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  • The Tree that Talks to Me

    by Marjory Morrison ...
    Illustrated by Linda Ayers ...
    About the BookAuthor Marjory Morrison dedicates this book to all of the children of this world, especially in this time of confusion. She hopes that this story will give them hope to know that they can trust, believe in their dreams, and their voices can be heard.About the AuthorMarjory Morrison has a passion for kids to have a firm foundation so that they can have good morals and a desire to ... Read more

    $13.62 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Not Dark Yet

    A Celebration of John Herdman

    by James Robertson, Marjorie Sandor, Alan Spence ...
    Published to mark John Herdman's 80th birthday in 2021.Writers, academics, publishers and literary figures from Britain, Europe and North America came together to celebrate Scottish novelist and critic, John Herdman.The cast of Not Dark Yet are John Herdman's contemporaries and friends, his students and readers.This celebration of John Herdman is witness to the strength of admiration that exists ... Read more

    $7.69 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Dark Encounters

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    by William Croft Dickinson ...
    "A collection of outstanding ghost stories" from a Scottish historian who "tell[s] a beautifully chilling story" ( Undiscovered Scotland).Dark Encounters is a collection of classic and elegantly unsettling ghost stories first published in 1963. A spine-tingling collection, these tales are set in the brooding landscape of Scotland with an air of historic authenticity—often referring to real events, ... Read more

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  • Stepping Stones

    Interviews with Seamus Heaney

    by Dennis O'Driscoll ...
    Widely regarded as the finest poet of his generation, Seamus Heaney is the subject of numerous critical studies; but no book-length portrait has appeared until now. Through his own lively and eloquent reminiscences, Stepping Stones retraces the poet's steps from his early works, through to his receipt of the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature and his post-Nobel life. It is supplemented with a large ... Read more

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  • A Factotum in the Book Trade

    by Marius Kociejowski ...
    The bookshop is, and will always be, the soul of the trade. What happens there does not happen elsewhere. The multifariousness of human nature is more on show there than anywhere else, and I think it’s because of books, what they are, what they release in ourselves, and what they become when we make them magnets to our desires.A memoir of a life in the antiquarian book trade, A Factotum in the ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD

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  • The Redress of Poetry

    by Seamus Heaney ...
    These lectures were delivered by Seamus Heaney while he was Professor of Poetry at Oxford University. In the first of them, Heaney discusses and celebrates poetry's special ability to redress spiritual balance and to function as a counterweight to hostile and oppressive forces in the world. He proceeds to explore how this 'redress' manifests itself in a diverse range of poems and poets, including ... Read more

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  • Bang in the Middle

    by Robert Shore ...
    A book to put the Midlands back on the map.Everyone knows what they think of the North and South of England – the clichés abound. But what about that big, anonymous stretch of land in between: the Midlands? Despite being home to around a third of the English population, it’s a region that seems to have neither purpose nor identity. In this humorous exploration, the author – a Midlander exiled in ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • On Seamus Heaney

    by Roy Foster ...
    Series series Writers on Writers
    A vivid and original account of one of Ireland’s greatest poets by an acclaimed Irish historian and literary biographerThe most important Irish poet of the postwar era, Seamus Heaney rose to prominence as his native Northern Ireland descended into sectarian violence. A national figure at a time when nationality was deeply contested, Heaney also won international acclaim, culminating in the Nobel ... Read more

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  • Required Writing

    Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-1982

    by Philip Larkin ...
    The appearance of Philip Larkin's second prose collection - reviews and critical assessments of writers and writing; pieces on jazz, mostly uncollected; some long, revealing and often highly entertaining interviews given on various occasions - was a considerable literary event. Stamped by wit, originality and intelligence, it was vintage Larkin throughout:'Deprivation is for me what daffodils were ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

  • Thistle Versus Rose

    700 Years of Winding Up the English

    by Susan Morrison ...
    'Ask a Scotsman for directions and he'll tell you which way to go. Ask an Englishman and he'll try to sell you a map.' Anon*It's 700 years since the Scots thrashed the English at Bannockburn. Has there ever been a better opportunity to celebrate seven centuries of winding up the English?Exploring everything from money, diet, war and weather to language, love and landscape, Thistle vs Rose is a ... Read more

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  • The Bard

    by Robert Crawford ...
    No writer is more charismatic than Robert Burns and no biographer has captured his energy, brilliance and radicalism as well as Robert Crawford does in The Bard. To his international admirers Burns was a genius, a hero, a warm-hearted friend; yet to the mother of one of his lovers he was a wastrel, to a fellow poet he was 'sprung...from raking of dung', and to his political enemies a 'traitor'. ... Read more

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