Modern Fiction (Post C 1945)
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Strange Heaven
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /Winner, Atlantic Independent Booksellers Choice Award, Canadian Authors Association Air Canada Award, Dartmouth Book Award, and Thomas Head Raddall...
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Straw Obelisk
Branden Publishing Co (US)£25.99| /This strange antiwar novel is set in post-World War II Italy where Samuele, a young soldier ill with consumption, returns to his village much chang...
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Strong Hollow
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /In her bold debut novel, Linda Little has crafted a story where music, creativity, and sexuality merge, as a young Nova Scotian carver embarks on a...
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Strong Hollow
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /In her bold debut novel, Linda Little has crafted a story where music, creativity, and sexuality merge, as a young Nova Scotian carver embarks on a...
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Succession
Brindle & Glass (CA)£20.99| /Succession is a story cycle about a rural community in transition. It follows Al, a musician burned out from too many nights playing the same class...
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Suddenly The Minotaur
DC Books (US)£14.99| /Why did Guatemalan immigrant Mino Torrés try to rape Quebec student Ariane? What was the failed attempts aftermath? In this terse, prize-winning no...
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Suishy
DC Books (US)£14.99| /Arjun Basu's fiction collection is a wry and consistently provocative book which exposes the realities beneath social conventions. Squishy asks: Do...
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Suspense of Loneliness
Birch Brook Press (US)£19.99| /This is an anthology of mixed genre stories (literary and mystery) in which that most powerful of all human conditions -- loneliness -- steers char...
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Sutra & Other Stories
Mage Publishers Inc (US)£13.50| /Here are six stories by one of Iran's greatest contemporary writers, rare and intimate glimpses into the lives of ordinary Iranian men and women; w...
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Suzanne Davis Gets a Life
Paul Dry Books (US)£16.99| /Suzanne Davis lounges around her tiny New York City apartment in her pyjamas, writing press releases for the International Association of Air-Condi...
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Swallow
Newest Press (CA)£15.99| /You wake up, and your sister is dead. With an absent father and their mother constantly ill, sisters Darcy and Carly Nolan were forced to rely on e...
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Sweetness from Ashes
Brindle & Glass (CA)£20.99| /Set partially in Vancouver, partially on a farm in rural Ontario and partially in West Africa, Sweetness from Ashes is a novel about family in its ...
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Symphony For The Man
Spinifex Press£15.95| /1999. Winter. Bondi. Harrys been on the streets so long he could easily forget what time is. So Harry keeps an eye on it. Every morning. Then he h...
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Taking a Fool to Paradise
Indra Publishing (AUS)£18.99| /Are Arb and Henry different aspects of the same personality? Or do they just share the same madness, as they travel full circle but always containe...
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Taking Wing
Indra Publishing (AUS)£21.99| /Set in the era when Europe's thousand year thrust for universal fraternity detours into the communist tyranny, this novel tells the story of an ord...
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Tale Told
Sama Editorial & Publishing Services (PK)£14.00| /This book paints a picture with Pakistan's socio-political motifs -- its shadows, its silhouettes. It has a Bemisal. It has a Musallat. It has a Da...
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Tales for the Trail
Birch Brook Press (US)£16.99| /Loud adventures and quiet interludes in the air, land, waters of new York's Adirondacks to the rivers, lakes, forests and mountains of Caloifronia,...
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Tales From Victoria Park
Blacksmith Books (HK)£8.99| /Victoria Park, the largest expanse of open space in Hong Kong, is the crossroads and away home for thousands of Muslim women who come from Indonesi...
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Tales of a Punk Rock Nothing
Garrett County Press (US)£10.99| /The classic underground novel about a Jewish kid from Tennessee, who moves to DC and hangs out with militant vegetarians, manifesto-writing shoplif...
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Tales of Old Vienna and Other Prose
Ariadne Press (US)£15.99| /The Condor; The Ancient Seal; Tourmaline; Granite: Confidence; Prose Poem (from Indian summer); The Eclipse of the Sun in 1842; My Life: An Autobio...
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Talking at the Woodpile
Caitlin Press (CA)£12.99| /In this humourous and refreshing collection of short stories, David Thompson reveals the charm and grit of life in the Yukon. This is a masterful b...
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Talon
NeWest Publishers Ltd (CA)£14.99| /Rubis Caillou Morin is a widow, midwife, and faith healer from the Gaspé. Before her untimely death in 1873, she sends her young son west -- to be ...
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Tansie
Spinifex Press£9.95| /Alix Clemenger, sophisticate and internationally famous composer and concert pianist, is the toast of high society. A succession of momentous miles...
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Tartuffe
Boulder Publications£15.99| /Molière's comedy classic is ingeniously reimagined in Andy Jones' hilarious adaptation, set in 1930s Newfoundland. The original Tartuffe, by France...
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Tattycoram
Goose Lane Editions£23.99| /Caricatured by Charles Dickens in Little Dorrit as the cantankerous maid of Mr. and Mrs. Meagles, "Tattycoram" tells her own life story in this utt...
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Teabags & Tears
Empire Publications (UK)£8.95| /Sandra Partington has led a dog's life. Abused by her husband and humiliated by her sister, she finds the strength to take revenge on both with spe...
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Team Handed
Empire Publications (UK)£8.95| /Dawn Pritchard has a reputation but that hasn't stopped crime boss Jud Watson making her his fiancée. But Dawn has been seeing Jud's brother Larry ...
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Tears of Mehndi
Caitlin Press (CA)£10.99| /Through the perspectives of several women whose lives intertwine over a generation, Raminder Sidhu deftly exposes the shrouded violence within Cana...
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Teetotaller's Wake
Indra Publishing (AUS)£17.99| /Fiona Hindmarsh, a successful middle-aged economist, likes to live her life her way. Beginning the love-of-her-life affair with the gorgeous Laine ...
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Telepathy
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press£8.99| /"A Sudanese writer begins to suspect that one of his most idiosyncratic characters from a recent novel resembles in an uncanny and terrifying way...
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Ten Days
Wisdom Tree (IND)£7.95| /Tina is the brightest young executive in a call centre, and an office romance adds spice to the hectic pace of work.. until a stalker strikes terro...
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Tent of Blue
Goose Lane Editions£17.99| /Tent of Blue, Rachael Preston's richly conceived first novel, seduces readers with images of captivity and escape. Passing back and forth through t...
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Terror-Organisation
Aspekt Uitgeverij BV (NL)£16.95| /Samir and Siobhan, a young Dutch radical Muslim and a young Northern-Irish woman, are radicalising. Samir, from within the fundamentalist Islam, Si...
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THANASSIS VALTINOS: EARLY WORKS
Laertes, a Press for Literary Translation, Inc£21.99| /"From a master of modernist literature, Thanassis Valtinos, this volume collects two groundbreaking novellas that altered the trajectory of Greek f...
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That Stranger Within Me
Ibex Publishers (US)£24.99| /Fiction. Middle-Eastern Studies. Translated from the Farsi by Esmail Nooriala. "On Thursday August the ninth, 1979, at 3:30 in the afternoon, Amin'...
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The 1002nd Book to Read Before You Die
Sagging Meniscus Press£13.99| /M.J. Nicholls (author of The House of Writers and The Quiddity of Delusion) returns with a novel about readers and writers in outrageous battle wit...
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