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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. A Spanish family torn apart by the Civil War. A story of exile, love, and loss in Costa Rica, Panama, El Salvador and Mexico. A marriage embittered by disappointment, a boy struck by lightning and a young woman running headlong into a personal hell. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 16. Weight in Grams: 154.
Publisher
Faber and Faber London
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
KEX0228233
ISBN
9780571209019
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 133 x 13. Weight in Grams: 205.
Publisher
Faber and Faber London
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
KEX0228096
ISBN
9780571223398
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Captures a city in microcosm through a series of character portraits, and forms a picture of people whose lives are inextricably linked by circumstance and community - but above all by a need to be loved. This novel features wry humour and the subtle shades of Manhattan moods. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 190.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571226665
ISBN
9780571226665
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.79

Paperback. Fresh out of college, the narrator finds himself drifting towards a career that once obsessed his father - professional basketball. But then he meets Anke, a young single mother who happens to be the former wife of one of his teammates; and their relationship becomes as significant and as life changing as the game itself. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 126 x 23. Weight in Grams: 270.
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571253173
ISBN
9780571253173
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.20

Paperback. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 387.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571217915
ISBN
9780571217915
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.26

Paperback. Presents a story-within-a-story that turns on questions about childhood and sexual awakening, innocence and attraction, while exploring the lives of three very different writers and their brushes with success and failure in both literature and life. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 198 x 26. Weight in Grams: 318.
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571233373
ISBN
9780571233373
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.71

Paperback. Ten years out of Yale and drifting through a teaching career, Greg Marnier heads for his college reunion, jetlagged and drunk. There he bumps into an old friend, Robert James, now wealthy and influential from dotcom success. He has a plan: to buy up several abandoned neighbourhoods in Detroit and build a new America from their ruins. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 219 x 27. Weight in Grams: 308.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571313426
ISBN
9780571313426
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.58

Paperback. With echoes of Tom Wolfe's The Right Stuff and Richard Yates' Revolutionary Road, The Last Pilot re-ignites the thrill and excitement of the space race through the story of one man's courage in the face of unthinkable loss. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 30. Weight in Grams: 298.
Publisher
Myriad Editions
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908434845
ISBN
9781908434845
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 21.31

Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 202.
Publisher
Interlink Publishing
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781566569279
ISBN
9781566569279
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.06

Paperback. A star is born: with this brilliant and blazing novel, Benjamin Hale has produced the most unforgettable and original debut since Everything is Illuminated. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 44. Weight in Grams: 548. 592 pages. A star is born: with this brilliant and blazing novel, Benjamin Hale has produced the most unforgettable and original debut since Everything is Illuminated. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 200 x 130 x 44. Weight: 548.
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Number of pages
592
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848875340
ISBN
9781848875340
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.97

Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. .
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Main Market Ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781509830312
ISBN
9781509830312
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.11

Paperback. This story of the Texas frontier dramatizes the capture by a Comanche band of a ten-year-old white girl and her five-year-old sister from the upper reaches of the Brazos River a decade before the Civil War. Series: Texas Tradition Series. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 220 x 141 x 14. Weight in Grams: 313.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Texas Christian University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780875651958
ISBN
9780875651958
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 20.71

Paperback. In this gripping and deeply evocative crime novel, Benjamin Black returns us to the dark, mesmerising world of Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye and his singular detective Philip Marlowe; one of the most iconic detectives in crime fiction. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF; FFH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 161 x 23. Weight in Grams: 402. Very minor wear, but remains excellent
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Air Iri OME
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
9781447238041
ISBN
9781447238041
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 15.99
€ 6.75

Paperback. .
Publisher
NYRB Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781590177655
ISBN
9781590177655
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 16.41

Paperback. Dramatic and utterly compelling, this is a heartwarming story about despair and hope, passion and heartache, and the strength of true friendship, set in turn-of-the-century Victorian Newcastle Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 112 x 31. Weight in Grams: 320.
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780747266181
ISBN
9780747266181
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.12

Paperback. Num Pages: 32 pages, colour illus. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 216 x 6. Weight in Grams: 138.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Gazelle Book Services
Condition
New
SKU
V9788120740167
ISBN
9788120740167
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.51

Paperback. .
Publisher
Turnpike Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780957233676
ISBN
9780957233676
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.37

Paperback. 'Do the Irish have, in relation to anybody else, any special capacity for the short story?'. Collecting short stories that cover many generations and moods of Irish writing, this title answers the question. It features the stories that range from Lady Gregory's retelling of an ancient love story through to the prolific William Trevor. Editor(s): Kiely, Benedict. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 137 x 25. Weight in Grams: 376.
Edition
UK ed.
Publisher
Penguin
Number of pages
544
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241955451
ISBN
9780241955451
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 18.49

Paperback. In 1992, Ben Watt, a member of the band Everything but the Girl, contracted a rare life-threatening illness that baffled doctors and required months of hospital treatment and operations. This is the story of his fight for survival and the effect it had on him and those nearest him. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 142.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408846605
ISBN
9781408846605
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.09

Paperback. Heartwarming and uplifting novel examining love in all its guises. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 19. Weight in Grams: 242.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Picador
Edition
1st Picador Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780330488907
ISBN
9780330488907
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.89

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