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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 200 x 14. Weight in Grams: 154. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Vintage, London
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KCW0000496
ISBN
9780099147718
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Reissued to coincide with the 50th anniversary of Keneally's first novel. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 274. Clean copy with some shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KCW0000512
ISBN
9780340624746
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. A leak is traced to a small sub-section of SIS, sparking off the inevitable security checks, tensions and suspicions. The sort of atmosphere, perhaps, where mistakes could be made? For Maurice Castle, it is the end of the line anyway, and time for him to retire to live peacefully with his African wife, Sarah. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 208.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780099288527
ISBN
9780099288527
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.70

Paperback. Years after the First World War's end, the narrator returns to Paris. He reflects on time, reality, jealousy, artistic creation, and the raw material of literature - his past life. Translator(s): Scott-Moncrieff, C. K.; Kilmartin, Terence; Enright, D. J. Num Pages: 704 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 43. Weight in Grams: 488.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780099362715
ISBN
9780099362715
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.14

Paperback. Kate Leonard is a young lawyer. Smart, sexy and successful, she seems to have it all, except a life outside the office ..until she meets Tom Faulkener. Tom comes from a different world: the privileged, idle world of private incomes, breathtaking bills and the pursuit of pleasure. The last thing he wants is a relationship ..until he meets Kate. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 110 x 41. Weight in Grams: 290.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Arrow
Condition
New
SKU
9780099415046
ISBN
9780099415046
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.38

Paperback. A biographical novel of Michelangelo. Michelangelo Buonarotti lived in the time of the turbulent Renaissance, the years of poisoning princes, warring popes, the powerful Medici family, and the fanatic monk Savonarola. Working with a God-driven fury he created "David", painted the Sistine ceiling, and was the architect of the dome of St Peter's. Num Pages: 784 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 112 x 34. Weight in Grams: 412.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Arrow
Condition
New
SKU
9780099416272
ISBN
9780099416272
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.14

Paperback. Serge Valene wants to create an elaborate painting of the building he has made his home for the last sixty years. As he plans his picture, he contemplates the lives of all the people he has ever known there. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 37. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
9780099449256
ISBN
9780099449256
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.14

Paperback. Dr Thomas Underhill, a notorious seventeenth-century practitioner of black arts and sexual deviancy. However, the landlord, Maurice Allington, is the sole witness to the renaissance of the malevolent Underhill. Led by an anxious desire to vindicate his sanity, Allington strives to uncover the key to Underhill's satanic powers. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 176.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
9780099461074
ISBN
9780099461074
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. The tragic story of a rebellious, fiercely intelligent young slave who breaks all the rules: in learning to read and write; in falling in love with a white girl, the daughter of his owner, and finally in trying to escape and joining her in the free North. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 112.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
9780099462217
ISBN
9780099462217
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.70

Paperback. Tells the tale of a pair of young scholars investigating the lives of two Victorian poets. This book features a trail of letters, journals and poems they uncover a web of passion, deceit and tragedy, and their quest becomes a battle against time. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 372.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780099503927
ISBN
9780099503927
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.14

Paperback. He is a brilliant maths professor with a peculiar problem - ever since a traumatic head injury seventeen years ago, he has lived with only eighty minutes of short-term memory. She is a sensitive but astute young housekeeper who is entrusted to take care of him. Each morning, a strange, beautiful relationship blossoms between them. Translator(s): Snyder, Stephen. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 146.
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
Format
Paperback
SKU
9780099521341
ISBN
9780099521341
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.64

Paperback. Describes the lives of a group of Soviet workers who believe they are laying the foundations for a radiant future. Translator(s): Chandler, Robert; Chandler, Elizabeth; Meerson, Olga. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 176.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
9780099529743
ISBN
9780099529743
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. At sixty-four Sabbath is still defiantly antagonistic and exceedingly libidinous; sex is an obsession and a principle, an instrument of perpetual misrule in his daily existence. But after the death of his long-time mistress - an erotic free spirit whose great taste for the impermissible matches his own - Sabbath embarks on a journey into his past. Num Pages: 498 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 406.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
9780099582014
ISBN
9780099582014
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.33

Paperback. Sheila's twenties were going to plan. She got married. She hosted parties. A theatre asked her to write a play. Then she realised that she didn't know how to write a play. That her favourite part of the party was cleaning up after the party. And that her marriage made her feel like she was banging into a brick wall. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 228.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
9780099583561
ISBN
9780099583561
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.51

Paperback. On a warm summer night in 1974, six teenagers play at being cool. They smoke pot, drink vodka, share their dreams and vow always to be interesting. Decades later, aspiring actress Jules has resigned herself to a more practical occupation; Cathy has stopped dancing; Jonah has laid down his guitar and Goodman has disappeared. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 30. Weight in Grams: 342.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
9780099584094
ISBN
9780099584094
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. T S makes sense of his chaotic family life by drawing beautiful, meticulous maps kept in innumerable colour-coded notebooks. He is brilliant, and the Smithsonian Institution agrees, though when they award him a major scientific prize they don't suspect for a moment that he is twelve years old. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 190 x 29. Weight in Grams: 388.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
9780099589990
ISBN
9780099589990
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.70

Paperback. As young girls, Nel and Sula shared each other's secrets and dreams in the poor black mid-West of their childhood. Then Sula ran away to live her dreams and Nel got married. Ten years later Sula returns and no one, least of all Nel, trusts her. This is a story of fear - the fear that traps us, justifying itself through perpetual myth and legend. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 156.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
9780099760016
ISBN
9780099760016
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.33

Paperback. In the long hot summer of 1939, Britain is preparing for war. But on a riverside farm in Suffolk there is excitement of another kind: Mrs Petty, the widowed farmer, has had her hunch proved correct that the mounds on her land hold buried treasure. As the dig proceeds, it becomes clear though that this is no ordinary find. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 121 x 16. Weight in Grams: 174.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
9780141016382
ISBN
9780141016382
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.70

Paperback. It is the fiesta 'Day of the Dead' in the small Mexican town of Quauhnahuac. In the shadow of the volcano, ragged children beg coins to buy skulls made of chocolate, ugly pariah dogs roam the streets and Geoffrey Firmin - ex-consul, ex-husband, an alcoholic and a ruined man - is living out the last day of his life. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 278.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780141182254
ISBN
9780141182254
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.14

Paperback. Often imitated but never bettered, it is in Marlowe's long shadow that every fictional detective must stand - and under the influence of Raymond Chandler's addictive prose that every crime author must write. Marlowe's entanglement with the Sternwood family - and an attendant cast of colourful underworld figures. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 30. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780141182612
ISBN
9780141182612
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.53

Paperback. Includes sixty-five stories of magic and melancholy that display a range of inventiveness, with fairy tales, intellectual games and glimpses into lives of ambiguity and loss. Editor(s): Nabokov, Dmitri. Translator(s): Nabokov, Dmitri. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 816 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 45. Weight in Grams: 566.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780141183459
ISBN
9780141183459
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 15.73

Paperback. In 1930s Paris, where one cheap hotel room is very like another, a young woman is teaching herself indifference. She has escaped personal tragedy and has come to France to find courage and seek independence. She tells herself to expect nothing, especially not kindness, least of all from men. Tomorrow, she resolves, she will dye her hair blonde. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 11. Weight in Grams: 140.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780141183930
ISBN
9780141183930
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.33

Paperback. Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of 'The Daily Beast', has always prided himself on his intuitive flair for spotting ace reporters. That is not to say he has not made the odd blunder, however, and may in a moment of weakness make another. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 188.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780141184029
ISBN
9780141184029
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.82

Paperback. Set among the manicured lawns and euphemisms of Whispering Glades Memorial Park in Hollywood, this novel satirizes the American way of death and offers Waugh's memento mori. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 8. Weight in Grams: 104.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780141184241
ISBN
9780141184241
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.38

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