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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
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

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

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

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

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
€ 13.39

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Scribner
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781439184479
ISBN
9781439184479
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 16.62

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
€ 11.08

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
€ 11.02

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

€ 19.00
€ 16.77

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
€ 11.01

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
€ 11.01

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
€ 11.08

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
€ 11.00

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
€ 14.21

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
€ 11.02

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
€ 11.01

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
€ 11.01

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
€ 11.02

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

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

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

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

Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 171 x 106 x 24. Weight in Grams: 294.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Harper Voyager
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780062471628
ISBN
9780062471628
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.63

Paperback. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 172 x 106 x 15. Weight in Grams: 112.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Time Warner Trade Publishing United States
Number of pages
300
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9781601620064
ISBN
9781601620064
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 9.22

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