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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. In the spirit of Then We Came to the End and This Is Where I Leave You, John Kenney mines his own advertising background to create this moving debut. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 286 x 23. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472152107
- ISBN
- 9781472152107
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.26
€ 11.99
€ 10.26
Hardback. Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 255 x 31. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780241284667
- ISBN
- 9780241284667
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 15.29
€ 20.99
€ 15.29
Paperback. The ordinary folk of New Orleans seem to think he is unhinged as well. Ignatius ignores them as he heaves his vast bulk through the city's fleshpots in a noble crusade against vice, modernity and ignorance. But his momma has a nasty surprise in store for him. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141182865
- ISBN
- 9780141182865
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.06
€ 13.99
€ 11.06
Paperback. Ignatius J Reilly is fat, flatulent, eloquent and almost unemployable. By the standards of ordinary folk he is pretty much unhinged, too. But is he bothered by this? No. For this misanthropic crusader against an America fallen into vice and ignorance has a mission: to rescue a naked female philosopher in distress. Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 112 x 26. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241951590
- ISBN
- 9780241951590
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.70
€ 13.99
€ 11.70
Paperback. 'Would you believe me if I told you that I was only nine years of age when I killed him?' In a paint-splattered room, a young and successful Irish painter confronts his shocking and murderous past - a dark day on the beach at Bundoran, Co Donegal, when he quietly dispatched a palaeontologist with his own geological hammer. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 139. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0005875
- ISBN
- 9780099285137
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Set in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, in the 1970s, this is a touching yet hilarious account of the agonies and absurdities of growing up in a backwater of pebbledash and Space Invaders. Teenagers Declan Lydon and his trusted friend Spit Maguire stumble together through their adolescence. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 136.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099285960
- ISBN
- 9780099285960
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 8.70
€ 9.99
€ 8.70
Paperback. Idealistic composer, Fish, visits economically decimated Greece with his archaeologist girlfriend, Gabrielle, but unexplained events thwart his plans for a new society. Num Pages: 375 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 221 x 25. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- John Hunt Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 375
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782790532
- ISBN
- 9781782790532
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.51
€ 17.99
€ 16.51
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780811225526
- ISBN
- 9780811225526
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 18.06
€ 18.99
€ 18.06
Paperback. On a New England campus, Viennese housewife Utchka and her aspiring writer husband live a rather placid life with their two children. Until, that is, they meet Severin Winter, Professor of German and wrestling coach, and his delicate wife Edith at a faculty party. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 132 x 16. Weight in Grams: 184.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1980
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780552992084
- ISBN
- 9780552992084
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.85
€ 13.00
€ 11.85
Paperback. John Berry is a son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre of eccentric siblings, and chronicler of the lives lived, the loves experienced, the deaths met, and the myriad strange and wonderful times encountered by the family Berry. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 35. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780552992091
- ISBN
- 9780552992091
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 11.36
€ 12.99
€ 11.36
Paperback. 'One night when she was four and sleeping in the bottom bunk of her bunk bed, Ruth Cole awoke to the sound of lovemaking - it was coming from her parents' bedroom'. This title tells the story of Ruth Cole. Num Pages: 656 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 37. Weight in Grams: 446. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- KCG0000073
- ISBN
- 9780552997966
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Born a Parsi in Bombay, sent to university and medical school in Vienna, Dr Farrokh Daruwalla is a Canadian citizen - a 59-year-old orthopaedic surgeon, living in Toronto. Once, twenty years ago, Dr Daruwalla was the examining physician of two murder victims in Goa. Now, two decades later, the doctor will be reacquainted with the murderer.. Num Pages: 784 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 41. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780552996051
- ISBN
- 9780552996051
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.41
€ 17.99
€ 13.41
Paperback. Jack Burns' mother, Alice, is a tattoo artist in search of the boy's father, a virtuoso organist named William who has fled America to Europe. To fund her journey, she plies her trade in the seaports of the Baltic coast. Num Pages: 960 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 42. Weight in Grams: 632.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780552773126
- ISBN
- 9780552773126
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.00
€ 19.99
€ 15.00
Paperback. In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, a twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, pursued by the constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 42. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780552776578
- ISBN
- 9780552776578
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.43
€ 17.99
€ 13.43
Paperback. Fred 'Bogus' Trumper is a wayward knight-errant in the battle of the sexes and the pursuit of happiness. He also happens to have a complaint more serious than Portnoy's. Yet he stubbornly clings to the notion that he'll make something of his life, and is about to commit himself to a second marriage that bears remarkable resemblance to his first. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 128 x 27. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1980
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780552992077
- ISBN
- 9780552992077
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.47
€ 17.99
€ 13.47
Paperback. While reporting a story from India, a New York television journalist has his left hand eaten by a lion; millions of TV viewers witness the accident. In Boston, a renowned hand surgeon awaits the opportunity to perform the nation's first hand transplant. A married woman in Wisconsin wants to give the one-handed reporter her husband's left hand. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 25. Weight in Grams: 260. Good clean copy with some shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- New edition
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- SKU
- KTJ0049776
- ISBN
- 9780552771092
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. 'One night when she was four and sleeping in the bottom bunk of her bunk bed, Ruth Cole awoke to the sound of lovemaking - it was coming from her parents' bedroom'. This title tells the story of Ruth Cole. Num Pages: 656 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 37. Weight in Grams: 446. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- SKU
- KAK0010601
- ISBN
- 9780552997966
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. As the oldest unadopted child at St Cloud's orphanage, Homer Wells strikes up a profound and unusual friendship with Wilbur Larch, the orphanage's founder, a man of rare compassion and an addiction to ether. What he learns from Wilbur takes him from his early apprenticeship in the orphanage surgery, to an adult life running a cider-making factory. Num Pages: 704 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 128 x 39. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780552992046
- ISBN
- 9780552992046
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.85
€ 13.00
€ 11.85
Paperback. 'One night when she was four and sleeping in the bottom bunk of her bunk bed, Ruth Cole awoke to the sound of lovemaking - it was coming from her parents' bedroom'. This title tells the story of Ruth Cole. Num Pages: 656 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 37. Weight in Grams: 462. Good clean copy with some reader wear.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- SKU
- KTM0006276
- ISBN
- 9780552997966
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Juan Diego's little sister is a mind reader. As a teenager, he struggles to keep anything secret - Lupe knows all the worst things that go through his mind. What might a young girl be driven to do if she thought she had the power to change what lies ahead? This is the story of what happens when the future collides with the past. Num Pages: 768 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 41. Weight in Grams: 554.
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780552778640
- ISBN
- 9780552778640
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.47
€ 17.99
€ 13.47
Paperback. A story of unfulfilled love - tormented, funny, and affecting - and an impassioned embrace of our sexual differences. It is an intimate and unforgettable portrait of the solitariness of a bisexual man who is dedicated to making himself 'worthwhile'. Num Pages: 624 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 131 x 39. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Number of pages
- 624
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780552778442
- ISBN
- 9780552778442
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.02
€ 19.99
€ 15.02
Paperback. Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire, hits a foul ball and kills his best friend's mother. Owen doesn't believe in accidents; he believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul ball is both extraordinary and terrifying. Num Pages: 720 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 41. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780552993692
- ISBN
- 9780552993692
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.08
€ 13.00
€ 11.08
Paperback. For fans of THE UNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRY, THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU, Mark Watson and Mark Haddon, here is a cleverly written mystery about fate, circumstance, destiny and coincidence from COSTA AWARD-shortlisted author, John Ironmonger. This quirky read is hard to put down and spans philosophy, conflict, relationships and romance. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 20. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780220840
- ISBN
- 9781780220840
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
€ 13.99
€ 11.09
Paperback. Maximilian Ponder has been shut away for 30 years, attempting to record every memory he has ever had .. A stunning debut about friendship, memory and what makes up a life. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780220833
- ISBN
- 9781780220833
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.47
€ 10.99
€ 9.47