Modern & Contemporary Fiction (Post c1945)
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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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Knife Party at the Hotel Europa
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /Shortlisted, Alistair MacLeod Award for Short Fiction, New Brunswick Book Award for Fiction, and Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction AwardOne of Canada...
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Knife Party at the Hotel Europa
Goose Lane Editions£23.99| /Shortlisted, Alistair MacLeod Award for Short Fiction, New Brunswick Book Award for Fiction, and Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction AwardOne of Canada...
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L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume 36
Galaxy Press£16.99| /Soar to new heights of Science Fiction & Fantasy. Who are the top science fiction writers and illustrators of the future? The answer is here. G...
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La Saguoine
Goose Lane Editions£14.99| /The premise is deceptively simple: a dirt-poor charwoman and former prostitute leans on her mop and tells her life story. But what a story! As she ...
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Lady -- a Peacemaker
Branden Publishing Co (US)£18.99| /Fictional account about a group of Olympic athletes who contribute their talents and name recognition in a mission of peace, until, finally, one ac...
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Lady of the Realm
Spinifex Press£12.95| /One day there will be peace in Vietnam. But not before more war. Touched by the Lady of the Realm, Liên dreams of bones and bodies under the sea. T...
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Lake of Urine
Sagging Meniscus Press£12.99| /Once upon a time that doesnt make a blind bit of sense, in a place that seems awfully familiar but definitely doesnt exist, Willem Seilers obses...
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Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
DC Books (CA)£18.99| /A mysterious echo from the past. One mans suicide attempt and his struggle to return among the living. The allegory of a famous Bruegel painting a...
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Lane
Empire Publications (UK)£8.95| /Elsie Barker has got in over her head and has disappeared off the face of the earth. Her son Johnny, fresh out of prison and hoping to go straight,...
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Lazarillo de Tormes and The Grifter (El Buscon)
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£14.99| /"An elegant, precise, and accessible modern-English rendering of the two best examples of the early modern picaresque genre: the paradigmatic Lazar...
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Lazarillo de Tormes and The Grifter (El Buscon)
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£40.99| /"An elegant, precise, and accessible modern-English rendering of the two best examples of the early modern picaresque genre: the paradigmatic Lazar...
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Le Morte D'Arthur
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£16.99| /This brisk retelling of Le Morte D'Arthur highlights the narrative drive, humor, and poignancy of Sir Thomas Malory's original while updating his f...
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