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NYRB Classics eBook Series

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  • Take a Girl Like You

    by Kingsley Amis ...
    Series series NYRB Classics
    Take a Girl Like You may well be Kingsley Amis’s most ambitious reckoning with the serious subject at the heart of his work: the sheer squalor—emotional, material, sexual, you name it—of modern life. It also introduces one of the rare unqualified good guys in Amis’s rogue-ridden world: Jenny Bunn, a girl from the (English) north country come south to teach school in a small smug town where she ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Ending Up

    by Kingsley Amis ...
    Series series NYRB Classics
    A group of disgruntled septuagenarians prepare for their final days in this dark and “very funny” English novel about death and the inevitability of growing old (The Observer)Everyone wants a comfortable place to die, and Kingsley Amis’s characters have found it in Tuppeny-happeny Cottage, where assorted septuagenarians have come together to see one another out the door of life. There’s grotesque ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD

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  • Gallows View

    by Peter Robinson ...
    Series Book 1 - Inspector Alan Banks
    "The climax, choreographed to a furious pace, should fill the land with the sound of pages turning." —Toronto StarThe classic first novel in Peter Robinson's internationally bestselling Inspector Banks series!Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks of the Criminal Investigation Department has recently relocated from London to Eastvale, a quiet town in the Yorkshire dales, seeking to escape to stress ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

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  • Agatha Raisin and the Haunted House

    An Agatha Raisin Mystery

    by M. C. Beaton ...
    Series Book 14 - Agatha Raisin Mysteries
    Agatha Raisin and the Haunted House continues the tradition in M. C. Beaton's beloved Agatha Raisin cozy mystery series—now a hit show on Acorn TV and public television.Just back from an extended stay in London, Agatha Raisin finds herself greeted by torrential rains and an old, familiar feeling of boredom. When her handsome new neighbor, Paul Chatterton, shows up on her doorstep, she tries her ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Naughtiest Girl: Here's The Naughtiest Girl

    Book 4

    by Enid Blyton ...
    Series Book 4 - The Naughtiest Girl
    In Enid Blyton's bestselling school series Elizabeth Allen is sent away to boarding school and makes up her mind to be the naughtiest pupil there's ever been.In book four, there's a new boy in Elizabeth's class. He's sulky and grumpy and he'll do anything to show Elizabeth up. She means to keep her temper, but it's not so easy for someone who was once the naughtiest girl in the school ...Between ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

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  • Good Behaviour

    A BBC 2 Between the Covers Book Club Pick – Booker Prize Gems

    by Molly Keane ...
    Series Book 222 - Virago Modern Classics
    We kept our heads above the morass, stifled screaming despairs only by the exercise of Good Behaviour.Behind the gates of Temple Alice, the aristocratic St Charles family is sinking into a state of decaying grace. Aroon, the unlovely daughter of the house, silently longs for affection - which she receives neither from her icy mother nor her hunting-obsessed father. The fierce forces of sex, money, ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • The Rachel Papers

    by Martin Amis ...
    Series Book 11 - Vintage Blue
    Charles Highway, a precociously intelligent and highly sexed teenager, is determined to sleep with an older woman before he turns twenty. Rachel fits the bill perfectly and Charles plans his seduction meticulously, sets the scene with infinite care - but it doesn't come off quite as Charles expects... ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Lost

    A Novel

    by Gregory Maguire ...
    “A brilliant, perceptive, and deeply moving fable.”—Boston Sunday GlobePublishers Weekly calls Gregory Maguire’s Lost “a deftly written, compulsively readable modern-day ghost story.” Brilliantly weaving together the literary threads of J.M. Barrie’s Peter Pan, Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, and the Jack the Ripper stories,the bestselling author of The Wicked Years canon creates a ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • The Confidential Agent

    by Graham Greene ...
    WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY IAN RANKIN.In a small continental country civil war is raging. Once a lecturer in medieval French, now a confidential agent, D is a scarred stranger in a seemingly casual England, sent on a mission to buy coal at any price. Initially, this seems to be a matter of straightforward negotiation, but soon, implicated in murder, accused of possessing false documents and theft, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Gently Where The Birds Are

    by Mr Alan Hunter ...
    Series series George Gently
    The unflappable Inspector George Gently has become a household name through the hit BBC TV series starring Martin Shaw. These are the original books on which the TV series was based, although the George Gently in Alan Hunter's whodunits is somewhat different to his TV counterpart. He is more calculating, more analytical, and his investigations are even more enthralling.In this title:Who has been ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • The Famous Five Collection 7

    Books 19-21

    by Enid Blyton ...
    Series Book 7 - Famous Five: Gift Books and Collections
    A bumper collection of 3 Famous Five books in one volume. Join the adventure! Contains the last 3 books in the series: books 19, 20 and 21.Julian, Dick, Anne, George and Timmy find excitement and adventure wherever they go, in Enid Blyton's most popular series. These books have been global bestsellers for decades. Join the adventure and find out why!Five Go to Demon's Rocks: Stories say that Demon ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • The Bodysurfers: Penguin Special

    by Robert Drewe ...
    Haunted by the brutal murder of a local couple, David heads to his weekend shack with his new lover, Lydia, and his children from his recently crumbled marriage. Together they find escape, if only briefly, in the ocean and the bush.The Bodysurfers, the title story of Robert Drewe's classic first collection, is a vivid evocation of love, passion, terror and the beauty of the beach. ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD