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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. A wonderfully enjoyable storehouse of ancient Chinese history and legends, which also has an important role in understanding 21st century. China 'And remember: Heaven's blessing will cease forever if there's despair and poverty in your lands.' This book deals with this topic. Translator(s): Palmer, Martin. Num Pages: 256 pages, throughout. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 15. Weight in Grams: 206.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141197463
ISBN
9780141197463
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.89

Publisher
United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803263840
ISBN
9780803263840
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 16.47

Paperback. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 204 x 141 x 15. Weight in Grams: 274. 205 pages. The debut novel of Bernard Comment, acclaimed author and editor, now available in English for the first time, The Shadow of Memory brings a fairy-tale premise into the modern world, where information--and its loss--can be a matter of life and death. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 204 x 141 x 15. Weight: 274.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Number of pages
205
Condition
New
SKU
V9781564788436
ISBN
9781564788436
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 15.51

Paperback. At the turn of the twentieth century, Nathan Walker comes to New York City to take the most dangerous job in the country: digging the tunnel far beneath the Hudson that will carry trains from Brooklyn to Manhattan. In the bowels of the riverbed, the workers - black, white, Irish and Italian - dig together, the darkness erasing all differences. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 214. 256 pages. At the turn of the twentieth century, Nathan Walker comes to New York City to take the most dangerous job in the country: digging the tunnel far beneath the Hudson that will carry trains from Brooklyn to Manhattan. In the bowels of the riverbed, the workers - black, white, Irish and Italian - dig together, the darkness erasing all differences. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 197 x 130 x 17. Weight: 182.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408805916
ISBN
9781408805916
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.79

Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 148 x 20. Weight in Grams: 240.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408841280
ISBN
9781408841280
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.94

Paperback. Winner of the National Book Award and a New York Times bestseller Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 137 x 21. Weight in Grams: 258. 368 pages. Winner of the National Book Award and a New York Times bestseller. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 200 x 137 x 21. Weight: 250.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Later Printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408801185
ISBN
9781408801185
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.78

Hardback. fine in a fine dustjacket, signed by the author
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
SKU
KTK0095991
ISBN
9781408829370
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 35.00

paperback. From prize-winning, bestselling author Colson Whitehead, a magnificent, wrenching, thrilling tour de force chronicling a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 233 x 25. Weight in Grams: 422. Good clean copy with shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Fleet
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KTJ8039202
ISBN
9780708898376
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.12

Paperback. .
Publisher
Fleet
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780708898406
ISBN
9780708898406
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.02

paperback. It's the summer of 1985 and Benji is determined that this is the summer when things will change and he'll fit in. For starters, he'll be reinvented as 'Ben'. When that doesn't catch on, it's another summer of the perpetual mortification that is teenage existence. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 204.
Publisher
Vintage
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099531883
ISBN
9780099531883
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.94

Paperback. A pandemic has devastated the planet, sorting humanity into two types: the uninfected and the infected, the living and the living dead. The worst of the plague is now past, and Manhattan is slowly being resettled. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 224.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099570141
ISBN
9780099570141
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. The marvellously inventive, genre-bending, noir-inflected debut novel from the author of The Underground Railroad. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
Publisher
Fleet
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780708898475
ISBN
9780708898475
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.17

Paperback. It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce. So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York, Eilis knows she must go. Arriving in a crowded lodging house in Brooklyn, Eilis can only be reminded of what she has sacrificed. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 19. Weight in Grams: 198.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
9780241972700
ISBN
9780241972700
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce. So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York, Eilis knows she must go, leaving behind her family and her home for the first time. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 17. Weight in Grams: 198.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
9780141041742
ISBN
9780141041742
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.10

Paperback. It is the late 1960s in Ireland. Nora Webster is living in a small town, looking after her four children, trying to rebuild her life after the death of her husband. She is fiercely intelligent, at times difficult and impatient, at times kind, but she is trapped by her circumstances, and waiting for any chance which will lift her beyond them. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 224.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780141041759
ISBN
9780141041759
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.38

Hardback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135. . Very good copy in bright and clean dustwrapper. First edition.

Includes neat newsclippings on the author.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
SKU
KEX0303152
ISBN
9780241257685
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 45.00

Paperback. From the young Pakistani immigrant who seeks some kind of permanence in a strange town to the Irish woman reluctantly returning to Dublin and discovering a city that refuses to acknowledge her long absence. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 128 x 15. Weight in Grams: 162.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd London
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141041773
ISBN
9780141041773
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.10

Paperback. For Mary, her son has been lost to the world, and now, living in exile and in fear, she tries to piece together the memories of the events that led to her son's brutal death. To her he was a vulnerable figure, surrounded by men who could not be trusted, living in a time of turmoil and change. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 9. Weight in Grams: 114.
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241962978
ISBN
9780241962978
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.10

Paperback. Well-read paperback, in good condition. Some shelf wear and/or some light soiling.
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Penguin
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
SKU
KRF0030456
ISBN
9781844881925
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Intrigue, investigations, thievery, drugs and murder all make an appearance in Collins's classic who-done-it, The Moonstone . Published in serial form in 1868, it was inspired in part by a spectacular murder case widely reported in the early 1860s. Editor(s): Farmer, Steve. Series: Broadview Editions. Num Pages: 700 pages, port. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 141 x 36. Weight in Grams: 848.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd Canada
Number of pages
700
Condition
New
SKU
V9781551112435
ISBN
9781551112435
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.26

Paperback. A heart-wrenching debut novel in the bestselling tradition of P.S. I Love You about a young woman with terminal cancer who undertakes a mission to find a new wife for her husband. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 199 x 22. Weight in Grams: 236.
Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781760112103
ISBN
9781760112103
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.26

Paperback. Amid conditions of brutality that paralleled that of slavery, 'The First Fleet' was sent to a place no European but the legendary Captain Cook had ever seen. Left to live or die on the hostile Australian continent, these convicts and their equally isolated guards occupy the centre of this epic. Num Pages: 912 pages, maps. BIC Classification: FA; FT; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 112 x 48. Weight in Grams: 504. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Arrow
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0004532
ISBN
9780099280989
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Marius, the general who saved Rome from barbarian invasion and became consul an unprecedented six times, has fallen into decline. Sulla, his closest associate, has withdrawn himself from his commander's circle in preparation for his own bid for power. As a deadly enmity develops between the two men, Rome must fight its own battle for survival. Series: Masters of Rome. Num Pages: 1072 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 49. Weight in Grams: 738.
Publisher
Cornerstone
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099462491
ISBN
9780099462491
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.86

Paperback. Presents the stories of Marius, wealthy but lowborn, and Sulla, penniless though aristocratic and debauched - men of vision whose ambitions will lay the foundations of the most awesome empire ever known. Series: Masters of Rome. Num Pages: 1056 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 139 x 47. Weight in Grams: 724.
Publisher
Cornerstone
Number of pages
1056
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099462484
ISBN
9780099462484
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.03

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