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  • Helen Creighton

    Canada's First Lady of Folklore

    by Clary Croft ...
    Helen Creighton was born at the turn of the nineteenth century and until her death in 1989, she made a remarkable contribution towards retrieving the stories, songs, and legends that have shaped the culture and the people of the Maritimes. Written by her protégé and fellow folklorist, Clary Croft, this intimate biography offers both an intriguing portrait of a woman whose life was destined to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Clary Croft 

    My Charmed Life in Music, Art, and Folklore

    by Clary Croft ...
    Folklorist, recording artist, actor, songwriter, broadcaster, storyteller, author, archivist, artisan, and designer: over a career spanning more than fifty years, Clary Croft has woven the threads of his vast array of talents into a tapestry that has enveloped the life of an artist, and in the process he’s become a household name in Nova Scotia and beyond. With charming humility and cheeky humour, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • All of Me

    In this revealing autobiography, Canada’s first lady of song, for the first time, tells the whole story of her astonishing 40-year career in show biz. It is a candid retrospective of the extraordinary success achieved, and the prices that had to be paid.“After ‘Snowbird’ hit, I was swept up like Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz, and catapulted into a strange new universe … If I thought for a moment ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Home Truths

    A Memoir

    The revealing and candid memoir of Australia's legendary playwright and screenwriterThe definitive memoir of David Williamson, author of iconic dramas such as The Removalists, The Club, Don's Party, Emerald City and Travelling North, as well as more than fifty other plays, explores the life of the writer and the true stories and real lives that inspired his works. A powerful force in theatre since ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Canadianity

    Tales from the True North Strong and Freezing

    Sprung from their hugely successful podcast Canadianity, Taggart (that guy from that band) and Torrens (that guy from that show) share a collection of showbiz tales from the road and relatable everyday anecdotes, all wrapped up in a nostalgic fondness for this great country. Canadianity takes readers on a cross-country journey, shining the spotlight on notable local heroes (or bahds), the best ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Across Canada by Story

    A Coast-to-Coast Literary Adventure

    Canada is a country rich in stories, and few take as much joy as Douglas Gibson in discovering them. As one of the country’s leading editors and publishers for 40 years, he coaxed modern classics out of some of Canada’s finest minds, and then took to telling his own stories in his first memoir, Stories About Storytellers.Gibson turned his memoir into a one-man stage show that eventually played ... Read more

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  • Writing Out the Notes: Life in Great Big Sea and Other Musical Misadventures

    by Bob Hallett ...
    A rambling trip through a colourful and melodic St. John's childhood combined with a how-not-to-do-it-yourself guide to the music business and a thoughtful and sometimes poignant look at the way a legendary Canadian band creates music all of these threads and many others are pulled together by writer and musician Bob Hallett. Writing Out the Notes began as a series of essays Hallett wrote to ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Vancouver Exposed

    Searching for the City's Hidden History

    by Eve Lazarus ...
    Eve Lazarus is a journalist, blogger, podcaster, and author with a passion for unconventional history. She has written seven books about Vancouver, Canada, including Murder by Milkshake; Blood, Sweat, and Fear; Cold Case Vancouver; and Sensational Vancouver. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Stories About Storytellers

    Publishing Alice Munro, Robertson Davies, Alistair MacLeod, Pierre Trudeau and Others

    The legendary Canadian book editor presents this "remarkable, four-decade romp through the back rooms of publishing" ( Toronto Sun).Scottish-born Douglas Gibson was drawn to Canada by the writing of Stephen Leacock—and eventually made his way across the Atlantic to find a job in book publishing, where he edited a biography of none other than Leacock. But over the decades, his stellar career would ... Read more

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  • The People’s Songs

    The Story of Modern Britain in 50 Records

    These are the songs that we have listened to, laughed to, loved to and laboured to, as well as downed tools and danced to.Covering the last seven decades, Stuart Maconie looks at the songs that have sound tracked our changing times, and – just sometimes – changed the way we feel. Beginning with Vera Lynn’s ‘We’ll Meet Again’, a song that reassured a nation parted from their loved ones by the ... Read more

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  • I'm Talking

    My life, my words, my music

    For the first time, Kate Ceberano, one of Australia's best-loved entertainers, shares her story.In her own unmistakeable voice, Kate Ceberano takes us on a very personal journey from her suburban childhood, her immersion in the Melbourne club scene of the eighties and her rise to stardom at the age of fourteen when she fronted the wildly popular funk band I'm Talking, to the life of a female ... Read more

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  • Last Night a DJ Saved My Life

    The History of the Disc Jockey

    "A riveting look at record spinning from its beginnings to the present day . . . A grander and more fascinating story than one would think." — Time Out LondonThis is the first comprehensive history of the disc jockey, a cult classic now updated with five new chapters and over a hundred pages of additional material. It's the definitive account of DJ culture, from the first record played over ... Read more

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