Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. At a suburban barbecue one afternoon, a man slaps an unruly 3-year-old boy. The boy is not his son. It is a single act of violence, but this one slap reverberates through the lives of everyone who witnesses it happen. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 135 x 36. Weight in Grams: 536. Good clean copy with some shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Main
- SKU
- KCG0003208
- ISBN
- 9781848873551
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
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Paperback. Ari is 19, Greek, gay, unemployed and looking for something to take him away from his aimless existence in suburban Melbourne. Caught between the traditional Greek world of his parents and friends and the alluring destructive world of clubs and drugs, Ari eases his pain the only way he knows how. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 5SG; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 267 x 12. Weight in Grams: 122.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099757719
- ISBN
- 9780099757719
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.87
€ 13.99
€ 10.87
Paperback. At a suburban barbecue one afternoon, a man slaps an unruly 3-year-old boy. The boy is not his son. It is a single act of violence, but this one slap reverberates through the lives of everyone who witnesses it happen. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 135 x 36. Weight in Grams: 536. Good, clean copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0005359
- ISBN
- 9781848873551
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. A novel set in Dublin, by the author of My Left Foot. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 426 304pp. Keywords: Local history, Dublin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1976
- Publisher
- Scarborough House New York
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KHS1015399
- ISBN
- 9780812824704
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 12.00
€ 12.00
Paperback. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 39. Weight in Grams: 402. Clean copy, Good to very good
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Hachette Books Ireland
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- SKU
- KST0016010
- ISBN
- 9780340961698
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 154 x 41. Weight in Grams: 636 471pp. A novel based in Ireland, Israel and the U.S.
- Publisher
- Hachette Books Ireland
- Number of pages
- 480
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780340961681
- ISBN
- 9780340961681
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99
€ 12.99
Paperback. Two Men. Childhood friends until a devastating war separated them and each found his own destiny -- for good and evil. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 172 x 32. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Hachette Books Ireland
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444726350
- ISBN
- 9781444726350
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.31
€ 17.99
€ 13.31
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781439184479
- ISBN
- 9781439184479
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 16.46
€ 18.99
€ 16.46
Paperback. Includes twenty-one stories and a novella that will disturb and delight, from the author of Fight Club. This book includes stories such as, Zombies, Knock, Knock, Tunnel of Love, and Excursion. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099587682
- ISBN
- 9780099587682
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.95
€ 13.99
€ 10.95
Paperback. Meet Madison, whip-tongued daughter of a narcissistic film star and a billionaire, abandoned at a Swiss boarding school over Christmas. Madison dies of a marijuana overdose and awakes to find herself in Hell, sharing her cell with a motley crew of young sinners that's almost too good to be true. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 190.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099552598
- ISBN
- 9780099552598
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.98
€ 13.99
€ 10.98
paperback. Penny Harrigan is a low level associate in a big Manhattan law firm with an apartment in Queens and no love life at all. So it comes as a great shock when she finds herself invited to dinner by one C Linus Maxwell, aka 'Climax-Well', a software mega-billionaire and lover of the most gorgeous and accomplished women on earth. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 17. Weight in Grams: 178.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099587675
- ISBN
- 9780099587675
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.65
€ 20.99
€ 16.65
Paperback. A journalist notices a link between a number of victims of cot death. All of the children had the same poem read to them the night before they died. The journalist desperately fights to find all copies of the book containing the accursed poem. This title is by the author of "Fight Club". Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 131 x 19. Weight in Grams: 198.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099437963
- ISBN
- 9780099437963
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.86
€ 13.99
€ 10.86
Paperback. Features a catwalk model who has everything: a boyfriend, a career, and a loyal best friend. But when a sudden motor 'accident' leaves her disfigured and incapable of speech, she goes from being the beautiful centre of attention to being an invisible monster, so hideous that no one will acknowledge she exists. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 133 x 21. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099575054
- ISBN
- 9780099575054
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.86
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Paperback. A novel made up of stories: twenty-three of them to be precise. These stories were told by the people who have answered the ad headlined 'Artists Retreat: Abandon your life for three months'. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 158 x 27. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099458371
- ISBN
- 9780099458371
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.95
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€ 10.95
Paperback. A fashion model with everything is disfigured in a road "accident" and goes from being the beautiful centre of attention to being a monster, so hideous that no one will acknowledge she exists. She then has to learn that reinventing herself means erasing her past and making up something better. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 220.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099285441
- ISBN
- 9780099285441
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.86
€ 13.99
€ 10.86
Paperback. The survivor of multiple marriages, career comebacks and cosmetic surgeries, Miss Kathie lives the way legends should. But danger lurks when gentleman caller Webster Carlton Westward III arrives and worms his way into Miss Kathie's heart and boudoir. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 160 x 13. Weight in Grams: 140.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099526988
- ISBN
- 9780099526988
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.15
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€ 14.15
Paperback. Rant is an anti-hero whose recreational drug of choice is rabies. He becomes the leader of an urban demolition derby called Party Crashing. On designated nights, the Party Crashers chase each other in cars in the hope of a collision, and all the while Rant, the 'superspreader', transmits his lethal disease. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Vintage Books USA
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099499367
- ISBN
- 9780099499367
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.95
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Paperback. After a Halloween ritual gone awry, Madison finds herself trapped in Purgatory - or, as mortals like you and I know it, Earth. She can see and hear every detail of the world she left behind, yet she's invisible to everyone who's still alive. Not only do people look right through her, they walk right through her as well. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 145 x 22. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099552635
- ISBN
- 9780099552635
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.86
€ 13.99
€ 10.86
Paperback. A novel that intends to bring the huge yet underacknowledged presence of pornography in contemporary life into the realm of literary fiction. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 154.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099499374
- ISBN
- 9780099499374
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.87
€ 13.99
€ 10.87
Paperback. Takes the form of a 'coma diary' kept by one Misty Wilmot as her husband lies senseless in hospital after a suicide attempt. Once, she was an art student dreaming of creativity and freedom; now, after marrying Peter at art school and being brought back to Waytansea Island, she's been reduced to the condition of a resort hotel maid. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 202.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099453987
- ISBN
- 9780099453987
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.98
€ 13.99
€ 10.98
Paperback. Every weekend, in basements and parking lots across the country, young men with good white-collar jobs and absent fathers take off their shoes and shirts and fight each other barehanded for as long as they have to. Then they go back to those jobs with blackened eyes and loosened teeth and the sense that they can handle anything. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 14. Weight in Grams: 162.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- New Ed
- SKU
- 9780099765219
- ISBN
- 9780099765219
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.33
€ 13.99
€ 10.33
Paperback. Tender Branson, the last surviving member of the Creedish death cult, has commandeered a Boeing 747, emptied of passengers, in order to tell his story to the plane's black box before it crashes. Brought up by the repressive cult and hired out as a domestic servant, Tender finds himself suddenly famous when his fellow cult members commit suicide. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- New Ed
- SKU
- 9780099282648
- ISBN
- 9780099282648
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 5.70
€ 11.99
€ 5.70
Paperback. Victor Mancini has devised a scam to pay for his mother's medical care: pretend to be choking on a piece of food in a restaurant and the person who "saves" you will feel responsible for the rest of their lives. Multiply that by a couple of hundred times and you generate a healthy income. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 19. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- paperback / softback
- SKU
- 9780099422686
- ISBN
- 9780099422686
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 5.70
€ 10.99
€ 5.70
Paperback. Agent Number 67, nicknamed Pygmy for his diminutive size, arrives in the United States from his totalitarian homeland. An 'exchange student' he is welcomed with open arms by his Midwestern host family. Simpsons-spinoffs, they introduce him into the rituals of postmodern American life, which he views with utter contempt. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 133 x 17. Weight in Grams: 184.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099526971
- ISBN
- 9780099526971
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 4.99
€ 10.99
€ 4.99