Modern Fiction (Post C 1945)
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The Eavesdroppers
Newest Press (CA)£16.99| /When social attitudes researcher Bill Harcourt puts an advertisement in the newspaper for listeners to work on an unconventional project, he anti...
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The Five Hole Stories
Brindle & Glass (CA)£20.99| /Each of the six stories in Dave Bidini's playful, irreverent new book takes a headlong run at the hockey dressing room, and knocks the door down. I...
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The Flight of Birds
Sydney University Press£23.99| /Shortlisted for the Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction in 2019Shortlisted for the Mascara Literary Review's Avant Garde Awards 2020 The Flig...
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The Forbidden Purple City
Goose Lane EditionsOriginal price £21.99Current price £17.99| /Finalist, City of Vancouver Book Award 2019A man returns to Hoi An in his retirement to compose a poem honouring his parents. Two teenagers, ostrac...
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The Gaucho Juan Moreira
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£40.99| /Argentinian writer Eduardo Gutiérrez (1851-1889) fashioned his seminal gauchesque novel from the prison records of the real Juan Moreira, a noble o...
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The Gaucho Juan Moreira
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£13.99| /Argentinian writer Eduardo Gutiérrez (1851-1889) fashioned his seminal gauchesque novel from the prison records of the real Juan Moreira, a noble o...
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The Golden Thread
Goose Lane Editions£11.99| /Nominated for the 1990 Governor General's Award, The Golden Thread is a collection of linked stories that introduce readers to the memorable Sister...
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The Goliath Run
At Bay Press£22.99| /When a deranged loner kills 26 people in a Pennsylvania schoolyard, the country is stunned and devastated. Among those catatonic with grief is Jo M...
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The Gospel of the Twin
Bancroft (US)£28.99| /An ancient legend says that Jesus had a twin brother, Thomas. An extra-Biblical text that dates from perhaps as early as the late first century CE ...
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The Great Chimera
Aiora Press£12.99| /Eager to flee the parochialism of her French upbringing, and a painful family past, the young and beautiful Marina falls in love with a seductive G...
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The Great Secret
Galaxy Press (CA)£10.99| /Women. Liquor. Power... Women. Liquor. Power... That is Fanner Marston's mantra-his reason for being-and while he knows a little about the first an...
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The Greek Liar
Brandl & Schlesinger£8.99| /George Makris returns to Sydney after an absence of seven years. He has come home yet still feels in exile, for he does not value what others regar...
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The Happiness Glass
Spinifex Press£15.95| /But what did teenage girls in country towns want with Latin and French and art? What use would it be to them? The literary longings of a studious g...
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The Headhunters
Galaxy Press (CA)£10.99| /Tom Christian is on the trail of revenge and a fortune in gold. As square-jawed and rugged as Clark Gable in his prime, Tom is headed deep into the...
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The High-Rise in Fort Fierce
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /Finalist, Ottawa Book Award for Fiction 2019Drugs. Violence. Racism. Despair. The tiny, northern town of Fort Fierce has issues in spades, and most...
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The Horseman's Last Call
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /The Horseman's Last Call presents the closing chapters in the life of Wild Jack Strong. The story opens with Jack content on the ranch he had alway...
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The House of Writers
Sagging Meniscus Press£14.99| /This is a playful novel set in 2050, when the publishing industry has collapsed, literature has become a micro-niche interest, and Scotland itself ...
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The Inquirer
Newest Press (CA)£15.99| /When an accident jeopardising the family farm draws Amiah Williams back to Kingsley, Alberta, population 1431, she does not expect her homecoming t...
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The Iron Bridge
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /Shortlisted, Danuta Gleed Literary AwardIn a bold, brilliant collection of stories, Dora Award-winning playwright Anton Piatigorsky delivers a supe...
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The Irrational Doorways of Mr. Gerard
Goose Lane Editions£13.99| /The compelling plot of Nancy Bauer's fifth novel, The Irrational Doorways of Mr. Gerard, winds through Cornwall, Quebec City, and the Eastern Towns...
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The Journey
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£19.99| /Bill Gallaher's bestselling novel The Journey follows a group of three adventurous Overlanders--two young men and one remarkable woman--as they tra...
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The Judge and the Lady
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£20.99| /When the beautiful and flirtatious Eleanor Wentworth is sent away from London in 1870 for her scandalous behaviour, she arrives, angry and rebellio...
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The Kissing Fence
Caitlin Press (CA)£10.99| /1950s, New Denver: Pavel and Nina are among 200 Russian Doukhobor children separated from their families and community, and placed in a residential...
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The Kite Runner
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press£9.99| /Text in Arabic. Afghanistan in the 1970s: Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the local kite-flying tournament and his loyal friend Hassan pro...
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