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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

paperback. It's 1963 and a young German reporter has been assigned the suicide of a holocaust survivor. The news story seems straightforward, this is a tragic insight into one man's suffering. But a long hidden secret is discovered in the pages of the dead man's diary. What follows is life-and-death hunt for a notorious former concentration camp-commander. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 30. Weight in Grams: 316.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Arrow
Condition
New
SKU
9780099559832
ISBN
9780099559832
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.33

Paperback. It is 1999 and Russia is on the edge of total implosion. Social and moral order has collapsed and what small semblance of control there is, is being imposed by mafialike criminal gangs. While public opinion in the West is largely indifferent, the political analysts are less sanguine. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FHD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 108 x 34. Weight in Grams: 300.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Corgi London
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780552139915
ISBN
9780552139915
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.62

Paperback. An astonishing discovery is made in the remote African republic of Zangaro, one which could change the course of a nation's history forever. But such a discovery cannot be kept secret for long and Sir James Manson will stop at nothing to protect this find. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 30. Weight in Grams: 320.
Publisher
Arrow
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099559856
ISBN
9780099559856
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. It was 1882 when Antoinette Giry took her daughter to the funfair at Neuilly. There, in a cage, she saw a manacled creature whose tormented eyes shone from a grotesquely deformed face. Antoinette freed him and cured his wounds. The creature, Erik, whose hideous face hid a brilliant brain of near-genius, was now to become the Phantom of the Opera. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 106 x 17. Weight in Grams: 138.
Publisher
Corgi
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780552147194
ISBN
9780552147194
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.88

Paperback. Plan Aurora, hatched in a remote dacha in the forest outside Moscow and initiated with relentless brilliance and skill, is a plan within a plan that, in its spine-chilling ingenuity, breaches the ultra-secret Fourth Protocol and turns the fears that shaped it into a living nightmare. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 125 x 31. Weight in Grams: 322.
Publisher
Arrow
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099559849
ISBN
9780099559849
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. It is 1963 and an anonymous Englishman has been hired by the Operations Chief of the OAS to murder General de Galle. A failed attempt in the previous year means the target will be nearly impossible to get to. But this latest plot involves a lethal weapon: an assassin of legendary talent. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 296.
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
Arrow
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099557364
ISBN
9780099557364
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. A collection of flying stories featuring writers such as Frederick Forsyth, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Roald Dahl and Edgar Allan Poe. The styles used include science fiction, horror and detective fiction. Num Pages: 384 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 185 x 123 x 24. Weight in Grams: 196.
Publisher
Transworld Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780552138963
ISBN
9780552138963
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.81

hardcover. Num Pages: 190 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 140. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1973
Publisher
London, UK: Calder and Boyars United Kingdom
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
190
Condition
New
SKU
V9780714508993
ISBN
9780714508993
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.39

Paperback. Frederick Barthelme's most powerful novel to date, Two Against One is the portrait of a marriage gone awry. On Edward's fortieth birthday, his estranged wife Elise appears unannounced at his door, triggering a series of events that will involve the couple in a bizarre triangle. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 139 x 20. Weight in Grams: 308. 264pp. usual library markings
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press New York
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
SKU
KLN0008378
ISBN
9780802134608
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

hardcover. Illustrator(s): Fischl, Eric. Num Pages: 163 pages, 15ill. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 136 x 16. Weight in Grams: 236.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
British Lib United Kingdom
Number of pages
163
Condition
New
SKU
V9780714530307
ISBN
9780714530307
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.53

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780714530215
ISBN
9780714530215
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.35

paperback. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 181.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
Subsequent
Number of pages
152
Condition
New
SKU
V9780714529905
ISBN
9780714529905
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.39

paperback. No one knew how the blue-eyed, blond-haired white baby came to be abandoned, but the Crow tribe that found him raised him as one of its own. As he grew into adolescence, White Weasel was taken to Crooked-Bear, a white man who had long ago abandoned society for a solitary mountain existence and who acted as counsellor to the Crow elders. Num Pages: 304 pages, 7 halftones; 24 line drawings. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5004 x 3404 x 17. Weight in Grams: 309.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780803218789
ISBN
9780803218789
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.29

Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FFC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. Weight in Grams: 367.
Publisher
Pushkin Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782271970
ISBN
9781782271970
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.23

Paperback. A heartwarming Lakeland saga in the bestselling tradition of Audrey Howard Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 111 x 27. Weight in Grams: 229. Clean copy with some shelf wear, minor nicks and bumps on cover but otherwise clean
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Hodder Paperbacks
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KSS0003559
ISBN
9780340674369
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. 1905. Rosie Belsfield feels as if her life has ended when she is rejected from Ellis Island and put on the next boat back to England, leaving her family behind. But fate gives her a second chance when she befriends Lady Rosalind. Having boarded the ship with one identity, fate decrees that Rosie leave it with another .. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 117 x 26. Weight in Grams: 220.
Publisher
Allison & Busby
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780749013431
ISBN
9780749013431
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 4.42

Paperback. On a grey afternoon in 1932, a Stuttgart classroom is stirred by the arrival of a newcomer. Middle-class Hans is intrigued by the aristocratic new boy, Konradin, and before long they become best friends. It's a friendship of the greatest kind, of shared interests and long conversations, of hikes in the German hills and growing up together. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 138 x 8. Weight in Grams: 88.
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781860463655
ISBN
9781860463655
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.26

Paperback. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 69. Weight in Grams: 254.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Brindle and Glass Publishing, Ltd Canada
Number of pages
180
Condition
New
SKU
V9781897142035
ISBN
9781897142035
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 19.72

Hardcover. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 175 x 23. Weight in Grams: 580.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Gefen Publishing House
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9789652293633
ISBN
9789652293633
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 21.31

Paperback. A select group of scientists and astronomers - including the dignified Astronomer Royal, the pipe smoking Dr Marlowe and the maverick, eccentric Professor Kingsly - engage in a mad race to understand and communicate with the cloud, battling against trigger happy politicians. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 172.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141196404
ISBN
9780141196404
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. The tragic story of a rebellious, fiercely intelligent young slave who breaks all the rules: in learning to read and write; in falling in love with a white girl, the daughter of his owner, and finally in trying to escape and joining her in the free North. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 112.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
9780099462217
ISBN
9780099462217
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.70

Paperback. A gloriously rich and blackly funny French bestseller about Rose, a 105-year-old chef who has experienced life at its fullest.. and at its most deadly. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 257 x 23. Weight in Grams: 238.
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782394143
ISBN
9781782394143
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.01

Paperback. This new edition of Kafka's famous story contains a critical introduction and notes which help to explain how the author achieves his particular effects. Editor(s): Hutchinson, Peter; Minden, Michael. Num Pages: 126 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 9. Weight in Grams: 158.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1 New
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9780415098779
ISBN
9780415098779
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.40

Paperback. First published in 1930 under the title Fever Pitch, The Lizard Woman is Frank Waters' first novel. It foreshadows a theme central to Waters' later work: that we must attune our spirits to the land to fully understand our places in the natural order. Num Pages: 146 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 143 x 280. Weight in Grams: 168.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Ohio University Press Ohio
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
146
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804009874
ISBN
9780804009874
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.54

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