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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. From the Booker Prizewinning author of 'Offshore' and 'The Blue Flower'; a funny, touching, authentic story of life at Broadcasting House during the Blitz. Num Pages: 208 pages, port. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 158.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780006542544
ISBN
9780006542544
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.67

Paperback. A new edition of the Booker Prize winner Penelope Fitzgerald's best-loved novel of romance in post-war Italy, with a new introduction by Julian Barnes. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 298.
Publisher
Flamingo
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780006542377
ISBN
9780006542377
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.38

Paperback. Penelope Fitzgerald's Booker Prize-winning novel of loneliness and connecting is set among the houseboat community of the Thames and has a new introduction from Alan Hollinghurst. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 200.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007320967
ISBN
9780007320967
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.94

Paperback. 'The Golden Child', Penelope Fitzgerald's first work of fiction, is a classically plotted British mystery centred around the arrival of the Golden Child at a London museum. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 19. Weight in Grams: 270.
Publisher
Fourth Estate
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780006546252
ISBN
9780006546252
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.65

Paperback. From the Booker Prize-winner of 'Offshore' comes this entertaining tale of a chaotic stage school and its singular headmistress. With a new introduction by Simon Callow. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 17. Weight in Grams: 208.
Publisher
Flamingo
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780006542551
ISBN
9780006542551
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.62

Hardcover. Translator(s): Turner, Gerald. Num Pages: 359 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 151 x 35. Weight in Grams: 602.
Publisher
Jantar Publishing
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780956889041
ISBN
9780956889041
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.52

Hardcover. When Phillip Creighton faces his diagnosis of cancer alone, he thinks back on his humble beginnings and painful love affairs. Moving from 1930's Wyoming, through 1950's Spain and Kenya, to modern Texas and Tanzania, Crossing Stars tells the story of three generations and one man's chance to become the father he had wanted to be. Num Pages: 584 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FRD; FT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 162 x 36. Weight in Grams: 862.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University Press of America United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
584
Condition
New
SKU
V9780761861218
ISBN
9780761861218
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 45.60

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Bella Books United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9781594930676
ISBN
9781594930676
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 14.79

Paperback. Albert Honig is haunted by the murder and loss of one woman - his friend and neighbour since childhood - whose presence and long absence in his life have never been reconciled. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 27. Weight in Grams: 298.
Publisher
Oneworld Publications
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780748016
ISBN
9781780748016
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.70

Paperback. Bonnie, never domestically inclined, has given up her life as a musician to become a stay-at-home mother to three small children. She tells herself she has no regrets, but sometimes the isolation and endless drudgery are overwhelming, and threaten to swamp the love between Bonnie and her partner, Pete. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 234 x 25. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Scribe Publications Australia
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781921844270
ISBN
9781921844270
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 18.32

Paperback. An acclaimed, award-winning comic novel about truth, lies and storytelling, with an unforgettably unreliable narrator, translated from its innovative Swiss vernacular back into the Glaswegian that was its original inspiration. Translator(s): McLaughlin, Donal. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 200.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Freight Books
Edition
Tra
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908754226
ISBN
9781908754226
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 14.35

Paperback. Pedro Juan was a reporter in Havana, but as existence in Cuba and his own life begin to collapse around him, he gives up the farce of a daily job, and begins to "train himself to take nothing seriously". His training involves lots of sex, drugs, rum, jazz, beat literature and street philosophy. Translator(s): Wimmer, Natasha. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 30. Weight in Grams: 366.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571206261
ISBN
9780571206261
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.45

Hardback. Johnny is from New Jersey, and Kari is from Oslo. They meet in New York in the late 1950s and soon fall in love, get married, and move to Asbury Park, where their life unfolds like a dream: Kari gives birth to two beautiful daughters, and Johnny is a wildly successful entrepreneur. Translator(s): Oatley, Diane. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 211 x 27. Weight in Grams: 406.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857422361
ISBN
9780857422361
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 21.18

Paperback. A Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the life and labours of a Chinese farmer during the sweeping reign of the country's last emperor Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130. .
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781471151873
ISBN
9781471151873
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.71

paperback. Translator(s): Lloyd-Jones, Antonia. Num Pages: 218 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 260. 224 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Dimension: 198 x 130 x 17. Weight: 260.
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd.
Number of pages
218
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905583393
ISBN
9781905583393
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.39

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Twisted Spoon Press Czech Republic
Edition
Tra
Number of pages
156
Condition
New
SKU
V9788086264271
ISBN
9788086264271
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.86

Paperback. Num Pages: 243 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 145 x 203 x 16. Weight in Grams: 290.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Clinical Press Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
V9781854570802
ISBN
9781854570802
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Paperback. Num Pages: 271 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 21. Weight in Grams: 312.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Clinical Press Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
V9781854570567
ISBN
9781854570567
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Paperback. Num Pages: 257 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 199 x 25. Weight in Grams: 296.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Clinical Press Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
V9781854570550
ISBN
9781854570550
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Paperback. Driving home, Paulo passes an indigenous girl at the side of the road. Paulo gives her a lift to her family's camp. From cocaine-fuelled rich kids and the Guarani Indians camped along Brazil's highways to a squatter's life in London, Nowhere People is a raw and passionate classic in the making, about our need for human connections and a home. Translator(s): Hahn, Daniel. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 300.
Publisher
And Other Stories
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908276384
ISBN
9781908276384
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.69

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