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  • Gweilo: Memories Of A Hong Kong Childhood

    by Martin Booth ...
    Martin Booth died in February 2004, shortly after finishing the book that would be his epitaph - this wonderfully remembered, beautifully told memoir of a childhood lived to the full in a far-flung outpost of the British Empire...An inquisitive seven-year-old, Martin Booth found himself with the whole of Hong Kong at his feet when his father was posted there in the early 1950s. Unrestricted by ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Cannabis: A History

    by Martin Booth ...
    To some it's antisocial anathema, to others it is a harmless way to relax, or provides relief from crippling pain. Some fear it is a dangerous drug that leads to 'reefer madness' and addiction; to others still it is a legal anomaly and should be decriminalized. Whatever the viewpoint, and by whatever name it is known, cannabis - or marijuana, hashish, pot, dope, kif, weed, dagga, grass, ganja - ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Islands of Silence

    A Novel

    by Martin Booth ...
    "It's impossible not to be moved" by this "haunting" historical novel detailing the impact of love and war on a WWI medic ( The Washington Post Book World ).Islands of Silence is the story of the young Alec Marquand, who in the summer of 1914 has just graduated from college with a degree in archaeology. He has been hired by the lord of a remote country estate in the Scottish Highlands to survey ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Doctor Illuminatus

    The Alchemist's Son Part I

    by Martin Booth ...
    Series Book 1 - Doctor Illuminatus
    Pip and her twin brother, Tim, awaken an alchemist's son from a centuries-long slumber when their family moves to an old English country estate, and he enlists them in the fight against an evil alchemist who seeks to create a homunculus. ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The American

    by Martin Booth ...
    The basis for the action-packed George Clooney film: "A psychological suspense thriller invested with life-and-death gravitas" ( The Seattle Times ).The locals in the southern Italian town where he lives call him Signor Farfalla—Mr. Butterfly: for he is a discreet gentleman who paints rare butterflies. His life is inconspicuous—mornings spent brushing at a canvas, afternoons idling in the cafes, ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • Hiroshima Joe

    A Novel

    by Martin Booth ...
    One of the most powerful novels about the experience of war, first published in 1985Captured by Hirohito's soldiers at the fall of Hong Kong and transferred to a Japanese slave camp outside Hiroshima, Captain Joe Sandingham was present when the bomb was dropped. Now a shell of a man, he lives in a cheap Hong Kong hotel, scrounging for food and the occasional bar girl. The locals call him ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • A Very Private Gentleman

    A Novel

    by Martin Booth ...
    The locals in the southern Italian town where he lives call him Signor Farfalla--Mr. Butterfly: for he is a discreet gentleman who paints rare butterflies. His life is inconspicuous--mornings spent brushing at a canvas, afternoons idling in the cafes, and evening talks with his friend the town priest over a glass of brandy.Yet there are other sides to this gentleman's life: Clara: the young ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • British Poetry 1964 to 1984

    Driving through the Barricades

    by Martin Booth ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1985, British Poetry presents a personal and political account of British poetry from 1964 to 1984. Martin booth, himself a poet, poetry publisher, critic and editor, and the participant in poetry readings in Britain and overseas, shows that British poetry underwent a renaissance in the ten years from around 1964: poetry became a major popular art form, shaking off its shackles ... Read more

    $107.17 CAD

  • Soul Stealer

    The Alchemist's Son Part II

    by Martin Booth ...
    Series Book 2 - Doctor Illuminatus
    Pip and her twin brother, Tim, join forces again with Sebastian, the alchemist's son they awakened from a centuries-long slumber, to fight against an evil magician who learns people's deepest secrets in order to control their souls. ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Doctor and the Detective

    A Biography of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

    by Martin Booth ...
    A biography attempts to separate the life of the Edinburgh doctor from his fictional consulting detective from London.This entertaining, smart biography of Arthur Conan Doyle presents a modern-day interpretation of the man who, contrary to his best efforts, will always be known as the creator of the great detective, Sherlock Holmes. Doyle was, however, much more, as Booth shows us in this ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

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    The American

    Previously Published as A Very Private Gentleman

    by Martin Booth ...
    Narrated by Geoffrey Howard ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 2 min

    The locals in the southern Italian town where he lives call him Signor Farfalla—Mr. Butterfly—for he is a discreet gentleman who paints rare butterflies. His life is inconspicuous—mornings spent brushing at a canvas, afternoons idling in the cafes, and evenings talking with his friend, the town priest, over a glass of brandy.Yet there are other sides to this gentleman’s life: Clara, the young ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

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    Opium

    A History

    by Martin Booth ...
    Narrated by Julian Elfer ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 17 min

    Known to mankind since prehistoric times, opium is arguably the oldest and most widely used narcotic. Opium: A History traces the drug's astounding impact on world culture—from its religious use by prehistoric peoples to its influence on the imaginations of the Romantic writers; from the earliest medical science to the Sino–British opium wars. And, in the present day, as the addict population ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD