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Sub-Categories of Fiction: special features
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Maeve Binchy's Treasury
Maeve Binchy
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Short stories
Paperback
A collection of Maeve Binchy's heart warming short stories, including some set in Australia, all showing her deep insights... [more]
$22.99 $20.70
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Solaris Rising 2: The New Solaris Book of Science Fiction
Whates Ian
Anthologies (non-poetry); Science fiction; Short stories
Paperback
A collection of 19 SF short stories which feature unexplored frontiers, as well as many of the central themes of the genre--alien... [more]
$14.50 $13.05
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Self Reference ENGINE
Toh EnJoe
Science fiction; Short stories; Fiction in translation
Paperback
One of the greatest Science Fiction novels of all time, published by Haikasoru. [more]
$23.95 $21.55
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Queen Victoria's Book of Spells: An Anthology of Gaslamp Fantasy
Ellen Datlow, Terri Windling
Fantasy; Short stories
Paperback
<p>An anthology featuring all-original tales of gaslamp fantasy from bestselling and award-winning authors [more]
$25.95 $23.35
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The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 7
Jonathan Strahan
Anthologies (non-poetry); Science fiction; Fantasy; Short stories
Paperback
In print and on-line, science fiction and fantasy is thriving as never before. A multitude of astonishingly creative and gifted... [more]
$31.95 $28.75
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Otto de Kat
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Fiction in translation
Paperback
The heartbreaking tale of a doomed love affair in Hitler's Germany. [more]
$19.99 $18.00
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We are Not the Same Anymore
Chris Somerville
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Short stories
Paperback
'These are such damn fine stories: surprising, deft and always revealing' Benjamin Law, author of Family Law and Gaysia We... [more]
$19.95 $17.95
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The Sleepers Almanac No. 8
Louise Swinn, Zoe Dattner
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Short stories
Paperback
2013 marks the tenth year of independent publishing outfit Sleepers, committed to publishing new and emerging authors in style.... [more]
$24.95 $22.45
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Nothing Gold Can Stay
Ron Rash
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Short stories
Paperback
PEN/Faulkner finalist and New York Times--bestselling author Ron Rash returns again to Appalachia to capture lives haunted... [more]
$29.99 $27.00
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The Light and the Dark
Mikhail Shishkin
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Fiction in translation
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Picture two people, young and in love. Picture them being separated from one another. Picture them keeping their love alive... [more]
$29.99 $27.00
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Pierre Lemaitre
Fiction & Literature; Crime & mystery; Fiction in translation
Paperback
In kidnapping cases, the first few hours are vital. Police Commandant Camille Verhoeven has nothing to go on: no suspect,... [more]
$29.99 $27.00
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The Double
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Fiction in translation
Paperback
The Double, Dostoevsky's second published work of fiction, which foreshadows in its themes many of his mature novels, is the... [more]
$19.99 $18.00
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The Secret Archives of Sherlock Holmes
June Thomson
Fiction & Literature; Historical mysteries; Short stories
Paperback
Murder, deception and the shadow of Moriarty. All in a day's work for the great Sherlock Holmes. From the gas-lit clamour... [more]
$17.99 $16.20
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This Isn't the Sort of Thing That Happens to Someone Like You
Jon McGregor
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Short stories
Paperback
Tender, sad, funny, and riveting, this is an astonishingcollection of work by one of Britain's finest contemporary writers... [more]
$19.99 $18.00
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Love in the Afternoon and Other Delights
Penny Vincenzi
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Short stories
Paperback
A fabulous collection of short stories and essays by much loved and multi-million-copy bestselling author Penny Vincenzi [more]
$19.99 $18.00
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Warriors
Gardner Dozois, George R R Martin
Fantasy; Short stories
Paperback
This major collection of never-before-published tales of war and warriors features some of today's most popular writers of... [more]
$26.95 $24.25
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The Healer
Antti Tuomainen
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Crime & mystery; Thriller & suspense; Fiction in translation
Paperback
It's two days before Christmas and Helsinki is battling ruthless climate catastrophe: subway tunnels are flooded; abandoned... [more]
$29.95 $26.95
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Mo Yan
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Fiction in translation; Miscellaneous items
Paperback
Personalizes the political and social changes in China over the years in a novella disguised as autobiography (or vice versa).... [more]
$17.95 $16.15
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Between My Father and the King: New and Uncollected Stories
Janet Frame
Fiction & Literature; Short stories
Hardback
This brand new collection of 28 short stories spans the length of Frame's career and contains some of the best she wrote.... [more]
$37.95
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The Bachman Books
Richard Bachman
Horror & ghost stories; Fantasy; Short stories
Paperback
Hodder are boosting Stephen King's backlist with new covers, new author brand lettering and a marketing campaign which directs... [more]
$22.99 $20.70
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Best European Fiction
Aleksandar Hemon, John Banville
Anthologies (non-poetry); Fiction & Literature; Short stories
Paperback
2013 may be the best year yet for Best European Fiction. The inimitable John Banvillejoins the list of distinguished preface... [more]
$19.95 $17.95
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Laurent Binet
Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Fiction in translation
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Two men have been enlisted to kill the head of the Gestapo. This is Operation Anthropoid, Prague, 1942: two Czechoslovakian... [more]
$19.95 $17.95
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The Suitcase
Sergei Dovlatov
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Fiction in translation
Paperback
Imbued with a comic nostalgia and overlaid with Dovlatov's characteristically dark-edged humour and wry power of observation,... [more]
$19.99 $18.00
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The Aspern Papers and Other Stories
Henry James
Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Short stories
Paperback
As well as 'The Aspern Papers', this selection includes 'The Death of the Lion', 'The Figure in the Carpet', and 'The Birthplace'.... [more]
$13.95 $12.55
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Apes of Wrath
Richard Klaw, Rupert Wyatt
Science fiction; Fantasy; Short stories
Paperback
From the jungles of Tarzan to outer space and beyond, the apes in these remarkable tales boldly go where humans dare not.... [more]
$25.95 $23.35
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