Modern & Contemporary Fiction (Post c1945)
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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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It Wont Always Be This Great
Bancroft (US)£25.99| /In the crushing complacency of suburbia, mid-life crises pop in on men's lives unannounced. For one Long Island podiatrist, it takes an impromptu a...
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It's Funny until Someone Loses an Eye (Then Its Really Funny)
Sagging Meniscus Press£20.99| /This collection of stories by Kurt Luchs pursues its comedic quarry with the ruthlessness of a pussycat trying to get out of a cardboard box. Luchs...
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Jacob's Prayer
Caitlin Press (CA)£11.99| /In 1974 Lorne Dufour moved to Alkali Lake Reserve, a Shuswap community near Williams Lake in British Columbia, to help reopen the local elementary ...
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Jade Frog
Granville Island Publishing (CA)£15.99| /An artist-shaman, an English teacher, and a judge find their lives transformed by the beauty and spiritual influence of the Cariboo Chilcotin. Span...
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Janams - Rebirths
New Century Publications (IND)£30.99| /This is the fiction story where a tormented soul makes a deal with the young woman to get her rightful offering at Budh Gaya by her son to become a...
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Je t'aime Cowboy
Goose Lane Editions£11.99| /In Montreal, sex and politics frequently mix, and T.F. Rigelhof's stories are sexy and political. His contemporary cowboys -- immature, vulnerable ...
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Jewish Life
Ariadne Press (US)£22.99| /This work, originally published in Mannheim in 1891, is a collection of twenty-six stories illustrating various aspect of Jewish life and culture i...
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Jonas in Frames
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /Jonas in Frames is [choose one]: A) a series of loosely connected narrative fragments written in poetic prose; B) a maze of postcard stories bursti...
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Joseph C. Lincoln's Essential Cape Cod Reader
Schiffer£13.99| /"The dear old Cape! I love it! I love its hills of sand," From "The Surf Along the Shore", Cape Cod Ballads (1902). From 1902 to a year before his ...
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Journeys Through Shadows
Indra Publishing (AUS)£14.99| /When Maryati leaves her village in Central Java to live in Melbourne with her Australian husband Trevor, she suffers the intense pain of separation...
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JRZDVLZ
Sagging Meniscus Press£19.99| /JRZDVLZ, by Lee Klein, author of The Shimmering Go-Between, is the autobiography of a sympathetic monster on a centuries-spanning quest for redempt...
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Juggling Truths
Spinifex Press£14.95| /"My name in Monei Ntuka and this is the story of my childhood in the village of Mochudi, in the then British Bechuanaland Protectorate, in the mid ...
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Jumping Off
NeWest Publishers Ltd (CA)£15.99| /This book chronicles women whose lives are on the brink of change, for better or worse. Though the characters are from all walks of life, they shar...
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Jurassic Ark
Avenue Books (UK)£9.95| /What if Noah, after completing the ark but still awaiting the arrival of the animals, took a time travelling holiday in modern Dorset? This creativ...
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Just Off Message
Interactive Press Australia£23.99| /From the ashes of the Penguin Australia Poetry Series, a new publishing house took wing. New and emerging creators, as well as established voices s...
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Kal Ma' lil-Shukulata
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press£9.99| /Text in Arabic. A highly original novel by one of Mexicos most important storytellers, Kal Maa Lil-Shukulatas chapters each start with a traditi...
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Kalila
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /Shortlisted, George Bugnet Award for FictionKalila chronicles the lives of Maggie and Brodie, whose joy collides with devastation when their daught...
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Kate Wake
DC Books (CA)£16.99| /Its 2008. Blue Hills is a haunted place. Katie fights to reclaim her life from the grip of a profound psychological crisis, tracing back a materna...
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Keepers of the House
Amaurea Press£9.99| /A new edition of the best-selling, award-winning first book.When the Beltrán brothers came to this Andean valley, they found behind barred windows ...
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Keeps
Huntington Press Inc (US)£9.99| /Castle Frazer is a 27-year-old gambler and "steering man". Rich Stillman is an 11-year-old poolshark. The two meet in Kentucky in the early 1940s a...
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Kilimanjaro Burning
Birch Brook Press (US)£25.99| /A Fast-paced novel relating the adventures of an ex-patriate American trying to con his way through politically explosive Tanzania.
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Kleist: Selected Writings
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£18.99| /Aiming in his translation for an English haunted and affected by the strangeness of the original, David Constantine offers a wealth of Heinrich von...
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Kleist: Selected Writings
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£47.99| /Aiming in his translation for an English haunted and affected by the strangeness of the original, David Constantine offers a wealth of Heinrich von...
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Knife Party
Goose Lane Editions£2.99| /The extraordinary "Knife Party" is from a new collection of stories by Mark Anthony Jarman titled Knife Party at the Hotel Europa, published in the...
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