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  • Duck Season Death

    by June Wright ...
    June Wright wrote this lost gem in the mid-1950s, but consigned it to her bottom drawer after her publisher foolishly rejected it. Perhaps it was a little ahead of its time? Because while it’s a tour de force of the classic country house’ murder mystery, it’s also a delightful romp, poking fun at the conventions of the genre. When someone takes advantage of a duck hunt to murder publisher Athol ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • So Bad a Death

    by June Wright ...
    The return of Maggie Byrnes, heroine of Murder in the Telephone Exchange. Maggie is married now, with a young son, and living in an outer Melbourne suburb. But violent death dogs her footsteps even in apparently tranquil Middleburn. It’s perhaps not that much of a surprise when widely disliked local bigwig James Holland (who also happens to be Maggie’s landlord) is shot, but Maggie suspects that ... Read more

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  • Murder in the Telephone Exchange

    by June Wright ...
    First published in 1948, when it was the best-selling mystery of the year in the author’s native Australia, Murder in the Telephone Exchange stars feisty young operator Maggie Byrnes. When one of her more unpopular colleagues is murdered - her head bashed in with a buttinski,” a piece of equipment used to listen in on phone calls - Maggie resolves to turn sleuth. Some of her coworkers are acting ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Devil's Caress

    by June Wright ...
    The fourth in Dark Passage’s reissue series of crime mysteries by June Wright, The Devil’s Caress, originally published in 1952, is an tense psychological thriller set on the wild southern coast of the Mornington Peninsula, outside Melbourne. Overworked young medico Marsh Mowbray has been invited to the country home of her revered mentor, Dr. Kate Waring, but it's far from the restful weekend she ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Black Boy (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. A Jim Crow South Memoir of Hunger, Racial Terror, Self-Education, and the Making of a Writer

    Richard Wright's Black Boy is a searing autobiographical narrative of childhood and young adulthood in the Jim Crow South, tracing the formation of a fiercely questioning intelligence amid poverty, racial terror, hunger, and religious repression. Written in a spare yet intensely lyrical prose, the book fuses memoir, social testimony, and Künstlerroman, showing how language becomes both refuge and ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Faculty of Murder

    Mother Paul Investigates

    by June Wright ...
    Mother Paul, June Wright’s beloved nun-detective, returns to her sleuthing ways after she takes up a new position as warden of a student hall of residence at the University of Melbourne. No sooner has Judith Mornane arrived on campus than she startles her fellow residents by announcing her intention to discover the murderer of her sister, who disappeared from the same dorm a year earlier. The ever ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Make-Up for Murder

    Mother Paul Investigates

    by June Wright ...
    Mother Paul, the incomparable nun-detective, is faced with her most perplexing case when a former pupil at her convent school is murdered at their annual reunion.As a schoolgirl Maisie Ryan was often bullied by her peers, but a decade later she’s a TV star, the glamorously renamed Rianne May. When she’s invited to be guest of honour at Maryhill College’s annual reunion, she has a chance to dazzle ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Native Son (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. Harlem Renaissance Novel

    Richard Wright's Native Son is a landmark of twentieth-century American fiction, a stark naturalist novel that follows Bigger Thomas, a young Black man in 1930s Chicago, as poverty, segregation, fear, and violence converge into catastrophe. Written in a hard, unsentimental prose style, the novel exposes the psychological consequences of racial oppression while drawing on social realism, crime ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reservation for Murder

    by June Wright ...
    June Wright had already published three popular mysteries by the time she created her most memorable detective, the Reverend Mother Mary St Paul of the Cross. The kindly Mother Paul may seem vague and otherwordly, but little escapes her attention—she has a shrewd grasp of everything that’s going on beneath the surface. In Reservation for Murder, the first of three Mother Paul novels (originally ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Cooking for Beginners

    Narrated by Rhonda Wright/Jason Hill ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 55 min

    Are you new to cooking? Do you want to cook a meal for yourself or a group? This beginner’s cookbook will get you started with simple recipes. This cookbook Includes a simple guide for cooking meals. Tips about aberrations, temperate and nutrition facts are also in this cookbook. There are over 70 meals, desserts and side dishes for you to try. Meals included are :20 Minute Chicken CreoleBlack ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    Desserts Made Simple

    Narrated by Rhonda Wright/Jason Hill ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 42 min

    Do you love to cook sweets? Do you love cakes, pastries and french candy? This is the book for you. The author goes into detain and explain how to make some of your favorite desserts. So let us take you on a fun journey and teach you how to make sweet simple desserts. ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    A gripping Sunday Times crime club thriller to lose yourself in

    Series Book 1 - The Detective's Daughter
    Don't miss THE SHRINE, the brand new Detective's Daughter mystery - available nowAs winter closes its grip on snow-bound London, a cleaner determines to solve the case that her detective father never could. A Kindle number one bestseller.It was the murder that shocked the nation. Kate Rokesmith, a young mother, walked to the banks of the Thames with her three-year-old son. She never came home.For ... Read more

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