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  • The Urban Falconer

    by Roy Thomson ...
    During lockdown people got up to all kinds of odd antics. This octogenarian from Edinburgh found himself irresistibly drawn into writing humorous verses. This diversion developed rapidly into what could only be described as a kind of ‘rhymer’s eurhythmics’. Humorous poems of all shapes and sizes appeared almost daily. They leapfrogged in topic from Midgies to Boris Johnston, an urban falconer to a ... Read more

    $7.49 CAD

  • Party Mandates and Democracy

    Making, Breaking, and Keeping Election Pledges in Twelve Countries

    Edited by Elin Naurin, Terry J Royed, Robert Thomson ...
    Series series New Comparative Politics
    When people discuss politics, they often mention the promises politicians make during election campaigns. Promises raise hopes that positive policy changes are possible, but people are generally skeptical of these promises. Party Mandates and Democracy reveals the extent to and conditions under which governments fulfill party promises during election campaigns. Contrary to conventional wisdom a ... Read more

    $82.39 CAD

  • Conservation of Leather and Related Materials

    Edited by Marion Kite, Roy Thomson ...
    Series series Routledge Series in Conservation and Museology
    The conservation of skin, leather and related materials is an area that, until now, has had little representation by the written word in book form. Marion Kite and Roy Thomson, of the Leather Conservation Centre, have prepared a text which is both authoritative and comprehensive, including contributions from the leading specialists in their fields, such as Betty Haines, Mary Lou Florian, Ester ... Read more

    $72.82 CAD

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  • Serious Concerns

    by Wendy Cope ...
    Wendy Cope's first book of poems and parodies, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis, went straight into the bestseller lists. Its successor, Serious Concerns has proved even more popular, addressing such topics as 'Bloody Men', 'Men and Their Boring Arguments', 'Two Cures for Love', 'Kindness to Animals' and 'Tumps' (Typically Useless Male Poets). ... Read more

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  • Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis

    by Wendy Cope ...
    When Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis was first published, it catapulted its author into the bestseller lists and established her as one of our funniest and most eloquent poets.There are so many kinds of awful men -One can't avoid them all. She often saidShe'd never make the same mistake again:She always made a new mistake instead.(from 'Rondeau Redoublé') ... Read more

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  • Telling Tales

    by Patience Agbabi ...
    SHORTLISTED FOR THE TED HUGHES PRIZE 2015Tabard Inn to Canterb'ry Cathedral,Poet pilgrims competing for free picks,Chaucer Tales, track by track, it's the remixFrom below-the-belt base to the topnotch;I won't stop all the clocks with a stopwatchwhen the tales overrun, run offensive,or run clean out of steam, they're authenticand we're keeping it real, reminisce this:Chaucer Tales were an ... Read more

    $14.29 CAD

  • Pistache Returns

    by Sebastian Faulks ...
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  • Shakespeare's Sonnets

    by Philip Terry ...
    Inspired by the flotsam of contemporary culture, journalism, and spam emails, this collection of poetry transforms Shakespeare's sonnet sequence into a celebration of the possibilities of language unleashed. Shakespeare's themes of fading beauty, posterity, immortality, and death find their modern-day responses in celebrity gossip, consumer products, vampirism, and the credit crunch. Dynamic and ... Read more

    $23.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    by Tony Harrison ...
    The Star: 'A plan to televise a poem packed with obscenities caused outrage last night. ITV chiefs intend to screen a reading of Tony Harrison's verse v. which is full of four-letter words.'Daily Mail: 'A torrent of four-letter filth… the most explicitly sexual language yet beamed into the nation's living rooms… the crudest, most offensive word is used 17 times.'Gerald Howarth, MP: 'It is full of ... Read more

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  • Odd Odes, Weird Words and Loopy Letters

    by Joan Crawford ...
    Amiscellany of verse, mostly tumorous, and odds and ends of prose, wind-up letters etc. ... Read more

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  • Strictly for Grandpas

    by Tony Greeves ...
    This book of commentaries on the vagaries of life sharpened up by (mostly) light-hearted verse is a reflection of some of the author’s thoughts and experiences. Love, sex, politicians, philosophy, box-ticking, egoism, political correctness and stupidity are treated with respect, appreciation, cynicism, humour, or scathing scorn as appropriate. Grandpas (and hopefully many others) will find they ... Read more

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