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  • The Madness of July

    Series series The Will Flemyng Thrillers
    'Secrets and regrets, ambition and venality. I have seldom come across a novel so redolent of le Carré.' Charles CummingLondon, mid-1970s. A sweltering July in Whitehall, and for Will Flemyng, foreign office minister, the temperature rises with each passing hour. A mysterious death exposes secret passions in government, and a political crisis draws him into a familiar world of danger and deceit ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

  • Paris Spring

    Series series The Will Flemyng Thrillers
    Paris, April 1968.The cafes are alive with talk of revolution, but for Will Flemyng – secret servant at the British embassy – the crisis is personal. A few words from a stranger on the metro change his life. His family is threatened with ruin and he now faces the spy's oldest fear: exposure.Freddy Craven is the hero and mentor Flemyng would trust with his life, but when he is tempted into a dark, ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

  • On the Road

    Adventures from Nixon to Trump

    The acclaimed author and BBC broadcaster on US politics and the American dream, from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump.James Naughtie, the acclaimed author and BBC broadcaster, now brings his unique and inquisitive eye to the country that has fascinated him and drawn him across the Atlantic for half a century. In looking at America, from Presidents Nixon through to Biden, he tells the story of a ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Britain's Last Frontier

    A Journey Along the Highland Line

    A Scottish historian travels along the cultural and geographical border of the Highlands in this "seductive travelogue" (Scottish Field).Running from the northeast to the southwest of Scotland, the Highland Line is the most profound internal boundary in Britain. First recognized by the Roman general Agricola in the first century AD, it divides the country in many senses—signaling the border ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The New Elizabethans

    Sixty Portraits of our Age

    The exciting tie-in to the major new series on Radio 4, written and presented by one of the UK’s leading commentators on social and political life – Jim Naughtie.The perfect read for anyone who wants to gauge the depth and spread of creativity and genius in the British Isles over the past sixty years. To mark the Diamond Jubilee, Radio 4 has looked back over the span of Queen Elizabeth II reign ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Madness of July

    A Thriller

    The Madness of July is set in the late 1970s, and takes place during six sweltering days in the month that gives the book its title. Will Flemyng was trained as a spy for a life behind enemy lines, but now he is in politics—and rising to the top. But when a bizarre death starts to unravel some of the most sensitive secrets of his government, Will is drawn back into the shadows of the Cold War and ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Paris Spring

    Narrated by James Naughtie ...
    Series series Will Flemyng

    Unabridged

    10 hours 52 min

    Paris in 1968 - seething with revolutionaries and spies - sees Will Flemyng's world turned upside down, after a mysterious encounter on the metro and a chance revelation from a rival operative. In a city alive with talk of revolution, Will finds himself in the thick of the action. But now he gets news that threatens the closest and most complicated relationship in his life, with his younger ... Read more

    $23.04 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    The King James Bible

    Readings and Documentaries from BBC Radio 4

    Unabridged

    6 hours 30 min

    A celebration of the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible, including documentaries and readings as heard on BBC Radio 4.2011 marked the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible, a seminal text that remains the most widely published and influential book in the English language.Once described as 'the noblest monument of English prose', it has been recognised for centuries as both a religious ... Read more

    $18.45 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Making of Music

    The complete landmark BBC Radio 4 series

    Narrated by James Naughtie ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 27 min

    In this major BBC Radio 4 series, James Naughtie uncovers the roots of our music and reveals the soundtrack to our own history.The history of classical music is inextricably linked with the places it was written, its purpose and its patrons, as well as with politics, war and social change. From the earliest music of the monasteries, to the court and church music of the Renaissance and Reformation ... Read more

    $22.14 CAD

  • Audiobook

    On the Road

    Adventures from Nixon to Trump

    Narrated by James Naughtie ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 16 min

    The acclaimed author and BBC broadcaster on US politics and the American dream, from Richard Nixon to Donald Trump.James Naughtie, the acclaimed author and BBC broadcaster, now brings his unique and inquisitive eye to the country that has fascinated him and drawn him across the Atlantic for half a century. In looking at America, from Presidents Nixon through to Biden, he tells the story of a ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Writers Who Changed History

    by DK ...
    Series series DK History Changers
    Explore the fascinating lives and loves of the greatest novelists, poets, and playwrights.Lavishly illustrated with photographs and paintings of writers’ homes, studies, and personal artifacts—along with pages from original manuscripts, first editions, and their correspondence—Writers Who Changed History introduces the key ideas, themes, and literary techniques of each writer, revealing the ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The New Elizabethans

    A BBC history of the Queen’s reign, told through its most notable characters

    Narrated by James Naughtie ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 53 min

    James Naughtie examines the lives and impact of the men and women who have given the second Elizabethan Age its characterAs the longest-lived and longest-reigning monarch of the United Kingdom, Queen Elizabeth II has presided over an era of tremendous social, political and cultural change. In 2012, to mark her Diamond Jubilee, Radio 4 looked back on the long span of her reign, and asked the public ... Read more

    $23.98 CAD