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  • Audiobook

    Phantom Woman, The

    and Other Strange Stories

    Unabridged

    1 hour 32 min

    Tales to be told in a graveyard. Creepy stories, ghostly lore, and eerie tales that will make you shudder. Short stories with just the right touch of the strange. So sit down on a gravestone and prepare to be frightened.The Little Green Orchard by Walter de la MareSomeone is always sitting there, in the little green orchard, but who?The Voice by Madeline Yale WynneIs it better to be seen but not ... Read more

    $6.86 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Blue-Water Empire

    The British in the Mediterranean since 1800

    Blue-Water Empire is Robert Holland's magnificent narrative of Britain's military and cultural ties with the Mediterranean Sea, in the style of the epic naval histories of N. A. M. Rodger.Britain has been a major presence in the Mediterranean from the Battle of the Nile to the end of empire, as both a military and a colonising force on the islands and coastlines of the sea. Robert Holland traces ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Heathen and Honeysuckle

    Series series Pacific Shores

    Unabridged

    12 hours 26 min

    Then:Leo Graham knows nothing new ever happens in the small town of Pacific Shores. That is, until he runs into his new neighbor. Golden haired, honey-eyed, and sharp-tongued, Darby Andrews. As Leo and Darby's budding friendship turns into a burning love that neither of them could've expected, Leo is determined to protect it at all costs. Until he finds the girl of his teenage dreams ran away in ... Read more

    $35.72 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beyond the Neoliberal Creative City

    Critique and Alternatives in the Urban Cultural Economy

    A buoyant, creative economy can be seen as the saviour of many cities, but behind such ‘urban makeovers’ lie serious problems such as widening inequalities, job precarity, gentrification and environmental issues. In light of the pandemic and climate crisis, how well are city economies, based largely on culture, nightlife and tourism, meeting basic societal needs?Blending lively case studies of ... Read more

    $41.59 CAD

  • A Gap in the Himalayas: Travel in China, Southeast Asia, Nepal, India and Sri Lanka

    A travelogue of a four-month journey mixing adventure, volunteering and touring through China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Nepal, India and Sri Lanka. Not your usual twenty-somethings, this was a trip by two semi-retired but energetic travellers who should have known better. ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Purgatorio

    by Dante ...
    Translated by Robert Hollander, Jean Hollander ...
    Jean Hollander, an accomplished poet, and Robert Hollander, a renowned scholar and master teacher, whose joint translation of the Infernowas acclaimed as a new standard in English, bring their respective gifts to Purgatorio in an arresting and clear verse translation. Featuring the original Italian text opposite the translation, their edition offers an extensive and accessible introduction as well ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Paradiso

    by Dante ...
    Translated by Robert Hollander, Jean Hollander ...
    With his journeys through Hell and Purgatory complete, Dante is at last led by his beloved Beatrice to Paradise. Where his experiences in the Inferno and Purgatorio were arduous and harrowing, this is a journey of comfort, revelation, and, above all, love-both romantic and divine. Robert Hollander is a Dante scholar of unmatched reputation and his wife, Jean, is an accomplished poet. Their verse ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Warm South

    How the Mediterranean Shaped the British Imagination

    An evocative exploration of the impact of the Mediterranean on British culture, ranging from the mid-eighteenth century to todayEver since the age of the Grand Tour in the eighteenth century, the Mediterranean has had a significant pull for Britons—including many painters and poets—who sought from it the inspiration, beauty, and fulfillment that evaded them at home. Referred to as “Magick Land” by ... Read more

    $27.49 CAD

  • 100 Miles to Freedom

    The Epic Story of the Rescue of Santo Tomas and the Liberation of Manila: 1943-1945

    In 100 Miles to Freedom, U.S. Marine Bob Holland tells the story of the release of 3,700 American civilian prisoners of the Japanese at Santo Tomas University Internment Camp in Manila, the Philippines. Until their miraculous rescue on February 3, 1945, these civilians had been interned for more than three and a half years. This wartime account is complete with interviews of several prisoners ... Read more

    $20.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The First Rule of Comedy..!

    Memories and Moments

    'I've been moved, I've been made to laugh and I've been made to think.' – Gyles Brandreth, Rosebud podcast'When you have Jeff around you know you are in safe hands, just as you will be when you read his book.' – Su PollardFondly remembered as Spike Dixon in Hi-De-Hi!, Jeffrey Holland is one of Britain's best-loved situation comedy actors. An invaluable member of the repertory company of w... ... Read more

    Was $25.98 CAD Now $19.98 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Frost: Poems

    Edited by John Hollander

    by Robert Frost ...
    Series series Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series
    From one of the most brilliant and widely read of all American poets, a generous selection of lyrics, dramatic monologues, and narrative poems--all of them steeped in the wayward and isolated beauty of Frost's native New England. Includes his classics "Mending Wall, " "Birches, " and "The Road Not Taken, " as well as poems less famous but equally great. ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Harry Birrell’s War

    Far East Diaries 1939-45

    Born in Paisley in 1918, Harry Birrell was gifted a cine-camera by his Grandparents at a young age. It was to change his life and spark a lifelong obsession with documenting the world around him. Intending to join the professional film industry, his trajectory was cut short by the outbreak of war in 1939.Harry volunteered to serve and was assigned to the Indian Army. In late 1940, he travelled to ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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