Modern & Contemporary Fiction (Post c1945)
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The Bell and the Minaret
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press£7.99| /Text in Arabic. A captivating novel that unfolds in the philosophical world of Walid, a young man whose passion for cinema elicits dreams of travel...
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The Black Horse and Other Stories
Otago University Press (NZ)£8.90| /Twelve short stories by one of New Zealand's best-loved poets are collected here. Set in the south, they are spare pieces of prose, showing an eye ...
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The Black Peacock
Cormorant Books£9.99| /Friends since attending university in Jamaica, Lethe and Daniel have long realized they would never be good for each other. But Lethe is Daniel's m...
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The Boss is Dead
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.£15.99| /The Boss is Dead is a novella, from the play of the same name, based on the author's experiences managing a fast food restaurant in the Midwest. To...
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The Brennen Siding Trilogy
Goose Lane Editions£23.99| /The complete Brennen Siding Trilogy is now available in a single volume. Brennen Siding, a hamlet on a small tributary of the famous Miramichi Rive...
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The Budapest Job
Brandl & Schlesinger£23.99| /A fast-paced thriller that builds to a dramatic revelation. A young architect arrives in Budapest in 1989 on a project, the year Communism is colla...
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The Buried Giant
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press£12.99| /Text in Arabic. You've long set your heart against it, Axl, I know. But it's time now to think on it anew. There's a journey we must go on, and no ...
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The Canterbury Trail
Brindle & Glass (CA)£20.99| /Winner of the Gold Medal for Western Canadian Fiction at the 2012 Independent Publisher (IPPY) Book Awards It's the last ski weekend of the season ...
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The Captain of Kinnoull Hill
Palimpsest Press£15.99| /Dennis Duckworth -- widely considered the least-likeable person on the Chicago music scene -- is a philanderer and a misanthrope with a history of ...
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The Chief Factor's Daughter
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£20.99| /Chief factor: In the Hudson's Bay Company fur-trade monopoly, the title of chief factor was the highest rank given to commissioned officers, who we...
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The Crooked Thing
Caitlin Press (CA)£10.99| /"For fans of Alice Munro and Carol Shields comes an emotional and hopeful collection of short stories that delve into the tragedies that befall eac...
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The Crossroads
Galaxy Press (CA)£10.99| /Think you know what's going on in the world? Think again. Long before Rod Serling took us into The Twilight Zone, L. Ron Hubbard brought us to The ...
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The Darren Effect
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /An affair. A marriage. Accidental encounters. A secret spying mission masquerading as research for a short story on desire. This is the rich ground...
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The Dead Cities
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press£7.99| /Text in Arabic. Journey back in time to the dead cities in the historical land of Syria, wonderfully remote, relatively unknown and unfortunately...
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The Death of Annie the Water Witcher by Lightning
Newest Press (CA)£15.99| /Three years into the second millennium, Majestic, Alberta is a farm town dealing with depressed crop prices, international borders closing to Canad...
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The Douglas Notebooks
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /An Amazon.ca Best Book of 2013Romain was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. At 18, he leaves his family for a home in the forest, learning to l...
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The Eavesdroppers
Newest Press (CA)£16.99| /When social attitudes researcher Bill Harcourt puts an advertisement in the newspaper for listeners to work on an unconventional project, he anti...
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The Family Took Shape
Cormorant Books£9.99| /When Mira Acharya’s father dies, the challenges facing her Indo-Canadian family become that much more daunting. Ravi, her autistic older brother, r...
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The Fellowship
Cormorant Books£9.99| /The recipient of a prestigious Gunter Fellowship, Jessica leaves behind Jamaica, the only country she’s ever known, for Cambridge, Massachusetts, n...
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The Five Hole Stories
Brindle & Glass (CA)£20.99| /Each of the six stories in Dave Bidini's playful, irreverent new book takes a headlong run at the hockey dressing room, and knocks the door down. I...
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The Flight of Birds
Sydney University Press£23.99| /Shortlisted for the Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction in 2019Shortlisted for the Mascara Literary Review's Avant Garde Awards 2020 The Flig...
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The Forbidden Purple City
Goose Lane EditionsOriginal price £21.99Current price £17.99| /Finalist, City of Vancouver Book Award 2019A man returns to Hoi An in his retirement to compose a poem honouring his parents. Two teenagers, ostrac...
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The Gaucho Juan Moreira
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£40.99| /Argentinian writer Eduardo Gutiérrez (1851-1889) fashioned his seminal gauchesque novel from the prison records of the real Juan Moreira, a noble o...
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The Gaucho Juan Moreira
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£13.99| /Argentinian writer Eduardo Gutiérrez (1851-1889) fashioned his seminal gauchesque novel from the prison records of the real Juan Moreira, a noble o...
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