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  • Houdini Unbound

    Mystery, Music and Flying Machines

    by Alan Attwood ...
    A thrilling blend of history, mystery, and the dawn of aviation. It is 1910, and as Halley's Comet blazes across the sky, Harry Houdini arrives in Australia. Beyond sold-out seasons, Houdini seeks a new obsession: to be the first to fly. But a deadly discovery during a promotional stunt and a mysterious melody haunting his wife, Bess, threaten to unravel his ambition.Is Houdini truly in control, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Houdini Unbound

    Mystery, Music and Flying Machines

    by Alan Attwood ...
    Narrated by Simon Mattacks ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 29 min

    Halley's Comet is coming. Harry Houdini, the most celebrated escape artist in the world, has sold-out seasons in Australia. Houdini has a new obsession: aviation. He has brought with him from Europe his own Voisin biplane, being put together and prepared in a Diggers Rest paddock by his French mechanic Brassac. Houdini is intent on claiming a record: first to fly in Australia. But he has ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Objectification

    On the Difference between Sex and Sexism

    by Susanna Paasonen, Feona Attwood, Alan McKee, John Mercer, Clarissa Smith ...
    Series series Gender Insights
    This is a concise and accessible introduction into the concept of objectification, one of the most frequently recurring terms in both academic and media debates on the gendered politics of contemporary culture, and core to critiquing the social positions of sex and sexism.Objectification is an issue of media representation and everyday experiences alike. Central to theories of film spectatorship, ... Read more

    $69.99 CAD

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  • The Mammoth Book of Nightmare Stories

    Twisted Tales Not to Be Read at Night!

    Edited by Stephen Jones ...
    Winner of the British Fantasy AwardSixteen rare terror tales not to be read at night!To sleep, perchance to dream . . . of horrors! Here are some of the stories that gave their own authors nightmares—things that go bump at night, hauntings that lurk in the back of the mind, skin-crawling moments between the realms of wakefulness and sleep. In this somnambulistic collection, award-winning editor ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Penguin Book of Modern British Short Stories

    by Malcolm Bradbury ...
    This anthology is in many was a ‘best of the best’, containing gems from thirty-four of Britain's outstanding contemporary writers. It is a book to dip into, to read from cover to cover, to lend to friends and read again. It includes stories of love and crime, stories touched with comedy and the supernatural, stories set in London, Los Angeles, Bucharest and Tokyo. Above all, as you will discover, ... Read more

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  • The Colonel's Daughter

    by Rose Tremain ...
    At the moment that Colonel Browne is standing in the shallow end of the swimming pool of the Hotel Alphenrose, preparing for his late afternoon dip, his daughter Charlotte, carrying a suitcase, is getting out of her car back in England, preparing to rob the ancestral home. It is not just another day: it is the culmination of hundreds of days, hundreds of disappointments and misunderstandings, and ... Read more

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  • Smithereens

    by Shaun Micallef ...
    Feel that War and Peace went on a bit? Wish there were more laughs in Catcher in the Rye? Very cross that The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo had no references to three-time world hotdog-eating champion, Joey Chestnut? Then ***Smithereens***is for you. At only 300 pages you can knock it off during one of the ad breaks on Shaun's hit show, Talkin' 'bout Your Generation.And laughs? What about them? Well ... Read more

    $20.29 CAD

  • Shadowplay

    A Novel

    by Joseph O'Connor ...
    A West End theater in London is shaken up by the crimes of Jack the Ripper in this novel by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Star of the Sea.Henry Irving is Victorian London's most celebrated actor and theater impresario. He has introduced groundbreaking ideas to the theater, bringing to the stage performances that are spectacular, shocking, and always entertaining. When Irving decides ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • All the Beloved Ghosts

    by Alison MacLeod ...
    **FINALIST FOR THE 2017 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARDS FOR FICTIONShortlisted for the 2018 Edge Hill Prize for Short StoryHovering on the border of life and dealth, these stories form a ground-shifting collection, taking us into history, literature and the hidden lives of iconic figures.**In 1920s Nova Scotia, as winter begins to thaw, a woman emerges from mourning and wears a new coat to a ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Beatlebone

    by Kevin Barry ...
    A searing novel that blends truth and fiction—and Beatles fandom—from one of literature's most striking contemporary voices, author of the international sensation City of Bohane.It is 1978, and John Lennon has escaped New York City to try to find the island off the west coast of Ireland he bought nine years prior. Leaving behind domesticity, his approaching forties, his inability to create, and ... Read more

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  • Je t'aime à la Folie

    by Michael Wright ...
    How do you find the woman of your dreams when you're nearly forty, living in the middle of nowhere and spectacularly ungifted in the art of seduction?Three years into his solo adventure in rural France, Michael Wright has everything he ever wanted: a ramshackle house, several manly power tools, a cat, a grand piano and a vintage aircraft. Yet the lovelier his life becomes, the lonelier he feels. ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Bodies from the Library 3

    Lost Tales of Mystery and Suspense from the Golden Age of Detection

    by Agatha Christie, Ngaio Marsh, Dorothy L. Sayers, Anthony Berkeley, Nicholas Blake ...
    This anthology of rare stories of crime and suspense brings together 18 tales from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction for the first time in book form, including uncollected stories by Ngaio Marsh and John Dickson Carr.The Golden Age of detective fiction had begun inauspiciously with the publication of E.C. Bentley’s schismatic Trent’s Last Case in 1913, but it hit its stride in 1920 when both ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD