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The Wedding of Zein (Paperback / softback - 2 Mar 2010)

The Wedding of Zein
“The Wedding of Zein” unfolds in the same village on the upper Nile where Tayeb Salih’s tragic masterpiece Season of Migration to the North is set. Here, however, the story that emerges through the overlapping, sometimes contradictory voices of the villagers is comic. Zein is the village idiot, and everyone in the village is dumbfounded when the news goes around that he will be getting...

By (author) Tayeb Salih; Introduction by Hisham Matar

ISBN-13: 9781590173428 ; ISBN-10: 1590173422

Price: £15.82 UK delivery 3 to 5 days

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Caliente (Paperback / softback - 15 Apr 2010)

Caliente
This is a collection of stories. When a girl wants hot and spicy, she finds herself a Latin lover. In J.M. Jeffries' Partners in Crime, Vincent Mendoza is a CIA agent in charge of his first mission. He must liberate top-secret documents and turns to a jailed cat burglar, Cleo Harris, to help him. To gain her freedom, Cleo must help the steamy agent. Little does Vincent know that the ravishing thief will steal his...

By (author) Monique Lamont

ISBN-13: 9781600430626 ; ISBN-10: 1600430627

Price: £7.50 £6.00 Not Available

Carnivale Diabolique (Paperback / softback - 15 Apr 2010)

Carnivale Diabolique
This book is a collection of stories. The carnival is coming to town. Not any ordinary type of carnival, but Carnivale Diabolique, the only barrier humanity has against the demon portals. In Monica Jackson's Fire Song, Lyric Adams is unsure of what's happening to her. A strange power within her is budding and she senses evil unlike ever before. She is a delicate, fragile-human, but is discovering that she was born...

By (author) Seressia Glass

ISBN-13: 9781600430466 ; ISBN-10: 1600430465

Price: £7.50 £6.00 Not Available

Cougar Tales (Paperback / softback - 3 Feb 2010)

Cougar Tales
This book is a collection of stories. How to Handle a Woman by Sandra Kitt features Geneva Springer, a petite woman pushing forty, who adores her nephew, Sean. Having saved his life when he was a toddler, they have a special bond. When Sean involves her with his school auction, the successful bidder receives Geneva's professional services as an interior designer. Reed Fairway, a sexy thirty-three year old computer...

By (author) Evelyn Palfrey; Deirdre Savoy; Sandra kitt

ISBN-13: 9781600430480 ; ISBN-10: 1600430481

Price: £9.50 £7.60 UK delivery 1 to 2 days

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Gumption & Grit: Extraordinary Women of the Cariboo Chilcotin (Hardback - 1 Apr 2010)

Gumption & Grit
In 2002 the Williams Lake Women's Contact Society posted a request for pioneer stories of the women of the Cariboo Chilcotin. What they received was an overwhelming number of tales of hardship, faith, adversity, endurance and accomplishment. These women were mothers, trappers, schoolteachers, outfitters, ranchers and homesteaders. "Gumption & Grit" contains over 35 stories, including the tragic tale of...

By (author) Sage Birchwater

ISBN-13: 9781894759373 ; ISBN-10: 1894759370

Price: £20.99 £16.17 UK delivery 1 to 2 days

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An Accidental Memoir: How I Killed Someone & Other Stories (Paperback / softback - 1 Apr 2010)

An Accidental Memoir
In this collection of deliberately fragmented essays, a talented documentary filmmaker points the lens at herself and explores a succession of personal tragedies. Told from unusual perspectives and in highly figurative language, the essays draw on the Southern Gothic tradition of Flannery O'Connor and feature dark humour, flawed people, disastrous events, and moments of spiritual grace. Taken together they become a...

By (author) Wendy Reed

ISBN-13: 9780615276809 ; ISBN-10: 0615276806

Price: £14.99 £11.99 Not Available

FROM POGROM TO PURGE: SOVIET YIDDISH WRITING 1917-1947 (Paperback - 1 Feb 2010)

FROM POGROM TO PURGE

Edited by JOSEPH SHERMAN

ISBN-13: 9781905512621 ; ISBN-10: 1905512627

Price: £9.99 £7.99 Not Available

Bended Knees (Paperback / softback - 1 Apr 2010)

Bended Knees
Christian Fiction Anthology - eight authors (several of whom have made Best Seller list) have contributed short stories about faith and life.

By (author) Brian Smith

ISBN-13: 9780984090402 ; ISBN-10: 0984090401

Price: £16.38 UK delivery 3 to 5 days

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Where the God of Love Hangs Out: Fiction (Hardback - 12 Jan 2010)

Where the God of Love Hangs Out
Love, in its many forms and complexities, weaves through this collection by Amy Bloom, the New York Times bestselling author of Away. Bloom's astonishing and astute new work of interconnected stories illuminates the mysteries of passion, family, and friendship.Propelled by Bloom's dazzling prose, unmistakable voice, and generous wit, Where the God of Love Hangs Out takes us to the margins and the centers of real...

By (author) Amy Bloom

ISBN-13: 9781400063574 ; ISBN-10: 1400063574

Price: £20.62 UK delivery 3 to 5 days

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Soul of Wood (Paperback / softback - 5 Jan 2010)

Soul of Wood
Soul of Wood made Jakov LindΣs reputation as one of the most boldy imaginative postwar writers and it remains his most celebrated achievement. In the title novella and six subsequent stories, Lind distorts and refashions reality to make the deepest horrors of the twentieth century his own. Set during World War II, ¬Soul of Wood‾ is the story of Wohlbrecht, a peg-legged veteran of World War...

By (author) Jakov Lind; Translated by Ralph Manheim; Introduction by Michael Kruger

ISBN-13: 9781590173305 ; ISBN-10: 1590173309

Price: £8.99 £7.19 UK delivery 1 to 2 days

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A E Coppard (Paperback - 1 Jan 2010)

A E Coppard

Edited by Andy Taylor

ISBN-13: 9780753807156 ; ISBN-10: 0753807157

Price: £6.31 Not Available

Tiger Burning Bright (Hardback - 11 Dec 2009)

Tiger Burning Bright
The 13 stories in this collection strip search the loves, desires, and demons of women. Self-delusion, denial, and unshakable innocence in the face of disaster come alive in the setting of rural and urban Appalachia. "If Evening Comes," a gutsy plunge into the psyche of a woman scorned, paints a horrifying portrait of clinical depression. In "Cherries in the Snow," a woman who hasn't been kissed...

By (author) Arlene Sanders

ISBN-13: 9780980016420 ; ISBN-10: 0980016428

Price: £19.50 £15.31 Not Available

In the Wake of Loss: Short Stories (Paperback / softback - 10 Dec 2009)

In the Wake of Loss
This debut collection of short stories focuses on the conflicts and challenges experienced by diasporic South Asian characters who struggle to face truths about intimate relationships, often confronted by violence and always negotiating between the banal and the extraordinary events that shape their lives. These characters include Rajani, a mail-order-bride who opens a lingerie shop only to find herself and her...

By (author) Sheila James

ISBN-13: 9781553800750 ; ISBN-10: 1553800753

Price: £12.99 £10.39 UK delivery 1 to 2 days

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Trailer Girl and Other Stories (Paperback / softback - 1 Dec 2009)

Trailer Girl and Other Stories
In this stunningly original collection of seventeen short stories, Terese Svoboda navigates a terrain of alienation and loss with searing, poetic prose. “I talk like a lady who knows what she wants,” begins the vagrant narrator of the title story. She insists there’s a wild child hiding among the cows in the gully near her home. Others in the trailer park think it’s just herself...

By (author) Terese Svoboda

ISBN-13: 9780803228030 ; ISBN-10: 0803228031

Price: £17.47 UK delivery 3 to 5 days

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BRIEF INTERVIEWS WITH HIDEOUS MEN (5 Nov 2009)

BRIEF INTERVIEWS WITH HIDEOUS MEN
* 'A book of formidable creative intelligence, and real moral purpose' OBSERVER

By (author) DAVID FOSTER WALLACE

ISBN-13: 9781600247378 ; ISBN-10: 1600247377

Price: £17.61 £14.09 UK delivery 1 to 2 days

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Collected Stories (Paperback / softback - 2 Nov 2009)

Collected Stories
Comprising stories from her debut collection, Blood, and the critically acclaimed Where You Find It, this collection presents some of the best known works by one of Scotland’s “most gifted and original writers” (Times Literary Supplement).Each sharply observed, savagely accurate and brilliantly realized, the stories offer revelatory glimpses into everyday lives — from an unwelcome act of...

By (author) Janice Galloway

ISBN-13: 9780099540397 ; ISBN-10: 0099540398

Price: £8.99 £7.19 UK delivery 1 to 2 days

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Selected Blackouts (Paperback / softback - 1 May 2010)

Selected Blackouts
Faith, diet, sex, addiction, mortality. In the stories that make up John Goldbach's Selected Blackouts, characters struggle with questions of faith, diet, sex, addiction, and mortality, often while on the verge ofηor in the midst ofηcracking up.John Goldbach's fiction has appeared in The Shore, Smyles ℜFish, Waccamaw, Descant, Matrix, and Hobart. He lives in Montreal, Quebec.

By (author) John Goldbach

ISBN-13: 9781897178799 ; ISBN-10: 1897178794

Price: £9.95 £7.96 UK delivery 1 to 2 days

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Button, Button: Uncanny Stories (Paperback - 1 Nov 2009)

Button, Button

By (author) Richard Matheson

ISBN-13: 9780765361431 ; ISBN-10: 0765361434

Price: £13.11 UK delivery 3 to 5 days

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Sentimental Exorcisms (Paperback / softback - 30 Oct 2009)

Sentimental Exorcisms

By (author) David Derry

ISBN-13: 9781552452240 ; ISBN-10: 1552452247

Price: £17.15 UK delivery 3 to 5 days

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This One's Going to Last Forever (Paperback / softback - 1 May 2010)

This One's Going to Last Forever
"I might like you better if we slept together." This new collection of stories explores the ways we delude ourselves when it comes to love. It might be cruel to laugh at the sexual misfortunes of others, but sometimes you just can't help it. These characters stumble and fall, hurting themselves and each other, but every so often they reveal a sweetness or a moment of insight that allows all to be forgiven.Nairne...

By (author) Nairne Holtz

ISBN-13: 9781897178805 ; ISBN-10: 1897178808

Price: £10.97 UK delivery 2 to 3 days

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