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Maeve Binchy's Treasury

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]

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Solaris Rising 2: The New Solaris Book of Science Fiction

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

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]

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Queen Victoria's Book of Spells: An Anthology of Gaslamp Fantasy

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

The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume 7

Jonathan Strahan

Anthologies (non-poetry); Science fiction; Fantasy; Short stories

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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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Julia

Julia

Otto de Kat

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Fiction in translation

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The heartbreaking tale of a doomed love affair in Hitler's Germany. [more]

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We are Not the Same Anymore

We are Not the Same Anymore

Chris Somerville

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Short stories

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'These are such damn fine stories: surprising, deft and always revealing' Benjamin Law, author of Family Law and Gaysia We... [more]

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The Sleepers Almanac No. 8

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]

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Nothing Gold Can Stay

Nothing Gold Can Stay

Ron Rash

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Short stories

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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

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]

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Alex

Alex

Pierre Lemaitre

Fiction & Literature; Crime & mystery; Fiction in translation

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In kidnapping cases, the first few hours are vital. Police Commandant Camille Verhoeven has nothing to go on: no suspect,... [more]

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The Double

The Double

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Fiction in translation

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The Double, Dostoevsky's second published work of fiction, which foreshadows in its themes many of his mature novels, is the... [more]

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The Secret Archives of Sherlock Holmes

The Secret Archives of Sherlock Holmes

June Thomson

Fiction & Literature; Historical mysteries; Short stories

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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

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

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Tender, sad, funny, and riveting, this is an astonishingcollection of work by one of Britain's finest contemporary writers... [more]

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Love in the Afternoon and Other Delights

Love in the Afternoon and Other Delights

Penny Vincenzi

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Short stories

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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

Warriors

Gardner Dozois, George R R Martin

Fantasy; Short stories

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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

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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Change

Change

Mo Yan

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Fiction in translation; Miscellaneous items

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Personalizes the political and social changes in China over the years in a novella disguised as autobiography (or vice versa).... [more]

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Between My Father and the King: New and Uncollected Stories

Between My Father and the King: New and Uncollected Stories

Janet Frame

Fiction & Literature; Short stories

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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

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]

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Best European Fiction

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]

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HHhH

HHhH

Laurent Binet

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Fiction in translation

Paperback

Two men have been enlisted to kill the head of the Gestapo. This is Operation Anthropoid, Prague, 1942: two Czechoslovakian... [more]

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The Suitcase

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]

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The Aspern Papers and Other Stories

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]

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Apes of Wrath

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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