Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. A fifteen year-old boy meets a middle-aged woman on the internet. When his long-term girlfriend and first love Alice, betrays him at a house party, Etgar goes looking for cyber solace in the arms of Macy, a stunning but bored housewife he meets online. What could possibly go wrong..? Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 136 x 23. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782111580
- ISBN
- 9781782111580
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.52
€ 14.99
€ 11.52
Paperback. Family holidays - everyone's got to do them. But this one is about as bad as it gets. Num Pages: 416 pages, n/a. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 294. Good clean copy showing light shelfwear to covers and page edges, remains in good condition
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- SKU
- KSG0009505
- ISBN
- 9780340818909
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Abe Ravelstein is a professor who has lived much beyond his means. His close friend Chick suggests that he put forth a book of his convictions and much to his surprise, he does and becomes a millionaire. Ravelstein suggests in turn that Chick write a memoir. But, the mood turns somber once Ravelstein succumbs to AIDS and Chick himself nearly dies. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 180.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141188850
- ISBN
- 9780141188850
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.81
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Paperback. Describes the world of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady. This novel chronicles the private lives the Beats lived before they became public figures. It also describes an individualistic post-World II New York where crime is celebrated, writing is revered, and parties, booze, discussions, drugs and sex punctuate life. 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: 266.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141188393
- ISBN
- 9780141188393
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
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€ 11.02
Paperback. *This has been made into a hugely successful film starring Reese Witherspoon, the follow-up to which, RED, WHITE AND BLONDE was released in 2003. It's now being made into a Broadway show. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 108 x 18. Weight in Grams: 158.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780751534559
- ISBN
- 9780751534559
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
€ 13.99
€ 11.09
mass_market. Holden, knowing he is to be expelled from school, decides to leave early. He spends three days in New York City and tells the story of what he did and suffered there. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 170 x 106 x 16. Weight in Grams: 118.
- Edition
- Reprint
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Publication date
- 1995
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780316769488
- ISBN
- 9780316769488
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.53
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Paperback. Presents depiction of a young man's sexual initiation and corruption by his mother, where the profane becomes sacred, and intense experience is shown as the only way to transcend the boundaries of society and morality. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 13. Weight in Grams: 158.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141195551
- ISBN
- 9780141195551
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.88
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€ 11.88
Paperback. A new paperback edition of the winner of the 1999 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature Translator(s): Ghazoul, Ferial J.; Verlenden, John. Num Pages: 340 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 144 x 21. Weight in Grams: 528.
- Publisher
- The American University in Cairo Press Egypt
- Number of pages
- 340
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789774166259
- ISBN
- 9789774166259
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.77
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€ 20.77
Paperback. On a summer's day in 1922 Cora Carlisle boards a train from Wichita, Kansas, to New York City, leaving behind a marriage that's not as perfect as it seems and a past that she buried long ago. She is charged with the care of a stunning young girl with a jet-black fringe and eyes wild and wise beyond her fifteen years. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 27. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Publisher
- Michael Joseph
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780718158972
- ISBN
- 9780718158972
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.22
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Paperback. Meredith Whitman has been offered an extraordinary job opportunity in San Francisco, three thousand miles away. Her husband, Steve's job keeps him in New York for months longer than planned. This work explores what happens when lives that fit together like delicately balanced puzzles are shifted, changed and drift apart. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 108 x 177 x 26. Weight in Grams: 216. Clean copy with some shelf wear and yellowing
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Corgi
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- SKU
- KOC0017161
- ISBN
- 9780552145053
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
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Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 19. Weight in Grams: 220.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408854587
- ISBN
- 9781408854587
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.19
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€ 13.19
Paperback. Amid the backstreets, brothels and faded hotels of Bombay, Madras and the old Portuguese port of Goa, a man searches for his lost friend. Xavier has been missing for a year, and the only clues to his disappearance lie with an overworked doctor, a young prostitute and the leader of a strange religious order. Translator(s): Parks, Tim. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 136 x 10. Weight in Grams: 94.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857869432
- ISBN
- 9780857869432
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.71
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€ 10.71
Paperback. The drunk man lies on a moonlit hillside looking at a thistle, jaggy and beautiful, which epitomises Scotland's divided self. The man reflects on the fate of the nation, the human condition in general and his own personal fears. This book contains commentary and notes, and takes the reader through the author's complex and opaque use of language. Editor(s): Buthlay, Kenneth. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 21. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Publisher
- Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846970269
- ISBN
- 9781846970269
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.46
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€ 16.46
Paperback. The perfect life was the perfect lie.. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780008175177
- ISBN
- 9780008175177
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 16.42
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Paperback. .
- Publisher
- And Other Stories United Kingdom
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908276667
- ISBN
- 9781908276667
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.66
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€ 11.66
Paperback.
- Publisher
- Parthian Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 250
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906998486
- ISBN
- 9781906998486
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.81
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Hardback. A timely and thought-provoking novella about being a refugee - a bestseller throughout Europe, published in the UK for the first time Num Pages: 64 pages, full colour illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 105 x 145 x 12. Weight in Grams: 74.
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781471161476
- ISBN
- 9781471161476
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 8.99€ 7.70
€ 8.99
€ 7.70
Paperback. Series: Picador Classic. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. .
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Main Market Ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781509823345
- ISBN
- 9781509823345
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.72
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€ 11.72
Paperback. Shy, sensible banker Stuart has trouble with women; that is, until a fortuitous singles night, where he meets Gillian, a picture restorer recovering from a destructive affair. Stuart's best friend Oliver is his complete opposite - a language teacher who 'talks like a dictionary', brash and feckless. Soon Stuart and Gillian are married. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 154 x 18. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099540137
- ISBN
- 9780099540137
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.00
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Paperback. A masterful re-imagining of the lives and loves of Harry Houdini, from the author of the Richard and Judy bestseller The Cellist of Sarajevo. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 242. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books London
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- SKU
- KAK0011217
- ISBN
- 9781782394013
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99