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  • The Ambassador of What

    Stories

    by Adrian Michael Kelly ...
    Slogging through the miles of a city marathon, an 11-year-old boy encounters small miracles; about to marry one of her patients in a home for the elderly, a nurse asks her estranged son to come to the wedding and give her away; home from university, a young man has Christmas dinner with his hard-up dad in a bistro behind a rural gas bar. Men and boys and maleness, money and its lack, the long ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Maybe It’s Me

    A Memoir

    by Adrian Michael Kelly ...
    A raw and riveting memoir of collapse, recovery, and reinventionFor most of his adult life, Adrian Michael Kelly specialized in failure — serial, sometimes comic, but also epic failure. Born to a gambling-addicted, compulsively spending mother who left when he was five, and raised by his dad, a haunted and often violent hard-drinking Scot, Kelly learned failure early and learned it remarkably well ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Success Complex

    Ancient wisdom, the building blocks of life and your path to sustained success

    by Adrian Kelly ...
    **Business Book Awards 2025 Finalist**What does ‘Success’ mean to you?Blending history, behavioural science and a rich tapestry of interviews, Irish author Adrian Kelly explores this age-old question in a new light. Once a struggling student who languished at the bottom of his class, Adrian knows first-hand the sting of failure.Now, three decades later, he brings his experience as a solicitor, ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Stesichorus in Context

    Edited by P. J. Finglass, Adrian Kelly ...
    The sixth-century BC Greek poet Stesichorus was highly esteemed in antiquity; but by about AD 400 his works had been almost completely lost. Over recent decades, however, the recovery of substantial portions of his poetry has enabled a reassessment of his significance. These essays by leading scholars analyse different aspects of his oeuvre: the relationship between Stesichorus and epic, ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Sophocles: Oedipus at Colonus

    by Adrian Kelly ...
    Series series Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy
    In his final play, Sophocles returns to the ever-popular character of Oedipus, the blind outcast of Thebes, the ultimate symbol of human reversal, whose fall he had so memorably treated in the 'Oedipus Tyrannus'. In this play, Sophocles brings the aged Oedipus to Athens, where he seeks succour and finds refuge, despite the threatening arrival of his kinsman Creon, who tries to tempt and then force ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Sappho

    Edited by P. J. Finglass, Adrian Kelly ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    No ancient poet has a wider following today than Sappho; her status as the most famous woman poet from Greco-Roman antiquity, and as one of the most prominent lesbian voices in history, has ensured a continuing fascination with her work down the centuries. The Cambridge Companion to Sappho provides an up-to-date survey of this remarkable, inspiring, and mysterious Greek writer, whose poetic corpus ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Unnatural Order Vol. 1

    The Prisoner

    by Chris Yost, Dearbhla Kelly, Andworld Design ...
    ZERO DARK THIRTY meets LORD OF THE RINGS and GAME OF THRONES in UNNATURAL ORDER Vol. 1: The Prisoner, a genre-blending tale of dark fantasy, science fiction, and action adventure by writer/creator Chris Yost (co-creator of Marvel's X-23 and writer of films (THOR: Ragnarok) and series STAR WARS: THE MANDALORIAN) and artist Val Rodrigues where the world is not how it's supposed to be.EVERYONE WANTS ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Gods and Mortals in Early Greek and Near Eastern Mythology

    Edited by Adrian Kelly, Christopher Metcalf ...
    This volume centres on one of the most important questions in the study of antiquity – the interaction between Greece and the Ancient Near East, from the Mycenaean to the Hellenistic periods. Focusing on the stories that the peoples of the eastern Mediterranean told about the gods and their relationships with humankind, the individual treatments draw together specialists from both fields, creating ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

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    The Success Complex

    Ancient wisdom, the building blocks of life and your path to sustained success

    by Adrian Kelly ...
    Narrated by Adrian Kelly ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 35 min

    **Business Book Awards 2025 Finalist**What does ‘Success’ mean to you?Blending history, behavioural science and a rich tapestry of interviews, Irish author Adrian Kelly explores this age-old question in a new light. Once a struggling student who languished at the bottom of his class, Adrian knows first-hand the sting of failure.Now, three decades later, he brings his experience as a solicitor, ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Homer: Iliad Book XXIII

    Edited by Adrian Kelly ...
    Series series Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
    Book XXIII of the Iliad deals with the Funeral Games of Patroclus, whose death Achilles has avenged in Book XXII with his slaying of Hector. It provides a crucial element to the closure of Homer's epic, encapsulating its narrative and prominent themes, preparing the audience for the future of the story both within the poem and after its end, and focusing our attention on the behaviour and ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Texts and Intertexts in Archaic and Classical Greece

    Edited by Adrian Kelly, Henry Spelman ...
    Encompassing the period from the earliest archaic epics down through classical Athenian drama, this is the first concerted, step-by-step examination of the development of allusive poetics in the early Greek world. Recent decades have seen a marked rise in intertextual approaches to early Greek literature; as scholars increasingly agree on the need to read these texts in a comparative way, this ... Read more

    $123.99 CAD

  • Down Sterling Road

    by Adrian Michael Kelly ...
    Nominated for an Alberta Book Award.Time you had a haircut. Look like a mop.Not that skinny.Skin and bloody bone, boy.Jacob breaks the point of his pencil but makes it look like an accident. And away Dad goes out the door and thump thump down the stairs.Jacob eyes the hole at the end of his pencil. Listens till he can’t hear the Torino anymore. Crawls under the covers. Hopes the rest of December ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD