Modern Fiction (Post C 1945)
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The Alienist and Other Stories of Nineteenth-Century Brazil
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)Original price £40.99Current price £26.64| /Accompanied by a thorough introduction to Brazil's Machado, Machado's Brazil, these vibrant new translations of eight of Machado de Assis's best-kn...
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The Americans Are Coming
Goose Lane EditionsOriginal price £15.99Current price £11.99| /An invasion? For teenagers Dryfly Ramsey and Shadrack Nash, poor and ignorant in the world's terms but rich in the lore of the magical Miramichi, t...
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The Angel's Jig
Goose Lane EditionsOriginal price £15.99Current price £11.99| /Long-shortlisted, 2017 ReLit AwardsFacing the dwindling years of his life, an old man waits for his turn on the auction block, hoping to be sold to...
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The Ballad of Huck & Miguel
DeRoche Consulting Group IncOriginal price £12.99Current price £11.99| /An American classic becomes a modern adventure. In this retelling of Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Tim DeRoche dares to imagine...
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The Beast Without
Digital Publishing Centre£25.99| /Reylan is everything a Sydney vampire aspires to be: wealthy, handsome and independent, carefully feeding off companions plucked from the gay bars ...
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The Bell and the Minaret
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press£7.99| /Text in Arabic. A captivating novel that unfolds in the philosophical world of Walid, a young man whose passion for cinema elicits dreams of travel...
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The Black Horse and Other Stories
Otago University Press (NZ)£8.90| /Twelve short stories by one of New Zealand's best-loved poets are collected here. Set in the south, they are spare pieces of prose, showing an eye ...
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The Blessings Seeker
Sterling Publishers Pvt Ltd (IND)Original price £49.99Current price £32.49| /I have a confession to make. For long, I've taken the Guru Granth Sahibs blessings for granted, and have only just realised the sheer spiritual po...
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The Boss is Dead
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.£15.99| /The Boss is Dead is a novella, from the play of the same name, based on the author's experiences managing a fast food restaurant in the Midwest. To...
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The Brennen Siding Trilogy
Goose Lane EditionsOriginal price £23.99Current price £17.99| /The complete Brennen Siding Trilogy is now available in a single volume. Brennen Siding, a hamlet on a small tributary of the famous Miramichi Rive...
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The Buried Giant
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press£12.99| /Text in Arabic. You've long set your heart against it, Axl, I know. But it's time now to think on it anew. There's a journey we must go on, and no ...
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The Canterbury Trail
Brindle & Glass (CA)Original price £20.99Current price £15.74| /Winner of the Gold Medal for Western Canadian Fiction at the 2012 Independent Publisher (IPPY) Book Awards It's the last ski weekend of the season ...
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The Chief Factor's Daughter
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)Original price £20.99Current price £15.74| /Chief factor: In the Hudson's Bay Company fur-trade monopoly, the title of chief factor was the highest rank given to commissioned officers, who we...
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The Crooked Thing
Caitlin Press (CA)£10.99| /"For fans of Alice Munro and Carol Shields comes an emotional and hopeful collection of short stories that delve into the tragedies that befall eac...
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The Crossroads
Galaxy AudioOriginal price £13.99Current price £12.99| /Think you know what's going on in the world? Think again. Long before Rod Serling took us into The Twilight Zone, L. Ron Hubbard brought us to The ...
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The Crossroads
Galaxy Press (CA)£10.99| /Think you know what's going on in the world? Think again. Long before Rod Serling took us into The Twilight Zone, L. Ron Hubbard brought us to The ...
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The Darren Effect
Goose Lane EditionsOriginal price £15.99Current price £11.99| /An affair. A marriage. Accidental encounters. A secret spying mission masquerading as research for a short story on desire. This is the rich ground...
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The Dead Cities
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press£7.99| /Text in Arabic. Journey back in time to the dead cities in the historical land of Syria, wonderfully remote, relatively unknown and unfortunately...
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The Douglas Notebooks
Goose Lane EditionsOriginal price £15.99Current price £11.99| /An Amazon.ca Best Book of 2013Romain was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. At 18, he leaves his family for a home in the forest, learning to l...
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The Five Hole Stories
Brindle & Glass (CA)Original price £20.99Current price £15.74| /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 Forbidden Purple City
Goose Lane EditionsOriginal price £17.99Current price £13.49| /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)Original price £40.99Current price £26.64| /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)Original price £13.99Current price £12.99| /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 Great Chimera
Aiora PressOriginal price £12.99Current price £11.99| /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 Happiness Glass
Spinifex PressOriginal price £15.95Current price £11.96| /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 AudioOriginal price £13.99Current price £12.99| /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 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 EditionsOriginal price £15.99Current price £11.99| /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 Home for Wayward Parrots
Newest Press (CA)Original price £15.99Current price £11.99| /Accustomed to being an only child, adoptee Brian Gumbo Guillemots teenage hobby was searching for his birth parents. But when he finally finds his...
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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 PressOriginal price £14.99Current price £12.99| /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 Iron Bridge
Goose Lane EditionsOriginal price £15.99Current price £11.99| /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 Iron Mouth
Spinifex PressOriginal price £14.95Current price £12.95| /This novel follows the narrator, a film-maker, through the process of writing a script. With a central motif being the story of Helen of Troy and t...
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The Irrational Doorways of Mr. Gerard
Goose Lane EditionsOriginal price £13.99Current price £12.99| /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)Original price £19.99Current price £14.99| /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)Original price £20.99Current price £15.74| /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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The Kowloon English Club
Blacksmith Books£10.99| /Asia, 1996. What do you do when you have failed to find the meaning of life in India, your money has run out, your girlfriend has gone, and prospec...
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The Last Mosaic
Sagging Meniscus PressOriginal price £13.99Current price £12.99| /Haunted by three thousand years of artists who made pilgrimage to the Eternal City, collaborators Elizabeth Cooperman and Thomas Walton gather impr...
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The Last of All Possible Worlds and The Temptation to Do Good
Paul Dry Books (US)Original price £20.99Current price £15.74| /In "The Last of All Possible Worlds", royalty, bankers, lovers, and wives intertwine to create a vivid portrait of Europe in the early 1900s. We me...
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The Last Tasmanian
Goose Lane EditionsOriginal price £14.99Current price £12.99| /Winner, Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction AwardShortlisted, Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Canada and the CaribbeanThe Last Tasmanian has reaped m...
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The Last Words
Ibex Publishers (US)Original price £18.99Current price £14.24| /Text in Persian. The Last Words, is the story of a woman who endured a passionate longing for a love that was of an anomalous essence. It was on th...
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The Life and Times of Captain N.
Goose Lane EditionsOriginal price £13.99Current price £12.99| /Douglas Glover's acclaimed novel The Life and Times of Captain N. is now available in a GLE Library edition. Originally published by McClelland &am...
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The Light a Body Radiates
Caitlin Press (CA)£10.99| /Eileen MacPherson is a child of eight when her beloved sixteen-year-old brother, Francis, leaves home after a violent family episode. Over the next...
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The Limit of Delta Y Over Delta X
Goose Lane Editions£11.99| /A calculus formula, a calculating boy, a young woman who is intelligent but unwise -- the ingredients for a gripping story and the thematic fulcrum...
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