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“angela readman”

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  • Bunny Girls

    by Angela Readman ...
    Out of the doll's house and into the woods, Bunny Girls steps out of the shadows of girlhood and looks at the world with wide eyes. Surreal, spiky, wise and darkly funny, this new collection by Costa-winning author and poet Angela Readman expertly mixes shades of film noir, northern wit, and magic realism. Through the lens of childhood, these poems address autism, anxiety, and darker concerns ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Girls Are Pretty Crocodiles

    & other fairy tales

    by Angela Readman ...
    Bold, beautiful and spiky, Angela Readman's stories are both magical and real. Following her acclaimed debut Don't Try This at Home, in this new collection, she approaches the fairy tale with a scalpel. The Girls are Pretty Crocodiles reads like a love letter to girlhood and a ransom note to all the fairy tales we have been told. In her prize-winning work 'The Story Never Told', an illiterate ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Book of Tides

    by Angela Readman ...
    The slack-tide is the worst, curled on my sideI cup a conch to one ear, as if, I may heara cough of men washing up on the shore.Angela Readman's The Book of Tides is treasure trove of luscious, visceral poems that are delightfully risky, utterly thrilling and always close to the bone. Readman's poetry teems with the rare and beautiful, the dark seaweed sparkle of a particular strand of skewed ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Something Like Breathing

    by Angela Readman ...
    It's the 1950s, and Lorrie is unimpressed when her family moves to the remote Scottish island where her grandad runs a whisky distillery. She befriends Sylvie, the shy girl next door: 'The slightest smile from Sylvie was a fluffy elephant at the fair. It had to be won with a clear aim,' writes Lorrie. Yet fun-loving Lorrie isn't sure Sylvie's is the friendship she wants to win. As the adults ... Read more

    $11.49 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Don't Try This at Home

    by Angela Readman ...
    A girl repeatedly chops her boyfriend in half but, while her 'other half' multiplies, she is still not satisfied. Love transforms a mother working down the chippie - into Elvis. Clary's father puts antlers on stuffed rabbits to make jackalopes, but when her mother walks out on them, Clary has to help her father if they are to survive. Beautiful, sharp and fearless, Costa Short Story Award winner ... Read more

    $11.49 USD

  • The Book of Newcastle

    A City in Short Fiction

    by Angela Readman, Jessica Andrews, Sean O'Brien, Degna Stone, Julia Darling, Crista Ermiya, Chrissie Glazebrook, J.A. Mensah, Glynis Reed, Margaret Wilkinson ...
    Series series Reading the City
    The original Northern Powerhouse, Newcastle upon Tyne has witnessed countless transformations over the last century or so, from its industrial heyday, when Tyneside engineering and innovation led the world, through decades of post-industrial decline, and underinvestment, to its more recent reinvention as a cultural destination for the North.The ten short stories gathered here all feature ... Read more

    $8.18 USD

  • Audiobook

    Something Like Breathing

    by Angela Readman ...
    Narrated by Eilidh Beaton ...

    Unabridged

    7 hours 40 min

    Friendship blossoms between an enigmatic girl and a whisky distiller’s granddaughter on a remote Scottish island.It’s the 1950s, and Lorrie is unimpressed when her family moves to the remote Scottish island where her grandad runs a whisky distillery. She befriends Sylvie, the shy girl next door: ‘The slightest smile from Sylvie was a fluffy elephant at the fair. It had to be won with a clear aim,’ ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The instant New York Times bestseller The Washington Post calls a “stunning…superbly rendered” novel, and Entertainment Weekly describes as “a gripping family saga, maybe the best…since The Corrections.”As an Irish immigrant in Queens in 1941, Eileen has dreamed of more in her life—but when she and her family seem to be moving closer to that dream, devastation hits and they must learn how to not ... Read more

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  • The Map Waits

    by Sharon Telfer ...
    'The mapmakers work late in the closed room, conjuring from ink and skin new worlds neither will ever see.'The Map Waits explores those moments when what will happen as we move forward remains unknown and uncharted. A besieged zookeeper awaits his fate; a magician's assistant performs her own vanishing act; a photographer refuses the shot of a lifetime: these rich miniatures capture turning points ... Read more

    $6.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Out of the Blue

    Poetry

    by Margaret Ingham ...
    This compilation includes an extract from a group of poems written for a master's degree. Originally, there were 55,000 words. The scenario was a village and various characters in it interlinking with some modern issues such as organic farming, and each other.I have interwoven other poems which link in to the subject. I hope you will enjoy meeting some of my village personalities! ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • The Lonely Lake Monster

    by Suzanne Selfors ...
    Illustrated by Dan Santat ...
    Series Book 2 - The Imaginary Veterinary
    "A fun and slightly suspenseful" middle grade adventure "that has more hijinks than horror" as a girl sets about rescuing her best friend from a monster ( Kirkus Reviews ).Pearl Petal and Ben Silverstein can't wait for their first official day as apprentices of Dr. Woo, veterinarian for imaginary creatures. That is, until they are tasked with clipping the sasquatch's toenails. Gross! Then Pearl ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

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  • Out to Dry in Cape Breton

    by Anita Lahey ...
    Like the laundry that greets readers at the start of Anita Laheys astonishing debuthanging on clothelines and bodied out in breezesthe poems in Out to Dry in Cape Breton exist in a state of thrumming levitation. Laheys scampish play with idioms, her accelerated sense of traditional forms, and her omnivorous eye for fresh imagery lead to a poetry constantly streaming with surprises. These are ... Read more

    $6.29 USD