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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. When she awakes and realizes she is all right, that Time is starting again, it seems fitting that she should lie on a spindly white trolley in a white room. A nearby voice tells she is on her own now and to be good. Was she not good before? This story unfolds a metaphysical thriller where jealously guarded secrets jostle with startling insights. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 15. Weight in Grams: 162.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099769019
ISBN
9780099769019
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.10

Paperback. Charles Highway, a precociously intelligent and highly sexed teenager, is determined to sleep with an older woman before he turns twenty. Rachel fits the bill perfectly and Charles plans his seduction meticulously, sets the scene with infinite care - but it doesn't come off quite as Charles expects. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 193 x 8. Weight in Grams: 172.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099503873
ISBN
9780099503873
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Paperback. A collection of short stories, including "Heavy Water"; "Straight Fiction"; "Career Moves"; "The Janitor on Mars"; "Let Me Count the Times"; and others. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 15. Weight in Grams: 174.
Publisher
Vintage Books USA
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099272663
ISBN
9780099272663
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.61

Paperback. The narrator, Samson Young, enters the Black Cross, a thoroughly undesirable public house, and finds the main players of his drama assembled, just waiting to begin. It's a gift of a story from real life.. all Samson has to do is to write it as it happens. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 31. Weight in Grams: 378.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099748618
ISBN
9780099748618
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.61

Paperback. The story of a life told backwards. Its narrator, Doctor Tod T. Friendly, trapped and hurtling towards a terrible secret, moves "out of the blackest sleep" to find himself surrounded by doctors and on the deathbed of a man in whose body he is imprisoned. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 132.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099455356
ISBN
9780099455356
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Paperback. Gregory leads an existence of formidable foppishness, his days and nights a series of effortless, titillating conquests. His foster brother, Terry, has to make do with the leavings as he trawls through life in a miasma of grief. But roles are reversed with both lives dramatically changed. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 168.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099461852
ISBN
9780099461852
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Hardback. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 174 x 243 x 43. Weight in Grams: 776.
Publisher
Random House USA Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9781101883075
ISBN
9781101883075
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.77

Paperback. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 134 x 202 x 34. Weight in Grams: 370.
Publisher
Random House USA Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781101883082
ISBN
9781101883082
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 17.73

Paperback. Follows a journalist who returns to Prague after its annexation and finds her efforts to obtain help for the refugees and to convey the shocking state of the country both frustrating and futile. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 145 x 203 x 18. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226286969
ISBN
9780226286969
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 19.45

Hardback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153. .
Publisher
Zaffre Publishing
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785762901
ISBN
9781785762901
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.33

Publisher
United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253220042
ISBN
9780253220042
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.61

Paperback. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 218 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
New Chapter Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
250
Condition
New
SKU
V9781937559144
ISBN
9781937559144
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 20.97

CD-Audio. Series: Adventures in Odyssey (Audio Numbered). BIC Classification: FA. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 126 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 200.
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers United States
Edition
abridged ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781589970762
ISBN
9781589970762
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 24.84

Paperback. For the inhabitants of the damp little Irish town of Ballinacroagh, the repertoire of gastronomic delights has never extended farther than the limp meals of the local inn's carvery. But things are about to change when the beautiful Aminpour sisters - Marjan, Bahar and Layla - arrive, determined to share the magic of their kitchen with the locals. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 282.
Publisher
Cornerstone
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099478928
ISBN
9780099478928
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Paperback. Justine's attachment to virtue attracts nothing but misfortune, and she is subjected to an unending catalogue of sexual abuse. Sade's best-known novel, it overturns all religious, moral, and political norms, and still has the power to shock. This new translation of the 1791version is the first for over 40 years, and the first critical edition. Translator(s): Phillips, John. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FP; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 132 x 15. Weight in Grams: 224.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199572847
ISBN
9780199572847
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.61

Paperback. Num Pages: 258 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 356.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Brindle and Glass Publishing, Ltd Canada
Number of pages
258
Condition
New
SKU
V9781897142455
ISBN
9781897142455
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 19.88

Paperback. The award-winning debut from the critically-acclaimed author of A Brief History of Seven Killings Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 21. Weight in Grams: 228.
Publisher
Oneworld Publications
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780748498
ISBN
9781780748498
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.74

Paperback. A startling, hard-edged dissection of slavery and a tour de force of both voice and storytelling Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 32. Weight in Grams: 404.
Publisher
Oneworld Publications
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780746524
ISBN
9781780746524
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.89

Paperback. Offers a fictional account of the spiritual odyssey of an American woman in Australia. Summoned by a remote tribe of nomadic Aboriginals to accompany them on a walkabout through the outback, she learns how they live and thrive in natural harmony with the plants and animals that exist in the rugged geography of the desert region. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; FA; VXP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 16. Weight in Grams: 160. 187pp
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
HarperCollins
Edition
First UK Edition
Condition
New
SKU
9781855384842
ISBN
9781855384842
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.25

Paperback. Liesel, a nine-year-old girl, is living with a foster family on Himmel Street. Her parents have been taken away to a concentration camp. This title tells her story and the story of the inhabitants of her street when the bombs begin to fall. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 127 x 36. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Black Swan
Condition
New
SKU
9780552779739
ISBN
9780552779739
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.80

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