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  • Between Extremes

    In 1986 Brian Keenan and John McCarthy were forced to take a journey without maps. For the next four years they were incarcerated in a Lebanese dungeon. From the blank outlook of a tiny cell, with only each other and a few volumes of an ancient American encyclopaedia to sustain them, they could only wander the wide open spaces of their imagination. To displace the ugly confines of their existence, ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Turlough

    by Brian Keenan ...
    While held hostage by fundamentalist Shi'ite militiamen in the suburbs of Beirut, Brian Keenan was visited and sustained by the presence of Turlough O'Carolan - the legendary blind Irish harper of the seventeenth century. This novel is thus a re-creation of an extraordinary historical story and a personal debt repaid. It is also, obliquely, a parallel life - another life imprisoned, shaped by the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • I'll Tell Me Ma

    A Childhood Memoir

    by Brian Keenan ...
    Local rather than international, the dramas and privations described in this memoir are not the stuff of headlines. This is the story of an ordinary boy growing up in Belfast after the war; an ordinary boy who would go on to become world-famous as a hostage in Beirut and author of the extraordinary testimony of imprisonment and survival that was An Evil Cradling.Brian Keenan has captured the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Four Quarters Of Light

    by Brian Keenan ...
    Brian Keenan's fascination with Alaska began as a small boy while reading Jack London's wondrous Call of the Wild. With a head full of questions about its inspiring landscape and a heart informed by his love of desolate and barren places, Brian Keenan sets out for Alaska to discover its four geographical quarters from snowmelt in May to snowfall in September, and en route, finds a land as ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Dracula's Brunch Club

    by Brian Gonsar ...
    Illustrated by Keenan Gayyba ...
    Have you ever wondered how vampires got their taste for blood? In Dracula’s Brunch Club, it all started with a crimson-red donut, dripping and oozing with spooky secrets—I mean, jelly. Dripping and oozing with non-spooky-tasting JELLY. Get ready to sink your fangs into the hilarious new graphic novel from debut authors Brian Gonsar and Keenan Gaybba! Count Dracula is not your average vampire. Well ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • The Secret Scripture

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    **FINALIST FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE“[Barry writes] in language of surpassing beauty. . . . It is like a song, with all the pulse of the Irish language, a song sung liltingly and plaintively from the top of Ben Bulben into the airy night.” —The New York TimesAn epic story of family, love, and unavoidable tragedy from the acclaimed author of Old God's Time and The Newer World**Sebastian Barry's novels ... Read more

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  • The Courtesy of Death

    Series Book 587 - Murder Room
    By the author of Rogue Male, a classic thriller of the twentieth century.'Household ... helped to develop the suspense story into an art form' New York TimesWhen retired mining engineer Yarrow is disturbed after midnight by Barnabas Fosworth, he assumes that he is just a curious eccentric. But by helping Fosworth in his search for the mysterious girl he seeks, Yarrow soon finds his life ... Read more

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  • A Parrot in the Pepper Tree

    A Sequel to Driving over Lemons

    by Chris Stewart ...
    Chris Stewart's Driving Over Lemons told the story of his move to a remote mountain farm in Las Alpujarras - an oddball region of Spain, south of Granada. Funny, insightful and real, the book became an international bestseller.A Parrot in the Pepper Tree, the sequel to Lemons, follows the lives of Chris, Ana and their daughter, Chloë, as they get to grips with a misanthropic parrot who joins their ... Read more

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  • Jupiter's Travels

    by Ted Simon ...
    Jupiter's Travels -Ted Simon's astonishing 4 year motorbike journey around the worldThe book that inspired Ewan McGregor's Long Way RoundIn the late 1970s Ted Simon set off on a Triumph and rode 63,000 miles over four years through fifty-four countries in a journey that took him around the world. Through breakdowns, prison, war, revolutions, disasters and a Californian commune, he travelled into ... Read more

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  • The Call of the Sword

    The first novel in an epic 12-book sequence

    by Roger Taylor ...
    Series Book 1 - The Chronicles of Hawklan
    The castle of Anderras Darion has stood abandoned and majestic for as long as anyone can remember. Then, from out of the mountains, comes the healer, Hawklan, a man with no memory of the past, to take possession of the keep with his sole companion, Gavor.Across the country, the great fortress of Narsindalvak is a constant reminder of the victory won by the hero Ethriss in alliance with the three ... Read more

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  • The Penguin Lessons

    Now a major film starring Steve Coogan and Jonathan Pryce

    by Tom Michell ...
    NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING STEVE COOGAN AND JONATHAN PRYCEThis is the true story of the unlikely friendship between a flightless bird and a teacher out of his depth…'So touching that I didn't want it to end. I really loved this book' Michael Bond, creator of Paddington'Heartwarmingly eccentric' Guardian'Charming' Daily Mail-Tom Michell is in his roaring twenti... ... Read more

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  • Paradise...My Ass!

    One minute you're relaxing by the pool in a luxury Thai resort and the next you're a gringo with a donkey on an isolated island off Brazil!When Tony and his wife Sue were caught in the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami that devastated hundreds of thousands of lives, they wanted more than to return to the rat race of suburban life, they wanted to 'live the dream'. After careful consideration, or possibly in ... Read more

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