Modern & Contemporary Fiction (Post c1945)
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Something Drastic
Goose Lane Editions£13.99| /Something Drastic is a first-rate comedy wrapped in a clever story starring eccentrics galore. When her boyfriend dumps her, Lenore writes long let...
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Somewhere North of Normal
Great Plains Publications£16.99| /Venture to a place where reality bends: where a dying butterfly may inspire a revelation, where after being electrocuted, an artist's body becomes ...
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Song of Kosovo
Goose Lane Editions£23.99| /Some days, it doesn't pay to be a lapsed pretend Buddhist... particularly when you're charged with a lengthy list of war crimes. Vida Zanković has ...
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Speak the Truth, Laughing
Spinifex Press£11.95| /The characters in these eleven stories range from a political activist, in the apartheid years, released from a South African jail into a seemingly...
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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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Spirits of the Adirondack Mountains
Birch Brook Press (US)£21.99| /Featuring 36 delightful wood engravings by Frank C Eckmair, this book is a charming account of the "ghosts" and other forms of "spirit life" in the...
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Split
Goose Lane Editions£17.99| /In the aftermath of the 1960s, tensions simmer beneath the surface of a small town in rural Massachusetts. Watergate and the war in Vietnam have sh...
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Stay with Me
Sama Editorial & Publishing Services (PK)£20.00| /A haunting addition to contemporary fiction, this compelling work explores memory, reconstructed and recalled, as a burden of choices. This is a di...
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Still Life with Monkey
Paul Dry Books (US)£17.99| /Duncan Wheeler is a successful architect who savors the quotidian pleasures in life until a car accident leaves him severely paralyzed and haunted ...
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Still Waving
Spinifex Press£9.95| /Julie and Toby have grown up in a family wrecked by violence. They now live in Bondi with their Aunt Jean. Julie is trying to come to grips with th...
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Stone Tablets
Paul Dry Books (US)£22.99| /An influential Polish classic celebrates 50 yearsand its first English edition. As Stone Tablets opens, Istvan Terey, a poet and World War II vete...
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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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Stories of Indian Pacific
Indra Publishing (AUS)£13.99| /Stories of Indian Pacific are three novellas, set in New Caledonia, Australia and Indonesia, written in Dewi Anggraeni's engaging style that moves ...
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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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Strange Heaven
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /Winner, Atlantic Independent Booksellers Choice Award, Canadian Authors Association Air Canada Award, Dartmouth Book Award, and Thomas Head Raddall...
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Straw Obelisk
Branden Publishing Co (US)£25.99| /This strange antiwar novel is set in post-World War II Italy where Samuele, a young soldier ill with consumption, returns to his village much chang...
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Strong Hollow
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /In her bold debut novel, Linda Little has crafted a story where music, creativity, and sexuality merge, as a young Nova Scotian carver embarks on a...
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Strong Hollow
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /In her bold debut novel, Linda Little has crafted a story where music, creativity, and sexuality merge, as a young Nova Scotian carver embarks on a...
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Succession
Brindle & Glass (CA)£20.99| /Succession is a story cycle about a rural community in transition. It follows Al, a musician burned out from too many nights playing the same class...
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Suddenly The Minotaur
DC Books (US)£14.99| /Why did Guatemalan immigrant Mino Torrés try to rape Quebec student Ariane? What was the failed attempts aftermath? In this terse, prize-winning no...
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Suishy
DC Books (US)£14.99| /Arjun Basu's fiction collection is a wry and consistently provocative book which exposes the realities beneath social conventions. Squishy asks: Do...
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Suspense of Loneliness
Birch Brook Press (US)£19.99| /This is an anthology of mixed genre stories (literary and mystery) in which that most powerful of all human conditions -- loneliness -- steers char...
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Sutra & Other Stories
Mage Publishers Inc (US)£13.50| /Here are six stories by one of Iran's greatest contemporary writers, rare and intimate glimpses into the lives of ordinary Iranian men and women; w...
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Suzanne Davis Gets a Life
Paul Dry Books (US)£16.99| /Suzanne Davis lounges around her tiny New York City apartment in her pyjamas, writing press releases for the International Association of Air-Condi...
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Swallow
Newest Press (CA)£15.99| /You wake up, and your sister is dead. With an absent father and their mother constantly ill, sisters Darcy and Carly Nolan were forced to rely on e...
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Sweetness from Ashes
Brindle & Glass (CA)£20.99| /Set partially in Vancouver, partially on a farm in rural Ontario and partially in West Africa, Sweetness from Ashes is a novel about family in its ...
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Symphony For The Man
Spinifex Press£15.95| /1999. Winter. Bondi. Harrys been on the streets so long he could easily forget what time is. So Harry keeps an eye on it. Every morning. Then he h...
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Taking a Fool to Paradise
Indra Publishing (AUS)£18.99| /Are Arb and Henry different aspects of the same personality? Or do they just share the same madness, as they travel full circle but always containe...
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Taking Wing
Indra Publishing (AUS)£21.99| /Set in the era when Europe's thousand year thrust for universal fraternity detours into the communist tyranny, this novel tells the story of an ord...
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Tale Told
Sama Editorial & Publishing Services (PK)£14.00| /This book paints a picture with Pakistan's socio-political motifs -- its shadows, its silhouettes. It has a Bemisal. It has a Musallat. It has a Da...
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Tales for the Trail
Birch Brook Press (US)£16.99| /Loud adventures and quiet interludes in the air, land, waters of new York's Adirondacks to the rivers, lakes, forests and mountains of Caloifronia,...
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Tales From Victoria Park
Blacksmith Books (HK)£8.99| /Victoria Park, the largest expanse of open space in Hong Kong, is the crossroads and away home for thousands of Muslim women who come from Indonesi...
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Tales of a Punk Rock Nothing
Garrett County Press (US)£10.99| /The classic underground novel about a Jewish kid from Tennessee, who moves to DC and hangs out with militant vegetarians, manifesto-writing shoplif...
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Tales of Old Vienna and Other Prose
Ariadne Press (US)£15.99| /The Condor; The Ancient Seal; Tourmaline; Granite: Confidence; Prose Poem (from Indian summer); The Eclipse of the Sun in 1842; My Life: An Autobio...
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Talking at the Woodpile
Caitlin Press (CA)£12.99| /In this humourous and refreshing collection of short stories, David Thompson reveals the charm and grit of life in the Yukon. This is a masterful b...
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Talon
NeWest Publishers Ltd (CA)£14.99| /Rubis Caillou Morin is a widow, midwife, and faith healer from the Gaspé. Before her untimely death in 1873, she sends her young son west -- to be ...
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