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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 208 x 134 x 15. Weight in Grams: 244.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Triquarterly
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810150676
ISBN
9780810150676
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.90

Paperback. Num Pages: 128 pages, illustrations, map. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 91.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Random House USA Inc United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9780345442635
ISBN
9780345442635
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.97

paperback. Golding's best-known novel is the story of a group of boys who, after a plane crash, set up a fragile community on a previously uninhabited island. As memories of home recede and the blood from frenzied pig-hunts arouses them, the boys' childish fear turns into something deeper and more primitive. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 127 x 14. Weight in Grams: 188.
Edition
Main
Publisher
Faber & Faber London
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571191475
ISBN
9780571191475
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.78

Paperback. Christopher Martin, the sole survivor of a torpedoed destroyer, is stranded upon a rock in the middle of the Atlantic. Pitted against him are the sea, the sun, the night cold and the terror of his isolation. Through the long hours with only himself to talk to, Martin must try to assemble the truth of his fate, piece by terrible piece. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 230.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Main - Faber Modern Classics
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571322749
ISBN
9780571322749
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.73

Paperback. Arieka is one of the last to prophesy at Delphi, in the shadowy years when the Romans were securing their grip on the tribes and cities of Greece. The plain, unloved daughter of a local grandee, she is rescued from the contempt and neglect of her family by her Delphic role. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 14. Weight in Grams: 180.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571298532
ISBN
9780571298532
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.71

Paperback. Fame, success, fortune, a drink problem slipping over the edge into alcoholism, a dead marriage, the incurable itches of middle-aged lust. For Wilfred Barclay, novelist, the final unbearable irritation is Professor Rick L Tucker. Locked in a lethal relationship they stumble across Europe, shedding wives, self-respect and illusions. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 125 x 200 x 17. Weight in Grams: 216.
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571298488
ISBN
9780571298488
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.95

Paperback. Sammy Mountjoy, artist, rises from poverty and an obscure birth to see his pictures hung in the Tate Gallery. Swept into World War Two, he is taken as a prisoner-of-war, threatened with torture, then locked in a cell of total darkness to wait. He emerges from his cell transfigured from his ordeal, and begins to realise what man can be. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 20. Weight in Grams: 236. Faber & Faber, 1959; 1st edn. unglazed paper dust cover, designed by Anthony Gross, has 3 small closed tears, else very fine; red cloth binding and contents in mint condition; The jacket blurb: With three novels all published since 1954— Lord of the Flies, The Inheritors, Pincher Martin—William Golding has already established for himself a place in English literature which seems likely to be permanent. His originality and inventiveness, his profound intelligence, his passionate concern with the human condition, are fused with purely literary gifts of the highest order—narrative power, the ability to convey with precision the feel and texture of both the interior and the exterior world, a prose style of which the distinction is unmistakable. Mr. Golding has placed his previous novels on a desert island inhabited only by air-wrecked schoolboys, in the prehistoric world of the Neanderthals, on an isolated crag in mid-Atlantic. There has been considerable speculation about where he would turn to next. Free Fall is set in England and in a prisoner^ of-war camp in Germany. The time is the present. Sammy Mountjoy, its narrator and central character, is a distinguished painter; and he is, too, a bastard born in a rural slum who was taken up by the vicar (by no means an ordinary vicar), became an art student and flirted with Communism in the thirties, fell in love with one girl and seduced her, fell in love with another and married her, and in a German P.O.W. camp experienced the blackness of the Pit. And somehow, somewhere, he had irrevocably lost his freedom—the power to choose and decide, the faculty of freewill 'that cannot be debated but only experienced, like a colour or the taste of potatoes'. How did he lose it? And why? In agonized speculation he traces back the threads that promise a way out of the labyrinth, but one after another they snap in his hands. But for the reader the broken threads are woven together into a pattern of one man's life. Free Fall, in its richness of characterization, its immediacy and impact, its reverberating overtones, is perhaps the most important and most moving novel that Mr. Golding has yet given us. 254pp; 7¾x5".
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Main
SKU
KEB0000766
ISBN
9780571298518
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 125.00

Paperback. Drowning in the freezing North Atlantic, Christopher Hadley Martin, temporary lieutenant, happens upon a grotesque rock, an island that appears only on weather charts. To drink there is a pool of rain water; to eat there are weeds and sea anemones. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 125 x 15. Weight in Grams: 186.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571298501
ISBN
9780571298501
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.97

Paperback. Clean copy in good condition.
Condition
Used, Acceptable
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1981
Edition
New Ed
SKU
KRF0000847
ISBN
9780571116461
Paperback
Condition: Used, Acceptable

€ 4.99

Paperback. When honest young Caleb Williams comes to work as a secretary for Squire Falkland, he soon begins to suspect that his new master is hiding a terrible secret. Editor(s): Hindle, Maurice. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 310.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141441238
ISBN
9780141441238
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.21

Paperback. "The best literary present .. has a delicate sweetness that shows through at just the right moments."-Ron Charles, Washington Post Book World Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 246.
Edition
Reprint
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Number of pages
282
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393342932
ISBN
9780393342932
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.86

Paperback. After an attack of scruples, Colin Laney's skipped out on his former employer Slitscan - avoiding the rash of media lawyers sent his way - and taken a job for the outfit managing Japanese rock duo, Lo/Rez. Rez has announced he's going to marry an 'idoru' by the name of Rei Toi - she exists only in virtual reality. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 210.
Publisher
Penguin
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241953525
ISBN
9780241953525
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. Rydell is on his way back to near-future San Francisco. A stint as a security man in an all-night Los Angeles convenience store has convinced him his career is going nowhere, but his friend Laney, phoning from Tokyo, says there's more interesting work for him in Northern California. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 202.
Publisher
Penguin
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241953518
ISBN
9780241953518
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. What happens when old spies come out to play one last game? In New York, a young Cuban called Tito is passing iPods to a mysterious old man. Such activities do not go unnoticed, however, in these early days of the War on Terror and across the city an ex-military man named Brown is tracking Tito's movements. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 139 x 25. Weight in Grams: 272.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Re-issue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241953549
ISBN
9780241953549
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.66

Paperback. Cayce Pollard owes her living to her pathological sensitivity to logos. In London to consult for the world's coolest ad agency, she finds herself catapulted, via her addiction to a mysterious body of fragmentary film footage, uploaded to the Web by a shadowy auteur, into a global quest for this unknown 'garage Kubrick'. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 25. Weight in Grams: 262.
Publisher
Penguin
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Re-issue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241953532
ISBN
9780241953532
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. Flynne Fisher lives in rural near-future America where jobs are scarce and veterans from the wars are finding it hard to recover. She scrapes a living doing some freelance online game-playing, participating in some pretty weird stuff. Wilf Netherton lives in London, seventy-some years later, on the far side of decades of slow-motion apocalypse. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 34. Weight in Grams: 348.
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241961001
ISBN
9780241961001
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.01

Paperback. Num Pages: 212 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 126 x 12. Weight in Grams: 224.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Melville House Publishing United States
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
SKU
V9781612191454
ISBN
9781612191454
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 14.39

Paperback. The Bloodworths come from Ackerman's Field, Tennessee. Theirs is a rough and violent past and Boyd Bloodworth - father of the hero, Fleming - is intent on continuing the tradition. The year is 1952 and E.F. Bloodworth, Boyd's father, has returned after 20 years of roaming. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 21. Weight in Grams: 220.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
SKU
9780571212149
ISBN
9780571212149
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.45

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Strebor Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9781593094874
ISBN
9781593094874
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.40

hardcover. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 133 x 14. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
McPherson United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780929701585
ISBN
9780929701585
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 19.48

paperback. Faulkner's final novel is a tale of three Mississippi travellers. Ned, Boon and young Lucius travel to Memphis in a stolen car to find love and fortune. Once there, Ned trades in the car for a racehorse, Lucius comes of age, and Boon sets about trying to win the heart of a prostitute named 'Miss Corrie'. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 126 x 23. Weight in Grams: 210.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
9780099542360
ISBN
9780099542360
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 10.60

Paperback. An elderly, proud black farmer, Lucas Beauchamp, is wrongfully arrested for the murder of a white man. The lynch mob are baying for his blood. His sole hope lies with a young white boy, bent on repaying an old favour, who with the help of Lucas's cynical lawyer will work to find the truth and hatch a risky plot to prove his innocence. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 17. Weight in Grams: 188. Good clean copy with some shelf wear. Inscription on ffep and writing on last page, remains a good copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Condition
Used, Good
Edition
New Ed
SKU
KCW0001450
ISBN
9780099740315
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 13.99
€ 10.05

Paperback. Includes seven dramatic stories which reveal Faulkner's compassionate understanding of the Deep South. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 131 x 19. Weight in Grams: 198.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099546160
ISBN
9780099546160
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.00
€ 16.71

Paperback. Num Pages: 326 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 133 x 18. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Random House USA Inc United States
Number of pages
326
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780679748144
ISBN
9780679748144
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.29

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