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  • The Sure Thing

    The Greatest Coup in Horse Racing History

    by Nick Townsend ...
    The fascinating true story of how legendary gambler Barney Curley pulled off the greatest betting scams in horse-racing history.‘Calls to mind The Italian Job.’ Independent on Sunday**The bookies always win.But one man has been proving them wrong for four decades.**In the summer of 1975 Barney Curley, a fearless and renowned gambler, masterminded one of the most spectacular gambles of all time ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Mark Johnston: Phenomenon

    by Nick Townsend ...
    A new, fully authorised biography of the most successful trainer in British horse racing history.In the stratified and often secretive world of racehorse training, Mark Johnston has always been different: forthright, combative, provocative, and candid – a man who delights in questioning convention. Over more than three decades, he has gone from being a vet from a thoroughly working-class Scottish ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • No Place for a Girl

    How One Female Jockey Broke into an Exclusive Men's Club

    by Nick Townsend, Karen Wiltshire ...
    No Place for a Girl is the little-known but hugely inspirational story of pioneering woman jockey Karen Wiltshire and her fight for acceptance in the male-dominated world of 1970s horseracing.There was a time when female professional jockeys were not welcome in British horseracing. But then one dauntless rider confronted the misogyny, prejudice and bullying she encountered both in the stables ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Public Health Mini-Guides: Obesity

    Edited by Nick Townsend, Angela Scriven ...
    Series series Public Health Mini-Guides
    Obesity and its linked morbidity and mortality is a significant public health challenge on a global scale and places a burden not only on the individual but also on society as a whole. This Mini-Guide presents key themes relating to this challenge, including the means of measuring obesity, the most recent prevalence and trends, the health consequences and causes of obesity along with approaches to ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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    Radio Beckett

    Five Full Cast BBC Audio Plays by Nobel Prize winning writer Samuel Beckett

    by Samuel Beckett ...
    Narrated by Stephen Rea, Ian Mckellen, Ron Cook, Monica Dolan, Louise Brealey, Brian Protheroe, Stephen Dillane, Stanley Townsend, Nick Underwood, Carl Prekopp ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 59 min

    Broadcaster Matthew Sweet presents a sequence of radio plays by Samuel Beckett, with star casts including Stephen Rea and Ian McKellenSamuel Beckett captured the pathos and irony of modern life like no other dramatist. In the decade following the success of Waiting for Godot (1952), he wrote some of his most absorbing work for radio, among them this sequence of short pieces. Suffused with the same ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

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    by Gretchen Gerzina ...
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  • Chocolate

    by Molly Bakes ...
    Chocolate is a magical ingredient.Everyone loves eating it. And if you can cook with it, your baking will rise to a whole new level. But – here’s an untold secret – cooking with chocolate can be incredibly easy.Here Molly Bakes shares with us 50 of her favourite recipes for chocolate treats that are stylish, playful and totally delicious. They include:-Techniques (like Chocolate Cups)-Filled ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Lives in Writing

    by David Lodge ...
    A collection of essays on writers and writing by the Booker-shortlisted novelist and critic.Writing about real lives takes various forms, which overlap and may be combined with each other: biography, autobiography, biographical criticism, biographical fiction, memoir, confession, diary.In these thoughtful and enlightening essays David Lodge considers some particularly interesting examples of life ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Zeppelin Nights

    London in the First World War

    by Jerry White ...
    ‘Zeppelin Nights is social history at its best… White creates a vivid picture of a city changed forever by war’ The Times2018 marks the centenary of the end of the First World War. In those four decisive years, London was irrevocably changed. Soldiers passed through the capital on their way to the front and wounded men were brought back to be treated in London’s hospitals. At night, London plunged ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Running Free

    A Runner’s Journey Back to Nature

    by Richard Askwith ...
    Shortlisted for the 2015 Thwaites Wainwright prize for nature writingRichard Askwith wanted more. Not convinced running had to be all about pounding pavements, buying fancy kit and racking up extreme challenges, he looked for ways to liberate himself. His solution: running through muddy fields and up rocky fells, running with his dog at dawn, running because he's being (voluntarily) chased by a ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • How To Be A Heroine

    Or, what I’ve learned from reading too much

    by Samantha Ellis ...
    Cathy Earnshaw or Jane Eyre?Petrova or Posy?Scarlett or Melanie?Lace or Valley of the Dolls?On a pilgrimage to Wuthering Heights, Samantha Ellis found herself arguing with her best friend about which heroine was best: Jane Eyre or Cathy Earnshaw. She was all for wild, passionate Cathy; but her friend found Cathy silly, a snob, while courageous Jane makes her o... ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Great British Bake Off: Learn to Bake

    80 easy recipes for all the family

    by Love Productions ...
    Love eating cake? Well, this weekend, get into the kitchen and bake a cake yourself. Baking is fun when you know how to do it, and you don’t need lots of equipment or expensive ingredients.Learn to Bake explains baking terms (how do you beat, fold or cream?) and special ingredients (what is strong bread flour?). Then it tells you everything you need to know to bake for every occasion and every ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD