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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Hidden deep in the mountains, the recruits at 'Unit 701', China's secret services, operate in a dark, shadowy world. There is the 'wind-listener', a blind surveillance officer who can hear sounds from miles away, the beautiful, unstable maths genius who meets a violent end, and, the old man who deciphers codes in his dreams. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 25. Weight in Grams: 296.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Translation
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141391458
ISBN
9780141391458
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.63

Pamphlet. Translator(s): Barton, Polly. Series: Keshiki. Num Pages: 48 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 4. .
Publisher
UEA Publishing Project
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781911343028
ISBN
9781911343028
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 9.15

Paperback. "Five-year-old Pea (shortened from her French name, Pivoine) and her eerily precocious younger sister, Margot, are left to their own devices for most of one oppressively hot summer in the French countryside after their father is killed in a farm accident and their pregnant and deeply depressed mother takes to her bed."--Library Journal. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 17. Weight in Grams: 228. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
SKU
KHN0002077
ISBN
9781408841846
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. * Zora Neale Hurston's masterpiece is perhaps the most widely read and highly regarded novel in the entire canon of African American literature. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 20. Weight in Grams: 242.
Publisher
Virago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Condition
New
SKU
V9780860685241
ISBN
9780860685241
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. Taut, brooding and densely atmospheric, these stories show us the ways in which murder can arise out of boredom, perversity can result from adolescent curiosity, and sheer evil might be the solution to unbearable loneliness. Num Pages: 208 pages, 1. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. Weight in Grams: 368.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784703608
ISBN
9781784703608
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. Brilliant, funny and tragic, Four Bare Legs in a Bed is an outstanding and invigorating collection of short stories. In Simpson's uniquely imaginative and sensuous voice, we hear of the mixed blessings of independence and marriage, of sex and babies. By the winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, the Hawthornden Prize and the E.M.Forster Award. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 140.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780749391621
ISBN
9780749391621
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.88

Paperback. Set at the International Secret Intelligence Service (ISIS), suave master spy Sterling Archer deals with global espionage; a domineering, hypersexual, late middle-aged mother/boss, Malory Archer; his ex-girlfriend, Agent Lana Kane; her ISIS accountant boyfriend Cyril Figgis; and, a less-than-masculine code name: Duchess. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 141 x 13. Weight in Grams: 226.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Original
Condition
New
SKU
V9780062066312
ISBN
9780062066312
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.87

Paperback. Set against a background of political turbulence in Kerala, this novel tells the story of twins Esthappen and Rahel. Amongst the vats of banana jam and heaps of peppercorns in their grandmother's factory they try to craft a childhood for themselves amidst what constitutes their family. Num Pages: 350 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 181 x 123 x 23. Weight in Grams: 198.
Publisher
Flamingo
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780006551096
ISBN
9780006551096
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 8.39

Paperback. Num Pages: 424 pages, map. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 135 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
The New York Review of Books, Inc
Number of pages
424
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781590172339
ISBN
9781590172339
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 14.01

Paperback. During a vicious persecution of the clergy in Mexico, a worldly priest, the 'whisky priest', is on the run. With the police closing in, his routes of escape are being shut off, his chances getting fewer. But compassion and humanity force him along the road to his destiny, reluctant to abandon those who need him, and those he cares for. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 133 x 15. Weight in Grams: 172.
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099286097
ISBN
9780099286097
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Paperback. An irresistible journey of love, intrigue and betrayal from the Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling author. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 33. Weight in Grams: 354.
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780755358540
ISBN
9780755358540
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.00

Hardback. Tom has always known exactly the person he is going to be. A successful footballer. A man others look up to. Now, though, the bright future he imagined for himself is threatened. The Premier League academy of his boyhood has let him go. At nineteen, Tom finds himself playing for a tiny club in a town he has never heard of. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FRD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 241 x 34. Weight in Grams: 596.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
9781910702666
ISBN
9781910702666
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 5.47

Paperback.
Publisher
FABER MUSIC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571100934
ISBN
9780571100934
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 11.86

Hardcover. A burlesque epic in the tradition of The Good Soldier Schweik, this title exposes the absurdity of war by applying its own demented logic to America's involvement in Korea. The 'catch' is that soldiers have to claim to be mad in order to get out of fighting - but being capable of making such a claim automatically proves them sane. Num Pages: 569 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FJM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 134 x 37. Weight in Grams: 650.
Publisher
Everyman
Number of pages
569
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Edition
New ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857152203
ISBN
9781857152203
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.00
€ 15.75

Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Publisher
Amazon Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781503942981
ISBN
9781503942981
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 14.96

Paperback. New York, 1945 - Sara Smythe, a young, beautiful and intelligent woman, ready to make her own way in the big city, attends her brother's Thanksgiving Eve party. As the party gets into full swing, in walks Jack Malone, a US Army journalist back from a defeated Germany and a man unlike any Sara has ever met before. Num Pages: 656 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 134 x 42. Weight in Grams: 460.
Edition
1st Arrow Books Edition
Publisher
Arrow
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
9780099415374
ISBN
9780099415374
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. They are called The Glory Boys, by those who regard their exploits with envy or contempt. Bob Kearton is one of them. Already a veteran and survivor of the close action in the English Channel and North Sea, in January of 1943, he is ordered to the Mediterranean and beleagured Malta, a mere sixty miles from occupied Sicily. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 113 x 21. Weight in Grams: 176.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Arrow
Number of pages
320
Publication date
2009
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099484271
ISBN
9780099484271
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.01

Paperback. A dark, sexy thriller from the author of Sex Education Num Pages: 192 pages, plan. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Edition
Illustrated edition
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC LONDON
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780747574187
ISBN
9780747574187
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 8.58

Hardback. A story of Hollywood, celebrity and the love of two brothers. It conveys a family's predicament: the decline of one brother, their mother's disappearance and reappearance and the flayed emotions in search of healing, the loneliness and intimacy of despair and the buoyancy of filial love. Num Pages: 340 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 165. Weight in Grams: 679.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
340
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1988
Condition
New
SKU
V9780747502371
ISBN
9780747502371
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.20

Paperback. .
Publisher
Simon & Schuster United States
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
New ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780743478472
ISBN
9780743478472
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.91

Paperback. Explores the last years of Hemingway's life, evoking both Cuba and this giant of American letters with enormous skill and wit. This title takes you on a journey into the past and into the personality of one of the twentieth century's most enigmatic and powerful writers, and totally convincing portrait emerges, as well as a riveting mystery. Translator(s): King, John. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 199 x 21. Weight in Grams: 172. 240 pages. Explores the last years of Hemingway's life, evoking both Cuba and this giant of American letters with enormous skill and wit. This title takes you on a journey into the past and into the personality of one of the twentieth century's most enigmatic and powerful writers, and totally convincing portrait emerges, as well as a riveting mystery. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 128 x 199 x 21. Weight: 206. Translator(s): King, John.
Publisher
Canongate Books
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841955414
ISBN
9781841955414
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.78

Paperback. Davie Watts is the Trackman. He knows what song to play to you and he knows exactly when you need to hear it. Davie seeks out strangers in need and helps them using the power of music. Num Pages: 346 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 200 x 128 x 32. Weight in Grams: 330.
Publisher
Luath Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
2nd edition
Condition
New
SKU
9781908373434
ISBN
9781908373434
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.08

Paperback. A mesmerising and atmospheric tale of three mysterious deaths in an oddly isolated French village during World War I. Translator(s): Rogers, Hoyt. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 16. Weight in Grams: 144.
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857059949
ISBN
9780857059949
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

Paperback. The brilliantly original new novel from Michael Chabon, author of THE ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY and WONDER BOYS. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 29. Weight in Grams: 316.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007150939
ISBN
9780007150939
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.58

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