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Books narrated by Will Eaves

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  • This is Paradise

    by Will Eaves ...
    The Alldens live in a ramshackle house in suburban Bath. Don and Emily have four children: confident Liz, satirical Clive, shy Lotte, and Benjamin, the late arrival. Together they take the usual knocks, go to work, go abroad, go to university, go to pieces. Don and Emily stick it out, their strong marriage tested by experience and frustrated by love for Clive, the ardent boxing fan at odds with ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Point of Distraction

    by Will Eaves ...
    A memoir by the 2019 Wellcome Prize winner Will Eaves that looks at the creation of six piano pieces.'A brief yet elegant excursion into the nature and execution of creativity' Clemency Burton-Hill, Financial Times'A wonderfully sensitive and probing meditation on the writing of words and music' Rolf Hind, composer and pianistWhat lies behind the creation of a piece of music? Does it spring fully ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Sound Houses

    by Will Eaves ...
    Well-loved authors and books appear suddenly; hair-raising anecdotes and football matches become occasions for elegiac comedy; and music and domestic ritual raise ghosts. This emotionally intense poetry collection explores several continents, moods, and stages of life—including the common experiences of growing up, growing older, losing a parent, being in love, and enjoying the natural world. Both ... Read more

    $23.95 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nothing To Be Afraid Of

    by Will Eaves ...
    An earthquake strikes at the heart of London, its epicenter a theatre where a lavish production of The Tempest has just opened. Thus the scene is set for Will Eaves’s gloriously deft tragicomedy of our time. Nothing To Be Afraid Of is both a lament for hope abandoned and innocence betrayed, and an exquisite comic pageant of Shakespearian vitality and compassion: an incidental theatrical history, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Murmur

    by Will Eaves ...
    Wall Street Journal “Distinctive Novel of the Year” selection“[Murmur will] grip your mind in the very first pages, break your heart halfway through, and in the end, strangely, unexpectedly, restore your faith in human beings and their endless capacity for resilience.” —Wellcome Book Prize chair of judges Elif Shafak in the Guardian“Eaves’ playful, fiercely intelligent interpretation of aspects of ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Journal of the Plague Year

    by Daniel Defoe ...
    Welcome to London in lockdown – in 1665This timely re-release of Defoe’s classic comes with an introduction by Wellcome-Prize-winning author, Will Eaves.Actually written sixty years after the plague of 1665 swept through London, Defoe brings the city to life in all of its hardship and fear. With a wealth of detail, A Journal of the Plague Year seems almost a firsthand account, taking readers ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

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    Murmur

    by Will Eaves ...
    Narrated by Will Eaves ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 3 min

    In Murmur, a hallucinatory masterwork, Will Eaves invites us into the brilliant mind of Alec Pryor, a character inspired by Alan Turing.Turing, father of artificial intelligence and pioneer of radical new techniques to break the Nazi Enigma cipher during World War II, was later persecuted by the British state for “gross indecency with another male” and forced to undergo chemical castration.Set ... Read more

    $23.75 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    The Point of Distraction

    by Will Eaves ...
    Narrated by Will Eaves ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 22 min

    A memoir by the 2019 Wellcome Prize winner Will Eaves that looks at the creation of six piano pieces.'A brief yet elegant excursion into the nature and execution of creativity' Clemency Burton-Hill, Financial Times'A wonderfully sensitive and probing meditation on the writing of words and music' Rolf Hind, composer and pianistWhat lies behind the creation of a piece of music? Does it spring fully ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Gnomon

    by Nick Harkaway ...
    Narrated by Ben Onwukwe ...

    Unabridged

    29 hours 4 min

    **From the widely acclaimed author of The Gone-Away World and Tigerman, comes a virtuosic new novel set in a near-future, high-tech surveillance state, that is equal parts dark comedy, gripping detective story, and mind-bending philosophical puzzle."A Pynchonesque mega-novel that periodically calls to mind the films of Inception and The Matrix…. What a ride!" —The Washington Post**In the world of ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

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    Witches of Lychford

    by Paul Cornell ...
    Narrated by Marisa Calin ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - Witches of Lychford

    Unabridged

    3 hours 24 min

    Traveler, Cleric, Witch.The villagers in the sleepy hamlet of Lychford are divided. A supermarket wants to build a major branch on their border. Some welcome the employment opportunities, while some object to the modernization of the local environment.Judith Mawson (local crank) knows the truth -- that Lychford lies on the boundary between two worlds, and that the destruction of the border will ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    To Be Taught, If Fortunate

    A Novella

    by Becky Chambers ...
    Narrated by Patricia Rodriguez Rodriguez ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 47 min

    In the future, instead of terraforming planets to sustain human life, explorers of the galaxy transform themselves.*FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR*At the turn of the twenty-second century, scientists make a breakthrough in human spaceflight. Through a revolutionary method known as somaforming, astronauts can survive in hostile environments off Earth using synthetic biological ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

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    How to be Both

    by Ali Smith ...
    Narrated by Katie Leung ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 36 min

    Brought to you by Penguin.Passionate, compassionate, vitally inventive and scrupulously playful, Ali Smith's novels are like nothing else.How to be both is a novel all about art's versatility. Borrowing from painting's fresco technique to make an original literary double-take, it's a fast-moving genre-bending conversation between forms, times, truths and fictions. There's a renaissance artist of ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

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    Also available as: eBooks