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  • Goodbye Again

    by Joseph Hone ...
    Ben Contini, a disenchanted painter of considerable talent, has just buried his mother. Rifling through the attic of her Kilkenny house he stumbles across a Modigliani nude, worth millions. Determined to learn the provenance of the painting, he and Elsa, a disturbed and secretive woman who accosts him at the funeral, become embroiled in the sinister world of Nazi art theft. But they are not the ... Read more

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  • The Paris Trap

    by Joseph Hone ...
    Joseph Hone's The Paris Trap, first published in 1977, saw him step aside from his sequence of 'Peter Marlow' novels to offer a different kind of political thriller.Jim Hackett and Harry Tyson first met in Paris, in days of hope - Hackett a promising actor, Tyson a budding writer. Twenty years later, their dreams soured, they are reunited in Paris for a substantive project: Hackett, now a movie ... Read more

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  • Wicked Little Joe

    by Joseph Hone ...
    In the summer of 1939, as a two-year-old in London, I was given away by my parents to a Chelsea friend and taken on the Irish Mail to Dublin. Thus begins this extraordinary memoir by travel writer and novelist Joseph Hone, one of eight children farmed out by impecunious and inebriate parents, who was raised at Maidenhall in County Kilkenny by the historian and essayist Hubert Butler and his wife ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Goodbye Again

    by Joseph Hone ...
    Ben Contini, a disenchanted painter of considerable talent, has just buried his mother. Rifling through the attic of her Kilkenny house he stumbles across a Modigliani nude, worth millions. Determined to learn the provenance of the painting, he and Elsa, a disturbed and secretive woman who accosts him at the funeral, become embroiled in the sinister world of Nazi art theft. But they are not the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Children of the Country

    Coast to Coast Across Africa

    by Joseph Hone ...
    'Joseph Hone went to Zaire for the BBC. His aim was a series of talks about crossing Africa from coast to coast, as Stanley had done. That intention began, and ended, in Kinshasha... Having fallen in love in boyhood with the idea of Africa, he had looked for 'great liberating spaces', and found himself in a city from which there was no escape without a private plane.' Guardian'For those who like ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Literature and Party Politics at the Accession of Queen Anne

    by Joseph Hone ...
    Series series Oxford English Monographs
    Literature and Party Politics at the Accession of Queen Anne is the first detailed study of the final Stuart succession crisis. It demonstrates for the first time the centrality of debates about royal succession to the literature and political culture of the early eighteenth century. Using previously neglected, misunderstood, and newly discovered material, Joseph Hone shows that arguments about ... Read more

    $87.99 CAD

  • Wicked Little Joe

    by Joseph Hone ...
    In the summer of 1939, as a two-year-old in London, I was given away by my parents to a Chelsea friend and taken on the Irish Mail to Dublin. Thus begins this extraordinary memoir by travel writer and novelist Joseph Hone, one of eight children farmed out by impecunious and inebriate parents, who was raised at Maidenhall in County Kilkenny by the historian and essayist Hubert Butler and his wife ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Alexander Pope in the Making

    by Joseph Hone ...
    How did Alexander Pope become the greatest poet of the eighteenth century? Modern scholarship has typically taken Pope's rise to greatness and subsequent remoteness from lesser authors for granted. As a major poet he is treated as the successor of Milton and Dryden or the precursor of Wordsworth. Drawing on previously neglected texts and overlooked archival materials, Alexander Pope in the Making ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • Jonathan Swift in Context

    Edited by Joseph Hone, Pat Rogers ...
    Series series Literature in Context
    Jonathan Swift remains the most important and influential satirist in the English language. The author of Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal, and A Tale of a Tub, in addition to vast numbers of political pamphlets, satirical verses, sermons, and other kinds of text, Swift is one of the most versatile writers in the literary canon. His writings were always closely intertwined with the English ... Read more

    $101.99 CAD

  • The life of Friedrich Nietzsche

    Enriched edition. Exploring the Mind of a Revolutionary Thinker

    Translated by Joseph M. Hone ...
    In "The Life of Friedrich Nietzsche," Daniel Halévy presents a comprehensive exploration of the philosophical maestro's life, weaving in the tumultuous social and cultural tapestry of 19th-century Europe. Halévy's evocative prose not only charts Nietzsche's intellectual evolution but also grapples with his existential struggles, offering insights into the influences that sculpted his ... Read more

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  • Freeze Frame

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