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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Comprise fifty-two chapters that provide insights into the existence of this nebulous man named Crab, his absence from the pages of history, his birth in prison, and his never having been born at all. This book parodies literary conventions, deconstructs narrative and meaning, and combines absurdity and hopelessness with irony and humor. Translator(s): Stump, Jordan; Hardin, Eleanor. Num Pages: 128 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3226 x 7. Weight in Grams: 171.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803263703
ISBN
9780803263703
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 16.49

Num Pages: 361 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 134 x 34. Weight in Grams: 512.
Publication date
2012
Publisher
M P Publishing Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
361
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849822213
ISBN
9781849822213
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

Paperback. THE SNOW CHILD was an international bestseller in hardback and paperback (over 350,000 copies sold in the UK alone), and went on to win Eowyn Ivey the International Author of the Year award at the 2012 National Book Awards Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 30. Weight in Grams: 304.
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780755380534
ISBN
9780755380534
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.80

Paperback. From the internationally bestselling author of THE SNOW CHILD comes an extraordinary story of discovery, adventure, and a husband and wife tested by the different paths their society expects them to tread. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472208620
ISBN
9781472208620
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. Diana Spencer and her lover are visiting Paris. An international fixer puts a team in place to watch the Princess. Former Special Branch man John Harper is recruited as part of the team. Ritz Hotel Deputy Director of Security Henri Paul and paparazzo supreme James Andanson are their targets. But they are not the only ones watching Spencer. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 159 x 23. Weight in Grams: 334. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
Main
SKU
KKD0005078
ISBN
9780571223411
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Diana Spencer and her lover are visiting Paris. An international fixer puts a team in place to watch the Princess. Former Special Branch man John Harper is recruited as part of the team. Ritz Hotel Deputy Director of Security Henri Paul and paparazzo supreme James Andanson are their targets. But they are not the only ones watching Spencer. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 159 x 23. Weight in Grams: 334. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
Main
SKU
KKD0005074
ISBN
9780571223411
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. January 1961, and the beaten, stabbed and strangled body of a nineteen year old Pearl Gambol is discovered, after a dance the previous night at the Newry Orange Hall. Returning from London to investigate the case, Detective Eddie McCrink soon suspects that their may be people wielding influence over affairs. Series: The Blue Trilogy. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 244. 298pp
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
9780571237562
ISBN
9780571237562
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 6.75

Paperback. Diana Spencer and her Egyptian lover are visiting Paris. An international fixer puts a team in place to watch the princess. Former Special Branch man John Harper is recruited as part of the team. Ritz hotel Deputy Director of Security Henri Paul and paparazzo supreme James Andanson are their surveillance targets. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 245 x 18. Weight in Grams: 204.
Edition
Main
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
9780571223428
ISBN
9780571223428
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 4.18

Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 197 x 20. Weight in Grams: 180. Clean copy in very good condition. Signed by author.
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Ten Publishing Ltd Nottingham
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
SKU
KNH0012153
ISBN
9780956827708
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Arthur Dent's accidental association with that wholly remarkable book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy has not been entirely without incident. Arthur has, though, finally made it home to Earth. But that does not mean he has escaped his fate. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 25. Weight in Grams: 266.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141042138
ISBN
9780141042138
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.88

Paperback. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 198 x 26. Weight in Grams: 250.
Publisher
Poolbeg Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781999462
ISBN
9781781999462
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.42

paperback. Marcelo, a humble clerk in a Barcelona office who might have come from a novel by Kafka, inhibits a world peopled by characters in literature. He once wrote a novel about the impossibility of love, but since then he has written nothing and a mental trauma has meant that he has been unable to put pen to paper; he has become a 'Bartleby'. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 142.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099453727
ISBN
9780099453727
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.23

Hardcover. .
Publisher
And Other Stories
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908276865
ISBN
9781908276865
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.67

Paperback. Series: Library of Wales. Num Pages: 410 pages, geneal. table. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 215 x 24. Weight in Grams: 404.
Publisher
Parthian Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
410
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9781902638867
ISBN
9781902638867
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.38

Paperback. The perfect summer read from a glorious new voice in commercial literary fiction Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 23. Weight in Grams: 240.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Headline Review
Condition
New
SKU
9780755390854
ISBN
9780755390854
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 10.25

Paperback. The new novel from Emylia Hall, author of The Book of Summers, voted the best Richard & Judy Book Club pick of summer 2012, and A Heart Bent Out of Shape, winner of the Novelicious Book of the Year Award 2013. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472212023
ISBN
9781472212023
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. The new novel from Emylia Hall, author of A Heart Bent Out of Shape, winner of the Novelicious Book of the Year Award 2013, and The Book of Summers, voted the best Richard & Judy Book Club pick of summer 2012. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 33. Weight in Grams: 300.
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472211972
ISBN
9781472211972
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. Num Pages: 229 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 202 x 15. Weight in Grams: 190.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
229
Condition
New
SKU
V9780062503350
ISBN
9780062503350
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.79

Paperback. Grains of sand, bridges, shampoo, a bike, board games, yoga, sellotape, birds, balloons, tattoos, wandering hands, tweezers, maths, fish, letterboxes, puppets, a vacuum cleaner, a ball of string - and love. In this novel of yous and mes, of hims and hers, Pagano choreographs the objects, gestures, places and persons through which love is made real. Translator(s): Higgins, Jennifer; Lewis, Sophie. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 15. Weight in Grams: 176.
Publisher
And Other Stories
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908276766
ISBN
9781908276766
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.73

Paperback. "Emma Straub's The Vacationers leaves you smiling for days" Maria Semple, author of Orange prize-shortlisted Where'd You Go, Bernadette? Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 134 x 19. Weight in Grams: 222.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
KKD0006767
ISBN
9781447262855
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.95

Paperback. "Emma Straub's The Vacationers leaves you smiling for days" Maria Semple, author of Orange prize-shortlisted Where'd You Go, Bernadette? Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 134 x 19. Weight in Grams: 222. Fine copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KKD0006752
ISBN
9781447262855
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 17.95

Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FRD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405921565
ISBN
9781405921565
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 139 x 29. Weight in Grams: 444.
Publisher
Persephone Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
344
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9781903155233
ISBN
9781903155233
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 19.34

Paperback. SOMETIMES FRIENDSHIP IS THE ONLY TRUE LOVE STORY Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 17. Weight in Grams: 178.
Publisher
canongate uk
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782112136
ISBN
9781782112136
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.78

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