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“ross gilfillan”

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  • Crime and Punishment in Victorian London

    A Street Level View of the City's Underworld

    by Ross Gilfillan ...
    Discover the seamy history of nineteenth-century England that has inspired countless crime novels and films.Victorian London: All over the city, watches, purses, and handkerchiefs disappear from pockets; goods migrate from warehouses, off docks, and out of shop windows. Burglaries are rife, shoplifting is carried on in West End stores, and people fall victim to all kinds of ingenious swindles. ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • In Leicester Fields

    Nothing Destroys Like Art

    by Ross Gilfillan ...
    In late 18th century London, dying artist Henry Grace plans to atone for unspeakable crimes he committed while a member of a hell-fire club in an extraordinary way which threatens to bring down the establishment. Secreted in the attic of his house in Leicester Fields, Grace is painting a coded, epic masterpiece which is intended to incriminate the elite and powerful of London. When fiery female ... Read more

    $3.72 CAD

  • In Leicester Fields

    by Ross Gilfillan ...
    In late 18th century London, dying artist Henry Grace plans to atone for unspeakable crimes he committed while a member of a hell-fire club in an extraordinary way which threatens to bring down the establishment. Secreted in the attic of his house in Leicester Fields, Grace is painting a coded, epic masterpiece which is intended to incriminate the elite and powerful of London. When fiery female ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Last of the Revolution

    by Ross Gilfillan ...
    Washed-up journalist Anthony Carver is given one last assignment, to interview Alfredo Ortega, the dying revolutionary leader of the island of San Joaquin. Ortega, with iconic guerrilla Christo at his side, had led the famous rebellion decades ago. By the time Carver lands, Ortega is dead. Carver tracks down firebrand freedom fighter Consuela Ramirez, hoping to learn more about a rumour that a ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • The Snake-Oil Dickens Man

    by Ross Gilfillan ...
    A fast, witty and evocative first novel about the allure of the con man, the journey of a young man in search of his father, the loss of innocence and the works of Charles Dickens. Full of adventure, tricks, imagination and originality, The Snake-oil Dickens Man is the assured debut from an exciting writer.It is 1867 and Charles Dickens has arrived in Boston on his second reading tour of America. ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Edge of the Crowd

    by Ross Gilfillan ...
    The Edge of the Crowd is the gripping story of early days of photography and the search for lost love in Victorian London . RUNNER UP OF THE 2002 ENCORE PRIZE.London, 1851. Among the teeming crowds visiting the Great Exhibition is the newspaper columnist Henry Hilditch, whose sensational exposés of the lives and deprivations of the working class are the talk of bourgeois London.But Hilditch has ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Dunblane Centre The Gift that Keeps Growing

    Edited by Mick North, Pam Ross, Nora Gilfillan ...
    The book tells the story of how the unique Dunblane Centre grew from the town's darkest day on 13 March 1996, a story which shows how the support received from around the globe, when combined with the dedication, enthusiasm and vision of so many in Dunblane, created an inspiring legacy. Two of the editors lost children in the Dunblane tragedy, the third was a member of the Primary School Board. ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • The Ingenious Victorians

    Weird and Wonderful Ideas from the Age of Innovation

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    Discover some of the Victorian Era's most outlandish inventions—from the world-changing to the simply weird—in this look at nineteenth-century innovation.We all know that some of history's greatest inventions came about in the Victorian age. But in The Ingenious Victorians, John Wade goes beyond those famous advances to explore some of the weird and wonderful ideas and projects that have largely ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Puzzle Palace

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    The first book ever written on the National Security Agency from the New York Times bestselling author of Body of Secrets and The Shadow Factory.In this groundbreaking, award-winning book, James Bamford traces the NSA's origins, details its inner workings, and explores its far-flung operations. He describes the city of fifty thousand people and nearly twenty buildings that is the Fort Meade ... Read more

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  • The Unspeakable Crimes of Dr. Petiot

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    The chilling true story of a serial killer who preyed on men, women, and children desperate to escape Nazi-occupied Paris.On March 11, 1944, police were called to investigate foul-smelling smoke pouring from the chimney of an elegant private house near the Arc de Triomphe. In the basement of 21 rue Le Sueur, they made the first of many gruesome discoveries: a human hand dangling from the open door ... Read more

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  • Bourgeois Equality

    How Ideas, Not Capital or Institutions, Enriched the World

    by Deirdre Nansen McCloskey ...
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