Modern & Contemporary Fiction (Post c1945)
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Hannah and the Magic Eye
Great Plains PublicationsOriginal price £9.99Current price £7.99| /This is the story of Hannah and Samir, two unlikely friends who embark on a fast-paced treasure hunt though modern-day Jerusalem to find the famed ...
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Hashtag Good Guy with a Gun
Sagging Meniscus Press£15.99| /Four days before the 2016 Presidential Election, disgraced teacher Scott Bonneville foils a mass shooting at the Pizza Galley Family Fun Center by ...
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Heap
Peredur Publishing (US)£6.99| /This is a mesmerising novel that opens with a priest fleeing shadowy pursuers. In his flight, he leaves behind a journal in a London flat. The jour...
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Heart of the Cariboo-Chilcotin
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£15.99| /This is a delightful collection of tales by authors from British Columbia's rugged Cariboo-Chilcotin region, and a few "outsiders." Joining well-kn...
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High Wire
Massey University PressOriginal price £34.99Current price £30.99| /High Wire brings together Booker finalist writer Lloyd Jones and artist Euan Macleod. It is the first of a series of picture books written and made...
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History of Wolves
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press£10.99| /Text in Arabic. Teenage Linda lives with her parents in the austere woods of northern Minnesota, where their nearly abandoned commune stands as a l...
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Home for Wayward Parrots
Newest Press (CA)Original price £15.99Current price £14.99| /Accustomed to being an only child, adoptee Brian Gumbo Guillemots teenage hobby was searching for his birth parents. But when he finally finds his...
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Homer in Flight
Goose Lane Editions£14.99| /Hilarious and poignant, Homer in Flight draws a brilliant picture of a chronic malcontent roving from high-rise to housing development along the 40...
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Hooker & Brown
Brindle & Glass (CA)£20.99| /Set in the Canadian Rockies, Hooker & Brown is an evocative adventure story about one man's quest to put to rest a historical mystery. While re...
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Hoptime
Sagging Meniscus Press£11.99| /Plotless, absurd, nonsensical, arbitrary, silly, mad, ribald, noisy, violent, despairing, obscene, drugaddled, revolting, and hilarious, J F Mamjj...
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Horse Laughs and Hard Knocks
Lone Pine Publishing (CA)£11.99| /Just about any time somebody catches up a horse, there is a story in the works. Thoroughbred or bronc, work horse or saddle horse, they all seem to...
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Horse Stories
Lone Pine Publishing£12.99| /Riding with the Wind presents soul-touching stories of birth, death, hard work, speed and thundering hooves that tell of a lifelong love of horses ...
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Horsebuggy
Sagging Meniscus Press£18.99| /After a nefarious yet revered mayor bans horse-drawn carriages in his city, a reclusive horse-and-buggy driver loses his job, his lover, and his un...
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Hour of the Crab
Goose Lane Editions£17.99| /Patricia Robertson's new collection of short fiction, Hour of the Crab, is a work of insight and mastery, each story demonstrating an original visi...
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House of Spells
NeWest Press (CA)£11.99| /Robert Pepper-Smith's graceful follow-up to "The Wheel Keeper" follows the friendship between teenagers Rose and Lacey and their search for self-co...
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Hovering World
DC Books (US)£13.99| /A day-in-the-life novel -- but what a day, what a life! Peter Dubé's first novel, "Hovering World" moves effortlessly from sunlight to midnight and...
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Hume's Fork
Bancroft (US)£25.99| /Barely adequate philosophy professor Legare Hume has a mind-body problem. No matter how far he goes, no matter how hard he thinks, he can't escape ...
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Hurricane
Galaxy Press (CA)£10.99| /In The Great Escape and Papillon, Steve McQueen embodied the tough guy on the run from captivity and injustice. But when it comes to toughness, McQ...
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I Am Full Moon
Brindle & Glass (CA)£20.99| /In this lyrical memoir, Lily Hoy Price writes with moving detail about her childhood and adolescence in a large Chinese Canadian family in the Cari...
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Idyll with Drowning Dog and Madalyn
Ariadne Press (US)£15.99| /Michael Koehlmeier was born in the Vorarlberg region of Austria in 1949. In addition to novels, he has written radio plays, essays and song texts i...
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If My Boss Calls ... Get His Name
Clear Light Publishers (US)£15.99| /Thrown into the surreal world of American business, Professor Ray Pendleton must try to make sense out of chaos -- if he is to survive. Nothing in ...
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If My Boss Calls, Get His Name
Clear Light Publishers (US)£25.99| /If My Boss Calls, Get His Name is both an unforgettable portrait of corporate culture gone haywire and the story of one man's rueful journey toward...
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Illuminations on Market Street
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-VerlagOriginal price £22.00Current price £16.00| /San Francisco in the early 1990s. Cab is on the deep end of a losing streak. After having been dumped yet again, he moves to Haight-Ashbury fresh o...
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Image Decay
Newest Press (CA)£15.99| /Mark Lisacs Image Decay returns to the pugnacious world of backroom politics laid out in his award-nominated Where the Bodies Lie. Set again in th...
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Imago
Spinifex Press£12.95| /Molly Rose Moone dreamt of worms the night before she married Jimmy Brown in Tooting Bec. Milky sticky wet worms wriggled and fed off one another i...
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In the Wake of the Boatman
Bancroft (US)£25.99| /Puttnam Douglas Steward is not having an identity crisis -- he is one. To his father Carl, he's a disappointment, and has been since the day he cam...
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Incident at Willow Creek
NeWest Press (CA)£15.99| /After her mother's death, Liz Thomas inherits the key to a bank lockbox containing the official government documents of Camp 10, a prisoner-of-war ...
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Indiana Pulcinella
Newest Press (CA)£14.99| /After saving the Calgary Stampede from a potential terror attack in Glycerine, Detectives Lane and Li find themselves on the hunt yet again, this t...
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Inishbream
Goose Lane Editions£11.99| /A wanderer arrives by chance on Inishbream, a rocky dot in the sea just off the west coast of Ireland. A lover of boats and a strong worker, she so...
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Inky Odds
Galaxy Press (CA)£10.99| /Bat Conroy-cut him and he'd bleed ink, he's a born newspaperman. Edward R. Murrow, Walter Cronkite, Eric Sevareid-the greatest American journalists...
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Inside the World
Sagging Meniscus Press£20.00| /Al Lehman is a bourgeois Everyman, whose true nature is mysterious, radically unformed, incomplete, and frustrated, even as the quotidian circumsta...
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Insistent Garden
Newest Press (CA)£15.99| /Edith Stoker's father is building a wall in their backyard. A very, very high wall -- a brick bulwark in his obsessive war against their hated neig...
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Inspector Bronstein and the Anschluss: 1938
Ariadne Press (US)£19.99| /Vienna, March 1938. The Nazis are about to seize Austria, and the tottering regime of Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg is trying to save the country thr...
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Interruptions
Ibex Publishers (US)£30.99| /High-school teacher Farzin Rouhani steps out of his house on the last day of spring of 1981.Walking under Tehran's sizzling midday sun, his stroll ...
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Irish Eyes
Birch Brook Press (US)£25.99| /Tells the story of two estranged, then reunited Irish-American brothers who search for justice on behalf of the downtrodden, for solace in the Chur...
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Iron Mouth
Spinifex Press£14.95| /This novel follows the narrator, a film-maker, through the process of writing a script. With a central motif being the story of Helen of Troy and t...
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