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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. In a small Pennsylvania town in the late 1940s, schoolteacher George Caldwell yearns to find some meaning in his life. Alone with his teenage son for three days in a blizzard, Caldwell sees his son grow and change as he himself begins to lose touch with his life. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1978
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140023404
- ISBN
- 9780140023404
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.79
€ 20.99
€ 16.79
Paperback. Janice and Nelson Angstrom, and several other survivors of the irreducible Rabbit, fitfully entertain his memory while pursuing their own happiness over the edge of the millennium, as a number of old strands come together in entirely unexpected ways. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 197 x 24. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140298963
- ISBN
- 9780140298963
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.95
€ 19.99
€ 15.95
Paperback. Deals with one of America's issues - threat of Islamist terror from within. It also suggests ways in which we can counter it, in our words and our actions. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 220. Good copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0007676
- ISBN
- 9780141027845
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Hardcover. From his birth in 1923 to his belated paternity and public apotheosis as a septuagenarian in 1999, Bech plugs away, globetrotting in the company of foreign dignitaries one day and schlepping in tattered tweeds on the college lecture circuit the next. This book presents a portrait of literary life in America from an incomparable American writer. Num Pages: 552 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 134 x 32. Weight in Grams: 594.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Everyman United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 552
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857152647
- ISBN
- 9781857152647
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.06
€ 19.99
€ 15.06
Paperback. It's 1959 and Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom, one time high school sports superstar, is going nowhere. At twenty-six he is trapped in a second-rate existence - stuck with a fragile, alcoholic wife, a house full of overflowing ashtrays and discarded glasses, a young son and a futile job. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141187839
- ISBN
- 9780141187839
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
€ 13.99
€ 10.45
Paperback. Ben Turnbull is a 66 year-old retired investment consultant living north of Boston in the year 2020. A recent war between the United States and China has thinned the population and brought social chaos. Nevertheless, Ben's life, traced by his journal entries over the course of the year, retains much of its accustomed comforts. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 262. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0000632
- ISBN
- 9780141188966
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Roger Lambert, a professor of Divinity at a New England university is convinced that religious belief can only be justified by recourse to pure faith. But when his wife flings herself into an affair with a younger man, his faith in his own placid life is thrown into question. This novel presents an exploration of religion, uncertainty and passion. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 264. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0000634
- ISBN
- 9780141188430
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Henry Bech, the celebrated author of "Travel Light", has been scrutinized, canonized and vilified by critics and readers across the world. This work explores the writing life and what happens when a writer becomes a literary celebrity. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 246.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141188560
- ISBN
- 9780141188560
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.29
€ 15.99
€ 12.29
Paperback. Using details from the ancient Scandinavian legends that were the inspiration for "Hamlet", this tale brings to life Gertrude's girlhood as the daughter of King Rorik, her arranged marriage to the man who becomes King, and her middle-aged affair with her husband's younger brother. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 162.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140290905
- ISBN
- 9780140290905
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.25
€ 17.99
€ 14.25
paperback. A collection of stories from the author's final years. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 23. Weight in Grams: 292. Clean copy with minor shelf wear. Newspaper clipping pasted to half-title page by previous owner. Remains a very good copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMK0022712
- ISBN
- 9780141042596
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
Paperback. Follows three guys, their lovers, their kids and their mates, all trying to make sense of their lives in a world that makes less sense every day. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135 x 18. Weight in Grams: 270. "Commissioning organisation: John Williams. 212 p. 22 cm. Paperback. Fine clean copy, as new." Keywords: "Subjects - Fiction - By Period - General,Subjects - Fiction - General"
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC London
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- SKU
- KEX0161307
- ISBN
- 9780747570981
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Follows three guys, their lovers, their kids and their mates, all trying to make sense of their lives in a world that makes less sense every day. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135 x 18. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC London
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- SKU
- KRS0003832
- ISBN
- 9780747570981
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Will Andrews is no academic. He longs for wildness, freedom, hope and vigour. He leaves Harvard and sets out for the West to discover a new way of living. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 132 x 22. Weight in Grams: 246.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099589679
- ISBN
- 9780099589679
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.33
€ 10.33
Paperback. This year's Big American Novel is a high-concept epic that races through one family's experience of the twentieth century Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 197 x 35. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847672322
- ISBN
- 9781847672322
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.99
€ 11.99
€ 9.99
Paperback. In the tunnels beneath New York a young man is missing. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 194.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847671523
- ISBN
- 9781847671523
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.49
€ 14.99
€ 11.49
hardcover. This year's Big American Novel is a high-concept epic that races through one family's experience of the twentieth century Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 164 x 46. Weight in Grams: 784. Hardback, dustjacket has a small tear, otherwise a good copy.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KRF2233590
- ISBN
- 9781782118923
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 19.99€ 4.99
€ 19.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Francis and Diana, two scientists investigating a lichen, discover it has a remarkable property: it retards the aging process. Francis, realising the implications for the world of a youthful, wealthy elite, wants to keep it secret, but Diana sees an opportunity to overturn the male status quo by using the lichen to inspire a feminist revolution. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 154.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141032986
- ISBN
- 9780141032986
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Paperback. Nuclear war has devastated the world, bringing with it a host of genetic mutations. In the bleak, primitive society that has emerged from its ruins, any sign of deviation, no matter how small, is ruthlessly rooted out and destroyed. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 160.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141181479
- ISBN
- 9780141181479
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. David Strorm's father doesn't approve of Angus Morton's unusually large horses, calling them blasphemies against nature. Little does he realise that his own son, and his son's cousin Rosalind and their friends, have their own secret abberation which would label them as mutants. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 152. David Strorm's father doesn't approve of Angus Morton's unusually large horses, calling them blasphemies against nature. Little does he realise that his own son, and his son's cousin Rosalind and their friends, have their own secret abberation which would label them as mutants. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 152.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141032979
- ISBN
- 9780141032979
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.33
€ 13.99
€ 10.33
Paperback. For the first time since "A Time to Kill", Grisham returns to Ford County, Mississippi - a place rich in colourful characters and dark family secrets. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 153. . Clean copy. Good to very good
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Century
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- New Ed
- SKU
- KST0016725
- ISBN
- 9780712684361
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
paperback. Num Pages: 132 pages. BIC Classification: FA; YFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 137 x 11. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Kwela Books South Africa
- Number of pages
- 132
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780795701474
- ISBN
- 9780795701474
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.31
€ 13.99
€ 13.31
Paperback. A wonderful, emotionally rich novel of the power of mother love, by the author of THE LAST LETTER FROM YOUR LOVER. Num Pages: 416 pages, n/a. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780340895962
- ISBN
- 9780340895962
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.23
€ 11.99
€ 10.23
Paperback. One eternal optimist.. Jess Thomas, with two jobs and two kids and never enough money, wears flip flops in the hope of spring. And when life knocks her down she does her best to bounce right back. But no one told her it's okay to ask for help. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 144 x 41. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405909051
- ISBN
- 9781405909051
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. Shortlisted for the 2007 RNA Novel of the Year award, the author of the bestselling SHIP OF BRIDES returns with a stunning and emotionally fulfilling novel. Num Pages: 416 pages, n/a. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 29. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780340895931
- ISBN
- 9780340895931
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
€ 13.99
€ 11.09