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  • Surge

    by Jay Bernard ...
    **Winner of the 2020 Sunday Times/University of Warwick Young Writer of the Year Award**Jay Bernard's extraordinary debut is a fearless exploration of the New Cross Fire of 1981, a house fire at a birthday party in which thirteen young black people were killed.Dubbed the 'New Cross Massacre', the fire was initially believed to be a racist attack, and the indifference with which the tragedy was met ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 100 Queer Poems

    by Ocean Vuong, Carol Ann Duffy, Kae Tempest, Audre Lorde, Mary Oliver, Thom Gunn, Jackie Kay, Seán Hewitt, June Jordan, Kaveh Akbar, Jay Bernard, Natalie Diaz, Jericho Brown, Vikram Seth, Langston Hughes ...
    Mary Jean Chan and Andrew McMillan's luminous anthology, 100 Queer Poems, is a celebration of thrilling contemporary voices and visionary poets of the past. Featuring Elizabeth Bishop, Langston Hughes, Ocean Vuong, Carol Ann Duffy, Kae Tempest and many more.* A Guardian Best Poetry Book of the Year ** Shortlisted for the Books Are My Bag Readers Awards *Encompassing both the flowering of queer ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The City to Come

    by Jay Bernard ...
    On 14 June 2017, a fire broke out in the Grenfell Tower, a high-rise block of flats in North Kensington, London. The tower, built with cheap but highly flammable cladding, burned rapidly, tragically killing seventy two people in the UK's deadliest residential fire since World War Two. A subsequent inquiry into the fire found that a host of failures on both a governmental and private sector level ... Read more

    $12.29 CAD

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  • Imagined Human Beings

    A Psychological Approach to Character and Conflict in Literature

    by Bernard Jay Paris ...
    Series series Literature and Psychoanalysis
    One of literature's greatest gifts is its portrayal of realistically drawn characters--human beings in whom we can recognize motivations and emotions. In Imagined Human Beings, Bernard J. Paris explores the inner conflicts of some of literature's most famous characters, using Karen Horney's psychoanalytic theories to understand the behavior of these characters as we would the behavior of real ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Surge

    by Jay Bernard ...
    Narrated by Jay Bernard ...

    Unabridged

    59 min

    Brought To You By Penguin.The audiobook edition of Surge, written and read by Jay Bernard.Winner of The Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award 2020.*Winner of the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry 2018*Jay Bernard's powerful debut is a queer exploration of the black British archive, tracing a line between two significant events in recent British history: the New Cross Massacre of 1981 ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    The Canterbury Tales

    Penguin Classics

    by Geoffrey Chaucer ...
    Narrated by Daniel Weyman, Derek Jacobi, Jay Bernard, Lesley Manville, Seroca Davis, Michael Balogun ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 44 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.This Penguin Classic is performed by Lesley Manville (winner of the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress and known for Phantom Thread and Mum**), Derek Jacobi (winner of the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor and known for** Gladiator and Gosford Park**), Michael Balogun (known for** National Theatre Live: Macbeth**), Jay Bernard (writer o... ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

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    The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

    by T.S. Eliot ...
    Narrated by Michael Scott ...

    Unabridged

    9 min

    "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock", commonly known as "Prufrock", is the first professionally published poem by American-born, British poet T. S. Eliot (1888–1965). Eliot began writing "Prufrock" in February 1910, and it was first published in the June 1915 issue of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse at the instigation of Ezra Pound (1885–1972). It was later printed as part of a twelve-poem pamphlet ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Also available as: eBook

  • We Can Do Better Than This

    An urgent manifesto for how we can shape a better world for LGBTQ+ people

    by Beth Ditto, Owen Jones, Peppermint, Olly Alexander, Wolfgang Tillmans, Phyll Opoku-Gyimah ...
    How do we shape a better world for LGBTQ+ people? Olly Alexander, Peppermint, Owen Jones, Beth Ditto, Shon Faye and more share their stories and visions for the future.'A vital addition to your bookshelf' Stylist, 5 Books for Summer'Captivating... A must-read' Gay Times, Books of the YearIn We Can Do Better Than This, 35 voices - actors, musicians, writers, artists and activists - answer t... ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Thousand Blues

    The heart-warming Korean sci-fi bestseller

    Translated by Chi-Young Kim ...
    by Cheon Seon-ran ...
    **THE #1 KOREAN INSTANT BESTSELLER AND PRIZEWINNERDiscover the original and uplifting sensation for fans of CONVENIENCE STORE WOMAN and KLARA AND THE SUN**‘Engaging, touching, subtly disturbing’ K-Lit Review‘A stunningly crafted novel, evoking a myriad emotions’ Kim Bo-young‘A dazzling, warm novel that shows us how to move forward as a society without leaving anyone or anything beh... ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • I Make My Own Fun

    A Novel

    by Hannah Beer ...
    An unhinged romp through fame, obsession, and fandomThe sinister side of celebrity worship is inverted in this razor-sharp debut following the descent of the world’s most beloved movie star into a dark and disastrous obsession—perfect for readers of You and My Sister, the Serial Killer.Everyone knows Marina, the A-list movie star. But very few know Marina, the absolute monster. Years at the top ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    The Social Conquest of Earth

    by Edward O. Wilson ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Hogan ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 29 min

    From the most celebrated heir to Darwin comes a groundbreaking book on evolution, the summa work of Edward O. Wilson's legendary career.Sparking vigorous debate in the sciences, The Social Conquest of Earth upends “the famous theory that evolution naturally encourages creatures to put family first” (Discover). Refashioning the story of human evolution, Wilson draws on his remarkable knowledge of ... Read more

    $35.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Great Degeneration

    How Institutions Decay and Economies Die

    by Niall Ferguson ...
    Narrated by Paul Slack ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 18 min

    Bestselling author and world-renowned historian Niall Ferguson has won widespread acclaim for thought-provoking works such as Civilization and High Financier. The Great Degeneration tackles nothing less than the decline of Western civilization. Ferguson posits that slowing growth, outrageous debt, and antisocial behavior are contributing to the erosion of the West's once rock-solid foundations. ... Read more

    $21.97 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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