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  • Should Auld Acquaintance

    Discovering the Woman Behind Robert Burns

    Robert Burns' "Belle of Mauchline? is given a voice in this lyrical and intimate depiction of the life of Jean Armour, known simply as the wife of the infamous poet and mother of nine of his children. Melanie Murray's biographical Should Auld Acquaintance reveals the historical tale of the talented farmer, a forbidden affair, and the tumultuous life of an 18th-century Scottish woman. In Should ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Comfort Me With Apples

    Comfort Me With Apples is a terrifying new thriller from bestseller Catherynne M. Valente, for fans of Gone Girl and Spinning SilverA Shirley Jackson Award finalist!A Locus Award finalist!Sophia was made for him. Her perfect husband. She can feel it in her bones. He is perfect. Their home together in Arcadia Gardens is perfect. Everything is perfect.It's just that he's away so much.... ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

    by Tom Stoppard ...
    Series series Tom Stoppard
    Acclaimed as a modern dramatic masterpiece, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead is the fabulously inventive tale of Hamlet as told from the worm’s-eve view of the bewildered Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, two minor characters in Shakespeare’s play. In Tom Stoppard’s best-known work, this Shakespearean Laurel and Hardy finally get a chance to take the lead role, but do so in a world where echoes of ... Read more

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  • Lammas

    1588: A Calendar of Crime, Book Three

    by Shirley McKay ...
    A serving girl vanishes in this mystery story set in sixteenth-century Scotland . . .Elspet, a serving girl at the harbor inn, has been told for years by the inn's owner, Walter Bone, that she is ugly and that no man will ever want her. Then, after years of being shut away from the world, she unexpectedly catches the attention of a young laborer and realizes she has been lied to all these years. ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Thursbitch

    From the author of the 2022 Booker longlisted Treacle Walker

    by Alan Garner ...
    A gripping time-slip novel by the author of the 2022 Booker Prize-longlisted Treacle WalkerHere John Turner was cast away in a heavy snow storm in the night in or about the year 1755. The print of a woman's shoe was found by his side in the snow where he lay dead.So reads an enigmatic memorial stone, high on the bank of a prehistoric Pennine track in Cheshire, a mystery that lives on in the ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty

    **Hailed by the San Francisco Chronicle as "the finest book to come out of Europe this year," The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty is acclaimed Irish playwright Sebastian Barry's lyrical tale of a fugitive everyman.Sebastian Barry's latest novel, Days Without End, is now available.**For Eneas McNulty, a happy, innocent childhood in County Sligo in the early 1900s gives way to an Ireland wracked by ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Darling

    New & Selected Poems

    by Jackie Kay ...
    Humour, gender, sexuality, sensuality, identity, racism, cultural difference: when do any of these things ever come together to equal poetry? When Jackie Kay's part of the equation. Darling brings together into a vibrant new book many favourite poems from her four Bloodaxe collections, "The Adoption Papers", "Other Lovers", "Off Colour" and "Life Mask", as well as featuring new work, some ... Read more

    $8.89 USD

  • Telling Tales

    Growing Up on a Highland Farm

    by Jane Yeadon ...
    Telling Tales is a nostalgic and beautifully written account of growing up on a small family farm which vividly evokes a way of life that, although so recent, is now all but forgotten. For Jane Yeadon, growing up on a farm in the north of Scotland in the 1950s was at times idyllic - but it could also be incredibly challenging. And when her father died in a tragic motorbike accident, it had a ... Read more

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  • C. J. Dennis's Collected Works

    by C. J. Dennis ...
    C. J. Dennis's Collected Works contained 5 works written by Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis, better known as C. J. Dennis, (7 September 1876 - 22 June 1938) was an Australian poet known for his humorous poems, especially "The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke", published in the early 20th century. Though Dennis's work is less well known today, his 1916 publication of The Sentimental Bloke sold ... Read more

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  • Is Underground

    by Joan Aiken ...
    Series Book 8 - The Wolves Chronicles
    The children of London are disappearing—can Is solve the mystery before she vanishes too?Is Twite, younger sister of the daring Dido, is on a desperate mission. An uncle she never knew just showed up at the cottage she shares with her sister Penny. He is being pursued by ravening wolves, and before he dies, the uncle begs her to find his missing son—Is's cousin, Arun.The quest takes Is to London—a ... Read more

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  • Riders on the Wind

    Award-winning Australian Bush Poetry

    ***WINNER OF THE 2014 AUSTRALIAN BUSH LAUREATE BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD***David Campbell is a Melbourne-based writer of poetry (both traditional and free verse), short stories, and newspaper articles. He is an accredited judge for the Australian Bush Poets Association and regularly presents workshops on poetry and prose. This is his second collection (following Skycatcher in 2007) of original award ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Midlothian Folk Tales

    by Lea Taylor ...
    Storyteller Lea Taylor brings together stories from the rugged coastlines, rushing rivers, uplands and sweeping valleys of Midlothian. In this treasure trove of tales you will meet kings and queens, saints and sinners, witches and wizards, ghosts and giants, fools and tricksters – all as mysterious and powerful as the landscape they inhabit. Retold in an engaging style, and richly illustrated with ... Read more

    $10.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus