Modern Fiction (Post C 1945)
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Outclassed in Kuwait
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press£7.99| /When one of Kuwaits richest businessmen unexpectedly contacts author Taleb Al-Rifai, he has an unusual request: write a biographical novel that t...
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Overnight Sensation
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /Overnight Sensation is the independent and richly entertaining sequel to Colleen Curran's hilarious first novel, Something Drastic. Lenore Rutland,...
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Owner's Closet
Bull Publishing Co. (US)£10.95| /Told from the viewpoint of a closet in a summer house, this tale describes the passing of a year by telling the stories of those who come and go in...
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Pagan Nuptials of Julia
DC Books (US)£13.99| /This book chronicles the lives of ordinary English-speaking Quebeckers who 'did not go the other way' down the 401, a neglected Canadian minority t...
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Pan's Road
Mandrake of Oxford (UK)£9.99| /The ancient hungry stones of Coptos in Upper Egypt have soaked up the stories of the inhabitants along with their blood. When archaeologists uneart...
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Paper Trail
NeWest Press (CA)£15.99| /A novel written halfway between poetry and prose, Paper Trail questions the rat race work ethic many of us adhere to, more often out of necessity t...
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Parachute Silk
Spinifex Press£14.95| /A novel in two voices, 'Parachute Silk' consists of letters between two women friends who discuss in depth their feelings and share their lives by ...
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Paradise Engine
Newest Press (CA)£15.99| /While working to restore an historic theatre in a seedy part of the city, a graduate student named Anthea searches to find her best friend, lost to...
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Parallax
Spinifex Press£16.95| /She inspected her knitting. A yarn imagines itself, you know, she murmured, from separate strands. Every story is made of strands, too, of worlds t...
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Parallel Forces
Indra Publishing (AUS)£11.99| /This is the story of a unique family, centred on Amyrra, one of twin sisters. Amyrra's story is set mainly in modern Australia but also in ancient ...
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Parallel Prairies
Great Plains PublicationsOriginal price £16.99Current price £6.99| /The Canadian Prairie teems with life - not all of it of this world. Get acquainted with baby dragons, killer insects, faery kings, infernal entitie...
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Passage on the Cardena
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /In the summer of 1930, fifteen-year-old Matthew Clayton's mother dies, leaving him alone in Vancouver. Using the Union Steamship ticket she gave hi...
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Paul Gerhardt
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£47.99| /A monography on the German Lutheran hymn writer Paul Gerhardt (1607-1676).
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Pay or Play
Siles Press (US)£13.99| /Now in its first paperback edition, this is a wickedly funny satire of the Hollywood film industry and its peculiar marriage of vision and ambition...
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Pélagie
Goose Lane Editions£17.99| /In 1979, the legendary Acadian novelist Antonine Maillet won France's most coveted literary award, the Prix Goncourt, for the original version of t...
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Pedal
Caitlin Press (CA)£10.99| /Julia Hoop, a twenty-five-year-old counselling psych student, is working on her thesis, exploring an idea which makes her graduate supervisor squir...
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Perfecting
Goose Lane Editions£17.99| /With blood on his hands, Curtis Woolf flees his home in New Mexico for Canada, where he starts a religious commune, the Family. There he heals othe...
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Perfidy
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£25.99| /In the Kastner affair, as it is known, a seemingly insignificant refugee from Hungary accuses an important member of David Ben Gurion s Mapai party...
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Person Made of Porcelain & Other Stories
Ariadne Press (US)£25.99| /In his eminence, his iconic status, and his masterful command of enormous fictional realms in several huge novels, Heimito von Doderer (1896-1966) ...
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Pilgrimage
Brindle & Glass (CA)£20.99| /Pilgrimage opens in the deep winter of 1891 on the Métis settlement of Lac St. Anne. Known as Manito Sakahigan in Cree, "Spirit Lake" has been rena...
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Pillow Book Of Lady Kasa
DC Books (US)£13.99| /Here is the diary of a court lady of Japan from the golden age of Nara, over a thousand years ago. The Naran age, characterised by hierarchy, rigid...
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Pineapple
Sagging Meniscus Press£15.99| /Welcome to Los Alamos, where the big-brained boys and girls are at it again. But atoms have become passé: now its the Higgs boson, which they are ...
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Place Into Being
At Bay Press£19.99| /Robert Pasternak (NAK) is without a doubt, an undisputed master of sequential art. A virtuoso craftsman, known regionally by only an exclusive few,...
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Plane Truth
Impact Publications (US)£15.99| /Consists of 70 short stories, the book includes everything from bizarre in-flight incidents to the monumental changes taking place in the airline i...
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Please State the Nature of Your Emergency
Sagging Meniscus Press£10.99| /The sapient roaches of our planetary future, when they seek to understand the sickening dismay, abysmal grief and goofy absurdity of the Anthropoce...
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Plenty of Harm in God
DC Books (US)£13.99| /This is the story of Clare, twenty years old and accidentally pregnant, and her return from her native Newfoundland to Inisheer, Ireland. The goal ...
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Pluto's Gate
DC Books (US)£15.99| /In present day Montreal, a young woman by the name of Percy vanishes from the streets. The woman's parents -- her father, a famous musician, and he...
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Pollen
DC Books (US)Original price £15.99Current price £14.99| /With wit and sensitivity, these tales portray moments of suffering, confusion, and discovery and introduce the reader to worlds as widely various a...
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Pond Hockey
Dragon Hill Publishing (CA)£15.99| /A middle-aged man moves back to his hometown in rural Quebec because of his mother's illness. While there he is drawn to the pond where he first le...
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Poppy's Return
Spinifex Press£13.95| /A novel of love, friendship and family. Poppy Sinclair is happy enough at mid-life. She enjoys close relationships with friends and family and take...
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Porny Stories
DC Books (US)£14.99| /Have you ever wondered what Woody Allen would be like if he were a woman stoked on chick-lit who lived in Toronto? Eva Moran has. This is a collect...
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Portrait of the Pacific Rim
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£17.99| /Portrait of the Pacific Rim is a photographic tour of the awe-inspiring sights and activities on the far edge of Canada. The wild, raw beauty of th...
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Practical Obsession
Sentient Publications, Llc (US)£10.99| /N Nosirrah is considered by his followers to be perhaps the most notable writer and speaker of the past century on the Way of the Mystic, while his...
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Precious
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /Douglas Glover's raucous first novel was a finalist for the Books in Canada First Novel Award and sold out its first and only print run in just one...
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Primary Instinct
Interactive Press£23.99| /Like every primary teacher, Cherry Kaufman had her ideals-once. You put in the hours, get the degree and hope your first job isn't a five hour driv...
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Privilege
Great Plains PublicationsOriginal price £16.99Current price £6.99| /With his divorce nearly finalised, the surprise success of his first book on the wane, and his ill-advised affair with grad student Lara Kitts put ...
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Profane Feasts
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform£20.99| /Profane Feasts, 13 stories by Tom Tolnay, is a sequence of thirteen story-chapters focussing on a family of Greek immigrants who settled in Brookly...
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Public Art in Vancouver
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£20.99| /Featuring more than 500 public art installations, this is the essential guide for anyone interested in Vancouver, its people and its artists.The ch...
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Pudding Club
Empire Publications (UK)£8.95| /After a failed marriage Rebecca Rooks has returned to comfort eating. Now she is overweight and she knows it. To make matters worse her best friend...
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Pulse Point
Great Plains PublicationsOriginal price £11.99Current price £6.99| /For Kaia, setting foot outside can be deadly. Climate change has made Earth too dangerous for people to live anywhere but inside the City. Run on t...
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Punk in Gallows America
Birch Brook Press (US)£24.99| /Eddie Ways, a once wealthy suburbanite, finds himself hanging around the social underworld of Chicago. His adventures, including his fixation on Li...
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Purple Jesus
Bancroft (US)£15.99| /When Purvis Driggers, a South Carolina Low Country loser with little judgement and even less chance for a decent life beyond his parents' house, ho...
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Purple Jesus
Bancroft (US)£22.99| /"When Purvis Driggers, a South Carolina Low Country loser with little judgment and even less chance for a decent life beyond his parents' house, ho...
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Qalam an-najjar
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press£7.99| /Text in Arabic. Set in the dark days of the Spanish Civil War, Qalam an-Najjar charts the linked destinies of Dr Daniel Da Barca, the Republican wh...
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Queens of All the Earth
Bancroft (US)£19.99| /As her freshman classmates move into dorms at Cornell University, Olivia Somerset suffers a nervous breakdown. Big sister Miranda decides the siste...
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Reading by Lightning
Goose Lane Editions£16.99| /Winner, Commonwealth Writers Prize, Canada and the Caribbean, Amazon.ca First Novel Award, and On the Same Page, Manitoba ReadsShortlisted, Eileen ...
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Reality Jane
Bancroft (US)£16.99| /Set behind the scenes of America's most popular guilty pleasure -- reality TV -- Reality Jane delivers a high-spirited, delicious tale of finding l...
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Reappearance of Sam Webber
Bancroft (US)£24.99| /When young Sam Webber's father disappears without a trace, Sam and his mother are forced to relocate to a tough neighbourhood closer to her job. Un...
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