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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. What happens when old spies come out to play one last game? In New York, a young Cuban called Tito is passing iPods to a mysterious old man. Such activities do not go unnoticed, however, in these early days of the War on Terror and across the city an ex-military man named Brown is tracking Tito's movements. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 139 x 25. Weight in Grams: 272.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Re-issue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241953549
ISBN
9780241953549
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.66

Paperback. Rydell is on his way back to near-future San Francisco. A stint as a security man in an all-night Los Angeles convenience store has convinced him his career is going nowhere, but his friend Laney, phoning from Tokyo, says there's more interesting work for him in Northern California. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 202.
Publisher
Penguin
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241953518
ISBN
9780241953518
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. After an attack of scruples, Colin Laney's skipped out on his former employer Slitscan - avoiding the rash of media lawyers sent his way - and taken a job for the outfit managing Japanese rock duo, Lo/Rez. Rez has announced he's going to marry an 'idoru' by the name of Rei Toi - she exists only in virtual reality. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 210.
Publisher
Penguin
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241953525
ISBN
9780241953525
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Paperback. "The best literary present .. has a delicate sweetness that shows through at just the right moments."-Ron Charles, Washington Post Book World Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 246.
Edition
Reprint
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Number of pages
282
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393342932
ISBN
9780393342932
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.86

Paperback. Clean copy in good condition.
Condition
Used, Acceptable
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1981
Edition
New Ed
SKU
KRF0000847
ISBN
9780571116461
Paperback
Condition: Used, Acceptable

€ 4.99

Paperback. Drowning in the freezing North Atlantic, Christopher Hadley Martin, temporary lieutenant, happens upon a grotesque rock, an island that appears only on weather charts. To drink there is a pool of rain water; to eat there are weeds and sea anemones. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 125 x 15. Weight in Grams: 186.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571298501
ISBN
9780571298501
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.97

Paperback. Sammy Mountjoy, artist, rises from poverty and an obscure birth to see his pictures hung in the Tate Gallery. Swept into World War Two, he is taken as a prisoner-of-war, threatened with torture, then locked in a cell of total darkness to wait. He emerges from his cell transfigured from his ordeal, and begins to realise what man can be. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 20. Weight in Grams: 236. Faber & Faber, 1959; 1st edn. unglazed paper dust cover, designed by Anthony Gross, has 3 small closed tears, else very fine; red cloth binding and contents in mint condition; The jacket blurb: With three novels all published since 1954— Lord of the Flies, The Inheritors, Pincher Martin—William Golding has already established for himself a place in English literature which seems likely to be permanent. His originality and inventiveness, his profound intelligence, his passionate concern with the human condition, are fused with purely literary gifts of the highest order—narrative power, the ability to convey with precision the feel and texture of both the interior and the exterior world, a prose style of which the distinction is unmistakable. Mr. Golding has placed his previous novels on a desert island inhabited only by air-wrecked schoolboys, in the prehistoric world of the Neanderthals, on an isolated crag in mid-Atlantic. There has been considerable speculation about where he would turn to next. Free Fall is set in England and in a prisoner^ of-war camp in Germany. The time is the present. Sammy Mountjoy, its narrator and central character, is a distinguished painter; and he is, too, a bastard born in a rural slum who was taken up by the vicar (by no means an ordinary vicar), became an art student and flirted with Communism in the thirties, fell in love with one girl and seduced her, fell in love with another and married her, and in a German P.O.W. camp experienced the blackness of the Pit. And somehow, somewhere, he had irrevocably lost his freedom—the power to choose and decide, the faculty of freewill 'that cannot be debated but only experienced, like a colour or the taste of potatoes'. How did he lose it? And why? In agonized speculation he traces back the threads that promise a way out of the labyrinth, but one after another they snap in his hands. But for the reader the broken threads are woven together into a pattern of one man's life. Free Fall, in its richness of characterization, its immediacy and impact, its reverberating overtones, is perhaps the most important and most moving novel that Mr. Golding has yet given us. 254pp; 7¾x5".
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Main
SKU
KEB0000766
ISBN
9780571298518
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 125.00

Paperback. Fame, success, fortune, a drink problem slipping over the edge into alcoholism, a dead marriage, the incurable itches of middle-aged lust. For Wilfred Barclay, novelist, the final unbearable irritation is Professor Rick L Tucker. Locked in a lethal relationship they stumble across Europe, shedding wives, self-respect and illusions. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 125 x 200 x 17. Weight in Grams: 216.
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571298488
ISBN
9780571298488
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.99

Paperback. Arieka is one of the last to prophesy at Delphi, in the shadowy years when the Romans were securing their grip on the tribes and cities of Greece. The plain, unloved daughter of a local grandee, she is rescued from the contempt and neglect of her family by her Delphic role. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 14. Weight in Grams: 180.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571298532
ISBN
9780571298532
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.71

Paperback. Christopher Martin, the sole survivor of a torpedoed destroyer, is stranded upon a rock in the middle of the Atlantic. Pitted against him are the sea, the sun, the night cold and the terror of his isolation. Through the long hours with only himself to talk to, Martin must try to assemble the truth of his fate, piece by terrible piece. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSK; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 230.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Main - Faber Modern Classics
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571322749
ISBN
9780571322749
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.73

paperback. Golding's best-known novel is the story of a group of boys who, after a plane crash, set up a fragile community on a previously uninhabited island. As memories of home recede and the blood from frenzied pig-hunts arouses them, the boys' childish fear turns into something deeper and more primitive. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 127 x 14. Weight in Grams: 188.
Edition
Main
Publisher
Faber & Faber London
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571191475
ISBN
9780571191475
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.78

Paperback. .
Publisher
Dedalus Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781903517987
ISBN
9781903517987
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.51

Paperback. Translator(s): Jones, W. Glyn. Num Pages: 505 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 38. Weight in Grams: 540.
Publisher
Dedalus Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
505
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781903517789
ISBN
9781903517789
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.51

Paperback. Cobb's The Fire Eaters"Cobb's short stories, printed in the New Yorker and other magazines, hinted at the power he displays in this beautifully controlled and convincing debut, winner of the 1992 Associated Writing Programs award for the novel."-Publisher's Weekly Series: Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 138 x 15. Weight in Grams: 264.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421411477
ISBN
9781421411477
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.63

Hardcover. A riotous story of revolution, romance and redemption from one of America's greatest living novelists. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 162 x 30. Weight in Grams: 580.
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
9780743295550
ISBN
9780743295550
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 6.07

Paperback. A riotous story of revolution, romance and redemption from one of America's greatest living novelists Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 290. Some light shelf wear, else as new
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
SKU
KRA0011045
ISBN
9781416526872
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback.
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849838467
ISBN
9781849838467
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.73

Paperback.
Edition
Reissue
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849838375
ISBN
9781849838375
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.97

Paperback. William King's first novel is re-issued for the first time since its publication in 1997, augmented with an Afterword by the author, reflecting on his past work. Num Pages: 187 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 137 x 10. Weight in Grams: 236.
Publisher
The Lilliput Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843516217
ISBN
9781843516217
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.30

Paperback. Dublin is revealed in all its excess and greed, before and after the crash, in seethingly accurate portrayals of those who became caught up in the fury of the boom. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 288.
Publisher
The Lilliput Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843513940
ISBN
9781843513940
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 12.35

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