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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

paperback. Illustrator(s): Aoyama, Gosho. Series: Case Closed. Num Pages: 200 pages, chiefly Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 192.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
VIZ Media LLC
Condition
New
SKU
9781591163275
ISBN
9781591163275
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 7.73

Paperback. From the author of MYRA BRECKINRIDGE and DARK GREEN, BRIGHT RED, a novel, first published in 1949, describing the growing-up of a brilliant and precocious schoolboy whose parents separate when he is young, and whose mother is portrayed as a 'monster'. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 128 x 16. Weight in Grams: 302. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0001547
ISBN
9780349110240
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Gore Vidal's two related novels in a single volume, with a new introduction by the author. Myra Breckinridge arrives in Hollywood intending to prove that it is possible to work out in life all one's fantasies - and survive. And in "Myron" she returns to battle it out with her eponymous alter ego. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 124 x 30. Weight in Grams: 300.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349103655
ISBN
9780349103655
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.96

Paperback. In their teens, Jim Willard and Bob Ford share a moment of sexual intimacy and Jim spends years searching for the recreation of that moment. When the opportunity occurs, it explodes with violence and pain. This was one of the first pieces of explicitly gay fiction. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 5SG; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 13. Weight in Grams: 138.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
New Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349106571
ISBN
9780349106571
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.00

Paperback. Vidal's historical novel set in the 5th century BC and narrated by Cyrus Spitama, son of a Persian prince and Greek sorceress, grandson of the prophet Zoroaster, and ambassador to the courts of India, China and Greece. Pericles, Thucydides, Sophocles and Confucius are among the book's characters. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 44. Weight in Grams: 400.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349104751
ISBN
9780349104751
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.92

Paperback. * The magnificent concluding volume of Vidal's epic NARRATIVES OF EMPIRE, embodying the passage of American history. Series: Narratives of Empire. Num Pages: 480 pages, genealogical table. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 31. Weight in Grams: 334.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349114279
ISBN
9780349114279
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.95

Paperback. Gore Vidal's fictional recreation of the Roman Empire teetering on the crux of Christianity and ruled by an emperor who was an inveterate dabbler in arcane hocus-pocus, a prig, a bigot, and a dazzling and brilliant leader. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 35. Weight in Grams: 362.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group London
Number of pages
544
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349104737
ISBN
9780349104737
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.92

Paperback. .
Publisher
Sunstone Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781632930163
ISBN
9781632930163
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 7.27

Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 108 x 18. Weight in Grams: 113.
Publication date
1987
Publisher
Random House USA Inc United States
Edition
Reissue
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Format
Paperback
SKU
V9780449215043
ISBN
9780449215043
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 9.89

Paperback. A novel about the way news is made, and the way the media creates and manipulates the stories we see before us. It makes us think again about the stories we are fed by the media around us. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 183. Clean copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Faber & Faber London
Edition
Main
Number of pages
224
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KEX0200944
ISBN
9780571240265
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. A novel about the way news is made, and the way the media creates and manipulates the stories we see before us. It makes us think again about the stories we are fed by the media around us. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 183. Clean copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Faber & Faber London
Edition
Main
Number of pages
224
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KEX0200943
ISBN
9780571240265
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. A novel about the way news is made, and the way the media creates and manipulates the stories we see before us. It makes us think again about the stories we are fed by the media around us. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 183. Clean copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Faber & Faber London
Edition
Main
Number of pages
224
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KEX0200942
ISBN
9780571240265
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. A novel about the way news is made, and the way the media creates and manipulates the stories we see before us. It makes us think again about the stories we are fed by the media around us. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 183. Clean copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Faber & Faber London
Edition
Main
Number of pages
224
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KEX0200941
ISBN
9780571240265
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. These eight stories deal with ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances, war and its aftershocks prominent among them. Num Pages: 128 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 146 x 13. Weight in Grams: 242.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Biblioasis Canada
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9780973597172
ISBN
9780973597172
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 20.99

Paperback. Joan-Marc's out of work, he's alone, he has a heart condition, his mother's addicted to pills, he can't stand his sister. Otherwise, life is beautiful. And there's a lot that his estranged second wife doesn't know about him. In this book, he sets out to tell her. Translator(s): McDowell, Megan. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 248 x 28. Weight in Grams: 486.
Publisher
Harvill Secker
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846558757
ISBN
9781846558757
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 14.16

Paperback. Translator(s): McNeil, Rhett. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 142 x 7. Weight in Grams: 138.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press United States
Number of pages
120
Condition
New
SKU
V9781628970340
ISBN
9781628970340
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 13.21

paperback. Born in a small Sicilian village and orphaned at age nine, Modesta spends her childhood in a convent raised by nuns. Through sheer cunning, she manages to escape, and eventually becomes a princess. Sensual, proud, and determined, Modesta wants to discover the infinite richness of life. Translator(s): Appel, Anne Milano. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 704 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780141198477
ISBN
9780141198477
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.53

Paperback. "Carries the flavor of the old world, its underlying ferocity leavened by a lyrical mysticism.. Her prose is transcendent."-Washington Post Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393350234
ISBN
9780393350234
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.27

Paperback. An artist at heart, Trystan Morgan grows up in his grandmother's valley mining cottage, duty-bound by her deep wish for him to be a preacher. Trystan's journey through the conflicting cultural, social and political values of his country in the mid-twentieth century is bewildering but finally liberating. This novel tells his story. Series: Library of Wales. Num Pages: 230 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 137 x 23. Weight in Grams: 356.
Publisher
Parthian Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
230
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906998134
ISBN
9781906998134
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.34

Paperback. .
Publisher
Transworld Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780552168496
ISBN
9780552168496
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.73

Paperback. Presents the 14 writers - Nicholas Ruddock, Leon Rooke, Hugh Graham, Jane Eaton Hamilton, Bruce Meyer, Priscila Uppal, Veronica Gaylie, Christine Miscione, Lisa Foad, Maggie Dwyer, Josip Novakovich, Bart Campbell, Lisa Pike and Linda Rogers - shortlisted for the CVC literary prize. Editor(s): Vanderbilt, Gloria. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 18. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Exile Editions Canada
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9781550964905
ISBN
9781550964905
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.73

Paperback. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 131 x 11. Weight in Grams: 162.
Publisher
The New York Review of Books, Inc United States
Number of pages
136
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781590174579
ISBN
9781590174579
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.95

Paperback. Like Wescott's extraordinary novella 'The Pilgrim Hawk', 'Apartment in Athens' concerns an unusual triangular relationship. A bestseller in 1945, this book has been out of print for over thirty years. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 202 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 302.
Publisher
The New York Review of Books, Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9781590170816
ISBN
9781590170816
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 16.26

Paperback. 169pp
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Blackstaff Press Belfast
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
9780856408090
ISBN
9780856408090
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.27

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