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  • First Time Dad: A Concise Guide to Baby Essentials for Active First-time Dads (Embracing Fatherhood and Navigating the First Year With Confidence)

    by John Gardner ...
    This guide doesn't stop at diapering and safe sleep tips. It addresses concerns that are often overlooked, such as balancing work and parenting, supporting your partner emotionally and physically postpartum, and managing your mental health amidst the upheaval. Ever wondered how you'll bond with your newborn, or how you can create a secure and nurturing environment? You’re covered. Inside, you’ll ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Mickelsson's Ghosts

    by John Gardner ...
    Gardner's final novel: a delicate tapestry of literary genres that create a wonderfully mysterious and ambitious narrativeAs Peter Mickelsson's brilliant career as a professor at Brown University winds down, he suffers from alcoholism and is on the brink of divorce. Seeking a new start, Mickelsson moves to an old farmhouse in the Pennsylvania countryside to take a position at Bingham University. ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Icebreaker

    A James Bond thriller

    by John Gardner ...
    Series Book 18 - James Bond
    An official, original James Bond adventure from a writer described by Len Deighton as a 'master storyteller'.Now with a new introduction from thriller author Tim Glister, to celebrate the book's 40th anniversary.Bond reluctantly finds himself recruited into a dangerous mission involving an equally dangerous and treacherous alliance of agents from the CIA, the KGB and Israel's Mossad. The team ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • The Art of Fiction

    Notes on Craft for Young Writers

    by John Gardner ...
    This classic guide, from the renowned novelist and professor, has helped transform generations of aspiring writers into masterful writers—and will continue to do so for many years to come.John Gardner was almost as famous as a teacher of creative writing as he was for his own works. In this practical, instructive handbook, based on the courses and seminars that he gave, he explains, simply and ... Read more

    Was $15.99 CAD Now $12.99 CAD

  • The King's Indian

    Stories and Tales

    by John Gardner ...
    An iconic collection that showcases Gardner as a master craftsman navigating an uncertain worldIn this exceptional book, author John Gardner explores the literary form as a vehicle of vision, and creates heroes that personify his tremendous artistic ideals: A Boston schoolmaster abandons his dreams of owning a farmhouse in rural Illinois only to be taken on a voyage across the seas and into self ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • James Bond Omnibus: The John Gardner Years

    by John Gardner ...
    Sixteen James Bond stories from master-storyteller John Gardner.Bundle comprises of: BROKENCLAW; COLD; DEATH IS FOREVER; FOR SPECIAL SERVICES; GOLDENEYE; ICEBREAKER; LICENCE RENEWED; LICENCE TO KILL; THE MAN FROM BARBAROSSA; NEVER SEND FLOWERS; NO DEALS, MR BOND; NOBODY LIVES FOREVER; ROLE OF HONOUR; SCORPIUS; SEAFIRE; WIN, LOSE OR DIE. ... Read more

    $69.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Return of Moriarty

    Sherlock Holmes' Nemesis Lives Again

    by John Gardner ...
    Now back in print after forty years: The first novel in John Gardner’s bestselling series of Victorian crime thrillers pitting Sherlock Holmes against the Napoleon of crime, Professor James Moriarty.Once again, the game is afoot . . . What really happened in Switzerland between Moriarty and Sherlock Holmes in 1891? And why is Holmes, now in London at 221B Baker Street, curiously uncooperative with ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Grendel

    by John Gardner ...
    This classic and much lauded retelling of Beowulf follows the monster Grendel as he learns about humans and fights the war at the center of the Anglo Saxon classic epic."An extraordinary achievement."—New York TimesThe first and most terrifying monster in English literature, from the great early epic Beowulf, tells his own side of the story in this frequently banned book. This is the novel William ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • On Moral Fiction

    by John Gardner ...
    "Fearless, illuminating" criticism from a New York Times–bestselling author and legendary teacher, "proving . . . that true art is moral and not trivial" ( Los Angeles Times).Novelist John Gardner's thesis in On Moral Fiction is simple: "True art is by its nature moral." It is also an audacious statement, as Gardner asserts an inherent value in life and in art. Since the book's first publication, ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • John Gardner on Writing

    On Becoming a Novelist, On Writers & Writing, and On Moral Fiction

    by John Gardner ...
    Three books in one volume: Advice and reflections on modern fiction from "one of the greatest creative writing teachers we've ever had" (Frederick Busch).In On Becoming a Novelist, John Gardner advises the aspiring fiction author on such topics as the value of creative writing workshops, the developmental stages of literary growth, and the inevitable experience of writer's block. Drawn from his ... Read more

    $33.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Jason & Medeia

    by John Gardner ...
    This modern retelling of the ancient Greek myth is "a brilliant achievement" by the New York Times–bestselling author of Grendel ( The Houston Post).In this magnificent epic poem, John Gardner renders his interpretation of the ancient story of Jason and Medeia. Confined in the palace of King Creon, and longing to return to his rightful kingdom Iolcus, Jason asks his wife, the sorceress Medeia, to ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • October Light

    by John Gardner ...
    New York Times Bestseller and National Book Critics Circle Award Winner: A "dazzling" novel about the tumultuous relationship of two elderly siblings ( Los Angeles Times).James is a cantankerous and conservative seventy-two-year-old who has spent his life caring for the animals on his farm. His widowed older sister, Sally, has strong liberal ideals and a propensity for debate. When Sally's ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus