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  • Our Island Story

    by Guy Ware ...
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    Denis Klamm, feckless scion of two former Leaders, returns to the Island for his father's funeral, only to find it sinking. Or the sea rising – it depends what you believe. Either way, they're all going to drown – unless the young, idealistic and newly-elected Leader, Jessica King, really is the saviour long foretold by Our Island Story.But Jessica is only Leader because Ari Spencer, the special ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Best British Short Stories 2013

    by Rob Shearman, Ellis Sharp, Charles Boyle, Nikesh Shukla, Nina Killham, Charles Lambert, Lesley Glaister, Laura Del-Rivo, Jackie Kay, MJ Hyland, Regi Claire, Adam Lively, Guy Ware, Adam Marek, Anneliese Mackintosh, Alex Preston, Alison Moore, David Rose, Ross Raisin, James Wall, Nicholas Royle ...
    Series series Best British Short Stories
    The third in a series of annual anthologies, The Best British Short Stories 2013 reprints the cream of short fiction, by British writers, first published in 2012. These stories appeared in magazines from the Edinburgh Review to Granta, in anthologies from various publishers, and in authors' own short story collections. They appeared online at 3:AM Magazine, Fleeting and elsewhere.This new ... Read more

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  • The Peckham Experiment

    by Guy Ware ...
    Guy Ware's new novel charts a course from the 1930s onwards through the fragmentary memories of the 85 year-old Charlie, whose identical twin brother JJ has recently died. Sons of a working-class Communist family, growing up in the radical Peckham Experiment and orphaned by the Blitz, the twins emerge from the war keen to build the New Jerusalem.In 1968, JJ's ideals are rocked by the fatal ... Read more

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  • The Fat of Fed Beasts

    by Guy Ware ...
    'Fleshing out the shadowy metaphysical hints of Beckett's novels, this intellectual romp is the best debut I have read in years' Nicholas Lezard, The GuardianMonday lunchtime: a bank is being robbed. The gunmen tell everyone to get down on the floor, but an old man refuses. Behind him in the queue is Rada Kalenkova, an investigator for the Office of Assessment, recording everything she sees. Shots ... Read more

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  • The Faculty of Indifference

    by Guy Ware ...
    This is what a bad day looks like: a day when something happens.Robert Exley works for the Faculty: he spends his life making sure that nothing ever happens. In counter-terrorism, that's your job.His wife worked there, too. She's been dead for years, but somehow she's never far away. Now their bookish son is leaving home. He writes an encrypted journal Exley feels obliged to decode, to read the ... Read more

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  • Reconciliation

    by Guy Ware ...
    Holly Stanton's grandfather was a spy. In Berlin in September 1939; in Norway when the Germans invaded. Sailed back to Orkney by a brave Norwegian, whose family was killed in retaliation. And he kept a diary.Holly has always known that. It's the family story. But when her father finally passes on a transcript of the diary, she finds the 'brave Norwegian' has a name. He is real. But why was a spy ... Read more

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  • A Day Like Any Other

    by Guy Ware ...
    Series series Salt Modern Stories
    A woman with a successful career in child protection is floored by her husband's sudden death; a retired civil servant smothers his wife, but can't go through with their pact; a teacher fleeing a disastrous school trip finds himself – literally – in a dark wood.Pascal famously said we shall die alone. But there are always others left behind to grieve, to cheer, to feel guilt, relief or laughter, ... Read more

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  • Brace

    a New Generation in Short Fiction

    by Annie Clarkson, Tyler Keevil, Guy Ware ...
    Featuring...Charlotte Allan, Juliet Bates, Annie Clarkson, Adam Connors, Steve Dearden, Paul de Havilland, Tyler Keevil, Chris Killen, Richard Knight , Jacqueline McCarrick, Neil McQuillian, Heather Richardson, David Rose, Guy Russell, and Guy Ware.…Organ-playing wunderkinds, poets on government re-employment schemes, unlikely celebrity party guests…While these stories take in a vast array of ... Read more

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  • The Best British Short Stories 2014

    by Mick Scully, Joanne Rush, Joanna Walsh, Elizabeth Baines, Jonathan Gibbs, Jay Griffiths, Siân Melangell Dafydd, Ailsa Cox, Stuart Evers, Claire Dean, David Constantine, David Grubb, Richard Knight, Vicki Jarrett, Anna Metcalfe, Philip Langeskov, Christopher Priest, Louise Palfreyman, Adam Wilmington, Nicholas Royle, M. John Harrison ...
    Series series Best British Short Stories
    'There is no more carefully chosen yet eclectic anthology series in existence in Britain today' – Susan Haigh, The Short ReviewBest 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 ... Read more

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  • Signs Preceding the End of the World

    by Yuri Herrera ...
    Signs Preceding the End of the World is one of the most arresting novels to be published in Spanish in the last ten years. Yuri Herrera does not simply write about the border between Mexico and the United States and those who cross it. He explores the crossings and translations people make in their minds and language as they move from one country to another, especially when there's no going back. ... Read more

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  • The Mark and the Void

    From the author of The Bee Sting

    by Paul Murray ...
    Winner of the Everyman Wodehouse Prize 2016A comic masterpiece about love, art, greed and the banking crisis, by the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of The Bee Sting‘Hugely entertainingly [and] read-the-whole-page-again funny . . . The best novel I have reviewed this side of the Atlantic’ ObserverMeet Claude: an investment-bank drone longing for something more meaningful. Marooned in soggy Dublin, ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Satin Island

    by Tom McCarthy ...
    U. is a 'corporate anthropologist' who, while working on a giant, epoch-defining project no one really understands, is also tasked with writing the Great Report on our society. But instead, U. spends his days procrastinating, meandering through endless buffer-zones of information and becoming obsessed by the images with which the world bombards him on a daily basis: oil spills, African traffic ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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