Modern Fiction (Post C 1945)
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Life's Tumultuous Party
Sagging Meniscus Press£20.00| /"Parties are my library," says notorious party-crasher, Lower East Side denizen, and exuberantly idiosyncratic prose stylist Marvin Cohen. In this ...
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Light for Others
Ariadne Press (US)£26.99| /Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836-1895), whose name has been immortalised in the term masochism, is known today predominantly for his novel 'Venus in...
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Light on a Part of the Field
Newest Press (CA)£16.99| /In his evocative debut novel, Light on a Part of the Field, Kevin Holowack introduces us to a family grappling with artistic ambition, mental illne...
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Lighted Windows
Ariadne Press (US)£14.99| /Widowed and newly retired, the turn-of-the-century Austrian civil servant Julius Zihal has left the safe haven of the Tax Office and its orderly, c...
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Lightning in a Bottle
Branden Publishing Co (US)£20.99| /The 1967 Boston Red Sox made an "Impossible Dream" come true for all Red Sox Fans. When the season began, Las vegas assigned the Red Sox a one in o...
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Like We Care
Bancroft (US)£24.99| /Music, television, cigarettes, junk food. In the world of Matthews's bitingly satiric novel, these industries all rely on and take advantage of tee...
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Lillian's Eden
Spinifex Press£17.95| /In Lillians Eden, debut novelist Cheryl Adam takes the reader to Australian rural post-war life in the 1950s through the life of a family struggli...
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Limen
Spinifex Press£16.95| /This tiny crack in our lives wind and rain strewn stranded on the limen that space between water and sky rain and sun cold and heat When two women ...
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Lincoln Center in July & Other Stories
Sagging Meniscus Press£13.99| /This is the first volume of the collected stories of Roy Lisker. Written over a period of over sixty years, these works are a significant cross-cut...
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Listeners
Bancroft (US)£22.99| /Before the plague, and the quarantine, fourteen-year-old Daniel Raymond had only heard of the Listeners. They were a gang, or at least that's what ...
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Listeners
Bancroft (US)£15.99| /Before the plague, and the quarantine, fourteen-year-old Daniel Raymond had only heard of the Listeners. They were a gang, or at least that is what...
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Little Sister
Manor House Publishing (CA)£19.99| /Mila Mirkin and John Lister want success any way they can get it. For Mila, that means working as an escort to finance grad school. For John, it me...
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Locust Girl
Spinifex Press£13.95| /This novel is a fairytale, a political allegory, and a philosophical interrogation of the human heart. Most everything has dried up: water, the wom...
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Lonesome Hero
Brindle & Glass (CA)£20.99| /Meet Tyrone Lock: born of farmers' stock; overeducated, underemployed. An inveterate pick-nose and clandestine squeezer of Revels in the supermarke...
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Looking Good
Brindle & Glass (CA)£23.99| /A Globe and Mail Top 100 Pick of 2006 The Summer of Love is already like a distant memory; the psychedelic underground has turned in on itself. Joh...
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Loot of the Shanung
Galaxy Press (CA)£10.99| /Stop the presses! One hundred thousand dollar reward offered for the return of George Harley Rockham! That's more than enough to turn Shanghai news...
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Lords of the Schoolyard
Sagging Meniscus Press£14.99| /The young roughnecks in LORDS OF THE SCHOOLYARD, best friends since eighth grade, smell the roses in their own way: tormenting and manipulating sma...
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Lost in Thyme
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press£9.99| /Sami Amara, heir to the Amara & Sons Construction Company, has been plagued by visions of a mysterious red-haired girl that he just cant place...
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Love at Last Sight
Newest Press (CA)£13.99| /"So I have always walked alleys alone, with my monster face, listening through a wall for the words that might cultivate me, that are contained wit...
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Love in the Age of Confusion
DC Books (US)£14.99| /This is a sexy romp packed with mouth-watering descriptions of food, endless supplies of ouzo, gags, and absurd collisions. In this fictional debut...
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Lovers & Losers of the Last Century
Indra Publishing (AUS)£17.99| /Valerie Kirwan's sharp observation and sharper wit presents us with these four cameos of love loved and love lost in the last decades of the twenti...
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Luther Corhern's Salmon Camp Chronicles
Goose Lane Editions£13.99| /Luther Corhern, Miramichi guide and keeper of Cavender Bill's Salmon Camp log, never met a fisherman in his life (other than Stan Tuney) who would ...
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Madame Bovary
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£11.99| /In his Introduction, MacKenzie discusses Flaubert's life, the writing of Madame Bovary, the world in which the novel is set, and its publication an...
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Madchild Running
Museum of New Mexico Press (US)£24.99| /The story of a teenage girl caught up in the harrowing world of urban violence and of the young Native American man in his first job after college,...
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Madder Carmine
Great Plains PublicationsOriginal price £11.99Current price £6.99| /After three years in the Mexican War, colour-blind Dannon Lereaux sets out across the mountains in search of "love, red, and a new class of salvati...
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Magic & Madness in the Library
Birch Brook Press (US)£19.99| /Fiction on the unique experience and curious atmosphere of libraries around the world, across time, that have inspired writers to dream up magic an...
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Magic Even You Can Do
Sagging Meniscus Press£14.99| /Charles Holdefer, author of Dick Cheney in Shorts, The Contractor and Back in the Game, has here uncovered, with abundant aplomb and loads of liter...
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Man in the Middle
Bancroft (US)£25.99| /You are invited to enter the world of high stakes and low morals insider trading, where winning no matter how it's done is measured by how much mon...
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Man of Bone
Goose Lane Editions£13.99| /Winner, Ottawa-Carleton Book AwardShortlisted, Trillium AwardMan of Bone has a thriller's taste for blood, but Alan Cumyn delivers something more: ...
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Man of Bone
Goose Lane Editions£13.99| /Winner, Ottawa-Carleton Book AwardShortlisted, Trillium AwardMan of Bone has a thriller's taste for blood, but Alan Cumyn delivers something more: ...
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Mantis Dreams
Caitlin Press (CA)£10.99| /This is a crackling, searing satire that ridicules both political correctness and the restrictive world of academia. But Adam Pottle's first novel ...
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Married Love
Goose Lane Editions£6.99| /This novella charts with great comic exuberance the disasters which occur when Harry's mother, her stepson Jackie Boy, stepdaughter Elaine, and her...
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Mary Jemison
Clear Light Publishers (US)£17.99| /"With two children on her back, nine-year-old John beside her, and Tom astride a horse in front, Mary inched her way through the lonely forest. It ...
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Maryland Loyalists in the American Revolution
Tidewater-Cornell Maritime£24.99| /Maryland Loyalists in the American Revolution tells the story of Marylanders who could not engage in the passionate rebellion that was breaking out...
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Matrix Interviews
DC Books (US)£11.99| /An intertwined history binds Matrix and The Moosehead Anthology. Both appeared in The Eastern Townships of Quebec: Matrix in 1975 and the original ...
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Mawsim Al-Houriyyat
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press£7.99| /Text in Arabic. Alwaleed is a struggling Jordanian youth, searching for meaning and soon seduced by the Recruiters promises, fighting the Syrian r...
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