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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. The drunk man lies on a moonlit hillside looking at a thistle, jaggy and beautiful, which epitomises Scotland's divided self. The man reflects on the fate of the nation, the human condition in general and his own personal fears. This book contains commentary and notes, and takes the reader through the author's complex and opaque use of language. Editor(s): Buthlay, Kenneth. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 21. Weight in Grams: 330.
Publisher
Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846970269
ISBN
9781846970269
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.46

Paperback. When Thomas Lang, a hired gun with a soft heart, is contracted to assassinate an American industrialist, he opts instead to warn the intended victim - a good deed that doesn't go unpunished. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 254.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Cornerstone
Condition
New
Edition
01st Edition
SKU
9780099469391
ISBN
9780099469391
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. Palmer has never been the same since his father walked out twelve years ago. His elder sister, Vic, is trying to run away from the past; his younger brothers, Connor and Rob, are risking their lives to embrace it. His mother, left with nothing but anger, is just trying to forget. Num Pages: 384 pages, map (black and white). BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 142 x 26. Weight in Grams: 280.
Publisher
Arrow
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099595151
ISBN
9780099595151
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. Hugh Graham captures the passage of years, the progression of accumulation and recurrence, the present as dammed up history. Without warning, a world on the road to epiphany. And that world, threatened with disaster. Figures emerge, often from twilight. Here are eleven stories of clarity and dark empathy. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 249.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Exile Editions Canada
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
SKU
V9781550964868
ISBN
9781550964868
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.33

Paperback. Hugh Garner's Governor General Award-winning Best Stories depicts working-class life in North America and Europe between the Great Depression and the Quiet Revolution, emphasizing the Spanish Civil War's integral role in Canadian and transnational identity formation. Editor(s): Robins Sharpe, Emily. Series: Canadian Literature Collection. Num Pages: 318 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 203 x 21. Weight in Grams: 378.
Publisher
University of Ottawa Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780776622613
ISBN
9780776622613
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 30.23

Paperback. A novel that tells the stories of New Yorkers who at every turn confront the worst excesses in human nature. It includes such creations as: Georgette, the transvestite who falls in love with a callous hoodlum; and Tralala, the conniving prostitute who plumbs the depths of sexual degradation. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 127 x 16. Weight in Grams: 202.
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141195650
ISBN
9780141195650
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Paperback. Harry White is the man other men want to be: admired by his peers, talented, rich, and desired by countless women. His steady rise to a position of unprecedented influence in a New York investment firm seems inevitable to those who know him, and on the way he acquires a beautiful wife and children. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 220.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141195643
ISBN
9780141195643
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. Bobby - young, black and happily in love with Hispanic girlfriend Maria - lives in a cramped Bronx apartment with his mother, his younger siblings and walls full of rats. But when Bobby and Maria are brutally attacked by a Hispanic gang, leaving the couple severely injured, everything changes. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 126 x 10. Weight in Grams: 202.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141195698
ISBN
9780141195698
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.50

Paperback. The prisoner's remand cell becomes the scene of a surreal mental torture. This is an examination of the suffering humans can inflict on each other. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 178.
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141195674
ISBN
9780141195674
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.00

Paperback. Fat Phil can't lose at dice, even when his friends turn nasty and he's trying his hardest; a salesman finds success comes from fortune cookie mottoes, but panics when these mottoes turn against him; and, a commuter finds himself obsessed with a plain young woman on his train, at the expense of his marriage. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 170.
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241951248
ISBN
9780241951248
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.23

Paperback. Driven to desperation by the hand the world has dealt him, a man attempts to buy a gun to end his life. But a computer malfunction causes a delay with the gun license: a life-saving event that sees the man questioning why he should die when there are so many others he believes should go before him. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 126 x 6. Weight in Grams: 120.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141195681
ISBN
9780141195681
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.66

Paperback. Harry Goldfarb, heroin addict and son of lonely widow Sara, cares only about enjoying the good life with girlfriend Marion and best friend Tyrone C Love, and making the most of all the hash, poppers and dope they can get. Sara Goldfarb sits at home with the TV, dreaming of the life she could have and struggling with her own addictions. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 126 x 9. Weight in Grams: 182.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141195667
ISBN
9780141195667
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Hardback. At once a bittersweet romance and a vividly detailed portrait of life in a southern Taiwanese coastal town in the 1970s, this prize-winning Taiwanese bestseller about love, betrayal, family life, and the power of tradition captures the intimacy of agricultural life in the midst of an increasingly industrialized society. Translator(s): Wu, Michelle. Series: Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 160 x 29. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231117920
ISBN
9780231117920
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 99.22
€ 75.66

Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 286. 256 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 203 x 137 x 17. Weight: 286.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Welcome Rain Publishers
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781566492546
ISBN
9781566492546
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.51

Paperback. A happiness drug is found to be intolerable to society. This book describes the process by which its disseminators are hounded to death. Series: Library of Wales. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 280.
Publisher
Parthian Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
264
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905762798
ISBN
9781905762798
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.34

Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 374.
Publisher
The New York Review of Books, Inc United States
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781590172667
ISBN
9781590172667
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.94

Paperback. A novel, that recounts the rollicking tale of a young deaf boy and how he learned to survive and thrive at the turn of the twentieth century. Series: Gallaudet Classics in Deaf Studies. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Gallaudet University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9781563686368
ISBN
9781563686368
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 24.42

Paperback. WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 145 x 26. Weight in Grams: 266. Some minor shelf wear but overall in a very good condition
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSC0002366
ISBN
9781408809938
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. From the beginning, Oliver Walzel is a natural - at ping-pong; he can chop, flick and half-volley like a champion. At sex he is not a natural, but with tuition his game improves. This is the story of coming-of-age in 1950s Manchester. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 132 x 26. Weight in Grams: 278.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Vintage
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099274728
ISBN
9780099274728
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.88

Paperback. Barney Fugleman has two major preoccupations in life: sex and literature. He is obsessed by the life and work of a man hailed by many as a genius of the nineteenth century. This curious propulsion drives him out of Finchley, and out of the life he shares with Sharon and her 'rampant marvellings', to Cornwall. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 186.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099288282
ISBN
9780099288282
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.88

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