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  • Waterline

    A Novel

    by Ross Raisin ...
    Meet Mick Little. He used to be a shipbuilder in the Glasgow yards. He used to be married to his beloved Cathy. But the yards closed, one after another, and the search for work took him and Cathy to Australia and back again, struggling for a living, longing for home. Thirty years later the yards are nearly all vacant and Cathy is dead. The ties that bound Mick to the past are loosened, and now he ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Best British Short Stories 2013

    by Rob Shearman, Ellis Sharp, Charles Boyle, Nikesh Shukla, Nina Killham, Charles Lambert, Lesley Glaister, Laura Del-Rivo, Jackie Kay, MJ Hyland, Regi Claire, Adam Lively, Guy Ware, Adam Marek, Anneliese Mackintosh, Alex Preston, Alison Moore, David Rose, Ross Raisin, James Wall, Nicholas Royle ...
    Series series Best British Short Stories
    The third in a series of annual anthologies, The Best British Short Stories 2013 reprints the cream of short fiction, by British writers, first published in 2012. These stories appeared in magazines from the Edinburgh Review to Granta, in anthologies from various publishers, and in authors' own short story collections. They appeared online at 3:AM Magazine, Fleeting and elsewhere.This new ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Natural

    A Novel

    by Ross Raisin ...
    From dreams of soccer glory to the realities of the minor leagues, the high-stakes world of English football comes to life in this vivid coming-of-age novel for fans of Nick Hornby and The Art of Fielding.After his unceremonious release from a Premier League academy at nineteen, Tom feels his bright future slipping away. The only contract offer he receives is from a lower-level club. Away from ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Read This if You Want to Be a Great Writer

    by Henry Carroll, Ross Raisin ...
    Series series Read This
    This book demystifies the writing process, empowering you to write your own novel or short story. The author explains expert technique in a clear and jargon-free way, with examples from twenty-five masters of prose. For aspiring writers of all ages and abilities, Read This If You Want to Be a Great Writer will motivate and strengthen your writing talent. ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The BBC National Short Story Award 2024

    by Paddy O’Connell, Will Boast, Lucy Caldwell, Manish Chauhan, Ross Raisin, Vee Walker ...
    Series series The BBC National Short Story Award
    Established in 2005, the BBC National Short Story Award with Cambridge University was originally established to highlight a literary genre regarded as undervalued and under threat. It aimed to recognise and celebrate the very best writers of short fiction who had no prize equivalent to major literary awards like the Man Booker Prize. 19 years on, the short story is in robust health and the BBC ... Read more

    $11.97 CAD

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    Writers on Walks: A BBC Radio 3 Collection

    30 Reflections from Exploring on Foot

    by Robert Macfarlane, Deborah Levy, Jenn Ashworth, Kamila Shamsie, Michael Donkor, Michèle Roberts, Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Ross Raisin, Owen Sheers, Nicholas Shakespeare, Nat Segnit, Sophie Coulombeau, Christopher Hope, Scarlett Thomas, Erica Wagner, Nicola Barker, Ian Samson, Kirsty Gunn, Philip Hoare ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 48 min

    22 writers talk about their memorable excursions and the act of walking, and share their creative observationsIn these six series, taken from BBC Radio 3's The Essay, an array of novelists, poets, journalists and biographers chart the varied and inspiring walks they have taken around Britain and elsewhere. Here are treks taken at daybreak and after dark; in winter and in spring; in the footsteps ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

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    A Natural

    A Novel

    by Ross Raisin ...
    Narrated by Shaun Grindell ...

    Unabridged

    13 hours 39 min

    From one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists, an exquisitely crafted coming-of-age novel set in the high-stakes world of English soccer—for readers of Nick Hornby and The Art of Fielding. ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    End of Eddy, The

    A Novel

    by Édouard Louis ...
    Narrated by Graham Halstead ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 24 min

    An autobiographical novel about growing up gay in a working-class town in Picardy.“Every morning in the bathroom I would repeat the same phrase to myself over and over again . . . Today I’m really gonna be a tough guy.” Growing up in a poor village in northern France, all Eddy Bellegueule wanted was to be a man in the eyes of his family and neighbors. But from childhood, he was different—“girlish, ... Read more

    $39.84 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

    A Novel

    by Rachel Joyce ...
    INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERA GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEARWhen Harold Fry leaves his house one morning to post a letter, with his wife vacuuming upstairs, he has no idea that he is about to walk from one end of the country to the other.He has no hiking boots or map, let alone a compass, waterproof jacket or mobile phone.All he knows is that he must keep walking.To save someone else’s life.A ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • The Best British Short Stories 2014

    by Mick Scully, Joanne Rush, Joanna Walsh, Elizabeth Baines, Jonathan Gibbs, Jay Griffiths, Siân Melangell Dafydd, Ailsa Cox, Stuart Evers, Claire Dean, David Constantine, David Grubb, Richard Knight, Vicki Jarrett, Anna Metcalfe, Philip Langeskov, Christopher Priest, Louise Palfreyman, Adam Wilmington, Nicholas Royle, M. John Harrison ...
    Series series Best British Short Stories
    'There is no more carefully chosen yet eclectic anthology series in existence in Britain today' – Susan Haigh, The Short ReviewBest British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British writers, whether based in the UK or elsewhere. The editor's ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Gifts of Imperfection

    Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

    by Brené Brown, Ph.D, L.M.S.W. ...
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This tenth-anniversary edition of the game-changing #1 New York Times bestseller features a new foreword and new tools to make the work your own.For over a decade, Brené Brown has found a special place in our hearts as a gifted mapmaker and a fellow traveler. She is both a social scientist and a kitchen-table friend whom you can always count on to tell the truth, make ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • All My Puny Sorrows

    by Miriam Toews ...
    The multi-award winning, #1 national bestselling novel about two unforgettable sisters and a love that illuminates life—from the author of Women Talking and A Complicated KindnessElf and Yoli are two smart, loving sisters leading very different lives. Elfreida is a renowned pianist, wealthy, and happily married. Her younger sister Yolandi is a writer, divorced, broke, and forever chasing after the ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook