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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. Hurtle Duffield is incapable of loving anything except what he paints. The people who court him are, above all, the victims of his art, and he dissects their weaknesses with cruel precision. The Australian author won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973. Num Pages: 624 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 46. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 624
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099324614
- ISBN
- 9780099324614
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.00
€ 19.99
€ 15.00
Paperback. Although they have met only a few times, Voss and Laura are joined by overwhelming, obsessive feelings for each other. Voss sets out to cross the continent, and as hardships, mutiny and betrayal whittle away his power to endure and to lead, his attachment to Laura gradually increases. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 28. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Number of pages
- 464
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099324713
- ISBN
- 9780099324713
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.88
€ 13.00
€ 11.88
Hardcover. The eponymous hero, Johann Voss, is based on Ludwig Leichhardt, the nineteenth-century German explorer and naturalist who had already conducted several major expeditions into the Australian outback before making an ambitious attempt to cross the entire continent from east to west in 1848. He never returned. Num Pages: 440 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 211 x 30. Weight in Grams: 584.
- Publisher
- Everyman United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 440
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841593470
- ISBN
- 9781841593470
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.41
€ 17.99
€ 13.41
Paperback. At the turn of the century Stan Parker takes a wife and makes a home as a small farmer in the wilderness of Australia. Amy bears his children and time brings him a procession of ordinary events - achievements, disappointments, sorrows and dreams. The author won the 1973 Nobel Prize for Literature. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 30. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 480
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099324515
- ISBN
- 9780099324515
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.86
€ 13.00
€ 11.86
Paperback. Clever, stylish, and absorbing, this book tells a tale of murder and twisted eroticism controlled by a disgusted loathing of humanity. Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 112 x 181 x 21. Weight in Grams: 154.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780241973615
- ISBN
- 9780241973615
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
€ 13.99
€ 10.45
Paperback. In eighteenth-century France there lived a man Jean-Baptiste Grenouille who was one of the most gifted and abominable personages in an era that knew no lack of gifted and abominable personages. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 192.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141041155
- ISBN
- 9780141041155
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.33
€ 11.99
€ 10.33
paperback. Silent and lethal, USS "Seawolf", the US Navy's most up-to-date stealth submarine, is on an ultra-secret mission - to spy on China's brand new, hugely-improved "Xia"-Class submarine. Num Pages: 512 pages, maps, plan. BIC Classification: FA; FH; FJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 175 x 113 x 32. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Edition
- 1st Arrow Book Edition
- Number of pages
- 512
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099405269
- ISBN
- 9780099405269
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.65
€ 23.99
€ 17.65
Paperback. After being betrayed by Iraq, the presumed dead Ben Adnam defects to Iran to plot his revenge. Adnam plans to steal a submarine and create a new weapon which will cause shocking air disasters in America. To complete his revenge Adnam ensures the blame is placed on Iraq. Num Pages: 512 pages, maps. BIC Classification: FA; FH; FJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 113 x 32. Weight in Grams: 276. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- 1st Paperback Edition
- SKU
- KKD0005758
- ISBN
- 9780099269052
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Desperate to safeguard its ally on China's doorstep and stop the arrival of the Kilo-Class subs, America launches itself into a secret war. As the battle over peace, power and money is played out in the icy depths of the world's oceans and the hinterland of Russia's rivers and lakes, it becomes clear that there can only be one victor. Num Pages: 560 pages, 8. BIC Classification: FA; FH; FJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 113 x 36. Weight in Grams: 300. Already read but clean
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- New Edition
- SKU
- KDK0011364
- ISBN
- 9780099269045
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Mack Bedford must devise a plan to stop the Russians before they and their cyber weaponry reach the Chinese border-the launch site of their master plan. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 232 x 22. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Publisher
- Hachette Books United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- First Trade Paper Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780306822520
- ISBN
- 9780306822520
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.10
€ 18.99
€ 15.10
Paperback. A novel first published in 1952 as THREE BEAR WITNESS which, set in Wales, tells a tale of love and death centred around an Oxford don who leaves for a Welsh farm and for the wife of a neighbouring farmer. From the author of the AUBREY/NATURIN novels. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 133 x 14. Weight in Grams: 172. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Flamingo
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KJE0001585
- ISBN
- 9780006476528
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. A novel first published in 1952 as THREE BEAR WITNESS which, set in Wales, tells a tale of love and death centred around an Oxford don who leaves for a Welsh farm and for the wife of a neighbouring farmer. From the author of the AUBREY/NATURIN novels. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 133 x 14. Weight in Grams: 172. Good copy with some shelf wear, yellowing of pages and damage to author's introductory page, otherwise good and remains intact
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Flamingo
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KKD0007539
- ISBN
- 9780006476528
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 226
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007333851
- ISBN
- 9780007333851
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 12.50
€ 13.00
€ 12.50
paperback. Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. Num Pages: 416 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2022
- Edition
- 4th Printing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780006499176
- ISBN
- 9780006499176
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.67
€ 13.99
€ 10.67
Paperback. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1HF; 3JJG; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. .
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780008112967
- ISBN
- 9780008112967
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.83
€ 11.99
€ 10.83
Paperback. One night, George Duncan is woken by a noise in his garden. Impossibly, a great white crane has tumbled to earth, shot through its wing by an arrow. Unexpectedly moved, George helps the bird, and from the moment he watches it fly away, his life is transformed. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857868749
- ISBN
- 9780857868749
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.75
€ 13.99
€ 10.75
Paperback. Lick Holden is a young jazz musician, who sets New Orleans on fire with his cornet at the beginning of the last century. But Lick's passion is to find his lost step-sister and that's a journey that leads him to a place he can call 'home'. Meanwhile, at the other end of the century there is Sylvia, an English prostitute, and Jim, a young drifter. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 28. Weight in Grams: 292. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0003883
- ISBN
- 9780140286564
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 108. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- United Kingdom
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Number of pages
- 144
- SKU
- KKE0000245
- ISBN
- 9781408867914
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 8.99€ 4.99
€ 8.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 15. Weight in Grams: 214.
- Publisher
- Daunt Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781907970931
- ISBN
- 9781907970931
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.74
€ 13.99
€ 10.74
Paperback. The elegant, haunting story of the forgotten people and places of Paris from the reigning Nobel Laureate. Translator(s): Cameron, Professor Euan. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 13. Weight in Grams: 118.
- Publisher
- Quercus Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857055286
- ISBN
- 9780857055286
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.27
€ 11.99
€ 10.27
Paperback. A classic novel from recent Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano, now available to English-language readers in a superb new translation Translator(s): Polizzotti, Mark. Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 15. Weight in Grams: 227.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300215892
- ISBN
- 9780300215892
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.38
€ 18.99
€ 15.38
Paperback. An autobiographical portrait of Post-War Paris and a tumultuous childhood - by the 2014 Nobel Laureate Translator(s): Polizzotti, Mark. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 11. Weight in Grams: 86.
- Publisher
- Quercus Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857054937
- ISBN
- 9780857054937
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.30
€ 11.99
€ 10.30
Paperback. A sinister encounter leads to a forensic investigation of a writer's past - by the 2014 Nobel Laureate Translator(s): Cameron, Professor Euan. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 12. Weight in Grams: 118.
- Publisher
- Quercus Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857054999
- ISBN
- 9780857054999
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.26
€ 11.99
€ 10.26
Paperback. A nocturnal wander through the hazes of memory and the mysteries of the past from Patrick Modiano, Nobel Laureate 2014 Translator(s): Polizzotti, Mark. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 199 x 15. Weight in Grams: 118.
- Publisher
- Quercus Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857054883
- ISBN
- 9780857054883
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.27
€ 11.99
€ 10.27