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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. Fifteen-year old Anais Hendricks is smart, funny and fierce, but she is also a child who has been let down, or worse, by just about every adult she has ever met. Sitting in the back of a police car, she finds herself headed for the Panopticon, a home for chronic young offenders where the social workers are as suspicious as its residents. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 246.
- Publisher
- Cornerstone United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099558644
- ISBN
- 9780099558644
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Paperback. Set in a Scottish caravan park during a freak winter - it is snowing in Jerusalem, the Thames is overflowing, and an iceberg separated from the Fjords in Norway is expected to arrive off the coast of Scotland, this title tells the story of a small Scottish community living through what people have begun to think is the end of times. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 22. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Publisher
- Windmill Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099592181
- ISBN
- 9780099592181
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.29
€ 13.99
€ 10.29
Paperback. Iris Murdoch called Auto da Fe "one of the few great novels of the century." Peter Kien is a reclusive Sinologist living in Germany between the wars. Canetti creates the elements in Kien, and in his personal relationships, that will lead to his destruction." Translator(s): Wedgwood, C. V. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 137 x 34. Weight in Grams: 496.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 464
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843432586
- ISBN
- 9781843432586
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.34
€ 25.99
€ 19.34
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Spinifex Press Australia
- Number of pages
- 215
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781876756208
- ISBN
- 9781876756208
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.96
€ 19.99
€ 14.96
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Valley Spring Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780992639730
- ISBN
- 9780992639730
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.69
€ 13.99
€ 11.69
Paperback. Fifth in the Blackwood "Royal Marines" series, this title is set in fifties Malaya and Singapore, at the height of the new terrorist attempts to subvert the creation of the new federation. The Royal Marines, the Commandoes, were used in jungle operations at a time when it was said that the post-war promise of a stable Malaya was on a knife-edge. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 111 x 22. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- Format
- Paperback
- SKU
- V9780099436294
- ISBN
- 9780099436294
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.65
€ 23.99
€ 17.65
Paperback. HMS Temeraire: latest and most advanced of Britain's nuclear submarines. When Temraire's trials are cut short and she is ordered to the Far East to reinforce the fleet against a threat from Red China, her captain, David Jermain, knows that this is no routine exercise in flag-waving. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FJMS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 111 x 21. Weight in Grams: 174.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Cornerstone
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099591597
- ISBN
- 9780099591597
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Paperback. They are called The Glory Boys, by those who regard their exploits with envy or contempt. Bob Kearton is one of them. Already a veteran and survivor of the close action in the English Channel and North Sea, in January of 1943, he is ordered to the Mediterranean and beleagured Malta, a mere sixty miles from occupied Sicily. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 113 x 21. Weight in Grams: 176.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Number of pages
- 320
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099484271
- ISBN
- 9780099484271
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
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Paperback. David Armitage - husband, father and failure - has lived the life of an unsuccessful screenwriter for eleven years. When one of his scripts is bought for television, David's life is transformed, more dramatically than he could have ever imagined. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Cornerstone
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099469261
- ISBN
- 9780099469261
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.73
€ 13.99
€ 11.73
Paperback. Thomas Nesbitt is a divorced American writer living a very private life in Maine. Until, one wintry morning, his solitude is disrupted by the arrival of a package postmarked Berlin. But what is more unsettling is the name accompanying the return address on the package: Petra Dussmann. Num Pages: 656 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FH; FRD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 133 x 36. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099509745
- ISBN
- 9780099509745
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.81
€ 13.00
€ 11.81
Paperback. *A fiendishly clever, yet serious tale of middle-class frustration that will touch anyone who has ever wanted to escape their life. The Thriller goes into a new domain - The Real World. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 26. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Abacus
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349117386
- ISBN
- 9780349117386
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
€ 13.99
€ 11.09
Paperback. On the night of her thirteenth birthday, Jane Howard made a vow to her warring parents - she would never get married and she would never have children. But life, as Jane discovers, is a random business. Many years and many lives later, she is a professor in Boston, in love with an erratic man named Theo. And then she falls pregnant. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 38. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099509684
- ISBN
- 9780099509684
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 18.56
€ 24.99
€ 18.56
Paperback. Robin knew Paul wasn't perfect. But he said they were so lucky to have found each other, and she believed it was true. In the heady strangeness of Morocco, he is everything she wants him to be - passionate, talented, knowledgeable. She is convinced that it is here she will finally become pregnant. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 31. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Publisher
- Cornerstone
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099585183
- ISBN
- 9780099585183
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.70
€ 11.99
€ 9.70
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
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€ 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
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€ 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
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€ 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
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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
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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