Modern & Contemporary Fiction (Post c1945)
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The Terrorist
Digital Publishing Centre£25.99| /Ben Fine is no ordinary Australian... but these aren't exactly ordinary times. A clash of cultures has beset the world: George W. Bush has declared...
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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 Tiger
Amaurea Press£9.99| /A new edition of the best-selling third book.The servants said that even the waters of the Orinoco obeyed Misia Schmutter, the white-haired old lad...
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The Tiger & Other Tales
Sagging Meniscus Press£12.99| /Jack Foley's autobiography begins, "What is a life but stories?" The stories collected here are not his life but a fantastic consciousness in which...
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The Time of Her Life
Goose Lane Editions£17.99| /In The Time of Her Life, David Helwig draws us into the world of a woman of character. Indeed how Helwig tells the tale is as absorbing as the tale...
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The Time We All Went Marching
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /Seduced by Slim's stories of the privations of a cross-country trek that ended in the violence of an historic riot and tales of Depression-era work...
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The Umbilical Word
Interactive Press£23.99| /After a series of miscarriages, Adam and Maddy manage to get pregnant. To 'personify and self-actualise' his fatherhood, Adam decides to email thei...
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The Unconsoled
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press£15.99| /Ryder, a renowned pianist, arrives in a Central European city he cannot identify for a concert he cannot remember agreeing to give. The story unfol...
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The Unfinished Child
Brindle & Glass (CA)£20.99| /When Marie MacPherson, a mother of two, finds herself unexpectedly pregnant at thirty-nine, she feels guilty. Her best friend, Elizabeth, has never...
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The Violin Lover
Goose Lane Editions£17.99| /Set in Jewish London in the 1930s, Susan Glickman's The Violin Lover is written against the backdrop of Hitler's escalating campaign against the Je...
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The Wanton Troopers
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /In this new edition of Alden Nowlan's poignant first novel, published posthumously in 1988, a boy growing up in a small Nova Scotia mill town is ab...
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The Weight of a Soul
Flux£12.99| /When Lena's younger sister Fressa is found dead, their whole Viking clan mourns--but it is Lena alone who never recovers. Fressa is the sister that...
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The Weight of the Heart
Palimpsest Press£12.99| /When her brother dies in the turbulent water of B.C.s Thompson River, Isabel sets out to find traces of him in the places he loved. At the same ti...
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The Well
University of Alberta Press (CA)£14.99| /A petty criminal eludes capture by becoming a hired man on a prairie farm, only to discover deception and betrayal. Introduction by Kristjana Gunnars.
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The Wind Seller
Goose Lane Editions£17.99| /In her highly anticipated second novel, Rachael Preston tells a vibrant, compelling story of 20th century piracy. Exploring the complex struggle fo...
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The Woman She Was
Brindle & Glass (CA)£22.99| /Celia Cantú, a pediatrician in Havana, is trying to live a regular life in today's Cuba. She is engaged to her childhood friend Luis and lives with...
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The World of After
Cormorant Books£9.99| /When Kevin, an Irish Montrealer, attends graduate school at Oxford University in the early 1990s, he meets Leon, a London Jew from a Communist fami...
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The Worst of While You Were Sleeping
Schiffer£36.99| /While You Were Sleeping was a graffiti and pop culture magazine started by graffiti supply business owner Roger Gastman when he was 19. Here are so...
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The Wrecking Crew
Dekel Publishing House£11.95| /Hang on for a wild ride! The craziest coalition in history is out to destroy ISIS! Forty years ago, Don Tommy Aiello was the most feared mafia lead...
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The Yalta Stunts
Sagging Shorts£12.99| /"The Yalta Stunts", one of the most perfect, charming, and enigmatic works of the always mysterious 20th century underground poet Alvin Krinst, has...
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The Young in Their Country
Great Plains Publications£23.99| /The young occupy a territory of their own, a foreign land inaccessible to nostalgia and regret. In these eloquent, arresting stories, an assortment...
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Thin Rising Vapors
Sagging Meniscus Press£19.99| /Ezra Stern hasnt seen his best friend from childhood and college in the six years since Abel suddenly quit a successful career in New York to live...
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Things You've Inherited From Your Mother
Newest Press (CA)£15.99| /Everyone deals with grief in their own personal way. Take Carrie, for example. Getting over her mother's death from ovarian cancer takes the form o...
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Thirty-Two Stories
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£38.99| /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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This Is All A Lie
Great Plains Publications£15.99| /Three lives, one unreliable narrator and the consequences of losing intimacy. This is All a Lie opens with Ray leaving his mistress for the final t...
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This Marlowe
Goose Lane Editions£25.99| /Longlisted, 2018 International DUBLIN Literary AwardLong-shortlisted, 2017 ReLit Awards1593. Queen Elizabeth reigns from the throne while two rival...
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This Marlowe
Goose Lane Editions£17.99| /Longlisted, 2018 International DUBLIN Literary AwardLong-shortlisted, 2017 ReLit Awards"Complex, lyrical, and with a profound sense of a world long...
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This Side of Sad
Goose Lane Editions£17.99| /Part mystery, part elegy, This Side of Sad begins with an ending: the violent enigma of a man's death. Was it an accident, or did James commit suic...
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Through the Looking Glass with Tom Wolfe
Schiffer£11.99| /For over a hundred years the story of Alice and her adventures has enchanted children of all ages. One of those who has been captivated by its char...
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Throw Away Girls
Primedia Elaunch LLC£17.99| /Hard-charging, insightful, and ambitious, Jaycee Wilder wants to take her TV news career to the next level. The Los Angeles reporter is hungry for ...
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Tinfoil Crowns
Flux£15.99| /Seventeen-year-old internet video star Fit is on a mission to become famous at all costs. She shares her life with her fans through countless video...
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To Me You Seem Giant
Newest Press (CA)£15.99| /Its 1994 and Pete Curtis cant wait to get out of Thunder Bay, Ontario. Already, he is playing drums in a band whose songs belong on mix-tapes eve...
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To Scatter Stones
Goose Lane Editions£14.99| /Described as Newfoundland's answer to Frank McCourt, M.T. Dohaney's To Scatter Stones is available once again. Long out of print, the highly antici...
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To Tuscany with Love
Capriole Book Llc£17.99| /Can one college semester abroad change the course of your life? Bella Rossini, a vivacious college junior, is suddenly thrust into living in Tuscan...
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Tomboy
Kopernik Inc.£25.00| /The novel, Tomboy, is a coming of age sports fiction based on true events. The setting -- the waning days of the Balkan War, is followed by the two...
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Too-Brief Chronicle of Judah Lowe
Sagging Shorts£14.99| /The formal playfulness of Christopher Carter Sanderson's novel is visually apparent at a glance. It consists of two parts, each composed of a serie...
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Torn
Empire Publications (UK)£8.95| /Charlotte and Rico have been brought up apart but when Francesca moves back to Manchester the two seem set on a collision course. Meanwhile, Misty'...
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Town of Love
Spinifex Press£19.95| /They call them women of love', but the lyrical beauty of the term has a hidden dark side: a workforce of very young girls tasked with feeding thei...
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Tree of Youth
DC Books (US)£13.99| /The thirteen stories in "The Tree of Youth" have a richly exotic, sensuous allure: the landscape shifts from cosmopolitan Canada to beautiful Barba...
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Trembling Bridge
Indra Publishing (AUS)£20.99| /From his boyhood in Germany, toward the end of World War II, to his settlement in Australia (the land of the beautiful enemy'), Mark grows through...
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Trimming England
Sagging Meniscus Press£16.99| /M.J. Nicholls' path-breaking new book is a stark and uncompromising account of the bizarre and regrettable period when the British government set a...
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Tristan and Isolde
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£18.99| /"I believe this fluent, accurate, readable translation of Tristan and Isolde will become the standard English edition of Gottfried's literary maste...
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Tristan and Isolde
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£50.00| /"I believe this fluent, accurate, readable translation of Tristan and Isolde will become the standard English edition of Gottfried's literary maste...
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Trouble on His Wings
Galaxy Press (CA)£10.99| /Flying into action, daredevil photojournalist Johnny Brice is always looking for trouble ... and more often than not, finding it. But he doesn't kn...
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Tsunami (Book 4)
Clinical Press (UK)£9.99| /"I was expecting another trip to the Scottish Isles and to the Faerie realm. The Witch "trilogy" made this realm all so real. This book however is ...
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Twenty Fathoms Down
Galaxy Press (CA)£10.99| /As daring and defiant as Kirk Douglas journeying 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, there's no stopping diver Hawk Ridley as he takes the plunge into a ...
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Under Budapest
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /Ailsa Kay lays out the literary equivalent of a jigsaw puzzle in Under Budapest, bringing into stark relief the triumphs, calamities, and desperati...
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Under the Black Ensign
Galaxy Press (CA)£10.99| /Long before Captain Jack Sparrow raised hell with the Pirates of the Caribbean, Tom Bristol sailed to hell and back Under the Black Ensign. That's ...
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