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Twitch Force
A stunning volume of brave and original lyric poetry concerned with love and loss, despair and hope, aging and timelessness.
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{"AlsoRecommendedISBN_0":"9781487001360","AlsoRecommendedISBN_1":"9781487006211","AlsoRecommendedISBN_2":"9781487003074","AlsoRecommendedISBN_4":"9781487001360","BASICMainSubject":"FIC014000","BASICMainSubjectLiteral":"FICTION\/Historical\/General","BiographicalNote":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTIM LEACH\u003c\/strong\u003e is a graduate of the Warwick Writing Programme, where he now teaches as an Assistant Professor. 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And so, when we heard that Hrapp Osmundsson had crawled from his grave and begun to wander his lands at night, no man in the Salmon River Valley would leave his house after dark without a good blade at his side and a shield on his arm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn life, Hrapp had been the terror of his neighbours, ever covetous for their lands, their women, their blood. When the winter fever came on him and he knew he was soon to die, he commanded his wife to bury him upright beneath the doorway of his house, so that he could watch over his lands even in death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSoon enough, the stories spread throughout the dale. Thord the Sly had gone to check on his sheep at night and been set upon by a dead man carrying an axe. Erik Haroldsson, a braver man, had grappled with the creature when it came for him, but was sent running for his life with the heavy tread of the ghost behind him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo man sought to buy the farm from Hrapp’s widow. Indeed, there was talk amongst the neighbours of selling their own lands and moving on elsewhere, though there were few farm lands so prized in all of Iceland as those in the Salmon River Valley.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor all that was spoken of the ghost, I thought it mere winter talk at first, one of those foolish tales spun to pass the long cold months of near-permanent night, when men do little but huddle round their fires and drink mead, sing songs, tell stories and wait for the sun to return. I am a collector of such tales, yet I tell only the ones I know to be true — or half-true at least. This ghost story held little interest for me.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut then one night I heard Olaf the Peacock speak of it when I visited his farm to trade milk for ale; he was an honourable man, a respected chieftain of the people, and he would never tell a lie. He said that he had seen the bruises on Erik’s arms, and gone in search of the ghost himself. 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The Smile of the Wolf
In medieval Iceland dead men rise from the grave, monsters roam the hills, and two men try to avoid paying the ultimate price for murder.
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The Rise of Populism
The twenty-third semi-annual Munk Debate takes on the future of liberalism against the rising tide of populism.
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Surrender explores the changing landscape of the American West and the radical environmental movements that have taken root.
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Caravan to the North
An urgent and eloquent account of a boy traveling in a caravan from his beloved homeland of El Salvador to the US border.
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A Song for China
Celebrating the Yellow River Cantata, this is the riveting history of a young author and militant who used art to create a socially just China.
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Songs for Angel
Ninth in the Soifs cycle, Songs for Angel interrogates violence and hate and takes us into the soul of a white supremacist on the verge of a racist attack.
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Three-time Governor General’s Literary Award–shortlisted author and playwright Anosh Irani’s critically acclaimed one-man show Buffoon is a masterclass of tragicomic theatre.
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ages 3
to 7
/ grades P
to 2
The Homesick Club
A story about making new friends and missing home, wherever home may be.
