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  • The End of the World is Flat

    by Simon Edge ...
    'Skewers the trans rights row with some nifty, often snort-inducingly funny satire' THE TIMES'A bracingly sharp satire on the sleep of reason and the tyranny of twaddle' FRANCIS WHEENMel Winterbourne's modest map-making charity, the Orange Peel Foundation, has achieved all its aims and she's ready to shut it down. But glamorous tech billionaire Joey Talavera has other ideas. He hijacks the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Right Royal Face-Off

    A Georgian Comedy Featuring Thomas Gainsborough and Another Painter

    by Simon Edge ...
    It is 1777, and England's second-greatest portrait artist, Thomas Gainsborough, has a thriving practice a stone's thrown from London's royal palaces, while the press talks up his rivalry with Sir Joshua Reynolds, the pedantic theoretician who is the top dog of British portraiture. Fonder of the low life than high society, Gainsborough loathes pandering to the grandees who sit for him. However, he ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Hurtle of Hell

    An Atheist Comedy Featuring God and a Confused Young Man from Hackney

    by Simon Edge ...
    When gay, pleasure-seeking Stefano Cartwright is almost killed by a wave while at the beach, his journey up a tunnel of light convinces him that God exists after all, and he may need to change his ways if he is not to end up in hell. When God happens to look down his celestial telescope and see Stefano, he is obliged to pay unprecedented attention to an obscure planet in a distant galaxy, and ends ... Read more

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  • Anyone for Edmund?

    by Simon Edge ...
    Under tennis courts at a ruined Suffolk abbey, archaeologists make a thrilling find: the remains of St Edmund, king and martyr. He was venerated for centuries as England's patron saint, but his body has been lost since the closure of the monasteries. Culture Secretary Marina Spencer, adored by those who don't know her, jumps on the bandwagon. Egged on by her downtrodden adviser Mark Price, she ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In the Beginning

    by Simon Edge ...
    From the author of The End of the World is FlatThe Terg wars are over. Now meet the Yerfs'Brilliant! Perfectly captures both the absurdity and horror of this madness'. Gareth Roberts.When Tara Farrier returns to the UK after a long spell as an aid worker in war-torn Yemen, she's hoping for a well-deserved rest.But a cultural battleground has emerged while she's been away, and she's unprepared for ... Read more

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  • The Hopkins Conundrum

    A Tragic Comedy About Gerard Manley Hopkins and Five Shipwrecked Nuns

    by Simon Edge ...
    Tim Cleverley inherits a failing pub in Wales, which he plans to rescue by enlisting an American pulp novelist to concoct an entirely fabricated "mystery" about Gerald Manley Hopkins, who composed "The Wreck of the Deutschland" nearby. Blending the real stories of Hopkins and the shipwrecked nuns he wrote about with a contemporary love story, while casting a wry eye on the Dan Brown industry, The ... Read more

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  • Trans

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  • Feminism for Women

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  • Material Girls

    Why Reality Matters for Feminism

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  • Hags

    *SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO BOOK AWARDS 2023*

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE NERO PRIZE 2023'A book that could not be more necessary' Observer'Eloquent, clever and devastating' The Times'Deftly illustrates how ageist misogyny remains an acceptable prejudice' GuardianWhat is about women in middle-age and beyond that seems to enrage - almost everyone?In the last few years, as ident... ... Read more

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  • Judge Walden: Back in Session

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    Series Book 2 - Walden of Bermondsey
    Judge Walden is back, to preside over five new cases at Bermondsey Crown Court.Retired resident judge Peter Murphy takes us back to the world of criminal trials in South London for another session with Charlie keeping the peace between his fellow judges - Marjorie, 'Legless' and Hubert - while fighting off the attacks of the Grey Smoothies, the civil servants who seem intent on reducing the court ... Read more

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