Modern Fiction (Post C 1945)
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Shallow Enough to Walk Through
Newest Press (CA)£13.99| /"Three weeks it's been raining, but no puddles". Author Sara Pierce is slowly drowning in Windsor, a city where water will seemingly not stay put l...
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She Smiled
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press£9.99| /Text in Arabic. Daniel is heading north. He is looking for someone. The simplicity of his early life with Daddy and Cathy has turned sour and fearf...
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Shore Girl
Newest Press (CA)£15.99| /Rebee Shore's life is fragmented. She's forever on the move, ricocheting around Alberta, guided less than capably by her dysfunctional mother Eliza...
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Siberian Lessons on Life, Love & Death
Aspekt Uitgeverij BV (NL)£15.00| /During a trip on the Trans-Siberia Express, an older abbot and his companion, a young physicist, discover love, each in his own way. They travel fr...
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Side Stories
Mandrake of Oxford (UK)£25.00| /In 2013 more than eighty Internet sites round the world took up the story of A.D.Harvey's literary spoofs following his outing in The Times Literar...
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Silent Final
Aspekt Uitgeverij BV (NL)£17.95| /Could the twin brothers be considered lucky, being the only concentration camp survivors from the Jewish community in Elburg. And what about the fe...
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Silicon Tongue
Spinifex Press£11.95| /'The Silicon Tongue' follows the award-winning novel, 'The Wood Burners' and critically acclaimed novel, 'The Iron Mouth'. These novels explore the...
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Silver Ribbon Skinny
Branden Publishing Co (US)£13.99| /Marilyn tells the true story of a boy and his family set between Cleveland and Akron, on the Ohio and Erie Canal during its heyday. He is a muleski...
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Simran
Goose Lane Editions£2.99| /Commonwealth Prize winner Shauna Singh Baldwin's glittering story "Simran" is from her 1996 debut collection, English Lessons and Other Stories. Pu...
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Sinamatella
Dekel Publishing House£9.95| /Don's personal life is shattered by a trauma, and he is devastated and helpless. His obsessive, automat-like way of thinking leaves no room for fre...
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Sinful Life of Lucy Burns
Bancroft (US)£14.99| /Lucy Burns wants a normal life: friends, love, and a family of her own. And she could have it all if only she could break free from the job she hat...
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Sir William Forsythe's Freebase Nuptials
Sagging Meniscus Press£13.99| /Sean Kilpatrick may be the P.G. Wodehouse of Hell. The blistering anger of his deliciously delirious rants delivers more cathartic mirth than provo...
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Sisters of Grass
Goose Lane Editions£14.99| /In her vibrant first novel, Sisters of Grass, Theresa Kishkan weaves a tapestry of the senses through the touchstones of a young woman's life. Anna...
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Sisters of Internment
Museum of New Mexico Press (US)£17.99| /This book leads us into the twilight zone of characters who exist just outside reality. The stories are in turn gritty, funny, and touching.
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Sita in Exile
Miami University Press£17.99| /When Indian American Sita moves to the Norwegian Arctic, she finds a warm welcome from Mona, a local surfer from a refugee family who sees her as s...
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six@sixty
Goose Lane Editions£7.99| /And now we are 60. To mark this momentous occasion, the editors at Goose Lane have selected six tiny perfect stories for your reading pleasure. Aut...
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Skulk
Progressive Press (US)£17.99| /This is the sixth of his critically-acclaimed novels for lovers of intelligent fiction. Radical Professor Richard Gronsky is swept off his feet by ...
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Sky Walker Tehawennihà rhos and the Battle of Vinegar Hill
Dragon Hill Publishing (US)£17.99| /In this rollicking tale, Mohawk hero Tehawennihà rhos, aka Squire Davis, aka Sky Walker, rides through the turbulent and lawless days of 1845 Upper...
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Sleepless in Manchester
Empire Publications (UK)£8.95| /When Dalton's family move to London, his girlfriend Fallon is heartbroken but promises her that, regardless of the physical distance between them, ...
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Snake
Indra Publishing (AUS)£17.99| /Set in Malaysia, Indonesia and Australia, Snake is the first novel that Dewi Anggraeni has written about the Chinese descent communities in Southea...
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Snark
Otago University Press (NZ)£26.95| /Gabriel Clutch was a thief and a liar but he was right about one thing. He told me he had a great secret in his collection that would shake the lit...
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Soldier of the Horse
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£17.99| /Winner of the Gold Medal for Military/Wartime Fiction at the 2012 Independent Publisher (IPPY) Book Awards Winnipeg, 1914. Tom Macrae is working on...
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Something Drastic
Goose Lane Editions£13.99| /Something Drastic is a first-rate comedy wrapped in a clever story starring eccentrics galore. When her boyfriend dumps her, Lenore writes long let...
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Somewhere North of Normal
Great Plains Publications£16.99| /Venture to a place where reality bends: where a dying butterfly may inspire a revelation, where after being electrocuted, an artist's body becomes ...
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Song of Kosovo
Goose Lane Editions£23.99| /Some days, it doesn't pay to be a lapsed pretend Buddhist... particularly when you're charged with a lengthy list of war crimes. Vida Zanković has ...
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Speak the Truth, Laughing
Spinifex Press£11.95| /The characters in these eleven stories range from a political activist, in the apartheid years, released from a South African jail into a seemingly...
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Speaking in Tongues
Interactive Press Australia£23.99| /Basil Eliades may have travelled this world, but he has seen other worlds within it. Worlds of profound love, of incredible cities, inhabited by sh...
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Spirits of the Adirondack Mountains
Birch Brook Press (US)£21.99| /Featuring 36 delightful wood engravings by Frank C Eckmair, this book is a charming account of the "ghosts" and other forms of "spirit life" in the...
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Split
Goose Lane Editions£17.99| /In the aftermath of the 1960s, tensions simmer beneath the surface of a small town in rural Massachusetts. Watergate and the war in Vietnam have sh...
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Stay with Me
Sama Editorial & Publishing Services (PK)£20.00| /A haunting addition to contemporary fiction, this compelling work explores memory, reconstructed and recalled, as a burden of choices. This is a di...
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Still Life with Monkey
Paul Dry Books (US)£17.99| /Duncan Wheeler is a successful architect who savors the quotidian pleasures in life until a car accident leaves him severely paralyzed and haunted ...
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Still Waving
Spinifex Press£9.95| /Julie and Toby have grown up in a family wrecked by violence. They now live in Bondi with their Aunt Jean. Julie is trying to come to grips with th...
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Stone Tablets
Paul Dry Books (US)£22.99| /An influential Polish classic celebrates 50 yearsand its first English edition. As Stone Tablets opens, Istvan Terey, a poet and World War II vete...
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Stories From Iran
Mage Publishers Inc (US)£23.50| /This collection of thirty-five Persian shortstories by twenty-six of Iran?s best known contemporary writers gives voice to the concerns, strivings,...
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Stories of Indian Pacific
Indra Publishing (AUS)£13.99| /Stories of Indian Pacific are three novellas, set in New Caledonia, Australia and Indonesia, written in Dewi Anggraeni's engaging style that moves ...
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Strange Bodies on a Stranger Shore
Goose Lane Editions£11.99| /In this sequel to The Golden Thread, Claire Delaney recalls her past and steers a tricky path among mid-life joys and responsibilities.
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Strange Heaven
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /Winner, Atlantic Independent Booksellers Choice Award, Canadian Authors Association Air Canada Award, Dartmouth Book Award, and Thomas Head Raddall...
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Straw Obelisk
Branden Publishing Co (US)£25.99| /This strange antiwar novel is set in post-World War II Italy where Samuele, a young soldier ill with consumption, returns to his village much chang...
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Strong Hollow
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /In her bold debut novel, Linda Little has crafted a story where music, creativity, and sexuality merge, as a young Nova Scotian carver embarks on a...
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Strong Hollow
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /In her bold debut novel, Linda Little has crafted a story where music, creativity, and sexuality merge, as a young Nova Scotian carver embarks on a...
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Succession
Brindle & Glass (CA)£20.99| /Succession is a story cycle about a rural community in transition. It follows Al, a musician burned out from too many nights playing the same class...
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Suddenly The Minotaur
DC Books (US)£14.99| /Why did Guatemalan immigrant Mino Torrés try to rape Quebec student Ariane? What was the failed attempts aftermath? In this terse, prize-winning no...
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Suishy
DC Books (US)£14.99| /Arjun Basu's fiction collection is a wry and consistently provocative book which exposes the realities beneath social conventions. Squishy asks: Do...
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Suspense of Loneliness
Birch Brook Press (US)£19.99| /This is an anthology of mixed genre stories (literary and mystery) in which that most powerful of all human conditions -- loneliness -- steers char...
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Sutra & Other Stories
Mage Publishers Inc (US)£13.50| /Here are six stories by one of Iran's greatest contemporary writers, rare and intimate glimpses into the lives of ordinary Iranian men and women; w...
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Suzanne Davis Gets a Life
Paul Dry Books (US)£16.99| /Suzanne Davis lounges around her tiny New York City apartment in her pyjamas, writing press releases for the International Association of Air-Condi...
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Swallow
Newest Press (CA)£15.99| /You wake up, and your sister is dead. With an absent father and their mother constantly ill, sisters Darcy and Carly Nolan were forced to rely on e...
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Sweetness from Ashes
Brindle & Glass (CA)£20.99| /Set partially in Vancouver, partially on a farm in rural Ontario and partially in West Africa, Sweetness from Ashes is a novel about family in its ...
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