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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. Harry Ricks is a man who has lost everything. A romantic mistake at the small American college where he used to teach has cost him his job, his marriage and his relationship with his only child. And when the ensuing scandal threatens to completely destroy him, he votes with his feet and flees - to Paris. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 306. Good, clean copy. Showing minor shelfwear to covers and page edges
- Edition
- 1st Arrow Book Edition
- Publisher
- Cornerstone
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0007570
- ISBN
- 9780099469254
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Hannah Buchan thinks herself ordinary. She is not the revolutionary child that her painter mother and famous radical father had hoped for. Raised in the creative chaos of 1960s America, Hannah vows to reject her parents' liberal lifestyle, and settles instead for typical family life in a nondescript corner of Maine. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 39. Weight in Grams: 422. Clean copy in good condition
- Edition
- 1st Arrow Book Edition
- Publisher
- Cornerstone
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KIN0005336
- ISBN
- 9780099468295
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Neutral America is debating the proper response to the war in Europe. Increasingly involved in this debate is Henry Ford: inventor, industrialist, billionaire. He is against war - it is bad for business. Into his orbit comes Rosika Schwimmer, who persuades him that a Peace Ship filled with the great and the good should sail to Europe. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 154 x 28. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099465966
- ISBN
- 9780099465966
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.50
€ 10.99
€ 9.50
Paperback. On the eve of the next Space Shuttle mission, a divided family comes together..Warm, witty and wise, 'All Families Are Psychotic' is Coupland at the very top of his form. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 214.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007117536
- ISBN
- 9780007117536
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 12.58
€ 13.00
€ 12.58
paperback. Girls, memory, parenting, millennial fear - all served Coupland-style. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 223 x 21. Weight in Grams: 234.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- HarperPerennial
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780006551270
- ISBN
- 9780006551270
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 12.58
€ 13.00
€ 12.58
Paperback. Andy, Dag and Claire represent the new generation - Generation X. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 15. Weight in Grams: 184.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349108391
- ISBN
- 9780349108391
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.85
€ 13.00
€ 11.85
Paperback. The twenty-fifth anniversary edition of Douglas Coupland's classic. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
- Publisher
- Abacus
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1964
- Edition
- 1964 no other dates
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349142593
- ISBN
- 9780349142593
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
€ 13.99
€ 11.09
Paperback. Features Raymond Gunt, a decent chap who tries to do the right thing. Or, to put it another way, the worst person ever: a foul-mouthed, misanthropic cameraman, trailing creditors, ex-wives and unhappy homeless people in his wake. Men dislike him, women flee from him. This book is about a human being with absolutely no redeeming social value. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 138 x 22. Weight in Grams: 242.
- Publisher
- Cornerstone
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099537397
- ISBN
- 9780099537397
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. Explores the modern crises of time, human identity, society, religion and the afterlife. This title asks as many questions as it answers and readers will leave the story with no doubt that we are in a new phase of existence as a species - and that there is no turning back. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 17. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Publisher
- Cornerstone
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099538189
- ISBN
- 9780099538189
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Paperback. The story of one family piecing itself back together after a tragic highschool shooting, Hey Nostradamus! is Douglas Coupland's most soulful, piercing and searching novel yet. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 196. Used paperback in very good condition.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- 1st Harper Perennial Edition
- SKU
- KRF0036028
- ISBN
- 9780007162512
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Following the hugely acclaimed bestseller Hey Nostradamus! comes a major new novel from Douglas Coupland: the wonderfully warm, funny, life-affirming story of Liz Dunn, a woman who has spent her whole life alone and lonely - until now.. This is a brilliant work of commercial literary fiction from an author who just gets better and better. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 132 x 17. Weight in Grams: 206. Previously read copy. Some shelfwear and/or soiling. Good overall
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- (Reissue)
- SKU
- KST0029683
- ISBN
- 9780007162529
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 94 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 195 x 8. Weight in Grams: 114.
- Publisher
- Sternberg Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783943365863
- ISBN
- 9783943365863
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.81
€ 13.81
Paperback. In the near future bees are extinct - until five unconnected individuals, in different parts of the world, are stung. Immediately snatched up by ominous figures in hazmat suits, interrogated searately in neutral Ikea-like chambers, and then released as 15-minute-celebrities into a world. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Publisher
- Cornerstone
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099537380
- ISBN
- 9780099537380
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
Paperback. Takes you on a journey across the world in search of exotic, endangered creatures - animals that they may never get another chance to see. This book describes the giant Komodo dragon of Indonesia, the helpless but lovable Kakapo of New Zealand, the blind river dolphins of China, and the rare birds of Mauritius island in the Indian Ocean. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 212.
- Publisher
- Cornerstone United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099536796
- ISBN
- 9780099536796
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.47
€ 17.99
€ 13.47
Hardcover. What do a dead cat, a computer whizz-kid, an electric monk, quantum mechanics, a chronologit over 200 years old, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and pizza have in common? Apparently not much, until Dirk Gently begins his investigation. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FL; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 146 x 41. Weight in Grams: 650.
- Publisher
- William Heinemann
- Number of pages
- 512
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- First Edition, First Impression
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780434009190
- ISBN
- 9780434009190
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 18.94
€ 26.99
€ 18.94
Paperback. Dougal Haston's Calculated Risk is a fictional portrayal of the world of mountaineering in its 1970s mountaineering heyday: a tale of love, major ascents and tragedy. The realities and tensions of big-time climbing, firmly focussed on the Alps and the Himalaya, are revealed with greater clarity through the medium of fiction. Num Pages: 192 pages, one large topographical map. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 1DFHA; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 364. Adventure and Romance in Scotland and the Alps. 192 pages, one large topographical map. Presents a fictional portrayal of the world of mountaineers doing the demanding routes at a time when climbing was still emerging from its primitive inter-war and post war austerities, and climbs were still a stark struggle with the elements. This work reveals the realities and tensions of big-time climbing, focusing on the Alps and the Himalaya. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 1DFHA; FA. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight: 364.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Cordee
- Edition
- 2nd Revised edition
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781898573661
- ISBN
- 9781898573661
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.38
€ 11.38
Hardback. A young woman picks up a book left behind by a stranger. Inside it are his margin notes, which reveal a reader entranced by the story and by its mysterious author. She responds with notes of her own, leaving the book for the stranger, and so begins an unlikely conversation that plunges them both into the unknown. Num Pages: 472 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 185 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1070.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 472
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857864772
- ISBN
- 9780857864772
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 33.53
€ 52.99
€ 33.53
paperback. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 145 x 36. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Persephone Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781903155462
- ISBN
- 9781903155462
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.09
€ 21.09
Paperback. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 141 x 35. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Persephone Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- New ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780953478026
- ISBN
- 9780953478026
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 19.30
€ 23.99
€ 19.30
Paperback. Num Pages: 536 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 141 x 42. Weight in Grams: 674.
- Publisher
- Persephone Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 536
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- reprinted 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781903155301
- ISBN
- 9781903155301
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 19.28
€ 23.99
€ 19.28
Paperback. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 137 x 41. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Publisher
- Persephone Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 496
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- New ed of 1934 ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781903155080
- ISBN
- 9781903155080
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 19.29
€ 23.99
€ 19.29
Paperback. Series: Persephone Classics. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 139 x 33. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Publisher
- Persephone Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Revised edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906462000
- ISBN
- 9781906462000
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 16.45
€ 18.99
€ 16.45
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 141 x 20. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Publisher
- Persephone Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781903155646
- ISBN
- 9781903155646
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 19.29
€ 23.99
€ 19.29
Paperback. This account in first-person narrative and photographs of the one-day visit of Clyde Muncy to "the home place" at Lone Tree, Nebraska, has been called "as near to a new fiction form as you could get." Both prose and pictures are homely: worn linoleum, an old man's shoes, well-used kitchen utensils, and weathered siding. Num Pages: 178 pages, Illus. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 137 x 217 x 12. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1968
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Number of pages
- 178
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803282520
- ISBN
- 9780803282520
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 16.45
€ 16.99
€ 16.45