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  • A Month in the Country

    by J. L. Carr ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    'Tender and elegant' Guardian'Unlike anything else in modern English literature' D.J. Taylor, SpectatorA damaged survivor of the First World War, Tom Birkin finds refuge in the quiet village church of Oxgodby where he is to spend the summer uncovering a huge medieval wall-painting. Immersed in the peace and beauty of the countryside and the unchanging rhythms of village life he experiences a sense ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Month in the Country

    by J.L. Carr ...
    A short, spellbinding novel about a WWI veteran finding a way to re-enter—and fully embrace—normal life while spending the summer in an idyllic English village.In J. L. Carr’s deeply charged poetic novel, Tom Birkin, a veteran of the Great War and a broken marriage, arrives in the remote Yorkshire village of Oxgodby where he is to restore a recently discovered medieval mural in the local church. ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • How Steeple Sinderby Wanderers Won the F.A. Cup

    by J. L. Carr ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    'One of the greatest football novels ever written and a comic masterpiece' DJ Taylor'But is this story believable? Ah, it all depends upon whether you want it to believe it.' J.L. CarrIn their new all-buttercup-yellow-stripe, Steeple Sinderby Wanderers, who usually feel lucky when their pitch is above water-level, are England's most obscure team. This uncategorizable, surreal and extremely funny ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Investment Economics

    by J.L. Carr ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Economics and Society
    Investment Economics (1969) examines the process of investment decision-making in firms, looking at the theory of investment and the details of investment theory in business practice. The study of investment theories, prompted by the government and by nationalised industries, led many businesses to utilise more sophisticated techniques to analyse the impact of investment on their day-to-day ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

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    A Month in the Country

    by J. L. Carr ...
    Narrated by Alex Jennings ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 45 min

    **Brought to you by Penguin.'One of the best books I've ever read' Richard Osman**A damaged survivor of the First World War, Tom Birkin finds refuge in the quiet village church of Oxgodby where he is to spend the summer uncovering a huge medieval wall-painting. Immersed in the peace and beauty of the countryside and the unchanging rhythms of village life he experiences a sense of renewal and ... Read more

    $25.83 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    J.L. Carr: A Month in the Country and The Harpole Report

    Two BBC Radio Full Cast Dramatisations

    by J.L. Carr ...
    Narrated by Hattie Morahan, Stephen Critchlow, Shaun Dingwall, Christian Rodska, Jane Wittenshaw, Harriet Walter, Rupert Evans, Anna Hope, Kate Eaton, Caitlin Mottram, Richard Hope, Full Cast ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 6 min

    Two stunning dramatisations from one of the twentieth century’s most beloved authorsSink into the lyrical landscapes and beautifully observed lives of J. L. Carr’s finest stories, brought to life in these glorious, full-cast dramatisations starring Shaun Dingwall (Noughts and Crosses, Top Boy) and Rupert Evans (Man in the High Castle, Bridgerton).This BBC Radio collection includes the Booker ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

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  • On the Calculation of Volume (Book IV)

    by Solvej Balle ...
    Translated by Sophia Hersi Smith, Jennifer Russell ...
    The fourth installment of Balle’s expansive, and highly ambitious On the Calculation of Volume teems with new faces, new people, and voices from every corner of the western worldWe’re a little more than halfway through Balle’s hypnotic, monumental seven-volume novel about a woman set adrift within the walls of November 18th. Balle’s riveting project continues to wring ever more fascinating ... Read more

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  • On the Calculation of Volume (Book III)

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  • Becoming George

    The Invention of George Sand

    by Fiona Sampson ...
    A long-overdue reappraisal of the groundbreaking nineteenth-century writer who reshaped the literary and social norms of her age.By the age of thirty, the young woman who was born Aurore Dupin in 1804 in a Paris garret had become the internationally renowned George Sand. In English, her novels were outselling even Victor Hugo. Her enormous and radical corpus would grow to include seventy novels, ... Read more

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  • Cleopatra

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  • Nature's Memory

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    A 'compelling, arresting' (New Scientist) behind-the-scenes tour through the world's greatest natural history museums, revealing their hidden secretsZoologist Jack Ashby spends his life working in Britain's natural history museums, and in Nature's Memory he guides us through a series of extraordinary collections, from marvellous mounted whale skeletons and impossibly tiny insect cabinets to buried ... Read more

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