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The Invisible Tightrope

by Robert Haywood ...

Leaving the comfortable tranquility of life in a Nottinghamshire village, academically gifted Christian Henderson, the only child of high-achieving parents goes to university to study philosophy. Intoxicated by the joys of learning and wrestling with complex ideas, he believes he will progress to a career in academic research. Persuaded by a female student on his course to undertake some ... Read more

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Leaving the comfortable tranquility of life in a Nottinghamshire village, academically gifted Christian Henderson, the only child of high-achieving parents goes to university to study philosophy. Intoxicated by the joys of learning and wrestling with complex ideas, he believes he will progress to a career in academic research. Persuaded by a female student on his course to undertake some
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Maritime Piracy

by Robert Haywood, Roberta Spivak ...

Series series Global Institutions
Maritime Piracy is now a pressing global issue, and this work seeks to provide a concise and informative introduction to the area. Never truly having receded into a romanticized past, seaborne banditry’s rapid growth was stimulated by low risks and increasingly high rewards. Currently, obsolete, incomplete and complicating structures and norms of governance, together with advances in technology, ... Read more

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Maritime Piracy is now a pressing global issue, and this work seeks to provide a concise and informative introduction to the area. Never truly having receded into a romanticized past, seaborne banditry’s rapid growth was stimulated by low risks and increasingly high rewards. Currently, obsolete, incomplete and complicating structures and norms of governance, together with advances in technology,
... Read more
Playing Games

by Lawrence Block, Elaine Kagan, Joe R. Lansdale, S. A.Cosby, Wallace Stroby, Warren Moore, Jeffery Deaver, David Morrell, Charles Ardai, Kevin Quigley, Robert Silverberg, Avri Klemer, Gar Anthony Haywood, Patricia Abbott, Jane Hamilton, Tod Goldberg ...

WIN, LOSE, OR DIE.Whether it's child's play or for the highest stakes, whether we stick to the rules or cheat, we all play games — for fun, for thrills, for love or money, to prove we're the best or make an opponent knuckle under. And the games we play, with cards or dice or nothing but our wits, reveal something deeply personal about the players.In this powerful new anthology, Mystery Writers of ... Read more

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WIN, LOSE, OR DIE.Whether it's child's play or for the highest stakes, whether we stick to the rules or cheat, we all play games — for fun, for thrills, for love or money, to prove we're the best or make an opponent knuckle under. And the games we play, with cards or dice or nothing but our wits, reveal something deeply personal about the players.In this powerful new anthology, Mystery Writers of
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Perspectives on Artistic Research in Music

by Linda Barwick, Tim Dargaville, Stephen Emmerson, Glen Hodges, Michael Hooper, Zubin Kanga, Deniz Peters, Thomas Reiner, Johanna Selleck, Joseph Toltz, Robert Vincs, Jenny Wilson, Nick Haywood, Cat Hope ...

The increasing interest in artistic research, especially in music, is throwing open doors to exciting ideas about how we generate new musical knowledge and understanding. This book examines the wide array of factors at play in innovative practice and how by treating it as research we can make new ideas more widely accessible.Three key ideas propel the book. First, it argues that artistic research ... Read more

$54.99 CAD

The increasing interest in artistic research, especially in music, is throwing open doors to exciting ideas about how we generate new musical knowledge and understanding. This book examines the wide array of factors at play in innovative practice and how by treating it as research we can make new ideas more widely accessible.Three key ideas propel the book. First, it argues that artistic research
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Dadland

A Journey into Uncharted Territory

by Keggie Carew ...

Narrated by Keggie Carew, Dermot Crowley, Pippa Haywood, Robert Bathurst, Tom Golding ...

Unabridged

13 hours 17 min

Keggie Carew grew up in the gravitational field of an unorthodox father who lived onhis wits and dazzling charm. As his memory begins to fail, she embarks on a quest to unravel his story, and soon finds herself in a far more consuming place than she had bargained for.Tom Carew was a maverick, a left-handed stutterer, a law unto himself. As a member of an elite SOE unit he was parachuted behind ... Read more

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Keggie Carew grew up in the gravitational field of an unorthodox father who lived onhis wits and dazzling charm. As his memory begins to fail, she embarks on a quest to unravel his story, and soon finds herself in a far more consuming place than she had bargained for.Tom Carew was a maverick, a left-handed stutterer, a law unto himself. As a member of an elite SOE unit he was parachuted behind
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Mad Girl

A Happy Life With A Mixed Up Mind: A celebration of life with mental illness from mental health campaigner Bryony Gordon

by Bryony Gordon ...

Narrated by Bryony Gordon ...

Unabridged

6 hours 29 min

Bryony Gordon has OCD.It's the snake in her brain that has told her ever since she was a teenager that her world is about to come crashing down: that her family might die if she doesn't repeat a phrase 5 times, or that she might have murdered someone and forgotten about it. It's caused alopecia, bulimia, and drug dependency. And Bryony is sick of it. Keeping silent about her illness has given it a ... Read more

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Bryony Gordon has OCD.It's the snake in her brain that has told her ever since she was a teenager that her world is about to come crashing down: that her family might die if she doesn't repeat a phrase 5 times, or that she might have murdered someone and forgotten about it. It's caused alopecia, bulimia, and drug dependency. And Bryony is sick of it. Keeping silent about her illness has given it a
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Five Rivers Met on a Wooded Plain

by Barney Norris ...

Narrated by Christopher Benjamin, Claire Skinner, Hasan Dixon, James Doherty, Joe Jameson, Linda Bassett ...

Unabridged

7 hours 57 min

'There exists in all of us a song waiting to be sung which is as heart-stopping and vertiginous as the peak of the cathedral. That is the meaning of this quiet city, where the spire soars into the blue, where rivers and stories weave into one another, where lives intertwine.'One quiet evening in Salisbury, the peace is shattered by a serious car crash. At that moment, five lives collide – a flower ... Read more

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'There exists in all of us a song waiting to be sung which is as heart-stopping and vertiginous as the peak of the cathedral. That is the meaning of this quiet city, where the spire soars into the blue, where rivers and stories weave into one another, where lives intertwine.'One quiet evening in Salisbury, the peace is shattered by a serious car crash. At that moment, five lives collide – a flower
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A Death at Fountains Abbey

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Raven Scholar, a thrilling and gripping historical crime thriller

by Antonia Hodgson ...

Narrated by Joseph Kloska ...

Series series Thomas Hawkins
Unabridged

9 hours 52 min

**Buy The Raven Scholar now - a masterfully woven tale of imperial intrigue from Sunday Times bestselling Antonia Hodgson**'In a tale that more than matches its predecessors for pace and atmosphere, Hawkins is forced into confrontation with a psychopathic killer. . .hugely enjoyable'Sunday Times'Hodgson has a knack for convincing dialogue that crackles with period cadence and flavour' Daily Mail< ... Read more

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**Buy The Raven Scholar now - a masterfully woven tale of imperial intrigue from Sunday Times bestselling Antonia Hodgson**'In a tale that more than matches its predecessors for pace and atmosphere, Hawkins is forced into confrontation with a psychopathic killer. . .hugely enjoyable'Sunday Times'Hodgson has a knack for convincing dialogue that crackles with period cadence and flavour' Daily Mail<
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Going Off Alarming

The Autobiography: Vol 2

by Danny Baker ...

Narrated by Danny Baker ...

Unabridged

9 hours 18 min

The dazzlingly funny second volume of Danny Baker's memoirs: the television years.Since my first book was published I have had countless friends and family members get in touch to say how come I hadn't included this story or that tale. Was I ashamed of being shot twice, once up the arse, in Jamaica Road? How long should a man live with such a secret? If by retrospectively dropping my trousers ... Read more

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The dazzlingly funny second volume of Danny Baker's memoirs: the television years.Since my first book was published I have had countless friends and family members get in touch to say how come I hadn't included this story or that tale. Was I ashamed of being shot twice, once up the arse, in Jamaica Road? How long should a man live with such a secret? If by retrospectively dropping my trousers
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The View From The Corner Shop

The Diary of a Yorkshire Shop Assistant in Wartime

by Kathleen Hey, Patricia Malcolmson, Robert Malcolmson, Multiple Authors ...

Narrated by Rebecca Courtney ...

Unabridged

8 hours 47 min

Kathleen Hey spent the war years helping her sister and brother-in-law run a grocery shop in the Yorkshire town of Dewsbury. From July 1941 to July 1946 she kept a diary for the Mass-Observation project, recording the thoughts and concerns of the people who used the shop. Among the chorus of voices she brings us, Kathleen herself shines through as a strong and engaging woman who refuses to give in ... Read more

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Kathleen Hey spent the war years helping her sister and brother-in-law run a grocery shop in the Yorkshire town of Dewsbury. From July 1941 to July 1946 she kept a diary for the Mass-Observation project, recording the thoughts and concerns of the people who used the shop. Among the chorus of voices she brings us, Kathleen herself shines through as a strong and engaging woman who refuses to give in
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Ancient Light

by John Banville ...

Narrated by Robin Sachs ...

Unabridged

9 hours 41 min

The Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea gives us a brilliant, profoundly moving new novel about an actor in the twilight of his life and his career: a meditation on love and loss, and on the inscrutable immediacy of the past in our present lives.Is there any difference between memory and invention? That is the question that fuels this stunning novel, written with the depth of character, the ... Read more

$24.99 CAD

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The Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea gives us a brilliant, profoundly moving new novel about an actor in the twilight of his life and his career: a meditation on love and loss, and on the inscrutable immediacy of the past in our present lives.Is there any difference between memory and invention? That is the question that fuels this stunning novel, written with the depth of character, the
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Paradise Lodge

Hilarity and pure escapism from a true British wit

by Nina Stibbe ...

Narrated by Helen Baxendale ...

Series Audiobook 2 - The Lizzie Vogel Series
Unabridged

9 hours 13 min

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Paradise Lodge by Nina Stibbe, read by Helen Baxendale.This is the story of Lizzie Vogel, a 15 year old girl who finds herself working in an old people's home in the 1970s. The place is in chaos and it's not really a suitable job for a schoolgirl: she'd only gone for the job because it seemed too exhausting to commit to being a ... Read more

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Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Paradise Lodge by Nina Stibbe, read by Helen Baxendale.This is the story of Lizzie Vogel, a 15 year old girl who finds herself working in an old people's home in the 1970s. The place is in chaos and it's not really a suitable job for a schoolgirl: she'd only gone for the job because it seemed too exhausting to commit to being a
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