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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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The Limit of Delta Y Over Delta X
Goose Lane Editions£11.99| /A calculus formula, a calculating boy, a young woman who is intelligent but unwise -- the ingredients for a gripping story and the thematic fulcrum...
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The Many Deaths of George Robertson
Goose Lane Editions£9.99| /George Little examines the lives of parents, siblings, friends, and politicians, offering fleeting glimpses into the moral complexity of contempora...
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The Notary
Aiora Press£11.99| /A wealthy count on his deathbed, his libertine nephew, an upstanding young clerk, and a scheming notary who stops at nothing to protect his daughte...
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The Opium Lady
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /JoAnne Soper-Cook is such a spell-binding storyteller that she can lead her willing captives almost anywhere. In her new story collection, The Opiu...
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The Sad Eye
Goose Lane Editions£11.99| /Sackville resident Bradd Burningham's uncanny ability to inhabit the mind brings intimate revelations from characters as diverse as earthy middle-a...
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The Sign for Migrant Soul
Great Plains Publications£15.99| /"The migrant souls in Richard Cumyn's new story collection move like shoals of fish, not fully aware that the structures they create together make ...
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The STU Reader
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /St. Thomas University has nurtured exemplary people for a century -- from its first alighting in Newcastle to its current perch on a Fredericton hi...
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The Three Marys
Goose Lane Editions£2.99| /Giller Prize-winner Lynn Coady's unforgettable Christmas story "The Three Marys," is adapted from her award-winning debut novel, Strange Heaven, pu...
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The View from the Lane
Great Plains Publications£15.99| /Spanning the twentieth century to the beginning of the twenty-first, this masterful collection of linked stories follows the life of Amy, through t...
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The Wild Wild West 10th Anniversary Book Collection
Galaxy Press£30.99| /Ride a trail of blazing guns and two-fisted action in the Wild West as L. Ron Hubbard brings American history to life. Growing up in Montana provid...
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Thirty-Two Stories
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£13.99| /America's most influential literary figure worldwide is familiar to most readers of short fiction through only about a dozen stories. This is becau...
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Thracian Tales
Aiora Press£11.99| /Georgios Vizyenos (1849-1896) is one of Greece's best-loved writers. His stories, written in 1883-4, are set in his native Thrace, a corner of Euro...
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Tomb of the Ten Thousand Dead
Galaxy Press (CA)£10.99| /Action packed and captivating tale. Captain Gordon is a Tomb Raider. Hired to fly a team of American anthropologists to an arid mountain region now...
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Trouble
University of Huddersfield Press£13.00| /The latest Grist Anthology is an innovative blend of some of the most exciting and freshest voices in prose today. Protest is the distillation of a...
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Verge 2017
Monash University Publishing£13.99| /The thirteenth edition of Monash Universitys creative writing annual collects work inspired by this years theme: Chimera. Chimera is something de...
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Visions of Lucrecia
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press£7.99| /Text in Arabic. Lucrecia, a young, poor and illiterate girl in sixteenth-century Madrid, living in the court of Filipe II, has terrible visions ann...
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Way Up
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /In the thirteen stories that comprise Way Up, Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer's canvas stretches from downtown Toronto to isolated farms, from the Canadian S...
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We Are Not in Pakistan
Goose Lane Editions£17.99| /A Quill & Quire Book of the YearTen years after her stunning debut, Shauna Singh Baldwin returns to Goose Lane with an outstanding new collecti...
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What Had Become of Us
Goose Lane Editions£2.99| /Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer's haunting "What Had Become of Us," is from her 2003 debut book of short fiction, Way Up. Published on the occasion of Goose ...
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When Shadows Fall
Galaxy Press (CA)£10.99| /Star Trek's Captain Kirk has a kindred soul in Lars the Ranger, a commander of his own star fleet. But whereas Kirk's mission is to boldly go where...
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Where Somebody Waits
Paul Dry Books (US)£16.99| /This book instantly transports you to small-town Arkansas over a half-century ago -- a world of catfish and bourbon-and-Coke; of tent revival meeti...
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Whispers in the Classroom Voices on the Field
Wisdom Tree (IND)£12.99| /School! A splendid institution. It tells you about what's around you while helping you explore what lies within. It brings you face-to-face with pe...
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White Turtle
Spinifex Press£11.95| /Once the turtle was small and blue-black like a polished stone. Carried on its back the dreams of Iraya's dead children that later sprouted into co...
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Why Cats Hate Birds
DC Books (CA)Original price £15.99Current price £14.99| /The title of Why Cats Hate Birds very much reflects the collections themes. Are we trapped by our nature? And what is our understanding of nature?...
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