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The Anechoic Chamber

and Other Weird Tales

by Will Wiles ...

Series Book 12 - Salt Modern Stories
'Funny, chilling, intriguing: each tale offers something different from the last, and the overall result is like listening to a perfectly made album.' —Mark WatsonAn anechoic chamber is a soundproofed room with no echo. The profound silence it produces is disturbing enough. But listen carefully and you'll hear something worse … In this new collection of uncanny short stories, award-winning author ... Read more

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'Funny, chilling, intriguing: each tale offers something different from the last, and the overall result is like listening to a perfectly made album.' —Mark WatsonAn anechoic chamber is a soundproofed room with no echo. The profound silence it produces is disturbing enough. But listen carefully and you'll hear something worse … In this new collection of uncanny short stories, award-winning author
... Read more
Care of Wooden Floors

by Will Wiles ...

A brilliantly dark literary debut of death, destruction and interior decoration."But for the floors, and the sofa, and the porn, and the dead and missing, the flat was restored to order."An old friend asks you to look after his two cats and his apartment. What could go wrong? Care of Wooden Floorsis about how a tiny oversight can trip off a disastrous and farcical (fatal, even) chain of ... Read more

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A brilliantly dark literary debut of death, destruction and interior decoration."But for the floors, and the sofa, and the porn, and the dead and missing, the flat was restored to order."An old friend asks you to look after his two cats and his apartment. What could go wrong? Care of Wooden Floorsis about how a tiny oversight can trip off a disastrous and farcical (fatal, even) chain of
... Read more
Best British Short Stories 2022

by Nicholas Royle, RZ Baschir, Seán Padraic Birnie, Christopher Burns, Neil Campbell, Leon Craig, Mona Dash, David Frankel, Uschi Gatward, Rosanna Hildyard, Edward Hogan, Alice M, Paul McQuade, Sophie Mackintosh, Sonya Moor, Ben Pester, Max Porter, Sara Sherwood, Chris Vaughan, Tony White, Will Wiles ...

Series series Best British Short Stories
The nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its twelfth year.Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or, more accurately, by its title. This critically acclaimed 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 ... Read more

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The nation's favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its twelfth year.Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or, more accurately, by its title. This critically acclaimed 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
... Read more
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The Way Inn

by Will Wiles ...

Narrated by David McAlister ...

Unabridged

10 hours 27 min

Neil Double is a 'conference surrogate,' hired by his clients to attend industry conferences so that they don't have to. It's a life of budget travel, cheap suits, and out-of-town exhibition centers. But his latest job, at a conference of conference organizers, will radically transform him and everything he believes as it unexpectedly draws him into a bizarre and speculative mystery. In a brand ... Read more

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Neil Double is a 'conference surrogate,' hired by his clients to attend industry conferences so that they don't have to. It's a life of budget travel, cheap suits, and out-of-town exhibition centers. But his latest job, at a conference of conference organizers, will radically transform him and everything he believes as it unexpectedly draws him into a bizarre and speculative mystery. In a brand
... Read more
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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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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The Oracle of Stamboul

A Novel

by Michael David Lukas ...

Narrated by Mozhan Marno ...

Unabridged

7 hours 42 min

Set in the heart of the exotic Ottoman Empire during the first years of its chaotic decline, Michael David Lukas’ elegantly crafted, utterly enchanting debut novel follows a gifted young girl who dares to charm a sultan—and change the course of history, for the empire and the world. An enthralling literary adventure, perfect for readers entranced by the mixture of historical fiction and magical ... Read more

$32.99 CAD

Set in the heart of the exotic Ottoman Empire during the first years of its chaotic decline, Michael David Lukas’ elegantly crafted, utterly enchanting debut novel follows a gifted young girl who dares to charm a sultan—and change the course of history, for the empire and the world. An enthralling literary adventure, perfect for readers entranced by the mixture of historical fiction and magical
... Read more
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Southern Cross the Dog

A Novel

by Bill Cheng ...

Narrated by Prentice Onayemi ...

Unabridged

10 hours 18 min

An epic odyssey in which a young man must choose between the lure of the future and the claims of the pastWith clouds looming ominously on the horizon, a group of children play among the roots of the gnarled Bone Tree. Their games will be interrupted by a merciless storm–bringing with it the Great Flood of 1927–but not before Robert Chatham shares his first kiss with the beautiful young Dora. The ... Read more

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An epic odyssey in which a young man must choose between the lure of the future and the claims of the pastWith clouds looming ominously on the horizon, a group of children play among the roots of the gnarled Bone Tree. Their games will be interrupted by a merciless storm–bringing with it the Great Flood of 1927–but not before Robert Chatham shares his first kiss with the beautiful young Dora. The
... Read more

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Depths

A Novel

by Henning Mankell ...

Narrated by Sean Barrett ...

Unabridged

9 hours 15 min

October, 1914. Swedish naval officer Lars Tobiasson-Svartman is charged with a secret mission to take depth readings around the Stockholm archipelago. In the course of his work, he lands on the rocky isle of Halsskär. It seems utterly inhabitable, yet Halsskär is home to the young widow Sara Fredrika. Lars soon learns that Sara, living in near-total isolation, is unaware that the world is at war.A ... Read more

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October, 1914. Swedish naval officer Lars Tobiasson-Svartman is charged with a secret mission to take depth readings around the Stockholm archipelago. In the course of his work, he lands on the rocky isle of Halsskär. It seems utterly inhabitable, yet Halsskär is home to the young widow Sara Fredrika. Lars soon learns that Sara, living in near-total isolation, is unaware that the world is at war.A
... Read more
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The Transition

A Novel

by Luke Kennard ...

Narrated by Joe Gaminara ...

Unabridged

7 hours 49 min

"Narrator Joe Gaminara keeps listeners right where the author wants them: teetering between perception and reality." — AudioFile MagazineFrom acclaimed British poet Luke Kennard comes The Transition: an intriguing and mysterious debut audiobook.Do you or your partner spend more than you earn? Have your credit card debts evolved into collection letters? Has either of you received a court summons? ... Read more

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"Narrator Joe Gaminara keeps listeners right where the author wants them: teetering between perception and reality." — AudioFile MagazineFrom acclaimed British poet Luke Kennard comes The Transition: an intriguing and mysterious debut audiobook.Do you or your partner spend more than you earn? Have your credit card debts evolved into collection letters? Has either of you received a court summons?
... Read more

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The Bone Clocks

A Novel

by David Mitchell ...

“The novelist who’s been showing us the future of fiction” (The Washington Post), David Mitchell delivers a kaleidoscopic, serpentine masterpiece that navigates between characters, eras, and realms of possibility to weave its astonishing spell.An eloquent conjurer of intricate, interconnected tales, a genre-bending daredevil, and a master prose stylist—David Mitchell has outdone himself. The Bone ... Read more

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“The novelist who’s been showing us the future of fiction” (The Washington Post), David Mitchell delivers a kaleidoscopic, serpentine masterpiece that navigates between characters, eras, and realms of possibility to weave its astonishing spell.An eloquent conjurer of intricate, interconnected tales, a genre-bending daredevil, and a master prose stylist—David Mitchell has outdone himself. The Bone
... Read more
The Luminaries

by Eleanor Catton ...

Winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize and Governor General’s Award for Fiction, and set during the heady days of New Zealand’s Gold Rush, The Luminaries is a magnificent novel of love, lust, murder, and greed, in which three unsolved crimes link the fates and fortunes of twelve men. Dickens meets Deadwood in this internationally celebrated phenomenon.In January 1866, young Walter Moody lands in a ... Read more

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Winner of the 2013 Man Booker Prize and Governor General’s Award for Fiction, and set during the heady days of New Zealand’s Gold Rush, The Luminaries is a magnificent novel of love, lust, murder, and greed, in which three unsolved crimes link the fates and fortunes of twelve men. Dickens meets Deadwood in this internationally celebrated phenomenon.In January 1866, young Walter Moody lands in a
... Read more
The Goldfinch

A Novel (Pulitzer Prize for Fiction)

by Donna Tartt ...

A young New Yorker grieving his mother's death is pulled into a gritty underworld of art and wealth in this “extraordinary” and beloved novel that "connects with the heart as well as the mind" (Stephen King, New York Times Book Review), named a New York Times Best Book of the 21st Century.Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by ... Read more

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A young New Yorker grieving his mother's death is pulled into a gritty underworld of art and wealth in this “extraordinary” and beloved novel that "connects with the heart as well as the mind" (Stephen King, New York Times Book Review), named a New York Times Best Book of the 21st Century.Theo Decker, a 13-year-old New Yorker, miraculously survives an accident that kills his mother. Abandoned by
... Read more

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