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  • Wunderkind

    Portraits of 50 Contemporary German Artists

    by Rory MacLean ...
    What makes an artist? What forces and inklings drive a young man or woman to make their own journey, and where does it begin? In imaginary childhood games? In chance encounters? At the sensitive core of the human heart?To answer these and other questions, award-winning author Rory MacLean met more than one hundred working German artists. He traced how childhood obsessions or a spark of inspiration ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Back in the USSR

    Heroic Adventures in Transnistria

    by Rory MacLean ...
    Transnistria is a nowhereland hugging a narrow valley near the Black Sea. No bigger than Cornwall or Rhode Island, the unrecognised country is a Soviet museum long occupied by Russian ‘peace-keepers’. Its oligarchs in Adidas track suits hunt wild boar with AK-47s. Its young people train for revolution at the Che Guevara High School of Political Leadership. Its secret factories have supplied arms ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Berlin

    Inspiration for Public Service Broadcasting's hit new album Bright Magic

    by Rory MacLean ...
    The first single-volume biography of Berlin, one of the world's great cities - told via twenty-one portraits, from medieval times to the twenty-first century.A city devastated by Allied bombs, divided by a Wall, then reunited and reborn, Berlin today resonates with the echo of lives lived, dreams realised and evils executed. No other city has repeatedly been so powerful and fallen so low. And few ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Stalin’s Nose

    Across the Face of Europe

    by Rory Maclean ...
    In Rory MacLean's ground breaking debut, Winston the pig drops onto uncle Peter's head and kills him dead. It is a distressing end to a distinguished Soviet spy. After the funeral aunt Zita, a faded Austrian aristocrat and a vivacious eccentric, refuses to remain at home in East Germany. Instead she hijacks her nephew and, with Winston in tow, sets out on one last ride. The Berlin Wall fell only ... Read more

    $2.49 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In North Korea

    Lives and Lies in the State of Truth

    by Maclean Rory ...
    North Koreans could change the world. Today their country can annihilate South Korea and Japan. By 2020 their aim is to have submarine-launched missiles able to nuke the US mainland. So who are the North Koreans? What do they think and feel? Are they belligerent automatons, indoctrinated by years of propaganda, with fingers hovering over trigger buttons? Or simply ordinary men and women who have ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Shortest History of Berlin

    by Rory MacLean ...
    Berlin's story is one of constant reinvention'Yesterday echoes along today's streets, and the ideas conjured up by Berlin's dreamers, dictators, liars and artists seem as solid as its bricks and mortar.'Shaped by waves of death and war, and all but obliterated in both the Hundred Years' and Second World Wars, Berlin is not an ancient city. Founded in the thirteenth century, this small trading post ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • The Shortest History of Berlin

    by Rory MacLean ...
    Series series The Shortest History Series
    From award-winning author and travel writer Rory MacLean, the history of Germany’s capital city—from world wars to climate change initiatives, this is the story of Berlin through portraits of its leaders and architects, heroes and victims, mythmakers and artistsThe site of some of the world’s brightest and most devastating ideas, leaders, and movements, Berlin’s history is full of conflict and ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD

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  • Under the Dragon

    A Journey through Burma

    by Rory Maclean ...
    After the brutal suppression of an unarmed national uprising, which cost thousands of lives, Rory MacLean seized the chance to visit Burma. Travelling from Rangoon to Mandalay and Pagan, into the heart of the Golden Triangle, he heard stories of freedom fighters, government censors, basket weavers, farmers and lovers -- ordinary people struggling to survive under one of the most brutal and ... Read more

    $2.49 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pravda Ha Ha

    Truth, Lies and the End of Europe

    by Rory MacLean ...
    Shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award'A gem of a book, informative, companionable, sometimes funny, and wholly original. MacLean must surely be the outstanding, and most indefatigable, traveller-writer of our time' John le Carr****éIn 1989 the Berlin Wall fell. In that euphoric year Rory MacLean travelled from Berlin to Moscow, exploring lands that were – for most Brits ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

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    The authoritative and fascinating history of the rise and fall of the state-owned British Rail'Wolmar's book is impeccably organised and makes a fast, enjoyable read' THE TIMES Literary Supplement________British Rail wasn't how we're asked to remember it . . .From ancient rolling stock to patchy service, stale sandwiches to the wrong kind of snow, British Rail - our last great state-owned or... ... Read more

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  • The Dark Tourist

    Sightseeing in the world's most unlikely holiday destinations

    by Dom Joly ...
    Ever since he can remember, Dom Joly has been fascinated by travel to odd places. In part this stems from a childhood spent in war-torn Lebanon, where instead of swapping marbles in the schoolyard, he had a shrapnel collection -- the schoolboy currency of Beirut. Dom's upbringing was interspersed with terrifying days and nights spent hunkered in the family basement under Syrian rocket attack or ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

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  • The River of Lost Footsteps

    A Personal History of Burma

    by Thant Myint-U ...
    For nearly two decades Western governments and a growing activist community have been frustrated in their attempts to bring about a freer and more democratic Burma—through sanctions and tourist boycotts—only to see an apparent slide toward even harsher dictatorship. But what do we really know about Burma and its history? And what can Burma's past tell us about the present and even its future?In ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD