Adult Fiction

  Need some good fictional Summer reading, about people places or things?
  Perhaps these will fit the bill ........
 


McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, ON, Canada, 1997. Soft cover. Book Condition: As New. No Jacket.3rd Edition.

A National Bestseller and winner of the Giller Prize. A spellbinding novel of generations and the sweep of history which begins in 1988 in Dar es Salaam when the 1913 diary of a British colonial officer is found in a shopkeeper's back room. Rich in detail and description, the novel magnificently conjures setting and the realm of eras past as it explores the state of living in exile from one's home and from oneself. 

Bookseller Inventory # 1003



St. Martins Press, Gordonville, VA, U.S.A., 2011. Soft cover. Book Condition: As New. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. 1st paperback edition.

On the day she was abducted, Annie O'Sullivan, a thirty-two-year-old Realtor, had three goals - sell a house, forget about a recent argument with her mother, and be on time for dinner with her ever-patient boyfriend. The open house is slow, but when her last visitor pulls up in a van as she's about to leave, Annie thinks if just might be her lucky day after all. 

Bookseller Inventory # 1013


Doubleday Canada, 2012. Hardcover. Book Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: New.
    
Percival Chen is the headmaster of the most respected English school in Saigon. He is also a compulsive gambler, and an incorrigible womanizer. He is well accustomed to bribing government officials in order to maintain the elite status of the Percival Chen English Academy. Chen is fiercely proud of his Chinese heritage and he is quick to spot the business opportunities rife in a divided country. When his son, Dai Jai, gets into trouble with the Vietnamese authorities, Percival must face the limits of his connections and wealth, and is forced to send him away. Loneliness follows and Percival finds solace with Jacqueline, a beautiful woman of mixed French and Vietnamese heritage. They have a son on the eve of the Tet Offensive and as the complexities of war encroach further into his world, Percival must confront the tragedy of all he has refused to see. A riveting story of love, betrayal, and sacrifice. 

Bookseller Inventory # 1004



McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, ON, Canada, 2004. Soft cover. Book Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Special Edition.

A special fortieth-anniversary edition of Margaret Laurence's most celebrated novel. 

Bookseller Inventory # 1008



Random House of Canada, 2013. Hardcover. Book Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition.

While traveling to school one morning through dense fog, Byron sees a terrible accident. They had turned off their usual route and his mother, who is driving the car, does not seem to have noticed and neither does his sister who is in the back seat. What happened and who is to blame? Over the days and weeks that follow, Byron's perfect world is shattered. Unable to trust his parents, he confides in his best friend James, and together they concoct a plan that will have long lasting effects. 

Bookseller Inventory # 1001



McClelland & Stewart, 2006. Hardcover. Book Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine.

Ondaatje's world-famous novel explores the lives of four people who come together in a damaged villa in Tuscany during the final moments of the Second World War: a young Canadian nurse; an enigmatic thief whose skills have made him one of the war's heroes as well as one of its casualties; a Sikh soldier in the British army; and the English patient, who lies badly burned in an upstairs room. A breathtaking story of love and passion.

A lovely special edition complete with a ribbon book mark. Slight scuffing to cover but no sun damage or tears. 

Bookseller Inventory # 1019