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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Under the tutelage of the mesmerising Master Yehudi, Walt is taken back to the mysterious house on the plains to prepare not only for the ability to fly, but also for the stardom that will accompany it. A virtuoso piece of storytelling by a master of the modern American fable. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 19. Weight in Grams: 234.
Publisher
FABER & FABER
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571229086
ISBN
9780571229086
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.78

Paperback. A trilogy of three cleverly interconnected novels that exploit the elements of standard detective fiction. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 300.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Main - Faber Modern Classics
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571322800
ISBN
9780571322800
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.73

Paperback. .
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571276646
ISBN
9780571276646
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.77

Paperback. .
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571229093
ISBN
9780571229093
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.71

Paperback. Filled with suspense, unlikely coincidences, wrenching tragedies and marvellous flights of lyricism and erudition, the novel carries the reader effortlessly along with Marco's search - for love, for his unknown father, and for the key to the elusive riddle of his origins and his fate. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 22. Weight in Grams: 246.
Edition
Main
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
320
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571142200
ISBN
9780571142200
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.71

Hardcover. Illustrator(s): Catrow, David. Num Pages: 32 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: YBC. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 236 x 230 x 8. Weight in Grams: 344.
Publisher
Putnam Juvenile
Number of pages
32
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780399254062
ISBN
9780399254062
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 17.73

Paperback. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 149 x 14. Weight in Grams: 302.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
NeWest Press Canada
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
SKU
V9781897126707
ISBN
9781897126707
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.75

Paperback. .
Publisher
Cornerstone United Kingdom
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848090781
ISBN
9781848090781
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 9.11

Paperback. Through the crumbling ruins of the once splendid Xanadu Miss Hare wanders, half-mad. In the wilderness she stumbles upon an Aborigine artist and a Jewish refugee. They place themselves in the care of a local washerwoman. In a world of pervasive evil, all four have been independently damaged and discarded. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 37. Weight in Grams: 398.
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Number of pages
560
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099323914
ISBN
9780099323914
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.91

Paperback. Hurtle Duffield is incapable of loving anything except what he paints. The people who court him are, above all, the victims of his art, and he dissects their weaknesses with cruel precision. The Australian author won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1973. Num Pages: 624 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 46. Weight in Grams: 446.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
624
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099324614
ISBN
9780099324614
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.04

Paperback. Although they have met only a few times, Voss and Laura are joined by overwhelming, obsessive feelings for each other. Voss sets out to cross the continent, and as hardships, mutiny and betrayal whittle away his power to endure and to lead, his attachment to Laura gradually increases. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 28. Weight in Grams: 332.
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Number of pages
464
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099324713
ISBN
9780099324713
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.80

Hardcover. The eponymous hero, Johann Voss, is based on Ludwig Leichhardt, the nineteenth-century German explorer and naturalist who had already conducted several major expeditions into the Australian outback before making an ambitious attempt to cross the entire continent from east to west in 1848. He never returned. Num Pages: 440 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 211 x 30. Weight in Grams: 584.
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
440
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841593470
ISBN
9781841593470
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.39

Paperback. At the turn of the century Stan Parker takes a wife and makes a home as a small farmer in the wilderness of Australia. Amy bears his children and time brings him a procession of ordinary events - achievements, disappointments, sorrows and dreams. The author won the 1973 Nobel Prize for Literature. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 30. Weight in Grams: 344.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099324515
ISBN
9780099324515
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.86

Paperback. Clever, stylish, and absorbing, this book tells a tale of murder and twisted eroticism controlled by a disgusted loathing of humanity. Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 112 x 181 x 21. Weight in Grams: 154.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
9780241973615
ISBN
9780241973615
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. In eighteenth-century France there lived a man Jean-Baptiste Grenouille who was one of the most gifted and abominable personages in an era that knew no lack of gifted and abominable personages. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 192.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780141041155
ISBN
9780141041155
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.33

paperback. Silent and lethal, USS "Seawolf", the US Navy's most up-to-date stealth submarine, is on an ultra-secret mission - to spy on China's brand new, hugely-improved "Xia"-Class submarine. Num Pages: 512 pages, maps, plan. BIC Classification: FA; FH; FJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 175 x 113 x 32. Weight in Grams: 266.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Arrow
Edition
1st Arrow Book Edition
Number of pages
512
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099405269
ISBN
9780099405269
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.65

Paperback. After being betrayed by Iraq, the presumed dead Ben Adnam defects to Iran to plot his revenge. Adnam plans to steal a submarine and create a new weapon which will cause shocking air disasters in America. To complete his revenge Adnam ensures the blame is placed on Iraq. Num Pages: 512 pages, maps. BIC Classification: FA; FH; FJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 113 x 32. Weight in Grams: 276. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Arrow
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
1st Paperback Edition
SKU
KKD0005758
ISBN
9780099269052
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Desperate to safeguard its ally on China's doorstep and stop the arrival of the Kilo-Class subs, America launches itself into a secret war. As the battle over peace, power and money is played out in the icy depths of the world's oceans and the hinterland of Russia's rivers and lakes, it becomes clear that there can only be one victor. Num Pages: 560 pages, 8. BIC Classification: FA; FH; FJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 113 x 36. Weight in Grams: 300. Already read but clean
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Arrow
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
New Edition
SKU
KDK0011364
ISBN
9780099269045
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Mack Bedford must devise a plan to stop the Russians before they and their cyber weaponry reach the Chinese border-the launch site of their master plan. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 232 x 22. Weight in Grams: 430.
Publisher
Hachette Books United States
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
First Trade Paper Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780306822520
ISBN
9780306822520
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 15.10

Paperback. A novel first published in 1952 as THREE BEAR WITNESS which, set in Wales, tells a tale of love and death centred around an Oxford don who leaves for a Welsh farm and for the wife of a neighbouring farmer. From the author of the AUBREY/NATURIN novels. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 133 x 14. Weight in Grams: 172. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Flamingo
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0001585
ISBN
9780006476528
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. A novel first published in 1952 as THREE BEAR WITNESS which, set in Wales, tells a tale of love and death centred around an Oxford don who leaves for a Welsh farm and for the wife of a neighbouring farmer. From the author of the AUBREY/NATURIN novels. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 133 x 14. Weight in Grams: 172. Good copy with some shelf wear, yellowing of pages and damage to author's introductory page, otherwise good and remains intact
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Flamingo
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KKD0007539
ISBN
9780006476528
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. .
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers United Kingdom
Number of pages
226
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007333851
ISBN
9780007333851
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.50

paperback. Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. Num Pages: 416 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 282.
Publisher
HarperCollins
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2022
Edition
4th Printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9780006499176
ISBN
9780006499176
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.67

Paperback. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1HF; 3JJG; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. .
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780008112967
ISBN
9780008112967
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.81

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