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Robert Service
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd£10.99| /A quick-paced and engaging biography of Canada's favourite northern poet, Robert Service. Born in England in 1874 to Scottish parents, Robert Willi...
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Robert Service
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£33.99| /One hundred years ago, a shy bank clerk sent a collection of his poems south from the Yukon to be privately published and shared with a small group...
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Rock Rabbit & the Rainbow
Daimon Verlag (CH)£48.99| /Sir Laurens van der Post, author, film-maker, storyteller of world-wide renown, soldier, prisoner of war, political advisor to heads of state, huma...
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Rock Rabbit & the Rainbow
Daimon Verlag (CH)£35.99| /Sir Laurens van der Post, author, film-maker, storyteller of world-wide renown, soldier, prisoner of war, political advisor to heads of state, huma...
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Strange Beautiful Excitement
Otago University Press£22.99| /How does a city make a writer? Described by Fiona Kidman as a ravishing, immersing read, A Strange Beautiful Excitement is a wild ride through ...
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The Backpack
Linden Publishing (US)£17.99| /A former police officer tells his personal story of the long climb from depression to faith in the intense new personal memoir The Backpack. An ama...
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The Real James Bond
Schiffer£22.99| /Whatever happened to him actually outshines anything Ive had my James Bond do. -- Ian Fleming James Bond: author, ornithologist, marksman, and .....
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The Shelf Life of Zora Cross
Monash University Publishing£19.99| /Australian poet and journalist Zora Cross caused a sensation in 1917 with her book Songs of Love and Life. Here was a young woman, who looked like ...
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To a Distant Island
Paul Dry Books (US)£15.99| /In 1890, Anton Chekhov, already a prominent Russian literary figure, travelled 6,500 miles to Sakhalin island, off the coast of Siberia. Willing vi...
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What Lies Beneath
Otago University Press (NZ)£15.50| /Writer Elspeth Sandys was born during the Second World War, the result of a brief encounter between two people who would never meet again. The firs...
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What the Mouth Wants
Caitlin Press (CA)£14.99| /This mouthwatering, intimate, and sensual memoir traces Monica Meneghettis unique life journey through her relationship with food, family and love...
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Where the Nights Are Twice as Long
Goose Lane Editions£17.99| /Under the covers of Where the Nights Are Twice as Long: Love Letters of Canadian Poets, David Eso and Jeanette Lynes collect letters and epistolary...
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William Saroyan
Linden Publishing (US)£27.99| /Lavishly illustrated with beautiful, evocative watercolors, this record visits dozens of locations influential to the life of Pulitzer Prize-winnin...
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Wisdom in Nonsense
University of Alberta Press (CA)£10.99| /I broke all the rules that my dad gave me. It was he who had given me, in part, the confidence to think of my life as being worthy to mix with tho...
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Writers on the Air
Paul Dry Books (US)£25.99| /Writers on the Air brings to print for the first time Donna Seaman's vibrant author interviews from her Chicago-based radio program, Open Books. In...
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Yes, It's Possible
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£25.99| /Ehud Diskin's mother wanted him to play it safe when he was drafted into the Israel Defense Forces. Instead, he volunteered for one of the IDF's mo...
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Your Unselfish Kindness
Otago University Press (NZ)£17.95| /Robin Hyde's extraordinary but short life (1906-39) included a precocious early career as poet and parliamentary reporter. As a journalist, she jug...
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Yunus Emre
Blue Dome Press (US)£11.99| /One of the most famous poets in the history of Turkish literature, Yunus Emre (d. 1320) is well-known as a Sufi saint-poet who has exerted a great ...
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