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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. The Roman poet Ovid, exiled to a remote village on the edge of the Black Sea, tells the story of his meeting with a feral boy, brought up among wild animals in the snow. It is a luminous encounter between civilization and nature. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 130.
Publisher
Random House
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099273844
ISBN
9780099273844
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. For the two men in this novel, war was supposed to be a testing ground. But it proved to be an ordeal of a different kind. Spanning 70 years of Australian life, from Sydney's Cross to the backwaters of the Hawkesbury River, this is a novel of lost innocence and witness. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 20. Weight in Grams: 244.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099273868
ISBN
9780099273868
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. It is the Gold Coast, Queensland, in 1914, and a man returns home from England to claim the land he has inherited. For Ashley Crowther, it is a landscape "that could accommodate a good deal". For Jim Saddler, the land is a sanctuary. For Imogen it is a place of study. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 116.
Edition
1st Edition Thus.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099273820
ISBN
9780099273820
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.29

Paperback. In an office there is a group of young people who work from morning till night, six days a week. Their way of life during office hours is dedicated and austere. The discipline they follow seems monastic. These people, who see themselves simply as "technologists", are in fact assassins. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 134 x 14. Weight in Grams: 166.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099273851
ISBN
9780099273851
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. A picture of Australia at the time of its foundation, focused on the hostility between early British settlers and native Aboriginals. It is essentially the story of a boy caught between both worlds. David Malouf, himself an Australian, is the prize-winning author of "The Great World". Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 142. Good clean copy showing light age and shelf wear, remains a nice copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0020645
ISBN
9780099302421
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Bookish boys and taciturn men, strong women and wayward sons, fathers and daughters, lovers and husbands, a composer and his muse, a builder-architect and his legacy - this title presents their stories. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 188. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0001592
ISBN
9780099502586
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 142 x 15. Weight in Grams: 259.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Counterpoint United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9781593760106
ISBN
9781593760106
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.81

Hardcover. When the tanker is refused entry to the Bay of San Francisco, Harold Snow and the rest of the crew embark on a scattershot voyage that will take the disintegrating hulk from South America to Africa. Along the way, they encounter hurricanes, crooked customs officials and tropical ports seething with vice and revolution. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 162 x 29. Weight in Grams: 586.
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Hamish Hamilton London
Number of pages
304
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Edition
First Edition
SKU
KNW0007685
ISBN
9780241142660
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

hardcover. Num Pages: 201 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 166 x 24. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
McPherson United States
Edition
1.
Number of pages
201
Condition
New
SKU
V9780929701332
ISBN
9780929701332
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 19.53

Paperback. It is set in a strangely destabilized historical moment, where President Kennedy is entering his third term in office, and a new federal agency maintains the mental health of returning soldiers by wiping their memories through drugs and therapy, while those beyond help roam at will, re-enacting the atrocities they have witnessed. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 23. Weight in Grams: 272.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571330133
ISBN
9780571330133
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.02

Paperback. A profoundly moving debut novel about the fragility of family love, the resilience of the living, the durability of memory and the experience of bereavement. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 134 x 14. Weight in Grams: 174. 176 pages. A profoundly moving debut novel about the fragility of family love, the resilience of the living, the durability of memory and the experience of bereavement. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 198 x 134 x 14. Weight: 174.
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848876064
ISBN
9781848876064
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 8.48

Paperback. Winner of the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 29. Weight in Grams: 324.
Publisher
Sceptre
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780340739754
ISBN
9780340739754
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.06

Paperback. The dazzling new novel from the author of Cloud Atlas, at once the kaleidoscopic story of an unusual woman's life, a metaphysical thriller and a profound meditation on mortality and survival. Num Pages: 640 pages, 6. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 50. Weight in Grams: 438.
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780340921623
ISBN
9780340921623
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.89

Hardback. Prepare to be chilled, electrified and entertained - a gem of a novel from 'one of the most brilliantly inventive writers of this, or any country' (Independent). Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 218 x 31. Weight in Grams: 476.
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781473617377
ISBN
9781473617377
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 59.15
€ 42.54

Paperback. Shortlisted for the Booker and the James Tait Black Memorial Prizes Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 308.
Publisher
Sceptre
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780340747971
ISBN
9780340747971
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

Paperback. Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial and Commonwealth Writers' Prizes Num Pages: 560 pages, 7 B&W. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 39. Weight in Grams: 376.
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780340921586
ISBN
9780340921586
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.81

Paperback. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and winner of the Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 134 x 35. Weight in Grams: 364. 2014 REPRINT
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780340822784
ISBN
9780340822784
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 12.58

Paperback. The Man Booker Prize-longlisted follow-up to the multimillion-copy bestselling ONE DAY. Num Pages: 416 pages, Maps and Line Drawings. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 36. Weight in Grams: 292.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Condition
New
SKU
V9780340897010
ISBN
9780340897010
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. A comedy masterpiece from the bestselling author of ONE DAY and STARTER FOR TEN. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 27. Weight in Grams: 288.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780340935217
ISBN
9780340935217
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.00

Paperback. A comedy masterpiece from the internationally bestselling author of ONE DAY and THE UNDERSTUDY. Num Pages: 368 pages, n/a. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 32. Weight in Grams: 254.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Condition
New
SKU
V9780340734872
ISBN
9780340734872
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

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