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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. A hugely original anthology of imaginative fiction edited by bestselling authors Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 412.
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Number of pages
512
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780755336623
ISBN
9780755336623
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

Paperback. An evocative historical novel with a sting in the tail, Shipwrecks is a powerful and deeply moving Japanese classic Translator(s): Ealey, Mark. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FJH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 126 x 11. Weight in Grams: 124. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd United Kingdom
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
Main
Number of pages
160
SKU
KKD0006098
ISBN
9781841952215
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Hiroshima and Nagasaki have been destroyed. Japan is in ruins and occupied by the Americans. Takuya, an ex-officer in the Imperial Army, has returned to his native village only to learn that the Occupation authorities are intensifying their efforts to apprehend suspected war criminals. And those who are found guilty are being sentenced to death. Translator(s): Ealey, Mark. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 18. Weight in Grams: 203.
Publisher
Canongate Books Edinburgh
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841954790
ISBN
9781841954790
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.74

Paperback. For eight-year-old Ajay and his older brother Birju, life in Dehli in the late 1970s follows a comfortable, predictable routine: bathing on the roof, queuing for milk, playing cricket in the street. Yet, everything changes when their father finds a job in America - a land of carpets and elevators, swimsuits and hot water on tap. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 180.
Edition
Main
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571224548
ISBN
9780571224548
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 12.19

Paperback. Ram Karan, a corrupt official in the Delhi school system, lives in one of the city's slums with his widowed daughter and his eight-year-old granddaughter. Bumbling, contradictory, sad, Ram is a man corroded by a guilty secret. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 226.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571313594
ISBN
9780571313594
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.73

Paperback. On the eve of her ninth birthday, Rose Edelstein bites into her mother's homemade lemon-chocolate cake and discovers she has a magical gift: she can taste her mother's emotions in the slice. All at once her cheerful, can-do mother tastes of despair and desperation. Suddenly, and for the rest of her life, food becomes perilous. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 168 x 21. Weight in Grams: 238.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Cornerstone
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099538264
ISBN
9780099538264
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. When Mona Gray is ten, her father contracts a mysterious illness. When she becomes a maths teacher, Mona delights her pupils by encouraging them to find objects that take the form of numbers. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 199 x 17. Weight in Grams: 192. Clean copy
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Windmill Books London
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
SKU
KEX0245656
ISBN
9780099558521
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 318 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 203 x 21. Weight in Grams: 370. Greetings, Hero is the ironic, smart and tender debut of Irish writer Aiden O'Reilly. Features love, betrayal, alienation and DIY
Publisher
Honest Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
9780957142756
ISBN
9780957142756
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.00
€ 13.01

Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 137 x 15. Weight in Grams: 227.
Publisher
Arlen House
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
9781851320479
ISBN
9781851320479
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.00

Paperback. Series: Open Door S. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (LA) ELT advanced. Dimension: 113 x 178 x 13. Weight in Grams: 126. 151pp
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
New Island Books
Condition
New
SKU
9781848401006
ISBN
9781848401006
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.61

Hardcover. These twelve masterful short stories are by one of Ireland's leading practitioners of the art. This gathering marks a welcome return of a major voice in Irish literature, unpublished since the 1990s. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Publisher
The Lilliput Press Ltd Ireland
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843516415
ISBN
9781843516415
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.58

Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Condition
New
SKU
9781786695208
ISBN
9781786695208
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.58

Paperback. A tragic love story set against the backdrop of the Cultural Revolution, and a major film from the director of House of Flying Daggers Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 118 x 23. Weight in Grams: 292.
Publisher
Virago
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844087037
ISBN
9781844087037
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.50

Paperback. Tells the story of the misadventures of Hayri Irdals, an unforgettable antihero who, along with an eccentric cast of characters (a television mystic, a pharmacist who dabbles in alchemy, a dignitary from the lost Ottoman empire, the "life-artist" Halit), founds The Time Regulation Institute. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 25. Weight in Grams: 320.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780141195759
ISBN
9780141195759
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.95

Paperback. A dark, seductive and existential page-turner from one of Turkey's bestselling and most significant writers Translator(s): Dawe, Alexander Amadeus. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 27. Weight in Grams: 262.
Publisher
Canongate
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782112617
ISBN
9781782112617
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.02

paperback. The author narrates the political career of Dr Salman Khan who, from his position as Minister of Education in the South African Cabinet, is transferred to the Prison Services Portfolio. This 'fall' sets in motion a train of events. Num Pages: 156 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 234 x 13. Weight in Grams: 252.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Picador Africa South Africa
Number of pages
156
Condition
New
SKU
V9780958470865
ISBN
9780958470865
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.38

Paperback. .
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905583720
ISBN
9781905583720
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 14.42

Paperback. Allah is not obliged to be fair about all things he does here on earth. After his mother's death he travels to Liberia to find his aunt but on the way gets caught up in rebel fighting and ends up with a Kalashnikov in his hands. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 200.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099433927
ISBN
9780099433927
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. Orphaned at the age of seven, Koyaga grows up to be a terrible hunter; he fights mystical beasts, and is a shape-shifter, capable of changing himself into beasts and birds. He fights in the French colonial armies. Over the course of five nights, this title tells the life story of Koyaga, President and Dictator of the Gulf Coast. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 34. Weight in Grams: 328.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
464
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099283829
ISBN
9780099283829
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.81

Paperback.
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
426
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780292749054
ISBN
9780292749054
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 37.49

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