Modern Fiction (Post C 1945)
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The Eavesdroppers
Newest Press (CA)£16.99| /When social attitudes researcher Bill Harcourt puts an advertisement in the newspaper for listeners to work on an unconventional project, he anti...
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The Five Hole Stories
Brindle & Glass (CA)£20.99| /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 Flight of Birds
Sydney University Press£23.99| /Shortlisted for the Readings Prize for New Australian Fiction in 2019Shortlisted for the Mascara Literary Review's Avant Garde Awards 2020 The Flig...
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The Forbidden Purple City
Goose Lane EditionsOriginal price £21.99Current price £17.99| /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)£40.99| /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 Gaucho Juan Moreira
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£13.99| /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 Goliath Run
At Bay Press£22.99| /When a deranged loner kills 26 people in a Pennsylvania schoolyard, the country is stunned and devastated. Among those catatonic with grief is Jo M...
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The Gospel of the Twin
Bancroft (US)£28.99| /An ancient legend says that Jesus had a twin brother, Thomas. An extra-Biblical text that dates from perhaps as early as the late first century CE ...
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The Great Chimera
Aiora Press£12.99| /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 Greek Liar
Brandl & Schlesinger£8.99| /George Makris returns to Sydney after an absence of seven years. He has come home yet still feels in exile, for he does not value what others regar...
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The Happiness Glass
Spinifex Press£15.95| /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 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 Editions£15.99| /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 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 Press£14.99| /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 Inquirer
Newest Press (CA)£15.99| /When an accident jeopardising the family farm draws Amiah Williams back to Kingsley, Alberta, population 1431, she does not expect her homecoming t...
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The Iron Bridge
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /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 Irrational Doorways of Mr. Gerard
Goose Lane Editions£13.99| /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)£19.99| /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)£20.99| /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 Press£13.99| /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)£20.99| /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 Editions£14.99| /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)£18.99| /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 Editions£13.99| /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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The Lost Chord
Manor House Publishing Inc£13.99| /This is the eagerly awaited second novel by singer-songwriter-author Ian Thomas. With a storyline that crosses into the realm of the otherworldly, ...
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The Luck of the Horseman
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /A follow-up to The Frog Lake Massacre, The Luck of the Horseman is a cleverly written ride from the days of the Wild West. The story begins ten yea...
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The Many Deaths of George Robertson
Goose Lane Editions£9.99| /George Little examines the lives of parents, siblings, friends, and politicians, offering fleeting glimpses into the moral complexity of contempora...
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The Maquinna Line
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd (CA)£10.99| /A murder, a tryst, a mysterious child. A Victoria aristocrat who obsesses over her Churchill relatives. A repressive Welsh mother with a royalty fi...
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The Melting Queen
Newest Press (CA)£16.99| /Every year since 1904, when the ice breaks up on the North Saskatchewan River, Edmonton has crowned a Melting Queen -- a woman who presides over th...
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The Moon of Letting Go
Great Plains Publications£15.99| /Extending the tradition of Aboriginal storytelling, Richard Van Camp's new collection is eloquently and humorously optimistic. The stories in The M...
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The Most Wretched Thing Imaginable
Sagging Meniscus Press£13.99| /Stephen Moles' remarkable novel The Most Wretched Thing Imaginable could be described as any of the following: A modern-day Book of the Dead which ...
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The Movie-Maker
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press£6.99| /Text in Arabic. María Margarita is a young girl from a small Chilean village who is famous for her strange gift of recreating the stories of movies...
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The Nap-Away Motel
Palimpsest Press£14.99| /In the heart of Scarborough sits the Nap-Away Motel, a hunched building providing hidden worlds for its occupants. Within its derelict walls, Sulei...
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The Nettle Spinner
Goose Lane Editions£16.99| /In her early twenties, Alma met a tree-planter and fell in love -- not with the man but with his strangely romantic work. Now, after several season...
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The Opium Lady
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /JoAnne Soper-Cook is such a spell-binding storyteller that she can lead her willing captives almost anywhere. In her new story collection, The Opiu...
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The Orchard Keepers
Newest Press (CA)Original price £19.99Current price £17.99| /Robert Pepper Smith's trilogy of novels chronicling the lives of those with deep roots in the orchard lands of British Columbia comes full circle w...
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The Person of the Man
Brandl & Schlesinger£15.99| /The Person of the Man takes the reader into the outwardly successful but severely flawed marriage of Alice, a lawyer and Martin, an ambitious Oxfor...
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The Phantom Patrol
Galaxy Press (CA)£10.99| /The story of Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer Johnny Trescott. A man as smart, tough, and fearless as they come. But he's about to lose everything-h...
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The Poison of Polygamy
Sydney University Press£23.99| /Serialised in 1909-10, The Poison of Polygamy is a rare gem of Australian literature.The first novel of the Chinese Australian experience, it is a ...
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The Prisoner of Al Hakim
Blue Dome Inc£14.99| /It was the Islamic Golden Age. Across the Middle East and North Africa, mosques and libraries hummed with scholarly activity. But in a small house ...
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