Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. The day Benny Catchprice was fired from the spare-parts department of Catchprice Motors by his aunt Cathy, was also the day that tax inspector Maria Takis arrived to begin her overdue audit of the family business. From the author of "Oscar and Lucinda" which won the 1988 Booker Prize. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 19. Weight in Grams: 261.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571166329
- ISBN
- 9780571166329
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.70
€ 10.99
€ 9.70
Paperback. Ranging from the rural wilds of Australia to Manhattan via Tokyo, this is a moving exploration of art, fraud, friendship and redemption. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 20. Weight in Grams: 252. ***THIS IS A PREORDER TO BE DELIVERED ON OR AROUND THE PUBLICATION DATE IN JUNE 2022***
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571231508
- ISBN
- 9780571231508
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 11.08
€ 12.99
€ 11.08
Hardback.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571253296
- ISBN
- 9780571253296
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 4.99
€ 11.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. A novel, about a man who, recovering from death, is convinced that he is in hell. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 124 x 22. Weight in Grams: 260. ******THIS IS A PREORDER TO BE DELIVERED ON OR AROUND THE PUBLICATION DAY IN FEBRUARY 2022****
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571225910
- ISBN
- 9780571225910
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.11
€ 11.99
€ 10.11
Paperback. Peter Carey is justly renowned for his novels, which have included the Booker Prize-winning titles Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang. He is also a dazzling writer of short stories. This volume collects together all the stories from The Fat Man in History and War Crimes as well as three other stories. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 126 x 26. Weight in Grams: 258. ******THIS IS A PREORDER TO BE DELIVERED ON OR AROUND THE PUBLICATION DAY IN FEBRUARY 2022****
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571175864
- ISBN
- 9780571175864
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 12.98
€ 17.99
€ 12.98
Paperback. The day Benny Catchprice was fired from the spare-parts department of Catchprice Motors by his aunt Cathy, was also the day that tax inspector Maria Takis arrived to begin her overdue audit of the family business. From the author of "Oscar and Lucinda" which won the 1988 Booker Prize. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 19. Weight in Grams: 261. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0000182
- ISBN
- 9780571166329
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 10.99€ 9.70
€ 10.99
€ 9.70
Paperback. Olivier is an aristocrat, the traumatized child of survivors of the French Revolution. Parrot the son of an itinerant printer who always wanted to be an artist but has ended up a servant. Born on different sides of history, their lives will be brought together by their travels in America. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Edition
- Main - Re-issue
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571253326
- ISBN
- 9780571253326
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 6.00
€ 13.99
€ 6.00
Hardback. Seven-year-old Che was abandoned by his radical Havard-student parents during the upheaval of the 1960s, and since then has been raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother. He yearns to see or hear news of his famous outlaw parents, but his grandmother refuses to tell him anything. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 236 x 28. Weight in Grams: 566. Fine in fine dust wrapper
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- SKU
- KSG0015513
- ISBN
- 9780571231515
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Seven-year-old Che was abandoned by his radical Harvard-student parents during the upheaval of the 1960s, and since then has been raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother. He yearns to see or hear news of his famous outlaw parents, but his grandmother refuses to tell him anything. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 19. Weight in Grams: 236. T
- Edition
- Main - Re-issue
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KTJ0004092
- ISBN
- 9780571231546
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 4.82
€ 4.82
Paperback. Seven-year-old Che was abandoned by his radical Harvard-student parents during the upheaval of the 1960s, and since then has been raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother. He yearns to see or hear news of his famous outlaw parents, but his grandmother refuses to tell him anything. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 19. Weight in Grams: 236. Good clean copy. Showing light shelf and reading wear, remains a nice copy
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- Main - Re-issue
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- SKU
- KSG0010419
- ISBN
- 9780571231546
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.82
€ 4.82
Paperback. The first collection of short stories published by Peter Carey, whose other books include "Bliss", "Illywhacker" and "Oscar and Lucinda", which was awarded the 1988 Booker Prize. The stories, set in an ominous near-future that has a feel of contemporary life, are by turn bizarre and funny. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 127 x 15. Weight in Grams: 140.
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571144389
- ISBN
- 9780571144389
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.66
€ 13.99
€ 10.66
Paperback. When Gaby Baillieux, a young woman from suburban Melbourne, releases the Angel Worm into the computers of Australias prison system, hundreds of asylum seekers walk free. Worse: the system is run by an American corporation, so some 5,000 US prisons are also infected. Doors spring open. Both countries' secrets threaten to pour out. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 27. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571311224
- ISBN
- 9780571311224
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.57
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€ 10.57
Paperback. Features vagabond and charlatan, aviator and car salesman, seducer and patriarch, Herbert Badgery who travels across the Australian continent. This novel is full of outlandish encounters and dangerous characters. It is overflowing with magic, jokes and inventions. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 126 x 201 x 36. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571311569
- ISBN
- 9780571311569
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.36
€ 14.99
€ 11.36
Paperback. To the authorities in pursuit of him, outlaw Ned Kelly is a horse thief, bank robber and police-killer. But to his fellow ordinary Australians, Kelly is their own Robin Hood. In an act of ventriloquism, the author brings the famous bushranger wildly and passionately to life. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 29. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Main - Re-issue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571270156
- ISBN
- 9780571270156
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.67
€ 13.99
€ 10.67
Paperback. A love story and a historical tour de force set in Victorian times, which deals with the undeclared love between clergyman Oscar Hopkins and the heiress Lucinda Leplastrier. Made for each other, the two are gamblers - one obsessive, the other compulsive - incapable of winning at the game of love. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 36. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Number of pages
- 544
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Main - Re-issue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571270163
- ISBN
- 9780571270163
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.41
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€ 11.41
Paperback. London,1837. Jack Maggs, raised and deported as a criminal, has returned from Australia, in secret and at great risk. What does he want after all these years, and why is he so interested in the comings and goings at a plush townhouse in Great Queen Street? Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571270170
- ISBN
- 9780571270170
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.61
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€ 10.61
Paperback. Melbourne, the late 1940s. A young conservative Australian poet named Christopher Chubb decides to teach his country a lesson about pretension and authenticity. Choosing as his target the most avant-garde of the literary magazines, he submits for publication the entire oeuvre of one Bob McCorkle, a working-class poet. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 127 x 19. Weight in Grams: 210.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- Main - Re-issue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571216208
- ISBN
- 9780571216208
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.16
€ 10.99
€ 9.16
Paperback. Translator(s): Reeder, Jonathan. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 35. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Publisher
- Pushkin Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782270713
- ISBN
- 9781782270713
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.90
€ 11.99
€ 9.90
Paperback. What if John Milton, Cromwell's secretary, anticipating the King's return to London, had decided to flee England in order to avoid imprisonment or death? What if he had crossed the ocean and joined the Puritans recently settled in New England? From this idea Peter Ackroyd creates an enthralling story of conflict, treachery, hypocrisy and greed. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 135 x 17. Weight in Grams: 206. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KJE0001345
- ISBN
- 9780749386252
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Victor Frankenstein begins his anatomy experiments in a barn in the secluded village of Headington, near Oxford. The coroner's office provides the corpses he needs - but they have often died by violent means and are damaged and putrifying. Victor moves his coils and jars and electrical fluids to a deserted pottery manufactury in Limehouse. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 131 x 28. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099524137
- ISBN
- 9780099524137
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 6.44
€ 9.99
€ 6.44
Hardcover. Victor Frankenstein begins his anatomy experiments in a barn in the village of Headington, near Oxford. The coroner's office in Clarendon Street provides corpses - but they have often died of violence and drowning: they are damaged and putrifying. Victor moves his coils and jars and electrical fluids to a deserted pottery manufactury in Limehouse. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 159 x 29. Weight in Grams: 538.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- First Edition - Second Impression
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780701182953
- ISBN
- 9780701182953
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 16.26
€ 21.99
€ 16.26
Paperback. In this novel the light and the dark sides of 19th-century London flow into each other, attracting the attention of famous names such as Marx and Gissing, but also of less well-known characters, who play a significant role in a tale that is a mixture of fable, adventure and Gothic comedy. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 208.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780749396596
- ISBN
- 9780749396596
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.95
€ 13.99
€ 10.95
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099566038
- ISBN
- 9780099566038
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.69
€ 20.99
€ 16.69
Paperback. Nicholas Dyer, assistant to Sir Christopher Wren plans to conceal a dark secret at the heart of each church - to create a forbidding architecture that will survive for eternity. Two hundred and fifty years later, London detective Nicholas Hawksmoor is investigating a series of gruesome murders on the sites of certain eighteenth-century churches. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 133 x 22. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141042015
- ISBN
- 9780141042015
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.95
€ 13.99
€ 10.95