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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. A novel of intrigue, deceit and sheer desperation, Bestseller is a caustic portrait of contemporary culture and of Britain's obsession with fame, success and becoming the next J.K. Rowling. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 22. Weight in Grams: 278. 288 pages. A novel of intrigue, deceit and sheer desperation, Bestseller is a caustic portrait of contemporary culture and of Britain's obsession with fame, success and becoming the next J.K. Rowling. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 198 x 132 x 22. Weight: 278.
Publisher
Alma Books
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846881282
ISBN
9781846881282
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.38

Paperback. Born out of the author's own experiences as a young InterRail traveller, this modern picaresque novel is a celebration of a Europe without boundaries, the joy of being young and the infinite, unpredictable paths we can go down during our lives. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 20. Weight in Grams: 244.
Publisher
Alma Books
Number of pages
250
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846882449
ISBN
9781846882449
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.98

Paperback. Only the daughter, Nina, survives, thanks to an extraordinary act of mercy by one of the attackers. Nina is just four years old. Decades later Nina hunts down the last of her family's murderers, the man who was her saviour. Translator(s): Goldstein, Ann. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 9. Weight in Grams: 108.
Publisher
Canongate Books
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841955742
ISBN
9781841955742
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.78

Paperback. Re-creates the siege of Troy through the voices of 21 Homeric characters. From the return of Chryseis to the burial of Hector, this work presents the events arranged not by the whims of the gods in this instance but by the dictates of human nature. Translator(s): Goldstein, Ann. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 13. Weight in Grams: 138. A Story of War. 176 pages. Re-creates the siege of Troy through the voices of 21 Homeric characters. From the return of Chryseis to the burial of Hector, this work presents the events arranged not by the whims of the gods in this instance but by the dictates of human nature. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 198 x 127 x 13. Weight: 138.
Publisher
Canongate Books
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847671035
ISBN
9781847671035
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.75

Paperback. For fans of ALICE IN WONDERLAND, SHADOW OF THE WIND and booklovers everywhere, a literary thriller and a love story set in a world threatened by the disappearance of language. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 30. Weight in Grams: 266.
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780225623
ISBN
9781780225623
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

Paperback. Solzhenitsyn's celebrated novel describes the lives of people in the Soviet Union under Stalin who were condemned on health grounds to "internment" or death. It also give a psychological insight into the intensified experience of people under varying degrees of pressure and deprivation. Translator(s): Dolberg, Alexander. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
Edition
New Ed
SKU
9780099575511
ISBN
9780099575511
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.08

Hardcover. Features detailed accounts of the Soviet prison-camp system. This book offers author's classic portrayal of life in the gulag is all the more powerful for being slighter and more personal than those later monumental volumes. Translator(s): Willetts, H. T. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 211 x 135 x 16. Weight in Grams: 320.
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
Everyman
Number of pages
170
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857152197
ISBN
9781857152197
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.37

Paperback. The Gulag, the Stalinist labour camps to which millions of Russians were condemned for political deviation, has become a household word in the West. This title tells the story of one typical day in a labour camp as experienced by prisoner Ivan Denisovich Shukhov is sufficient to describe the entire world of the Soviet camps. Translator(s): Willetts, H. T. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 131 x 12. Weight in Grams: 134.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099449270
ISBN
9780099449270
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. The mind- and language-bending adventures of Hemon's endearing protagonist Jozef Pronek. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 216.
Publisher
Picador
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780330393508
ISBN
9780330393508
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.94

Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. .
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Main Market Ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781447295235
ISBN
9781447295235
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.22

Paperback. An electrifying masterclass in international storytelling from one of the most original writers at work in English today Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 168.
Publisher
Picador
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Reprints
Condition
New
SKU
V9780330464444
ISBN
9780330464444
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.77

Paperback. .
Publisher
Istros Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908236180
ISBN
9781908236180
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.72

Paperback. A rising star of Latin American literature, and one of Granta's Best of Young Spanish Language Novelists Translator(s): McDowell, Megan. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 131 x 11. Weight in Grams: 116.
Publisher
Granta Books
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847086273
ISBN
9781847086273
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.73

Paperback. My Documents is the latest work from Alejandro Zambra, the award-winning Chilean writer whose first novel was heralded as the dawn of a new era in Chilean literature. My Documents is unflinchingly human and essential evidence of a sublimely talented writer working at the height of his powers. Translator(s): McDowell, Megan. Num Pages: 228 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 23. Weight in Grams: 302.
Publisher
Fitzcarraldo Editions
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780992974787
ISBN
9780992974787
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.03

Paperback. Translator(s): MacAdam, Alfred. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140. .
Publisher
Regan Arts
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Tra
Condition
New
SKU
V9781632060549
ISBN
9781632060549
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.54

Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 27. Weight in Grams: 504.
Publisher
Weiser Books
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781578634941
ISBN
9781578634941
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 24.73

Paperback. A Welsh muscle-boy discovers his ability to escape the past is not as developed as his physique. A murder charge liberates a doctor's wife. An indifferent carer and a dyoing hotelier share a night. A sado-masochistic poet realises the only tortures left are images from his own life. Num Pages: 150 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 164 x 9. Weight in Grams: 170.
Publisher
Parthian Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
150
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905762088
ISBN
9781905762088
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.38

Paperback. The timeless boyhood adventures of a mischievous lad in 19th-century New England, in a new edition for today's readers. Illustrator(s): White, A.B. Series: Hardscrabble Classics. Num Pages: 314 pages, 71 drawings. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBF; DSK; FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (J) Children / Juvenile; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
University Press of New England United States
Number of pages
314
Condition
New
SKU
V9780874517941
ISBN
9780874517941
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 14.50

Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Condition
New
SKU
9781564781697
ISBN
9781564781697
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 6.23

Paperback. In a renovated Italian palace set above the blue of the sea, the Junoesque figure of Mrs Aldwinkle moves among her guests. These include a poet who earns his living editing The Rabbit Fancier's Gazette; and a popular novelist who records every detail of her affair with another guest as future literary material. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 136 x 26. Weight in Grams: 240.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099477792
ISBN
9780099477792
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.85

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