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Ghost Train
Clinical Press (UK)£9.99| /Who fired the bullet in the locked room? Who is the conductor on the train? Why is Holmes lecturing about upholstery? Can a person live on a diet o...
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Girdles and Other Harnesses I Have Known
Lone Pine Publishing£12.99| /Joyce Harries's delightful collection of memoirs, fiction, essays, recipes and poems will dare you to laugh, cry and face head-on the small triumph...
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Godless but Loyal to Heaven
Great Plains PublicationsOriginal price £15.99Current price £9.99| /In Richard Van Camp's fictionalized north anything can happen and yet each story is rooted in a vivid contemporary reality. The stories offer a pot...
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Goth Girls of Banff
Newest Press (CA)£15.99| /John ONeills gothic short stories, set in the Canadian Rockies, are haunted by the violence inherent in nature and humans. The mountains are maje...
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Great Canadian Fishing Stories
Lone Pine Publishing£9.99| /This fun anthology reels in more than 30 Canadian sportfishing stories, from side splitters to heartbreakers. First fish, big fish, small fish, los...
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Great Canadian War Stories
University of Alberta Press (CA)£16.99| /Great Canadian War Stories shows how the experience of Canada at war captured the imagination of fiction writers across the country. With selection...
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Greetings from the Vodka Sea
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /Greetings from the off-kilter world of Chris Gudgeon. In his first-ever book of fiction, the bestselling author of The Naked Truth: The Untold Hist...
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Gun Boss of Tumbleweed
Galaxy Press (CA)£10.99| /Mart Kincaid, a tall, ruggedly good-looking young man in the Clint Eastwood mold, may be the fastest gun in the state, but it does him no good-beca...
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Haunted Halloween Stories
Ghost House Publishing (CA)£11.99| /Great read-aloud stories to send shivers down the spines of your audience! People of all ages will clamor to hear bestselling author Jo-Anne Christ...
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Hazardous Material
MCM Publishing (US)£15.99| /A fire-fighter battles a his own painkiller addiction and the infamous Vagos outlaw motorcycle gang. When he joins the Sheriff s Department in a dr...
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Hideout Hotel
Caitlin Press (CA)£11.99| /In a mining town edging the Australian Nullarbor, Gina sits at the bar and devotes herself to the heart of what she is trying to escape. After fini...
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High Wire
Massey University PressOriginal price £34.99Current price £30.99| /High Wire brings together Booker finalist writer Lloyd Jones and artist Euan Macleod. It is the first of a series of picture books written and made...
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Horse Laughs and Hard Knocks
Lone Pine Publishing (CA)£11.99| /Just about any time somebody catches up a horse, there is a story in the works. Thoroughbred or bronc, work horse or saddle horse, they all seem to...
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Hour of the Crab
Goose Lane Editions£17.99| /Patricia Robertson's new collection of short fiction, Hour of the Crab, is a work of insight and mastery, each story demonstrating an original visi...
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Hunger Moon
Newest Press (CA)£16.99| /This is a collection of stories that echo with the yearning to be replenished, to be made full. Here are characters at cusp-points in their lives, ...
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Jackmans Cliff
Manor House Publishing Inc£15.99| /A superb collection of a half-dozen intriguing short stories from one of Canada's best new writers, who has deservedly drawn favourable comparisons...
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Jane and the Whales
Caitlin Press (CA)£11.99| /"In this playful yet poignant debut collection, Andrea Routley muddies the line between the physical and emotional worlds: reality becomes not simp...
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Je t'aime Cowboy
Goose Lane Editions£11.99| /In Montreal, sex and politics frequently mix, and T.F. Rigelhof's stories are sexy and political. His contemporary cowboys -- immature, vulnerable ...
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Killer's Law
Galaxy Press (CA)£10.99| /Sheriff Kyle of Deadeye, Nevada, is headed east to the nation's capital. Like Dennis Weaver in the television series McCloud, Kyle's about to disco...
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Knife Party
Goose Lane Editions£2.99| /The extraordinary "Knife Party" is from a new collection of stories by Mark Anthony Jarman titled Knife Party at the Hotel Europa, published in the...
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Knife Party at the Hotel Europa
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /Shortlisted, Alistair MacLeod Award for Short Fiction, New Brunswick Book Award for Fiction, and Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction AwardOne of Canada...
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Knife Party at the Hotel Europa
Goose Lane Editions£23.99| /Shortlisted, Alistair MacLeod Award for Short Fiction, New Brunswick Book Award for Fiction, and Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction AwardOne of Canada...
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Konfidenz
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press£7.99| /Text in Arabic. Tense and tightly woven, Thiqah is a dramatic novel set in Paris during World War II about a woman whose lover is accused of workin...
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L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future
Galaxy Press£16.99| /Original short stories by talented new voices . . . selected by your favourite authors. Get to know tomorrow's brightest creative talents chosen b...
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L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 36
Galaxy Press£16.99| /Soar to new heights of Science Fiction & Fantasy. Who are the top science fiction writers and illustrators of the future? The answer is here. G...
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Leaping Up Sliding Away
Goose Lane Editions£6.99| /This book illustrates Thompson's passion for the "postcard story" -- very short stories characterized by suggestion, resonance, and openness. Stori...
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Listen, Honey
DC Books (US)Original price £15.99Current price £14.99| /Western Canadian writer, Shelley A. Leedahl exposes the emotionally electric lives of men, women, and children with grit, humour, and tenderness. F...
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Lost Animal Club
Newest Press (CA)£15.99| /In his debut story collection, Kevin A Couture creates a world where the veneer of humanness stretches thin and often cracks, while burdened charac...
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Love at Last Sight
Newest Press (CA)£13.99| /"So I have always walked alleys alone, with my monster face, listening through a wall for the words that might cultivate me, that are contained wit...
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Luther Corhern's Salmon Camp Chronicles
Goose Lane Editions£13.99| /Luther Corhern, Miramichi guide and keeper of Cavender Bill's Salmon Camp log, never met a fisherman in his life (other than Stan Tuney) who would ...
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Memento Mori
Interactive Press£23.99| /Daniel King's short story collection cycles through the shadowy landscapes of death, gnarled relationships, the slippery side of human nature, even...
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Mornings in Jenin
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press£9.99| /Text in Arabic. 1948: The lives of the Abulheja family are changed forever when they are forcibly removed from their ancestral home in Ein Hod and ...
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Moskov Selim
Aiora Press£8.99| /Georgios Vizyenos (1849-1896) is one of Greece's best-loved writers. Moskov Selim is set in Thrace, a corner of Europe where Greece, Turkey and Bul...
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Murder Mystery 10th Anniversary Book Collection
Galaxy Press£30.99| /Do you love a good whodunit? Detectives and mobsters, newshawks and murderers-all ingredients for disaster in this murder mystery collection. Wheth...
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Net Worth
DC Books (CA)£16.99| /A woman wins a fabulous lottery; a frustrated middle-age man waits for his wealthy father to die; an unemployed father and widower struggles to ear...
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Night Moves
Great Plains PublicationsOriginal price £15.99Current price £7.99| /As a window into the magic and medicine of the Northwest Territories, Richard Van Camp's fourth short story collection is hilarious and heartbreaki...
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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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