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  • The Kashmir Trap

    A Max O'Brien Mystery

    by Mario Bolduc ...
    Translated by Nigel Spencer ...
    Series Book 1 - A Max O'Brien Mystery
    Con man Max O’Brien takes a personal investigation into his own hands.Max O’Brien’s nightmare has begun again. Eleven years after the tragic disappearance of his brother, an ambassador in Central America, Max’s nephew, also a diplomat, is assassinated in New Delhi. Max is on the run from police, and this time the professional con man decides to find those responsible for the crime. Determined to ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Max O'Brien Mysteries 3-Book Bundle

    The Kashmir Trap / The Roma Plot / The Tanzania Conspiracy

    by Mario Bolduc ...
    Translated by Jacob Homel, Nigel Spencer ...
    Series series A Max O'Brien Mystery
    It’s not easy to have enemies everywhere … but con artist Max O’Brien is a man of the world. Read all three of Max's adventures in this special ebook collection.The Kashmir Trap — Book #1Professional con man Max O’Brien is on the run from police when he learns that his diplomat nephew has been assassinated in New Delhi. Eleven years earlier, Max’s brother mysteriously disappeared while serving as ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Who Are You and Why Are You Here?

    Tales of International Development

    Translated by Nigel Spencer ...
    Every international development project looks good on paper until someone asks, “Who are you and why are you here?” In this case, it’s a man from northern Burkina Faso. His question reveals everything wrong with international development work today.Jacques Claessens questions the real effects of development programs and agencies, NGOs, and multinational corporations on the economy and welfare of ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Nothing for You Here, Young Man

    Translated by Nigel Spencer ...
    Series Book 6 - Soifs Cycle
    In the latest installment in her award-winning series, Marie-Claire Blais reintroduces us to Petites Cendres, familiar from other books in the cycle, and lets us into the lives of two other unforgettable characters. She shows us, once again, how creativity and hope and suffering and exclusion intersect.There is the writer who is stranded in an airport of the South Island, he is held captive ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Time, Tradition and Society in Greek Archaeology

    Bridging the 'Great Divide'

    Edited by Nigel Spencer ...
    Time, Tradition and Society in Greek Archaeology is an innovative volume which examines the relevance of archaeological theory to classical archaeology. It offers a wideranging overview of classical archaeology, from the Bronze Age to the Classical period and from mainland Greece to Cyprus. Within this framework Spencer examines many of the issues which have become important in the study of ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Treating Body and Soul

    A Clinicians' Guide to Supporting the Physical, Mental and Spiritual Needs of Their Patients

    Patients who are facing illness and uncertainty often find themselves reflecting on the bigger questions in life, and the core beliefs or principles they live by. These convictions, religious or otherwise, are integral to a patient's identity, and consequently to their most fundamental emotional and spiritual needs. Perceptive clinicians have proved that, by recognising and working with their ... Read more

    $27.09 USD

  • Is This Who We Are?

    14 Questions about Québec

    by Alain Dubuc ...
    Translated by Nigel Spencer ...
    This translation into English of Alain Dubuc’s Portrait de famille is an explosive critique that questions the viability of both Québec and the entirety of Canada over the long term. Arguing that the Québécois see themselves through a set of homemade myths developing out of the Quiet Revolution, Dubuc sets about analyzing to what extent these myths are true. How does Québec really stack up ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Haunted Childhoods

    Translated by Nigel Spencer ...
    Children travel across generations and across time: yesterday to the present. Childhoods determine the fantasms of existence. Wounds slow to heal: abandonment, adoption, feelings of rejection and uselessness, of blame, of uncontrolled initiation to sexuality, extreme loneliness when one retreats from society, obsessive searching for the absolute, desire to rebuild the world again by giving birth, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Twilight Celebration

    Translated by Nigel Spencer ...
    Series Book 8 - Soifs Cycle
    The latest work in internationally acclaimed author Marie-Claire Blais’s masterful novel cycle, A Twilight Celebration examines the prophetic side of the writer and the burden that falls to him in a world whose fate is yet to be determined.Daniel, a middle-aged novelist and loving father alienated from one of his sons and unsure how to care for his daughter, is on his way to an international ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rebecca, Born in the Maelstrom

    Translated by Nigel Spencer ...
    Series Book 4 - Soifs Cycle
    With this astounding fourth novel in her ongoing series of contemporary masterpieces (These Festive Nights, Thunder and Light, Augustino and the Choir of Destruction, and Rebecca, Born in the Maelstrom), Marie-Claire Blais invites us again to enter a complex circle of unforgettable characters. But this time, the tone is different: Blais' writing has acquired a new, buoyant, electrifying rhythm -- ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Evolution

    The View from the Cottage

    Translated by Nigel Spencer ...
    With all the attention to creationism in the news these days, Jean-Pierre Rogel decided it was time to show how Darwin's concept of natural selection can be seen in everyday situations — from a summer cottage near a lake — with examples taken from familiar species such as loons, salmon and bears. Moving through modern science, he shows how new discoveries have enabled us to understand life more ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Mai at the Predators' Ball

    Translated by Nigel Spencer ...
    Series Book 5 - Soifs Cycle
    Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award: Translation. Shortlisted for the Cole Foundation Prize for Translation.Literary legend and four-time winner of the Governor General's Literary Award Marie-Claire Blais delivers the latest installment in her ongoing portrait of life in contemporary North America.In this swirling fresco, we meet unforgettable characters, some familiar from previous ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus