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  • The Lost Child of Philomena Lee

    A Mother, Her Son and a Fifty Year Search

    by Martin Sixsmith ...
    The Lost Child of Philomena Lee is the tale of a mother and a son whose lives were scarred by the forces of hypocrisy on both sides of the Atlantic and of the secrets they were forced to keep. A compelling narrative of human love and loss, Martin Sixsmith's moving account is both heartbreaking yet ultimately redemptive.When she fell pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Philomena

    The True Story of a Mother and the Son She Had to Give Away (Film Tie-in Edition)

    by Martin Sixsmith ...
    The extraordinary true story that inspired an acclaimed film starring Steve Coogan and Judi Dench, Philomena, by Martin Sixsmith, is a gripping tale of heartache, hypocrisy and ultimately, redemption.It follows the lives of Philomena Lee, who, after falling pregnant in 1952, was treated as a fallen woman by Irish Catholic society, and her son, torn from her by the Church and swept across the ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • The Lost Child

    A Mother and the Son She Had to Give Away

    by Martin Sixsmith ...
    When she fell pregnant as a teenager in Ireland in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to the convent at Roscrea in Co. Tipperary to be looked after as a fallen woman. She cared for her baby for three years until the Church took him from her and sold him, like countless others, to America for adoption. Coerced into signing a document promising never to attempt to see her child again, she nonetheless ... Read more

    $10.69 CAD

  • Despots

    How Trump is Turning America into Putin’s Russia - From the Sunday Times bestselling author

    by Martin Sixsmith, Daniel Sixsmith ...
    A razor-sharp analysis of the increasing – and terrifying – parallels between Trump’s America and Putin’s Russia, from the former BBC Moscow Correspondent and Sunday Times bestselling author Martin Sixsmith."Gripping, terrifying, urgent, necessary." - Ian Rankin"Anyone who cares for democracy and freedom, and who fears for the future of both, should go and read this book." - Jonath... ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • Ayesha's Gift

    A daughter's search for the truth about her father

    by Martin Sixsmith ...
    ****FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BESTSELLING PHILOMENA, MADE INTO THE AWARD-WINNING FILM STARRING STEVEN COOGAN AND JUDI DENCH**Ayesha's Gift is the true story of a young woman, born in Pakistan, living in Britain, whose life is thrown into desperate turmoil by the violent death of her father. The Pakistani authorities talk of suicide, but why would Ayesha’s happy, gentle father kill himself?**Ayesha’s ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Putin and the Return of History

    How the Kremlin Rekindled the Cold War

    by Martin Sixsmith ...
    An original history of Russia's thousand-year past, tracing the forces and the myths that have shaped Putin's politics and rekindled the Cold War.Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine has reshaped history. In the decades after the collapse of Soviet communism, the West convinced itself that liberal democracy would henceforth be the dominant, ultimately unique, system of governance - a hubris that ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Suing the Kremlin

    The Battle for Putin's Billions

    by Martin Sixsmith ...
    Vladimir Putin came to power by destroying the Russian oligarchs, the entrepreneurs who grew rich during Russia's chaotic transition from communism and exercised unseemly influence over the government of Boris Yeltsin. Putin confiscated their companies and used the profits to build the Kremlin's war chest for the invasion of Ukraine. He and his cronies siphoned off billions for themselves.Drawing ... Read more

    $20.39 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The War of Nerves

    Inside the Cold War Mind

    by Martin Sixsmith ...
    A major new history of the Cold War that explores the conflict through the minds of the people who lived through it.More than any other conflict, the Cold War was fought on the battlefield of the human mind. And, nearly thirty years since the collapse of the Soviet Union, its legacy still endures—not only in our politics, but in our own thoughts and fears.Drawing on a vast array of untapped ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Putin's Oil

    The Yukos Affair and the Struggle for Russia

    by Martin Sixsmith ...
    This title investigates Vladimir Putin's war for control of Russia's vast oil reserves, in particular Mikhail Khodorkovsky's oil firm, Yukos. "Putin's Oil" investigates the complex world of Kremlin politics, including conspiracies and conspiracy theories, allegations that Roman Abramovitch plotted with Putin to destroy Khodorkovsky, suspicions of betrayal and double agents in the Kremlin and in ... Read more

    $61.99 CAD

  • The Litvinenko File

    The Life and Death of a Russian Spy

    by Martin Sixsmith ...
    On December 7 2006, in a Highgate Cemetery drenched with London rain, a Russian was buried within a stone's throw of the grave of Karl Marx. He was Alexander Litvinenko, Sasha to his friends, a boy from the deep Russian provinces who rose through the ranks of the world's most feared security service. Litvinenko was the man who denounced murder and corruption in the Russian government, fled from ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

  • The Russia Conundrum

    How the West Fell for Putin's Power Gambit—and How to Fix It

    by Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Martin Sixsmith ...
    An urgent analysis of the battle between Russia and the West and an exposé of Putin's Russia, by a former Kremlin insider."I'm a fairly calm fellow; I don't usually get wound up about things. But I was, let's say, concerned when I tuned into the Moscow Echo radio station and heard that the Kremlin had put a price on my head. The announcement didn't quite say 'dead or alive'. But it came close..." ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Audiobook

    Philomena

    by Martin Sixsmith ...
    Narrated by John Curless ...

    Unabridged

    15 hours 27 min

    Now a major film starring Judi Dench and Steve CooganFalling pregnant as a teenager in 1952, Philomena Lee was sent to the convent in Co. Tipperary to be looked after as a fallen woman. She cared for her baby for three years until the Church took him and sold him, like countless others, to America for adoption. She spent the next fifty years secretly searching for him, unaware that he was ... Read more

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