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  • ...And Where the Wind Spun Them: Book One

    Centrifugal Force

    by G.E.M. Munro ...
    Join the epic adventures of a resourceful girl and her courageous little brother as they struggle, by wit and grit, to overcome the perils and extreme disadvantages of their lives.In this multi-part saga, G.E.M. Munro explores the realities of childhood in a violent world, with all the insight, compassion, and humour his readers have come to expect.The social ills afflicting the duo are all real. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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    An old loner and his misfit dog spend a year on the road in this acclaimed Irish novel of "singing prose [and] two unlikely Beckettian wanderers" ( The Guardian, UK).It is springtime, and an isolated man shunned by his village has forged a connection with the one-eyed dog he's taken into his tightly shuttered life. But as their friendship grows, their small seaside community becomes suspicious. ... Read more

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  • Fingers in the Sparkle Jar

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    by Chris Packham ...
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  • The White Book

    by Han Kang ...
    Translated by Deborah Smith ...
    Shortlisted for the Man Booker International 2018From the author of The Vegetarian, winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2016From the author of The Vegetarian and Human Acts comes a book like no other. The White Book is a meditation on colour, beginning with a list of white things. It is a book about mourning, rebirth and the tenacity of the human spirit. It is a s... ... Read more

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  • Soldier Sailor

    'Intense, furious, moving and often extremely funny.' DAVID NICHOLLS

    by Claire Kilroy ...
    SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024The Times Novel of the YearAnd a Guardian, FT, Economist, Irish Times, Daily Telegraph, New Statesman, Irish Independent and Independent Book of the Year'One of the finest novels published this year.' Sunday Times'I could not put it down.' ANNE ENRIGHT<b... ... Read more

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  • Orkney

    by Amy Sackville ...
    On a remote island in Orkney, a curiously matched couple arrive on their honeymoon. He is an eminent literature professor; she was his pale, enigmatic star pupil. Alone beneath the shifting skies of this untethered landscape, the professor realises how little he knows about his new bride and yet, as the days go by and his mind turns obsessively upon the creature who has so beguiled him, she seems ... Read more

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  • The Dig

    by Cynan Jones ...
    Deep in rural Wales, a farmer is struggling through lambing season when he becomes aware that his land is being stalked by a badger-baiter who brings with him the stark threat of violence. Built of the interlocking fates of these two solitary men, this is a searing story of isolation and loss, from a writer of uncommon gifts. ... Read more

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  • The Taste of River Water

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    by Cate Kennedy ...
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  • The Thing in the Forest (Storycuts)

    by A S Byatt ...
    Leaves rustle underfoot in a dark wood: two little girls, extracted from their homes in wartime London, encounter something terrifying in a forest. Later when they meet as grown women, they realise the experience has coloured their lives. A dark tale about the nature of stories themselves.Part of the Storycuts series, this short story was originally published in the collection Little Black Book of ... Read more

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  • Dangerous Love

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    Explore the extraordinary imagination of Booker Prize-winner and visionary author Ben Okri – one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary literature.'I wanted to find the right balance between the unforced beauty of art and the rough truth of life' BEN OKRISet in 1970s Nigeria, in a country trying to come to terms with the atrocity of its recent civil war, Dangerous Love introduces us to ... Read more

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  • Smallcreep's Day

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  • Spider

    by Patrick Mcgrath ...
    Spider is gaunt, threadbare, unnerved by everything from his landlady to the smell of gas. He tells us his story in a storm of beautiful language that slowly reveals itself as a fiendishly layered construction of truth and illusion. With echoes of Beckett, Poe, and Paul Bowles, Spider is a tale of horror and madness, storytelling and skepticism, a novel whose dizzying style lays bare the deepest ... Read more

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