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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Iain Banks at his very best - his funniest, grittiest and most exciting novel yet. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 197 x 27. Weight in Grams: 294.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Abacus
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349000206
ISBN
9780349000206
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.30

Paperback. A special edition of A is for Angelica as part of The Legend Press Collection, celebrating 10 years of publishing. Series: The Legend Press Collection. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 196 x 24. Weight in Grams: 238.
Publisher
Legend Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Special ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785079771
ISBN
9781785079771
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.98

Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 18. Weight in Grams: 230.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Legend Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908775986
ISBN
9781908775986
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 10.13

Paperback. Now considered a modern classic, CONSIDER THE LILIES focuses on the eviction of an old woman from her croft. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 12. Weight in Grams: 158.
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9780753812938
ISBN
9780753812938
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.06

Paperback. 'Twenty Something' introduces us to Jack Lancaster, who, at only 25 is far too young to be having a mid-life crisis, but who's going to have a pretty good shot at it anyway. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 158 x 17. Weight in Grams: 364. 224 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 232 x 158 x 17. Weight: 364.
Publisher
Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780715635575
ISBN
9780715635575
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.38

Paperback. Sam Hunt is a confused modern male in his very late twenties. A work-shy, commitment-phobic would-be actor, he is beginning to worry that turning thirty might just be the last straw. Flatmate Alan, the sensible one, has just been proposed to by his girlfriend Jess, with his femme fatale boss looking on with a saucy gleam in her eye. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 18. Weight in Grams: 176.
Publisher
Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780715637111
ISBN
9780715637111
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.73

Paperback. At only twenty-five, Jack Lancaster is far too young to be having a mid-life crisis, but he's going to have a pretty good shot at it anyway. On the surface, his is an idyllic situation. But when he dumps Lucy and she sleeps with his best friend, Rick, by way of revenge, Jack's life begins to fall apart. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 14. Weight in Grams: 182. 224 pages. At only twenty-five, Jack Lancaster is far too young to be having a mid-life crisis, but he's going to have a pretty good shot at it anyway. On the surface, his is an idyllic situation. But when he dumps Lucy and she sleeps with his best friend, Rick, by way of revenge, Jack's life begins to fall apart. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 197 x 132 x 14. Weight: 182.
Publisher
Duckworth & Co
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780715636565
ISBN
9780715636565
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.74

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Sandstone Press
Edition
Bilingual
Number of pages
120
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905207305
ISBN
9781905207305
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.75

Paperback. A novel that tells the story of John Stone, financier and armaments manufacturer, a man so wealthy that in the years before World War One he was able to manipulate markets, industries and indeed whole countries and continents. It takes you on a quest to discover how and why John Stone dies, falling out of a window at his London home. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 420. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
SKU
KRA0010108
ISBN
9780099516170
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Offers a personal record of the author's north-east London home in which he has lived for forty years. This documentary fiction seeks to capture the spirit of place, before Hackney succumbs to mendacious green papers, eco boasts, sponsored public art and the Olympic Park gnawing at its edges. Num Pages: 592 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 402.
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141012742
ISBN
9780141012742
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.39

Paperback. The Thames runs through Downriver like an open wound, draining the pain and filth of London and its mercurial inhabitants. Commissioned to document the shifting embankments of industry and rampant property speculation, a film crew of magpie scavengers, high-rent lowlife, broken criminals and reborn lunatics picks over the rivers detritus. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 38. Weight in Grams: 374.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
544
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141014852
ISBN
9780141014852
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 18.58

Paperback. .
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
464
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141014821
ISBN
9780141014821
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.73

Paperback. Private Investigator Tommy Storm is hired by a top Hollywood film producer to find his missing daughter and her leading man. As Storm and his goody two-shoes doppelganger investigate the case, sinister forces conspire to commit the ultimate murder. The question is: who is on the side of the angels, and can either Storm tell the difference? Num Pages: 134 pages. BIC Classification: F; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 217 x 9. Weight in Grams: 144.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
John Hunt Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
134
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846949531
ISBN
9781846949531
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.37

Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 200.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Old Street Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906964122
ISBN
9781906964122
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.38

Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 142 x 29. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
M P Publishing Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849822633
ISBN
9781849822633
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.46

Paperback. 156 pages. Editor(s): Daley, Ian; Penn, Emily. Containing five contemporary stories, this title features: a showcase of young talent; the decorator's tale; stories of love and the trouble it can bring; and modern folk tales. It also includes a car chase short story. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Dimension: 215 x 154 x 12. Weight: 224.
Publisher
Route
Number of pages
156
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9781901927269
ISBN
9781901927269
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.41

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Travelman Publishing United Kingdom
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
22
Condition
New
SKU
V9781860920400
ISBN
9781860920400
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.79

Paperback. For the third time, Granta has selected 20 writers under 40 whose writing represents the best promise or achievement in British fiction. The collection includes stories by Sarah Waters, Rachel Cusk, Robert McLiam Wilson, Rachel Seiffert, Philip Hensher, A. L. Kennedy and Toby Litt. Editor(s): Jack, Ian. Series: Granta: The Magazine of New Writing. Num Pages: 320 pages, 32photos. BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 149 x 209 x 21. Weight in Grams: 618.
Publisher
Granta Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
Illustrated
Condition
New
SKU
V9780903141581
ISBN
9780903141581
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.99

Paperback. The life of Paul Metzger, a writer, is in disrepair. Mid-thirties, divorced, underachieving. A mid-winter Sunday in New York sees him traversing the city to visit three people: a half-brother who wants little to do with him; a dying father, whose meagre estate has pitted his sons against one another; and an ex-wife whom Paul still loves. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 160.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099531852
ISBN
9780099531852
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.50

Paperback. Thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilla strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. By the end of that day, the lives of all three will have been changed for ever. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 280.
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
Limited Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099497042
ISBN
9780099497042
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. As their holiday unfolds, Colin and Maria are locked into their own intimacy. They groom themselves meticulously, as though there waits someone who cares deeply about how they appear. Then, they meet a man with a disturbing story to tell and become drawn into a fantasy of violence and obsession. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 8. Weight in Grams: 90.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099754916
ISBN
9780099754916
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

paperback. In the relentless summer heat, four abruptly orphaned children retreat into a shadowy, isolated world, and find their own strange and unsettling ways of fending for themselves. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 10. Weight in Grams: 122.
Publisher
Vintage
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099755111
ISBN
9780099755111
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Hardcover. On the hottest day of the summer of 1934, thirteen-year-old Briony Tallis sees her sister Cecilia strip off her clothes and plunge into the fountain in the garden of their country house. Watching her is Robbie Turner, her childhood friend who, like Cecilia, has recently come down from Cambridge. Num Pages: 424 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 128 x 27. Weight in Grams: 528.
Publisher
Everyman
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841593609
ISBN
9781841593609
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.02

Paperback. Stephen Lewis, a successful author of children's books, takes his three-year-old daughter on a routine Saturday morning trip to the supermarket. While waiting in line, his attention is distracted and his daughter is kidnapped. From there, Lewis spirals into bereavement that has effects on his relationship with his wife, his psyche and time itself. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 244.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099755012
ISBN
9780099755012
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

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