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  • Shards of Light

    by Emyr Humphreys ...
    Shards of Light is a collection of previously unpublished poems by Emyr Humphreys. Now in his hundredth year, he has been described as Wales's foremost novelist of his generation. This newly discovered collection of poems has all the sharpness and incisiveness of thought as if they had been written today. Humphreys scrutinises life with a wry humour, coloured by the experience of his great ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Toy Epic

    by Emyr Humphreys ...
    A Toy Epic is the story of three boys moving towards the threshold of adult life in the 1930s. From differing backgrounds their lives cross and touch until they become firm friends. Each of them, Michael, Albie and Iorwerth, take up the story in turn, creating their own particular world and contriubting to the composite picture of life in 'one of the four corners of Wales'. Significantly, A Toy ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Woman at The Window

    by Emyr Humphreys ...
    Emyr Humphreys is a major figure in twentieth-century writing and The Woman at the Window is an immensely enjoyable and impressive addition to his outstanding list of award-winning novels and short stories. From the widow alone in the rectory drawing room to views across the sunny expanses of post-war Europe, celebrated writer Emyr Humphreys offers this urbane, mature collection. His protagonists ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Last Day

    by Owain Owain ...
    Translated by Emyr Wallace Humphreys ...
    "Nothing like this book has been seen before, either in our language or in any other. We should rejoice that such brilliance exists in Welsh writing." – Pennar Davies, Welsh literary critic "Owain Owain's The Last Day transcends the confines of its form and should captivate a fresh generation of readers with this English translation." – Joshua Rees, Buzz Magazine The Last Day is more than a moving ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Your Impossible Voice #26

    Spring 2022

    by Alberto Ortiz De Zarate, Darlene Eliot, Nara Vidal, Luna Sicat-Cleto, Suzana Stojanović, Siamak Vossoughi, Marshall Moore, Farhad Pirbal, Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse, Jiyar Homer, James Miller, Michele Kilmer, Olga Krause, John Rey Dave Aquino, John M. Kuhlman, Michael Garcia Bertrand, Benjamin Niespodziany, Lisa Williams, Anna B. Sutton, Sharron Hass, Steve Davenport, Marcela Sulak, Grace Sewell, Whitni Battle, Emyr Humphreys, Bernard Capinpin ...
    Series Book 26 - Your Impossible Voice Journal
    Our twenty-sixth issue is haunted, alcohol-soaked, possibly delusional, bathed in moonlight, wandering through forests and caverns, and inflamed by all-manner of approaching catastrophes.Featuring new short fiction, poetry, CNF, and translations from Alberto Ortiz De Zarate (translated by Whitni Battle), Darlene Eliot, Nara Vidal (translated by Emyr Humphreys), Luna Sicat-Cleto (translated by ... Read more

    $4.22 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Black Beech and Honeydew (The Ngaio Marsh Collection)

    by Ngaio Marsh ...
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    A series of Ngaio Marsh editions concludes with an edition of her autobiography.With all the insight and style her readers came to expect of her, Ngaio Marsh's autobiography captures all the joys, fears and hopes of a spirited young woman growing up in Christchurch, and charts her theatre and writing careers both in New Zealand and the UK. This sanguine, unpretentious and revealing book has been ... Read more

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  • The Lady in the Looking Glass

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    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    'People should not leave looking-glasses hanging in their rooms any more than they should leave open cheque books or letters confessing some hideous crime.''If she concealed so much and knew so much one must prize her open with the first tool that came to hand - the imagination.'Virginia Woolf's writing tested the boundaries of modern fiction, exploring the depths of human consciousness and ... Read more

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  • By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept

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    Elizabeth Smart’s passionate fictional account of her intense love-affair with the poet George Barker, described by Angela Carter as ‘Like MADAME BOVARY blasted by lightning … A masterpiece’.One day, while browsing in a London bookshop, Elizabeth Smart chanced upon a slim volume of poetry by George Barker – and fell passionately in love with him through the printed word. Eventually they ... Read more

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  • Moab Is My Washpot

    by Stephen Fry ...
    Moab is My Washpot is in turns funny, shocking, tender, delicious, sad, lyrical, bruisingly frank and addictively readable.Stephen Fry's bestselling memoir tells how, sent to a boarding school 200 miles from home at the age of seven, he survived beatings, misery, love, ecstasy, carnal violation, expulsion, imprisonment, criminal conviction, probation and catastrophe to emerge, at eighteen, ready ... Read more

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  • The Best American Short Stories 2022

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    A collection of the year's best short stories, selected by Pulitzer Prize winner Andrew Sean Greer and series editor Heidi Pitlor.This volume gathers contemporary short stories that confront sudden reckoning, intimate crisis, and fragile connection. Lauren Groff follows a bruised mother fleeing an abusive policeman across country roads in an old Dodge.An Istanbul alley yields discarded violins and ... Read more

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  • The Lady in the Van

    by Alan Bennett ...
    NOW A MAJOR FILM STARRING DAME MAGGIE SMITH'The first book that ever made me laugh out loud' Adam Kay'Utter genius' Daily MailIn 1974, the homeless Miss Shepherd moved her broken down van into Alan Bennett's garden. Deeply eccentric and stubborn to her bones, Miss Shepherd was not an easy tenant. And Bennett, despite inviting her in the first place, was a reluctant landlord. And yet she lived ... Read more

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