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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. Sefton Goldberg: mid-thirties, English teacher at Wrottesley Poly in the West Midlands; small, sweaty, lustful, defiantly unappreciative of beer, nature and organised games; gnawingly aware of being an urban Jew islanded in a sea of country-loving Anglo-Saxons. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 199 x 16. Weight in Grams: 184.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099452034
- ISBN
- 9780099452034
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. Two people fall in love, not yet knowing where they have come from or where they are going. They aren't sure if they have fallen in love of their own accord, or whether they've been pushed into each other's arms. But who would have pushed them, and why? Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099598381
- ISBN
- 9780099598381
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 6.00
€ 11.99
€ 6.00
Hardcover. From the very beginning, Oliver Walzer is a natural - at ping-pong. Without even a bat, he can chop, flick, half-volley like a champion. This is a story of one man's coming of age in the Manchester of the 1950s. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 144 x 36. Weight in Grams: 525. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear. Dust wrapper has some minor edge wear but remains very good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- KKD0002984
- ISBN
- 9780224051576
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Barney Fugleman has two major preoccupations in life: sex and literature. He is obsessed by the life and work of a man hailed by many as a genius of the nineteenth century. This curious propulsion drives him out of Finchley, and out of the life he shares with Sharon and her 'rampant marvellings', to Cornwall. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099288282
- ISBN
- 9780099288282
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.84
€ 15.99
€ 11.84
Paperback. From the beginning, Oliver Walzel is a natural - at ping-pong; he can chop, flick and half-volley like a champion. At sex he is not a natural, but with tuition his game improves. This is the story of coming-of-age in 1950s Manchester. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 132 x 26. Weight in Grams: 278.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099274728
- ISBN
- 9780099274728
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.84
€ 15.99
€ 11.84
Paperback. WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 145 x 26. Weight in Grams: 266. Some minor shelf wear but overall in a very good condition
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSC0002366
- ISBN
- 9781408809938
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. A novel, that recounts the rollicking tale of a young deaf boy and how he learned to survive and thrive at the turn of the twentieth century. Series: Gallaudet Classics in Deaf Studies. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Gallaudet University Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781563686368
- ISBN
- 9781563686368
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 24.51
€ 30.99
€ 24.51
Paperback. A happiness drug is found to be intolerable to society. This book describes the process by which its disseminators are hounded to death. Series: Library of Wales. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Publisher
- Parthian Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 264
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905762798
- ISBN
- 9781905762798
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.38
€ 11.38
Hardback. At once a bittersweet romance and a vividly detailed portrait of life in a southern Taiwanese coastal town in the 1970s, this prize-winning Taiwanese bestseller about love, betrayal, family life, and the power of tradition captures the intimacy of agricultural life in the midst of an increasingly industrialized society. Translator(s): Wu, Michelle. Series: Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 160 x 29. Weight in Grams: 544.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231117920
- ISBN
- 9780231117920
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 99.60€ 76.26
€ 99.60
€ 76.26
Paperback. Harry Goldfarb, heroin addict and son of lonely widow Sara, cares only about enjoying the good life with girlfriend Marion and best friend Tyrone C Love, and making the most of all the hash, poppers and dope they can get. Sara Goldfarb sits at home with the TV, dreaming of the life she could have and struggling with her own addictions. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 126 x 9. Weight in Grams: 182.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141195667
- ISBN
- 9780141195667
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
Paperback. Driven to desperation by the hand the world has dealt him, a man attempts to buy a gun to end his life. But a computer malfunction causes a delay with the gun license: a life-saving event that sees the man questioning why he should die when there are so many others he believes should go before him. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 126 x 6. Weight in Grams: 120.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141195681
- ISBN
- 9780141195681
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.69
€ 13.99
€ 11.69
Paperback. Fat Phil can't lose at dice, even when his friends turn nasty and he's trying his hardest; a salesman finds success comes from fortune cookie mottoes, but panics when these mottoes turn against him; and, a commuter finds himself obsessed with a plain young woman on his train, at the expense of his marriage. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241951248
- ISBN
- 9780241951248
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.23
€ 17.99
€ 14.23
Paperback. The prisoner's remand cell becomes the scene of a surreal mental torture. This is an examination of the suffering humans can inflict on each other. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 178.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141195674
- ISBN
- 9780141195674
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Paperback. Harry White is the man other men want to be: admired by his peers, talented, rich, and desired by countless women. His steady rise to a position of unprecedented influence in a New York investment firm seems inevitable to those who know him, and on the way he acquires a beautiful wife and children. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 220.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141195643
- ISBN
- 9780141195643
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
Paperback. A novel that tells the stories of New Yorkers who at every turn confront the worst excesses in human nature. It includes such creations as: Georgette, the transvestite who falls in love with a callous hoodlum; and Tralala, the conniving prostitute who plumbs the depths of sexual degradation. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 127 x 16. Weight in Grams: 202.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141195650
- ISBN
- 9780141195650
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.04
€ 13.99
€ 11.04
Paperback. Palmer has never been the same since his father walked out twelve years ago. His elder sister, Vic, is trying to run away from the past; his younger brothers, Connor and Rob, are risking their lives to embrace it. His mother, left with nothing but anger, is just trying to forget. Num Pages: 384 pages, map (black and white). BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 142 x 26. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099595151
- ISBN
- 9780099595151
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. When Thomas Lang, a hired gun with a soft heart, is contracted to assassinate an American industrialist, he opts instead to warn the intended victim - a good deed that doesn't go unpunished. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Cornerstone
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- 9780099469391
- ISBN
- 9780099469391
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
€ 13.99
€ 10.45
Paperback. The drunk man lies on a moonlit hillside looking at a thistle, jaggy and beautiful, which epitomises Scotland's divided self. The man reflects on the fate of the nation, the human condition in general and his own personal fears. This book contains commentary and notes, and takes the reader through the author's complex and opaque use of language. Editor(s): Buthlay, Kenneth. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 21. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Publisher
- Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846970269
- ISBN
- 9781846970269
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.57
€ 17.99
€ 16.57
Paperback. George and Catherine Stewart share the worry of Catherine's illness, which could cause her death at any time, and the memory of Jerome Martell, Catherine's first husband and George's closest friend. Martel, a doctor, is presumed to have died in a Nazi prison camp. But then he suddenly returns. Num Pages: 372 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 661. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen´s University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780773524965
- ISBN
- 9780773524965
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 23.06
€ 24.99
€ 23.06
Paperback. Robbie is an ordinary Dublin boy until he hurts his head in an accident on St Patrick's Day. His injury changes everything. When he returns to conciousness, Robbie believes that God has given him the power to perform miracles. When tragedy strikes closer to home, Robbie needs all his powers to keep his world intact. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 149.
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 208
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099462088
- ISBN
- 9780099462088
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 6.99€ 4.99
€ 6.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover. A European novel of racial mixing and "passing" in early twentieth-century America that serves as a unique account of transnational and transcultural racial attitudes that continue to reverberate today. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Num Pages: 182 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Publisher
- Camden House
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571139825
- ISBN
- 9781571139825
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 98.42
€ 98.42
Paperback. Hugo Hamilton, the internationally acclaimed author of 'The Speckled People' and 'Sailor in the Wardrobe', turns his hand back to fiction with a compelling drama tracing Berlin's central historical importance throughout the twentieth century. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 133 x 22. Weight in Grams: 212. Used paperback, in good condition. Some shelf wear.
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- SKU
- KRF0031544
- ISBN
- 9780007314706
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. 'Not only haunted by death, but also by beauty and the strangeness of being alive. A deeply memorable novel' Colm Toibin Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 22. Weight in Grams: 208.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007324866
- ISBN
- 9780007324866
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.66
€ 13.99
€ 10.66
Hardback. The eponymous Old Testament hero Noah fuels his local economy with a prescient plan to build the Ark. Though no one around him seriously believes in the coming flood, everyone is more than willing to do business with him: The people of Mesopotamia had never had it so good. Translator(s): Willcocks, Samuel P. Series: SB - The Swiss List. Num Pages: 186 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 141 x 21. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- Tra
- Number of pages
- 186
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857420466
- ISBN
- 9780857420466
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.93
€ 19.99
€ 16.93