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  • Fields of the Sky

    by Chief Simbirori, Matthew John Lee ...
    A psychiatrist treats his patients while referencing Led Zeppelin, a lone woman creates a soulmate through thought before destroying her through sex, and a boy's terror of the unknown leads him to welcome a monster into his home. The opening three stories set the tone for this collection of twenty. Outlandish, engaging and inspiring, another word to describe their content would be eclectic. The ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Quick and the Dead

    by Matthew John Lee ...
    Great Britain: an island isolated, lifeless, devoid of hope; a nation that lives only in the hearts and minds of those who were abroad when the attack came. M.J. Lee presents an all too realistic vision of the near future, a timely warning of the consequences of ratcheting up violence and intolerance. Three British expatriates struggle to come to terms with their incomprehensible loss as they ... Read more

    $4.04 CAD

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  • The Kraken Wakes

    by John Wyndham ...
    'Ingenious, horrifying' - GuardianIt started with fireballs raining down from the sky and crashing into the oceans' deeps. Then ships began sinking mysteriously and later 'sea tanks' emerged from the deeps to claim people . . .For journalists Mike and Phyllis Watson, what at first appears to be a curiosity becomes a global calamity. Helpless, they watch as humanity struggles to survive now that ... Read more

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  • Gravel Heart

    By the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021

    by Abdulrazak Gurnah ...
    A powerful story of exile, migration, and betrayal, from the Booker Prize–shortlisted author of Paradise.Salim has always known that his father does not want him. Living with his parents and his adored Uncle Amir in a house full of secrets, he is a bookish child, a dreamer haunted by night terrors. It is the 1970s and Zanzibar is changing. Tourists arrive, the island's white sands obscuring the ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Around The World In Eighty Days

    by Michael Palin ...
    'The pace of this kind of travel has not much changed since Fogg set out in 1872. Trains may be a little faster, but there are certainly no high-speed rail links yet across India, China or the USA. Passenger services have practically disappeared from the world's shipping lanes ... Recourse to air travel, even as a convenient means of escape, was not allowed.'Following the route taken by Phileas ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • From There to Here

    A memoir from the award-winning New Zealand columnist, teacher, and international bestselling author

    by Joe Bennett ...
    From Willingdon to Lyttelton, a memoir about love, learning and the journey to thirtyJoe Bennett is the author of countless columns, over twenty books, and now, at long last, a memoir. From There to Here describes a childhood of fishing, cricket, friends, a dog, some mild molestation and a few deaths. There's the long-haired gloom and vehemence of adolescence. There's love and heartache, an urge ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Pole To Pole

    by Michael Palin ...
    No.1 bestseller Michael Palin's epic journey from the North Pole to the South Pole.'The cracked and fissured ice-pack offers no comfortable reassurance - no glimmer of any reward to the traveller who has made his way to the top of the world. The Arctic Ocean, known to the Victorians as the Sea of Ancient Ice, stares balefully back as we descend towards it, reflecting nothing but the question: Why? ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Whitsun Weddings

    by Philip Larkin ...
    Philip Larkin (1922-1985) remains England's best-loved poet - a writer matchlessly capable of evoking his native land and of touching all readers from the most sophisticated intellectual to the proverbial common reader. The late John Betjeman observed that 'this tenderly observant poet writes clearly, rhythmically, and thoughtfully about what all of us can understand'. Behind this modest ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • That Old Country Music

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    by Kevin Barry ...
    ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY LIBRARY JOURNALFrom the author of the wildly acclaimed Night Boat to Tangier, a New York Times "Top 10" book of 2019, here are stories of contemporary Ireland: full of love (and sex), melancholy and magic, bedecked in some of the most gorgeous prose being written today.Since his landmark debut collection There Are Little Kingdoms in 2007, and its award-winning ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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  • Refugee Tales

    by Ali Smith, Marina Lewycka, David Herd ...
    Two unaccompanied children travel across the Mediterranean in an overcrowded boat that has been designed to only make it halfway across…A 63-year-old man is woken one morning by border officers ‘acting on a tip-off’ and, despite having paid taxes for 28 years, is suddenly cast into the detention system with no obvious means of escape…An orphan whose entire life has been spent in slavery – first on ... Read more

    $11.05 CAD

  • The Autobiography: The Kindness of Strangers

    by Kate Adie ...
    Kate Adie's story is an unusual one. Raised in post-war Sunderland, where life was 'a sunny experience, full of meat-paste sandwiches and Sunday school', she has reported memorably and courageously from many of the world's trouble spots since she joined the BBC in 1969. THE KINDNESS OF STRANGERS encompasses Adie's reporting from, inter alia, Northern Ireland, the Middle East, Tiananmen Square and, ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Life Class

    The Selected Memoirs Of Diana Athill

    by Diana Athill ...
    Diana Athill, born in 1917, made her reputation as a writer with the candour of her memoirs; through her commitment, in her words, 'to understand, to be aware, to touch the truth'. In a celebration of her life and writing, Life Class brings together four of her best-loved memoirs in one volume, spanning her very English childhood, her life and loves during the Second World War, her publishing ... Read more

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