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  • The Identity Myth

    Why We Need to Embrace Our Differences to Beat Inequality

    by David Swift ...
    We are in crisis.As a society we have never been less connected.The internet and globalisation fuel ignorance and anger, while the disconnect between people's reality and perceived identities has never been greater.Karl Marx outlined the idea of a material 'base' and politico-cultural 'superstructure'. According to this formula, a material reality - wealth, income, occupation - determined your ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

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    Old Harry’s Game

    The Complete Series of the Award-Winning BBC Radio 4 Comedy

    by Andy Hamilton ...
    Narrated by Andy Hamilton, James Grout, Jimmy Mulville, Robert Duncan, David Swift, Timothy West, Annette Crosbie, Full Cast ...

    Unabridged

    21 hours 32 min

    All seven series of Andy Hamilton's fiendishly funny award-winning comedy set in Hell.'Satirical, philosophical - and devilishly funny' Gillian Reynolds, Daily TelegraphWelcome to Hell - where nobody can ever quite catch the barman's eye. In this collection, which contains all seven series of Old Harry's Game, get ready for some wicked one-liners and scorching satire.Satan is fed up after a ... Read more

    $21.48 USD

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    Nemesis

    by Agatha Christie ...
    Narrated by David Swift, Full Cast, Jill Balcon, June Whitfield ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 12 min

    Miss Marple, living a quiet life in St Mary Mead, is saddened to hear of the death of Jason Rafiel. Not that they were friends - the old financier was much too irascible and self-centred for friendship - but they had once been allies in solving a series of murders that took place on the tiny Caribbean island of St Honoré. She is therefore greatly surprised by a summons to the dead man's solicitor, ... Read more

    $17.45 USD

  • A Tale of a Tub and Other Works

    by Jonathan Swift ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    A Tale of a Tub is the masterpiece of Swift's earlier years. It is presented here with The Battle of the Books, The Mechanical Operation of the Spirit, and the Additions. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • HONK! If You Love the NHS

    by David Swift ...
    A resident doctors’ strike,unionised butchers,and the same old hapless politicians.What (more) could possibly go wrong?When the government’s ruthless solution to an overwhelmed National Health Service is to start treating patients like farm animals, the British public is thrust into unimaginable chaos. Caught in the crossfire is Dougie Warren, an ex-rugby player and fiercely principled Yorks... ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Best Classics for Christmas

    Enriched edition. 650 Timeless Masterpieces of World Literature & Christmas Classics to Read During the Holidays

    by William Shakespeare, Louisa May Alcott, Victor Hugo, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Henry David Thoreau, John Milton, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Jane Austen0, William Makepeace Thackeray1, Mary Shelley2, John Keats3, Charlotte Brontë4, Emily Brontë5, George Eliot6, Charles Dickens7, Thomas Hardy8, Elizabeth von Arnim9, D. H. Lawrence0, Bram Stoker1, Arthur Conan Doyle2, Joseph Conrad3, Oscar Wilde4, Lewis Carroll5, Frances Hodgson Burnett6, C. S. Lewis7, George Weedon Grossmith8, H. G. Wells9, Willkie Collins0, G. K. Chesterton1, E. M. Forster2, T. S. Eliot3, James Joyce4, George Bernard Shaw5, W. B. Yeats6, Robert Louis Stevenson7, George MacDonald8, J. M. Barrie9, Mark Twain0, Jack London1, Herman Melville2, Nathaniel Hawthorne3, Willa Cather4, Edith Wharton5, Kate Chopin6, Walt Whitman7, Kahlil Gibran8, Harriet Beecher Stowe9, Frederick Douglass0, James Fenimore Cooper1, Henry James2, Edgar Allan Poe3, H. P. Lovecraft4, Lewis Wallace5, L. M. Montgomery6, Homer7, Plato8, Apuleius9, Marcus Aurelius0, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1, Herman Hesse2, Friedrich Nietzsche3, Jules Verne4, Marcel Proust5, Gustave Flaubert6, Gaston Leroux7, Honoré de Balzac8, Stendhal9, Voltaire0, Charles Baudelaire1, Alexandre Dumas2, Emile Zola3, Henrik Ibsen4, Leo Tolstoy5, Ivan Turgenev6, Anton Chekhov7, Nikolai Gogol8, Miguel de Cervantes9, Benito Pérez Galdós0, Pedro Calderon de la Barca1, Dante2, Giovanni Boccaccio3, Niccolò Machiavelli4, Rabindranath Tagore5, Bankim Chandra Chatterjee6, Kalidasa7, Válmíki8, Laozi9, Sun Tzu0, Confucius1, Cao Xueqin2, Princess Der Ling3, Inazo Nitobé4, Kakuzo Okakura5, Soseki Natsume6, Charlotte Perkins Gilman7, F. Scott Fitzgerald8, William Dean Howells9, Washington Irving00, L. Frank Baum01, Theodor Storm02, Rudyard Kipling03, Logan Faraday06 ...
    'The Best Classics for Christmas' presents an exquisite anthology that stitches together the rich tapestries of world literature under the festive, reflective theme of Christmas. This collection spans a variety of literary styles, from the tragic to the comedic, the poetic to the prose-rich, capturing the spirit of Christmas through the ages and across cultures. It uniquely combines timeless works ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Scouse Republic

    An Alternative History of Liverpool

    by David Swift ...
    Liverpool is a unique city within the United Kingdom - in terms of its dialect, hedonism, friendliness, rejection of 'Englishness', and most pertinently, its politics. It is bastion of working-class left-wing politics like no other - as evidenced by the suspension of a Liverpool FC match after the death of the Queen, for fear the Liverpool fans would boo the minute's silence. Yet it was not always ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Audiobook

    The Leopard in Autumn

    A BBC Radio 4 comedy drama

    by Neal Anthony, Roger Danes, Sue Limb ...
    Narrated by David Swift, Sian Phillips, Graham Crowden, Paul Bigley, Saskia Wickham, Nick Romero, Christopher Kelham, Kim Wall, Full Cast ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 36 min

    Comedy about the ruling family of Renaissance Italy's most inconsequential city-stateIn Monte Guano, a ridiculously small and penniless principality in Renaissance Italy, Prince Ludovico II finds his rule constantly undermined by those around him: his shrewd wife, his official mistress, and his three disappointing - if not outright humiliating - sons.As well as having to manage the ever-increasing ... Read more

    $17.45 USD

  • Audiobook

    Scouse Republic

    An Alternative History of Liverpool

    by David Swift ...
    Narrated by Christian Greenway ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 1 min

    Liverpool is a unique city within the United Kingdom - in terms of its dialect, hedonism, friendliness, rejection of 'Englishness', and most pertinently, its politics. It is bastion of working-class left-wing politics like no other - as evidenced by the suspension of a Liverpool FC match after the death of the Queen, for fear the Liverpool fans would boo the minute's silence. Yet it was not always ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Operation Annie

    by David Swift ...
    This contemporary story, set in the fictional town of Aidemby, England, is centred around the plight of a single mother of three teenage children,Annie Slade, who, having previously been such a ‘happy-go-lucky’ person, has recently become the subject of her family’s concerns, due to her having uncharacteristically fallen victim to the debilitating effects of depression.The root cause of Annie’s ... Read more

    $6.05 USD

  • A Left for Itself

    Left-wing Hobbyists and Performative Radicalism

    by David Swift ...
    In the first full length analysis of the rise of left-wing hobbyists, performative radicals and the 'Identity Left', A Left for Itself interrogates the connection between socio-economic realities and politico-cultural views and boldly asks what is a worthy politics, one for the follower count or one for effecting change. ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Veterans of the First World War

    Ex-Servicemen and Ex-Servicewomen in Post-War Britain and Ireland

    Edited by David Swift, Oliver Wilkinson ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in First World War History
    This volume synthesises the latest scholarship on First World War veterans in post-war Britain and Ireland, investigating the topic through its political, social and cultural dynamics. It examines the post-war experiences of those men and women who served and illuminates the nature of the post-war society for which service had been given. Complicating the homogenising tendency in existing ... Read more

    $64.99 USD