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“laura hird”

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  • Born Free

    by Laura Hird ...
    Shortlisted for the Whitbread Award: "this bleak tale" of a month in the life of a family struggling with addiction "is a work of considerable force" ( The Scotsman, UK).Punchy, sharp-witted and acutely observed, Born Free tells the story of an ordinary family living in Edinburgh, Scotland, and dealing with their troubles in an all-too ordinary way: each member is trying to escape life—and each ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hope and Other Stories

    by Laura Hird ...
    A "bloody, believable and intoxicating" collection of short stories by the acclaimed author of Born Free ( The Herald, UK).Laura Hird became one of the most exciting new voices in Scottish literature with her Whitbread Award-shortlisted debut novel, Born Free. Known for pitch-perfect characters dealing with the despair and dysfunction of contemporary life, Hird continues to mine this trademark ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Children of Albion Rovers

    by Laura Hird, Irvine Welsh, Paul Reekie, James Meek, Gordon Legge, Alan Warner ...
    Children of Albion Rovers is the best-selling and critically acclaimed collection of novellas that features six of the most exciting young writers to emerge from Scotland in the 90s: award-winning authors Irvine Welsh, Alan Warner, Gordon Legge, and James Meek and introducing the striking new talents of Laura Hird and Paul Reekie. Children of Albion Rovers is a world of tripped-out crematorium ... Read more

    $16.49 CAD

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  • If You Liked School, You'll Love Work

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  • Born Free

    by Joy Adamson ...
    An unforgettable adventure of love, survival and the call of the wild.For more than fifty years, the enchanting tale of Joy Adamson and Elsa, the lioness, has mesmerized readers across the globe. Rescued as an orphaned cub and raised at Joy's home in Kenya, Elsa found a home and a mother in Joy. But Elsa had been born free, and Joy knew that she had to be returned to her rightful home in the wild ... Read more

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  • The Adultery Club

    In an often grey world there are fifty shades of seduction

    by Tess Stimson ...
    The Adultery Club: In an often grey world there are fifty shades of seduction.A wife, a husband, a mistress. Whose side will you be on?Life couldn't be happier for Nicholas Lyon, a divorce lawyer and contented husband of the beautiful Mal, a successful cookery writer and mother to their three gorgeous daughters.And then Sara Kaplan, a bright, vivacious young lawyer, explodes into his life like a ... Read more

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  • Shatter

    by Michael Robotham ...
    Series Book 3 - Joe O'Loughlin
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  • Chocolate Box Girls: Bittersweet

    by Cathy Cassidy ...
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  • Wind in the Wires: A Woody Creek Novel 4

    by Joy Dettman ...
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  • Like a House on Fire

    by Cate Kennedy ...
    WINNER OF THE 2013 STEELE RUDD AWARD, QUEENSLAND LITERARY AWARDSSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 STELLA PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 KIBBLE AWARDFrom prize-winning short-story writer Cate Kennedy comes a new collection to rival her highly acclaimed Dark Roots. In Like a House on Fire, Kennedy once again takes ordinary lives and dissects their ironies, injustices and pleasures with her humane eye and wry ... Read more

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