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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Hardback. With a nod to Kurt Vonnegut's audacious sense of humor, the author demonstrates the humanity of his odd-ball characters. His portrayal of a city neighborhood in transition also gives the story a distinctive sense of place. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 161 x 20. Weight in Grams: 394.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Bridge Works Publishing Co ,U.S. United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781882593859
ISBN
9781882593859
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 22.70

Paperback. Joseph Connolly's comic outrage skewers over-inflated celebrity culture and dethrones child stardom in this violently funny satire. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 36. Weight in Grams: 344.
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848666313
ISBN
9781848666313
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.23

Paperback. 1959. England's Lane is a respectable street of reputable family businesses. Until an enigmatic butcher sets up shop, and shameful secrets begin to surface.. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 147 x 32. Weight in Grams: 362.
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780877211
ISBN
9781780877211
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. Clean copy, with very light shelfwear. Good to very good
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
390
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
New Ed
SKU
KST0017631
ISBN
9780571204397
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. The Works is an elegy to the inextricables of life - pasts and presents, husbands and wives, fathers and sons, hopes and fears - told with Joseph Connolly's inimitable gift for character and voice as he digs up the dirt on nineties London. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 34. Weight in Grams: 306.
Publisher
Quercus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
9781782067009
ISBN
9781782067009
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Eric's double-decker life and triple-tangled lies drive him to a catastrophic collision in Joseph Connolly's wry and ingeniously plotted black comedy. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 139 x 21. Weight in Grams: 224.
Publisher
Quercus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782067054
ISBN
9781782067054
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Hardback. Three married couples: each living in England's Lane, each of them hiding their lies, coping in the only way they know how. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 160 x 37. Weight in Grams: 692.
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
9781780877181
ISBN
9781780877181
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 5.54

Paperback. With vicious flair, Connolly hurtles a cast of thrillingly repulsive characters into a plot of adultery, sadism and revenge, speeding towards a violent climax. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 165 x 21. Weight in Grams: 234.
Publisher
Quercus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782067030
ISBN
9781782067030
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Hardback. Susan wants another husband - which comes as a shock to the current one. A tale of a singular threesome. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 161 x 38. Weight in Grams: 722. Good clean copy in dustwrapper. DW with some light shelf wear else as new.
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
SKU
KTG0005031
ISBN
9781780877228
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Susan wants another husband - which comes as a shock to the current one. A tale of a singular threesome. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 199 x 26. Weight in Grams: 316.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784293468
ISBN
9781784293468
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Paperback. Contains four stories, written between 1900 and 1902. One of them reveals the differences between instinct and intelligence in a partnership vital to human survival; and the other contains 'land-stories' that explore the utter isolation of an East European emigrant in England and in the other, the plight of a woman. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 240.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141441955
ISBN
9780141441955
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. A story of espionage and counter-espionage, and anarchists and embassies. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 15. Weight in Grams: 170.
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions Ltd
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Edition
Paperback
Condition
New
SKU
V9781853260650
ISBN
9781853260650
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 6.33

Paperback. Under Western Eyes traces the experiences of Razumov, a young Russian student caught up in the aftermath of a terrorist bombing. It deals with topical moral issues such r s1he defensibility of terrorist resistance to tyranny and the loss of individual privacy in a surveillance society. This new edition uses the English first edition text and has a new bibliography and chronology. Editor(s): Hawthorn, Jeremy. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 196 x 18. Weight in Grams: 258.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199552375
ISBN
9780199552375
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.68

Paperback. An attack on the Greenwich Observatory in 1894 masterminded by Verloc, a Russian spy working for the police, and ostensibly a member of an anarchist group in Soho. His masters instruct him to discredit the anarchists in a humiliating fashion, and when his evil plan goes horribly awry, Verloc must deal with the repercussions of his actions. Editor(s): Newton, Michael. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 236.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141441580
ISBN
9780141441580
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.23

Paperback. Mr Verloc, the secret agent, is involved in an anarchist plot to blow up the Greenwich Observatory which goes disastrously wrong. Based on the text which Conrad's first English readers enjoyed, this new edition includes a critical introduction which describes Conrad's great London novel as the realization of a 'monstrous town', a place of idiocy, madness, criminality, and butchery. Editor(s): Lyon, John. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 128 x 15. Weight in Grams: 214.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199536351
ISBN
9780199536351
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.65

Hardcover. In this tale of colonial exploitation, the narrator, Marlowe, journeys deep into the heart of Africa. But there he encounters Kurtz, an idealist apparently crazed and depraved by his power over the natives, and the meeting prompts Marlowe to reflect on the darkness at the heart of all men. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 117 x 15. Weight in Grams: 268.
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
112
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857151749
ISBN
9781857151749
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.06

Paperback. 'Heart of Darkness' is Conrad's finest tale and tells of Marlow's journey up the Congo River to meet Mr Kurtz. This volume also includes 'An Outpost of Progress', 'Karain', and 'Youth' in a revised edition using the English first edition texts and with new chronology and bibliography. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages, one map. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 39. Weight in Grams: 190.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199536016
ISBN
9780199536016
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 10.87

Paperback. Set in the Malay Archipelago, this novel not only provides a gripping account of maritime adventure and romance, but also an exotic tale of the East. It explores the dilemmas of conscience, of moral isolation, of loyalty and betrayal confronting a sensitive individual whose romantic quest for an honourable ideal are tested to the limit. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 125 x 17. Weight in Grams: 202.
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
9781853260377
ISBN
9781853260377
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Revised edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199549771
ISBN
9780199549771
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.68

Paperback. Marlow, a seaman, tells of a journey up the Congo. His goal is the troubled European and ivory trader Kurtz. Worshipped and feared by invaders as well as natives, Kurtz has become a godlike figure, his presence pervading the jungle like a thick, obscuring mist. As his boat labours upstream, Marlow finds his faith in civilization crumbling. Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 112 pages, map. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 111 x 7. Weight in Grams: 64.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin
Publication date
2012
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241956809
ISBN
9780241956809
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.29

Paperback. Razumov aims to overcome the denial of his noble birth by a brilliant career in the tsarist bureaucracy created by Peter the Great. But in pre-revolutionary Russia Peter's legacy is autocracy tempered by assassination, and Razumov is soon caught in a tragic web with Haldin's trustful sister Natalia in spy-haunted Geneva. Editor(s): Donovan, Stephen. Num Pages: 400 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 302.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141441948
ISBN
9780141441948
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.37

Hardcover. In these three sea stories, based on his own experience, the author invests his portraits of mundane steamers and their crews with epic qualities of fortitude and courage in the face of overwhelming natural odds. Num Pages: 305 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 211 x 27. Weight in Grams: 514.
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
305
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857150049
ISBN
9781857150049
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.00
€ 15.82

Paperback. Written in 1915, The Shadow-Line is based upon events and experiences from twenty-seven years earlier, to which Conrad returned obsessively in his fiction. A young sea-captain faces a succession of crises on his first command, for which he feels himself responsible. The novel is a work full of 'sudden passions', as well as a penetrating analysis of the nature of manhood. Editor(s): Hawthorn, Jeremy. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages, map. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 102 x 11. Weight in Grams: 148.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Revised edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199555567
ISBN
9780199555567
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.81

Paperback. An English boy in a simple town has dreams bigger than the outdoors and embarks at an early age into the sailor's life. The waters he travels reward him with the ability to explore the human spirit. This compact novel, completed in 1900, is at its baseline a book of the sea. Editor(s): Stape, J. H. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 24. Weight in Grams: 294.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141441610
ISBN
9780141441610
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.31

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