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Canons The People's Act Of Love - James Meek (Paperback) 20-06-2019 Winner of RSL Ondaatje Prize 2006 (UK) and Saltire Society Scottish Fiction Book of the Year 2005 (UK). Long-listed for The Man Booker Prize 2005 (UK).

Canons The People's Act Of Love - James Meek (Paperback) 20-06-2019 Winner of RSL Ondaatje Prize 2006 (UK) and Saltire Society Scottish Fiction Book of the Year 2005 (UK). Long-listed for The Man Booker Prize 2005 (UK).

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1919, Siberia. Deep in the unforgiving landscape a town lies under military rule, awaiting the remorseless assault of Bolsheviks along the Trans-Siberian railway. One night a stranger, Samarin, appears from the woods with a tale of escape from an Arctic prison, insisting a cannibal is on his trail. Only Anna, a beautiful young widow, trusts his story. When a local shaman is found dead, suspicion and terror engulf the isolated community, which harbours a secret of its own . . .