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Sub-Categories of Fiction: special features
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The Foundling
Agnes Desarthe
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Fiction in translation
Paperback
From the author of Chez Moi, a tenderly drawn and hauntingly beautiful novel of loss and loneliness, friendship and love.... [more]
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The Complete Short Stories
Muriel Spark
Fiction & Literature; Short stories
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From the cruel irony of 'A Member of the Family' to the fateful echoes of 'The Gp-Away Bird' and the unexpectedly sinister... [more]
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Someone I Loved
Anna Gavalda
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Fiction in translation
Hardback
How long does it take to forget the smell of someone who loved you? And when do you stop loving them? [more]
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Small Wonder: An Anthology of Prose Poems and Microfiction
Julie Chevalier, Linda Godfrey
Poetry anthologies; Fiction & Literature; Short stories
Paperback
Here are PROSE POEMS & MICROFICTIONS by thirty contemporary Australian writers on topics ranging from the eroticism of mash... [more]
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Garden of Reading: An Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction About Gardens...
Michele Slung
Anthologies (non-poetry); Fiction & Literature; Short stories
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Michele Slung has collected an enchantingly rich bouquet of captivating, memorable, and frequently surprising stories about... [more]
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A Hunger Artist and Other Stories
Franz Kafka
Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Short stories; Fiction in translation
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This new translation includes Kafka's two published collections, A Country Doctor and A Hunger Artist with other, uncollected... [more]
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The Man Who Disappeared: (America)
Franz Kafka
Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Fiction in translation
Paperback
Young immigrant Karl Rossmann has a series of adventures in a vision of an ultra-modern America that is both fantasy and social... [more]
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The Tyrant
Jacques Chessex
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Fiction in translation
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Winner of the Prix Goncourt, France's mosdt prestigious literary award.The destruction of a young teacher's life at the hands... [more]
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Closure, Limited
Max Brooks
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Horror & ghost stories; Short stories
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A collection of short stories from the best-selling author Max Brooks [more]
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The Third Reich
Roberto Bolano
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Fiction in translation
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Udo Berger, aspiring writer and wargames champion of Stuttgart, decides it is time to take his new love, Ingeborg, on holiday... [more]
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The Sweetness of Life: A Kovacs and Horn Investigation
Paulus Hochgatterer
Fiction & Literature; Crime & mystery; Fiction in translation
Paperback
The chill of a claustrophobic alpine town in winter extends to the hearts and minds of its inhabitants in this uncanny psychological... [more]
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Saints and Sinners
Edna O'Brien
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Short stories
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A collection that is characterised by the author's powerful evocations of place and a glorious and an often heart-breaking... [more]
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Emerald City
Jennifer Egan
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Short stories
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A collection which features eleven masterful stories that deal with loneliness and longing, regret and desire. These stories... [more]
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Nights of Awe
Harri Nykanen
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Crime & mystery; Fiction in translation
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Eccentric Jewish policeman Ariel Kafka investigates the murder of four Arabs in the long darkness of Helsinki nights. [more]
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Monkey King's Amazing Adventures: A Journey to the West in Search of Enlightenment...
Cheng'en Wu, Timothy Richard (1919 -)
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Myth & legend told as fiction; Fiction in translation
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Join the Monkey King on his fantastic travels in this exciting version of the traditional Chinese folktale Journey to the... [more]
$19.99 $18.00
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Diving Belles
Lucy Wood
Fiction & Literature; Fantasy; Short stories
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Along Cornwall's ancient coast, the flotsam and jetsam of the past becomes caught in the cross-currents of the present and,... [more]
$29.99 $27.00
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Aftershock & Others: 16 Oddities
F Paul Wilson
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Horror & ghost stories; Short stories
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Aftershock & Others features a striking collection of exciting stories by the New York Times -bestselling author of the... [more]
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Martin Beck: Roseanna
Maj Sjowall, Per Wahloo
Fiction & Literature; Crime & mystery; Fiction in translation
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Steven Mackintosh stars as Martin Beck, with Neil Pearson as Lennart Kollberg, in this BBC Radio 4 dramatisation of Roseanna.... [more]
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Seven Years
Peter Stamm
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Fiction in translation
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From one of Europe's most acclaimed writers, Seven Years a distinct, sobering, and bold novel about the impositions of happiness... [more]
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Manhattan in Reverse
Peter F. Hamilton
Science fiction; Short stories
Hardback
A short story collection from one of the world's bestselling SF writers [more]
$19.99 $18.00
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The Modern Fae's Guide to Surviving Humanity
Joshua Palmatier, Patricia Bray
Anthologies (non-poetry); Fantasy; Short stories
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This collection of 14 original stories probes the problems and perils of being a fae in the mortal world. Includes contributions... [more]
$13.50 $12.15
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The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year
Catherynne M. Valente, Cory Doctorow, Kelly Link, Neil Gaiman, Stephen Baxter
Science fiction; Fantasy; Short stories
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An ancient society of cartographer wasps create delicately inscribed maps; a bodyjacking parasite is faced with imminent extinction;... [more]
$31.95 $28.75
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Witches
Andre Norton, Jane Yolen, Kelly Link, Mercedes Lackey, Neil Gaiman
Horror & ghost stories; Fantasy; Short stories
Paperback
Witches: Wicked, Wild & Wonderful . [more]
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The Misfortunates
Dimitri Verhulst
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Fiction in translation
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Frank, tender, and brutally funny, this is a vibrantly entertaining story... [more]
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