Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. A secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulation of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest is so heavily worked that the letters feel like braille. I like to keep my body rolled away from prying eyes, never unfold too much, tell the whole story. I didn't know that Louise would have reading hands. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 12. Weight in Grams: 144.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099598275
- ISBN
- 9780099598275
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Condition: New
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Paperback. An e-writer called Ali or Alix will write to order anything you like, provided that you are prepared to enter the story as yourself and take the risk of leaving it as someone else. You can be the hero of your own life. You can have freedom just for one night. But there is a price to pay. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 16. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099598299
- ISBN
- 9780099598299
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Condition: New
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Paperback. A collection of short stories that reveals various facets of an extraordinary imagination. In prose that is full of imagery and word-play, it creates physical and psychological worlds that are at once familiar and yet shockingly strange. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 132 x 16. Weight in Grams: 178.
- Publisher
- Trafalgar Square
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099274537
- ISBN
- 9780099274537
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Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.76
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Paperback. Set in a London of the near future, its three principal characters, Handel, Picasso and Sappho, separately flee the city and find themselves on the same train, drawn to one another through the curious agency of a book. This book features a question and a quest: How shall I live? Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 15. Weight in Grams: 176.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099598282
- ISBN
- 9780099598282
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.91
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Paperback. On the airwaves, all the talk is of the new blue planet - pristine and habitable, like our own 65 million years ago, before we took it to the edge of destruction. And off the air, Billie and Spike are falling in love. What will happen when their story combines with the world's story, as they whirl towards Planet Blue, into the future? Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 143 x 20. Weight in Grams: 184.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141032603
- ISBN
- 9780141032603
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.95
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Paperback.
- Publisher
- Quercus Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849161831
- ISBN
- 9781849161831
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.18
€ 11.99
€ 10.18
Paperback. An e-writer called Ali or Alix will write to order anything you like, provided that you are prepared to enter the story as yourself and take the risk of leaving it as someone else. You can be the hero of your own life. You can have freedom just for one night. But there is a price. Ali discovers that she too will have to pay it. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 16. Weight in Grams: 182. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSS0003439
- ISBN
- 9780099285434
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
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Paperback. Tells the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by her mother as one of God's elect. Zealous and passionate, she seems destined for life as a missionary, but then she falls for one of her converts. At sixteen, Jeanette decides to leave the church, her home and her family, for the young woman she loves. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 15. Weight in Grams: 172.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099598183
- ISBN
- 9780099598183
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
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Paperback. A baby girl is abandoned, banished from London to the storm-ravaged American city of New Bohemia. Her father has been driven mad by jealousy, her mother to exile by grief. Seventeen years later, Perdita doesn't know a lot about who she is or where she's come from - but she's about to find out. Series: Hogarth Shakespeare. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 25. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099598190
- ISBN
- 9780099598190
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 4.99
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paperback. From one of Britain's best-loved literary novelists comes a magical, lyrical tale of the young orphan Silver, taken in by the ancient lighthousekeeper Mr. Pew, who reveals to her a world of myth and mystery through the art of storytelling. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 202.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780007181506
- ISBN
- 9780007181506
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.82
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paperback. Celebrating the power of the imagination as it playfully juggles with our perception of history and reality, this book features the story about love and sex; lies and truths; and twelve dancing princesses who lived happily ever after, but not with their husbands. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 12. Weight in Grams: 142.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099598176
- ISBN
- 9780099598176
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.45
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Paperback. It's Tibet, 1954. Steeped in the Quaker tradition of non-violence and longing to live in a society that has embraced pacifism for centuries, two Americans Emma and Gerald Kittredge are soon happily adopted by their Tibetan neighbours, Dorje and Rinchen. But the arrival of Maoist soldiers into their quiet life shatters everything. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 27. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Publisher
- Oneworld Publications United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781851687367
- ISBN
- 9781851687367
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.59
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Paperback. From the author of the two-million copy US bestseller, The Glass Castle, comes a debut novel inspired by the extraordinary life of her grandmother Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 19. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster UK
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Later Printing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847398314
- ISBN
- 9781847398314
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.57
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Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781471129094
- ISBN
- 9781471129094
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.61
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Paperback. Translator(s): Bangerter, Lowell A. Series: Studies in Austrian Literature, Culture & Thought: Translation S. Num Pages: 101 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 142 x 9. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Ariadne Press United States
- Number of pages
- 101
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780929497549
- ISBN
- 9780929497549
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.27
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Paperback. In the Korean War, Yefgenii Yeremin is dubbed 'Ivan the Terrible', shooting down more American jets than any other pilot. But the Soviet Union's involvement in Korea must be kept secret, so Yefgenii is exiled to a remote Arctic base. But in 1964, a man arrives from Moscow, in search of a volunteer prepared to sacrifice everything for his country. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 17. Weight in Grams: 226.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099468523
- ISBN
- 9780099468523
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.17
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Paperback. Inside every hospital there exists a world no outsider has been allowed to see, not even those who arrive there to begin careers in medicine. Into this plunges an idealistic young doctor who is about to lose all innocence in a world that long ago lost its sense of right or wrong. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 23. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099422839
- ISBN
- 9780099422839
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.73
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Paperback. Tells the story of the 35th President of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, who is a habitual womaniser. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099515876
- ISBN
- 9780099515876
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.49
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Paperback. In Old Bombay, they say you introduce only your worst enemy to opium. But in Rashid's opium room on Shuklaji Street, the air is thick with voices and ghosts. A young woman holds a long-stemmed pipe over a flame, her hair falling across her eyes. Men sprawl and mutter in the gloom. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 127 x 19. Weight in Grams: 232.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571275786
- ISBN
- 9780571275786
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.33
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Paperback. Num Pages: 257 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 142 x 23. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Algonquin Books (division of Workman) United States
- Number of pages
- 257
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781616203269
- ISBN
- 9781616203269
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Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 15.70
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Paperback. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 217 x 14. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- DC Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781897190753
- ISBN
- 9781897190753
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.75
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Paperback. Num Pages: maps. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 109 x 34. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- X
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780345461391
- ISBN
- 9780345461391
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.46
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Paperback. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FJM; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 185 x 104 x 36. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Random House USA Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 512
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780440423393
- ISBN
- 9780440423393
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.38
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Paperback. Num Pages: 385 pages. BIC Classification: FA; K; VSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Clear Light Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 385
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781574160192
- ISBN
- 9781574160192
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 15.59
€ 20.99
€ 15.59