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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. China has taken Hong Kong, and is poised to capture Japan. The new president of the USA finds herself on the edge of nuclear war, but her military aide has internal political problems of his own. As these internal troubles brew, China makes their intentions of a general nuclear attack clear. Num Pages: 546 pages, Map. BIC Classification: FA; FH; FJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 111 x 33. Weight in Grams: 310. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Hodder Paperbacks
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0005499
- ISBN
- 9780340675014
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. A masterful novel set in 1960s Montana Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 12. Weight in Grams: 124.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780747585237
- ISBN
- 9780747585237
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.25
€ 13.99
€ 10.25
Paperback. The setting is Oaxaca, Mexico, where Harry Quinn has come to free his girlfriend's brother, Sonny, from jail and furthermore get him away from the suavely sadistic drug dealer who suspects Sonny of having cheated him. This is a novel of menace and eroticism. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 199 x 14. Weight in Grams: 178.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780747584971
- ISBN
- 9780747584971
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 9.99
€ 13.99
€ 9.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 193 x 34. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781408831007
- ISBN
- 9781408831007
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 11.64
€ 11.99
€ 11.64
Hardcover. A trilogy of novels - "The Sportswriter", "Independence Day", and "The Lay of the Land" - that charts the life and times of one of the most beloved and enduring characters in modern fiction. Num Pages: 1336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 135 x 66. Weight in Grams: 1194.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781841593197
- ISBN
- 9781841593197
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 21.87
€ 36.99
€ 21.87
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 194.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781408853597
- ISBN
- 9781408853597
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 11.64
€ 11.99
€ 11.64
Paperback. Robard Hewes has driven across the country in search of a woman named Buena who, twelve years ago, infused him with a feeling that has now turned into obsession. Sam Newel has travelled from Chicago seeking the missing piece of himself. They both find themselves on an uncharted hunting island in the Mississippi owned by an old man named Lamb. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 260. 304 pages. Robard Hewes has driven across the country in search of a woman named Buena who, twelve years ago, infused him with a feeling that has now turned into obsession. Sam Newel has travelled from Chicago seeking the missing piece of himself. They both find themselves on an uncharted hunting island in the Mississippi owned by an old man named Lamb. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 197 x 129 x 19. Weight: 208.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780747584964
- ISBN
- 9780747584964
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.86
€ 13.99
€ 10.86
Paperback. In this collection of 20 short stories, the editor Richard Ford has selected his personal favourites of Chekhov's work. Includes are "The Kiss", "The Darling", as well as lesser known tales such as "A Blunder", "Hush" and "Champagne". Translator(s): Garnett, Constance. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 27. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Publisher
- Granta Books
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- 1st Edition Thus
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781862073005
- ISBN
- 9781862073005
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.45
€ 13.00
€ 11.45
Paperback. Once upon a time that was called 1828, before all fishes in the sea and all living things on the land were destroyed, there was a man named William Buelow Gould, a white convict who fell in love with a black woman and discovered too late that to love is not safe. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 35. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784702892
- ISBN
- 9781784702892
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.85
€ 13.00
€ 11.85
Paperback. Mathinna, an Aboriginal girl from Van Diemen's Land, is adopted by nineteenth-century explorer, Sir John Franklin, and his wife, Lady Jane. Franklin is confident that shining the light of reason on Mathinna will lift her out of savagery and desire. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 196.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784702922
- ISBN
- 9781784702922
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Paperback. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Burma Death Railway, surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle's young wife two years earlier. Struggling to save the men under his command from starvation, from cholera, from beatings, he receives a letter that will change his life forever. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 35. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099593584
- ISBN
- 9780099593584
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784702915
- ISBN
- 9781784702915
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. Trapped within a waterfall on the wild Franklin River, Tasmanian river guide, Aljaz Cosini, lies drowning. As the tourists he has been guiding down the river seek to save him, Aljaz is beset by visions horrible and fabulous. As the rapids rise, Aljaz relives not just his own life but also his country's dreaming. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784702908
- ISBN
- 9781784702908
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
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€ 11.05
Paperback. President Elect Jack Meade wakes up in a hospital bed after being found near death on a beach. His last memory was of cruising off the Florida coast. No one believes he is the new President. Then on TV he sees a live interview with his doppelganger - he has been replaced with a dead ringer. Num Pages: 506 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FH; FJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 109. Weight in Grams: 262. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0005474
- ISBN
- 9780099269946
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. 196 pages. Alma Nel leaves her home on the edge of the Kalahari to retrieve the body of her gay son in Amsterdam. Driven by guilt and grief, she resolves to reconstruct Staal's life and the events leading up to his death, undertaking a bizarre quest in a strange and surreal world. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 212 x 137 x 15. Weight: 224.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Jacana Media
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781431402687
- ISBN
- 9781431402687
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.50
€ 18.99
€ 17.50
Paperback. Series: Modern Library. Num Pages: 960 pages. BIC Classification: FA; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 134 x 31. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Publisher
- Modern Library Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- 1st Modern Library
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780375756757
- ISBN
- 9780375756757
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.18
€ 15.99
€ 12.18
Paperback. Together, the nine stories in Don't Think illuminate the astonishing fact of existence itself while justifying the Philadelphia Inquirer's assessment that Burgin is one of America's most distinctive storytellers. Series: Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421419718
- ISBN
- 9781421419718
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 22.19
€ 24.99
€ 22.19
Hardback. A collection of stories that features: "Memorial Day", "Memo and Oblivion" and "The Interview". In "Memorial Day", an aging man at a public swimming pool recalls a brief but momentous affair he had with a young British woman in London thirty years ago and the paradoxical role his recently deceased father played in it. Series: Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 168 x 25. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421402734
- ISBN
- 9781421402734
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 31.96
€ 37.99
€ 31.96
Paperback. Reissued to mark the 30th Anniversary of Brautigan's death. Introduced by Jarvis Cocker Series: The Canons. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 148.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780857862648
- ISBN
- 9780857862648
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 10.45
€ 12.99
€ 10.45
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099437581
- ISBN
- 9780099437581
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.24
€ 17.99
€ 14.24