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Books narrated by Derek Riddell

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    Weird Tales

    A BBC Radio collection of chilling plays inspired by H.P. Lovecraft

    Unabridged

    5 hours 4 min

    Eleven uncanny stories inspired by the master of uncanny terror, H.P. LovecraftOne hundred years ago, H.P. Lovecraft created the Necronomicon, a grimoire of lost souls, magical rites and forbidden lore. Now, locked away, the hoarder of horror is after new voices, new blood, to add to his collection.Listen as he shares the tales that come to him, whispered through the keyhole and written in the ... Read more

    $23.98 CAD

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    Our Secrets Are The Same

    Friendship & Fame at the Heart of Simple Minds

    Unabridged

    11 hours 24 min

    The long-awaited memoir from Simple Minds' founder members and lifelong collaborators, Jim Kerr and Charlie BurchillA candid, moving and kinetic story of self-realization through the power of music, Our Secrets Are The Same is the remarkable joint memoir by Simple Minds' founder members, Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill. It not only reveals the inner workings of one of the most innovative and ... Read more

    $34.34 CAD

  • Writing Surfaces

    Selected Fiction of John Riddell

    by John Riddell ...
    John Riddell is best known for “H” and “Pope Leo, El ELoPE,” a pair of graphic fictions written in collaboration with, or dedicated to, bpNichol, but his work moves well beyond comic strips into a series of radical fictions. In Writing Surfaces, derek beaulieu and Lori Emerson present “Pope Leo, El ELoPE” and many other works in a collection that showcases Riddell’s remarkable mix of largely ... Read more

    $22.39 CAD

  • Our Secrets are the Same

    The Enduring Friendship at the Heart of Simple Minds

    Exploring key songs, places, years, and events in the Simple Minds story and told in the distinct voices of both men, Our Secrets Are the Same explores a bond that has encompassed stratospheric highs and humbling lows, marriages and divorces, fatherhood, fickle fame, tricky inter-band dynamics, and the occasional explosive bust-up.The long-awaited memoir from Simple Minds’ founding members and ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Fairlie's Secret War

    How One Village Helped Defeat German U-Boats

    by John Riddell ...
    During the Second World War the Royal Navy's vitally important Anti-submarine Experimental Establishment was secretly moved from Portland in Dorset to the Ayrshire village of Fairlie, to escape German bombing on the south coast. For the next six years it occupied the boatyard of yacht builder William Fife on the Firth of Clyde. During this time, highly confidential world-leading research on the ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Surrender

    40 Songs, One Story

    by Bono ...
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLERNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"I was born with an eccentric heart."**A remarkable book by a combative artist, who finds he's at his best when he learns how to surrender.Episodic and irreverent, introspective and illuminating, Surrender is Bono's life story, organized—but not too tidily—around forty U2 songs.Bono grew up on the Northside of Dublin with a Catholic father and a ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Hunting Submarine

    The Fighting Life of HMS Tally-Ho

    by Ian Trenowden ...
    HMS Tally Ho, captained by Commander L.W.A. Bennington was a T-class submarine which achieved spectacular success in the Second World War. Her name was chosen for her by Winston Churchill and it proved a very suitable one for a hunting submarine. In a single commission, lasting from 15th March 1943 to 26th February 1945, she operated in the Malacca Strait. Here, surrounded by enemy air bases and ... Read more

    $2.73 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Children's Literature

    A Very Short Introduction

    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Children's literature takes many forms - works adapted for children in antiquity, picture books and pop-ups - and now includes the latest online games and eBooks. This vast and amorphous subject is both intimately related to other areas of literary and cultural investigation but also has its own set of concerns, issues and challenges. From familiar authors including Beatrix Potter and Roald Dahl, ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

  • The Silent Deep

    The Royal Navy Submarine Service Since 1945

    'The Ministry of Defence does not comment upon submarine operations' is the standard response of officialdom to enquiries about the most secretive and mysterious of Britain's armed forces, the Royal Navy Submarine Service. Written with unprecedented co-operation from the Service itself and privileged access to documents and personnel, The Silent Deep is the first authoritative history of the ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Who Was Louis Braille?

    Illustrated by Robert Squier ...
    Series series Who Was?
    Louis Braille certainly wasn't your average teenager. Blind from the age of four, he was only fifteen when in 1824 he invented a reading system that converted printed words into columns of raised dots. Through touch, Braille opened the world of books to the sightless, and almost two hundred years later, no one has ever improved upon his simple, brilliant idea. ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Bedsit Disco Queen

    How I grew up and tried to be a pop star

    by Tracey Thorn ...
    I was only sixteen when I bought an electric guitar and joined a band. A year later, I formed an all-girl band called the Marine Girls and played gigs, and signed to an indie label, and started releasing records.Then, for eighteen years, between 1982 and 2000, I was one half of the group Everything But the Girl. In that time, we released nine albums and sold nine million records. We went on ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Flagship

    The Cruiser HMAS Australia II and the Pacific War on Japan

    by Mike Carlton ...
    The cruiser HMAS Australia II and the Pacific War on JapanIn 1924, the grand old battle cruiser HMAS Australia I was sunk off Sydney Heads. Once she had been the pride of the navy and the nation. She had saved Australia from an attack by a German squadron in the Pacific in World War I.But after the war she was obsolete, and a victim in the race to disarm after WWI. It was a day of national ... Read more

    $40.69 CAD