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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. Anna is on her way home from work on a cold winter's day when she sees a crowd queuing at a kiosk. Though a queue is not an unusual sight in a Russian city, this appears different. There's a rumour that famous exiled composer Selinksy is returning to conduct his last symphony for one night only - and this kiosk is selling tickets. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 236. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0002239
- ISBN
- 9780141044828
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Stepping out into the dusk of an warm evening, esteemed art critic Sukhanov feels on top of the world. But the year is 1985 and the air is heavy with change. His future is haunted by doubt. Beset by visions of a past he gave up, he questions his choices: in swapping a life as a brilliant underground artist for comfort did he betray his dreams? Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 336. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0001560
- ISBN
- 9780141024400
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. For twenty years Christian Benediktsson has led an orderly but demanding life as butler to the media magnate William Randolph Hearst, famously the inspiration for Citizen Kane, in his San Simeon castle. But Christian's own private world is filled with regret - for a family abandoned, a reckless affair and a tragic death. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 148 x 189 x 18. Weight in Grams: 214. Nice copy, with some shelfwear. Good to very good
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KST0026786
- ISBN
- 9780571219919
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. A powerful debut from a new voice in contemporary African writing Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 197 x 23. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Main
- SKU
- KLJ0017303
- ISBN
- 9781782118053
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 14.99€ 9.82
€ 14.99
€ 9.82
Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 185 x 128 x 15. Weight in Grams: 166.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Seven Stories Press,U.S.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781583226988
- ISBN
- 9781583226988
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.82
€ 11.99
€ 10.82
Paperback. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 228 x 23. Weight in Grams: 556.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226412610
- ISBN
- 9780226412610
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 20.27
€ 24.99
€ 20.27
paperback. A collection of 100 of author's finest stories; it describes life south of the Rio Grande and chronicles the activities and concerns of 'the four million' ordinary citizens who inhabited turn-of-the-century New York. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 768 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 42. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781853262418
- ISBN
- 9781853262418
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 6.32
€ 6.32
Paperback. Includes stories that discuss con men and tricksters and 'innocent' deceivers, about fate, luck, and coincidence, have delighted generations of readers. Set in New York and the West, in Central America and the South, this title demonstrates the author's speech and place, and highlights his appreciation of life's quirks. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 544
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140186888
- ISBN
- 9780140186888
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.06
€ 19.99
€ 15.06
Paperback. The sensational conclusion to The Games Trilogy that fans of Jamie McGuire and Jessica Sorensen will fall for. Series: The Games Trilogy. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 278.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Headline Publishing Group
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472209856
- ISBN
- 9781472209856
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.26
€ 11.99
€ 10.26
Paperback. Translator(s): Owens, Linda. Num Pages: 274 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 209 x 23. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Amazon Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781503941199
- ISBN
- 9781503941199
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.69
€ 11.99
€ 10.69
Paperback. Num Pages: 446 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 136 x 35. Weight in Grams: 562 446pp. A posthumous novel from the late beloved Nuala Ó Faoláin, this one explores the challenges women, who have lived a full life, face in late middle age
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- New Island Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781848400450
- ISBN
- 9781848400450
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.95
€ 13.95
Paperback. Num Pages: 190 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 158 x 16. Weight in Grams: 290. Num Pages: 190 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 158 x 16. Weight in Grams: 290. Signed by the author. Good clean copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- New Island Books
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0026928
- ISBN
- 9781848403369
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 14.00
€ 14.00
Paperback. Darling and her friends live in a shanty called Paradise, which of course is no such thing. It isn't all bad, though. There's mischief and adventure, games of Find bin Laden, stealing guavas, singing Lady Gaga at the tops of their voices. They dream of the paradises of America, Dubai, Europe, where Madonna and Barack Obama and David Beckham live. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099581888
- ISBN
- 9780099581888
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Paperback. Rejected by nineteenth-century publishers for its sordid and shocking subject matter, Vandover and the Brute is a powerful novel of turn-of-the-century San Francisco. Editor(s): Castronovo, Russ. Series: Broadview Editions. Num Pages: 350 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 525.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Ltd Canada
- Number of pages
- 350
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781554812394
- ISBN
- 9781554812394
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 26.91
€ 36.99
€ 26.91
Paperback. Mortals chronicles the misadventures of three expat Americans in Botswana, where nobody is exactly who they claim to be, and everyone is in madly in love Num Pages: 736 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 199 x 45. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Publisher
- Granta Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847087850
- ISBN
- 9781847087850
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.07
€ 17.99
€ 13.07
Paperback. An award-winning novel with a cult following since its original publication in 1991, Mating is a life-affirming comedy of manners as well as a deeply serious investigation of the politics of desire Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 30. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Publisher
- Granta Books
- Number of pages
- 496
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847087836
- ISBN
- 9781847087836
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.52
€ 13.00
€ 11.52
Paperback. From an acclaimed master of American fiction comes an intelligent and romantic novel about friendship, funerals and the myths we employ to make sense of ourselves Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 182.
- Publisher
- Granta Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847087812
- ISBN
- 9781847087812
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.02
€ 11.99
€ 10.02
paperback. Set in New York City in the months preceding 9/11, this novel introduces us to the protagonist who, like the author himself, is a Romanian professor in exile and who struggles with loneliness, dislocation, the desire to hide. Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 189 x 126 x 22. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780300198799
- ISBN
- 9780300198799
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 11.54
€ 12.99
€ 11.54
Paperback. Tolea, an eccentric middle-aged intellectual who has been dismissed from his job as a high school teacher on "moral grounds", is investigating his father's death forty years after the fact, and is drawn into a web of suspicion and black humour. Translator(s): Camiller, Patrick. Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 195 x 22. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Edition
- Rep Tra
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300182941
- ISBN
- 9780300182941
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.25
€ 19.99
€ 16.25
paperback. Muhammad Ali met George Foreman in the ring. Foreman's genius employed silence, serenity and cunning. He had never been defeated. His hands were his instrument, and 'he kept them in his pockets the way a hunter lays his rifle back into its velvet case'. This book focuses on the 1975 World Heavyweight Boxing Championship in Kinshasa, Zaire. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; 3JJPL; DNF; FA; WSTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 15. Weight in Grams: 192.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141184142
- ISBN
- 9780141184142
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 10.33
€ 19.99
€ 10.33