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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. The Fen is a liminal land. Real people live their lives here. They wrestle with sex and desire, with everyday routine. This is a place where animals and people commingle and fuse, where curious metamorphoses take place, where myth and dark magic still linger. So here a woman might give birth to a, well, what? Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784702106
ISBN
9781784702106
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Hardcover.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Book Club (BCE/BOMC)
Condition
New
SKU
9780007431748
ISBN
9780007431748
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Daisy Waugh's commercial fiction debut is a wickedly funny satire of the bitch-eat-bitch world of celebrity PR, with an unexpected romantic heart. Num Pages: 400 pages, 16 illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 212. Clean copy
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers London
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
SKU
KEX0201026
ISBN
9780007119066
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Daisy Waugh's commercial fiction debut is a wickedly funny satire of the bitch-eat-bitch world of celebrity PR, with an unexpected romantic heart. Num Pages: 400 pages, 16 illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 212.
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers London
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
SKU
KRS0003883
ISBN
9780007119066
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. The second in a new series of high-tech, military-adventure thrillers centred on Dreamland, a top-secret weapons research centre, from the acclaimed author of FLIGHT OF THE OLD DOG and WARRIOR CLASS. Series: Dale Brown's Dreamland. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FH; FJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 183 x 114 x 32. Weight in Grams: 286.
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
SKU
KLN0014004
ISBN
9780007109678
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. The second in a new series of high-tech, military-adventure thrillers centred on Dreamland, a top-secret weapons research centre, from the acclaimed author of FLIGHT OF THE OLD DOG and WARRIOR CLASS. Series: Dale Brown's Dreamland. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FH; FJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 183 x 114 x 32. Weight in Grams: 286.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KLN0014358
ISBN
9780007109678
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. .
Publisher
Pearson Education Limited
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780435045739
ISBN
9780435045739
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.55

Paperback. Joint Winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize 1979 Series: Heinemann African Writers Series. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 172.
Publisher
Pearson Education Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
2nd edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780435895983
ISBN
9780435895983
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.25

Hardback. .
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9781681774268
ISBN
9781681774268
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 6.47

Paperback. Desperate to escape his predetermined existence, Danny decides to break out from life in Northern Ireland, and move to London. He then meets Piper, a friendly and outgoing American girl on a quest of her own. Two very different worlds are thrown together as Danny is willingly absorbed into unfamiliar territory. Num Pages: 288 pages, ill. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 23. Weight in Grams: 280.
Publisher
Legend Times Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908248022
ISBN
9781908248022
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 10.10

Paperback. In this literary tour de force, twice Booker shortlisted novelist Damon Galgut evokes the life and work of E. M. Forster, his travels to India, and the freedom and inspiration he found there. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 23. Weight in Grams: 268.
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782391593
ISBN
9781782391593
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.09

Paperback. An intense and sizzling novel seething with betrayal and political upheaval from the twice Man Booker-shortlisted author Num Pages: 192 pages, NO. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 130 x 193 x 13. Weight in Grams: 114.
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782396239
ISBN
9781782396239
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.01

Hardback. SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2010 'One of the most beautiful and unsettling books I've ever read. I can't remember a more troubling and intense study of rootlessness and loneliness; Galgut is a writer of great, almost frightening, depth.' Tash Aw Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 148 x 22. Weight in Grams: 338. Very good copy in clean dustwrapper. Second impression
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
SKU
KEX0303109
ISBN
9781848873223
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 45.00

Paperback. Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize and shortlisted for the Man Booker, The Good Doctor is a powerful tale of a friendship overshadowed by betrayal, set against the tawdry hopes and disappointments of a post-apartheid South Africa Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 156.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Condition
New
SKU
9781782396246
ISBN
9781782396246
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 9.64

Paperback. Slick, upbeat and funny, these stories inspired the popular musical and film Guys and Dolls. 'Of all the high players this country ever sees, there is no doubt but that the guy they call the Sky is the highest. He will bet all he has, and nobody can bet any more than this'. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 218.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141188331
ISBN
9780141188331
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. Series: Robert Langdon. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 177 x 113 x 45. Weight in Grams: 348.
Publisher
Corgi
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780552161237
ISBN
9780552161237
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.83

Paperback. A collection of glimpses of the here and now. The random chatter of strangers, encountered fleetingly, provides details of the exotic and banal, critical and trivial. One moment we are in Ireland, the next in Los Angeles. The stories leave the characters lives as quickly as we entered them. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 12. Weight in Grams: 130.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Vintage
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
New Ed
SKU
KNW0008591
ISBN
9780099286684
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Hardback. Tells the moving tale of an Italian family living in Scotland during the rise of Mussolini and his rule in Italy. This story is told from the point of view of Lucia, the family's daughter, who, at 83, reflects on her childhood. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 239 x 161 x 30. Weight in Grams: 556.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857422231
ISBN
9780857422231
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 22.52

paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 185 x 122. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1985
Publisher
New Africa Books South Africa
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780864860361
ISBN
9780864860361
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.32

Paperback. A dark story of loss, friendship, love and the lengths we'll go to cope, from the winner of the 2016 Luke Bitmead Bursary. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FH; FK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Legend Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785079252
ISBN
9781785079252
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.83

Paperback. The story of the residents of a small western plains town and the turmoil that results from the colliding interests of its "native" inhabitants and newcomers Series: Flyover Fiction. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803231085
ISBN
9780803231085
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.79

Paperback. A novel about transforming organizations from the author of bestselling business books The Goal and Zapp! The Cure is a novel for managers about transforming an under-performing bureaucratic organization into a boundaryless, fact-driven management culture like the one that made Jack Welch's General Electric so consistently successful. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; FA; KJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 506.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780471268307
ISBN
9780471268307
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 29.73

Hardback. Suitable for those who is, has ever been, or might one day be married. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 181 x 136 x 16. Weight in Grams: 212. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Canongate Books
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMK0007103
ISBN
9780857868497
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. A richly imaginative tale of alien cultures set on a collision course from an author who continues to build on his substantial fan-base to attain a wider readership. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 42. Weight in Grams: 382.
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Number of pages
464
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849160902
ISBN
9781849160902
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.43

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