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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. In Alex Gray's page-turning new Glasgow-set crime novel, Detective Lorimer must protect his city from a terrifying threat in the countdown to the 2014 Commonwealth Games. Series: William Lorimer. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 142 x 33. Weight in Grams: 344.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780751548273
ISBN
9780751548273
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Paperback. Jack Reacher walks alone. No job, no ID, no last known address. But he never turns down a plea for help. Now a woman tracks him down. A woman serving at the very heart of US power. A woman who needs Reacher's assistance in her new job. Her job? Protecting the Vice-President of the United States. Her problem? Someone wants the VP dead. Series: Jack Reacher. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: FH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 30. Weight in Grams: 390.
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857500090
ISBN
9780857500090
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. Presents the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright, beautiful, and talented couple whose empty suburban life is held together by the dream that greatness is only just round the corner. This title shows how Frank and April mortgage their hopes and ideals, betraying in the end not only each other, but their own best selves. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 256. Clean copy in good condition
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
Film Tie-In
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
SKU
KIN0005134
ISBN
9780099518785
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 12.99
€ 4.99

Paperback. Clean copy in very good condition. Some age and shelf wear.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Little Brown London
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
SKU
KNH0012158
ISBN
9780316027441
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408846896
ISBN
9781408846896
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.70

Paperback. Winner of the 2004 Prix de Flore, France's most exclusive literary award. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 310.
Publisher
Snowbooks Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905005185
ISBN
9781905005185
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.81

Paperback. The Gulag, the Stalinist labour camps to which millions of Russians were condemned for political deviation, has become a household word in the West. This title tells the story of one typical day in a labour camp as experienced by prisoner Ivan Denisovich Shukhov is sufficient to describe the entire world of the Soviet camps. Translator(s): Willetts, H. T. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 131 x 12. Weight in Grams: 134.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099449270
ISBN
9780099449270
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. The year is 1714. Daniel Waterhouse has returned to England, where he joins forces with his friend Isaac Newton to hunt down a shadowy group attempting to blow up Natural Philosophers with 'Infernal Devices' - time bombs. As Daniel and Newton conspire, a struggle is waged for England's Crown: who will take control when the ailing queen dies? Num Pages: 912 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 48. Weight in Grams: 654.
Publisher
Cornerstone
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099463368
ISBN
9780099463368
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.39

Paperback. A love story and a historical tour de force set in Victorian times, which deals with the undeclared love between clergyman Oscar Hopkins and the heiress Lucinda Leplastrier. Made for each other, the two are gamblers - one obsessive, the other compulsive - incapable of winning at the game of love. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 36. Weight in Grams: 428.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
544
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Main - Re-issue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571270163
ISBN
9780571270163
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.48

Paperback. .
Publisher
Portobello Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846275159
ISBN
9781846275159
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.97

Paperback. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 232.
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781555977191
ISBN
9781555977191
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.84

Paperback. This is the first installment of a three-volume translation, and it includes The Young Maronite, The Marriage of Omar and The Nocturnal Visitor, which are set between 1912 and 1927. Translator(s): Naffis-Sahely, Andre. Num Pages: 378 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 131 x 26. Weight in Grams: 362.
Publisher
Darf Publishers Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781850772781
ISBN
9781850772781
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.30

Paperback. Weaves a tapestry of daily life as seen through a magical perspective. This book combines Breton's autobiographical fact with memory and imagination, and spins a love story in modern literature. Translator(s): Howard, Richard; Polizzotti, Mark. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages, 44 photographs. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 150.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141180892
ISBN
9780141180892
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

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

Hardcover. Chronicles the history of a man and a nation from the 1950s to the 1980s. Num Pages: 1519 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 170 x 181 x 61. Weight in Grams: 1152.
Publisher
Random House
Number of pages
1530
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857152142
ISBN
9781857152142
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 46.99
€ 30.90

Paperback. The heartbreaking tale of a doomed love affair in Hitler's Germany. Translator(s): Rilke, Ina. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 134 x 198 x 14. Weight in Grams: 136.
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857051110
ISBN
9780857051110
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.29

Paperback. A turbulent thriller set in seamy LA, Robert Ward's slick tale of greed and corruption in the FBI is clever, contemporary and cool as ice. Num Pages: 338 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 28. Weight in Grams: 342. 338 pages. A turbulent thriller set in seamy LA, Robert Ward's slick tale of greed and corruption in the FBI is clever, contemporary and cool as ice. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 198 x 130 x 28. Weight: 342.
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Number of pages
338
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848875692
ISBN
9781848875692
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.95

Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 130 x 11. Weight in Grams: 230.
Publisher
The New York Review of Books, Inc United States
Number of pages
200
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781590171646
ISBN
9781590171646
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.08

Paperback. Translator(s): Magidow, Adjunct Professor Melanie (University of Rhode Island). Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FHP; FR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Publisher
The American University in Cairo Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9789774167140
ISBN
9789774167140
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.49

Hardback. Naguib Mahfouz, the first and only writer of Arabic to be awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, wrote prolifically from the 1930s until shortly before his death in 2006. Here Denys Johnson-Davies makes an essential selection of short stories and extracts from novels and other writings, to present Mahfouz's best writing in all genres. Num Pages: 244 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 161 x 31. Weight in Grams: 794.
Publisher
The American University in Cairo Press Egypt
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9789774163876
ISBN
9789774163876
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.86

Paperback. 'Part glamorous travelogue, part slow-burn mystery, this full-bodied tale of a runaway is at once formally inventive and heartbreakingly familiar.. (It's also insanely funny.)' Lena Dunham Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 18. Weight in Grams: 170.
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782397717
ISBN
9781782397717
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.69

Paperback. Escape to the winding cobblestone streets and rolling hills of Tuscany in this delicious, romantic and charming tale perfect for fans of Chocolat and Under the Tuscan Sun. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130. .
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781471162695
ISBN
9781471162695
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.23

Paperback. * Second novel from TV writer/comedian and novelist - and again, a bitter-sweet romantic tragicomedy. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 126 x 20. Weight in Grams: 215. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
paperback / softback
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
SKU
KAK0010737
ISBN
9780349113920
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Series: The New Americana Series. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 105 x 171 x 20. Weight in Grams: 145.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Kensington Publishing
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781420140101
ISBN
9781420140101
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.41

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