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  • Happy Like Murderers

    by Gordon Burn ...
    'The definitive and ultimate book about Fred and Rosemary West.' Lisa JewellIn this controversial and seminal work of reportage, Gordon Burn reveals the strange inner dynamic of Fred and Rosemary West's relationship. Based on meticulous research, this dark history is told in a powerful, compelling narrative.'One knew . . . that if a book of merit could be written about these crimes, Gordon Burn ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Born Yesterday

    The News as a Novel

    by Gordon Burn ...
    Summer 2007 was an extraordinarily rich time for news. Floods. Foot and mouth. The disappearances of Tony Blair and Madeleine McCann. The arrival of Gordon Brown. Terror attacks in Glasgow. And Gordon Burn, artist, journalist and true-crime author, has taken the events from this bleak summer and turned them into an utterly unique novel about the way news is made, and how the media creates and ... Read more

    $10.59 USD

  • The North of England Home Service

    by Gordon Burn ...
    Spring 2001, and the countryside of the North East of England resembles Fitzgerald's 'valley of ashes': the air is choked with the stench and smoke of the pyres which are burning in an attempt to contain the epidemic of foot and mouth disease.After forty years away, Ray Cruddas, a comedian with a national, considerably faded reputation, has returned to the North East to live. He has a new wife, a ... Read more

    $10.59 USD

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    Cymbeline (Unabridged)

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    Unabridged

    3 hours 25 min

    Cymbeline is one of Shakespeare's late romances, which (like The Tempest and The Winter's Tale) combines comedy and tragedy. Imogen, the daughter of King Cymbeline of Britain, angers her father when she marries Posthumus, a worthy but penniless gentleman. The King banishes Posthumus, who goes to Rome, where he falls prey to the machinations of Iachimo, who tries to convince him that Imogen will be ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • 100+ Best-Loved Poems

    Selections from Shakespeare, Poe, Tennyson, Whitman, Dickinson, Blake, Burns, Byron, Wordsworth, Yeats, Orwell and More

    Over 100 selections embrace a wide range of themes and motifs: meditations on the meaning of existence, celebrations of life's joys, appreciations of the natural world, and many more. Here are some of the most-loved poems in the English language, chosen not merely for their popularity, but for their literary quality as well. Dating from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, these splendid poems ... Read more

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  • The Calgarian Reel

    With a 1st in Mechanical Engineering, Asa has turned her back on Scotland for a successful career in Calgary. Leaving her friends to the prosaic life of Orkney, an undefined incident at Birsay with Roddy has appeared to sever her wish to ever return. Her close friends, Rosie and Julietta, have sent Cameron to tempt her back for at least to visit home. When Asa does recall Cameron, she is ... Read more

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  • The Pandora Project

    For Stroma trouble began with the boy next door, Musa Elmahdy, entering her life. Like his Egyptian father, he is attractive and suspect; nothing like his Ethiopian mother, Makla, or delightful sister, Kasrin.In reflection, Stroma focuses on the summer before her last year at Primary School with her friend, Kaitlyn and the day she found Musa in her garden. He is spying on an 'mad old woman' living ... Read more

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  • After Julian Left

    Hypolite Corrillon views life as a fiasco to share any fleeting pleasures with others without rancour, recrimination or painful regret. This outlook has led him into affairs that do not go without pejorative questioning which, he feels, point more towards misunderstanding on the part of others, rather than cause for self-examination.One day, disorientated by family and work place issues, some ... Read more

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    Blind Your Ponies

    Narrated by Traber Burns ...

    Unabridged

    19 hours 16 min

    Sam Pickett never expected to settle in this dried-up shell of a town on the western edge of the world. He’s come here to hide from the violence and madness that have shattered his life, but what he finds is what he least expects. It seems that every inhabitant of this forgotten outpost has a story, a reason for taking a detour to this place—or a reason for staying.As the coach of the hapless high ... Read more

    $27.97 USD

  • Scot Free Almost 1.3

    A few more Short Stories from a Scottish slant and a couple of poems in the mix. As to what constitutes a Scottish slant on things I could not quite say. Hard knocks shake the bloom of all others around the world but we have forty ways to describe degrees of rain. ... Read more

    $4.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • China's Healthcare System and Reform

    This volume provides a comprehensive review of China's healthcare system and policy reforms in the context of the global economy. Following a value-chain framework, the 16 chapters cover the payers, the providers, and the producers (manufacturers) in China's system. It also provides a detailed analysis of the historical development of China's healthcare system, the current state of its broad ... Read more

    $50.09 USD

  • The Torc Part Four Waggle Dancer

    In Waggle Dancer, the nature and meaning of Arianwyn's life through the purpose of Grainne clarifies - horned upon misogyny, perfection cannot be realised yet what alternative can femininity provide? Questions which, Arianwyn - increasing idolised by a close band of mainly young women - fights to answer in her emergence from a from a weak and dumb-struck past marked by disappointment, neglect and ... Read more

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