Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. On the sunlit Greek island of Skios, the Fred Toppler Foundation's annual lecture is to be given by Dr Norman Wilfred, the world-famous authority on the scientific organisation of science. He turns out to be surprisingly young and charming - not at all the intimidating figure they had been expecting. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 127 x 19. Weight in Grams: 226. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KJE0000801
- ISBN
- 9780571281459
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. The journey was undertaken not by a mystical reporter like St John, but by Howard Baker, an observer of much more modern outlook. He finds a city which offers rich opportunities for leisure and enjoyment - but one which also presents a moral and intellectual challenge. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 18. Weight in Grams: 160.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571315925
- ISBN
- 9780571315925
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.35
€ 9.35
Paperback. Hilary one of the serious and dedicated, working in the Home Office in Westminster, who just happens to know the truth about the case in which Terry is currently interested. But then why is she to be found one evening walking through the back streets behind the Strand, to the run-down block where Terry's pressure group has its headquarters? Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 17. Weight in Grams: 178. Some shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- SKU
- KTK0099273
- ISBN
- 9780571212613
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Why not program computers to take over the really dull jobs that human beings have to do - such as praying and behaving morally? This book explores computers, technology and automation with customary humour and wit. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 16. Weight in Grams: 158.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571315895
- ISBN
- 9780571315895
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.66
€ 13.99
€ 10.66
Paperback. Uncumber lives in a dystopian world, where all humanity is divided in two - the Insiders and the Outsiders. Uncumber lives in this luxurious world and is told that she must never go out into the dust and disease of the real world. When she falls in love with an Outsider, she decides to go exploring.. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 12. Weight in Grams: 122.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571315932
- ISBN
- 9780571315932
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.66
€ 13.99
€ 10.66
Paperback. Raya, a mercurial Moscow blonde who speaks no English, and the affair she is embarking upon with Gordon Proctor-Gould, a British businessman who speaks no Russian. They need an interpreter; which is how Paul Manning is diverted from writing his thesis at Moscow University to become involved in all the deceptions of love and East-West relations. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 14. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571315888
- ISBN
- 9780571315888
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.57
€ 13.99
€ 10.57
Paperback. Set in the crossword and nature notes department of an obscure national newspaper during the declining years of Fleet Street, where John Dyson dreams wistfully of fame and the gentlemanly life - until one day his great chance of glory at last arrives. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 16. Weight in Grams: 194.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571315871
- ISBN
- 9780571315871
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.66
€ 13.99
€ 10.66
Paperback. When Martin Clay, a young would-be art historian, believes he has discovered a missing masterpiece. The owner of the painting is oblivious to its potential and asks Martin to help him sell it, leaving Martin with the chance of a lifetime: if he could only separate the painter from its owner, he would be able to perform a great public service.. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 26. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571283484
- ISBN
- 9780571283484
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.57
€ 13.99
€ 10.57
Paperback. Small and insignificant Bastian Balthazar Bux is nobody's idea of a hero, least of all his own. Through the pages of an old book he discovers a mysterious world of enchantment - but a world that is falling into decay. The great task of making things well again falls on Bastian. Illustrator(s): Quadflieg, Roswitha. Translator(s): Manheim, Ralph. Num Pages: 384 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 5AK; FA; YFH. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 197 x 131 x 18. Weight in Grams: 262.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1984
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140074314
- ISBN
- 9780140074314
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.41
€ 10.99
€ 9.41
Paperback. Num Pages: 357 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 154 x 30. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- McArthur & Company United States
- Number of pages
- 357
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781552787052
- ISBN
- 9781552787052
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.09
€ 20.09
Paperback. Harry Jones, hero of The Edge of Madness, is caught in a web of international intrigue, with an old friend as bait and a female scorpion at his side Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153. Weight in Grams: 494. Clean copy, with very light shelfwear. Good to very good
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Number of pages
- 448
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- UK ed.
- SKU
- KST0017628
- ISBN
- 9781847372871
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Anthony is a British journalist whose American wife, Lucy, has died suddenly. Haunted by her death, he becomes obsessed with her past and the years he missed before he met her. To find out more, he travels to a remote part of the Nevada desert to meet Lucy's first husband. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 114 x 13. Weight in Grams: 116. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- Main
- SKU
- KSS0004216
- ISBN
- 9780571207787
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Anthony is a British journalist whose American wife, Lucy, has died suddenly. Haunted by her death, he becomes obsessed with her past and the years he missed before he met her. To find out more, he travels to a remote part of the Nevada desert to meet Lucy's first husband. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 114 x 13. Weight in Grams: 116. Well-read paperback in good condition.Some shelf wear; may have some light soiling.
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Edition
- Main
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- SKU
- KRF0030985
- ISBN
- 9780571207787
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 234 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 141 x 14. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Publisher
- NeWest Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 234
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781897126370
- ISBN
- 9781897126370
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 17.15
€ 24.99
€ 17.15
Paperback. From the Pultizer Prize-winning author of 'The Hours', comes the story of a marriage thrown off course by a moment of mistaken identity. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 126 x 196 x 17. Weight in Grams: 194.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007437849
- ISBN
- 9780007437849
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.57
€ 13.99
€ 10.57
Paperback.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007156061
- ISBN
- 9780007156061
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.32
€ 14.99
€ 12.32
Paperback. Here are the moments that our fairy tales forgot or deliberately concealed, reimagined by one of the most gifted storytellers of his generation, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Hours, and exquisitely illustrated by Yuko Shimizu. Rarely have our bedtime stories been this dark, this perverse, or this true. Illustrator(s): Shimizu, Yuko. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 264 x 13. Weight in Grams: 210.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780008140403
- ISBN
- 9780008140403
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 4.95
€ 10.99
€ 4.95
Paperback. Meet Bobby, Jonathan and Clare. Three friends, three lovers, three ordinary people trying to make a place for themselves in the Seventies and Eighties. And as our threesome form a new kind of relationship, a new approach to family and love, questioning so much about the world around them, so they hope to create a space, a home, in which to live. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241954539
- ISBN
- 9780241954539
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.87
€ 13.99
€ 10.87
Paperback. 'Luminously written .. page-turningly enjoyable, this is a profound novel about love from a highly regarded, Pulitzer-winning novelist' Sunday Times Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007557691
- ISBN
- 9780007557691
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.57
€ 13.99
€ 10.57
Paperback. Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize and Pen Faulkner prize. Made into an Oscar-winning film, 'The Hours' is a daring and deeply affecting novel inspired by the life and work of Virginia Woolf. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 128 x 16. Weight in Grams: 176.
- Publisher
- Fourth Estate
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841150352
- ISBN
- 9781841150352
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.50
€ 13.99
€ 10.50
Paperback. It is now six years since the secret disaster at Jurassic Park, six years since the extraordinary dream of science and imagination came to a crashing end - the dinosaurs destroyed, the park dismantled, the island indefinitely closed to the public. But there are rumours that something survived. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 29. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Cornerstone
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781784752231
- ISBN
- 9781784752231
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
€ 13.99
€ 10.45
Paperback. On a remote jungle island, genetic engineers have created a dinosaur game park. An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Now one of mankind's most thrilling fantasies has come true and the first dinosaurs that the Earth has seen in the time of man emerge. But there is a dark side to the fantasy. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 33. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Cornerstone
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781784752224
- ISBN
- 9781784752224
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
€ 13.99
€ 10.45
Paperback. In the heart of Africa, three intrepid adventurers are desperate to find the fabulous diamonds of the lost city of Zinj. They encounter the Kigani cannibals, flaming volcanoes and ferocious gorillas - and Amy, the cuddly gorilla who's fluent in sign language. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FH; FJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 111 x 25. Weight in Grams: 214.
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099544319
- ISBN
- 9780099544319
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.87
€ 13.99
€ 10.87
Paperback. Thomas Sanders' world collapses in just 24 hours - he is passed over for promotion, his new woman boss comes on to him during a drink after work, then, the next morning, he learns that she has accused him of sexually harassing her. She demands his transfer, thereby threatening to cut him off from the millions he would have made. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FH; FJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 110 x 30. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Publication date
- 1994
- Edition
- New edition
- SKU
- KNH0012838
- ISBN
- 9780099303749
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99