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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 292. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0000592
ISBN
9781408831670
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. What if a demented London cabbie called Dave Rudman wrote a book to his estranged son to give him some fatherly advice? What if that book was buried in Hampstead and hundreds of years later, when rising sea levels have put London underwater, spawned a religion? This book offers a historical detective story set in the far future. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 360.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
9780141014548
ISBN
9780141014548
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.61

Paperback. Will Self's uncomfortable and disturbing allegory of the liberal West in the post-9/11 era Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 197 x 24. Weight in Grams: 250. 368 pages. Will Self's uncomfortable and disturbing allegory of the liberal West in the post-9/11 era. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 154 x 197 x 24. Weight: 252.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408827383
ISBN
9781408827383
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.55

Paperback. Will Self's stunning, hallucinogenic satire Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 197 x 33. Weight in Grams: 348.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
512
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408827406
ISBN
9781408827406
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.94

Paperback. Will Self's mesmeric, inimitable debut short-story collection Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 196 x 18. Weight in Grams: 240.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408827451
ISBN
9781408827451
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.64

Paperback. In the summer of 1981, aristocratic, drug-addicted Henry Wooten and Warhol-acolyte Baz Hallward meet Dorian Gray. Dorian is a golden adonis - perfect, and deliciously uncorrupted. The subject of Baz's video installation, Cathode Narcissus, and the object of Henry's attentions, Dorian is launched on a hedonistic binge that spans the '80s and '90s. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 204.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141040202
ISBN
9780141040202
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.00
€ 16.85

Paperback. .
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141040172
ISBN
9780141040172
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.61

Paperback. It's 1987, and Joseph Pullman and his parents have moved to Maritime, Massachusetts. He befriends Dean Gillespie, and the boys are occupied burying animal corpses at the Killing Tree. This summer the cicadas are due to come out of their seventeen-year hibernation, and when a second local boy disappears, the residents confront the Pullmans' house. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 225.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099472230
ISBN
9780099472230
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.42

Paperback. On the surface Joseph Pullman seems to have left his unhappy childhood far behind: as the town undertaker and a council member, he is now a respected citizen of Henderson, Maryland. But Joe's father is in jail for the brutal murder of a young boy and despite his wife's questions, Joe can't - or won't - talk about his past. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 201 x 28. Weight in Grams: 308.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099472247
ISBN
9780099472247
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.22

Paperback. While the rest of the country is joining the new Happiness TM cult, Edwin (the wiry, grey-suited, low-level editor at US publisher Panderic Press) is in trouble. A cartel of drug, alcohol, tobacco and drug-rehab bosses have a contract out on him. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 20. Weight in Grams: 226.
Publisher
Canongate Books ed
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841953519
ISBN
9781841953519
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.46

Paperback. Jack McGreary is adrift of the faded boomtown of Paradise Flats. Raised by his eccentric and increasingly erratic father, Jack has learned to live by his wits. When a pair of fast-talking swindlers named Virgil and Miss Rose blow through town, Jack falls in with them and together they go on a crime spree across the American Southwest. Num Pages: 400 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 141 x 23. Weight in Grams: 274.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099516439
ISBN
9780099516439
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.31

Paperback. Num Pages: 122 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 203 x 10. Weight in Grams: 160.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
CB Editions
Condition
New
SKU
9781909585003
ISBN
9781909585003
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 4.99

Paperback. The story of two sisters, their lives and loves, their ups, downs and sibling rivalry, from the author of The Oversight Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 132 x 21. Weight in Grams: 278.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Picador
Edition
Reprints
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780330418751
ISBN
9780330418751
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.21

Paperback. Family: sometimes heaven, sometimes hell, never what it seems Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 198 x 19. Weight in Grams: 250.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Picador
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Publication date
2013
Edition
Reprints
SKU
V9780330418775
ISBN
9780330418775
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.91

Paperback. Across the country, wannabes are auditioning to be part of mega-girlband Purrfect in a new reality TV series. Each one is determined to be the new Purrfect girl. But as the show progresses it seems someone has a very different sort of agenda in mind - someone who's not afraid of things getting deadly.. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 248.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408801116
ISBN
9781408801116
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.30

Paperback. An exceptional, break-out, coming-of-age novel from the talented Betty Trask Award-winning writer, Will Davis Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 224.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408831625
ISBN
9781408831625
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.13

Paperback. Sex, drugs and gay bars: a twenty-first-century coming-of-age tale Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 178. 256 pages. Sex, drugs and gay bars: a twenty-first-century coming-of-age tale. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 195 x 130 x 18. Weight: 178.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780747592709
ISBN
9780747592709
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.35

Paperback. In the summer of 1875, two travellers walk south across the Lincolnshire Wolds to a village riven with dark secrets. When Norman Tanner kills his workmate on a cold February morning a century later, he thinks he's got away with murder. But Norman doesn't know about the workmate's girlfriend, or the child that will come back to haunt him.. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 196 x 27. Weight in Grams: 332.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099578666
ISBN
9780099578666
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.22

Paperback. Set in and around Clear Water - a shopping centre lying on the edge of the Thames estuary in Kent - this novel binds together five unforgettable characters in a deadpan exposition of contemporary life. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 20. Weight in Grams: 270.
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Faber & Faber London
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
Main
SKU
KEX0200195
ISBN
9780571231027
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. When fifteen-year-old Tilly is wrongly sent to a Young Offenders Institute - a far cry from her safe, suburban upbringing - she's desperately bored and unhappy until she meets Sadie. Now released and living in Sadie's bedsit, the pair soon throw themselves into a contented life of petty criminality. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 132 x 27. Weight in Grams: 385. Some minor shelf wear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Main
SKU
KTJ0000566
ISBN
9780571231041
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. When fifteen-year-old Tilly is wrongly sent to a Young Offenders Institute - a far cry from her safe, suburban upbringing - she's desperately bored and unhappy until she meets Sadie. Now released and living in Sadie's bedsit, the pair soon throw themselves into a contented life of petty criminality. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 132 x 27. Weight in Grams: 385. Clean copy
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Main
SKU
KEX0201219
ISBN
9780571231041
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Teenage, precocious Alyosha Alexandrov has never known anything but a life of privilege. He spends his days avoiding study and pursuing pretty young maids. But Russia is poised on the brink of epochal political upheaval and within a year Alyosha is separated from family, security, and the innocence of youth. Num Pages: 550 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 128 x 38. Weight in Grams: 440.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Parthian Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9781909844568
ISBN
9781909844568
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.47

Paperback. .
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc. United States
Number of pages
216
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1962
Condition
New
SKU
V9780486201818
ISBN
9780486201818
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 11.85

paperback. Editor(s): Desai, Parijat. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 133 x 23. Weight in Grams: 271.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Augustus Publishing United States
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9781935883371
ISBN
9781935883371
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.47

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