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Boundary (Hardcover): Andree Michaud Boundary (Hardcover)
Andree Michaud; Translated by Donald Winkler
R522 R431 Discovery Miles 4 310 Save R91 (17%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction 2014 Winner of the Prix des Lecteurs at the Quais du Polar for Best French Crime Novel 2017 Winner of the Prix du Conseil des Arts and des Lettres de Quebec for Book of the Year 2015 Winner of the Prix Saint-Pacome for Best Crime Novel 2014 Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize 2017 A chilling thriller as compulsive as Emma Cline's The Girls. A chilling thriller as compulsive as Emma Cline's The Girls. It's the Summer of 1967. The sun shines brightly over Boundary Pond, a holiday haven on the US-Canadian border. Families relax in the heat, happy and carefree. Hours tick away to the sound of radios playing 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' and 'A Whiter Shade of Pale'. Children run along the beach as the heady smell of barbecues fills the air. Zaza Mulligan and Sissy Morgan, with their long, tanned legs and silky hair, relish their growing reputation as the red and blonde Lolitas. Life seems idyllic. But then Zaza disappears, and the skies begin to cloud over...

Querelle of Roberval (Paperback): Kevin Lambert Querelle of Roberval (Paperback)
Kevin Lambert; Translated by Donald Winkler
R405 R335 Discovery Miles 3 350 Save R70 (17%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Shortlisted for the Atwood Gibson Writers' Trust Fiction Prize Homage to Jean Genet's antihero and a brilliant reimagining of the ancient form of tragedy, Querelle of Roberval, winner of the Marquis de Sade Prize, is a wildly imaginative story of justice, passion, and murderous revenge. As a millworkers' strike in the northern lumber town of Roberval drags on, tensions start to escalate between the workers-but when a lockout renews their solidarity, they rally around the mysterious and magnetic influence of Querelle, a dashing newcomer from Montreal. Strapping and unabashed, likeable but callow, by day he walks the picket lines and at night moves like a mythic Adonis through the ranks of young men who flock to his apartment for sex. As the dispute hardens and both sides refuse to yield, sand stalls the gears of the economic machine and the tinderbox of class struggle and entitlement ignites in a firestorm of passions carnal and violent. Trenchant social drama, a tribute to Jean Genet's antihero, and a brilliant reimagining of the ancient form of tragedy, Querelle of Roberval, winner of France's Marquis de Sade Prize, is a wildly imaginative story of justice, passion, and murderous revenge.

Lincoln's Ladies - The Women in the Life of the Sixteenth President (Paperback, Revised ed.): H. Donald Winkler Lincoln's Ladies - The Women in the Life of the Sixteenth President (Paperback, Revised ed.)
H. Donald Winkler; Foreword by Frank J. Williams
R346 Discovery Miles 3 460 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The tumultuous experiences Abraham Lincoln had with women have long been chronicled. Lincoln's Ladies attempts to answer the questions of how he was affected by the women in his life and how he affected them. Abandoned through death by his mother, his sister, and his sweetheart, Ann Rutledge, Lincoln found it difficult to relate to women and developed an emotional barrier that often antagonized them. Abstract and cool, he feared intimacy and marriage and, following Ann Rutledge's untimely death, was incapable of loving anyone the way he had loved her, probably the only woman with whom he shared a deep and wonderful love. Lincoln fumbled his way through other courtships and was turned down at least twice. He then stumbled into a strange relationship with Mary Todd--one culminated by marriage through her trickery and his sense of honor."" Lincoln's marriage to her was his greatest tragedy, ""a burning, scorching hell as terrible as death and as gloomy as the grave,"" said William Herndon, Lincoln's partner and biographer. According to H. Donald Winkler, Lincoln's emotions and motivations were shaped from a mixture of crippling and energizing experiences associated with women, experiences that profoundly affected his personal and professional lives. Lincoln's Ladies explores the impact of more than thirty women on his life. Not overlooked, however, are the positive impacts of women on Lincoln and he on them, especially his stepmother, who probably was the first person to treat him with respect and glimpse his potential.""

Boundary (Paperback, New Ed): Andree Michaud Boundary (Paperback, New Ed)
Andree Michaud; Translated by Donald Winkler 1
R243 R200 Discovery Miles 2 000 Save R43 (18%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction 2014 Winner of the Prix des Lecteurs at the Quais du Polar for Best French Crime Novel 2017 Winner of the Prix du Conseil des Arts and des Lettres de Quebec for Book of the Year 2015 Winner of the Prix Saint-Pacome for Best Crime Novel 2014 Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize 2017 A chilling thriller as compulsive as Emma Cline's The Girls. A chilling thriller as compulsive as Emma Cline's The Girls. It's the Summer of 1967. The sun shines brightly over Boundary lake, a holiday haven on the US-Canadian border. Families relax in the heat, happy and carefree. Hours tick away to the sound of radios playing 'Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds' and 'A Whiter Shade of Pale'. Children run along the beach as the heady smell of barbecues fills the air. Zaza Mulligan and Sissy Morgan, with their long, tanned legs and silky hair, relish their growing reputation as the red and blond Lolitas. Life seems idyllic. But then Zaza disappears, and the skies begin to cloud over... (Originally published in the UK in hardback and trade paperback as Boundary)

You Will Love What You Have Killed (Paperback): Kevin Lambert You Will Love What You Have Killed (Paperback)
Kevin Lambert; Translated by Donald Winkler
R305 Discovery Miles 3 050 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Faldistoire's grandfather thinks he's a ghost. Sylvie's mother reads tarot and summons stormclouds to mete her witch's justice. Behind his Dad of the Year demeanour, Sebastien's father hides dark designs. It's Croustine's grandfather who makes the boy a pair of slippers from the dead family dog, but it's his father, the cannily-named Kevin Lambert, who always seems to be nearby when tragedy strikes, and in the cemetery, under the baleful eyes of toads, small graves are dug one after the other: Chicoutimi, Quebec, is a dangerous place for children. But these young victims of rape, arbitrary violence, and senseless murder keep coming back from the dead. They return to school, explore their sexualities, keep tabs on grown-up sins-and plot their apocalyptic retribution. Surreal and darkly comic, this debut novel by Kevin Lambert, one of the most celebrated and controversial writers to come out of Quebec in recent memory, takes the adult world to task-and then takes revenge.

Boundary - The Last Summer (Paperback): Andree A. Michaud Boundary - The Last Summer (Paperback)
Andree A. Michaud; Translated by Donald Winkler
R400 R344 Discovery Miles 3 440 Save R56 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

French version sold approx. 10,000 copies, won the GG, Canada's most venerable literary award. Genre-bending literary / mystery - very similar in style to atmospheric Swedish or Norwegian crime novels. Takes place along the borderland between Maine and Quebec. Police detective is an American w/ distant Quebec roots, but only speaks English and has to use a translator.

Lincoln and Booth - More Light on the Conspiracy (Paperback): H. Donald Winkler Lincoln and Booth - More Light on the Conspiracy (Paperback)
H. Donald Winkler
R451 R387 Discovery Miles 3 870 Save R64 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Was the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln a Confederate Operation? Conspiracy, terrorism, and obstruction of justice are not unique to recent events, and maneuvering and scheming behind the scenes has a long history. On an April evening, John Wilkes Booth crept into the presidential box at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C., and shot President Abraham Lincoln. Many have wondered ever since if there was not a wider conspiracy associated with the assassination. Lincoln and Booth: More Light on the Conspiracy takes up these questions, examining the people, issues, and strange happenings related to the assassination and its aftermath. Using the tools of investigative journalism and the latest in scholarly research, H. Donald Winkler describes the events that led to the shooting of the president, including Booth's activities from July 1864 through April 1865, raising questions never before raised and suggesting answers never before considered. Winkler has pulled together relevant, reliable information about the terrorism, intrigue, mysteries, covert actions, betrayals, deceptions, jury tampering, obstruction of justice, subterfuge, execution by trickery, dirty politics, and other shameful acts associated with the assassination. All the controversial issues are considered, including the likely guilt of Samuel Mudd and Mary Surratt, official Confederate involvement, John Surratt's gratuitous reprieve, the veracity of Louis Weichmann, and John S. Mosby's possible involvement. Also discussed are Edwin M. Stanton's motives and decisions related to denying protection to Lincoln on April 14; hurriedly naming and pursuing conspirators; concealing Booth's diary; hanging Mary Surratt while failing topursue John Surratt; hiring Sandford Conover to find witnesses; and collaborating with the Radical Republicans in their efforts to impeach Andrew Johnson. Lincoln and Booth: More Light on the Conspiracy discusses the various possibilities and options on controversial issues and challenges readers to draw their own conclusions.

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