Fiction: Special Features
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Nocturnes
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press£9.99| /Text in Arabic. This is a 2009 collection of short fiction by Kazuo Ishiguro. After six novels, it is Ishiguro's first collection of short stories....
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Paper Teeth
Newest Press (CA)£15.99| /This book, through interconnected short stories, follows the lives of the Lees, a Canadian-Chinese family and their friends who reside in Edmonton,...
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Pollen
DC Books (US)Original price £15.99Current price £14.99| /With wit and sensitivity, these tales portray moments of suffering, confusion, and discovery and introduce the reader to worlds as widely various a...
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Qalam an-najjar
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press£7.99| /Text in Arabic. Set in the dark days of the Spanish Civil War, Qalam an-Najjar charts the linked destinies of Dr Daniel Da Barca, the Republican wh...
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Running the Whale's Back
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /In a collection as fine in scope as it is intimate in detail, Running the Whale's Back presents a host of Eastern Canada's brightest literary talen...
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Savage Love
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /The Globe and Mail Top 100Quill & Quire Book of the YearAmazon.ca Editors' Pick, Top 100Now magazine, Top 10 BooksChatelaine, Favourite Books o...
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Savage Love
Goose Lane Editions£23.99| /An Amazon.ca Best Book of 2013A Globe and Mail Top 100 for 2013A Quill & Quire Best Book of 2013Longlisted, Frank O'Connor International Short ...
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Scary Stories
Ghost House Publishing (CA)£11.99| /A fun collection of twisted stories just perfect for reading aloud. Here are a few examples: Tempted by an alluring payoff, a teenager delivers a l...
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Sci-Fi Fantasy 10th Anniversary Book Collection
Galaxy Press£30.99| /For SF and fantasy enthusiasts who love to escape to unknown worlds. As a master of the art of narrative and one of the leaders in the Golden Age o...
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Season of Apples
Goose Lane Editions£12.99| /Ann Copeland jumps over the convent wall with Season of Apples, a book of stories about ordinary people surprised by their own sudden growth. With ...
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Short Accounts of Tragic Occurrences
DC Books (US)£13.99| /Funny, smart and sharply composed, Nick McArthurs debut book is just what the title suggests a tome on brevity and heartbreak -- an all-out explora...
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Short Stories from Rabindranath Tagore
East-West Publications Ltd (UK)£10.95| /The sixteen short stories collected here were written between 1891 and 1917 by the Bengali poet, writer, painter, musician and mystic, Sir Rabindra...
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Short Stories Minibook
Wartelsteiner GmbH (D)£19.99| /Welcome to the world of miniature books! Experience the true meaning of a miniature book. It is not just about the size! These books will impress y...
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Short Stories Minibook - Limited Gilt-Edged Edition
Wartelsteiner GmbH (D)£24.99| /Welcome to the world of miniature books! Experience the true meaning of a miniature book. It is not just about the size! These books will impress y...
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Simran
Goose Lane Editions£2.99| /Commonwealth Prize winner Shauna Singh Baldwin's glittering story "Simran" is from her 1996 debut collection, English Lessons and Other Stories. Pu...
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six@sixty
Goose Lane Editions£7.99| /And now we are 60. To mark this momentous occasion, the editors at Goose Lane have selected six tiny perfect stories for your reading pleasure. Aut...
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Some Extremely Boring Drives
Newest Press (CA)£15.99| /From the multi-talented author of Inventory and Open Pit comes a new collection of short stories, filled with lost souls drifting through exotic lo...
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Speaking in Tongues
Interactive Press Australia£23.99| /Basil Eliades may have travelled this world, but he has seen other worlds within it. Worlds of profound love, of incredible cities, inhabited by sh...
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Stories From Iran
Mage Publishers Inc (US)£23.50| /This collection of thirty-five Persian shortstories by twenty-six of Iran?s best known contemporary writers gives voice to the concerns, strivings,...
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Strange Bodies on a Stranger Shore
Goose Lane Editions£11.99| /In this sequel to The Golden Thread, Claire Delaney recalls her past and steers a tricky path among mid-life joys and responsibilities.
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Taqs
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press£6.99| /Text in Arabic. A Sudanese writer begins to suspect that one of his most idiosyncratic characters from a recent novel resembles - in an uncanny an...
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Telepathy
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press£8.99| /"A Sudanese writer begins to suspect that one of his most idiosyncratic characters from a recent novel resembles in an uncanny and terrifying way...
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The Baron of Coyote River
Galaxy Press (CA)£10.99| /Lance Gordon's running out of room and time. Back in the Sierras he killed the man who murdered his father. Unfortunately that man turned out to be...
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The Black Horse and Other Stories
Otago University Press (NZ)£8.90| /Twelve short stories by one of New Zealand's best-loved poets are collected here. Set in the south, they are spare pieces of prose, showing an eye ...
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The Corsair
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press£11.99| /It's the early part of the nineteenth century and the Arabian Peninsula and the waters surrounding it are ablaze. Piracy in the Gulf threatens glob...
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The Crooked Thing
Caitlin Press (CA)£10.99| /"For fans of Alice Munro and Carol Shields comes an emotional and hopeful collection of short stories that delve into the tragedies that befall eac...
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The Crossroads
Galaxy Press (CA)£10.99| /Think you know what's going on in the world? Think again. Long before Rod Serling took us into The Twilight Zone, L. Ron Hubbard brought us to The ...
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The Five Hole Stories
Brindle & Glass (CA)£20.99| /Each of the six stories in Dave Bidini's playful, irreverent new book takes a headlong run at the hockey dressing room, and knocks the door down. I...
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The Flaw
Aiora Press£12.99| /A man is seized from his afternoon drink at the Café Sport by two agents of the Regime -- though what exactly he is suspected of we do not know, an...
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The Forbidden Purple City
Goose Lane EditionsOriginal price £21.99Current price £17.99| /Finalist, City of Vancouver Book Award 2019A man returns to Hoi An in his retirement to compose a poem honouring his parents. Two teenagers, ostrac...
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The General and the Nightingale
Otago University Press (NZ)£23.00| /Dan Davin was the author of the only substantial body of war fiction written by a New Zealand soldier during any of the wars of the 20th century in...
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The Golden Thread
Goose Lane Editions£11.99| /Nominated for the 1990 Governor General's Award, The Golden Thread is a collection of linked stories that introduce readers to the memorable Sister...
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The High-Rise in Fort Fierce
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /Finalist, Ottawa Book Award for Fiction 2019Drugs. Violence. Racism. Despair. The tiny, northern town of Fort Fierce has issues in spades, and most...
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The Kite Runner
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press£9.99| /Text in Arabic. Afghanistan in the 1970s: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-flying tournament and his loyal friend Hassan pro...
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The Left-Handed Dinner Party and Other Stories
University of Alberta Press (CA)£16.99| /Secrets aren't good for families. -- from "Big Luck Island" In The Left-Handed Dinner Party and Other Stories--a collection of new, delightful, dis...
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The Light that Remains
Great Plains Publications£15.99| /The despair of refugees has haunted us long before the civil war in Syria. Lyse Champagnes evocative new story collection attempts to put these co...
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