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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Hardback. Susan wants another husband - which comes as a shock to the current one. A tale of a singular threesome. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 161 x 38. Weight in Grams: 722. Good clean copy in dustwrapper. DW with some light shelf wear else as new.
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
SKU
KTG0005031
ISBN
9781780877228
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. With vicious flair, Connolly hurtles a cast of thrillingly repulsive characters into a plot of adultery, sadism and revenge, speeding towards a violent climax. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 165 x 21. Weight in Grams: 234.
Publisher
Quercus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782067030
ISBN
9781782067030
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Hardback. Three married couples: each living in England's Lane, each of them hiding their lies, coping in the only way they know how. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 160 x 37. Weight in Grams: 692.
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
9781780877181
ISBN
9781780877181
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 5.54

Paperback. Eric's double-decker life and triple-tangled lies drive him to a catastrophic collision in Joseph Connolly's wry and ingeniously plotted black comedy. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 139 x 21. Weight in Grams: 224.
Publisher
Quercus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782067054
ISBN
9781782067054
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Paperback. The Works is an elegy to the inextricables of life - pasts and presents, husbands and wives, fathers and sons, hopes and fears - told with Joseph Connolly's inimitable gift for character and voice as he digs up the dirt on nineties London. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 34. Weight in Grams: 306.
Publisher
Quercus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
9781782067009
ISBN
9781782067009
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Clean copy, with very light shelfwear. Good to very good
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
390
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
New Ed
SKU
KST0017631
ISBN
9780571204397
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. 1959. England's Lane is a respectable street of reputable family businesses. Until an enigmatic butcher sets up shop, and shameful secrets begin to surface.. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 147 x 32. Weight in Grams: 362.
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780877211
ISBN
9781780877211
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. Joseph Connolly's comic outrage skewers over-inflated celebrity culture and dethrones child stardom in this violently funny satire. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 36. Weight in Grams: 344.
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848666313
ISBN
9781848666313
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.23

Hardback. With a nod to Kurt Vonnegut's audacious sense of humor, the author demonstrates the humanity of his odd-ball characters. His portrayal of a city neighborhood in transition also gives the story a distinctive sense of place. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 161 x 20. Weight in Grams: 394.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Bridge Works Publishing Co ,U.S. United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781882593859
ISBN
9781882593859
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 22.70

Paperback. A mesmerizing epic set in the wilds of 17th century North America, from a Giller Prize-winning author. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 36. Weight in Grams: 470.
Publisher
Oneworld Publications
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780744407
ISBN
9781780744407
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.99

Paperback. From internationally acclaimed author Joseph Boyden comes a powerful novel about two native Canadian sisters and the forces that pull them apart. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 28. Weight in Grams: 410.
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780753823323
ISBN
9780753823323
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Paperback. Translator(s): Aitken, Martin. Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 216 x 20. Weight in Grams: 322.
Publisher
Open Letter
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Translation
Condition
New
SKU
V9781940953373
ISBN
9781940953373
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.00
€ 16.75

Paperback. In 1945, in Kostelec, Danny is playing saxophone for the best jazz band in Czechoslovakia. Their trumpeter has just got out of a concentration camp, their bass player is only allowed in the band since he owns the bass, and the love of Danny's life is in love with somebody else. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 314.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st Zebra/Grove Paperback Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141047676
ISBN
9780141047676
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.81

Hardcover. Translator(s): Zucker, Alex. Num Pages: 150 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 237 x 189 x 21. Weight in Grams: 360.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Karolinum Press, Charles University
Condition
New
SKU
V9788024631271
ISBN
9788024631271
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 21.05

Paperback. One day a rift opens along the border between Spain and France, and the Iberian peninsula floats off across the Atlantic, a great stone raft. But what of the floating population? While the tourists and investors flee, the Spanish and Portuguese escape the coast and wander the inland roads. Translator(s): Pontiero, Giovanni. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 200.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9781860467219
ISBN
9781860467219
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.38

Paperback. In early 18th-century Lisbon, Baltasar, a soldier who has lost his left hand in battle, falls in love with Blimunda, a young girl with visionary powers. From the day that he follows her home from the auto-da-fe where her mother is burned at the stake, the two are bound body and soul by love of an unassailable strength. Translator(s): Pontiero, Giovanni. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 22. Weight in Grams: 252.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9781860469015
ISBN
9781860469015
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. Ricardo Reis was a pseudonym created by Fernando Pessoa, the great Portugese poet. Six weeks, after Pessoa's death, Ricardo Reis returns to Lisbon to take up residence in a hotel,wander the streets, read the newspapers and muse on love, destiny, politics, life and death with his old friend. Translator(s): Pontiero, Giovanni. Num Pages: 384 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 31. Weight in Grams: 268.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
9781860465024
ISBN
9781860465024
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.74

Paperback. Cipriano and his daughter craft a new line of small ceramic figurines and the Centre orders cast quantities and then recants. Resigned to idleness, Cipriano moves to a soulless megaplex, until late one night he comes across a horrifying secret in the bowels of the artificial city. This is an Orwellian nightmare, a family fable and a love story. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 212.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099449157
ISBN
9780099449157
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. A driver waiting at traffic lights goes blind. An ophthalmologist tries to diagnose his distinctive white blindness, but is affected before he can read textbooks. It becomes a contagion, spreading throughout the city. Trying to stem the epidemic, the authorities herd the afflicted into a mental asylum where the wards are terrorised by blind thugs. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 234.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099573586
ISBN
9780099573586
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. A man knocked on the King's door to ask for a boat. Why the petitioner required a boat, where he was bound for, and who volunteered to crew for him the reader will discover as this short narrative unfolds. Illustrator(s): Sis, Peter. Translator(s): Jull Costa, Margaret. Num Pages: 48 pages, 4 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 9. Weight in Grams: 108.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
42
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781860466908
ISBN
9781860466908
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.02

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