the meaningless passivity of words. Now headed to the battlefields of Afghanistan ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Dreams of Leaving and Remaining

    Fragments of a Nation

    by James Meek ...
    The anatomy of Britain on the edge of Brexit, by Orwell Prize winning journalistSince Britain’s 2016 referendum on EU membership, the nation has been profoundly split: one side fantasizing that the referendum will never be acted upon, the other entrenched in questionable assumptions about reclaimed sovereignty and independence. Underlying the cleavage are primal myths, deeper histories, and ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

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    We Are Now Beginning Our Descent

    by James Meek ...
    Narrated by Andrew Wincott ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 1 min

    The message was short. 'I want to see you now. I want you to come to me, it doesn't matter how late it is, and tell me exactly what you want from me.' Like the world around him, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, Adam Kellas' life is showing distinct signs of cracking apart. Against his better judgement, Kellas - divorced, unstable, spurned by his lover and by the world of letters - accepts ... Read more

    $23.04 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    Your Life Without Me

    by James Meek ...
    Narrated by Chris Nayak ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 43 min

    An explosive modern novel from the award-winning writer of The People's Act of LoveMr Burman is unmoored. Still reckoning with the death of his wife Ada, and struggling to understand his grown-up daughter Leila, he finds himself on a train to London, at the invitation of the police.He is to meet Raf, a young man suspected of trying to blow up St Paul's cathedral - and a man once intimately ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

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    A Dog's Heart

    by Mikhail Bulgakov ...
    Narrated by Alexander Terentyev ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 57 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.This Penguin Classic is performed by Alexander Terentyev, best known for Wonder Woman. This definitive recording includes an introduction by James Meek.A Dog's Heart: An Appalling Story is Mikhail Bulgakov's hilarious satire on Communist hypocrisies.In this surreal work by the author of The Master and Margarita, wealthy Moscow surgeon Filip Preobrazhensky implants the ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD