×


 x 

Shopping cart

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Results 2881 - 2900 of 12848

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. *A collection of personal essays - surprising, disarming, heartbreakingly funny - from the No. 1 bestselling writer Time named America's Favorite Humorist. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 120.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349119755
ISBN
9780349119755
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.85

Paperback. *A collection of personal essays - surprising, disarming, heartbreakingly funny - from the No. 1 bestselling writer Time named America's Favorite Humorist. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 200.
Publisher
ABACUS (LITT)
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349119762
ISBN
9780349119762
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.85

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

Paperback. Num Pages: 576 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSC; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 171 x 27. Weight in Grams: 796.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
576
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253207876
ISBN
9780253207876
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 23.15

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Subscribe to our newsletter

News on special offers, signed editions & more!