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	Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale The Republic of Gilead allows Offred only one function: to breed. If she deviates, she will, like all dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs... Margaret Atwood is Canada's most eminent novelist, poet and critic. The Handmaid's Tale won the Governor-General's Award, was short-listed for the Booker Prize and made into a major film. Brilliantly conceived and executed, this powerful evocation of 21st century America gives full reign to Margaret Atwood's devastating irony, wit and astute perception. 'Out of a narrative shadowed by terror, gleam sharp perceptions, brilliant intense images and sardonic wit' - The Independent, London Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0099740915 Published: 1996 Paperback: 320 pages, 197 x 130 mm Price: £6.99


	Michael Ondaatje - In the Skin of a Lion By the author of The English Patient Publisher: Picador ISBN: 0330301837 Published: 1988 Paperback Price: £7.99


	Annie Proulx - The Shipping News Quoyle is a hapless, hopeless hack journalist living and working in New York. When his no-good wife is killed in a spectacular road accident, Quoyle heads for the land of his forefathers - the remotest corner of far-flung Newfoundland. With 'the aunt' and his delinquent daughters - Bunny and Sunshine - in tow, Quoyle finds himself part of an unfolding, exhilarating Atlantic drama. The Shipping News is an irresistible comedy of human life and possibility. 'To read The Shipping News is to yearn to be sitting in The Flying Squid Lunchstop, eating Seal Fin curry, watching the icebergs clink together in the bay' - The Times, London 'As stark and ruggedly beautiful as the storm-battered coast of Newfoundland itself' - Sunday Telegraph, London The Shipping News won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1994. Publisher: Fourth Estate ISBN: 1841150592 Published: 2002 Paperback Price: £6.99


	Carol Shields - The Stone Diaries This is the story of Daisy Goodwill, from her birth on a kitchen floor in Manitoba, Canada, to her death in a Florida nursing home nearly ninety years later. Through Daisy's life, Shields reflects and illuminates the unsettled decades of our century in this rich and poignant novel. 'I can think of few novels containing so much that is resonant and unforgettable, or that invite the reader to participate so fully and rewardingly. The Stone Diaries is a triumphant and important book and deserves a wide audience' - Sunday Telegraph, London 'Rapturous, sensitive and funny' - The Guardian, UK The Stone Diaries won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1995 Publisher: Fourth Estate ISBN: 1857022254 Published: 2003 Paperback Price: £6.99


	Alice Munro - Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage In these stories whose lives come into focus through single events or sudden memories which bring the past bubbling to the surface. The past, as her characters discover, is made up not only of what is remembered, but also what isn't. The past is there, just out of the picture, but if memories haven't been savoured, recalled in the mind and boxed away, it's as if they have never been - until a moment when the pieces of the jigsaw re-form suddenly, sometimes pleasurably but more often painfully. Women look back at their young selves, at first marriages made when they were naive and trusting, at husbands and their difficult, demanding little ways. There is in this new collection an underlying heartbreak, a sense of regret in her characters for what might have been, for a fork in the road not taken, a memory suppressed in an act of prudent emotional housekeeping. But at the same time there is hope, there are second changes - here are people who reinvent themselves, seize life by the throat, who have moved on and can dare to conjure up the hidden memories, daring to go beyond what is remembered. Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0099422743 Published: 2002 Paperback: 336 pages, 198 x 127 mm Price: £6.99


	Anne-Marie MacDonald - Fall On Your Knees Following the curves of the twentieth century, Fall On Your Knees takes us from haunted Cape Breton island in Nova Scotia through the battlefields of World War I into the emerging jazz scene in New York City, and immerses us in the lives of four unforgettable sisters. The children of a driven and ambitious father, the sisters - Kathleen, the oldest, a beautiful talent intent on a career as an opera diva; Frances, the drunken rogue and child prostitute; Lily, the pseudo-saint cripple; and Mercedes, the fervent Catholic and protector of the flock - are swept along by the tumult of events and of their own desires. This is a story of family relationships, racial strife, miracles, attempted murder, birth and death, and an extraordinary love affair. Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0099740516 Published: 1997 Paperback: 576 pages, 199 x 130 mm Price: £6.99


	Robertson Davies - The Cornish Trilogy What's Bred in the Bone - The Rebel Angels - The Lyre of Orpheus Woven around the pursuits of the spirits and scholars of the University of St John and the Holy Ghost, this trilogy of novels lures the reader into a world of mysticism, historical allusion and Gothic fantasy. Robertson Davies was professor and first master of Massey College at the University of Toronto. He was the first Canadian to be inducted into the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 0140144463 Published: 1991 Paperback: 1152 pages, 129 x 198 mm Price: £12.99

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