Modern & Contemporary Fiction (Post c1945)
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The Last Tasmanian
Goose Lane Editions£14.99| /Winner, Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction AwardShortlisted, Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Canada and the CaribbeanThe Last Tasmanian has reaped m...
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The Last Words
Ibex Publishers (US)£18.99| /Text in Persian. The Last Words, is the story of a woman who endured a passionate longing for a love that was of an anomalous essence. It was on th...
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The Leaves
Spinifex Press£14.95| /Faith and Evelyn are close friends, neighbours, and single mothers of Luke and of Mitch – and both bear the scars of the trauma of colonisation and...
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The Life and Times of Captain N.
Goose Lane Editions£13.99| /Douglas Glover's acclaimed novel The Life and Times of Captain N. is now available in a GLE Library edition. Originally published by McClelland &am...
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The Light a Body Radiates
Caitlin Press (CA)£10.99| /Eileen MacPherson is a child of eight when her beloved sixteen-year-old brother, Francis, leaves home after a violent family episode. Over the next...
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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 Lost Chord
Manor House Publishing Inc£13.99| /This is the eagerly awaited second novel by singer-songwriter-author Ian Thomas. With a storyline that crosses into the realm of the otherworldly, ...
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The Luck of the Horseman
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /A follow-up to The Frog Lake Massacre, The Luck of the Horseman is a cleverly written ride from the days of the Wild West. The story begins ten yea...
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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 Maquinna Line
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /A murder, a tryst, a mysterious child. A Victoria aristocrat who obsesses over her Churchill relatives. A repressive Welsh mother with a royalty fi...
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The Melting Queen
Newest Press (CA)£16.99| /Every year since 1904, when the ice breaks up on the North Saskatchewan River, Edmonton has crowned a Melting Queen -- a woman who presides over th...
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The Moon of Letting Go
Great Plains Publications£15.99| /Extending the tradition of Aboriginal storytelling, Richard Van Camp's new collection is eloquently and humorously optimistic. The stories in The M...
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The Most Wretched Thing Imaginable
Sagging Meniscus Press£13.99| /Stephen Moles' remarkable novel The Most Wretched Thing Imaginable could be described as any of the following: A modern-day Book of the Dead which ...
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The Movie-Maker
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press£6.99| /Text in Arabic. María Margarita is a young girl from a small Chilean village who is famous for her strange gift of recreating the stories of movies...
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The Nap-Away Motel
Palimpsest Press£14.99| /In the heart of Scarborough sits the Nap-Away Motel, a hunched building providing hidden worlds for its occupants. Within its derelict walls, Sulei...
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The Nettle Spinner
Goose Lane Editions£16.99| /In her early twenties, Alma met a tree-planter and fell in love -- not with the man but with his strangely romantic work. Now, after several season...
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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 Orchard Keepers
Newest Press (CA)Original price £19.99Current price £17.99| /Robert Pepper Smith's trilogy of novels chronicling the lives of those with deep roots in the orchard lands of British Columbia comes full circle w...
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The Person of the Man
Brandl & Schlesinger£15.99| /The Person of the Man takes the reader into the outwardly successful but severely flawed marriage of Alice, a lawyer and Martin, an ambitious Oxfor...
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The Phantom Patrol
Galaxy Press (CA)£10.99| /The story of Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer Johnny Trescott. A man as smart, tough, and fearless as they come. But he's about to lose everything-h...
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The Poison of Polygamy
Sydney University Press£23.99| /Serialised in 1909-10, The Poison of Polygamy is a rare gem of Australian literature.The first novel of the Chinese Australian experience, it is a ...
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The Prisoner of Al Hakim
Blue Dome Inc£14.99| /It was the Islamic Golden Age. Across the Middle East and North Africa, mosques and libraries hummed with scholarly activity. But in a small house ...
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The Professor Was a Thief
Galaxy Press (CA)£10.99| /The Empire State Building has vanished into thin air! Gone, too, are Grant's Tomb and Grand Central Station, and all hell is breaking loose in New ...
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The Promise
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£19.99| /It was 1862 and the Cariboo Gold Rush was in full swing. Sophia Cameron, the Beauty of Barkerville, lay dying of typhoid when her husband, John Car...
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The Promise of Rain
Caitlin Press (CA)£10.99| /Ethie Coulter was born after her father Howard returned from the war in 1945. She never knew him as he was before, never knew that he had been an o...
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The Push & the Pull
Goose Lane Editions£16.99| /Andrew Day embarks on a bicycle trip from Halifax to Kingston, his childhood home. As he goes, the dual narratives of Andrew's life emerge: the slo...
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The Quiddity of Delusion
Sagging Meniscus Press£10.00| /In an obsessive monologue vaguely after the manner of Thomas Bernhard, a socially inept writer, in an attempt to deflate or defeat the humiliation ...
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The Republic of Nothing
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /Winner, Dartmouth Book AwardShortlisted, Atlantic Booksellers Choice AwardA small Canadian island declares its independence to the world and benign...
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The Rest is Silence
Goose Lane Editions£17.99| /Winner, H.R. (Bill) Percy Novel PrizeFinalist, Amazon.ca First Novel AwardFinalist, Jim Connors Dartmouth Book AwardFinalist, Ottawa Book AwardIn t...
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The River Killers
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /Danny Swanson, Department of Fisheries and Oceans employee and ex-fisherman, isn't exactly upset when he's reassigned from a desk job in Ottawa to ...
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The Russian Operation
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£18.00| /A fearless diplomat. A dangerous mission. And only one way out. Joey Torino would be out-of-the-mould in almost any career. He is tough, independen...
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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 Salt Marsh King
Bancroft (US)£24.99| /Henry O'Reilly, the founder and head of an enormous seafood empire nearing the end of his career, makes sudden preparations to divide his company a...
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The Shadow of the Strongman
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£19.99| /A searing novel of the post-1910 Mexican revolutionary era that itself challenged the Mexican political establishment, Guzmàn's The Shadow of the S...
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The Shadow of the Strongman
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£56.99| /A searing novel of the post-1910 Mexican revolutionary era that itself challenged the Mexican political establishment, Guzmàn's The Shadow of the S...
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The Shadow Over Portage and Main
Great Plains Publications£15.99| /Winnipeg is a place of extremes. Winters are fierce and relentless. Summers are unbearbly hot. It has been both the murder and auto theft capital o...
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