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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. THE STRUGGLE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL NEVER RESTED: IN THE WORLD, AND IN EVERY HUMAN BEING, IT WENT ON Series: The Canons. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 18. Weight in Grams: 182. Series: Canons. 240 pages. A haunting story of violence and love. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 198 x 131 x 18. Weight: 220.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Main - Canons Imprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857862358
- ISBN
- 9780857862358
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.74
€ 13.99
€ 10.74
Paperback.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 250
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780862415518
- ISBN
- 9780862415518
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.26
€ 16.99
€ 12.26
Paperback. Poor Angus centres round a struggling painter, Angus McAllister, who has returned to the seemingly idyllic Hebridean island of his birth in the hope that it will inspire him to create his masterpiece. His privacy is invaded by Janet, a visitor with relatives on the island. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 173.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Canongate Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- Main
- SKU
- KNW0010695
- ISBN
- 9781841951249
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. From his origins as an illegitimate child in the slums of Glasgow, Fergus Lamont sets out to reclaim his inheritance and to remake his identity as soldier, poet and would-be aristocrat. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 126 x 21. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Publisher
- Canongate UK
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780862413101
- ISBN
- 9780862413101
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.26
€ 16.99
€ 12.26
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Persephone Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910263075
- ISBN
- 9781910263075
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 19.29
€ 23.99
€ 19.29
Paperback. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 141 x 10. Weight in Grams: 158.
- Publisher
- Pacific Press International United Kingdom
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780955256806
- ISBN
- 9780955256806
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.35
€ 10.35
Paperback. The brilliantly funny debut novel by 'Robin Cooper', star of the bestselling Timewaster books * 'Hilarious and surprising: like a squid with glasses' DAVID MICHELL Num Pages: 352 pages, Integrated: 12, b/w drawings. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780751540215
- ISBN
- 9780751540215
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.69
€ 13.99
€ 11.69
Paperback. From the author of If I Loved You, I Would Tell You This (a finalist for the Frank O'Connor Short Story Prize), Life Drawing is a fierce, honest and moving story of married life - its betrayals, intimacies, and secrets. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 197 x 23. Weight in Grams: 188.
- Publisher
- Picador
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Main Market Ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780330511773
- ISBN
- 9780330511773
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.41
€ 10.99
€ 9.41
Paperback. Shortlisted for the 2010 Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award, a beautiful debut collection from a writer with the warmth, reach and complexity of Alice Munro Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 198 x 24. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Publisher
- Picador USA
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780330511797
- ISBN
- 9780330511797
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.41
€ 10.99
€ 9.41
Paperback. When Father Hobbes mysteriously dies at the high altar on Good Friday, Dr Jonathan Hullah - whose holistic ideas have earned him the soubriquet 'cunning man' - wants to know why. But it is only through looking back at his own long life that answers are forthcoming. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 198 x 31. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 480
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241952641
- ISBN
- 9780241952641
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.70
€ 23.99
€ 17.70
Paperback. The University of St John and the Holy Ghost (known affectionately as Spook) has a problem - and an opportunity. Strange, eccentric art patron and collector Francis Cornish has died and faculty members have been made executors of his complicated will. Num Pages: 1152 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 52. Weight in Grams: 788.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Number of pages
- 1152
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Re-issue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241952610
- ISBN
- 9780241952610
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 18.10
€ 25.99
€ 18.10
paperback. At two minutes to six on December 27th 1908 the lives of three people become inextricably bound together by the trajectory of a snowball. There is ten-year old Dunstable Ramsay; his 'lifelong friend and enemy' Percy Boyd Staunton; and, Paul Dempster prematurely born when his pregnant mother is struck by Percy's icy missile. Num Pages: 832 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 40. Weight in Grams: 572.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Number of pages
- 832
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241952627
- ISBN
- 9780241952627
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 18.22
€ 25.99
€ 18.22
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Europa Editions
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781609452650
- ISBN
- 9781609452650
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 15.31
€ 15.99
€ 15.31
Paperback. Lucid, insane, deadly serious, wildly playful, biblomaniacal, and perversely imaginative' Nicole Krauss Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT; WHP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 133 x 19. Weight in Grams: 226.
- Edition
- Reprints
- Publisher
- Picador USA
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780330510516
- ISBN
- 9780330510516
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.00
€ 13.99
€ 11.00
Paperback. Set in Tuscany during the World War II, this book of the film tells the story of a devoted father who must use his wit and ingenuity to save his family from the spiralling horrors of the Nazi occupation. Num Pages: 176 pages, 20 b&w halftones. BIC Classification: APF; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 198.
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571200344
- ISBN
- 9780571200344
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 10.78
€ 15.99
€ 10.78
Paperback. Roberto Arlt (1900-1942), celebrated in Argentina for his tragicomic, punch-in-the-jaw writing during the 1920s and 1930s, was a forerunner of Latin American "boom" and "postboom" novelists such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Isabel Allende. This title presents a set against the chaotic background of Buenos Aires in the early twentieth century. Translator(s): Aynesworth, Michele McKay. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 139 x 12. Weight in Grams: 262.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 184
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822329404
- ISBN
- 9780822329404
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.37
€ 26.99
€ 25.37
Paperback. * In this fascinating and thrilling novel, Robert Winder brilliantly imagines the writing of Shakespeare's missing royal play, Henry VII, and creates a suspenseful page-turner as well as a literary tour de force Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 196 x 29. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Publisher
- Abacus
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780349122502
- ISBN
- 9780349122502
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 4.99
€ 14.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Harriet Norton won't stop crying. Her parents, Ann and Thomas, are being driven close to insanity and only one thing will help. Mysteriously, their infant daughter will only calm when she's under the ancient trees of Bleasdale forest. The Nortons sell their town-house and set up home in an isolated barn. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571308187
- ISBN
- 9780571308187
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.24
€ 10.99
€ 9.24
Paperback. Luke's mum is dead. He finds himself in a small, scruffy northern hill town, with a near silent father, who he fears might be trying to drink himself to death. Then he meets Jon. Jon is massively strange. He wears 1950s clothes, has a side-parting and a twitch. The kids at school call him 'Slackjaw'. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 197 x 127 x 13. Weight in Grams: 160.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571274888
- ISBN
- 9780571274888
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.74
€ 13.99
€ 10.74
Paperback. The police were involved over the trouble. They had to be. 'I was just playing,' I told them, but that wasn't enough. They wanted to know what I understood by 'intent'. Donald Bailey is sixteen. He can't forget the trouble that happened when he was eight, when the police were called. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 15. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571288557
- ISBN
- 9780571288557
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.20
€ 10.99
€ 9.20
Harriet Norton won't stop crying. Her parents, Ann and Thomas, are being driven close to insanity and only one thing will help. Mysteriously, their infant daughter will only calm when she's under the ancient trees of Bleasdale forest. The Nortons sell their town-house and set up home in an isolated barn. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 138 x 30. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Edition
- Main
- Number of pages
- 352
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber United Kingdom
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571308170
- ISBN
- 9780571308170
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 4.99
€ 14.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 142 x 11. Weight in Grams: 180. Keywords: Subjects - Fiction - General
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Brandon / Mount Eagle Publications Ltd
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- SKU
- KHS0057497
- ISBN
- 9780863221804
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 142 x 11. Weight in Grams: 180. Clean copy
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- Brandon / Mount Eagle Publications Ltd
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- SKU
- KEX0220075
- ISBN
- 9780863221804
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. Fine in fine dustjacket
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1990
- SKU
- KCD0005296
- ISBN
- 9780747505617
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99