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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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
€ 11.62

Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 405.
Publisher
Rare Bird Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781942600534
ISBN
9781942600534
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.01

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

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
€ 17.45

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

€ 15.99
€ 14.21

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

€ 19.30

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

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
€ 22.04

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
€ 31.72

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

Paperback. .
Publisher
Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099437581
ISBN
9780099437581
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.21

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
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.71

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
€ 10.71

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
€ 10.71

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
€ 10.74

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

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

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
€ 9.95

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
€ 10.65

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
€ 10.23

paperback. Sandleford Warren is in danger. Hazel's younger brother Fiver is convinced that a great evil is about to befall the land, but no one will listen. And why would they when it is Spring and the grass is fat and succulent? Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 31. Weight in Grams: 350.
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
Penguin
Number of pages
496
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241953235
ISBN
9780241953235
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.01

Paperback. * A brand-new, hilarious short story collection from Perrier Award winner Rich Hall Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 14. Weight in Grams: 164.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349121338
ISBN
9780349121338
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Paperback. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 5. Weight in Grams: 94. 64pp
Publisher
Cinnamon Press
Number of pages
64
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
9781907090028
ISBN
9781907090028
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.45

Paperback. Edwards was a graduate of University College, Cardiff and although spent time in Vienna, Florence and London this was her permanent home. Both Davies and Edwards were clearly influenced by Chekhov (Davies called him "my god") and the stories in "Rhapsody" are reminiscent of his work. This novel established his name as a young writer to watch. Series: Library of Wales. Num Pages: 345 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 135 x 22. Weight in Grams: 348.
Publisher
Parthian Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
345
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905762477
ISBN
9781905762477
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.34

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