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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. 'Extremely funny - a satirical masterpiece that is tender and existentially-minded as well. I loved it!' Elizabeth McKenzie, author of THE PORTABLE VEBLEN 'Very smart and juicy and weird and entertaining .. it reads like a chick lit plot written by Franzen' Curtis Sittenfeld, author of ELIGIBLE Num Pages: 286 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
- V9780008132132
- ISBN
- 9780008132132
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.91
€ 11.99
€ 9.91
Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, 16 black-and-white photographs. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 208 x 25. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Publisher
- Persea
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780892552900
- ISBN
- 9780892552900
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.55
€ 17.99
€ 16.55
Paperback. A collection of short stories from one of our most popular novelists - the perfect gift. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 132 x 16. Weight in Grams: 188.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007145898
- ISBN
- 9780007145898
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.66
€ 13.99
€ 11.66
Paperback. The eight short stories in breach explore the refugee crisis through fiction. Dlo and Jan break into refrigerated trucks bound for the UK. Marjorie, a volunteer, is happy to mingle in the camp until her niece goes a step too far. Mariam lies to her mother back home. With humour, insight and empathy breach tackles an issue we can no longer ignore. Series: Peirene Now!. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 198 x 16. Weight in Grams: 210.
- Publisher
- Peirene Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908670328
- ISBN
- 9781908670328
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.36
€ 16.99
€ 13.36
Paperback. 'I live on Brazzaville Beach.. I am here because two sets of strange and extraordinary events happened to me.. One in England, first, and then one in Africa.' On Brazzaville Beach, on the edge of Africa, Hope Clearwater examines the complex circumstances that brought her there. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 27. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141044194
- ISBN
- 9780141044194
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
Paperback. Tristao Raposo, a nineteen-year old black child of the Rio slums, spies Isabel Leme, an eighteen-year-old upper-class white girl, across the hot sands of Copacabana Neach, and presents her with a ring. Their flight into marriage takes them from urban banality to the farthest reaches of Brazil's wild west. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141188942
- ISBN
- 9780141188942
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.47
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€ 13.47
Paperback. Nineteen-year-old Millie O'Reilly is clever, spiky and adored by men yet utterly forlorn. Increasingly disillusioned, she seeks an escape in the underbelly of Liverpool.. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 246. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- Main
- SKU
- KAK0002889
- ISBN
- 9781841955681
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 140 x 204 x 13. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Publisher
- Galaxy Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781592122585
- ISBN
- 9781592122585
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.85
€ 13.00
€ 11.85
Paperback. A brilliant romantic comedy from number one bestselling author Mike Gayle, author of MY LEGENDARY GIRLFRIEND, MR COMMITMENT, TURNING THIRTY and DINNER FOR TWO: finding friends is hard to do.. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 127 x 23. Weight in Grams: 242. Previously read copy. Some shelfwear and/or soiling. Good overall
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- New edition
- SKU
- KST0029745
- ISBN
- 9780340825402
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Susan wants another husband - which comes as a shock to the current one. A tale of a singular threesome. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 199 x 26. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Quercus Publishing
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784293468
- ISBN
- 9781784293468
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.04
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€ 11.04
Hardback. Susan wants another husband - which comes as a shock to the current one. A tale of a singular threesome. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 161 x 38. Weight in Grams: 722. Good clean copy in dustwrapper. DW with some light shelf wear else as new.
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- Quercus Publishing
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- SKU
- KTG0005031
- ISBN
- 9781780877228
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Childhood is exhilarating and terrifying. For the young Karl Ove, new houses, classes and friends are met with manic excitement and creeping dread. Adults occupy godlike positions of power, benevolent in the case of his doting mother, tyrannical in the case of his cruel father. In this book, the author shares about his childhood. Translator(s): Bartlett, Don. Series: Knausgaard. Num Pages: 496 pages, maps (colour). BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 26. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099581499
- ISBN
- 9780099581499
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.88
€ 13.00
€ 11.88
Paperback. The fifth novel from award-winning author Helen Oyeyemi, who was named in 2013 as one of Granta's best of young British novelists. A retelling of the Snow White myth, Boy, Snow, Bird is a deeply moving novel about three women and an unbreakable bond. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 197 x 22. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Main market ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447237143
- ISBN
- 9781447237143
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.94
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€ 10.94
Paperback. At 24, Jack is utterly innocent of the world, yet guilty of a monstrous childhood crime. To his new friends, he is a good guy with occasional flashes of unexpected violence. To his new girlfriend, he is strangely inexperienced and unreachable. Can he really start from scratch, forget the past, become someone else? Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 18. Weight in Grams: 182.
- Publisher
- Profile Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Media tie-in
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846686627
- ISBN
- 9781846686627
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.15
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Paperback. The wildly compelling, award-winning debut novel from the author of THE TELEPORTATION ACCIDENT. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 188.
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780340998410
- ISBN
- 9780340998410
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
€ 13.99
€ 11.09
Paperback. A young girl's search for her mother brings danger - and romance Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 175 x 110 x 26. Weight in Grams: 206.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780751548167
- ISBN
- 9780751548167
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.50
€ 10.99
€ 9.50
Paperback. * This wonderful novel showing Beryl Bainbridge at her darkly comic best - out for the first time as an Abacus paperback Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 146.
- Publisher
- Abacus
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349123714
- ISBN
- 9780349123714
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
€ 13.99
€ 11.09
Paperback. From the author of LIARS AND SAINTS (shortlisted for the Orange Prize and a Richard & Judy Summer Read) comes a wonderful new book exploring extraordinary moments of everyday life Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 134 x 17. Weight in Grams: 174. 224 pages. From the author of LIARS AND SAINTS (shortlisted for the Orange Prize and a Richard & Judy Summer Read) comes a wonderful new book exploring extraordinary moments of everyday life. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 196 x 134 x 17. Weight: 176.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847674166
- ISBN
- 9781847674166
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.74
€ 13.99
€ 10.74
CD-Audio. Hampered by his own pomposity and self-importance, the author finds that his subjects get the better of him - with hilarious consequences. Interviewing Sigmund Freud, he is wrong-footed when Freud asks all the questions, and on meeting Maria Callas (and her poodle) he becomes caught up in an opera of his own making. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 223 x 10. Weight in Grams: 106.
- Publisher
- BBC Audio, A Division Of Random House
- Format
- CD
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Unabridged
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785294426
- ISBN
- 9781785294426
CD
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 13.92
€ 18.99
€ 13.92
Paperback. Translator(s): Roloff, Michael. Series: Studies in Austrian Literature, Culture & Thought: Translation S. Num Pages: 298 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 143 x 18. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Ariadne Press United States
- Number of pages
- 298
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781572410015
- ISBN
- 9781572410015
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 23.98
€ 32.99
€ 23.98