Modern Fiction (Post C 1945)
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Nuala
University of Alberta Press (CA)£16.99| /"Shh, my Nuala. I am with you. Today I shall teach you the newness of you." As the Engine breathes life into Nuala, her gaze falls on Teacher-Serva...
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Of Guns, Revenge & Hope
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£13.99| /This is the story of Benny the son of David Levi, the central figure of "Of Guns & Mules" and the five-year period he spent serving with the Br...
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Of Water & Rock
DC Books (US)£15.99| /Of Water and Rock derives its power from the basic human need for connectedness and belonging. When Torontonian Edward Hamblin steps off the plane ...
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On Sunday Morning She Gathered Herbs
CIUS Press£19.99| /The novel is based on the traditional Ukrainian folk song "Oi, ne khody Hrytsiu". The tragic story of a young man torn between two women and poison...
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On the Eighth Day
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /In On the Eighth Day, Antonine Maillet imagines a solution to the world's problems: a wider and more exuberant world, with its right more left and ...
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On the Road to Nowhere
Granville Island Publishing (CA)£15.99| /Sixteen-year-old Randy Watson isn't sure if the classmate he beat to a pulp will survive. Afraid of the consequences, he runs away from a town in n...
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One Indian Summer
Goose Lane Editions£11.99| /One Indian Summer tells the timeless story of a boy growing up on a farm in the 1950s. Steven Moar, a teenager with intellectual leanings, feels an...
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One More Time. . .
Empire Publications (UK)£9.95| /Falling in love was never easy for Liam Kirk, until he met Valerie Walters. Their relationship -- if you could call it that -- was strained, least ...
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Open Pit
Newest Press (CA)£15.99| /El Salvador, 2005: a group of Canadian human-rights activists are taken hostage by a former revolutionary fighter who demands that a new gold mine ...
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Originals
DC Books (US)Original price £14.99Current price £13.99| /The terror of atomic war, a paranoid arms race, a stark divide between rich and poor in The Originals, L.E. Vollicks debut novel, Reagan-era leg...
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Ormond; or, the Secret Witness
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£23.99| /As it tells the story of Constantia Dudley, from her family's financial collapse to her encounters with a series of cosmopolitan revolutionaries an...
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Ormond; or, the Secret Witness
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£57.99| /As it tells the story of Constantia Dudley, from her family's financial collapse to her encounters with a series of cosmopolitan revolutionaries an...
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Osprey
Empire Publications (UK)£8.95| /From his opulent office on Manchester Town Hall's top floor, Councillor Andy King pulls the levers that run the city. The consummate politician for...
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Ostrich Feathers
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£16.99| /A baby girl is born in the middle of the Second World War, and survives in a miraculous way thanks to the determination of her mother and the good ...
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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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