Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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
€ 14.99€ 11.64
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€ 11.64
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€ 10.87
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€ 10.87
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€ 10.95
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Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784702915
- ISBN
- 9781784702915
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.95
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€ 10.95
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€ 10.91
€ 13.99
€ 10.91
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€ 17.23
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€ 17.23
Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 217 x 9. Weight in Grams: 194.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Santa Fe Writer's Project United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781939650054
- ISBN
- 9781939650054
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 14.12
€ 14.99
€ 14.12
Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 207 x 128 x 17. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Poetry Wales Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781854114204
- ISBN
- 9781854114204
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.17
€ 19.17
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€ 21.84
€ 24.99
€ 21.84
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
€ 36.99€ 31.31
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€ 31.31
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099437581
- ISBN
- 9780099437581
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.12
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Paperback. With an introduction 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: 152. Series: Canons. 224 pages. With an introduction by Jarvis Cocker. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 196 x 130 x 15. Weight: 204.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Main - Canons Imprint Re-issue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857862648
- ISBN
- 9780857862648
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.66
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Paperback. Written in 160 pages of a loose-leaf notebook, this book comes to terms with the death of a friend by going on a personal odyssey which zigzags through time and landscapes, from Oakland to Hawaii, and the wilds of Montana. It walks a line between fiction and memoir, between dark introspection and a lust for life. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 198 x 8. Weight in Grams: 94.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841951461
- ISBN
- 9781841951461
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.57
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Paperback. Presents episodic novel that set amongst the rural waterways of America. This title begins at the foot of the Benjamin Franklin statue in San Francisco's Washington Square, wanders through the wonders of America's rural waterways and ends, inevitably, with mayonnaise. Series: Canons. Num Pages: 140 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 136 x 10. Weight in Grams: 116.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 8th
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782113805
- ISBN
- 9781782113805
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.57
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Paperback. Contains 62 stories that set mainly in Tacoma, Washington (where the author grew up) and in the flower-powered San Francisco of the late fifties and early sixties. Series: Canons. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 10. Weight in Grams: 128.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Main - Canons edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782113782
- ISBN
- 9781782113782
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.53
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Paperback. Jesse and Lee share a house owned by a very nice Chinese dentist, where it rains in the hall. They move to cabins on the cliffs at Big Sur where the deafening croaks of frogs can be temporarily silenced by the cry, 'Campbell's Soup'. Series: Canons. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 11. Weight in Grams: 126.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Main - Canons ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782113799
- ISBN
- 9781782113799
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.66
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Paperback. Three American soldiers set out on the gruelling ascent of a perilous Italian mountainside in the murky closing days of the Second World War. Haunted by their sergeant's cold-blooded murder of a young girl, and with only an old man of uncertain loyalties as their guide, they truge on in a state of barely suppressed terror and confusion. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 186. Three American soldiers set out on the gruelling ascent of a perilous Italian mountainside in the murky closing days of the Second World War. Haunted by their sergeant's cold-blooded murder of a young girl, and with only an old man of uncertain loyalties as their guide, they truge on in a state of barely suppressed terror and confusion. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 197 x 129 x 15. Weight: 186.
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848870857
- ISBN
- 9781848870857
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.82
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Hardback. Three American soldiers set out on the gruelling ascent of a perilous Italian mountainside in the murky closing days of the Second World War. Haunted by their sergeant's cold-blooded murder of a young girl, and with only an old man of uncertain loyalties as their guide, they truge on in a state of barely suppressed terror and confusion. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 141 x 19. Weight in Grams: 298. Very good copiy in clean dustwrapper. Frst edition.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition/First Printing
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- SKU
- KEX0303081
- ISBN
- 9781848870840
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 20.00
€ 20.00
Paperback. From the prize-winning and world-renowned novelist comes a gorgeously rendered, emotionally devastating account of a relationship eroded by secrets, set against the backdrop of American's great national tragedy, 9/11. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 150 x 27. Weight in Grams: 422. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- SKU
- KRA0009019
- ISBN
- 9781782393955
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. From the prize-winning and world-renowned novelist comes a gorgeously rendered, emotionally devastating account of a relationship eroded by secrets, set against the backdrop of American's great national tragedy, 9/11. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782393979
- ISBN
- 9781782393979
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.82
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Paperback. The complete edition of a timeless classic, includes the recently rediscovered Part Four and 'Last Words' by Richard Bach.Jonathan Livingston Seagull, the most celebrated inspirational fable of our time, tells the story of a bird determined to be more than ordinary. Num Pages: 144 pages, (1 x 8pp mono plate section). BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 170 x 129 x 6. Weight in Grams: 168.
- Publisher
- Harper Thorsons
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- New Illustrated Thorsons Classics edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780006490340
- ISBN
- 9780006490340
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.61
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Paperback. For disillusioned writer and itinerant barnstormer Richard Bach, belief is as real as a full tank of gas and sparks firing in the cylinders ..until he meets Donald Shimoda - former mechanic and self-described messiah who can make wrenches fly and Richard's imagination soar.. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BG; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 169 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 118.
- Publisher
- Arrow Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099427865
- ISBN
- 9780099427865
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.19
€ 11.99
€ 10.19