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  • Virginia Faulkner

    A Life in Two Acts

    by Brad Bigelow ...
    Featured writer for the Washington Post at twenty. Author of a hit novel at twenty-one. Coaxed Greta Garbo out of seclusion for a Hollywood party. Ghostwrote the memoirs of New York’s most famous madam, Polly Adler. It’s no wonder Virginia Faulkner was spoken of as the next Dorothy Parker.But Faulkner also struggled with alcoholism and depression, lost respect for her own work as a writer, and at ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Gentleman Overboard

    by Herbert Clyde Lewis, George Szirtes, Brad Bigelow ...
    Series series Recovered Books
    Out of print for over seventy years, Gentleman Overboard by Herbert Clyde Lewis is being rescued for today's readers to launch Boiler House Press's new series, Recovered Books.Halfway between Honolulu and Panama, a man slips and falls from a ship. For crucial hours, as he patiently treads water in hope of rescue, no one on board notices his absence. By the time the ship's captain is notified, it ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Two Thousand Million Man-Power

    by Gertrude Trevelyan, Rachel Hore, Brad Bigelow ...
    Series series Recovered Books
    Two Thousand Million Man-Power follows Robert, a chemist, and Katherine, a schoolteacher, through two tumultuous decades in English history. From New Year's Eve 1919 to the funeral of King George V in 1936, they experience youthful radicalism, economic boom and bust, comfortable middle class life in the suburbs and grinding poverty and the debilitating experience of looking for work where there is ... Read more

    $16.58 CAD

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  • Scoop

    Enriched edition.

    by Evelyn Waugh, Kenneth Gale ...
    In "Scoop," Evelyn Waugh crafts a sharp satirical narrative that explores the absurdities and moral vacuity of the newspaper industry in the 1930s. The novel follows the misadventures of William Boot, an unassuming nature writer inadvertently sent to cover a war in the fictional African country of Ismailia. Waugh's incisive wit permeates the text, employing an ironic prose style reminiscent of ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hons and Rebels

    The Mitford Family Memoir

    by Jessica Mitford ...
    Series series W&N Essentials
    'This book is just about my favourite book of all time ... I'm not entirely convinced I could like somebody who didn't like this book ... it's funny and moving and gives you an insight into this extraordinary moment as the war is about to begin ... it's so vivid, and what's more, it's incredibly current' Robert Rinder, BBC Radio 4'Wonderfully funny and very poignant' Philip Toynbee'More than an ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • How to be a Brit

    The hilarious bestselling guide to British culture, customs and the British Way of Life

    by George Mikes ...
    The hilariously accurate, witty and indispensable manual for everyone who longs to attain True Britishness'Got me in tears of laughter' 5***** Reader Review'Laugh-out-loud hilarious, witty and insightful' 5***** Reader Review_______Born in Hungary, George Mikes eventually spent more than forty years in the Britain observing behaviours and misbehaviours of local and foreign Brits.With essential ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Diaries of Nella Last: Writing in War and Peace

    Writing in War and Peace

    by Robert Malcolmson, Patricia Malcolmson ...
    Series Book 5 - The Diaries of Nella Last
    'I can never understand how the scribbles of such an ordinary person ... can possibly have value.' So wrote Nella Last in her diary on 2 September 1949. More than sixty years on, tens of thousands of people have read and enjoyed three volumes of her vivid and moving diaries, written during the Second World War and its aftermath as part of the Mass Observation project - and the basis for BAFTA ... Read more

    $17.69 CAD

  • La's Orchestra Saves the World

    by Alexander McCall Smith ...
    La's Orchestra Saves the World is another delightful story celebrating friendship and the healing power of music, told with the warmth and charm we've come to love from this favourite storyteller.It's 1939 and the war in Europe casts a long, all-encompassing shadow. In a sleepy town in Suffolk, La, the generous and determined widow, forms an amateur orchestra to entertain the locals and soothe her ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Notable Woman

    The Romantic Journals of Jean Lucey Pratt

    by Jean Lucey Pratt ...
    A glorious gut-wrenching read . . . A Notable Woman makes my heart sing. Jean's diaries are a life in its entirety, in all its glorious mess" ( The Pool ).In April 1925, at the age of fifteen, Jean Lucey Pratt started a journal that she kept until just a few days before her death in 1986, producing over a million words in forty-five exercise books. What emerges is a portrait of a truly unique, sp ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nella Last in the 1950s

    Further diaries of Housewife, 49

    by Patricia Malcolmson, Robert Malcolmson ...
    Series Book 3 - The Diaries of Nella Last
    'I can never understand how the scribbles of such an ordinary person ... can possibly have value.'So wrote Nella Last in her diary on 2 September 1949. Sixty years on, tens of thousands of people have read and enjoyed the first two volumes of her uniquely detailed and moving diaries, written during World War II and its aftermath as part of the Mass Observation project, and the basis for BAFTA ... Read more

    $11.79 CAD

  • The Complete Short Stories

    by Evelyn Waugh ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    In this unique collection of short stories composed between 1910-62, Evelyn Waugh's early juvenilia are brought together with later pieces, some of which became the inspirations for his novels. 'Mr Loveday's Little Outing' is a blackly comic tale of a mental asylum and its favourite resident; 'Cruise' sees a hilarious series of letters from a naïve young woman as she travels with her family; 'A ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Rolling Through The Isles

    A Journey Back Down the Roads that led to Jupiter

    by Ted Simon ...
    From the bestselling author of Jupiter's Travels and Dreaming of Jupiter comes an entertaining and inspiring new journey round Britain.Having crisscrossed the globe twice, Ted returns to the British Isles to rediscover the country of his youth. The result is a revealing portrait of modern Britain and a witty and affectionate journey back to the past, when Ted would hitchhike across the country ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD