Skip to main content
Search Button
Canada Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


“ann murdoch”

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “ann murdoch”
Skip side bar filters

  • Living on Paper

    Letters from Iris Murdoch, 1934–1995

    by Iris Murdoch ...
    "This collection of letters provides a fascinating insight into the life of a complex and important novelist. It is a wonderful book." —Alexander McCall Smith, national bestselling authorIris Murdoch was an acclaimed novelist and groundbreaking philosopher whose life reflected her unconventional beliefs and values. But what has been missing from biographical accounts has been Murdoch's own voice ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Poems from an Attic

    Newly discovered, an astonishing collection from the Booker prizewinner

    by Iris Murdoch ...
    '...Without surpriseI see him now in evil company.A wicked face – but oh those eyes could charm –Heart, sudden heart, don’t beat me to my knees.'Long hidden in an attic, vivid and revelatory poems shine a new light on the life and loves of Iris Murdoch.*As seen in the Guardian***With an introduction by Booker-shortlisted author Sarah Hall, and an essay from the... ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

People who read these also enjoyed

  • The Story of a New Name

    by Elena Ferrante ...
    Translated by Ann Goldstein ...
    Series Book 2 - Neapolitan Novels
    A novel in the bestselling quartet about two very different women and their complex friendship: "Everyone should read anything with Ferrante's name on it" ( The Boston Globe).The follow-up to My Brilliant Friend, The Story of a New Name continues the epic New York Times–bestselling literary quartet that has inspired an HBO series, and returns us to the world of Lila and Elena, who grew up ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • My Name Is Lucy Barton

    A Novel

    by Elizabeth Strout ...
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE • A simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the tender relationship between mother and daughter in this “spectacular” (The Washington Post) novel by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Olive Kitteridge and The Burgess Boys.“An aching, illuminating look at mother-daughter devotion.”—PeopleA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Time, T... ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Long Way Home

    A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel

    by Louise Penny ...
    Series Book 10 - Chief Inspector Gamache Novel
    A #1 New York Times Bestseller, Louise Penny's The Long Way Home is an intriguing Chief Inspector Gamache Novel.Happily retired in the village of Three Pines, Armand Gamache, former Chief Inspector of Homicide with the Sûreté du Québec, has found a peace he'd only imagined possible. On warm summer mornings he sits on a bench holding a small book, The Balm in Gilead, in his large hands. "There is a ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Poems That Make Grown Men Cry

    100 Men on the Words That Move Them

    by Anthony Holden, Ben Holden ...
    A life-enhancing tour through classic and contemporary poems that have made men cry: “The Holdens remind us that you don’t have to be an academic or a postgraduate in creative writing to be moved by verse….It’s plain fun” (The Wall Street Journal).*Grown men aren’t supposed to cry…*Yet in this fascinating anthology, one hundred men—distinguished in literature and film, science and architecture, ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • The Redress of Poetry

    by Seamus Heaney ...
    These lectures were delivered by Seamus Heaney while he was Professor of Poetry at Oxford University. In the first of them, Heaney discusses and celebrates poetry's special ability to redress spiritual balance and to function as a counterweight to hostile and oppressive forces in the world. He proceeds to explore how this 'redress' manifests itself in a diverse range of poems and poets, including ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Unnamable

    by Samuel Beckett ...
    The iconic trilogy of novels by the era-defining Nobel laureate, relaunched for a new generation.I can't go on, I'll go on.Molloy: a sordid vagrant riding his bicycle through the countryside, sucking stones, on a quest for his mother. Moran: a private detective sent on his trail, investigating his crimes - but soon to deteriorate alongside him.Malone: an octogenarian man on his deathbed, naked in ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Great Modern Poets

    An anthology of the essential poets and poetry since 1900

    by Michael Schmidt ...
    An essential introduction to the most significant poems and their works since 1900Reproduced within this collection are some of the greatest poems of the 20th century, featuring works from major writers such as T.S. Eliot and Sylvia Plath to Langston Hughes and W.B. Yeats. For each, Michael Schmidt provides an insight into their themes and the background to their work, opening for the reader a ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • R. S. Thomas: Everyman Poetry

    by rev R.S. Thomas ...
    A best of R.S. Thomas's poems in a beautiful new gift editionR. S. Thomas (1913- 2000) was born in Cardiff. He studied classics, then theology and, after ordination, served six rural Welsh parishes for most of his life. His first book of poems was published in 1946. He won the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1964 and published regularly, Collected Poems 1945-90 marking his eightieth birthday. ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Poetry by Heart

    Poems for Learning and Reciting

    by Andrew Motion ...
    Poetry by Heart - based on the hugely successful nationwide schools competition, 200 magical poems to learn by heart'The poems we learn stay with us for the rest of our lives. They become personal and invaluable, and what's more they are free gifts - there for the taking' Simon ArmitageTwo years ago former Poet Laureate Andrew Motion had the idea of setting up Poetry by Heart - a nationwide annual ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Collected Poems

    by Patrick Kavanagh ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    The centenary of Patrick Kavanagh's birth in 2004 provides the ideal opportunity to reappraise one of modern Ireland's greatest poets. From a harsh, humble background that he himself described so brilliantly, Kavanagh burst through immense constraints to redefine Irish poetry - a poetry appropriate for a fully independent country, both politically and culturally. Moving beyond Irish verse's ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD