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  • Let the Light Pour In

    A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

    by Lemn Sissay ...
    THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERFor the past decade, Lemn Sissay has composed a short poem as dawn breaks each morning. Life-affirming, witty and full of wonder, these poems chronicle his own battle with the dark and are fuelled by resilience and defiant joy. Let the Light Pour In is a collection of the best of these poems, and a book celebrating this morning practice.‘How do you do it?’ said ... Read more

    $14.29 CAD

  • My Name Is Why

    by Lemn Sissay ...
    THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERINDIE BOOK AWARDS NON-FICTION WINNER'EXTRAORDINARY' The Times, 'BEAUTIFUL**' Dolly Alderton, 'SHATTERING****' Observer,** 'INCREDIBLE' Benjamin Zephaniah, 'UNPUTDOWNABLE' Sunday Times, 'ASTOUNDING' Matt Haig 'POWERFUL' Elif ShafakAt the age of seventeen, after a childhood in a foster family followed by six year... ... Read more

    $14.29 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Gold from the Stone

    New and Selected Poems

    by Lemn Sissay ...
    Series series Canons
    Lemn Sissay was seventeen when he wrote his first poetry book, which he hand-sold to the miners and millworkers of Wigan. Since then his poems have become landmarks, sculpted in granite and built from concrete, recorded on era-defining albums and declaimed in over thirty countries.He has performed to thousands of football fans at the FA Cup Final, to hundreds of thousands as the poet of the London ... Read more

    $14.29 CAD

  • Listener

    by Lemn Sissay ...
    Listener overflows with love poems, inner-city soap operas, reflections on history, mystery and felicity and much more. Every page sings with Sissay's unique voice - visionary, good-humoured and bursting with life. ... Read more

    $14.29 CAD

  • Don't Ask the Dragon

    by Lemn Sissay ...
    Illustrated by Greg Stobbs ...
    This is the story of a little boy called Alem who goes on an adventure.It's his birthday, but who knows where he can go to celebrate it?Maybe the bear, the fox, the treefrog or the bulldog know?But don't ask the dragon . . . or he will EAT you! ... Read more

    $12.09 CAD

  • Rebel Without Applause

    by Lemn Sissay ...
    Lemn Sissay's poems are laid into the streets of downtown Manchester, feature on the side of a public house in the same city and have been emblazoned on a central London bus route. He has been published in press as diverse as the the Times Literary Supplement and the Independent to The Face and Dazed & Confused.He has been commissioned to write poetry, documentaries and plays for Radio 1 and Radio ... Read more

    $14.29 CAD

  • Morning Breaks In The Elevator

    by Lemn Sissay ...
    Lemn Sissay brings together a stunning new collection, Morning Breaks in the Elevator. In Sissay's work, we witness declamation being honed and brought to fine art, establishing his reputation as one of the UK's foremost poets as he ably moves from loud protest through to quiet reflection. ... Read more

    $14.29 CAD

  • Metamorphosis (NHB Modern Plays)

    (stage version)

    by Franz Kafka, Lemn Sissay ...
    Gregor Samsa wakes up each morning, quietly leaves the house to take the same train, and works to pay off the family debt. But that world explodes one morning, when Gregor awakes to find himself changed. To those around him he is dangerous, untouchable vermin. Worse than that, he is a burden. Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka's shocking tale of cruelty and kindness, has been a literary landmark since it ... Read more

    $15.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Refugee Boy

    by Mr Benjamin Zephaniah, Lemn Sissay ...
    Series series Student Editions
    An eye for an eye. It's very simple. You choose your homeland like a hyena picking and choosing where he steals his next meal from. Scavenger. Yes you grovel to the feet of Mengistu and when his people spit at you and kick you from the bowl you scuttle across the border. Scavenger.As a violent civil war rages back home in Ethiopia, teenager Alem and his father are in a bed and breakfast in ... Read more

    $15.79 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Lemn Sissay is the One and Only

    A BBC Radio 4 Series

    by Lemn Sissay ...
    Narrated by Tony Walsh, Henry Normal, Donna Ludford, Cornelius Walker, Terry Galloway ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 51 min

    Award-winning writer Lemn Sissay explores the idea of uniqueness across different aspects of his life'Creative, surprising - and unique' The TelegraphIf you Google 'Lemn Sissay', all the results will be about him - he's the only person in the world with that name. But that's not the only thing that makes him unique. In this fascinating series, he mixes stand-up, poetry and interviews to explore ... Read more

    $25.83 CAD

  • Audiobook

    My Name Is Why

    by Lemn Sissay ...
    Narrated by Lemn Sissay, Richard Burnip, Zoe Mills ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 20 min

    THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TIMES, GUARDIAN, DAILY TELEGRAPH, SUNDAY TIMES, OBSERVER, NEW STATESMAN, METRO, DAILY MAIL, SUNDAY EXPRESS and HERALD‘A quest for understanding, for home, for answers’ Matt HaigHow does a government steal a child and then imprison him? How does it kee... ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Audiobook

    On The Edge and other stories

    11 BBC Radio Thrillers

    by Hannah Silva, Fraser Ayres, Marcy Kahan, Neil McKay, Lavinia Murray, Alex Bulmer0, Simon Wu2, Amy Ng5, Tara Hegarty7 ...
    Narrated by Fraser Ayres, Suranne Jones, Lemn Sissay, Kobna Holdbrook-Smith, mx Maggie Steed, Fiona Shaw1, Erin Doherty3, Chizzy Akudolu4, Full Cast6 ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 43 min

    11 gripping thrillers from some of BBC Radio's best contemporary writers, including BAFTA- winner Neil McKayInventive, intriguing and atmospheric, this eclectic selection of crime, mystery and psychological dramas immerses us in a series of diverse worlds where nothing is what it appears to be, and nobody is quite what they seem.Wide in scope and disparate in style, the stories range from a police ... Read more

    $25.83 CAD