Modern Fiction (Post C 1945)
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The Professor Was a Thief
Galaxy Press (CA)£10.99| /The Empire State Building has vanished into thin air! Gone, too, are Grant's Tomb and Grand Central Station, and all hell is breaking loose in New ...
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The Promise
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£19.99| /It was 1862 and the Cariboo Gold Rush was in full swing. Sophia Cameron, the Beauty of Barkerville, lay dying of typhoid when her husband, John Car...
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The Promise of Rain
Caitlin Press (CA)£10.99| /Ethie Coulter was born after her father Howard returned from the war in 1945. She never knew him as he was before, never knew that he had been an o...
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The Push & the Pull
Goose Lane Editions£16.99| /Andrew Day embarks on a bicycle trip from Halifax to Kingston, his childhood home. As he goes, the dual narratives of Andrew's life emerge: the slo...
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The Quiddity of Delusion
Sagging Meniscus Press£10.00| /In an obsessive monologue vaguely after the manner of Thomas Bernhard, a socially inept writer, in an attempt to deflate or defeat the humiliation ...
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The Republic of Nothing
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /Winner, Dartmouth Book AwardShortlisted, Atlantic Booksellers Choice AwardA small Canadian island declares its independence to the world and benign...
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The Rest is Silence
Goose Lane Editions£17.99| /Winner, H.R. (Bill) Percy Novel PrizeFinalist, Amazon.ca First Novel AwardFinalist, Jim Connors Dartmouth Book AwardFinalist, Ottawa Book AwardIn t...
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The River Killers
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /Danny Swanson, Department of Fisheries and Oceans employee and ex-fisherman, isn't exactly upset when he's reassigned from a desk job in Ottawa to ...
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The Russian Operation
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£18.00| /A fearless diplomat. A dangerous mission. And only one way out. Joey Torino would be out-of-the-mould in almost any career. He is tough, independen...
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The Sad Eye
Goose Lane Editions£11.99| /Sackville resident Bradd Burningham's uncanny ability to inhabit the mind brings intimate revelations from characters as diverse as earthy middle-a...
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The Salt Marsh King
Bancroft (US)£24.99| /Henry O'Reilly, the founder and head of an enormous seafood empire nearing the end of his career, makes sudden preparations to divide his company a...
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The Shadow of the Strongman
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£19.99| /A searing novel of the post-1910 Mexican revolutionary era that itself challenged the Mexican political establishment, Guzmàn's The Shadow of the S...
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The Shadow of the Strongman
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£56.99| /A searing novel of the post-1910 Mexican revolutionary era that itself challenged the Mexican political establishment, Guzmàn's The Shadow of the S...
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The Shadow Over Portage and Main
Great Plains Publications£15.99| /Winnipeg is a place of extremes. Winters are fierce and relentless. Summers are unbearbly hot. It has been both the murder and auto theft capital o...
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The Silent Partner
Goose Lane Editions£13.99| /Corry Quinn starts off on the wrong foot. When he's very small, his mother dies. Then his feckless father, heading down the road from his Miramichi...
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The Slightest Chance
Blacksmith Books (HK)£11.99| /In war, you can pretend to be someone youre not. Yet, in war, people find out who you really are. Hong Kong, 1941. Anglo-Australian civil servant ...
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The South Will Rise at Noon
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /Hot on the heels of Douglas Glover's Governor General's Award for fiction for his riotous novel, Elle, Goose Lane has brought back into print Glove...
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The Spear of The Centurion
Primedia Elaunch LLC£25.99| /The centurion who speared Christ also guarded the tomb. When the body is missing, Pilate orders his arrest. He flees. The spear has special powers....
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The Square
Empire Publications (UK)£8.95| /Alice Goodman has been forbidden from entering Tavistock Square for as long as she can remember but, now aged fifteen, the place looks tempting. Wi...
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The Story That Brought Me Here
Brindle & Glass (CA)£25.99| /Thousands of newcomers are pouring into Alberta from around the globe, bringing unexpected gifts. Many are writers and storytellers. What pulls the...
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The Studhorse Man
University of Alberta Press (CA)£21.99| /Hazard Lepage, the last of the studhorse men, sets out to breed his rare blue stallion, Poseidon. A lusty trickster and a wayward knight, Hazard's ...
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The Summer of Apartment X
Goose Lane Editions£11.99| /Lesley Choyce's novella The Summer of Apartment X is a beach book for grownups who remember how they got that way. Fred Winger and his two buddies,...
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The Tale of Don L'Orignal
Goose Lane Editions£13.99| /Winner of the 1979 Governor General's Award for fiction, Antonine Maillet's virtuoso creation, The Tale of Don L'Orignal, is now back in print. Mai...
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The Tartarus House on Crab
Brindle & Glass (CA)£20.99| /Jack Tartarus, a photographer, has returned to his family's house on Crab, an island off the east coast of Vancouver Island. After mulling it over ...
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The Taste of Ashes
Caitlin Press (CA)£10.99| /Isabel Lee's early life in rural BC was forever changed by a brief but powerful love affair with a young Oblate priest. Now a recovering alcoholic,...
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The Terrorist
Digital Publishing Centre£25.99| /Ben Fine is no ordinary Australian... but these aren't exactly ordinary times. A clash of cultures has beset the world: George W. Bush has declared...
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The Three Marys
Goose Lane Editions£2.99| /Giller Prize-winner Lynn Coady's unforgettable Christmas story "The Three Marys," is adapted from her award-winning debut novel, Strange Heaven, pu...
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The Tiger & Other Tales
Sagging Meniscus Press£12.99| /Jack Foley's autobiography begins, "What is a life but stories?" The stories collected here are not his life but a fantastic consciousness in which...
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The Time of Her Life
Goose Lane Editions£17.99| /In The Time of Her Life, David Helwig draws us into the world of a woman of character. Indeed how Helwig tells the tale is as absorbing as the tale...
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The Time We All Went Marching
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /Seduced by Slim's stories of the privations of a cross-country trek that ended in the violence of an historic riot and tales of Depression-era work...
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The Umbilical Word
Interactive Press£23.99| /After a series of miscarriages, Adam and Maddy manage to get pregnant. To 'personify and self-actualise' his fatherhood, Adam decides to email thei...
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The Unconsoled
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press£15.99| /Ryder, a renowned pianist, arrives in a Central European city he cannot identify for a concert he cannot remember agreeing to give. The story unfol...
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The Unfinished Child
Brindle & Glass (CA)£20.99| /When Marie MacPherson, a mother of two, finds herself unexpectedly pregnant at thirty-nine, she feels guilty. Her best friend, Elizabeth, has never...
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The Violin Lover
Goose Lane Editions£17.99| /Set in Jewish London in the 1930s, Susan Glickman's The Violin Lover is written against the backdrop of Hitler's escalating campaign against the Je...
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The Wanton Troopers
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /In this new edition of Alden Nowlan's poignant first novel, published posthumously in 1988, a boy growing up in a small Nova Scotia mill town is ab...
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The Weight of a Soul
Flux£12.99| /When Lena's younger sister Fressa is found dead, their whole Viking clan mourns--but it is Lena alone who never recovers. Fressa is the sister that...
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The Weight of the Heart
Palimpsest Press£12.99| /When her brother dies in the turbulent water of B.C.s Thompson River, Isabel sets out to find traces of him in the places he loved. At the same ti...
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The Well
University of Alberta Press (CA)£14.99| /A petty criminal eludes capture by becoming a hired man on a prairie farm, only to discover deception and betrayal. Introduction by Kristjana Gunnars.
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The Wind Seller
Goose Lane Editions£17.99| /In her highly anticipated second novel, Rachael Preston tells a vibrant, compelling story of 20th century piracy. Exploring the complex struggle fo...
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The Woman She Was
Brindle & Glass (CA)£22.99| /Celia Cantú, a pediatrician in Havana, is trying to live a regular life in today's Cuba. She is engaged to her childhood friend Luis and lives with...
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The Worst of While You Were Sleeping
Schiffer£36.99| /While You Were Sleeping was a graffiti and pop culture magazine started by graffiti supply business owner Roger Gastman when he was 19. Here are so...
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The Wrecking Crew
Dekel Publishing House£11.95| /Hang on for a wild ride! The craziest coalition in history is out to destroy ISIS! Forty years ago, Don Tommy Aiello was the most feared mafia lead...
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The Yalta Stunts
Sagging Shorts£12.99| /"The Yalta Stunts", one of the most perfect, charming, and enigmatic works of the always mysterious 20th century underground poet Alvin Krinst, has...
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The Young in Their Country
Great Plains Publications£23.99| /The young occupy a territory of their own, a foreign land inaccessible to nostalgia and regret. In these eloquent, arresting stories, an assortment...
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Thin Rising Vapors
Sagging Meniscus Press£19.99| /Ezra Stern hasnt seen his best friend from childhood and college in the six years since Abel suddenly quit a successful career in New York to live...
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Things You've Inherited From Your Mother
Newest Press (CA)£15.99| /Everyone deals with grief in their own personal way. Take Carrie, for example. Getting over her mother's death from ovarian cancer takes the form o...
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Thirty-Two Stories
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£38.99| /America's most influential literary figure worldwide is familiar to most readers of short fiction through only about a dozen stories. This is becau...
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This Is All A Lie
Great Plains Publications£15.99| /Three lives, one unreliable narrator and the consequences of losing intimacy. This is All a Lie opens with Ray leaving his mistress for the final t...
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