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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. A novel that features a mixed group of characters, each in his or her own way seeking some sort of salvation or redemption. It talks about the plot: how the US government and some of its quasi-autonomous agencies (CIA, FBI, DEA) all for their own reasons sponsored and financed the development of the drug cartels and their trade in Mexico. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 35. Weight in Grams: 394.
- Publisher
- Cornerstone
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099464983
- ISBN
- 9780099464983
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.08
€ 11.08
Paperback. Walter Withers had given the best years of his life to the CIA, setting honeytraps and reeling in the victims of his plots. But Withers has returned to his hometown for a safe life as a Private Investigator. Withers is assigned to bodyguard presidential hopeful Senator Joe Keneally's girlfriend at a society gathering. But next morning, she's dead. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FHD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099706410
- ISBN
- 9780099706410
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.01
€ 13.99
€ 11.01
Paperback. Num Pages: 188 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 278.
- Publisher
- NeWest Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 188
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781897126417
- ISBN
- 9781897126417
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 15.86
€ 20.99
€ 15.86
Paperback. A mesmeric tour de force of character rendered with DeLillo's typical stylistic brilliance, intelligence and wit becomes a warning for the global future. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Publisher
- Picador
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Reprints
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781447206583
- ISBN
- 9780330524933
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 5.70
€ 10.99
€ 5.70
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 206.
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Main Market Ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781509822843
- ISBN
- 9781509822843
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.00
€ 13.99
€ 11.00
Paperback. A sad, beautiful novel, The Body Artist is an elliptical meditiation on the mysteries of love, life and time. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 132 x 11. Weight in Grams: 128.
- Publisher
- Picador
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Reprints
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780330524957
- ISBN
- 9780330524957
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.19
€ 11.99
€ 10.19
paperback. A magnificent, essential work of fiction about the event which has come to define America at the turn of the twenty-first century. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 133 x 19. Weight in Grams: 188.
- Publisher
- Picador
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Reprints
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781447224372
- ISBN
- 9780330524919
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 10.27
€ 12.99
€ 10.27
paperback. A thriller, a mystery, and still a moving examination of family, loss and the amorphous and magical potential of language itself. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 28. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Edition
- Main Market
- Publisher
- Picador
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780330524865
- ISBN
- 9780330524865
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.74
€ 13.00
€ 11.74
Paperback. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 31. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Main Market Ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781509837861
- ISBN
- 9781509837861
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.97
€ 13.99
€ 10.97
Paperback. An excoriating portrayal of loss and an unnerving post-Iraq discourse mark this brilliant novel of modern America. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 11. Weight in Grams: 138.
- Publisher
- Picador
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Reprints
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780330512398
- ISBN
- 9780330512398
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.00
€ 13.99
€ 11.00
Paperback. Prosperous, good-looking and empty inside, 28-year-old advertising executive David Bell appears on the surface to have everything. But he is a man on the brink of losing his sanity. Trapped in a Manhattan office with soulless sycophants as his only company, he makes an abrupt decision to leave New York for America's mid-west. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 24. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- Trade Paperback Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141188232
- ISBN
- 9780141188232
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. When "history" presents itself in the form of two disgruntled CIA operatives who decide that an unsuccessful attempt on the life of JFK will galvanize the nation against Communism, the scales are irrevocably tipped. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 27. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141188225
- ISBN
- 9780141188225
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.06
€ 13.99
€ 11.06
Paperback. David Bell embodies the American dream. He's twenty-eight, has survived office coups, scandals, and beaten lesser rivals, to become an extremely successful TV exec. The images that flicker across America's screens, the fantasies that enthrall viewers, they are of his making. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 197 x 25. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Re-issue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241953389
- ISBN
- 9780241953389
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.88
€ 13.00
€ 11.88
Paperback. A troubling satire of the romantic myth of stardom and the empty heart of rock and roll, more relevant than ever in our celebrity-obsessed times. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 212.
- Publisher
- Picador
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Reprints
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780330524896
- ISBN
- 9780330524896
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 4.99
€ 9.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. It is 1977 and seventeen-year-old Mona Manoliu has fallen in love with Mihai, a mysterious boy who lives in the romantic mountain city where she spends her summers. One day Mona sees Mihai wearing the black leather jacket favoured by the secret police. Is it possible he is one of them? Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 24. Weight in Grams: 280. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- SKU
- KOC0017136
- ISBN
- 9780552774741
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. It is 1977 and seventeen-year-old Mona Manoliu has fallen in love with Mihai, a mysterious boy who lives in the romantic mountain city where she spends her summers. One day Mona sees Mihai wearing the black leather jacket favoured by the secret police. Is it possible he is one of them? Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 24. Weight in Grams: 280. Well-read paperback in good condition. Some shelf wear.
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- SKU
- KRF0022060
- ISBN
- 9780552774741
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Don't get mad, get even. The funny, heartfelt and engrossing story of one man's attempt to take a stand on behalf of all commuters. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 137 x 26. Weight in Grams: 334. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Oneworld Publications
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- SKU
- KTG0007379
- ISBN
- 9781780743721
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. In the 1600s Sara de Vos, a mother and painter, loses her young daughter suddenly to illness. In her grief, she secretly begins paintingh a dark landscape of a girl watching a group of ice skaters from the edge of a wood In 1950s New York, Martijn de Groot has At the Edge of a Wood hanging above his bed. Though it is a dark, peculiar painting, by a scarcely known female painter of the Golden Age, he holds the painting dear and when it is stolen, he is beeft. In Brooklyn, struggling art student Ellie Shipley accepts a commission to paint an intricate forgery of de Vos' sole surviving work, not realising that her decision will come to haunt her. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. .
- Publisher
- Allen & Unwin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781925266801
- ISBN
- 9781925266801
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.74
€ 13.99
€ 10.74
Paperback. With the Vatican closing in on the sacred knowledge can Stella and Jennings stop them before their influence enslaves mankind? Num Pages: 439 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Publisher
- John Hunt Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 439
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780991351
- ISBN
- 9781780991351
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.54
€ 18.99
€ 17.54
Paperback. Cassandra Mortmain lives with her impoverished family in a crumbling castle. Her journal records her life with her bored sister Rose, her stepmother Topaz, her little brother Thomas and her novelist father who suffers from a financially crippling writer's block. However, all their lives are turned upside down when American heirs to castle arrive. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 27. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- New Edition
- SKU
- 9780099460879
- ISBN
- 9780099460879
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.75
€ 11.99
€ 9.75
Paperback. During a summer festival in an English spa town Miles Quentin, a distinguished actor, and his devoted wife become friendly with the local MP Geoffrey Thornton, and his young daughters Robin and Kit. All of these people seem untroubled at first. But the surface of their lives conceals problems which start to come to light. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 181 x 127 x 19. Weight in Grams: 166.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780333021
- ISBN
- 9781780333021
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Paperback. When Jane Minton arrives at Dome House as a secretary-housekeeper, she finds herself sharing the comfortable country home of four attractive young people. Their charming widower father, Rupert Carrington is too occupied with his London business to see very much of them. Jane is warmly welcomed into this happy household. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 177 x 25. Weight in Grams: 220. 384 pages. When Jane Minton arrives at Dome House as a secretary-housekeeper, she finds herself sharing the comfortable country home of four attractive young people. Their charming widower father, Rupert Carrington is too occupied with his London business to see very much of them. Jane is warmly welcomed into this happy household. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 140 x 177 x 25. Weight: 220.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780333007
- ISBN
- 9781780333007
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Paperback. A delightful re-issue from the author of I Capture the Castle. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 300 x 140 x 29. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472151179
- ISBN
- 9781472151179
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.97
€ 13.99
€ 10.97
Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 132 x 15. Weight in Grams: 210.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780811216715
- ISBN
- 9780811216715
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.16
€ 16.99
€ 15.16