Modern & Contemporary Fiction (Post c1945)
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Privilege
Great Plains PublicationsOriginal price £16.99Current price £6.99| /With his divorce nearly finalised, the surprise success of his first book on the wane, and his ill-advised affair with grad student Lara Kitts put ...
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Profane Feasts
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform£20.99| /Profane Feasts, 13 stories by Tom Tolnay, is a sequence of thirteen story-chapters focussing on a family of Greek immigrants who settled in Brookly...
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Public Art in Vancouver
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£20.99| /Featuring more than 500 public art installations, this is the essential guide for anyone interested in Vancouver, its people and its artists.The ch...
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Pudding Club
Empire Publications (UK)£8.95| /After a failed marriage Rebecca Rooks has returned to comfort eating. Now she is overweight and she knows it. To make matters worse her best friend...
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Pulse Point
Great Plains PublicationsOriginal price £11.99Current price £6.99| /For Kaia, setting foot outside can be deadly. Climate change has made Earth too dangerous for people to live anywhere but inside the City. Run on t...
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Punk in Gallows America
Birch Brook Press (US)£24.99| /Eddie Ways, a once wealthy suburbanite, finds himself hanging around the social underworld of Chicago. His adventures, including his fixation on Li...
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Purple Jesus
Bancroft (US)£15.99| /When Purvis Driggers, a South Carolina Low Country loser with little judgement and even less chance for a decent life beyond his parents' house, ho...
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Purple Jesus
Bancroft (US)£22.99| /"When Purvis Driggers, a South Carolina Low Country loser with little judgment and even less chance for a decent life beyond his parents' house, ho...
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Qalam an-najjar
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press£7.99| /Text in Arabic. Set in the dark days of the Spanish Civil War, Qalam an-Najjar charts the linked destinies of Dr Daniel Da Barca, the Republican wh...
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Queens of All the Earth
Bancroft (US)£19.99| /As her freshman classmates move into dorms at Cornell University, Olivia Somerset suffers a nervous breakdown. Big sister Miranda decides the siste...
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Radio Jet Lag
Cormorant Books£9.99| /"A gem of a novel." — Terry Fallis, two-time winner of the Leacock Medal for Humour Longlisted for the 2024 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humo...
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Reading by Lightning
Goose Lane Editions£16.99| /Winner, Commonwealth Writers Prize, Canada and the Caribbean, Amazon.ca First Novel Award, and On the Same Page, Manitoba ReadsShortlisted, Eileen ...
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Reality Jane
Bancroft (US)£16.99| /Set behind the scenes of America's most popular guilty pleasure -- reality TV -- Reality Jane delivers a high-spirited, delicious tale of finding l...
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Reappearance of Sam Webber
Bancroft (US)£24.99| /When young Sam Webber's father disappears without a trace, Sam and his mother are forced to relocate to a tough neighbourhood closer to her job. Un...
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recrEAtion
Technics Publications Llc (US)£19.99| /Join Simon on a quest to uncover the value of Enterprise Architecture (and it's not what you think it is!) Simon is a seasoned Enterprise Architect...
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Redemption
Dragon Hill Publishing (US)£17.99| /In this sweeping saga, Yvonne Harris tells the poignant stories of Robert and Alice, two young people who join the 1846 wagon train to cross North ...
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Register
Ariadne Press (US)£21.99| /This novel describes from varying perspectives the lives of two Austrian brothers. Moritz and Vinzenz, who meet again after a long estrangement. Th...
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Relationships
Ariadne Press (US)£25.99| /This anthology presents an image of the Austrian people through short narrative prose works by forty of the leading modern and contemporary authors...
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Remember the Tarantella
Spinifex Press£16.95| /A Feminist classic paperback re-release. This is a remarkable work. It's learned and frivolous, female not feminine, silly and serious. The quality...
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Resisting Probability
Sagging Meniscus Press£10.99| /The uncanny obstinacy of Colin James poems in Resisting Probability lingers like an elusive aftertaste, a sense of raw, stunted assertion and mate...
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Restoration
DC Books (US)£13.99| /A novel dramatising the various and often conflicting ways members of an English-speaking Montreal family try to understand and cope with the Refer...
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Return of the Cavaliers
Blue Dome Press (US)£9.99| /Beginning with the environment in which Fethullah Gülen was raised and the dynamics that formed his character, this biographical novel captures the...
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Return Ticket
Fremantle Press£19.99| /It's 1972. When hot-headed, impetuous Jack Muir gets off the ship in Durban, he fails to get back on. Instead, he sails into misadventure, fleeing ...
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Riding Solo
Empire Publications (UK)£8.95| /When her mother takes her own life after her father leaves her, therapist Marcy Jordan vows to open a clinic helping the broken-hearted. Although h...
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Risk of Ruin
Huntington Press Inc (US)£12.99| /The debut release from Huntington Press' new fiction imprint, this is a love story unlike any you have ever read -- dark, disturbing, irreverent --...
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Root of All Evil
Indra Publishing (AUS)£11.99| /The news of her sick father beckons Komala to return to Jakarta, leaving her husband and children behind in Melbourne, now her home city. But the J...
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Rouge Angel
Dante University of America Press (US)£22.99| /In 15th-century Florence, a frenzy of artistic creativity produced some of the world's greatest masterpieces in architecture, sculpture, and painti...
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Rudy Wiebe: Collected Stories, 1955-2010
University of Alberta Press (CA)£33.99| /For more than fifty years, Canadian literary legend Rudy Wiebe has been defining and refining prairie literature through his oeuvre of world-renown...
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Ruins & Relics
NeWest Press (CA)£15.99| /These are short stories about people who harbour relics from their past: a postcard from Vienna, the cigarette burns that scar a boy's chest, a sto...
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Rumi and the Red Handbag
Palimpsest Press£15.99| /What is the soul? asks Rumi, the poet. If I could taste one sip of an answer, I could break out of this prison for drunks. Rumi and the Red Handbag...
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Run Out of Prose
Sagging Meniscus Press£13.99| /When asked by a friend why he recently he had been writing only poetry, Marvin Cohen, octogenarian author of many novels, stories, essays and plays...
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Running Toward Home
NeWest Press (CA)£17.99| /Transferred between foster homes for most of his life, twelve-year-old Corey Brinkman has developed a bad habit of running away. His new foster par...
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Safe Houses
Spinifex Press£11.95| /Against the background of the escalating violence of the 1980s, this novel tells a story of three families -- black and Jewish -- who are inextrica...
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Samara the Wholehearted
Goose Lane Editions£11.99| /In Samara the Wholehearted, Bauer transports her readers to the slightly tilted world of Summerland, a communal summer retreat, where a series of u...
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Samaritan
Bancroft (US)£25.99| /After a youth marked by the death of his parents and a childhood spent with his shaman grandfather on the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation, Kevin "Ha...
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Sanctuary & Other Stories
DC Books (US)£13.99| /This debut collection of fiction introduces a brilliant and innovative new voice to Canadian literature. These fourteen stories, interconnected and...
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Santa Rosa
NeWest Press (CA)£12.99| /What is real when seen through the eyes of a child? When does the harshness of reality transform idyllic memories? The young narrator of Santa Rosa...
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Sasquatch in Alberta
Hancock House Publishers (CA)£20.99| /This book is the republication of the authors earlier work of the same title. It covers Steenburg's investigations of the ongoing Sasquatch questio...
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Satou bi Marwahiya
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press£11.99| /Text in Arabic. Four men, all worlds apart, come together to plan to robbery unlike anything ever attempted in Swedish history: Sami Farhan, the Ir...
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Savage Love
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /The Globe and Mail Top 100Quill & Quire Book of the YearAmazon.ca Editors' Pick, Top 100Now magazine, Top 10 BooksChatelaine, Favourite Books o...
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Savage Love
Goose Lane Editions£23.99| /An Amazon.ca Best Book of 2013A Globe and Mail Top 100 for 2013A Quill & Quire Best Book of 2013Longlisted, Frank O'Connor International Short ...
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Saving Mona Lisa
Americas Group Publications (US)£20.99| /Book in slipcase. This is the story of Leonardo da Vinci and two of his apprentices clashing over the ultimate fate of a painting that had achieved...
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Savushun
Mage Publishers Inc (US)£13.50| /Savushun chronicles the life of a Persian family during the Allied occupation of Iran during World War II. It is set in Shiraz, a town which evokes...
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Sawbones Memorial
University of Alberta Press (CA)£14.99| /After practicing medicine for forty-five years, Doctor "Sawbones" Hunter is retiring. It's April 1948, and the long-awaited hospital in Upward, Sas...
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Scotland Before the Bomb
Sagging Meniscus Press£19.99| /Illustrated by Alan Lyons. In 2060, Scotland was annihilated in a series of merciless nuclear strikes from Luxembourg. In response to a curious pub...
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Scribes
Caitlin Press (CA)£10.99| /Maureen Foss's offbeat and darkly funny third novel begins when four quirky and mismatched women answer an ad to join a writing group. Unlikely fri...
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Sea Fangs
Galaxy Press (CA)£10.99| /Bob Sherman has a strength of character and purpose that would make Spencer Tracy. But signing on to the crew of the yacht Bonito, he'll need every...
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Seal Intestine Raincoat
NeWest Press (CA)£15.99| /After a severe winter storm and extended power failure, thousands become trapped in their homes during one of the coldest weeks of the year. For on...
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