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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. A girl with a gun fights for survival in the American wilderness, in a tale that will enthral fans of The Hunger Games and True Grit. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 248.
Publication date
2012
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
New
Format
Paperback
SKU
KTG0014474
ISBN
9780007443376
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Lizzy McCann is a feisty 12 year old who lives with her mother and father in a fleabag hotel. A divorce leads to mother and daughter moving to upstate New York where living with her grandmother is a mixed blessing . This young girl's coming of age in the 1960s is notable for it demonstrates how to survive loss, puberty and first love. Num Pages: 196 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 143 x 12. Weight in Grams: 212.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Academy Chicago Publishers United States
Number of pages
196
Condition
New
SKU
V9780897335638
ISBN
9780897335638
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.43

Paperback. Erast Fandorin returns to Moscow, and he just can't seem to keep out of trouble.. The fourth novel in the bestselling crime series from the author of THE WINTER QUEEN. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 350.
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780753820971
ISBN
9780753820971
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.12

Paperback. The second Erast Fandorin mystery from Boris Akunin, shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 248.
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780753818435
ISBN
9780753818435
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.12

Paperback. Canine conspiracies, spurned lovers, murderous greed, jealousy, politics, power and knitting: Pelagia and the White Bulldog marks the beginning of an addictively entertaining new crime series from the internationally bestselling author, Boris Akunin. Series: Sister Pelagia Mystery. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 236.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780753821572
ISBN
9780753821572
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.14

Paperback. A failing young Russian American journalist's life is unexpectedly transformed when he forges Holocaust restitution claims for his rogue grandfather and his friends Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 217 x 26. Weight in Grams: 374. Some light shelf wear, else as new
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
One
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
SKU
KRA0009787
ISBN
9780957548831
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Seventy-Two Virgins is a comic political novel, with similar appeal to Stephen Fry or Ben Elton, written by one of Britain's most popular politicians. It is Boris Johnson's first novel and was widely acclaimed on publication. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 250.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007198054
ISBN
9780007198054
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.44

Hardcover. In the tradition of the Russian epic novel from Tolstoy to Solzhenitsyn, this book tells the story of Yury Zhivago, his women and his poems, against the background of the Russian Revolution. Caught up in the events of politics and war, Zhivago clings to his own private world of family and love. Translator(s): Hayward, M.; Harari, M. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 134 x 38. Weight in Grams: 680.
Publisher
Everyman
Number of pages
512
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857150414
ISBN
9781857150414
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 16.65

Paperback. Banned in the Soviet Union until 1988, Doctor Zhivago is the epic story of the life and loves of a poet-physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. Taking his family from Moscow to shelter in the Ural Mountains, Yuri Zhivago finds himself embroiled in a battle between the Whites and the Reds, and in love with the beautiful nurse Lara. Translator(s): Pevear, Richard; Volokhonsky, Larissa. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 34. Weight in Grams: 356.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
9780099448426
ISBN
9780099448426
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.11

Paperback. Taking his family from Moscow to what he hopes will be shelter in the Ural Mountains, Yuri Zhivago finds himself instead embroiled in the battle between the Whites and the Reds, and in love with the tender and beautiful nurse Lara. Translator(s): Volokhonsky, Larissa; Pevear, Richard. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 35. Weight in Grams: 378.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
9780099541240
ISBN
9780099541240
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. Features ten of the author's best short stories, evoking the seamy side of '50s Parisian night life. Editor(s): Older, Julia. Translator(s): Older, Julia. Series: French Modernist Library. Num Pages: 144 pages, 6ill. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 206 x 130 x 9. Weight in Grams: 172.
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803296091
ISBN
9780803296091
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 16.49

First published in 1977, this novel of ideas follows Konrad Rutkowski - professor of medieval history and former Gestapo officer - as he returns to the scene of his war crimes determined to renounce, or perhaps justify, his Nazi past. Translator(s): Rakic, Bogdan; Dickey, Stephen M. Series: Writings from an Unbound Europe S. Num Pages: 456 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FJM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 121 x 32. Weight in Grams: 612.
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
456
Condition
New
SKU
V9780810117198
ISBN
9780810117198
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 96.10

Paperback. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 135 x 29. Weight in Grams: 264.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Infinite Words
Condition
New
SKU
V9781593096441
ISBN
9781593096441
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.34

Paperback. Num Pages: 188 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 143 x 18. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
NeWest Press Canada
Number of pages
188
Condition
New
SKU
V9781927063347
ISBN
9781927063347
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 14.29

Relating the misadventures of Captain Farrago and his sidekick, Teague O Regan, this novel covers the major ethnic, racial, religious, or political issues of the twenty-eight year period beginning with Washington's presidency ending with that of Madison. Editor(s): White, Ed. Num Pages: 626 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 163 x 38. Weight in Grams: 948.
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Hackett Publishing Co, Inc United States
Number of pages
588
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872209923
ISBN
9780872209923
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 102.24
€ 79.36

Paperback. Enter Harrison Barlow, who like so many young men of wars past, simply wants to serve his people and partake of the grand adventure of military life. Only, Harrison is not a hot pilot, nor a crack shot with a rifle. What good is a Chaplain's Assistant in the interstellar battles which will decide the fate of all? More than he thinks. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 168 x 25. Weight in Grams: 416.
Publisher
Baen
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781476736853
ISBN
9781476736853
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 16.37

Paperback. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 157 x 29. Weight in Grams: 508.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Harmony
Condition
New
SKU
V9781400082001
ISBN
9781400082001
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.06

Paperback. Half Apache and mostly orphaned, Edgar Presley Mint's trials begin on an Arizona reservation at the age of seven, when the mailman's jeep accidentally runs over his head. Shunted from the hospital to a school for delinquents to a Mormon foster family, comedy, pain and trouble accompany Edgar through a string of larger-than-life experiences. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 27. Weight in Grams: 302.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099286769
ISBN
9780099286769
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 19.49

Paperback. Golden Richards is a normal dad. But with four wives and twenty eight children there just isn't enough of him to go around. Unbeknownst to his wives, Golden has taken a construction job on a Nevada brothel. Lying to cover his tracks, beset by familial rivalry on all sides, he seeks relief in the arms of his boss' wife. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 40. Weight in Grams: 398.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
608
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099498032
ISBN
9780099498032
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 18.64

Paperback. Series: BARNES NOBLE FLEXIBOUND EDITIO. Num Pages: 408 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 154 x 221 x 44. Weight in Grams: 670.
Publisher
Sterling Publishing Co Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781435159570
ISBN
9781435159570
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.32

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