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Then the US government announces the end of the draft, and Fletcher faces pressure from his family to return home. More people arrive at the farm, but they aren’t who anyone expected. Tensions threaten the commune, the neighbours are suspicious, and Maggie finds herself negotiating the gap between ideals and reality, between who people want to be and who they actually are.   Just as her new life seems on the brink of falling apart, Maggie receives word from Laos that her father has disappeared. Suddenly, her future depends not only on keeping everyone together, but also on discovering the truth about her father’s actions and beliefs in the days before he vanished.  Once We Had a Country returns us to an era we thought we knew and compels us to consider the courage of our own convictions as well as the depths of our desire for a meaningful life. 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Enter Ülle, a woman with amnesia, who will, inadvertently, make Regan’s wish come true.       But Ülle begins to remember her past and the outrageous steps her government took to combat a deadly pandemic of parasitic infections, which have brought her to this new country and to Regan’s house. Meanwhile, Regan might be changing her mind, and she finds herself more and more concerned about keeping both Ülle and herself alive. But the shadowy organization that brought them together wants to keep them both quiet – permanently.      A Suitable Companion for the End of Your Life is a darkly comic dystopian tale that probes our anxieties around boundaries, whether territorial or bodily, and our fraught desire not to die alone.     \"Gripping from the first page, Robert McGill’s A Suitable Companion for the End of Your Life is a dark, speculative novel with echoes of The Handmaid’s Tale, set against the backdrop of a plague. Some of us would do anything to survive, down to flatpacking ourselves like IKEA furniture, while others would do anything to make our miserable lives end. This is timely, provocative, ethically challenging fiction that asks whether the drive to survive is stronger than the inevitability of death.\" –Ian Williams, author of Reproduction  \"Terrifying and tender, A Suitable Companion's sci-fi angle serves to frame a fascinating parable about the post-post-modern family. Unpredictable and completely original, this is a propulsive, rewarding, and thought-provoking read.\" –Michael Redhill, author of Bellevue Square  ​​“The guy knows what he’s doing, from missing children to silk parachutes, you are never lost and he will catch you.” – Zadie Smith, author of Swing Time  “A storyteller who refuses to keep things straight, and for this produces freshly captivating effects.” – Andrew Pyper, author of The Demonologist  “A writer of striking talent and originality.” – Daily Mail on The Mysteries  “McGill is a talented writer, adept at expressing the nuanced, unspoken truths that beg the lies by which we live.” – Observer on The Mysteries","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49739924996369,"sku":"NGR9781552454442","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50922734977297,"sku":"CIN1552454444VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51036755362065,"sku":"NIN9781552454442","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51326387781905,"sku":"CIN1552454444G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52454545195281,"sku":"NLS9781552454442","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1552454444.jpg?v=1751341139"},{"product_id":"simple-creatures-book-robert-mcgill-9781552454930","title":"Simple Creatures","description":"FINALIST FOR THE 2025 ATWOOD GIBSON WRITERS' TRUST FICTION PRIZE  With an intimate, comic, and compassionate eye, the twelve stories in Simple Creatures consider what it means to live with less in the twenty-first century.  In this debut collection, featuring stories set in locations from the Pacific Northwest and upstate New York to the English coast, Robert McGill explores the heartaches and joys of people who are desperate to uncomplicate their complicated world. Through stories consisting of YouTube monologues, pet-care instructions, school reports, and the unspoken thoughts of a young scholar obsessed with a famous Canadian writer, Simple Creatures also shows us the sometimes hilarious, often poignant ways in which our use of language shapes our relationships with others and ourselves.  Along the way, we meet a teenager who wants to live among a community of Bigfoot that he claims to have discovered in the woods; the widow of a famous endocrinologist after she gains custody of a chimpanzee from his lab; a boy whose fledgling hockey career is troubled by the fact that his name is Leo Gretzky; and a divorcee seeking out the mysterious author of a viral environmental pledge. 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Come watch as one of our best stylists plies his trade, pushing short fiction to its contemporary, ecstatic edge.\" – Alexander MacLeod, author of Light Lifting and Animal Person","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51036822176017,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51036824437009,"sku":"NIN9781552454930","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":52111189934353,"sku":"NGR9781552454930","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":52470799237393,"sku":"CIN1552454932VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52489307291921,"sku":"NLS9781552454930","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1552454932.jpg?v=1761645584"},{"product_id":"mysteries-book-robert-mcgill-9780771055218","title":"The Mysteries","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Best Seller \u003cbr\u003e 1500 5-Star Reviews \u003cbr\u003e From the author that brought you \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e best selling books \u003ci\u003eThe Harbinger\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Mystery of the Shemitah\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Paradigm \u003c\/i\u003ewith over 3 MILION copies sold\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Imagine if you discovered a treasure chest in which were hidden ancient mysteries, revelations from heaven, secrets of the ages, the answers to man's most enduring, age-old questions, and the hidden keys that can transform your life to joy, success, and blessing.This is \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Mysteries.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Jonathan Cahn, who caused a national and international stir with the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e best-seller \u003ci\u003eThe Harbinger\u003c\/i\u003e and then \u003ci\u003eThe Mystery of the Shemitah\u003c\/i\u003e, now brings us a treasure chest inside of which are contained some of the greatest mysteries of all time. 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