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  • The Marlowe Papers

    by Ros Barber ...
    *WINNER OF THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZE*'Sharp, concise, stunningly visual' Sunday TimesOn 30th May, 1593, a celebrated young playwright was killed in a tavern brawl in London. That, at least, was the official version of events. Now Christopher Marlowe reveals the truth: that his 'death' was an elaborate ruse to avoid being convicted of heresy; that he was spirited across the Channel to live on in ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Devotion

    by Ros Barber ...
    The new novel from the award-winning author of The Marlowe PapersApril is angry. Dr Finlay Logan is broken.Only nineteen, April is an elective mute, accused of a religiously motivated atrocity. Logan, a borderline suicidal criminal psychologist, must assess her sanity in a world where - ten years after the death of Richard Dawkins - moves have been made to classify religious fundamentalism as a ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • 30-Second Shakespeare

    50 Key Aspects of his Works, Life and Legacy, each explained in Half a Minute

    Series series 30-Second
    The bestselling 30-Second series takes a revolutionary approach to learning about those subjects you feel you should really understand. Each title selects a popular topic and dissects it into the 50 most significant ideas at its heart. Every idea, no matter how complex, is explained in 300 words and one image, all digestible in just 30 seconds. 30-Second Shakespeare uses this unique approach to ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    The Marlowe Papers

    by Ros Barber ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Aris ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 50 min

    On May 30th, 1593, a celebrated young playwright was killed in a tavern brawl in London. That, at least, was the official version. Now let Christopher Marlowe tell you the truth: that his 'death' was an elaborate ruse to avoid his being hanged for heresy; that he was spirited across the channel to live on in lonely exile, longing for his true love and pining for the damp streets of London; that he ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

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    The Somnambulist

    The stunning Victorian Gothic novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of CATHERINE: A RETELLING OF WUTHERING HEIGHTS.

    by Essie Fox ...
    Narrated by Annie Aldington ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 49 min

    Every heart holds a secret...But some secrets are better left buried.When seventeen-year old Phoebe Turner visits Wilton's Music Hall to watch her Aunt Cissy performing on stage, she risks the wrath of her mother Maud who marches with the Hallelujah Army, campaigning for all London theatres to close. While there, Phoebe is drawn to a stranger, the enigmatic Nathaniel Samuels.When offered the ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Citadel

    by Kate Mosse ...
    An epic wartime novel from the No.1 bestselling author of LABYRINTH and THE CITY OF TEARS1942, Nazi-occupied France. Sandrine, a spirited and courageous nineteen-year-old, finds herself drawn into a Resistance group in Carcassonne - codenamed 'Citadel' - made up of ordinary women who are prepared to risk everything for what is right.And when she meets Raoul, they discover a shared passion for the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Almost English

    the heart-breaking Man Booker-longlisted novel from the author of The Exhibitionist

    ‘The multi award-winning Charlotte Mendelson is famous for whipping up the hottest, messiest family dramas a writer of literary fiction can . . . This is late Shakespeare meets Modern Family and it’s irresistible’ – The TimesIn a tiny flat in West London, sixteen-year-old Marina lives with her emotionally delicate mother and three ancient Hungarian relatives. Imprisoned by her family’s crushing ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Kills

    The epic global thriller and Booker Prize nominee.

    by Richard House ...
    Series series Picador Collection
    Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013.Shortlisted for the South Bank Sky Arts Awards 2014.Book of the Year in the Guardian, Spectator, Independent and Daily Mail.The Kills is an epic novel of crime and conspiracy.It starts with an explosion, a man on the run and the theft of over fifty million dollars. It moves from the Middle East to the Mediterranean, around mainland Europe vi... ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • The Lives of Others

    Shortlisted for the Man Booker PrizeShortlisted for the Costa Novel AwardWinner of the Encore AwardShortlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian LiteratureLonglisted for the IMPAC PrizeCalcutta, 1967. Unnoticed by his family, Supratik has become dangerously involved in extremist political activism. Compelled by an idealistic desire to change his life and the world ar... ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Satin Island

    by Tom McCarthy ...
    U. is a 'corporate anthropologist' who, while working on a giant, epoch-defining project no one really understands, is also tasked with writing the Great Report on our society. But instead, U. spends his days procrastinating, meandering through endless buffer-zones of information and becoming obsessed by the images with which the world bombards him on a daily basis: oil spills, African traffic ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • How to be Both

    by Ali Smith ...
    WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2015WINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2014WINNER OF THE 2014 COSTA NOVEL AWARD'I take my hat off to Ali Smith. Her writing lifts the soul' Evening StandardHow to be both is a novel all about art's versatility. Borrowing from painting's fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it's a fast-moving genre-bending conversation ... ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Book of Beginnings

    by Sally Page ...
    From the author of the phenomenal bestseller The Keeper of Stories, comes an utterly beautiful and charming novel full of mystery and secrets waiting to be uncovered …Her new chapter starts now …Jo Sorsby is hiding from her past when she agrees to run her uncle’s beloved stationery shop. Glimpsing the lives of her customers between the warm wooden shelves, as they scribble little notes and browse ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus