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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. The fiction debut of Academy Award-nominated actor, playwright and New Yorker contributor Jesse Eisenberg. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 22. Weight in Grams: 272.
Publisher
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611855494
ISBN
9781611855494
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.74

paperback. It's 1994 and a gang of good-hearted young people set off in a Ford Transit van armed with several sacks of rice and a half-written play. Their aim is to light a beacon of peace across the Balkans and, very probably, stop the war. Andrew would love to stop the war. But what he'd also love to do is sleep with Penny. Does Penny like him though? Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 146 x 199 x 27. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
9780099578741
ISBN
9780099578741
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 11.14

paperback. Somewhere on a rocky patch of the sun-drenched Italian coastline a young innkeeper, chest-deep in daydreams, looks out over the incandescent waters of the Ligurian Sea and views an apparition: a beautiful woman, a vision in white, approaching him on a boat. She is an American starlet, he soon learns, and she is dying. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 197 x 33. Weight in Grams: 258.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Penguin
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
9780670922659
ISBN
9780670922659
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. Offers a collection of stories about the American family. This book brings to life a world of lost fathers and redemptive con men, of personal struggles and diminished dreams, a world marked by the wry wit and generosity of spirit that has made Jess Walter one of America's most talked-about writers. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 203 x 12. Weight in Grams: 144.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Viking
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241003855
ISBN
9780241003855
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.25

Paperback. Num Pages: 372 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 134 x 204 x 27. Weight in Grams: 306.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Penguin Putnam Inc United States
Number of pages
372
Condition
New
SKU
V9781594633843
ISBN
9781594633843
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 17.89

Paperback. Magical new novel from the author of SNAKE ROPES. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 29. Weight in Grams: 258.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444738056
ISBN
9781444738056
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

Paperback. Stunning fiction in the vein of Angela Carter and Margaret Atwood from debut author Jess Richards. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 22. Weight in Grams: 242.
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444737851
ISBN
9781444737851
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

Paperback. Growing up in a small Wiltshire village, Abbie Morris knows what lies ahead of her - a life of drudgery as a menial servant, like that of her sisters. But everything changes when Abbie is twelve and their emotional, spirited mother casts them into a crisis for which no one is prepared. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 110 x 45. Weight in Grams: 316. Well-read paperback in good condition.Some shelf wear; may have some light soiling.
Condition
Used, Good
Edition
1st Paperback Printing
Publisher
Arrow
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
SKU
KRF0031085
ISBN
9780099415763
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback.
Publisher
Open Letter United States
Number of pages
282
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9781934824405
ISBN
9781934824405
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.75

Paperback. A novel which became a film starring Peter Sellers. It is the tale of a simple man accidentally thrown into a world of sex, money, power and national television, to become a media superstar and a household name. The author's other novels include "Steps", which won America's National Book Award. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 9. Weight in Grams: 86.
Publisher
Black Swan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1983
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780552990370
ISBN
9780552990370
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.29

Hardcover. London has the greatest literary tradition of any city in the world. Its roll-call of story-tellers includes cultural giants who changed the way the world thought about writing, like Shakespeare, Defoe and Dickens. This title includes stories of fact and fiction and occasionally something in between. Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Classics. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 3J; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 189 x 124 x 30. Weight in Grams: 438.
Publisher
Everyman's Library
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841596167
ISBN
9781841596167
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.06

Paperback. "Saint Billie". Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 5. Weight in Grams: 98.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Enitharmon Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
64
Condition
New
SKU
V9781900564625
ISBN
9781900564625
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.33

Paperback. It is May 1945 and as church bells ring out Victory in Europe over the Norfolk saltmarshes, Goose's daughter Lil is born. But as Lil enters Goose's world, her father leaves it, in a makeshift boat bound - or so the story goes - for Germany, his home. 40 years later it is Lil's son, Pip, who begins to make sense of his family's fragmented history. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 240.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141027708
ISBN
9780141027708
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.82

Paperback.
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Abacus
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
Digital original
SKU
KLN0013838
ISBN
9780349118147
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. A story of a group of friends as they edge towards adulthood in the sunshine and shadow of Llandudno during the years of the Second World War. Series: Library of Wales. Num Pages: 351 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 352.
Publisher
Parthian Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
351
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905762507
ISBN
9781905762507
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.38

Paperback. Translator(s): Bernofsky, Susan. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 127 x 9. Weight in Grams: 142.
Publisher
The New York Review of Books, Inc United States
Number of pages
114
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781590176689
ISBN
9781590176689
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.75

Paperback. Lucca, an actress, is rushed into hospital in a provincial Danish town after a motor accident. She is severely injured and Robert, the doctor treating her, is obliged to tell her she may never see again. Both of them are recovering from love affairs, and they relate their stories to each other. Translator(s): Born, Anne. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FH; FJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 138 x 23. Weight in Grams: 316. 384 pages. Lucca, an actress, is rushed into hospital in a provincial Danish town after a motor accident. She is severely injured and Robert, the doctor treating her, is obliged to tell her she may never see again. Both of them are recovering from love affairs, and they relate their stories to each other. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA; FH; FJ. Dimension: 199 x 138 x 23. Weight: 266. Translator(s): Born, Anne.
Publisher
Canongate Books
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841953977
ISBN
9781841953977
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.54

Paperback. After 18 years of marriage Astrid, the wife of the novel's narrator, has left home. Her departure leaves her art-historian husband feeling loss and loneliness that force him to reassess his life. This title explores with great subtlety the secret, unpredictable connections between men and women. Translator(s): Born, Anne. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 197 x 23. Weight in Grams: 206.
Publisher
Canongate Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841951782
ISBN
9781841951782
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.07

Paperback. Set at the end of last century, The Sharks is a thrilling tale of mutiny and shipwreck, which bears comparison with Melville's Moby Dick or Conrad's Typhoon in its suspense and its evocation of the fascination of the sea. Translator(s): Murer, Esther Greenleaf. Num Pages: 242 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 211 x 17. Weight in Grams: 320.
Publisher
Norvik Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781909408128
ISBN
9781909408128
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.53

Paperback. When Lorna comes to work one morning at the offices of a buzzing newspaper and a colleague offers to bring her a sandwich, all seems as it should be. Emails, boyfriends and sparkling parties follow. But Lorna has had a brainstorm. She can't remember what she does, where she came from and where she's supposed to go next.. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 13. Weight in Grams: 138.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099498124
ISBN
9780099498124
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.50

Paperback. In the heart of London lies a tight-knit community of families. In the sweltering heat, Grace Ballantyne leaves her son Adam playing in his toy car in the garden. When she returns, she finds the door to the car open and her is nowhere in sight. As Grace frantically searches, panic creeps in and so the nightmare begins. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 27. Weight in Grams: 286.
Publisher
Cornerstone United Kingdom
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099509837
ISBN
9780099509837
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.65

Paperback. Donna Stewart's family is poor but respectable and hard working. Donna is beautiful and clever - about to go up to university. Celebrating her exam results with her friends at a club, she meets Danny Lester, 10 years older, much richer, a businessman - he sweeps her off her feet. But it gradually emerges that he is a criminal and a sadist. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 22. Weight in Grams: 232.
Publisher
Cornerstone United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099509844
ISBN
9780099509844
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.67

Paperback.
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Pan Macmillan London
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
Main Market
SKU
KEX0200436
ISBN
9780330490344
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. A brand new summery story about returning to your past and finding a new beginning from bestselling author Jenny Oliver! Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1DSE; FA; FR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. Weight in Grams: 270.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780008217945
ISBN
9780008217945
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.70

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