 | Lady Oracle by Margaret Atwood
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 This is a slightly off-beat offering from Atwood but very enjoyable.
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 | Larry's Party by Carol Shields
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 A delight from start to finish.
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 | Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage by Alice Munro
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £1.65 Munro's short stories are among the best ever written.
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 | Medicine River by Thomas King
Buy new: £8.42 / Used from: £2.70 This book is standard issue on most first-year reading lists, but that doens't make it any less compelling.
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 | Fall on Your Knees by Ann-Marie MacDonald
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £0.01 A sad but moving story of life on the island.
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 | By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart
Buy new: £5.49 / Used from: £0.80 A prose poem of passion, love and desperation. Genius.
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 | The Diviners (Phoenix Fiction) by Laurence
Buy used from: £2.12 Once read, this novel will forever disabuse you of the notion that Canada is a nation without passion.
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 | As for Me and My House (New Canadian Library) by Sinclair Ross
Buy used from: £0.26 A prarie classic this novel describes the experience of a lonely woman living in isolation.
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 | Traplines: Stories by Eden Robinson
Buy used from: £0.74 This is an engaging collection of short stories. It captures the friction between rural and urban life in Canada.
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 | All the anxious girls on earth by Zsuzsi Gartner
Buy used from: £1.56 The collection is slightly uneven, but Gartner has an infectious sense of humour.
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 | Life Of Pi by Yann Martel
Buy new: £4.79 / Used from: £0.01 This book has earned considerable praise and has earned its place on almost every Canadian's bookshelf. Funny, thoughtful and entertaining.
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 | The Tin Flute (New Canadian Library) by Gabrielle Roy
Buy new: £5.50 / Used from: £0.99 If you can, read this in its original form. If not, the translation is very good. The novel is sad but moving.
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 | What's a Girl Gotta Do? (Robin Hudson Mysteries) by Sparkle Hayter
Buy used from: £0.01 Funny sharp detective fiction set in New York. Hayter orginally hails from BC but she captures Gotham beautifully. Good fun.
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