Modern & Contemporary Fiction (Post c1945)
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Pay or Play
Siles Press (US)£13.99| /Now in its first paperback edition, this is a wickedly funny satire of the Hollywood film industry and its peculiar marriage of vision and ambition...
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Pélagie
Goose Lane Editions£17.99| /In 1979, the legendary Acadian novelist Antonine Maillet won France's most coveted literary award, the Prix Goncourt, for the original version of t...
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Pedal
Caitlin Press (CA)£10.99| /Julia Hoop, a twenty-five-year-old counselling psych student, is working on her thesis, exploring an idea which makes her graduate supervisor squir...
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Perfecting
Goose Lane Editions£17.99| /With blood on his hands, Curtis Woolf flees his home in New Mexico for Canada, where he starts a religious commune, the Family. There he heals othe...
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Perfidy
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£25.99| /In the Kastner affair, as it is known, a seemingly insignificant refugee from Hungary accuses an important member of David Ben Gurion s Mapai party...
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Person Made of Porcelain & Other Stories
Ariadne Press (US)£25.99| /In his eminence, his iconic status, and his masterful command of enormous fictional realms in several huge novels, Heimito von Doderer (1896-1966) ...
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Pilgrimage
Brindle & Glass (CA)£20.99| /Pilgrimage opens in the deep winter of 1891 on the Métis settlement of Lac St. Anne. Known as Manito Sakahigan in Cree, "Spirit Lake" has been rena...
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Pillow Book Of Lady Kasa
DC Books (US)£13.99| /Here is the diary of a court lady of Japan from the golden age of Nara, over a thousand years ago. The Naran age, characterised by hierarchy, rigid...
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Pineapple
Sagging Meniscus Press£15.99| /Welcome to Los Alamos, where the big-brained boys and girls are at it again. But atoms have become passé: now its the Higgs boson, which they are ...
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Place Into Being
At Bay Press£19.99| /Robert Pasternak (NAK) is without a doubt, an undisputed master of sequential art. A virtuoso craftsman, known regionally by only an exclusive few,...
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Plaguing Jake
At Bay Press£19.99| /Mary McGahern goes off to university from the small town of Leitrim Falls. Mary was mostly schooled at home by a self-taught, highly literate, wido...
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Plane Truth
Impact Publications (US)£15.99| /Consists of 70 short stories, the book includes everything from bizarre in-flight incidents to the monumental changes taking place in the airline i...
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Please State the Nature of Your Emergency
Sagging Meniscus Press£10.99| /The sapient roaches of our planetary future, when they seek to understand the sickening dismay, abysmal grief and goofy absurdity of the Anthropoce...
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Plenty of Harm in God
DC Books (US)£13.99| /This is the story of Clare, twenty years old and accidentally pregnant, and her return from her native Newfoundland to Inisheer, Ireland. The goal ...
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Pluto's Gate
DC Books (US)£15.99| /In present day Montreal, a young woman by the name of Percy vanishes from the streets. The woman's parents -- her father, a famous musician, and he...
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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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Pond Hockey
Dragon Hill Publishing (CA)£15.99| /A middle-aged man moves back to his hometown in rural Quebec because of his mother's illness. While there he is drawn to the pond where he first le...
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Poor Table Manners
Claret Press£10.99| /Dawson and Lucy hit Cape Town… and Cape Town hits back When their new employer dies in a suspicious road accident and his brother, a South African ...
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Poppy's Return
Spinifex Press£13.95| /A novel of love, friendship and family. Poppy Sinclair is happy enough at mid-life. She enjoys close relationships with friends and family and take...
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Porny Stories
DC Books (US)£14.99| /Have you ever wondered what Woody Allen would be like if he were a woman stoked on chick-lit who lived in Toronto? Eva Moran has. This is a collect...
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Portrait of the Pacific Rim
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£17.99| /Portrait of the Pacific Rim is a photographic tour of the awe-inspiring sights and activities on the far edge of Canada. The wild, raw beauty of th...
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Practical Obsession
Sentient Publications, Llc (US)£10.99| /N Nosirrah is considered by his followers to be perhaps the most notable writer and speaker of the past century on the Way of the Mystic, while his...
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Precious
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /Douglas Glover's raucous first novel was a finalist for the Books in Canada First Novel Award and sold out its first and only print run in just one...
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Primary Instinct
Interactive Press£23.99| /Like every primary teacher, Cherry Kaufman had her ideals-once. You put in the hours, get the degree and hope your first job isn't a five hour driv...
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