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  • Three Men In New Suits

    by JB Priestley ...
    Series series IWM Wartime Classics
    It is spring 1945. Three men who have been serving together overseas return, demobilised, to the same village. Coming from very different walks of life, the war has brought them together in unexpected friendship.Following each man as he returns home and must come to terms with what he finds there, the novel considers the challenges both with returning to find nothing changed, and returning home to ... Read more

    $8.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • English Journey

    by J. B. Priestley ...
    ‘The finest book ever written about England and the English’ Stuart Maconie‘J. B. Priestley is one of our literary icons of the 20th Century and it is time that we all became re-acquainted with his genius.’ Dame Judi DenchThree years before George Orwell made his expedition to the far and frozen North in The Road to Wigan Pier, celebrated writer and broadcaster JB Priestley cast his net wider, in ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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  • Blackout in Gretley

    by J. B. Priestley ...
    Humphrey Neyland is a middle-aged Canadian engineer recruited by British Intelligence to go undercover in the industrial city of Gretley, where aircraft essential to the war effort are being produced and where it is feared Nazi agents and saboteurs are lurking. Almost everyone he meets in Gretley seems to have a double life and a secret agenda, and it doesn't take long before Neyland is caught up ... Read more

    $10.98 CAD

  • An Inspector Calls and Other Plays

    by J B Priestley ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    'We don't live alone ... We are responsible for each other'A policeman interrupts a rich family's dinner to question them about the suicide of a young working-class girl. As their guilty secrets are gradually revealed over the course of the evening, 'An Inspector Calls', J. B. Priestley's most famous play, shows us the terrible consequences of poverty and inequality. The other powerful plays in ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Doomsday Men

    A Novel

    by J. B. Priestley ...
    On the eve of World War II, three unlikely heroes join forces in the Mojave Desert to thwart atomic doomsday—a rollicking tale of adventure from one of the twentieth century's great, underappreciated masters.Young Englishman Malcom Darbyshire falls in love with his mysterious American tennis partner at a tournament on the French Riviera; when she vanishes without so much as telling him her real ... Read more

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  • Delight

    by J. B. Priestley ...
    ‘An exquisitely-written, generous, funny, thoughtful book about the everyday joys of being alive. I love it.’ Dolly Alderton‘J. B. Priestley is one of our literary icons of the 20th Century and it is time that we all became re-acquainted with his genius.’ Dame Judi Dench‘My apology, my little bit of penitence, for having grumbled so much, for having darkened the breakfast table, almost ruined the ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Shapes of Sleep

    A Novel

    by J. B. Priestley ...
    A journalist gets tangled up with a shadowy plot—and a dangerous new technology—in this twisty Cold War thriller from one of the twentieth century’s great, underappreciated masters.When Ben Sterndale, underemployed journalist, is called into the offices of London advertising agency Madison-Mayfair by his old friend Tony Privett, he’s not sure what to expect. Tony has a job for him, he says ... Read more

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  • Saturn Over the Water

    A Novel

    by J. B. Priestley ...
    At the height of the Cold War, an English painter gets entangled in a web of international intrigue—one that may spell the end of the world—in a tale of suspense from one of the twentieth century’s great, underappreciated masters.Tim Bedford is a reasonably successful landscape painter, living in London with all the creature comforts he might require. But when his dying cousin begs him to help ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Sir Michael and Sir George

    A Novel

    by J. B. Priestley ...
    Two arts administrators—and bitter rivals—go toe-to-toe in a battle to secure their agencies’ futures in this rollicking workplace comedy from one of the twentieth century’s great, underappreciated masters.Sir Michael Stratherrick, director of the National Commission for Scholarship of the Arts (COMSA), and Sir George Drake, director of the Department of Information and Cultural Services (DISCUS), ... Read more

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  • The Good Companions

    by J.B. Priestley ...
    The Good CompanionsJ.B. PriestleyGreat NorthernRediscovering PriestleySpecial Edition with extra content.Three unhappy characters, Jess Oakroyd, Miss Trant and Inigo Jollifant flee from their old lives to seek adventure on the open road. Fate brings them together and into the presence of a broken-down theatrical touring company. Throwing caution to the winds they save the group and set off on an ... Read more

    $12.03 CAD

  • Lost Empires

    A Novel

    by J. B. Priestley ...
    On the eve of World War I, a young painter is swept into the heady, now-vanished world of England’s traveling theater circuit in this lively coming-of-age novel by one of the twentieth century’s great, underappreciated masters.England, 1913. Richard Herncastle is a young man who has recently found himself at a loose end, mourning the death of his mother and disillusioned with his office job. When ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Good Companions

    by J. B. Priestley ...
    Jess Oakroyd is a middle-aged factory worker, Elizabeth Trant is the aimless daughter of a recently deceased colonel, and Inigo Jollifant is a bored schoolmaster. The three of them, unhappy with the directions of their lives, each strike out on journeys to clear their minds and do something new.After a picaresque opening in which each of these three characters engages in various adventures, they ... Read more

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