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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. For fans of THE UNLIKELY PILGRIMAGE OF HAROLD FRY, THE ADJUSTMENT BUREAU, Mark Watson and Mark Haddon, here is a cleverly written mystery about fate, circumstance, destiny and coincidence from COSTA AWARD-shortlisted author, John Ironmonger. This quirky read is hard to put down and spans philosophy, conflict, relationships and romance. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 20. Weight in Grams: 216.
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780220840
ISBN
9781780220840
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire, hits a foul ball and kills his best friend's mother. Owen doesn't believe in accidents; he believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul ball is both extraordinary and terrifying. Num Pages: 720 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 41. Weight in Grams: 520.
Publisher
Black Swan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780552993692
ISBN
9780552993692
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.01

Paperback. A story of unfulfilled love - tormented, funny, and affecting - and an impassioned embrace of our sexual differences. It is an intimate and unforgettable portrait of the solitariness of a bisexual man who is dedicated to making himself 'worthwhile'. Num Pages: 624 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 131 x 39. Weight in Grams: 436.
Publisher
Black Swan
Number of pages
624
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780552778442
ISBN
9780552778442
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.95

Paperback. Juan Diego's little sister is a mind reader. As a teenager, he struggles to keep anything secret - Lupe knows all the worst things that go through his mind. What might a young girl be driven to do if she thought she had the power to change what lies ahead? This is the story of what happens when the future collides with the past. Num Pages: 768 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 41. Weight in Grams: 554.
Publisher
Black Swan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780552778640
ISBN
9780552778640
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.41

Paperback. 'One night when she was four and sleeping in the bottom bunk of her bunk bed, Ruth Cole awoke to the sound of lovemaking - it was coming from her parents' bedroom'. This title tells the story of Ruth Cole. Num Pages: 656 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 37. Weight in Grams: 462. Good clean copy with some reader wear.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
Black Swan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
SKU
KTM0006276
ISBN
9780552997966
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. As the oldest unadopted child at St Cloud's orphanage, Homer Wells strikes up a profound and unusual friendship with Wilbur Larch, the orphanage's founder, a man of rare compassion and an addiction to ether. What he learns from Wilbur takes him from his early apprenticeship in the orphanage surgery, to an adult life running a cider-making factory. Num Pages: 704 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 128 x 39. Weight in Grams: 510.
Publisher
Black Swan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780552992046
ISBN
9780552992046
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.80

Paperback. 'One night when she was four and sleeping in the bottom bunk of her bunk bed, Ruth Cole awoke to the sound of lovemaking - it was coming from her parents' bedroom'. This title tells the story of Ruth Cole. Num Pages: 656 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 37. Weight in Grams: 446. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
Black Swan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
SKU
KAK0010601
ISBN
9780552997966
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. While reporting a story from India, a New York television journalist has his left hand eaten by a lion; millions of TV viewers witness the accident. In Boston, a renowned hand surgeon awaits the opportunity to perform the nation's first hand transplant. A married woman in Wisconsin wants to give the one-handed reporter her husband's left hand. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 25. Weight in Grams: 260. Good clean copy with some shelf wear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
New edition
Publisher
Black Swan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
SKU
KTJ0049776
ISBN
9780552771092
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Fred 'Bogus' Trumper is a wayward knight-errant in the battle of the sexes and the pursuit of happiness. He also happens to have a complaint more serious than Portnoy's. Yet he stubbornly clings to the notion that he'll make something of his life, and is about to commit himself to a second marriage that bears remarkable resemblance to his first. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 128 x 27. Weight in Grams: 306.
Edition
Reprint
Publisher
Black Swan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1980
Condition
New
SKU
V9780552992077
ISBN
9780552992077
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.58

Paperback. In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, a twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, pursued by the constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 42. Weight in Grams: 464.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Black Swan
Condition
New
SKU
V9780552776578
ISBN
9780552776578
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.35

Paperback. Jack Burns' mother, Alice, is a tattoo artist in search of the boy's father, a virtuoso organist named William who has fled America to Europe. To fund her journey, she plies her trade in the seaports of the Baltic coast. Num Pages: 960 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 42. Weight in Grams: 632.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Black Swan
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780552773126
ISBN
9780552773126
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.04

Paperback. Born a Parsi in Bombay, sent to university and medical school in Vienna, Dr Farrokh Daruwalla is a Canadian citizen - a 59-year-old orthopaedic surgeon, living in Toronto. Once, twenty years ago, Dr Daruwalla was the examining physician of two murder victims in Goa. Now, two decades later, the doctor will be reacquainted with the murderer.. Num Pages: 784 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 41. Weight in Grams: 560.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Black Swan
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780552996051
ISBN
9780552996051
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.39

Paperback. 'One night when she was four and sleeping in the bottom bunk of her bunk bed, Ruth Cole awoke to the sound of lovemaking - it was coming from her parents' bedroom'. This title tells the story of Ruth Cole. Num Pages: 656 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 37. Weight in Grams: 446. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Black Swan
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
01st Edition
SKU
KCG0000073
ISBN
9780552997966
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. John Berry is a son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre of eccentric siblings, and chronicler of the lives lived, the loves experienced, the deaths met, and the myriad strange and wonderful times encountered by the family Berry. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 35. Weight in Grams: 372.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1982
Publisher
Black Swan
Condition
New
SKU
9780552992091
ISBN
9780552992091
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 11.36

Paperback. On a New England campus, Viennese housewife Utchka and her aspiring writer husband live a rather placid life with their two children. Until, that is, they meet Severin Winter, Professor of German and wrestling coach, and his delicate wife Edith at a faculty party. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 132 x 16. Weight in Grams: 184.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1980
Publisher
Black Swan
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780552992084
ISBN
9780552992084
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.88

Paperback. Series: Modern Jewish Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Texas Tech Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780896728592
ISBN
9780896728592
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.50

"After a tragic event, Adam Friedman sets out to change the world with small acts of heroism as Mitzvah Man"--Provided by publisher. Series: Modern Jewish Literature and Culture. Num Pages: 268 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 542.
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Texas Tech Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
SKU
V9780896726833
ISBN
9780896726833
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 26.59

Paperback. Wesley Erks, itinerant machinist and adventurer, takes a hefty fee for smuggling a group of illegal Chinese immigrants ('yellowfish') from Vancouver, BC, to San Francisco in the 1970s. This title tells the story of the perilous and suspenseful journey of these five men, filled with colourful fictional and historical characters. Num Pages: 336 pages, maps, frontispiece. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 392.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295988450
ISBN
9780295988450
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 24.01

Paperback. Broken Ground is remarkable for its prophetic vision of the hollow securities promised by incarceration and of the effects of "privatization" as an armature of American imperialism-in both the domestic and international realms. Num Pages: 456 pages, 2 illus. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 141 x 27. Weight in Grams: 522.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Washington Press United States
Number of pages
456
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295990484
ISBN
9780295990484
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.66

Paperback. Ranging from the seventeenth century to our current moment, and crossing multiple continents, Counternarratives' stories and novellas draw upon memoirs, newspaper accounts, detective stories, interrogation transcripts, and speculative fiction to create new and strange perspectives on our past and present. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 36. Weight in Grams: 498.
Publisher
Fitzcarraldo Editions
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910695135
ISBN
9781910695135
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.07

Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780811225526
ISBN
9780811225526
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.47

Paperback. Idealistic composer, Fish, visits economically decimated Greece with his archaeologist girlfriend, Gabrielle, but unexplained events thwart his plans for a new society. Num Pages: 375 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 221 x 25. Weight in Grams: 368.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
John Hunt Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
375
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782790532
ISBN
9781782790532
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.94

Paperback. Set in Enniskillen, County Fermanagh, in the 1970s, this is a touching yet hilarious account of the agonies and absurdities of growing up in a backwater of pebbledash and Space Invaders. Teenagers Declan Lydon and his trusted friend Spit Maguire stumble together through their adolescence. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 136.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099285960
ISBN
9780099285960
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 8.66

Paperback. 'Would you believe me if I told you that I was only nine years of age when I killed him?' In a paint-splattered room, a young and successful Irish painter confronts his shocking and murderous past - a dark day on the beach at Bundoran, Co Donegal, when he quietly dispatched a palaeontologist with his own geological hammer. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 139. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0005875
ISBN
9780099285137
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

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