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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Num Pages: 196 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 141 x 210 x 16. Weight in Grams: 226.
Publisher
Amazon Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781503944435
ISBN
9781503944435
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.13

Paperback. From the author of THE ORIGIN MYSTERY - the trilogy with ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD. En route from London to New York, Flight 305 suddenly loses power and crash-lands in the English countryside, plunging a group of strangers into a mysterious adventure that will have repercussions for all of humankind. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. Weight in Grams: 270.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780008156893
ISBN
9780008156893
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.38

Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 206 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 236.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Academy Chicago Publishers United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780897336079
ISBN
9780897336079
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.57

Paperback. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2011, Snowdrops is the debut of 2011: A stunning novel of moral ambiguity, uncertainty and corruption in Moscow. 'Snowdrops assaults all your senses with its power and poetry, and leaves you stunned and addicted' Independent Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 240. Good, clean copy
Edition
Main
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0007571
ISBN
9781848874534
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.70

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Diamond Comic Distributors, Inc.
Edition
Original
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
SKU
V9781451638127
ISBN
9781451638127
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.94

Paperback.
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Baen Books United States
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
Format
Paperback
SKU
V9781451638868
ISBN
9781451638868
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.08

Paperback. A.B. Guthrie Jr. is best known for his historical fiction; his classic novel The Way West earned him a Pulitzer Prize. The Big It and Other Stories collects his diverse shorter tales, written between 1946 and 1960. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 142 x 12. Weight in Grams: 224.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803240551
ISBN
9780803240551
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.84

Paperback. Tells a detective story, where secret passages, uninvited guests, a sinister valet and a puzzling murder lay the foundations for a classic crime caper. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 166.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1st Vintage Book Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099521273
ISBN
9780099521273
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. 400 pages, B/W ILLUSTRATIONS. 'First Command' is the second in a three-volume collection of the legendary John Grimes books! After moving on from the Terran Navy, John Grimes tries his hand at leading a private life, and finds he likes being his own man. The only problem is, his ship The Far Traveller has a (very stubborn and very feminine) mind of its own - and a penchant for getting Grimes into the worse sort of interplanetary pickles!. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 173 x 109 x 38. Weight: 394.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Baen
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9781451638509
ISBN
9781451638509
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.98

Paperback. Winner of the 1990 Booker Prize, this novel describes the romance between two 19th-century poets and the parallel relationship of their two biographers and includes passages of "Victorian verse". It is structured in the form of a literary and biographical treasure hunt. Num Pages: 528 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 33. Weight in Grams: 370.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Vintage
Edition
1st, First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099800408
ISBN
9780099800408
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.81

Paperback. Tells the tale of a pair of young scholars investigating the lives of two Victorian poets. This book features a trail of letters, journals and poems they uncover a web of passion, deceit and tragedy, and their quest becomes a battle against time. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 372.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780099503927
ISBN
9780099503927
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.14

Paperback. Fed up with stultifying criticism, Phineas decides to study the messiness of 'real life'. Doing nothing by halves, he sets out to write a biography of a great biographer. But a 'whole life' is hard to find. How do we put the idea of a person together? Everywhere he looks, he finds fragments and gaps. Trails run cold and mysteries are unresolved. Num Pages: 272 pages, portraits. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 18. Weight in Grams: 200. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0001474
ISBN
9780099283935
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. A scholar pursues an elusive biographer, stumbling upon buried fragments of distant lives; a woman walks out of her previous existence and encounters an ice-blond stranger from a secretive world. This title deals with betrayal and loyalty, quests and longings, loneliness and passion - the mysterious absences at the heart of the fullest lives. Num Pages: 240 pages, facsimiles. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 135 x 15. Weight in Grams: 176. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0001472
ISBN
9780099273769
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. A sequel to "Virgin in the Garden" and "Still Life". A cast of characters play out their personal dramas amid the clashing politics, passionate ideals and stirring languages of the early-1960s. Their crises mirror some of the major world events of the age in which they live. Num Pages: 624 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 33. Weight in Grams: 462. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0000111
ISBN
9780099839408
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. A.S. Byatt's fairy tales and fables are among the best-loved features of her fiction. This volume contains "The Glass Coffin" and "Gode's Tale" of the Breton Baie des Trepasses, together with three other stories with medieval and oriental settings, including the title tale. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 19. Weight in Grams: 218.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Edition
New edition
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099521310
ISBN
9780099521310
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. Morpho Eugenia and The Conjugal Angel are two fascinating novellas and, like A. S. Byatt's Booker Prize-winning novel, Possession, they are set in the mid-nineteenth century, weaving fact and fiction, reality and romance. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 216.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099224310
ISBN
9780099224310
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.88

Paperback. Each story is in some way inspired by a painting of Henri Matisse, each is also about the intimate connection between seeing and feeling - about the ways in which a glance we meant to be casual may suddenly call forth the deepest reserves of our being. This book includes stories which are all about human beings. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 120.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099472711
ISBN
9780099472711
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.00

Paperback. Tells the story of Anna Severell's struggle at the age of seventeen to evolve her own personality in the shadow of her father, Henry Severell, a famous English novelist. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 230.
Publisher
Vinatge 1991
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099889601
ISBN
9780099889601
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.61

paperback. In this sequel to "The Virgin in the Garden", Byatt illuminates the conflicts between ambition and domesticity, confinement and self-fulfilment, while providing a observation of intellectual and cultural life in England during the 1950s. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 29. Weight in Grams: 322.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099479918
ISBN
9780099479918
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.81

Paperback. While Frederica - the spirited heroine of "The Virgin in the Garden", "Still Life" and "Babel Tower" - falls almost by accident into a career in television in London, tumultuous events in her home county of Yorkshire threaten to change her life, and those of the people she loves. This work depicts the clashing forces in English life. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 31. Weight in Grams: 404.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099443391
ISBN
9780099443391
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.35

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