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  • Exeunt
    Peter Abbot
    In this moving novella, Peter Abbot has penned a moving meditation on what it means to live --- and to die. In short order, Derrick deals with the passing of his Auth Martha, home from South Africa to die; the loss of his best friend 'Pip'; the implications of hundreds of children’s graves newly found at former residential school sites; and the grisly end of his long-lost uncle...
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    7,98 €

  • Masterson Murders
    Peter Abbot
    Recently hired as the assistant librarian at Masterson College, Eric Merton is thrown into a bewildering maelstrom of murder and mayhem. It begins with the brutal slaying of the head librarian’s administrative assistant. Meanwhile controversy arises about an embargoed journal that may hold a crucial medical secret. As the bodies pile up, will Eric be able to figure out the kill...
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    11,79 €

  • Gaiety
    Peter Abbot
    Peter Abbot’s new collection of short stories explores the manifold meanings and nuances of human sexuality in the contemporary world. Whether sombre, angry, lighthearted, or fanciful, these stories lay bare the desires and fears of the human heart in poignant detail. Abbot draws on some of the themes and topics explored in his previous works Duty, Armistice, and Librarian---th...
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    16,43 €

  • Duty
    Peter Abbot
    'The pen is mightier than the sword.' So goes the old saying. In Peter Abbot’s new novel Duty, letters written during the First World War lead to consequences that span more than a century. Marked by vivid characterization and a keen sense of historical realities, Duty is a compelling read and an insightful window into the meaning of love, loss, and memory. ...
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    20,44 €

  • Plague Year
    Peter Abbot
    The onslaught of the COVID-19 pandemic leads to the cancellation of a renowned quartet’s planned performance of Schubert’s Quintet in C. But the group continues to practice, in hopes of at least an eventual private performance, and in an effort to draw the musicians closer together and improve their music-making, Boris -- the group’s founder and cellist -- asks each of them to ...
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    25,31 €

  • Quintet
    Peter Abbot
    A novel of the COVID-19 pandemic ...The onslaught of the coronavirus leads to the cancellation of a renowned quartet’s planned performance of Schubert’s Quintet in C. But the group continues to practice, in hopes of at least an eventual private performance, and in an effort to draw the musicians closer together and improve their music-making, Boris -- the group’s founder and ce...
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    10,47 €

  • Armistice
    Peter Abbot
    Peter Abbot, author of the novels Librarian, Gukurahundi: Voice of the Lord, and Hamiltonians, turns in Armistice: A Love Story to the early years of the Second World War, crafting a moving tale of love lost and found and lost again, set against the background of Armageddon. ...
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    25,74 €

  • Gukurahundi
    Peter Abbot
    Zimbabwe, 1983.Three young people -- one from Australia, one from Canada, and one from Britain -- visit the country once known as Rhodesia. But the ghosts of the country's troubled past have not yet been laid to rest, as Paul, Susanna and Stephen will soon discover.Gukurahundi: Voice of the Lord is a compelling exploration of the heart of darkness within us all, as well as ...
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    16,12 €

  • Hamiltonians
    Peter Abbot
    Two brutal slayings—dubbed the “Millennial Murders” by the media—have shocked residents of Steeltown. But that’s only the beginning …In this new novel, Peter Abbot, author of Librarian and Voice of the Lord and himself a long-time resident of Canada’s tenth largest city, explores the meaning of hope, despair, and redemption—and introduces readers to a number of Hamiltonians the...
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    14,82 €

  • Hear the Children
    Peter Abbot
    Peter Abbot, author of Voice of the Lord and Librarian, probes the meaning of childhood, crime, loss and redemption in this new novel, set in the city of Hamilton, Ontario.  ...
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    14,97 €

  • Librarian
    Peter Abbot
    An evocative post-apocalyptic vision of loss, love and redemption ...Last man on earth—I’m beginning to fantasize that. The last human survivor! Seems very unlikely, in a world inhabited by so many millions of people in so many cities, so many countries. But in this silence—who knows? Actually, I think it’s the silence, and my deepening sense of isolation, that are encouraging ...
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    11,15 €