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  • Time Song

    Searching for Doggerland

    by Julia Blackburn ...
    SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE AND THE HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZEA journey told through stories and songs into Doggerland, the ancient region that once joined the east coast of England to HollandTime Song tells of the creation, the existence and the loss of a country now called Doggerland, a huge and fertile area that once connected the entire east coast of England with mainland Europe, until it ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • With Billie

    A New Look at the Unforgettable Lady Day

    by Julia Blackburn ...
    From Julia Blackburn, an author whose ability to conjure lives from other times and places is so vivid that one suspects she sees ghosts, here is a portrait of a woman whose voice continues to haunt anyone who hears it.Billie Holiday’s life is inseparable from an account of her troubles, her addictions, her arrests, and the scandals that would repeatedly put her name in the tabloid headlines of ... Read more

    Was $14.99 CAD Now $10.99 CAD

  • The Emperor's Last Island

    A Journey to St. Helena

    by Julia Blackburn ...
    Series series Vintage Departures
    In 1814 Napoleon Bonaparte arrived on St. Helena for a surreal exile that would last until his death six years later. • "Dazzling... a compelling meditation on Napoleon's exile...Blackburn has brought her startlingly imaginative sensitivity to bear on a vanished time."—The New York Times Book Review“A resonant meditation on exile, fame, the stories we tell about ourselves (and) the bigger stories ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Lost Dragonflies

    by Julia Blackburn ...
    A thrilling eco-magical adventure filled with ancient nature magic and heartfelt environmental mystery—perfect for fans of Hannah Gold and Sophie Kirtley.Twelve-year-old Belle has always been torn between her mum's faith in science and her Nana Willow's deep bond with the land. But when Whisper Valley's lake begins to die and the dragonflies—once gentle guardians—turn violent, Belle is thrust into ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The May Day Chorus

    The Songbird Choir, #2

    by Julia Blackburn ...
    Series Book 2 - The Songbird Choir
    Every garden needs a song. But what happens when singing is forbidden?Rube the robin has always led The Songbird Choir. But when Flint and his gang arrive searching for buried treasure, they tear up the garden, scatter the singers, and make one thing brutally clear: no singing allowed.Forced to flee with his battered choir, Rube faces the dangerous Farmlands, a hungry fox, and a devastating ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Three of Us

    A Family Story

    by Julia Blackburn ...
    **This is the moving story of three people: acclaimed writer Julia Blackburn; her father, Thomas—a poet and alcoholic with an addiction to barbiturates; and her mother, Rosalie—a flirtatious painter with no boundaries.“Striking.... Colored by passion and memory.... [Blackburn] artfully smudges the line between memoir and reportage.” —Francine Prose, Harper's**After Julia's parents divorced, her ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The Songbird Army

    The Songbird Choir, #1

    by Julia Blackburn ...
    Series Book 1 - The Songbird Choir
    Book 1 in The Songbird Choir Series.A magical wildlife adventure for ages 6–12 about courage, friendship, and finding your voice. Ideal for fans of M.G. Leonard's Twitchers series and young readers who love animal heroes and nature-inspired stories.When a gang of bullying magpies threatens the nests of a peaceful choir, Rube the robin would rather sing than lead—but when his friends are in danger, ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Leper's Companions

    A Novel

    by Julia Blackburn ...
    Series series Vintage International
    In this fascinatingly imaginative novel, Julia Blackburn has decimated all the rules, creating a magical tale that is part fable, part allegory, part present, part past, and wholly genuine and poetic.The unnamed protagonist has recently lost someone she loved, and her solution is to abandon the present, and the overwhelming pain. The seamless narrative lands her in a medieval seaside village where ... Read more

    Was $13.99 CAD Now $9.99 CAD

  • Dreaming the Karoo

    A People Called the /Xam

    by Julia Blackburn ...
    A spellbinding new book by the much-acclaimed writer, a journey to South Africa in search of the lost people called the /Xam - a haunting book about the brutality of colonial frontiers and the fate of those they dispossess.In spring 2020, Julia Blackburn travelled to the Karoo region of South Africa to see for herself the ancestral lands that had once belonged to an indigenous group called the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Charles Waterton 1782-1865

    Traveller and Conservationist

    by Julia Blackburn ...
    Charles Waterton was the first conservationist who fought to protect wild nature against the destruction and pollution of Victorian industrialisation. During his lifetime he was famous for his eccentricities, but also for his achievements and his opinions. A Yorkshire landowner, he turned his park into a sanctuary for animals and birds. As an explorer he learned to survive in the tropical rain ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Book of Color

    by Julia Blackburn ...
    In the late 19th century, an English missionary arrives on a remote island in the Indian Ocean, intent on wiping out fornication among the natives. Instead he incurs a curse that strikes first his dark-skinned wife, then his son and grandson. But is the curse supernatural—or a white man's guilty fascination with an alien new world?“A hypnotic, cryptic, haunting exploration of the power of memory.” ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Woman Who Always Loved Picasso

    by Julia Blackburn ...
    Marie-Thérèse Walter was seventeen when she met Picasso. He was forty-six. These poems - as simple and direct as quick sketches - use her voice to tell the story of the relationship with Picasso and what it meant to her from its first beginnings, until the day on which she took her own life, three years after his death. The poems illuminate his love for a woman who was, as John Berger says, 'the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus