Modern & Contemporary Fiction (Post c1945)
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The Silent Partner
Goose Lane Editions£13.99| /Corry Quinn starts off on the wrong foot. When he's very small, his mother dies. Then his feckless father, heading down the road from his Miramichi...
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The Slightest Chance
Blacksmith Books (HK)£11.99| /In war, you can pretend to be someone youre not. Yet, in war, people find out who you really are. Hong Kong, 1941. Anglo-Australian civil servant ...
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The Slow Train To Milan
Amaurea Press£9.99| /A new edition of the best-selling, award-winning second book.To Lizaveta, César remained as much of an enigma after two years of their nomadic exil...
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The South Will Rise at Noon
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /Hot on the heels of Douglas Glover's Governor General's Award for fiction for his riotous novel, Elle, Goose Lane has brought back into print Glove...
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The Spear of The Centurion
Primedia Elaunch LLC£25.99| /The centurion who speared Christ also guarded the tomb. When the body is missing, Pilate orders his arrest. He flees. The spear has special powers....
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The Square
Empire Publications (UK)£8.95| /Alice Goodman has been forbidden from entering Tavistock Square for as long as she can remember but, now aged fifteen, the place looks tempting. Wi...
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The Story That Brought Me Here
Brindle & Glass (CA)£25.99| /Thousands of newcomers are pouring into Alberta from around the globe, bringing unexpected gifts. Many are writers and storytellers. What pulls the...
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The Studhorse Man
University of Alberta Press (CA)£21.99| /Hazard Lepage, the last of the studhorse men, sets out to breed his rare blue stallion, Poseidon. A lusty trickster and a wayward knight, Hazard's ...
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The Summer of Apartment X
Goose Lane Editions£11.99| /Lesley Choyce's novella The Summer of Apartment X is a beach book for grownups who remember how they got that way. Fred Winger and his two buddies,...
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The Tale of Don L'Orignal
Goose Lane Editions£13.99| /Winner of the 1979 Governor General's Award for fiction, Antonine Maillet's virtuoso creation, The Tale of Don L'Orignal, is now back in print. Mai...
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The Tartarus House on Crab
Brindle & Glass (CA)£20.99| /Jack Tartarus, a photographer, has returned to his family's house on Crab, an island off the east coast of Vancouver Island. After mulling it over ...
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The Taste of Ashes
Caitlin Press (CA)£10.99| /Isabel Lee's early life in rural BC was forever changed by a brief but powerful love affair with a young Oblate priest. Now a recovering alcoholic,...
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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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