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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. On the eve of the next Space Shuttle mission, a divided family comes together..Warm, witty and wise, 'All Families Are Psychotic' is Coupland at the very top of his form. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 214.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007117536
ISBN
9780007117536
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.58

Paperback. Sharp and intimate, Douglas Cowie's reimagining of the turbulent love affair between Simone de Beauvoir and Nelson Algren asks what it means to love and be loved by the right person at the wrong time. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 24. Weight in Grams: 304.
Publisher
Myriad Editions
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780956559975
ISBN
9780956559975
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.94

Paperback. Neutral America is debating the proper response to the war in Europe. Increasingly involved in this debate is Henry Ford: inventor, industrialist, billionaire. He is against war - it is bad for business. Into his orbit comes Rosika Schwimmer, who persuades him that a Peace Ship filled with the great and the good should sail to Europe. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 154 x 28. Weight in Grams: 284.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099465966
ISBN
9780099465966
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.43

Paperback. Hannah Buchan thinks herself ordinary. She is not the revolutionary child that her painter mother and famous radical father had hoped for. Raised in the creative chaos of 1960s America, Hannah vows to reject her parents' liberal lifestyle, and settles instead for typical family life in a nondescript corner of Maine. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 39. Weight in Grams: 422. Clean copy in good condition
Edition
1st Arrow Book Edition
Publisher
Cornerstone
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KIN0005336
ISBN
9780099468295
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Harry Ricks is a man who has lost everything. A romantic mistake at the small American college where he used to teach has cost him his job, his marriage and his relationship with his only child. And when the ensuing scandal threatens to completely destroy him, he votes with his feet and flees - to Paris. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 306. Good, clean copy. Showing minor shelfwear to covers and page edges
Edition
1st Arrow Book Edition
Publisher
Cornerstone
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0007570
ISBN
9780099469254
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. New York, 1945 - Sara Smythe, a young, beautiful and intelligent woman, ready to make her own way in the big city, attends her brother's Thanksgiving Eve party. As the party gets into full swing, in walks Jack Malone, a US Army journalist back from a defeated Germany and a man unlike any Sara has ever met before. Num Pages: 656 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 134 x 42. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Arrow
Condition
New
Edition
1st Arrow Books Edition
SKU
V9780099415374
ISBN
9780099415374
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.89

Paperback. Sally Goodchild is everything you'd expect of a thirty-seven year old American journalist - independent, strong-willed and ambitious. That is until she meets Tony Hobbs, an English foreign correspondent, on assignment in Cairo. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 34. Weight in Grams: 366.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Arrow
Condition
New
Edition
1st Arrow Book Edition
SKU
V9780099415381
ISBN
9780099415381
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 19.45

Paperback. On the night of her thirteenth birthday, Jane Howard made a vow to her warring parents - she would never get married and she would never have children. But life, as Jane discovers, is a random business. Many years and many lives later, she is a professor in Boston, in love with an erratic man named Theo. And then she falls pregnant. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 38. Weight in Grams: 416.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Arrow
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099509684
ISBN
9780099509684
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.00
€ 18.41

Paperback. *A fiendishly clever, yet serious tale of middle-class frustration that will touch anyone who has ever wanted to escape their life. The Thriller goes into a new domain - The Real World. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 26. Weight in Grams: 256.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Abacus
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349117386
ISBN
9780349117386
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. Thomas Nesbitt is a divorced American writer living a very private life in Maine. Until, one wintry morning, his solitude is disrupted by the arrival of a package postmarked Berlin. But what is more unsettling is the name accompanying the return address on the package: Petra Dussmann. Num Pages: 656 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FH; FRD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 133 x 36. Weight in Grams: 486.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Arrow
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099509745
ISBN
9780099509745
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.90

Paperback. Num Pages: 266 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 203 x 15. Weight in Grams: 306.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Amberjack Publishing
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780997237719
ISBN
9780997237719
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 15.56

Paperback. Explorers have always been captivated by the search for Quivira, the fabled Lost City of Gold. Nora Kelly's father vanished during one expedition 16 years earlier and now the young archaeologist is on a quest to discover what happened to him. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FH; FJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 171 x 110 x 30. Weight in Grams: 266.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Little, Brown & Company United States
Number of pages
560
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
SKU
V9780446608374
ISBN
9780446608374
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.79

Paperback. They are called The Glory Boys, by those who regard their exploits with envy or contempt. Bob Kearton is one of them. Already a veteran and survivor of the close action in the English Channel and North Sea, in January of 1943, he is ordered to the Mediterranean and beleagured Malta, a mere sixty miles from occupied Sicily. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 113 x 21. Weight in Grams: 176.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Arrow
Number of pages
320
Publication date
2009
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099484271
ISBN
9780099484271
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.57

Paperback. HMS Temeraire: latest and most advanced of Britain's nuclear submarines. When Temraire's trials are cut short and she is ordered to the Far East to reinforce the fleet against a threat from Red China, her captain, David Jermain, knows that this is no routine exercise in flag-waving. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FJMS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 111 x 21. Weight in Grams: 174.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Cornerstone
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099591597
ISBN
9780099591597
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.10

Paperback. Fifth in the Blackwood "Royal Marines" series, this title is set in fifties Malaya and Singapore, at the height of the new terrorist attempts to subvert the creation of the new federation. The Royal Marines, the Commandoes, were used in jungle operations at a time when it was said that the post-war promise of a stable Malaya was on a knife-edge. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 111 x 22. Weight in Grams: 186.
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Arrow
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Format
Paperback
SKU
V9780099436294
ISBN
9780099436294
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 17.73

Paperback. .
Publisher
Valley Spring Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
3rd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780992639730
ISBN
9780992639730
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Paperback. .
Publisher
Spinifex Press Australia
Number of pages
215
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9781876756208
ISBN
9781876756208
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.03

Paperback. Num Pages: 199 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 138 x 14. Weight in Grams: 192.
Publisher
Spinifex Press Australia
Number of pages
199
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781876756079
ISBN
9781876756079
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.04

paperback. Editor(s): Whyte, Anthony. Num Pages: 270 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 133 x 17. Weight in Grams: 257.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Augustus Publishing United States
Number of pages
270
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780982541517
ISBN
9780982541517
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 16.13

Paperback. Iris Murdoch called Auto da Fe "one of the few great novels of the century." Peter Kien is a reclusive Sinologist living in Germany between the wars. Canetti creates the elements in Kien, and in his personal relationships, that will lead to his destruction." Translator(s): Wedgwood, C. V. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 137 x 34. Weight in Grams: 496.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
464
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843432586
ISBN
9781843432586
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 19.26

Paperback. Set in a Scottish caravan park during a freak winter - it is snowing in Jerusalem, the Thames is overflowing, and an iceberg separated from the Fjords in Norway is expected to arrive off the coast of Scotland, this title tells the story of a small Scottish community living through what people have begun to think is the end of times. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 22. Weight in Grams: 228.
Publisher
Windmill Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099592181
ISBN
9780099592181
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.01

Paperback. Fifteen-year old Anais Hendricks is smart, funny and fierce, but she is also a child who has been let down, or worse, by just about every adult she has ever met. Sitting in the back of a police car, she finds herself headed for the Panopticon, a home for chronic young offenders where the social workers are as suspicious as its residents. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 246.
Publisher
Cornerstone United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099558644
ISBN
9780099558644
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Paperback. Num Pages: 342 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 132 x 28. Weight in Grams: 282.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Hyperion
Number of pages
342
Condition
New
SKU
V9781401310882
ISBN
9781401310882
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 18.25

Paperback. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 202 x 23. Weight in Grams: 282.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Hyperion
Condition
New
SKU
V9781401310899
ISBN
9781401310899
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 18.25

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