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  • Where the Road Runs Out

    by Gaia Holmes ...
    LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2019Gaia Holmes’ third collection of poetry transports us to the edge of things: to remote, treeless islands, to dark, unfathomable mines, to the gaping maw of grief. With frailty and ferocity, these poems map out the strange absences left in our lives when a rupture occurs – like the sudden appearance of a sinkhole – threatening to pull everything else down ... Read more

    $10.13 CAD

  • He Used to Do Dangerous Things

    by Gaia Holmes ...
    A grieving woman tells her counsellor increasingly elaborate and contradictory accounts of the night her partner died...A solitary pensioner, cut off from the world in the depths of lockdown, resorts to sitting in his apartment block's meter room to watch the electricity gauges surge with life...A travelling vending machine operator takes his goldfish with him on his long-haul journeys to ... Read more

    $11.97 CAD

  • Resist

    Stories of Uprising

    by Kamila Shamsie, Eley Williams, Bidisha, Lucy Caldwell, Nikita Lalwani, Luan Goldie, Uschi Gatward, Julia Bell, SJ Bradley, Gaia Holmes, Irfan Master, Jude Brown, Steve Chambers, Martin Edwards, Zoe Lambert, Anna Lewis, Donny O'Rourke, Kim Squirrell, Lucas Stewart ...
    Series series History-into-Fiction
    At a time that feels unprecedented in British politics – with unlawful prorogations of parliament, casual race-baiting by senior politicians, and a climate crisis that continues to be ignored – it’s easy to think these are unchartered waters for us, as a democracy.But Britain has seen political crises and far-right extremism before, just as it has witnessed regressive, heavy-handed governments. ... Read more

    $11.97 CAD

  • The Cuckoo Cage

    New Origin Stories

    by Divya Ghelani, M.Y. Alam, Luan Goldie, Gaia Holmes, Pete Kalu, lisa luxx, Irfan Master, Avaes Mohammad, Courttia Newland, Bidisha SK Mamata, Karline Smith, Lillian Weezer ...
    The superhero of comic books and blockbuster movies may be a quintessentially American invention, forever saving the world in skin-tight spandex. But the cultural DNA of the superhero can arguably be traced to a much older, more progressive, British tradition: the larger-than-life folk heroes of historical protests – General Ludd, Captain Swing, Lady Skimmington, and others; semi-fictional ... Read more

    $11.97 CAD

  • The New Abject

    Tales of Modern Unease

    by Ramsey Campbell, Mark Haddon, Lara Williams, Margaret Drabble, David Constantine, Saleem Haddad, Matthew Holness, Lucie McKnight Hardy, Gerard Woodward, Sarah Schofield, Mike Nelson, Alan Beard, Bernardine Bishop, Adam Marek, Gaia Holmes, Paul Theroux, Christine Poulson, Karen Featherstone, Meave Haughey ...
    Series series Comma Modern Horror
    SOMETHING HAS FALLEN AWAY.We have lost a part of ourselves, our history, what we once were. That something, when we encounter it again, look it straight in the eyes, disgusts us, makes us retch. This is the horror of the abject.Following the success of Comma’s award-winning New Uncanny anthology, The New Abject invites leading authors to respond to two parallel theories of the abject – Julia ... Read more

    $11.05 CAD

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  • The Family Law

    by Benjamin Law ...
    Writer and columnist Benjamin Law revisits his joyous and much-loved family memoir, spilling the tea on his family's latest anticsThe book that inspired the major SBS television series!Meet the Law family – eccentric, endearing and hard to resist. Your guide is Benjamin, the third of five children and a born humourist. Join him as he tries to answer some puzzling questions. Why won't his Chinese ... Read more

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  • Work! Consume! Die!

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    Brace yourself for Frankie’s novel, he’s more outspoken and brilliantly inappropriate than ever.There are fears that this year could see the start of a double-dip recession, or worse still a double-dip-with-misery-sprinkles and f**k-where’s-my-job?-sauce. Why not chuckle into the howling void as taloned fingers reach up to consume you with Frankie Boyle’s book, Work! Consume! Die!In Work! Consume! ... Read more

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  • 52 Times Britain was a Bellend

    The History You Didn't Get Taught At School

    by James Felton ...
    SPECIAL ELECTION EDITION OF THE BOOK THAT HAS SOLD OVER 100,000 COPIESTwitter hero James Felton brings you the painfully funny history of Britain you were never taught at school, fully illustrated and chronicling 52 of the most ludicrous, weird and downright 'baddie' things we Brits* have done to the world since time immemorial - before conveniently forgetting all about them, of course. Including: ... Read more

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  • I Can Make You Hate

    by Charlie Brooker ...
    Would you like to eat whatever you want and still lose weight?Who wouldn't? Keep dreaming, imbecile.In the meantime, if you'd like to read something that alternates between laugh-out-loud-funny and apocalyptically angry, keep holding this book. Steal it if necessary.In his latest collection of rants, raves, hastily spluttered articles and scarcely literate scrawl, Charlie Brooker proves that there ... Read more

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  • What Was I Thinking: A Memoir

    A Memoir

    by Paul Henry ...
    From the man whose outrageous comments on TV divided the country, and almost caused an international incident, comes this very funny memoir. Packed with stories from his eventful childhood and his long and adventurous career in journalism, this is a gripping, often hilarious and always entertaining read. It gives a fascinating insight into the complex character of Paul Henry. *He's surprising - he ... Read more

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  • The Library Book

    by Alan Bennett, Ann Cleeves, Seth Godin, Susan Hill, Tom Holland, Hardeep Singh Kohli, Lucy Mangan, Val McDermid, China Miéville, Caitlin Moran, Kate Mosse, Julie Myerson, Bali Rai, Lionel Shriver, Robin Turner, Nicky Wire, Anita Anand, Bella Bathurst, Julian Barnes, Mic ...
    From Alan Bennett's Baffled at a Bookcase, to Lucy Mangan's Library Rules, famous writers tell us all about how libraries are used and why they're important. Tom Holland writes about libraries in the ancient world, while Seth Godin describes what a library will look like in the future. Lionel Shriver thinks books are the best investment, Hardeep Singh Kohli makes a confession and Julie Myerson ... Read more

    $14.79 CAD