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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. The new novel from the author of the Man Booker-shortlisted The Lighthouse is a tense and moreish confection of semiotics, suggestibility and creative writing with real psychological depth and, in Bonnie Falls and Sylvia Slythe, two unforgettable characters. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 186.
Publisher
Salt Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784630690
ISBN
9781784630690
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.15

Paperback. Lewis Sullivan, is approaching retirement when he wonders for the first time whether he ought to have chosen a more dramatic career. He lives in a village in the Midlands, less than a mile from the house in which he grew up. But when an unusual childhood friend appears on the scene, Lewis finds his life and comfortable routine shaken up. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 150. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Salt Publishing
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSS0008147
ISBN
9781907773815
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Lewis Sullivan, is approaching retirement when he wonders for the first time whether he ought to have chosen a more dramatic career. He lives in a village in the Midlands, less than a mile from the house in which he grew up. But when an unusual childhood friend appears on the scene, Lewis finds his life and comfortable routine shaken up. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 150.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Salt Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
KTG0002279
ISBN
9781907773815
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. The history of the Kindertransport and one family's desperate struggle to escape Czechoslovakia during the Nazi invasion Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 244.
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780755379439
ISBN
9780755379439
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. Num Pages: 310 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 210 x 22. Weight in Grams: 330.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
V9781503939899
ISBN
9781503939899
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 15.11

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Hyperion United States
Number of pages
262
Condition
New
SKU
V9781401311049
ISBN
9781401311049
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.31

Paperback. In the summer of 1983, two sisters discover that promises can't always be kept .. The House on Seaview Road is a story about first love, growing up and about the enduring bonds of sisterhood. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 234 x 32. Weight in Grams: 542.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Hachette Books Ireland
Condition
New
SKU
V9781473612853
ISBN
9781473612853
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 14.21

Paperback. Celeste Price is an eighth-grade English teacher in suburban Tampa. She is attractive. She drives a red Corvette. Her husband, Ford, is rich, square-jawed and devoted to her. But Celeste has a secret. She has a singular sexual obsession - fourteen-year-old boys. It is a craving she pursues with sociopathic meticulousness and forethought. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 214.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571303335
ISBN
9780571303335
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.78

Paperback. Reissue of the classic tale of high-octane adventure set in the world of 1970s Formula One, from the acclaimed master of action and suspense. Num Pages: 256 pages, forms transparencies. BIC Classification: FA; FH; FJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 113 x 17. Weight in Grams: 140. 190pp , Minor shelf wear
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Fontana
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1975
Edition
Reprint
SKU
KLN0022584
ISBN
9780006151357
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

paperback. Winner of the PEN/Malamud Award: The genius of his stories is to render his fictional world as timeless. Colm Toibin" Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 139 x 27. Weight in Grams: 350.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company United States
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780393341188
ISBN
9780393341188
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 19.17

Paperback. Travel to the revolutionary closing years of 18th century England. Meet Jack Cockshutt, arsonist by trade, returning to rescue his victims and profit from their relief, finding the woman who just might save him. Meet the beauty who castigates her customers with passages from Paine's Rights of Man. Num Pages: 170 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 12. Weight in Grams: 146.
Publisher
Parthian Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
170
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908946317
ISBN
9781908946317
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.86

Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FT; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 135 x 22. Weight in Grams: 294.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780062433206
ISBN
9780062433206
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.34

Paperback. If there remains any doubt about Allan Gurganus s literary greatness, Local Souls should put this to rest forever. Jamie Quatro, New York Times Book Review" Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
W W Norton & Co Ltd United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9781631490255
ISBN
9781631490255
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.40

Hardback. Allan Gurganus brings the twisted hilarity of Flannery O'Connor kicking into our new century in this literary event of 2013. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 167 x 30. Weight in Grams: 650.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780871403797
ISBN
9780871403797
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.44

Paperback. Was Lucien de Balafre a patriot who served his country as best he could in difficult times, or a treacherous collaborator in the Vichy government? This book explores the ties between fathers and sons and the pains of love and duty in a period of European history that is still characterised by wilful denial and hatred. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 131 x 25. Weight in Grams: 244. 356 pages. Etienne de Balafre, half French, half English and raised in South Africa, returns to post-war France to unravel the tangled history of his father - Lucien. Was he a patriot who served his country as best he could in difficult times, or a treacherous collaborator in the Vichy government?. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 128 x 198 x 22. Weight: 288.
Publisher
Canongate Books
Number of pages
356
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841952994
ISBN
9781841952994
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.74

Paperback. A charismatic doctor and a rigorous scientist are co-directors of a cancer research lab. They demand nothing less than complete dedication and obedience from their young proteges. In this high-pressure setting, one young man's experiments begin to show exciting results. At first the entire lab is giddy with expectation. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 27. Weight in Grams: 326. 400 pages. A charismatic doctor and a rigorous scientist are co-directors of a cancer research lab. They demand nothing less than complete dedication and obedience from their young proteges. In this high-pressure setting, one young man's experiments begin to show exciting results. At first the entire lab is giddy with expectation. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 196 x 128 x 27. Weight: 326.
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843548423
ISBN
9781843548423
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.94

Paperback. 'Goodman is everything it says on her tin - a wonderful, lyrical writer - but she also has an astute eye for comedy and some bits of the book are truly hilarious.' Wendy Holden, Daily Mail Num Pages: 394 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 30. Weight in Grams: 394. 'Goodman is everything it says on her tin - a wonderful, lyrical writer - but she also has an astute eye for comedy and some bits of the book are truly hilarious.' Wendy Holden, Daily Mail. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 197 x 127 x 30. Weight: 392.
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848875401
ISBN
9781848875401
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.01

Paperback. On a summer's night in Athens, Patrik Keim stuck a pistol into his mouth and pulled the trigger. Keim was an artist, and the room in which he died was an assemblage of the tools of his particular trade. His body completed the tableau. This is a two-sided ethnography: one from the world of the living and the other from the world of the dead. Num Pages: 256 pages, 18 halftones. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 376.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780226073224
ISBN
9780226073224
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 22.84

Paperback. Series: Small Worlds. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 122 x 22. Weight in Grams: 302.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S. United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780789205834
ISBN
9780789205834
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.12

Paperback. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 141 x 7. Weight in Grams: 160.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Sterling Publishers Pvt.Ltd India
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
SKU
V9788120734449
ISBN
9788120734449
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.99
€ 7.88

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