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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