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In the year 3016, the Second Empire of Man spans hundreds of star systems, thanks to the faster-than-light Alderson Drive.

It is 1984. The latest recession is said to be over, and in the steel city of Hamilton, things are picking up.

The fourth title in Biblioasis's Renditions Series, Century begins with the nightmare visions of a young woman named Jane Seymour, catching the reader up in a chronicle of the Seymour family that m

Star-struck biographies, nostalgic histories, gonzo road trips: hockey books say we're obsessed with the game because we grew up wanting to be players. Now women.

Once a celebrated war photographer, Lucas Zane is burnt out after covering twenty years of war.

Presents Bill Oliver's memoir, tracing his life from Bombay to Broadwater, Narrandera to North Queensland, Cuba to China, and places in between.

In the stories of Confidence, there are ecstasy-taking PhD students, financial traders desperate for husbands, owners of failing sex stores, violent and unremovable tenants, aggressive raccoons, se

A cookbook unlike any other.

As El Salvador returns to peace after more than a decade of civil war, Eduardo Sosa, an unemployed sociologist, becomes fascinated by a homeless man who lives in a beat-up yellow Chevrolet parked a

•The budget•Ghost trouble.•White ant.•Home from finishing-school.•Young man in love.•New-year glad rags.•Black magic.&am

The eleven remarkable stories in Kevin Hardcastle's debut Debris introduce an authentic new voice.

At bedtime, a little llama worries after his mother puts him to bed and goes downstairs.

In the tradition of erotic confession (with a catch), as delicately written as the tales of Ana's Nin or Pauline Reage, Smith's pornographic novel explores female desire.

Brian Busby's 'The Dusty Bookcase' explores the fascinating world of Canada's lesser-known literary history: works that suffered censorship, critical neglect, or brilliant yet fleeting notoriety.

Terence Young's second collection of short stories, The End of the Ice Age, brings together thirteen tales of hardscrabble characters in their lonely orbits.