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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. A comedy of cultures about the old and the new, about Latinos, Jews, Sicilians and Germans. It's about struggling to hold onto life in a rapidly changing world, about food and sex and about how our lives are shaped by love and guilt. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 265.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099477648
ISBN
9780099477648
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.51

Paperback. Brilliantly written literary fiction with the tension and twists of a thriller. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472225702
ISBN
9781472225702
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 171 x 105. Weight in Grams: 168.
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Pinnacle
Condition
New
SKU
V9780786042043
ISBN
9780786042043
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.53

Paperback. In his follow-up to Love, Love Me Do, Mark Haysom moves us from 60s to 70s Briton in a novel about one ordinary family's hopes and dreams. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 150 x 39. Weight in Grams: 370.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349403915
ISBN
9780349403915
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.31

Paperback. In his follow-up to Love, Love Me Do, Mark Haysom moves us from 60s to 70s Briton in a novel about one ordinary family's hopes and dreams. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 42. Weight in Grams: 704.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
KOC0027677
ISBN
9780349403939
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Set in the 60s, this is the most original, funny, wise, dark and touching family drama you will read all year. A fabulously unique debut. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 28. Weight in Grams: 322.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349403892
ISBN
9780349403892
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.12

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Edition
2 Revised
Number of pages
265
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803273382
ISBN
9780803273382
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99

Paperback. Two families. Seven days. One house. Angela and her brother Richard have spent twenty years avoiding each other. Now, after the death of their mother, they bring their families together for a holiday in a rented house on the Welsh border. Four adults and four children. Seven days of shared meals, log fires, card games and wet walks. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 32. Weight in Grams: 334. Good copy with some shelf wear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KTG0009263
ISBN
9780099570165
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

paperback. Narrated by a 15-year-old autistic savant obsessed with Sherlock Holmes, this dazzling novel weaves together an old-fashioned mystery, a contemporary coming-of-age story, and a fascinating excursion into a mind incapable of processing emotions. Num Pages: 288 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 21. Weight in Grams: 272. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Vintage London
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
01st Edition
SKU
KTG0014757
ISBN
9780099450252
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 11.99
€ 10.50

paperback. Narrated by a 15-year-old autistic savant obsessed with Sherlock Holmes, this dazzling novel weaves together an old-fashioned mystery, a contemporary coming-of-age story, and a fascinating excursion into a mind incapable of processing emotions. Num Pages: 288 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 21. Weight in Grams: 272.
Publisher
Vintage London
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
9780099450252
ISBN
9780099450252
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.50

Paperback. A man shoots a stranger in the chest on Christmas Eve. An expedition to Mars goes terribly wrong. A seaside pier collapses. A thirty-stone man is confined to his living room. One woman is abandoned on a tiny island in the middle of the ocean. Another woman is saved from drowning. Two boys discover a gun in a shoebox. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 26. Weight in Grams: 296.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784701963
ISBN
9781784701963
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Paperback. Christopher is 15 and lives in Swindon with his father. He has Asperger's Syndrome, a form of autism. He is obsessed with maths, science and Sherlock Holmes but finds it hard to understand other people. When he discovers a dead dog on a neighbour's lawn he decides to solve the mystery and write a detective thriller about it. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 133 x 20. Weight in Grams: 250.
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
Limited Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099496939
ISBN
9780099496939
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.61

Paperback. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time is a murder mystery novel like no other. The detective, and narrator, is Christopher Boone. Christopher is fifteen and has Asperger's, a form of autism. He knows a very great deal about maths and very little about human beings. He loves lists, patterns and the truth. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 117 x 19. Weight in Grams: 154.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099470434
ISBN
9780099470434
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.87

Paperback. Christopher Boone is fifteen and has Asperger's Syndrome. He knows a great deal about maths and very little about human beings. He loves lists, patterns and the truth. He has never gone further than the end of the road on his own, but when he finds a neighbour's dog murdered he sets out on a journey which will turn his whole world upside down. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 276.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099598459
ISBN
9780099598459
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

paperback. Nevin Nollop left the islanders of Nollop with the treasured legacy of his pangram "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog". But as the letters begin to crumble on the monumental inscription, the island's council forbids the use of the lost letters and silence threatens Ella and her family. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 15. Weight in Grams: 216.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Methuen Publishing Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780413772954
ISBN
9780413772954
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.97

Paperback. Witty, wise and deeply moving, Spirit House is a remarkable novel by a major new voice in Australian fiction, a story of the fall of Singapore and life as a POW, of the bonds of life-long friendship and the bonds of grief, and of a young boy making sense of his future while old men try to live with their past. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 127 x 25. Weight in Grams: 304.
Publisher
Atlantic Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782390886
ISBN
9781782390886
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.03

Paperback. Dolphin culture evolved over millions of years so they could remain perfectly attuned with their world, the ocean. But the growing pressure of man's activities become intolerable and in frustration they seek an aggressive new path, making a shocking departure from the ancient philosophy that has guided them so well through the millennia. Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 412. Rise of the Guardians. 260 pages. Dolphin culture evolved over millions of years so they could remain perfectly attuned with their world, the ocean. But the growing pressure of man's activities become intolerable and in frustration they seek an aggressive new path, making a shocking departure from the ancient philosophy that has guided them so well through the millennia. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 233 x 155 x 20. Weight: 418.
Publisher
Aquapress
Number of pages
260
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905492237
ISBN
9781905492237
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.99
€ 8.28

Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780268022310
ISBN
9780268022310
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.93

Paperback. A bold and original novel about John Humble, the Yorkshire Ripper hoaxer Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 205 x 23. Weight in Grams: 200.
Publisher
Granta Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781783780860
ISBN
9781783780860
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.05

paperback. Num Pages: 325 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 336. 325 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 197 x 129 x 21. Weight: 332.
Publisher
Bluemoose Books Ltd
Number of pages
325
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780955336782
ISBN
9780955336782
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.73

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