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  • The Puncher and Wattmann Anthology of Australian Poetry

    Edited by John Leonard ...
    will benefit it is attentive and brilliant readers, of whom John Leonard is without doubt one of its finest. - Martin Harrison Australian poetry from a 21st century perspective, with a selection from a wide range of living poets as well as familiar voices from the past. There is an emphasis on social observation and personal experience of Australia's changing history that gives new context to ... Read more

    $7.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Paradise Lost

    by John Milton ...
    'An endless moral maze, introducing literature's first Romantic, Satan' John CareyIn his epic poem Paradise Lost Milton conjured up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos ranging across huge tracts of space and time. And yet, in putting a charismatic Satan and naked Adam and Eve at the centre of this story, he also created an intensely human tragedy on the Fall of Man. Written when Milton was in his fifties ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

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  • Always Eat When You Are Hungry

    by Leonard John ...
    He thought he was free. But a ruthless conspiracy is about to drag him back into a deadly game of survival... Tommy Baker returns home to find his father beaten within an inch of his life. The streets of South London are alive with danger - IRA fundraisers, ruthless killers, and MI5 agents with hidden agendas. Caught between dangerous forces, Tommy must escape before it's too late.This is more ... Read more

    $7.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shakespeare in Virginia

    by John Leonard ...
    In February 1616, William Shakespeare finds himself on the brink of financial ruin and trapped in an unhappy marriage. Desperate for a way out, he agrees to resume his clandestine work for the English secret service. His mission: to report on the Virginia Company and their activities in the Virginia Colony. To maintain his cover, Shakespeare must fake his own death and assume a new identity. As he ... Read more

    $4.50 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Journal of Lieut. John L. Hardenbergh of the Second New York Continental Regiment in 1779

    General Sullivan's Campaign Against the Western Indians

    by John Leonard Hardenbergh ...
    In "The Journal of Lieut. John L. Hardenbergh of the Second New York Continental Regiment in 1779," readers are offered an intimate glimpse into the life of a soldier during a pivotal year of the American Revolutionary War. Hardenbergh's journal is characterized by its meticulous detail and candid observations, revealing not only the tactical movements and hardships faced by the Continental Army ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Fighting Padre

    Pat Leonard's Letters From the Trenches, 1915–1918

    by John Leonard, Philip Leonard-Johnson ...
    Pat Leonard served throughout the Great War as a Chaplain to the Forces in France, Belgium and, after the Armistice, in Germany. Along with the many hundreds of letters he wrote to the relatives of those parishioners who died or were wounded, he found time to describe for his parents back at home the awful reality of life in the Trenches, and on the makeshift aerodromes from which the pilots of ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Fair Game?

    Tackling Politics in Sport

    by John Leonard ...
    Sports have their own controversies: fights over tactics, disputes over refereeing calls, the specter of drugs and cheats. Then there are those with dark political overtones. Foul! Tackling Politics and Sport takes a look at controversial moments when sport and politics have collided during the past century, some tragic, others plain sinister, a few bizarre; all the subject of hot dispute. Ranging ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Tony Waddington

    Director of a Working Man's Ballet

    by John Leonard ...
    Waddington, Director of a Working Man's Ballet is a biography of the former Stoke City manager, Tony Waddington, one of the most underrated figures in 1960s and 1970s football. It charts how a man with the appearance of an urbane bank manager belied the stereotype of the hard-nosed football manager as he turned around the fortunes of an ailing club on the brink of going out of business. Instead, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hook's Tale

    Being the Account of an Unjustly Villainized Pirate Written by Himself

    by John Leonard Pielmeier ...
    A rollicking debut novel from award-winning playwright and screenwriter John Pielmeier reimagines the childhood of the much-maligned Captain Hook: his quest for buried treasure, his friendship with Peter Pan, and the story behind the swashbuckling world of Neverland.Long defamed as a vicious pirate, Captain James Cook (a.k.a. Hook) was in fact a dazzling wordsmith who left behind a vibrant, wildly ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Reading for My Life

    Writings, 1958-2008

    by John Leonard ...
    Right up until his death in 2008, John Leonard was a lion in American letters. A passionate, erudite, and wide-ranging critic, he helped shape the landscape of modern literature. He reviewed the most celebrated writers of his age—from Kurt Vonnegut and Joan Didion to Toni Morrison and Thomas Pynchon. He championed Morrison’s work so ardently that she invited him to travel with her to Stockholm ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Dub Sub Confidential

    A Goalkeeper's Life with – and without – the Dubs

    by John Leonard ...
    Dub Sub Confidential by John Leonard: a GAA memoir like no other.WINNER OF THE SETANTA SPORTS IRISH SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD.John Leonard was a gifted Gaelic football goalkeeper who had the misfortune to reach his prime at the same time, and in the same county, as one of the all-time greats: Stephen Cluxton. Unless something happened to Clucko, Leonard was always going to be number 2. Of ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • The Complete Poems

    by John Milton ...
    John Milton was a master of almost every type of verse, from the classical to the religious and from the lyrical to the epic. His early poems include the devotional 'On the Morning of Christ's Nativity', 'Comus', a masque, and the pastoral elegy 'Lycidas'. After Cromwell's death and the dashing of Milton's political hopes, he began composing Paradise Lost, which reflects his profound understanding ... Read more

    $22.39 USD