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  • Abigail's Party

    by Mike Leigh ...
    40th anniversary edition with a new introduction by Mike Leigh.Forty years on from its first performance at the Hampstead Theatre and original screening on BBC1 soon after, Mike Leigh's Abigail's Party - telling of two marriages spectacularly unravelling at an awkward neighbourhood drinks party - remains a pinnacle of British theatre.Here is the original script, complete with a new introduction by ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Abigail's Party & Goose-Pimples

    by Mike Leigh ...
    Mike Leigh’s 1970s classic play ‘Abigail’s Party’ focuses on an evening of domestic hell in the guise of a suburban drinks soirée. While teenager Abigail parties a few doors away, the pretentious Beverly and her estate agent husband, Laurence, entertain their neighbours – Abigail’s mother, Susan, ex-footballer, Tony, and his wife, Angela. But as the alcohol flows, tensions in the hosts’ barely ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Grief

    by Mike Leigh ...
    War widow Dorothy lives in a London suburb with her 15-year-old daughter Victoria and her older bachelor brother Edwin. More and more isolated from her married friends with their successful children, Dorothy tries to cope with Victoria's increasingly hostile behaviour. But is she doing her best, as she thinks, or is she in fact responsible for what threatens to become an unendurable situation?'A ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Abigail’s Party & Too Much of a Good Thing

    Two Full-Cast BBC Radio Drama Productions

    by Mike Leigh ...
    Narrated by Lesley Manville, Philip Davis, Brenda Blethyn, John Salthouse, Eric Allan, Teresa Streatfield, Thelma Whitely ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 23 min

    Brenda Blethyn, Lesley Manville and Phil Davis star in this special Mike Leigh collection, featuring the iconic hit Abigail’s Party and a banned play from the BBC archivesOne of Britain's most prolific and influential writers, Mike Leigh has directed some of the best British films of the last 50 years, including Life is Sweet, Secrets & Lies and Vera Drake. He has written a plethora of plays for ... Read more

    $25.83 CAD

  • What Does Grief Feel Like?

    by Korie Leigh ...
    Illustrated by Mike Malbrough ...
    Help young children explore the ways people experience grief when someone dies.Gentle and reassuring, What Does Grief Feel Like? shares the many ways people can grieve when a loved one dies and validates children’s unique grief experiences. Open-ended questions throughout the book invite children to share what they are thinking, feeling, and going through:What did you feel after your special ... Read more

    $19.79 CAD

  • Concussion

    The Hidden Trauma in Contact Sports and the NFL

    by Mike K.S. Chan, Leigh Steinberg, Dina Tulina ...
    Concussion – The Hidden Trauma in contact Sports and the NFL - Concussion and mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) represent a spectrum of neurological injuries that have gained unprecedented attention in recent decades, particularly within the realm of sports medicine. The recognition and understanding of concussion symptoms have evolved dramatically, driven largely by high-profile cases in ... Read more

    $75.58 CAD

  • Peterloo

    The Story of the Manchester Massacre

    by Jacqueline Riding ...
    The story of the Peterloo massacre, a defining moment in the history of British democracy, told with passion and authority.'Excellent' Zadie Smith'Fast-paced and full of fascinating detail' Tim Clayton'A superb account of one of the defining moments in modern British history' Tristram Hunt'Peterloo is one of the greatest scandals of British political history... Riding tells this tragic story with ... Read more

    $14.09 CAD

  • The Savoy Operas: The Complete Gilbert and Sullivan

    by Arthur Sullivan, W. S. Gilbert ...
    Gilbert and Sullivan’s operas are some of the world’s best-loved musical works, delighting audiences with their joyous wit, topsy-turvy logic and extravagant wordplay. This glorious treasury is the definitive annotated edition of all fourteen of their operas.From the partially lost work Thespis, the first collaboration between W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, through the triumphant comic romps ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • The World's War

    Forgotten Soldiers of Empire

    by David Olusoga ...
    'A groundbreaking and important book that will surely reframe our understanding of the Great War' David Lammy'A genuinely groundbreaking piece of research' BBC History'Meticulously researched and beautifully written' Military History MonthlyIn a sweeping narrative, David Olusoga describes how Europe's Great War became the World's War – a multi-racial, multi-national struggle, fought in Africa and ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The People

    The Rise and Fall of the Working Class, 1910-2010

    by Selina Todd ...
    THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'There was nothing extraordinary about my childhood or background. And yet I looked in vain for any aspect of my family's story when I went to university to read history, and continued to search fruitlessly for it throughout the next decade. Eventually I realised I would have to write this history myself.'What was it really like to live through the twentieth century? In ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Court Number One

    The Old Bailey Trials that Defined Modern Britain

    by Thomas Grant ...
    A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A WATERSTONES PAPERBACK OF THE YEAR 'Superbly told' Simon Heffer, Daily Telegraph 'A hamper of treats' Sunday Telegraph '[Grant employs] scholarship and depth of evidence' London Review of Books 'These tales of eleven trials are shocking, squalid, titillating and illuminating: ea... ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Sphinx

    The revelatory biography of Gladys Deacon, Duchess of Marlborough, from 'the most knowledgeable royal biographer on the planet' - FINANCIAL TIMES

    by Hugo Vickers ...
    An enthralling portrait of the enigmatic woman at the centre of a now vanished Golden Age of English history: Gladys Deacon, Duchess of Marlborough.'Truly wonderful - a masterclass in storytelling' - SUNDAY TIMESOne of the most beautiful and brilliant women of her time, Gladys Deacon dazzled and puzzled the glittering social circles in which she moved . . .Born in Paris to American parents in 1881 ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook