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  • The Hurley Maker's Son

    Patrick Deeley's train journey home to rural East Galway in autumn 1978 was a pilgrimage of grief: his giant of a father had been felled, the hurley-making workshop silenced.From this moment, Patrick unfolds his childhood as a series of evocative moments, from the intricate workings of the timber workshop run by his father to the slow taking apart of an old tractor and the physical burial of a ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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    The Hurley Maker's Son

    Narrated by Gerry O'Brien ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 8 min

    Random House presents the unabridged downloadable audiobook edition of The Hurley Maker's Son by Patrick Deeley, read by Gerry O'Brien.Patrick Deeley's train journey home to rural East Galway in autumn 1978 was a pilgrimage of grief: his giant of a father had been felled, the hurley-making workshop silenced.From this moment, Patrick unfolds his childhood as a series of evocative moments, from the ... Read more

    $18.45 CAD

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    Judge's Wife, The

    Narrated by Alana Kerr Collins ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 10 min

    *Shortlisted for a 2017 RoNA Award*The poignant, emotional story of three women, an adulterous affair, and one great love that changes their lives forever.With her whole life ahead of her, beautiful young Grace’s world changes forever when she’s married off to a much older judge. Soon, feeling lonely and neglected, Grace meets and falls in love with an Indian doctor, Vikram—he’s charming, ... Read more

    $20.60 CAD

  • Death of a Naturalist

    by Seamus Heaney ...
    Between my finger and my thumbThe squat pen rests; snug as a gun.-- from 'Digging'With its lyrical and descriptive powers, Death of a Naturalist marked the auspicious debut of one of the century's finest poets. ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Tales From the Farm by the Yorkshire Shepherdess

    by Amanda Owen ...
    For everyone who loves watching Amanda Owen and her family on Our Farm Next Door: Amanda, Clive & The Kids and Our Yorkshire Farm, or enjoys reading her bestselling books, comes this delightful and uplifting collection of her monthly Dalesman columns.In Tales From the Farm by the Yorkshire Shepherdess Amanda takes readers on an evocative journey to Ravenseat, where she lives with husband Clive and ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD

  • Notes from Walnut Tree Farm

    by Roger Deakin ...
    Calming, thought-provoking, poetic and honest**, Notes from Walnut Tree Farm** is a collection of writing and musing by documentary-maker, environmentalist and author of Waterlog, Roger Deakin.'Gentle, straight, honest, inquisitive, funny, melancholic' Spectator'A lovely book that is a poignant epitaph to a remarkable individual' Amazon Review________________For the... ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Once Upon A Cowpat

    Stories From the Back Country

    Country folk have their own way of doing things and their own sense of humour too. They are naturally wary of men in suits and university types, and such people have to be put to the test before they can be accepted. They are not too keen on new-fangled ways of doing things either; a meal of mountain oysters is one thing, but washed down with a glass of bull’s semen? What’s the world coming to? ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Spirit Level

    by Seamus Heaney ...
    'An irresistibly coherent book which celebrates the rising and the raising of the human spirit.' Michael Hofmann, The Times'If any poetry written today can have this 'redemptive effect' - as Heaney in his critical writing has begun to claim it can - then this is it.' Mick Imlah, Independent on Sunday ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • A Childhood in Scotland

    Series series Canongate Classics
    This coming of age memoir offers an intimate portrait of 1920 life in a Scottish castle—"like stepping through the looking glass into another world" ( Glasgow World, UK)."When I was a little girl, the ghosts were more real to me than the people…" So begins Christian Miller's fascinating autobiography of girlhood in 1920s Scotland. Privileged and yet in many ways deprived, Miller grew up the ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Garden in the Clouds

    From Derelict Smallholding to Mountain Paradise

    A warm, witty memoir of one man’s escape from the city in an unlikely quest to create out of a mountainous Welsh landscape a garden fit for inclusion in the prestigious Yellow Book – the ‘Gardens of England and Wales Open for Charity’ guide – in just one year.It was a derelict smallholding so high up in the Black Mountains of Wales it was routinely lost in cloud. But to Antony Woodward, Tair ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Thing in the Forest (Storycuts)

    by A.S. Byatt ...
    Leaves rustle underfoot in a dark wood: two little girls, extracted from their homes in wartime London, encounter something terrifying in a forest. Later when they meet as grown women, they realise the experience has coloured their lives. A dark tale about the nature of stories themselves.Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was originally published in the collection Little Black Book of ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • To School Through the Fields

    by Alice Taylor ...
    'A delightful evocation of Irishness and of the author's deep-rooted love of the very fields of home' Publishers WeeklyAlice Taylor's classic account of growing up in the Irish countryside, the biggest selling book ever published in Ireland, beautifully reproduced with photographs from Alice's life.If ever a voice has captured the colors, the rhythms, the rich, bittersweet emotions of a time gone ... Read more

    $9.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus