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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. A mesmerising tale of Empire, wild daring, love and conquest in Lawrence's Arabia Num Pages: 320 pages, map. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 220.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408809808
ISBN
9781408809808
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.27

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC London
Edition
New edition
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780747573333
ISBN
9780747573333
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.11

Paperback. Laura is content enough with her marriage, two children and part-time job. That is, until a lover from her past comes back into her life. Suddenly passion and excitement are rekindled, and she realises how stagnant her life has become. But how much happiness has she a right to expect? Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 286.
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849161954
ISBN
9781849161954
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.31

Paperback. A love triangle plays out against the backdrop of WWII, as Motherland explores the profound impact of historical events on individual lives. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 197 x 39. Weight in Grams: 418.
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
9781780876238
ISBN
9781780876238
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Hardcover. Set during the Cuban missile crisis of 1962, Reckless is a compelling novel of life in the shadow of impending nuclear war. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 164 x 42. Weight in Grams: 802.
Publisher
Quercus
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
9781782066422
ISBN
9781782066422
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Maggie and Andrew are lovers who live apart - Maggie in the country, Andrew in town. When Andrew is offered a job close to Maggie, moving in with her is the obvious next step. Or is it? Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 35. Weight in Grams: 370.
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
KTG0015736
ISBN
9781849163934
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Belinda wistfully reflects how much better at sex she is now than when she was in her twenties. She's thought about taking a lover, but ultimately could never do that to her husband Tom. So imagine her despair when she discovers he's having an affair.. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 143 x 37. Weight in Grams: 324. Good clean copy with some minor wear to the cover.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KTG0009431
ISBN
9781849163903
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 119 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 10. Weight in Grams: 95.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
Texas Christian University Press
Edition
reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780875650265
ISBN
9780875650265
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.41

Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 526.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
Texas Christian University Press
Edition
First Thus
Condition
New
SKU
V9780875650289
ISBN
9780875650289
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.16

Paperback. It is 1792 and a group of English gentlemen is recruiting settlers for a new world. Anti-slavers, they foresee the shining vision of a free colony in Africa where all races and classes can live together in harmony. More than a hundred men, women and children set sail from London bound for Muranda, an island off the west coat of Africa. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 197 x 19. Weight in Grams: 248.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099572688
ISBN
9780099572688
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.09

Paperback. Set in 1956, this is the story of three women: Mrs Covington, her widowed daughter Evelyn, and her grand-daughter eighteen-year-old Julia. She has decided that the girl is to be kept in a state of 'innocence'. But with the arrival of her son Roland, and her eighteen-year-old grandson, James, their fragile paradise is about to be changed forever. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 147 x 17. Weight in Grams: 182. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0001417
ISBN
9780099469612
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Num Pages: 274 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 108 x 20. Weight in Grams: 142.
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Penguin Putnam Inc United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
274
Condition
New
SKU
V9780451226358
ISBN
9780451226358
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.65

Paperback. The first novel in William Burroughs' anarchic 'Cut-Up Trilogy'. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 9. Weight in Grams: 116.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
New
SKU
9780007341917
ISBN
9780007341917
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 5.38

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
New
SKU
9780007341931
ISBN
9780007341931
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 5.70

Paperback. Explores the personal relationship between Burroughs and cats. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 130 x 7. Weight in Grams: 92.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
112
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141189901
ISBN
9780141189901
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.65

Paperback. A novel that offers an account of the constant cycle of drug dependency, cures and relapses. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 158.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141189826
ISBN
9780141189826
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.18

Paperback. A novel that sees wild boys engage in vigorous, ritualistic sex and drug taking, as well as pranksterish guerrilla warfare and open combat with a confused and outmatched army. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 150.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141189833
ISBN
9780141189833
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.95

Paperback. Intends to satirize modern society in a poetic story of sex, drugs, disease and adventure. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 262.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141189932
ISBN
9780141189932
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.41

Paperback. Offers a mix of autobiographical episodes and Egyptian theology. This novel blends war films and pornography. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 198.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141189949
ISBN
9780141189949
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.52

Paperback. A book of dreams that cover themes from the mundane and ordinary - conversations with the author's friends Allen Ginsberg or Ian Sommerville, feeding his cats, procuring drugs or sex - to the erotic, bizarre and visionary. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 111 x 14. Weight in Grams: 160.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141189895
ISBN
9780141189895
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.64

Paperback. Fires the reader into a textual outer space to show us our burning planet and to reveal the operations of the Nova Mob in all their ugliness. This book reveals how Nova Express was cut from a wealth of typescripts to create startling new forms of poetic possibility. Editor(s): Harris, Oliver. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 19. Weight in Grams: 234.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141396064
ISBN
9780141396064
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.87

Paperback. A man, dispirited by ageing, endeavours to steal a younger man's face; a doctor yearns for a virus that might eliminate his discomfort by turning everyone else into doubles of himself; a Colonel lays out the precepts of the life of DE (Do Easy); and conspirators posthumously succeed in blowing up a train full of nerve gas. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 140.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141189840
ISBN
9780141189840
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.95

Paperback. Presents a surreal novel. It is based on orgiastic wasteland of drugs, depravity, political plots, paranoia, sadistic medical experiments and endless, gnawing addiction. It also features authors notes on the text and alternate drafts. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 230.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141189765
ISBN
9780141189765
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.95

Paperback. A surreal fable that features a cast of notorious characters: The Crying Gun, who breaks into tears at the sight of his opponent; The Priest, who goes into gunfights giving his adversaries the last rites; and The Nihilistic Kid, Kim Carson, who sets out to challenge the morality of small-town America and fight for intergalactic freedom. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 238.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141189796
ISBN
9780141189796
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.91

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