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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. The story of a Great War veteran, Andreas Pum, who loses a leg and gains a medal. He marries, plays a barrel organ, and is happy. But when he is imprisoned after a fight, life seems unbearably altered. Then a chance encounter with an old comrade gives Pum a transfiguring experience of justice. Translator(s): Hofmann, Michael. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 130.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Granta Books
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781862073630
- ISBN
- 9781862073630
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.78
€ 13.99
€ 10.78
Paperback. In "The Spider's Web", his first novel, Roth paints a chillingly realistic picture of the conspiracies of the radical right that were to undermine the Weimar Republic and pave the way for Hitler and National Socialism. Translator(s): Hoare, John. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 7. Weight in Grams: 98.
- Publisher
- Granta Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781862076761
- ISBN
- 9781862076761
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.77
€ 13.99
€ 10.77
Hardcover. Presents a study of family life at the end of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. This book includes a detailed and intimate portrait of a life and the wider panorama of a failing dynasty. Translator(s): Neugroschel, Joachim. Num Pages: 332 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FT; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 133 x 29. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- New ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857151978
- ISBN
- 9781857151978
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.00
€ 19.99
€ 15.00
Paperback. In early 2006, Chuck Ramkissoon is found dead at the bottom of a New York canal. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 264. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0004918
- ISBN
- 9780007275700
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. A brilliant and darkly comic novel from the Man Booker Prize longlisted author of 'Netherland'. Num Pages: 204 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 132.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KCG0001137
- ISBN
- 9780007309238
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. In early 2006, Chuck Ramkissoon is found dead at the bottom of a New York canal. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KSG0014935
- ISBN
- 9780007275700
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Hardcover. Editor(s): Lynch, Kelly M. Num Pages: 263 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 248 x 159 x 0. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 263
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780838754313
- ISBN
- 9780838754313
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 105.29
€ 105.29
Paperback. Inspector Martin Allen's life is a mess, and the last thing he needs on Christmas Eve is a collapsed woman on the street. Ellen Donnelly is a woman on a mission, in Ireland to find her mother and escape her husband, Milton Amery, an unfaithful plastic surgeon. All of their roads lead to Inishowen. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 30. Weight in Grams: 320. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0001253
- ISBN
- 9780099286530
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Dublin, 1907. A young actress begins an affair with a damaged older man, the leading playwright at the theatre where she works. Many years later, Molly, now a poverty-stricken old woman, makes her way through London's bomb-scarred city streets, alone but for a snowdrift of memories. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 180. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KTG0010666
- ISBN
- 9780099481546
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover. It's Dublin 1907, a city of whispered rumours. Rebellious and flirtatious, Molly Allgood is a girl of the inner city tenements, dreaming of stardom in America. She has dozens of admirers but in the backstage of her life there is a secret. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 148 x 26. Weight in Grams: 440. 246pp. This leather-bound edition of Ghost Light, signed by the author, is limited to 75 numbered copies, this is number 69. Finely bound in full green leather, with decorated boards and title in gilt on front board and spine. With slip case
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Harvill Secker
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KSG0026381
- ISBN
- 9780436205712
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 225.00
€ 225.00
Paperback. It's Dublin, June 1995, the hottest summer since records began. But Billy Sweeney, a middle-aged salesman with a failed marriage, a faltering career and a tumbledown house, has more than weather on his mind. His youngest daughter lies in a coma in hospital following a mysterious attack on the petrol station where she worked. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- New edition
- SKU
- V9780099268383
- ISBN
- 9780099268383
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.82
€ 13.00
€ 11.82
Paperback. Luton, Robbie Goulding, an Irish-born teenager, meets the elusive Fran Mulvey, an orphaned Vietnamese refugee. Together they form a band. Joined by cellist Sarah-Therese Sherlock and her twin brother Sean on drums, The Ships in the Night set out to chase fame. But the story of this makeshift family is haunted by ghosts from the past. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099481539
- ISBN
- 9780099481539
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 10.64
€ 14.99
€ 10.64
Paperback. Eliza Duane Mooney is searching for a boy she has not seen in four years, one of the several children drawn into the war. His fate has been mysterious. It's a walk that will have consequences for many seemingly unconnected survivors. This novel is a tale of war and forgiveness, of strangers in a strange land, of love put to the ultimate test. Num Pages: 464 pages, ill. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 30. Weight in Grams: 338. Clean copy.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KEX0208241
- ISBN
- 9780099481522
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. All alone, with only his electric guitar and his overactive ego for company, Eddie Virago, proud owner of the last mohican haircut in Dublin, leaves his home town to find fame in the wild world of the London rock scene. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 184.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099498292
- ISBN
- 9780099498292
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.85
€ 13.00
€ 11.85
Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (LI) ELT intermediate. Dimension: 121 x 178 x 12. Weight in Grams: 116.
- Publisher
- New Island Books
- Number of pages
- 200
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848401020
- ISBN
- 9781848401020
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.72
€ 9.72
Paperback. One night, two men waving guns break and enter their Paris hotel room, terrorizing Russell and his much older companion, a famous American poet named Edward Cannon. The intruders, not finding what they seemingly expected, leave without further incident. But the baffling, traumatic events overwhelm Cannon who dies in his sleep later that night. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 135 x 16. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Arcadia
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905147984
- ISBN
- 9781905147984
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.64
€ 16.99
€ 12.64
paperback. Ian McEwan Mitchell is the laureate of old New York. Written between 1943 and 1965, this book offers the complete collection of Joseph Mitchell's "New Yorker" journalism and includes "McSorley's Wonderful Saloon", "Old Mr Flood", "The Bottom of the Harbour" and "Joe Gould's Secret". Num Pages: 736 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 146 x 197 x 39. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Number of pages
- 736
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099561590
- ISBN
- 9780099561590
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.99
€ 19.99
€ 14.99
Hardcover. "The Afterlife of Stars moved me more than any other novel I've read in recent memory." --Tim O'Brien Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 242 x 27. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780316308113
- ISBN
- 9780316308113
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 20.59
€ 30.99
€ 20.59
Paperback. Deals with the desire of Guanya, an African princess, to escape a repulsive fate: betrothal to a wealthy man twenty years older than she. Worse, he is a polygamist, compensating for his own ugliness with the beauty of many wives. Guanya must combat his eagerness, her mother's wish, and a tribal tradition that is as entrenched as it is oppressive. Num Pages: 114 pages. BIC Classification: BGH; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5182 x 3429 x 10. Weight in Grams: 171.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 114
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803297555
- ISBN
- 9780803297555
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.51
€ 17.99
€ 17.51
Paperback. Ben Contini, a disenchanted painter of considerable talent, has just buried his mother. Determined to learn the provenance of the painting, he and Elsa, a disturbed and secretive woman who accosts him at the funeral, become embroiled in the sinister world of Nazi art theft. But they are not the only one with an interest in the painting. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 139 x 18. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Publisher
- The Lilliput Press Ltd Dublin
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843511892
- ISBN
- 9781843511892
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.30
€ 10.30
Paperback. A darkly comic and ambitious sequel to the American classic Catch-22. Series: An American Classic. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 33. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781471147913
- ISBN
- 9781471147913
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.27
€ 17.99
€ 14.27
Paperback. The previously uncollected writings of Joseph Heller, including hitherto unpublished stories, lost chapters from Catch-22 and further tales about the unforgettable Yossarian Series: An American Classic. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 25. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781471158841
- ISBN
- 9781471158841
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.99
€ 11.99
€ 9.99
Paperback. Bob Slocum is anxious, bored and fearful of his job. So why is it he wants nothing more than the chance to speak at the next company convention? In this book, the author takes us for a turn on the maddening hamster wheel of work. Series: Vintage Minis. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 110 x 6. Weight in Grams: 66.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784872786
- ISBN
- 9781784872786
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 8.99€ 7.91
€ 8.99
€ 7.91
Hardcover. A burlesque epic in the tradition of The Good Soldier Schweik, this title exposes the absurdity of war by applying its own demented logic to America's involvement in Korea. The 'catch' is that soldiers have to claim to be mad in order to get out of fighting - but being capable of making such a claim automatically proves them sane. Num Pages: 569 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FJM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 134 x 37. Weight in Grams: 650.
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Number of pages
- 569
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Edition
- New ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857152203
- ISBN
- 9781857152203
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 15.79
€ 20.99
€ 15.79