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  • All the Beloved Ghosts

    by Alison MacLeod ...
    **FINALIST FOR THE 2017 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARDS FOR FICTIONShortlisted for the 2018 Edge Hill Prize for Short StoryHovering on the border of life and dealth, these stories form a ground-shifting collection, taking us into history, literature and the hidden lives of iconic figures.**In 1920s Nova Scotia, as winter begins to thaw, a woman emerges from mourning and wears a new coat to a ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Tenderness

    by Alison MacLeod ...
    **“What a triumph of skill and imagination is this powerful, moving, brilliant novel! I’ve never read anything quite like Tenderness, and I doubt I ever will again.” —Elizabeth Gilbert, bestselling author of City of Girls and Eat, Pray, LoveFor readers of A Gentleman in Moscow and Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald, an ambitious, spellbinding historical novel about sensuality, censorship, and the ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Wave Theory of Angels

    by Alison MacLeod ...
    EVERY STORY IS THE STORY OF A SECRETThis is a story that unfolds across two far-flung centuries, across two worlds. In each, the lives of a father and his two daughters are about to be catapulted into crisis.France. 1284. In the heat of an August night, Christina-sister of Marguerite, daughter of the heretic sculptor Giles of Beauvais-struggles to keep a secret. The year is also 2001. We're in ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Unexploded

    by Alison MacLeod ...
    A novel of fine-tuned beauty, sharp insight and emotional subtlety – about a family in the shadow of WWIIMay, 1940. Brighton. Wartime.On Park Crescent, a sunlit and usually tranquil street, Geoffrey and Evelyn Beaumont and their eight-year-old son, Philip, anxiously await news. The enemy is expected to land on the beaches of Brighton any day.It is a year of tension and change. Geoffrey becomes ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Tenderness

    by Alison MacLeod ...
    "Powerful, moving, brilliant . . . an utterly captivating read, and I came away from it with this astonished thought: There's nothing this writer can't do." --Elizabeth GilbertFor readers of A Gentleman in Moscow and Z: A Novel of Zelda Fitzgerald, an ambitious, spellbinding historical novel about sensuality, censorship, and the novel that set off the sexual revolution.On the glittering shores of ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • All the Beloved Ghosts

    Stories

    by Alison MacLeod ...
    An acutely observed, evocative collection of short stories blending fiction, biography, and memoir--from a Booker-longlisted author.Evocative, sensual, and tender, these stories confront our reality culture and interrogate our relationship with iconic figures, coming to life at the boundary between reality and fiction.A woman emerging from mourning spends her savings on a fur coat, a coat she will ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Best British Short Stories 2018

    by Nicholas Royle, Owen Booth, Kelly Creighton, Colettte de Curzon, Mike Fox, M. John Harrison, Tania Hershman, Brian Howell, Jane McLaughlin, Alison MacLeod, Jo Mazelis, Wyl Menmuir, Adam O'Riordan, Iain Robinson, C. D. Rose, Adrian Slatcher, William Thirsk-Gaskill, Chloe Turner, Lisa Tuttle, Conrad Williams, Eley Williams ...
    Series series Best British Short Stories
    The nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its eighth year.Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories published in the previous calendar year by British writers, whether based in the UK or elsewhere. The editor's brief is wide ranging, covering anthologies, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Morphologies

    by Ramsey Campbell, Frank Cottrell Boyce, Brian Aldiss, Stephen Baxter, Ali Smith, Jane Rogers, Sean O'Brien, Adam Roberts, Alison Macleod, Sara Maitland, Stuart Evers, Martin Edwards, Toby Litt ...
    SARA MAITLAND on NATHANIEL HAWTHORNESEAN O'BRIEN on EDGAR ALLAN POEJANE ROGERS on FYODOR DOSTOYEYSKYBRIAN ALDISS on THOMAS HARDYMARTIN EDWARDS on ARTHUR CONAN DOYLEFRANK COTTRELL BOYCE on ANTON CHEKHOVADAM ROBERTS on RUDYARD KIPLINGSTEPHEN BAXTER on H.G. WELLSSTUART EVERS on SHERWOOD ANDERSONALI SMITH on JAMES JOYCETOBY LITT on FRANZ KAFKADAVID CONSTANTINE on D.H. LAWRENCEALISON MACLEOD on ... Read more

    $9.20 CAD

  • The Mechanics' Institute Review Issue 9

    by Nick Alexander, Jenn Ashworth, Alison MacLeod ...
    This extraordinary collection of short stories traverses many different worlds. From the smoky banks of the Ganges to the breaking waves of Bali, the characters teeter on the edge of life-changing moments. Problematic false teeth, festering limbs and deadly weapons are all par for the course. Quaff expensive wine and discover the real danger of smoking. The ninth issue of The Mechanics’ Institute ... Read more

    $4.72 CAD

  • The Daughters of the Late Colonel and other stories

    by Katherine Mansfield, Alison MacLeod (editor) ...
    Series series Comma Classics
    Ten of the best Mansfield stories specially selected by the acclaimed author and critic Alison MacLeod who also provides a critical essay. This edition is part of the new Comma Classics series, launched to celebrate past masters of the short story with structural appreciations by contemporary practitioners. MacLeod’s essay is aimed at general readers, short fiction fans, and aspiring authors ... Read more

    $7.36 CAD

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    "Scharper shines in this surprising and engaging gothic novel ...Impeccably researched and beautifully told, this is a tale that will stay with readers long after the final page is turned." —Publishers Weekly, starred review.A lighthouse. A diary. A ghost.Woven among these are the mysterious life-threads of Marged Brice. Professing to be 134 years old, she is dumped at a remote nursing home by ... Read more

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  • The Magician

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    by Colm Toibin ...
    **LONGLISTED FOR THE 2023 DUBLIN LITERARY AWARDFrom the internationally bestselling author of Brooklyn and The Master comes the novel of a lifetime, Colm Tóibín's most dazzling and ambitious book yet.**When the Great War breaks out in 1914 Thomas Mann, like so many of his fellow countrymen, is fired up with patriotism. He imagines the Germany of great literature and music, that had drawn him away ... Read more

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