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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. A man barges into a writer's house and, holding a gun to his head, demands that he tell him a story, something to take him away from real world. A pathological liar discovers one day that the lies he tells come true. A young woman finds a zip in her boyfriend's mouth, and when she opens it he unfolds to reveal a completely different man inside. Translator(s): Silverston, Sondra; Shlesinger, Miriam; Englander, Nathan. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 131 x 20. Weight in Grams: 218.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099563327
ISBN
9780099563327
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. When Oliver 'Lol' Lawrence was recruited for an undercover assignment in the Arabian Gulf, the stakes were as high as they get: the players were gambling with the lifeblood of the industrialized world - the flow of oil. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FJM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 110. Weight in Grams: 165.
Publisher
22 Books
Number of pages
280
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Condition
New
SKU
V9781898125471
ISBN
9781898125471
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 7.03

Paperback. This journey down the assembly lines of the Centaur Carr Company frequently borders on the surreal and is studded with bizzare characters and the grit and banter of factory life. Num Pages: 225 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. Weight in Grams: 179.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Vintage
Number of pages
225
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
New edition
SKU
KNW0005442
ISBN
9780749397623
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Hardcover. What do a dead cat, a computer whizz-kid, an electric monk, quantum mechanics, a chronologit over 200 years old, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and pizza have in common? Apparently not much, until Dirk Gently begins his investigation. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FL; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 146 x 41. Weight in Grams: 650.
Publisher
William Heinemann
Number of pages
512
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Edition
First Edition, First Impression
Condition
New
SKU
V9780434009190
ISBN
9780434009190
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 18.89

Paperback. An emotional, heartwarming story from New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand about a grieving family that finds solace where they least expect it. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781473611214
ISBN
9781473611214
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Hardcover. This is a history of India since independence, seen through the eyes of characters born on the day that independence was granted. The book is a multi-layered narrative, in which the complexities of the sub-continent are projected through the minds of its many characters. Num Pages: 589 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 141 x 37. Weight in Grams: 670.
Publisher
Everyman
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857152173
ISBN
9781857152173
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 17.27

Paperback. The complete edition of a timeless classic, includes the recently rediscovered Part Four and 'Last Words' by Richard Bach.Jonathan Livingston Seagull, the most celebrated inspirational fable of our time, tells the story of a bird determined to be more than ordinary. Num Pages: 144 pages, (1 x 8pp mono plate section). BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 170 x 129 x 6. Weight in Grams: 168.
Publisher
Harper Thorsons
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
New Illustrated Thorsons Classics edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780006490340
ISBN
9780006490340
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.65

Paperback. .
Publisher
Amazon Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781503939509
ISBN
9781503939509
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.59

Paperback. Beijing intellectual Chen Zhen volunteers to live in a remote settlement on the border of Inner and Outer Mongolia. But when members of the People's Republic swarm in from the cities to bring modernity and productivity to the grasslands, the peace of Chen's solitary existence is shattered, and the balance between humans and wolves is disrupted. Num Pages: 544 pages, map. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 146 x 36. Weight in Grams: 356.
Publisher
Penguin Books
Number of pages
544
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141027876
ISBN
9780141027876
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 18.56

paperback. Translator(s): Reeck, Matt; Ahmad, Aftab. Num Pages: 574 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 206 x 138 x 39. Weight in Grams: 502.
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Translation
Condition
New
SKU
V9780811224130
ISBN
9780811224130
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.46

Paperback. As a novelist, Graham Swift delights in the possibilities of the human voice, imagining his way into the minds and hearts of an extraordinary range of characters. In Making an Elephant, his first ever work of non-fiction, the voice is his own. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 198 x 130. .
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
SKU
V9781471161940
ISBN
9781471161940
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.95

Paperback. Follows the life of Serge Carrefax, a man who surges into the electric modernity of the early twentieth century, transfixed by the technologies that obliterate him. Born to the sound of one of the experimental wireless stations, Serge finds himself steeped in a weird world of transmissions. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 22. Weight in Grams: 230.
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099547020
ISBN
9780099547020
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.88

Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153. .
Publisher
Quercus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784297923
ISBN
9781784297923
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 14.16

Paperback. An eminent Australian writer is invited to contribute to a book entitled "Strong Opinions". For him, troubled by Australia's complicity in the wars in the Middle East, it is a chance to air some urgent concerns: how should a citizen of a modern democracy react to their state's involvement in a war that involves the use of torture? Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 176.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099516224
ISBN
9780099516224
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.01

Paperback. The vibrant new novel from Isabel Allende takes her back to her homeland of Chile, and tells the story of the first Spanish woman to arrive on its shores with the Conquistadors in the 1500s. Num Pages: 356 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 23. Weight in Grams: 268.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007241187
ISBN
9780007241187
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.37

Paperback. Vish Puri is as fond of butter chicken as the next Punjabi. And when there's plenty on offer at the Delhi Durbar hotel where he's attending an India Premier League cricket match dinner, he's the first to tuck in. Irfan Khan, father of Pakistani star cricketer Kamran Khan, can't resist either. But the creamy dish proves his undoing. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 264.
Publisher
Cornerstone United Kingdom
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099561873
ISBN
9780099561873
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. This is the story of John Self, consumer extraordinaire. Rolling around New York and London, he makes deals, spends wildly and does reckless movie-world business, all the while grabbing everything he can to sate his massive appetites: alcohol, tobacco, pills, pornography, a mountain of junk food and more. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 25. Weight in Grams: 282.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099461883
ISBN
9780099461883
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. Walk to orchard .. Check inside paper sack: extra diapers, two bottles, four cans of Borden's evaporated milk, five twenty-dollar bills. Set infant under most plentiful tree. Run. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
Publisher
Blackfriars
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349134475
ISBN
9780349134475
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.23

Paperback. When Harold Fry nips out one morning to post a letter, leaving his wife hoovering upstairs, he has no idea that he is about to walk from one end of the country to the other. He has no hiking boots or map, let alone a compass, waterproof or mobile phone. All he knows is that he must keep walking. To save someone else's life. Num Pages: 384 pages, chapter heads. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 268.
Publisher
Black Swan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780552778091
ISBN
9780552778091
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. A young video shop assistant exchanges the home comforts of one mother-figure for a fleeting encounter with another; a brother and sister find themselves at the bottom of a coal mine with a Japanese tourist; a Welsh stag on a debauched weekend in Dublin confesses an unimaginable truth; and more. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 226.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571317028
ISBN
9780571317028
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.77

Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 197 x 51. Weight in Grams: 140.
Publisher
Turnpike Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780957233690
ISBN
9780957233690
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.40

Paperback. Yoko Ogawa, a lonely teenaged girl falls in love with her foster-brother as she watches him leap from a high diving board into a pool - an unspoken infatuation that draws out darker possibilities. A young woman records the daily moods of her pregnant sister in a diary, but rather than a story of growth the diary reveals a sinister tale of greed. Translator(s): Snyder, Stephen. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 132.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099521358
ISBN
9780099521358
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.27

Paperback. Don't get mad, get even. The funny, heartfelt and engrossing story of one man's attempt to take a stand on behalf of all commuters. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 137 x 26. Weight in Grams: 334. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Oneworld Publications
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
SKU
KTG0007379
ISBN
9781780743721
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Hardcover. Presents a study of family life at the end of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. This book includes a detailed and intimate portrait of a life and the wider panorama of a failing dynasty. Translator(s): Neugroschel, Joachim. Num Pages: 332 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FT; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 133 x 29. Weight in Grams: 484.
Publisher
Everyman
Number of pages
384
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Edition
New ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857151978
ISBN
9781857151978
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.02

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