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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. It is Christmas Eve, and 55-year-old Professor Pal Andersen is alone, drinking coffee and cognac in his living room. Lost in thought, he looks out of the window and sees a man strangle a woman in the apartment across the street. Professor Andersen fails to report the crime. Translator(s): Langeland, Agnes Scott. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 128 x 11. Weight in Grams: 118.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Translation
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099578420
- ISBN
- 9780099578420
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.28
€ 17.99
€ 14.28
Paperback. Familiar with his students' hostile attitude towards both his lectures and himself, a senior school teacher reaches a decision that forces an assessment of his choice of life, of his marriage and ultimately of his values and worth in modern society. This is a story of a man lost in a world that no longer recognises either him or his talent. Translator(s): Lyngstad, Sverre. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 135 x 12. Weight in Grams: 184. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Harvill Secker
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0005757
- ISBN
- 9781843432104
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Familiar with his students' hostile attitude towards both his lectures and himself, a senior school teacher reaches a decision that forces an assessment of his choice of life, of his marriage and ultimately of his values and worth in modern society. This is a story of a man lost in a world that no longer recognises either him or his talent. Translator(s): Lyngstad, Sverre. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 135 x 12. Weight in Grams: 184. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Harvill Secker
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0005885
- ISBN
- 9781843432104
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Parthian Books United Kingdom
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908946416
- ISBN
- 9781908946416
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.00
€ 19.99
€ 16.00
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Parthian Books United Kingdom
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908946430
- ISBN
- 9781908946430
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.00
€ 19.99
€ 16.00
Paperback. Two boys, both sons of doctors, are sent to the top of a mountain for "re-education" in Mao's China; an education that involves carting buckets of excrement up and down precipitous paths. They discover instead the discreet charm of bourgeois literature and the local tailor's attractive daughter. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 130.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099286431
- ISBN
- 9780099286431
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. A white-knuckle fiction ride through the South Wales Valleys during the 20th century. Power, sex, money and ambition all twist through the pages as Smith creates a feast of intellectual and physical provocation stories that send a shudder of fearful recognition through to the reader. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 204 x 13. Weight in Grams: 164.
- Publisher
- Parthian Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910901922
- ISBN
- 9781910901922
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.41
€ 12.41
Paperback. Dream On is a composite novel: part black comedy and flashlight noir thriller, part meditation on the stories that connect up the frayed wires in the business of living. Num Pages: 350 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 143 x 21. Weight in Grams: 278.
- Publisher
- Parthian Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Second edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781909844711
- ISBN
- 9781909844711
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.41
€ 12.41
Paperback. After his death, a young woman returns to her grandfather's farm in Yorkshire. At his desk she finds the book he left unfinished when he died. Part story, part scholarship, his eccentric history of England moves from the founding of the printing press into virtual reality, linking four journeys, separated by the centuries, of four great men. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 139 x 24. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099578888
- ISBN
- 9780099578888
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.81
€ 20.99
€ 16.81
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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 4.99
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Pearson Education Limited
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780435045739
- ISBN
- 9780435045739
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.55
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 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
€ 19.99
€ 9.64