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1	The Christmas mystery more books like this by Jostein Gaarder A boy called Joachim acquires a strange old Advent calender - and uncovers from it the story of a girl called Elisabet, who disappeared from her home fifty years earlier. Elisabet has been taken back through time and right across Europe to Palestine, to see the Holy Family in Bethlehem. Two thousand years of history flash by, and angels, shepherds ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.11! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Collected Fictions more books like this by Jorge Luis Borges This is a collection of Borges's fiction, translated and gathered into a single volume. From his 1935 debut with "The Universal History of Iniquity", through the influential collections "Ficciones" and "The Aleph", to his final work from the 1980s, "Shakespeare Memory". see all copies from $10.72! new only from $11.52! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Solitaire Mystery more books like this by Jostein Gaarder Twelve-year-old Hans Thomas lives alone with his father, a man who likes to givehis sons lessons about Life and has a penchant for philosophy. Hans Thomas' mother left when he was four (to find' herself) and the story begins when father and son set off on a trip to Greece, where she now lives, to try to persuade her to come home. En rout, in ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.19! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Cereus Blooms at Night more books like this by Shani Mootoo When Mala, old and notoriously crazy, arrives at the Paradise Alms House, she is placed in the tender care of Tyler, a gay male nurse, and an extraordinary relationship begins to develop. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	The notebooks of Don Rigoberto more books like this by Mario Vargas Llosa Don Rigoberto - insurance executive by day, pornographer and sexual enthusiast by night - misses his estranged second wife. As he compensates for her absence by filling notebooks with a steamy mix of memory and sexual fantasy, readers are drawn into his confusion between imagination and reality. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	The Barnum Museum: Stories more books like this by Steven Millhauser "The Barnum Museum" is a combination waxworks, masked ball, and circus side-show masquerading as a collection of short stories. In the title story, the Barnum Museum is a fantastic, monstrous landmark so compelling that an entire town finds its citizens gradually and inexorably disappearing into it. Other stories include: the tale of a bored ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.18! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	Shamrock tea more books like this by Ciaran Carson Shamrock tea, the magical substance that allows people to experience the world with visionary clarity, can only be found by passing through the famous van Eyck painting The Arnolfini Marriage. The characters who bear this knowledge include a young boy named Carson, his uncle Celestine, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and the nephew of a famous Belgian writer ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
8	Magical Realism: Theory, History, Community more books like this by Lois P Zamora (Editor), Wendy B Faris (Editor) Magical realism is often regarded as a regional trend, restricted to the Latin American writers who popularized it as a literary form. In this critical anthology, the first of its kind, editors Lois Parkinson Zamora and Wendy B. Faris show magical realism to be an international movement with a wide-ranging history and a significant influence among ... see all copies from $15.95! new only from $27.11! \| SVS
9	Fishing for Amber more books like this by Ciaran Carson Dazzlingly weaves Irish fairy tales, Ovid's Metamorphoses and the history of the Dutch golden age into the form of a magical alphabet. Carson triumphs over the distinction between fact and fiction in the pleasure of telling his stories. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.34! \| first editions
10	The Life and Opinions of the Tomcat Murr more books like this by E. T. A. Hoffmann, Jeremy Adler (Introduction by), Anthea Bell (Translator) Tomcat Murr is a loveable, self-taught animal who has written his own autobiography. But a printer's error causes his story to be accidentally mixed and spliced with a book about the composer Johannes Kreisler. As the two versions break off and alternate at dramatic moments, two wildly different characters emerge from the confusion - Murr, the ... see all copies from $6.88! new only from $7.50! \| SVS
11 view cover	Four meals more books like this by Meir Shalev Four Meals is the extraordinary story of Zayde; his enigmatic mother, Judith; and her three lovers, Globerman, Jacob, and Moshe. Over the course of four meals, which take place intermittently over several decades, Zayde slowly comes to understand why these three men consider him their son and why all three participate in raising him. A virtuoso ... see all copies from $2.34! new only from $17.46!
12 view cover	Journal of Antonio Montoya more books like this by Rick Collignon A debut novel set in a decaying New Mexican village, which conveys messages about the enduring power of love and the sanctity of place and history. After young Jose Montoya's parents are killed one August morning by a cow, it seems to his aunt Ramona that some members of the family are more quick than dead. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.01! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Three to See the King more books like this by Magnus Mills 'For a long time I'd been convinced that I occupied a remote and unusual part of the world. Suddenly I wasn't so sure.' Living in a house made entirely of tin, on a great flat plain, far from any neighbour, with the wind for company: what could be better? Then, if a female acquaintance should arrive, make her intentions clear, make her mark, make ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Baltasar & Blimunda more books like this by José Saramago When King and Church exercise absolute power what happens to the dreams of ordinary people? In early eighteenth century Lisbon, Baltasar, a soldier who has lost a hand in battle, falls in love with Blimunda, a young girl with visionary powers. From the day that he follows her home from the auto-da-fe where her mother is condemned and burned at the ... see all copies from $5.24! new only from $10.33! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Through a Glass, Darkly more books like this by Jostein Gaarder Conversations about life and death, between a girl and an angel. As Cecelia lies ill in bed, and her family valiantly make their Christmas preparations in the knowledge that she is not going to get better, an angel steps through her window. The death os a teenage girl from cancer is, in Gardner's hands, an occasion to reflect on the meaning of ... see all copies from $2.34! new only from $8.54! \| first editions
16 view cover	Divina Trace more books like this by Robert Antoni Winner of the Commonwealth Writers Prize. A mysterious child, half-human, half-frog, is born on the island of Corpus Christi in the West Indies. Its mother becomes Magdalena Divina, patron saint of the island, worshipped by Hindu and Muslim Indians, Africans, Catholics and indigenous Indians alike. The frog-child becomes the focus of a mysterious ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.69! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	The Isle of Battle: Book Two of the Swans' War more books like this by Sean Russell This is the second volume in the Swan's War series. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	The stone book quartet more books like this by Alan Garner The four books which make up this volume were first published individually. "As the stories grow into one story, so one's awareness of the emblems and symbols deepens! Garner binds the reader to him and he shows us the author working with language to make his book as his characters worked with stone and iron. Not a word is wasted." - "Times ... see all copies from $2.01! new only from $11.66! \| signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	One hundred years of solitude more books like this by Gabriel Garca Márquez An acknowledged masterpiece, this is the story of seven generations of the Buendia family and of Macondo, the town they have built. Though little more than a settlement surrounded by mountains, Macondo has its wars and disasters, even its wonders and miracles. A microcosm of Columbian life, its secrets lie hidden, encoded in a book and only ... see all copies from $5.22! new only from $11.44!
20 view cover	Noah, Noah more books like this by Paul Wilson Noah, an orphan with no past, has run a community centre for the past twenty years, but faced with immiment closure, he begins to image the story of the man he would have liked to have been - the charismatic and magical Mr George whose impact on the town in the 1930s is the stuff of local legend. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.09! \| signed copies \| first editions
21	Historia Verdadera del Realismo Magico more books like this by Seymour Menton see all copies from $33.12! new only from $33.12!
22	Magic Realism in Cervantes: Don Quixote as Seen Through Tom Sawyer and the Idiot more books like this by Arturo Serrano Plaja see all copies from $2.23! new only from $97.45! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	The Drifting of Spirits more books like this by Gisele Pineau, Michael Dash (Translator) From the 1920s to the 1970s, this novel follows the fortunes of a family living in a small Caribbean town: clubfooted Leoncé, his wife Myrtha, and their daughter Célestina who falls in love with Death. see all copies from $4.95! new only from $23.95! \| first editions
24	Desert Child: Or Just How Amusing Can a Nightmare Be? more books like this by Simon Parke see all copies from $4.05! new only from $7.23!
25	Tales of Magic Realism by Women: Dreams in a Minor Key more books like this by Susanna J Sturgis see all copies from $1.99!

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