Modern & Contemporary Fiction (Post c1945)
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Cormorant Books£9.99| /Longlisted for the 2024 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour In this darkly funny debut from Lucie Pagé, characters collide in unexpected ways...
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Aleister Crowley MI6
Mandrake of Oxford£25.00| /You can pluck someone like an instrument if you know the way to tune their heart. In May 1941, Ian Fleming of Naval Intelligence recruits Aleister ...
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Autokrator
Cormorant Books£8.99| /I am a gender criminal. I am Unmale, yet I write as though I am a person. Driven by a Machiavellian mind and ego, Tiresius has risen through the ra...
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Channel Surfing in the Sea of Happiness
Cormorant Books£9.99| /Channel Surfing in the Sea of Happiness is an iconoclastic romp through the end of the twentieth century. The misfit characters in this funny and p...
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Chasing Painted Horses
Cormorant Books£9.99| /Winner of the 2020 PMC Indigenous Literature Award When Ralph Thomas comes across graffiti of a horse in an alleyway in the early hours of the ...
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Double Karma
Cormorant Books£9.99| /Curiosity about his father’s homeland sends American photographer Min Lin to Burma to immerse himself in its culture and build his portfolio. But i...
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Finding Edward
Cormorant Books£9.99| /Shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary AwardLonglisted for the Toronto Book AwardsLonglisted for Canada Reads 2023A Globe and Mail Best Bo...
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Gerbil Mother
NeWest Press (CA)£15.99| /Gerbil, age zero, has a question: where do parents come from? Specifically, she wants to know about her mother. Who is this vessel in which she res...
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Getting Your Man
Spinifex Press£12.95| /Getting your man, the right man, is not always easy. But women, whether they are piece workers, housewives, artists, business women or farmers, kno...
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Ghost Detective
Eschia Books Inc (CA)£14.99| /The Compliance Officer for a First Nations Band has been shot in the head and left for dead. Unable to cross over to the great huntings grounds Bil...
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Ghostly Demarcations
Sagging Meniscus Press£18.99| /Everyone is constantly admonishing our narrator to keep quiet: "You're full of bull hockey, college boy... Shut up and drink your beer." Or, 'Shut ...
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Girl Ran Away
Cune Press (US)£20.99| /Elizabeth Jenkins, 17, raised on a Congo mission station, is under intense pressure to marry the station doctor, twenty years her senior. Hours bef...
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Girl Ran Away
Cune Press (US)£35.99| /Elizabeth Jenkins, 17, raised on a Congo mission station, is under intense pressure to marry the station doctor, twenty years her senior. Hours bef...
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Glow in the Dark
Cune Press (US)£12.99| /This startlingly edgy, seductive debut collection of short stores, travels from New York to Northern California, Mexico, Los Angeles and Paris, dro...
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God is an Atheist
Sentient Publications, Llc (US)£10.99| /A hysterically funny, yet profound romp through religion, spirituality and the contemporary clash of belief cultures, with special attention to the...
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God Is My Witness
Aiora Press£12.99| /It is the eve of the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, and Chrysovalantis -- a chronically unsuccessful but enthusiastic employee of the publishing indust...
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Goddess of the Rock
New Century Publications (IND)£35.99| /The action of the novel is set in the scenic mountainous part of the Uttaranchal State, formerly Uttar Pradesh (U.P.), where enchanting lakes, slat...
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Godless but Loyal to Heaven
Great Plains PublicationsOriginal price £15.99Current price £9.99| /In Richard Van Camp's fictionalized north anything can happen and yet each story is rooted in a vivid contemporary reality. The stories offer a pot...
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Going Fast
Goose Lane Editions£17.99| /In this punchy, uproarious romp of a novel, the Halifax boxing world -- peopled with has-beens, wannabes, and posers dressed in spandex, leopard pr...
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Golden Bond
Blue River Press (US)£15.99| /This is Angela Demetrious story. Her life as the daughter of Greek immigrants was normal, carefree and innocent until she was suddenly forced to...
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Gospel According to Prissy
Strategic Media Books (US)£19.99| /A fascinating story populated with memorable characters. We have three Army veteran misfits, a college drop-out, and unmotivated high school gradua...
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Grace and Marigold
Spinifex Press£19.95| /It’s 1974 when 20-year-old Grace arrives in London determined to shrug off her Australian past and reinvent herself. While embracing her new life i...
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Grace River
Brindle & Glass (CA)£20.99| /Grace River is a smelter town in the interior of B.C. where most people who live there are born and bred, and everyone is either employed by AXIS o...
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Graceful Ghost
Birch Brook Press (US)£20.99| /This is Gwendolyn Jensen's third book of poetry from Birch Brook Press. It was being written while she was also working with Chiara Frenquellucci t...
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Graceland Express
Dementi Milestone Publishing (US)£15.99| /"Climb aboard the graceland express for the ride of your life"! Vangie O Toole, is a devoted Elvis fan, but her dream of going to Graceland for the...
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Gracelessland
Great Plains PublicationsOriginal price £15.99Current price £6.99| /Its 1978, the year after Elvis Presley died, and Kepler Pressler is a sixteen-year-old Toronto kid with an obsessive attachment to his sock monkey...
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Grandpère
Caitlin Press (CA)£10.99| /Anzel, a widow in her sixties, lives quietly on her small farm with her grandfather, a Carrier elder from Northern BC. Grandpère and Anzel pass the...
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Great Canadian Fishing Stories
Lone Pine Publishing£9.99| /This fun anthology reels in more than 30 Canadian sportfishing stories, from side splitters to heartbreakers. First fish, big fish, small fish, los...
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Great Possessions
American Travellers Press (US)£15.99| /"I have tried to relate," explains Grayson, "the experiences of that elusive, invisible life which in every man is so far more real, so far more im...
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Greetings from the Vodka Sea
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /Greetings from the off-kilter world of Chris Gudgeon. In his first-ever book of fiction, the bestselling author of The Naked Truth: The Untold Hist...
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Grief Songs
Sagging Meniscus Press£13.99| /On June 4th, 2016, poet Jack Foleys wife, Adelle Foley, who was (as she told her doctor) never sick, was diagnosed with stomach cancer; she died o...
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Grow Wars
Empire Publications (UK)£8.95| /While crime boss Harry Jarvis has been languishing in jail, the Collins brothers have been steadily taking over his crime operation. Life has certa...
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Guests of Chance
Goose Lane Editions£23.99| /Colleen Curran returns with her latest novel, Guests of Chance, completing the hilarious trilogy that has taken readers through break-ups, make-ups...
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Gumption & Grit
Caitlin Press (CA)£15.99| /In 2002 the Williams Lake Women's Contact Society posted a request for pioneer stories of the women of the Cariboo Chilcotin. What they received wa...
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Guy Who Pumps Your Gas
Newest Press (CA)£15.99| /"No one should ever work at a gas station long enough to get good at it," observes Brendan, the narrator of the debut novel from Sean Trinder. Bren...
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Gynomite
Garrett County Press (US)£15.99| /From lesbians writing gay male sex to straight chicks writing as horny men, this collection turns stereotypes on their heads. From the most subtle ...
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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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