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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Marie-Constance loves reading and possesses a beautiful voice. So, one day she decides to put an ad in the local paper offering her services as a paid reader. Her first client, a paralysed teenager, is transformed by her reading of a Maupassant short story. Her fame spreads and soon the rich, the creative and the famous clamour for her services. Translator(s): Hunter, Adriana. Num Pages: 174 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 125 x 17. Weight in Grams: 222.
Publisher
Peirene Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908670229
ISBN
9781908670229
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.39

Paperback. Danny is in trouble. A wannabe animal rights activist and modern day hero, none of this was supposed to happen. It's treble or nothing time, and the circus is coming to town. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 137 x 15. Weight in Grams: 234.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Luath Press Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908373724
ISBN
9781908373724
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Hardback. Num Pages: 352 pages, over 150 b/w photos. BIC Classification: BGH; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 160 x 28. Weight in Grams: 840. Story of Hanns Joachim Scharff Master Interrogator of the Luftwaffe. 352 pages, 150ill. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: BGH; FA. Dimension: 235 x 160 x 28. Weight: 846.
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2023
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764302619
ISBN
9780764302619
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 31.01

Paperback.
Edition
Reissue
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Bantam USA
Publication date
1989
Condition
New
SKU
V9780553564945
ISBN
9780553564945
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.49

Paperback. Often imitated but never bettered, it is in Marlowe's long shadow that every fictional detective must stand - and under the influence of Raymond Chandler's addictive prose that every crime author must write. Marlowe's entanglement with the Sternwood family - and an attendant cast of colourful underworld figures. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 30. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780141182612
ISBN
9780141182612
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.53

Hardcover. Creator of the famous Philip Marlowe, Raymond Chandler elevated the American hard-boiled detective genre to an art form. His last four novels, published here in one volume, offer ample opportunity to savour the unique and compelling fictional world that made his works modern classics. This book deals with his life and work. Num Pages: 1008 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 141 x 46. Weight in Grams: 872.
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857152562
ISBN
9781857152562
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 18.88

Hardcover. Raymond Chandler turned to writing at the age of forty-five, he began by publishing in pulp magazines such as Black Mask before later writing his famous novels. In these stories Chandler honed his art and developed his uniquely vivid underworld, peopled with good cops and bad cops. This book focuses on his life and work. Num Pages: 1336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 207 x 139 x 61. Weight in Grams: 1138.
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857152579
ISBN
9781857152579
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 22.99

Paperback. A collection of stories, set in the mid-West among the lonely men and women who drink, fish and play cards to ease the passing of time. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 10. Weight in Grams: 110.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
Edition
01st Edition
SKU
9780099530329
ISBN
9780099530329
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.45

paperback. A collection of stories. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 168.
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
Vintage
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099540328
ISBN
9780099540328
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. This anthology presents five previously unpublished stories by Raymond Carver, in addition to five early stories, part of an unfinished novel, and all his non-fiction prose. The works are introduced by his partner. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 148 x 24. Weight in Grams: 350.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9781860468469
ISBN
9781860468469
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.61

Paperback. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 136 x 34. Weight in Grams: 480.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781860460395
ISBN
9781860460395
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 16.54

Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 133 x 15. Weight in Grams: 180.
Publisher
Harvill Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Condition
New
SKU
V9781860460401
ISBN
9781860460401
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

paperback. Covers seven stories including "Errand", in which the author imagines the death of Chekhov, a writer whom the author hugely admired and to whose work his own was often compared. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 8. Weight in Grams: 98.
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099530350
ISBN
9780099530350
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.49

Paperback. Bawdy and sometimes horrifying, hilarious on the way to being tragic, Raymond Andrews's Muskhogean County novels tell of black life in the Deep South from the end of the First World War to the beginning of the 1960s, from the days of mules and white men with bullwhips to the moment when the pendulum began to swing. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 159 x 18. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820310695
ISBN
9780820310695
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 24.60

Paperback. Terrifying, powerful, slashing and satiric Century remains the most important work of Ray Smith's oeuvre. Num Pages: 168 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 242.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Biblioasis Canada
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
SKU
V9781897231517
ISBN
9781897231517
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.14

Paperback. Set in the small German city of Waltherrott, this novel is a madcap excursion from the 1980s back to 1848, the year of revolutions, then back to the time of the Black Death in the late 1340s. A startling comedy, A Night at the Opera is a tour de force in the unexpected, the bizarre, and the serendipitous. Num Pages: 256 pages, figures. BIC Classification: FA; FC; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 146 x 17. Weight in Grams: 385.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Biblioasis Canada
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781897231111
ISBN
9781897231111
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 20.45

Paperback. If CanLit is a steamy boudoir, then Cape Breton is a pair of torn yellow fishnets glowing under the bed. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 133. .
Publisher
Biblioasis
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9781771960274
ISBN
9781771960274
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.49

Paperback. Electricity is now a film starring Agyness Deyn. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 196 x 21. Weight in Grams: 272.
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
KRA0009180
ISBN
9781447274940
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. A hard-drinking hockey journalist encounters unsavory characters while on assignment in Kansas and realizes his life can't be the same. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 133 x 25. Weight in Grams: 385.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Biblioasis Canada
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9781927428993
ISBN
9781927428993
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.61

Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 128 x 27. Weight in Grams: 498.
Publisher
Santa Fe Writers Project United States
Number of pages
390
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
Santa Fe Writers Project Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780977679904
ISBN
9780977679904
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.57

Paperback. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 199 x 23. Weight in Grams: 382.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Blacksmith Books Hong Kong
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
SKU
V9789881376459
ISBN
9789881376459
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Hardcover. Includes tales such as 'Sound of Thunder', 'The Veldt', and 'The Fog Horn'. This title also contains the Irish stories, the Martian stories and the Mexican stories. Num Pages: 1176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 138 x 51. Weight in Grams: 960.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Everyman
Condition
New
SKU
9781841593265
ISBN
9781841593265
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 18.50

Paperback. A poignant and brilliant sequel to Dandelion Wine from the author of Fahrenheit 451 Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 142.
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007284757
ISBN
9780007284757
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.66

Paperback. Num Pages: 281 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 270. Used paperback in good condition. Some shelf wear.
Condition
Used, Good
Edition
New
Publisher
Old Street
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
SKU
KRF0024417
ISBN
9781905847389
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

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