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Up Up Up
Up Up Up is Julie Booker’s radiant debut, a taut collection of 20 short, powerful stories brought to life with a unique voice.
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The Ninth Grave
Fabian Risk is on the hunt for a serial killer in this spine-tingling thriller set six months before the events of Victim Without a Face.
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{"id":6582727704635,"title":"DarkMarket","handle":"darkmarket","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShortlisted for the Orwell Prize and the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction Award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe benefits of living in a digital, globalised society are enormous; so too are the dangers. The world has become a law enforcer's nightmare and every criminal's dream. We bank online, shop online, date, learn, work and live online. But have the institutions that keep us safe on the streets learned to protect us in the burgeoning digital world? 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Carnival
A memorable novel about the beautiful, twisted existence of life in the modern city, told from the perspective of a taxi driver.
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Le chandail d’Amos
A curmudgeonly old sheep reluctantly gives up his wool and then plots to get it back, even though it has been knit into a brightly colored sweater.
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The Librarianist
A new novel from bestselling author Patrick deWitt explores the life of an ordinary man whose world is turned upside down by a chance encounter.
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An insightful and funny new collection of short stories from award-winning author Tim Wynne-Jones.
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When Timothy Brook saw it in 2009, he realized that the Selden Map was “a puzzle that had to be solved”: an exceptional artefact so unsettlingly modern-looking it could almost be a forgery. But it was genuine, and what it has to tell us is astonishing. It shows China, not cut off from the world, but a participant in the embryonic networks of global trade that fuelled the rise of Europe — and now power China’s ascent. And it raises as many question as it answers: How did John Selden acquire it? Where did it come from? Who re-imagined the world in this way and, most importantly, what can it tell us about the world at that time? \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLike a cartographic detective, award-winning author and historian Timothy Brook has provided answers. From the Gobi Desert to the Philippines, from Java to Tibet, and into China itself, Brook uses the map to tease out the varied elements that defined this crucial period in China’s history.\u003c\/p\u003e","EAN":"9781770893535","excerpt_0":"https:\/\/biblioshare.org\/BNCservices\/BNCServices.asmx\/Samples?token=fcf85c1c1b298e99\u0026amp;ean=9781770893535\u0026amp;SAN=\u0026amp;Perspective=excerpt\u0026amp;FileNumber=0","Height":"9","HeightCode":"in","Imprint":"House of Anansi Press","MetaKeywords":"Historical; China","NumberOfPages":"256","OtherText_Review_0":"\u003cp\u003e“...Brook is a true practitioner of the broad, rich and currently endangered concept of the humanities.” — \u003cstrong\u003eNick Thran, \u003cem\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e“Brook offers many fascinating characters...” — \u003cstrong\u003eJennifer Hunter, \u003cem\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_2":"\u003cp\u003e“Brook is learned and lucid and...he writes with a verve rare in academic historians.” — \u003cstrong\u003eDouglas J Johnston, \u003cem\u003eWinnipeg Free Press\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_3":"\u003cp\u003e“Brook's story is sprinkled with passages and general insights that are a delight to someone who appreciates language, and that serve to elevate the book from being overly technical and narrow. The story is peppered with amusing observations on human nature that bring it alive...” — \u003cstrong\u003eStephen R Bown, \u003cem\u003eLiterary Review of Canada\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e“A work of exuberant scholarship...An infectious, satisfying exercise in intellectual doggedness.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eKirkus\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_5":"\u003cp\u003e“The definitive study of the singular Selden Map...The scholar will appreciate the level of detail, breadth of analysis, and ingenuity in Brook's ability to expound such a wealth of history from a single document.” — \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePublisher's Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_6":"\u003cp\u003e“An engagingly written, insightful look into just how fluid perceptions and realities have been in both the past and the present.” — \u003cstrong\u003eBrian Odom, \u003cem\u003eBooklist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_ShortDescription_0":"Mr Selden’s Map of China unlocks the secrets behind a recently discovered map of China like no other of its time.","PrizeCodeText_0":"Commended","PrizeCode_0":"03","PrizeName_0":"Globe and Mail Top 100 Book","PrizeYear_0":"2013","ProductFormDescription":"hardcover jacket","PublicationDate":"2013-09-23","Publisher":"House of Anansi Press Inc","ShortDescription":"Mr Selden’s Map of China unlocks the secrets behind a recently discovered map of China like no other of its time.","Width":"6","WidthCode":"in"}
Mr Selden's Map of China
Mr Selden’s Map of China unlocks the secrets behind a recently discovered map of China like no other of its time.
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It grips from beginning to end.\" — Diana Athill, Costa Book Award–winning author of Somewhere Towards the End \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrank McCourt's \u003cem\u003eAngela's Ashes\u003c\/em\u003e crossed with Billy Elliot, Maggie \u0026amp; Me is a unique, tender, and witty memoir of surviving the tough streets of small town Scotland during the Thatcher years.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOctober 12, 1984. An IRA bomb blows apart the Grand Hotel in Brighton. Miraculously, Maggie Thatcher survives. In small-town Scotland, eight-year-old Damian Barr watches in horror as his mum rips her wedding ring off and packs their bags. He knows he, too, must survive.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDamian, his sister, and his Catholic mum move in with her sinister new boyfriend while his Protestant dad shacks up with the glamorous Mary the Canary. Divided by sectarian suspicion, the community is held together by the sprawling Ravenscraig Steelworks. But darkness threatens as Maggie takes hold: she snatches school milk, smashes the unions, and makes greed good. Following Maggie's advice, Damian works hard and plans his escape. He discovers that stories can save your life and — in spite of violence, strikes, AIDS, and Clause 28 — manages to fall in love dancing to Madonna in Glasgow's only gay club.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMaggie \u0026amp; Me\u003c\/em\u003e is a touching and darkly witty memoir about surviving Thatcher's Britain; a story of growing up gay in a straight world and coming out the other side in spite of, and maybe because of, the Iron Lady.\u003c\/p\u003e"}
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[it's] a book that's hard to put down, laugh out loud funny and profoundly moving.” — \u003cstrong\u003eOlivia Cole, \u003cem\u003eBritish GQ\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_1":"\u003cp\u003e“... a fine memoir about the drama, pain and humour of growing up gay, gifted and poor... [Barr] has an uncanny ability to employ wit to flip you from a wince to a smile -- and sometimes right back again. When need be, he conveys maximum visceral impact, like a Scottish Frank McCourt of Angela's Ashes fame.” — \u003cstrong\u003eDouglas J. 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It’s a compelling read, which I thoroughly recommend.” — \u003cstrong\u003eJanice Forsyth, \u003cem\u003eThe Herald Scotland\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_4":"\u003cp\u003e“...an excellent read, and a vital reminder of how much we are shaped by the culture which surrounds us.” — \u003cstrong\u003eAndrew Losowsky, \u003cem\u003eThe Huffington Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_5":"\u003cp\u003e“It’s too bad [Margaret Thatcher] didn’t live to read this book. She’d have been proud of Barr’s resilience—and his generosity of spirit.” — \u003cstrong\u003eDafna Izenberg, \u003cem\u003eMaclean's\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","OtherText_Review_6":"\u003cp\u003e“The writing is beautiful...the evocation of his childhood tender and affectionate, the summoning up of a particular time and place pin-sharp. 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Maggie & Me
A unique, tender, and witty memoir of surviving the tough streets of small-town Scotland during the Thatcher years.
