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  • Patience

    by Toby Litt ...
    Meet Elliott. Elliott is hugely intelligent. He's an incredible observer. He has a beautiful and unusual imagination. To know him is to adore him. But Elliott is also stuck. He lives in an orphanage in 1979. He spends his days in a wheelchair, in an empty corridor, or wherever the Catholic Sisters who run the ward have decided to park him. So when Jim, blind and mute but also headstrong, arrives ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Life-Like

    by Toby Litt ...
    Emotionally compelling and formally innovative, Life-Like is Toby Litt’s most ambitious collection of short stories to date, bringing to fruition themes first aired in his previous books, Adventures in Capitalism, Exhibitionism, and I Play the Drums in a Band Called Okay. Life-Like is a book about our globalizing and atomizing world—with stories set in India, Sweden, Australia, and Iran—that also ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • A Writer's Diary

    by Toby Litt ...
    'I blame Literature. All those f*cking lovely writers who made me want to be a writer. Toby Literature.' A Writer's Diary is a year in the life of a man called Toby Litt. Day by day, Toby offers intimate details about his family and well-being, insights into creative writing, and other fascinating reflections, ranging from the immediate surroundings of his desk and study out into the world and on ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Wrestliana

    by Toby Litt ...
    Toby Litt's father wanted him to find about their ancestor: William Litt, a champion Cumberland Wrestler.William was one of the greatest ever 'kings of the green' - a man who reigned undefeated in one of the nineteenth century's most popular sports, taking home over 200 prize belts. William had other talents, as well. He was almost certainly a smuggler - and definitely published poet and novelist ... Read more

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  • Reports from the Deep End

    Stories inspired by J. G. Ballard

    by Rick McGrath, Will Self, Iain Sinclair, Michael Moorcock, Christopher Fowler, Chris Beckett, Lavie Tidhar, Ramsey Campbell, Barry Malzberg, Adrian Cole, Jeff Noon, James Lovegrove, Toby Litt, Rhys Hughes ...
    A fascinating and unsettling anthology of 32 science fiction short stories in tribute to the prophetic dystopias of New Wave sci-fi pioneer, and literary titan of the twentieth century, J. G. Ballard—featuring Will Self, Iain Sinclair, Christopher Fowler, Chris Beckett, and a new Jerry Cornelius story from Michael Moorcock.Few authors are so iconic that their name is an adjective – Ballard is one ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Art of the Novel

    by Jenn Ashworth, Tom Bromley, Sarah Butler, AJ Dalton, Stella Duffy, Kerry Hudson, Toby Litt, Livi Michael, James Miller, Alison Moore, Mark Morris, Leone Ross, Graeme Shimmin, Nikesh Shukla, Joe Stretch, Alice Thompson, Will Wiles ...
    Series series Salt Guides for Readers and Writers
    How do you write a novel?Practising novelists and teachers of creative writing reveal their working methods and offer practical advice. Subjects covered range from magic realism to characterisation, surrealism to historical fiction, via perspective, plot twists and avoiding being boring, among many others.This book is forcreative writing studentswriters and readers of novelsteachers of creative ... Read more

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  • 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

  • EXIT EARTH

    by Duncan Abel, Virginia Ballesty, Erik Bergstrom, Michael Bird, Jessica Bonder, M R Carey, Rachel Connor, Tomek Dzido, Francisco Gonzalez, Philip Webb Gregg, Robin Griffiths, Ross Jeffery, Alice Kouzmenko, Richard Lee-Graham, Toby Litt, Tomas Marcantonio, James Miller, Courttia Newland, David James Poissant, Tabitha Potts, Alan Robson, Anthony Self, Guy Smith, Paul Turner ...
    From Trumpocalypse to Brexit Britain, brick by brick the walls are closing in. But don’t despair. Bulldoze the borders. Conquer freedom not fear. EXIT EARTH explores all life – past, present, or future – on, or off – this beautiful, yet fragile, world of ours. Final embraces beneath a sky of flames. Tears of joy aboard a sinking ship. Laughter in a lonely land. Dystopian or utopian, realist or ... Read more

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  • The Science Fiction Megapack: 25 Classic Science Fiction Stories

    25 Classic Science Fiction Stories

    by Robert Silverberg ...
    Hours of great reading await, with tales from some of the 20th century's most renowned science fiction authors, Here are 25 science fiction stories (plus a bonus short-short):ARENA, by Fredric BrownEXPEDITER, by Mack ReynoldsONE-SHOT, by James BlishSHAMBLEAU, by C. L. MooreSHIPWRECK IN THE SKY, by Eando BinderZEN, by Jerome BixbyTHE LITTLE BLACK BAG, by C.M. KornbluthLANCELOT BIGGS COOKS A PIRATE, ... Read more

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  • Best British Short Stories 2020

    by Nicholas Royle, Richard Lawrence Bennett, Luke Brown, David Constantine, Tim Etchells, Nicola Freeman, Amanthi Harris, Andrew Hook, Sonia Hope, Hanif Kureishi, Helen Mort, Jeff Noon, Irenosen Okojie, K. J. Orr, Bridget Penney, Diana Powell, David Rose, Sarah Schofield, Adrian Slatcher, N. J. Stallard, Robert Stone, Stephen Thompson, Zakia Uddin ...
    Series series Best British Short Stories
    The nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its tenth 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

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  • Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

    by Gail Honeyman ...
    **Soon to be a major motion picture produced by Reese WitherspoonNamed a** New York Times **2017 "Books to Breeze Through This Summer"Winner of the 2018 Costa First Novel AwardWinner of the 2018 British Book Award for Debut NovelLonglisted for the 2018 Women's Prize for FictionA Penguin Book Club PickNo one's ever told Eleanor that life should be better than fine.**Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Smithereens

    by Shaun Micallef ...
    Feel that War and Peace went on a bit? Wish there were more laughs in Catcher in the Rye? Very cross that The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo had no references to three-time world hotdog-eating champion, Joey Chestnut? Then ***Smithereens***is for you. At only 300 pages you can knock it off during one of the ad breaks on Shaun's hit show, Talkin' 'bout Your Generation.And laughs? What about them? Well ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD