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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. Contemporary short stories enacting giddy, witty revenge on the documents that define and dominate our lives. Editor(s): Shields, David; Vollmer, Matthew. Num Pages: 368 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 153 x 26. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- Original
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393341959
- ISBN
- 9780393341959
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.62
€ 19.99
€ 18.62
Paperback. James and Katherine meet at a wedding in London. It is January 2006, towards the end of the money-for-nothing years, and James is a man with a varied past - entrepreneur, estate agent, film producer - now living alone in a flat in Bloomsbury. Separated from her husband, a successful paparazzo, Katherine is working at an interim job in a hotel. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 190.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099552772
- ISBN
- 9780099552772
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.26
€ 11.99
€ 10.26
Paperback. Paul Rainey is a 40-year-old functioning alcoholic on anti-anxiety medication who commutes into London every day from Hove to sell advertising space in non-existent trade publications. Perceiving through a fog of psychoactive substances his own dissatisfaction with where his life is going - he only wishes there were something to be done about it. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 17. Weight in Grams: 246.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099515890
- ISBN
- 9780099515890
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. It is 1948 and Aleksandr, a major in the MGB (the forerunner of the KGB) is sent to an isolated psychiatric clinic to investigate one of the patients there. The patient is a man long presumed dead - a now severely incapacitated veteran of the Second World War, who seems unable to remember any of his past. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 138. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- SKU
- KCG0003958
- ISBN
- 9780099515883
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Nine men. Each of them at a different stage of life, each of them away from home, and each of them striving - in the suburbs of Prague, beside a Belgian motorway, in a cheap Cypriot hotel - to understand just what it means to be alive, here and now. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 309. Fine copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KJE0003513
- ISBN
- 9780099593690
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
paperback. Num Pages: 166 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 139. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Shoestring Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 166
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781899549344
- ISBN
- 9781899549344
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.31
€ 10.31
Paperback. Num Pages: 188 pages. BIC Classification: 1FMM; 2AB; FA; JWTU. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 139 x 11. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Shoestring Press United Kingdom
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 188
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781899549757
- ISBN
- 9781899549757
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.41
€ 12.41
Paperback. Features the teachings of the "Cloud of Unknowing" and the great mystics St John of the Cross and St Teresa of Avila. This title examines the mystic life with married life. Num Pages: 350 pages. BIC Classification: FA; HRCS1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 141 x 21. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Publisher
- John Hunt Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 350
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846941191
- ISBN
- 9781846941191
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.43
€ 16.99
€ 15.43
Paperback. Series: The Oberleutnant Karin Muller Series. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FFH; FH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 2. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Publisher
- Zaffre Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785760686
- ISBN
- 9781785760686
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.38
€ 10.99
€ 9.38
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Quercus Publishing
- Edition
- paperback / softback
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857051226
- ISBN
- 9780857051226
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.43
€ 17.99
€ 13.43
Paperback. When Rosie Kitto, an eccentric thirty-eight-year-old primary school teacher from England, bounces into their lives with a secret sorrow and a heart as big as the city, nobody realises that she hasn't read the rule book. For the Wilder-Bingham family, whose lives begin to unravel thread by thread, the consequences are explosive. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 275 x 28. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405921558
- ISBN
- 9781405921558
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.26
€ 11.99
€ 10.26
Paperback. Everyone knows the real Silvia, don't they? Silvia Shute lies in hospital in a coma. Family and friends gather at her bedside, each thinking they know the real Silvia. But do they? For Silvia hides a secret. One she can never tell. And as her visitors congregate so the truth about Silvia is slowly revealed. Again, and again and again.. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 27. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141046358
- ISBN
- 9780141046358
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Paperback. Meet Mo Battle, about to turn 50 and mum to two helpless, hormonal teenagers. There's 17-year-old daughter Dora who blames Mo for, like, everything and Peter who believes he's quite simply as darling and marvellous as his hero Oscar Wilde. Somewhere, keeping quiet, is Dad.. who's just, well.. Dad. However, Mo is having a crisis. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 194 x 34. Weight in Grams: 402. Fine copy showing minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSS0015051
- ISBN
- 9780141046341
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Num Pages: 244 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 153 x 20. Weight in Grams: 392.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- M P Publishing Limited United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849822190
- ISBN
- 9781849822190
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.04
€ 13.99
€ 11.04
Paperback. Gabriel Brockwell, aesthete, poet, philosopher, disaffected twenty-something decadent, is looking to end it all with one last journey of excess. Taking in London, Tokyo, Berlin and the Galapagos Islands, this book documents Gabriel Brockwell's remarkable global odyssey. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 22. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571228911
- ISBN
- 9780571228911
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.74
€ 13.99
€ 10.74
Paperback. Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2003, this book suggests that desperate times throw up the most unlikely of heroes. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 20. Weight in Grams: 228. Used paperback in good condition. Some shelf wear.
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- Main - Re-issue
- SKU
- KRF0024440
- ISBN
- 9780571215164
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Charts the unlikely meeting between East and West that follows Ludmila Derev's appearance on a Russian Brides website. Determined to save her family from starvation in the face of marauding troops, this title presents Ludmila's journey. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571230952
- ISBN
- 9780571230952
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.20
€ 10.99
€ 9.20
Hardback. Offers a collection of short fictions, philosophical vignettes and aphoristic interludes. Drawing on memoir and a life lived in pursuit of sensation, but always ignited by the flame of fiction, this book takes us further into the imagination of one of the most radically original prose stylists of the past decade. Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 414. Offers a collection of short fictions, philosophical vignettes and aphoristic interludes. Drawing on memoir and a life lived in pursuit of sensation, but always ignited by the flame of fiction, this book takes us further into the imagination of one of the most radically original prose stylists of the past decade. Num Pages: 208 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571298389
- ISBN
- 9780571298389
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 6.23
€ 19.99
€ 6.23
Hardcover. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 157 x 49. Weight in Grams: 1242.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 640
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- Leatherbound edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780436205552
- ISBN
- 9780436205552
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 236.29€ 161.76
€ 236.29
€ 161.76
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 271
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803281332
- ISBN
- 9780803281332
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.37
€ 26.99
€ 25.37
Paperback. A Blackfriars paperback original or fans of Jonathan Franzen, a brilliant and funny novel about the illusion of perfection in relationships or in work. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 321 x 24. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Blackfriars
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349134383
- ISBN
- 9780349134383
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Paperback. SOMEONE NEW IS PLAYING GOD The Frankenstein story updated to the 21st century by the great American storyteller Dean Koontz. Series: Dean Koontz's Frankenstein. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007353842
- ISBN
- 9780007353842
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.25
€ 17.99
€ 14.25
Paperback. A story of unrelenting suspense that delivers a high-charged kick, from 'America's most popular suspense novelist' (Rolling Stone) Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FH; FK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 48. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Publisher
- Headline Publishing Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472234629
- ISBN
- 9781472234629
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.06
€ 13.99
€ 11.06
Paperback. Can the love of a mother bring back the lost past and overcome the terrifying evil of the present? Originally published under the pseudonym Leigh Nichols. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FH; FK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Publisher
- Headline Publishing Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472248275
- ISBN
- 9781472248275
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
€ 13.99
€ 11.09