PALIN'S NEW EUROPE
Author: Michael Palin
ISBN: 9780340922590
PRICE:
$39.95
Non Fiction
The ebb and flow of warring armies has constantly moulded the countries of Eastern Europe. Michael embarks on another epic journey, this time through the 22 countries previously behind the Iron Curtain, starting in the mountains of Slovenia and ending in Estonia.
PASSION FOR KILLING, A
Author: Barbara Nadel
ISBN: 9780755321339
PRICE:
$24.95
Fiction/Mystery
A killer with means but no motive, and the body count is rising…
A serial killer is stalking the streets of Istanbul. A man is found dead in a hotel room, a single stab wound in his heart. Could he be a victim of the Peeper, a murderer whose target up until now has been gay men? The body of the man is delivered to forensics, but it is entirely clean. Has someone tampered with it? Inspector Mehmet Suleyman finds himself under increasing pressure from his contact at the Turkish Secret Service to keep his findings to himself.
PEACOCK
THRONE
Author: Sujit Saraf
ISBN: 9780340899700
PRICE:
$24.95
Fiction
October 31, 1984 begins like any other day for Gopal Pandey as he sets up his tea stall in a lane off Chandni Chowk, the most magnificent and crowded street in all Delhi. At its head lies Red Fort, once the home of the gem-encrusted Peacock Throne, symbol of the Mughal Empire’s dazzling might, and of its downfall.
By the end of the day, Indira Gandhi has been assassinated, violent riots have erupted and Gopal is the bemused possessor of a large sum of money. Fourteen turbulent years and four dramatic turning points in Indian history later, this half-blind tea-seller stands on the verge of immense political power.
Gopal’s unlikely journey is a tale of accidents, scheming, murder and tragedy, religious and political rivalries, corruption and hubris. Irreverent, farcical and as enlightening as it is entertaining, The Peacock Throne is a novel of breathtaking scope.
PLANET
CHICKEN
Author: Hattie
Ellis
ISBN: 9780340921876
PRICE:
$29.95
Non Fiction
Chicken is our most popular meat: the 'healthy choice' and the food we give our children. It is also the animal that has been marched furthest down the path of intensive factory faming. In Canada we eat, on average 500 chickens in our lifetime. Most of these birds will have been raised in squalor, fed drugs to survive the short duration of their super-accelerated lives in unnaturally crowded conditions.
Quietly, and on an ever-increasing scale, the farming of chickens for meat has become an everyday obscenity. But change is brewing ..
In the tradition of Fast Food Nation, Planet Chicken is an eye-opening book about the bird we eat and mistreat the most. Hattie Ellis reveals the grotesque scandal of the modern chicken industry, and its effect on our health. But she also talks to chicken lovers around the world, from Provencal chefs to the pioneers who are bringing real chickens back to our tables. This will be a shocking and informative read, but also an inspiring one.
POACHER'S
ROAD
Author: John Brady
ISBN: 1-55278-565-3 / 978-1-55278-6246
PRICE:
$24.95 / $10.99
Fiction
Bestselling author John Brady introduces a new series!
"Brady takes his talent to new heights, and this is sure to be one of the top books of the year, must reading. The end is heartbreaking. I couldn’t stop reading."– Globe and Mail on Islandbridge
It has been a long winter here in the hills of southern Austria. Inspektor Felix Kimmel, officer with the Austrian Gendarmerie, is now staring at two bodies on a path in the woods. The Kripo (central detective bureau) from Graz soon takes over. Experts though they may be, and higher in the firmament than the Gendarmes who patrol such parts of rural Austria as Felix, they want his help: he is a local man who knows the area and its people. Felix's mentor, the old hand Gebhart, warns him to beware of the lead detective Speckbauer, as he and his sinister-looking partner, Franzi 'have background'.
THE
POISON MAIDEN
Author: Paul Doherty
ISBN: 978075532876 / 9780755328772
PRICE:
$37.95 / $24.95
Fiction / Mystery
1308: murder and mayhem are rife in the court of Edward II. The 'Poison Maiden' is rumoured to have arrived in England forcing Mathilde of Westminster to face her most dangerous opponent yet. The second compelling novel in acclaimed author Paul Doherty's new series set in medieval England during the reign of Edward II. The series features Mathilde of Westminster, and the action is played out against the glorious, violent and decadent court, where ghosts throng, and old sins and innocent blood cry to heaven for vengeance.
THE POISONER OF PTAH
Author: Paul Doherty
ISBN: 9780755328857 / 9780755328864
PRICE:
$37.95 / $24.95
Fiction / Mystery
A new novel of murder in the reign of Pharoah Hatusu featuring Judge Amerotke as the crime-solver. At a peace treaty signing between Egypt and Libya in Thebes, three of Egypt’s leading scribes die violently on the Temple forecourt, the victims of a vile poisoning. To add to the mounting unease, a prosperous merchant and his young wife are found drowned. Rumours soon sweep the imperial city. The Poisoner of Ptah has returned.
PORTFOOLIO
22
Edited by: Guy Badeaux
ISBN: 1-55278-608-0
PRICE:
$24.95
Non Fiction
This year’s collection of the best of Canadian editorial cartoons from across the country features election campaign trails, election nights, and election morning afters.
THE PRICE OF DARKNESS
Author:
Graham Hurley
ISBN: 9780575080553
PRICE:
$24.95
Fiction / Mystery
The eighth novel in Hurley’s uniquely gritty crime series takes us into emotionally fraught territory as DC Winter finds himself undercover and prey to terrible temptation amongst the group of thieves he is investigating.
PRINCESS MARGARET - A LIFE UNRAVELLED
Author:
Tim Heald
ISBN: 9780297848202 / 9780297853428
PRICE:
$37.95 / $29.95
Biography
The almost universal conception of Princess Margaret’s life is of a tragic failure. Tim Heald’s elegantly written biography portrays a woman who was beautiful and sexually alluring, and whose reputation for naughtiness co-existed with her glamour. It was a life in which the private and the public seemed permanently in conflict.
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