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  • The Madman's Guide to Stamp Collecting

    by Robert Irwin ...
    **A fascinating, one-of-a-kind journey through the obsessive world of collecting (and stamps) by maverick historian and cult writer Robert Irwin.“[A] delightful mishmash of quotations, digressions, obscure facts, arcane anecdotes and playful romps.” — Literary Review**Why do we collect? Is it to rescue objects from oblivion? Is it a kind of desire—or even a kind of madness?Robert Irwin—novelist, ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Wonders Will Never Cease

    A Novel

    by Robert Irwin ...
    An Exhilarating, Magical Blend of History and Fantasy Set during the Original Game of Thrones.Beginning with the Palm Sunday battle of Towton, the bloodiest ever fought on English soil, Wonders Will Never Cease relates the fabulous adventures of one man and his noble family amid the chaos and political intrigue that beset England during the War of the Roses, when two great houses battled for ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • The Arabian Nightmare

    A Novel

    by Robert Irwin ...
    A cult classic that "combines the genres of travelogue, fable, dream narrative, novel and confessional into one beguiling whole" ( Publishers Weekly ).The hero and guiding force of this epic fantasy is an insomniac young man who, unable to sleep, guides the reader through the narrow streets of Cairo—a mysterious city full of deceit and trickery.He narrates a complex tangle of dreams and imaginings ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Annotated Arabian Nights

    Tales from 1001 Nights

    Translated by Yasmine Seale ...
    by Robert Irwin ...
    Series series The Annotated Books
    **“[A]n electric new translation . . . Each page is adorned with illustrations and photographs from other translations and adaptations of the tales, as well as a wonderfully detailed cascade of notes that illuminate the stories and their settings. . . . The most striking feature of the Arabic tales is their shifting registers—prose, rhymed prose, poetry—and Seale captures the movement between them ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Exquisite Corpse

    A Novel

    by Robert Irwin ...
    This "off-beat, brisk and darkly comic" historical novel about an artist's romantic obsession with his muse is "consistently clever and inventive." ( The New York Times)Set in London, Paris, and Munich in the 1940s and 1950s, Exquisite Corpse is, like Robert Irwin's cult classic, The Arabian Nightmare, a novel about the strange and ever-morphing powers of the imagination. At once a love story, a ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Prayer-Cushions of the Flesh

    A Novel

    by Robert Irwin ...
    The author of The Arabian Nightmare spins "a wryly subversive and darkly erotic fable" ( The Sunday Times).The virginal hero of the tale, Prince Orkhan, escapes from the Cage of the Imperial Harem, in which the sons of the sultan are imprisoned, and finds himself hailed by the Harem's concubines as their new Sultan. He is immediately caught up in the excesses and perversions of the Harem. But evil ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tips & Traps for Negotiating Real Estate, Third Edition

    by Robert Irwin ...
    Series series Tips and Traps
    Fully revised and expanded, the classic guide to negotiating every aspect of any real estate transactionReal estate guru Bob Irwin breaks down all the common negotiating "tips and traps" when it comes to buying and selling in real estate. Beginning with the golden rule of real estate--everything is negotiable--the all-new third edition of this easy-to-read guide helps homeowners and investors like ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Ibn Khaldun

    An Intellectual Biography

    by Robert Irwin ...
    The definitive account of the life and thought of the medieval Arab genius who wrote the MuqaddimaIbn Khaldun (1332–1406) is generally regarded as the greatest intellectual ever to have appeared in the Arab world--a genius who ranks as one of the world's great minds. Yet the author of the Muqaddima, the most important study of history ever produced in the Islamic world, is not as well known as he ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Alhambra

    by Robert Irwin ...
    The Alhambra, the 'red fort' on its rocky hill above Granada with its fountained courts and gardens and intricate decoration has long been a byword for exotic and melancholy beauty. In a stimulating new book in the 'Wonders of the World' series Robert Irwin, Arabist and novelist, examines its engrossing and often mysterious history.Built by a bloody and threatened dynasty of Muslim Spain, the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Memoirs of a Dervish

    Sufis, Mystics and the Sixties

    by Robert Irwin ...
    In the summer of 1964, while a military coup was taking place and tanks were rolling through the streets of Algiers, Robert Irwin set off for Algeria in search of Sufi enlightenment. There he entered a world of marvels and ecstasy, converted to Islam and received an initiation as a faqir. He learnt the rituals of Islam in North Africa and he studied Arabic in London. He also pursued more esoteric ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Penguin Anthology of Classical Arabic Literature

    by Robert Irwin ...
    Spanning the fifth century to the sixteenth, and ranging from Afghanistan to Spain, this unique collection provides a profound insight into the sheer vitality and depth of Classical Arabic literature. From the earliest surviving fragments of The Thousand and One Nights to the elegant beauty and profound power of the Qur'an - believed by the Islamic faith to contain the actual words of Allah - it ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Limits of Vision

    A Novel

    by Robert Irwin ...
    An obsessive-compulsive housewife teeters on the edge of madness in this "immensely intelligent and delightful . . . dance of a book" ( The New York Times).The Limits of Vision is Robert Irwin's irrepressibly entertaining and imaginative novel about a young housewife named Marcia and the war she wages against dirt.Set over the course of a single day as Marcia goes about her quotidian activities ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus