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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. A troubling satire of the romantic myth of stardom and the empty heart of rock and roll, more relevant than ever in our celebrity-obsessed times. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 212.
Publisher
Picador
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Reprints
Condition
New
SKU
9780330524896
ISBN
9780330524896
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 4.99

Paperback. David Bell embodies the American dream. He's twenty-eight, has survived office coups, scandals, and beaten lesser rivals, to become an extremely successful TV exec. The images that flicker across America's screens, the fantasies that enthrall viewers, they are of his making. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 197 x 25. Weight in Grams: 274.
Publisher
Penguin
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Re-issue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241953389
ISBN
9780241953389
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.88

Paperback. When "history" presents itself in the form of two disgruntled CIA operatives who decide that an unsuccessful attempt on the life of JFK will galvanize the nation against Communism, the scales are irrevocably tipped. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 27. Weight in Grams: 348.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141188225
ISBN
9780141188225
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.06

Paperback. Prosperous, good-looking and empty inside, 28-year-old advertising executive David Bell appears on the surface to have everything. But he is a man on the brink of losing his sanity. Trapped in a Manhattan office with soulless sycophants as his only company, he makes an abrupt decision to leave New York for America's mid-west. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 24. Weight in Grams: 288.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
Trade Paperback Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141188232
ISBN
9780141188232
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. .
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Main Market Ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781509837854
ISBN
9781509837854
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.39

Paperback. An excoriating portrayal of loss and an unnerving post-Iraq discourse mark this brilliant novel of modern America. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 11. Weight in Grams: 138.
Publisher
Picador
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Reprints
Condition
New
SKU
V9780330512398
ISBN
9780330512398
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.00

Paperback. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 31. Weight in Grams: 320.
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Main Market Ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781509837861
ISBN
9781509837861
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.00

paperback. A thriller, a mystery, and still a moving examination of family, loss and the amorphous and magical potential of language itself. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 28. Weight in Grams: 346.
Edition
Main Market
Publisher
Picador
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780330524865
ISBN
9780330524865
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.74

paperback. A magnificent, essential work of fiction about the event which has come to define America at the turn of the twenty-first century. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 133 x 19. Weight in Grams: 188.
Publisher
Picador
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Reprints
Condition
New
SKU
9781447224372
ISBN
9780330524919
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.27

Paperback. A sad, beautiful novel, The Body Artist is an elliptical meditiation on the mysteries of love, life and time. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 132 x 11. Weight in Grams: 128.
Publisher
Picador
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Reprints
Condition
New
SKU
V9780330524957
ISBN
9780330524957
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.17

Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 206.
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Main Market Ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781509822843
ISBN
9781509822843
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.00

Paperback. A mesmeric tour de force of character rendered with DeLillo's typical stylistic brilliance, intelligence and wit becomes a warning for the global future. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 170.
Publisher
Picador
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Reprints
Condition
New
SKU
9781447206583
ISBN
9780330524933
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 5.70

Paperback. Num Pages: 188 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 278.
Publisher
NeWest Press Canada
Number of pages
188
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9781897126417
ISBN
9781897126417
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 15.79

Hardback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 187 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 286.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780892729227
ISBN
9780892729227
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.85

Hardback. In novel form, a contemporary alt-country ballad of heartbreak, failure, love, and unquenchable yearning. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393608816
ISBN
9780393608816
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 24.93

Paperback. Walter Withers had given the best years of his life to the CIA, setting honeytraps and reeling in the victims of his plots. But Withers has returned to his hometown for a safe life as a Private Investigator. Withers is assigned to bodyguard presidential hopeful Senator Joe Keneally's girlfriend at a society gathering. But next morning, she's dead. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FHD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 222.
Publisher
Arrow
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099706410
ISBN
9780099706410
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.01

Paperback. A novel that features a mixed group of characters, each in his or her own way seeking some sort of salvation or redemption. It talks about the plot: how the US government and some of its quasi-autonomous agencies (CIA, FBI, DEA) all for their own reasons sponsored and financed the development of the drug cartels and their trade in Mexico. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 35. Weight in Grams: 394.
Publisher
Cornerstone
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099464983
ISBN
9780099464983
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.08

Paperback. Boone Daniels, a laid-back private investigator, gathers with his surfing buddies on Pacific beach. There's no surf, but the Dawn Patrol are out in force regardless.. it's what they do. Having no work to do, and no real reason to go to the office, Boone stays for the second shift on the daily surfing clock - the Gentleman's Hour. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 238.
Publisher
Cornerstone
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099527565
ISBN
9780099527565
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. Boone Daniels is a laid-back kind of private investigator. He has sleuthing skills to burn but is rarely out of his boardshorts, and with a huge Pacific storm approaching San Diego, Boone wants to be there to ride the once-in-a-lifetime waves with his buddies in the Dawn Patrol. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 228.
Publisher
Arrow
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099510147
ISBN
9780099510147
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. In Savages, the author introduces Ben and Chon, twenty something best friends who risk everything to save the girl they both love, O. In this prequel, the author reaches back in time to tell the story of how Ben, Chon and O became the people they are. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 250.
Publisher
Cornerstone
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099576549
ISBN
9780099576549
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. Frank Machianno is a retired hit man. But a favour called in by the local boss is one Frank simply can't refuse, and before he knows it he's sucked back into the treacherous currents of his former life. Someone from his past wants him dead, and he has to figure out who, and why, and he has to do it fast as he is running out of time. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 228.
Publisher
Arrow
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Thus.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099509455
ISBN
9780099509455
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.01

paperback. Nicholai Hel exploded onto the scene in Trevanian's 1970s blockbuster SHIBUMI. Now critically acclaimed novelist Don Winslow continues the story and reveals how Nicolai Hel became the world's most dangerous assassin Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 133 x 36. Weight in Grams: 368.
Publisher
Headline
Number of pages
544
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780755370221
ISBN
9780755370221
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. While the Celtic Tiger rages, and greed becomes the norm, Johnsey Cunliffe desperately tries to hold on to the familiar, even as he loses those who all his life have protected him from a harsh world. Set over the course of one year of Johnsey's life, this book is about his grief, bewilderment, humour and agonizing self-doubt. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 150.
Publisher
Black Swan Ireland
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
9780552773577
ISBN
9780552773577
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 10.24

Paperback. An old man looks into the eyes of a burglar left to guard him while his brother is beaten; an Irish priest in a war-torn Syrian town teaches its men the art of hurling; a squad of broken friends assemble to take revenge on a rapist; a young man sets off on his morning run, reflecting on the ruins of his relationship, but all is not as it seems. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 16. Weight in Grams: 170.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9781784160241
ISBN
9781784160241
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 10.24

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