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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. The first collection of short stories published by Peter Carey, whose other books include "Bliss", "Illywhacker" and "Oscar and Lucinda", which was awarded the 1988 Booker Prize. The stories, set in an ominous near-future that has a feel of contemporary life, are by turn bizarre and funny. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 127 x 15. Weight in Grams: 140.
Publisher
Faber and Faber
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571144389
ISBN
9780571144389
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.75

Paperback. Seven-year-old Che was abandoned by his radical Harvard-student parents during the upheaval of the 1960s, and since then has been raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother. He yearns to see or hear news of his famous outlaw parents, but his grandmother refuses to tell him anything. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 19. Weight in Grams: 236. Good clean copy. Showing light shelf and reading wear, remains a nice copy
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
Main - Re-issue
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
SKU
KSG0010419
ISBN
9780571231546
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.82

Paperback. Seven-year-old Che was abandoned by his radical Harvard-student parents during the upheaval of the 1960s, and since then has been raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother. He yearns to see or hear news of his famous outlaw parents, but his grandmother refuses to tell him anything. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 19. Weight in Grams: 236. T
Edition
Main - Re-issue
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
KTJ0004092
ISBN
9780571231546
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.82

Hardback. Seven-year-old Che was abandoned by his radical Havard-student parents during the upheaval of the 1960s, and since then has been raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother. He yearns to see or hear news of his famous outlaw parents, but his grandmother refuses to tell him anything. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 236 x 28. Weight in Grams: 566. Fine in fine dust wrapper
Condition
Used, Like New
Edition
1st
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
SKU
KSG0015513
ISBN
9780571231515
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Olivier is an aristocrat, the traumatized child of survivors of the French Revolution. Parrot the son of an itinerant printer who always wanted to be an artist but has ended up a servant. Born on different sides of history, their lives will be brought together by their travels in America. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 464.
Edition
Main - Re-issue
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
9780571253326
ISBN
9780571253326
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 6.00

Paperback. The day Benny Catchprice was fired from the spare-parts department of Catchprice Motors by his aunt Cathy, was also the day that tax inspector Maria Takis arrived to begin her overdue audit of the family business. From the author of "Oscar and Lucinda" which won the 1988 Booker Prize. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 19. Weight in Grams: 261. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0000182
ISBN
9780571166329
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 10.99
€ 9.70

Paperback. Peter Carey is justly renowned for his novels, which have included the Booker Prize-winning titles Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang. He is also a dazzling writer of short stories. This volume collects together all the stories from The Fat Man in History and War Crimes as well as three other stories. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 126 x 26. Weight in Grams: 258. ******THIS IS A PREORDER TO BE DELIVERED ON OR AROUND THE PUBLICATION DAY IN FEBRUARY 2022****
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
SKU
9780571175864
ISBN
9780571175864
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.98

Paperback. A novel, about a man who, recovering from death, is convinced that he is in hell. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 124 x 22. Weight in Grams: 260. ******THIS IS A PREORDER TO BE DELIVERED ON OR AROUND THE PUBLICATION DAY IN FEBRUARY 2022****
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
SKU
9780571225910
ISBN
9780571225910
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.11

Hardback.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
9780571253296
ISBN
9780571253296
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 4.99

Paperback. Ranging from the rural wilds of Australia to Manhattan via Tokyo, this is a moving exploration of art, fraud, friendship and redemption. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 20. Weight in Grams: 252. ***THIS IS A PREORDER TO BE DELIVERED ON OR AROUND THE PUBLICATION DATE IN JUNE 2022***
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
SKU
9780571231508
ISBN
9780571231508
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. The day Benny Catchprice was fired from the spare-parts department of Catchprice Motors by his aunt Cathy, was also the day that tax inspector Maria Takis arrived to begin her overdue audit of the family business. From the author of "Oscar and Lucinda" which won the 1988 Booker Prize. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 19. Weight in Grams: 261.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
SKU
9780571166329
ISBN
9780571166329
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.70

Paperback. If you are not a citizen of Voorstand, you may not be familiar with the strange case of Tristan Smith and his illegal appropriation of Bruder Mouse. Even if you are a citizen of Efica, you will only have heard rumours about the juggling, the Burro Plasse tunnel, and the border motel. Num Pages: 432 pages, map. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
SKU
9780571174935
ISBN
9780571174935
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.70

Paperback. London 2011. Catherine Gehrig, conservator at the Swinburne museum, learns of the unexpected death of her lover of thirteen years. Her employer at the museum, gives her a special project - to piece together the mechanics and the story of an extraordinary automaton, commissioned in the nineteenth century by Henry Brandling to amuse his dying son. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 128 x 19. Weight in Grams: 224. ****THIS IS A PREORDER TO BE SHIPPED ON OR AROUND THE PUBLICATION DATE IN AUGUST 2022****
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
SKU
9780571280018
ISBN
9780571280018
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.58

Paperback. Olivier is an aristocrat, the traumatized child of survivors of the French Revolution. Parrot the son of an itinerant printer who always wanted to be an artist but has ended up a servant. Born on different sides of history, their lives will be brought together by their travels in America. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 156 x 28. Weight in Grams: 464. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0001170
ISBN
9780571253326
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 13.99
€ 10.59

Paperback. Num Pages: 182 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 139 x 11. Weight in Grams: 140.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
182
Condition
New
SKU
V9780062513090
ISBN
9780062513090
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.60

Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 18. Weight in Grams: 202.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Burnet Media South Africa
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9781928230243
ISBN
9781928230243
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.43

Paperback. When factory worker Pinquean Smallcreep, who has slotted a certain type of slot into a certain type of pulley for many years, packs his sandwiches and sets out on a journey to investigate what it is he is producing, his discoveries become increasingly more bizarre and disturbing. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 127 x 16. Weight in Grams: 206.
Publisher
Pinter & Martin Ltd.
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
3rd
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905177158
ISBN
9781905177158
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.73

Paperback. With a new Foreword by Jeffrey Frank The most poignant of all De Vries's novels, The Blood of the Lamb is also the most autobiographical. Num Pages: 248 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 135 x 14. Weight in Grams: 322.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226143880
ISBN
9780226143880
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 16.39

Paperback. With a new Foreword by Derek De Vries It is 1963 in an unnamed town in North Dakota, and Anthony Thrasher is languishing for a second year in eighth grade. Prematurely sophisticated, young Anthony spends too much time reading Joyce, Eliot, and Dylan Thomas but not enough time studying the War of 1812 or obtuse triangles. Num Pages: 246 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 202 x 134 x 14. Weight in Grams: 266.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
246
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226143897
ISBN
9780226143897
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 16.45

Paperback. Follows the interactions of a socially insecure, pun-loving family man, an officious lady caseworker from an adoption agency, and a chauvinist pig - all suburban neighbors who know far too much about one another's private lives in this goofy and gently hilarious tale of marital quibbles. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 203 x 18. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226171067
ISBN
9780226171067
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 20.25

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