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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. The renowned comedian and presenter Alexei Sayle proves himself to be a formidable literary talent in this wonderful collection of sleek, dark, and witty short stories. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 8. Weight in Grams: 160.
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780340936382
ISBN
9780340936382
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.97

Paperback. Lieutenant James Hayter and Captain William Rennie are to sail to the Mediterranean, to assist Britain's ally Rashid Bey of Rabhet. Murky politics, threatened mutiny, desperate sea actions and imprisonment follow on the sweltering North African Coast, where the rules of European warfare no longer apply and the victor will take everything. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 132 x 25. Weight in Grams: 274.
Publisher
Cornerstone United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
First PB Edition, First Printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099474272
ISBN
9780099474272
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.69

Paperback. A bold and confident debut novel about politics, money, and art in contemporary Britain. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 26. Weight in Grams: 246.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
John Murray Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444788518
ISBN
9781444788518
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.18

Paperback. Yannis Loukas is editing his father's autobiography. Going through the family archives, he discovers the manuscript of an aspiring novelist named Loukas Matthaiou. While reading it, Yannis feels as if someone has put to paper his innermost thoughts. But who was the writer of this amazing story and what happened to him? Translator(s): Connolly, David. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 380. 400 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 215 x 138 x 23. Weight: 366. Translator(s): Connolly, David.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Arcadia Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9781900850575
ISBN
9781900850575
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.52

Paperback. Translator(s): Wynne, Frank. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135 x 25. Weight in Grams: 299.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780714531601
ISBN
9780714531601
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.24

Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140. Weight in Grams: 367.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Kensington Publishing United States
Number of pages
218
Condition
New
SKU
V9781622869572
ISBN
9781622869572
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 14.29

Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 115 x 178 x 24. Weight in Grams: 282.
Publisher
Empire Publications Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781909360433
ISBN
9781909360433
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.19

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Edition
2 Revised
Number of pages
265
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803273382
ISBN
9780803273382
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.54

Paperback. Translator(s): Wright, Jonathan. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9789927101793
ISBN
9789927101793
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 14.20

Paperback. Two boys, both sons of doctors, are sent to the top of a mountain for "re-education" in Mao's China; an education that involves carting buckets of excrement up and down precipitous paths. They discover instead the discreet charm of bourgeois literature and the local tailor's attractive daughter. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 130.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099286431
ISBN
9780099286431
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.87

Paperback. In the Koran, there are 99 names for God. Does the 100th exist? Months before the dawn of the apocalyptic "year of the beast", 1666, Balthasar Embriaco, a Genoese Levantine merchant embarks on a quest to find the answer. He sets out on a journey that will take him across the breadth of the civilized world. Num Pages: 400 pages, 35. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 127 x 27. Weight in Grams: 292.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099452089
ISBN
9780099452089
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.87

Paperback. In early 18th-century Lisbon, Baltasar, a soldier who has lost his left hand in battle, falls in love with Blimunda, a young girl with visionary powers. From the day that he follows her home from the auto-da-fe where her mother is burned at the stake, the two are bound body and soul by love of an unassailable strength. Translator(s): Pontiero, Giovanni. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 22. Weight in Grams: 252.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9781860469015
ISBN
9781860469015
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. "Ball explores the darker edges of love and sex and death with complex, vivid stories set mostly in contemporary Los Angeles."--Page 4 of cover. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 285.
Publisher
Counterpoint United States
Number of pages
232
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781593766221
ISBN
9781593766221
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.69

Paperback. Susie Moran has always been the breadwinner in her family. Her husband was the one who was there for their three girls. But now he wants something of his past back - the life he had before Susie's career took off, before they had children. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 27. Weight in Grams: 308.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Black Swan
Condition
New
SKU
V9780552778558
ISBN
9780552778558
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.95

Paperback. The balance point of interplanetary Cold War II between Earth and monolithic Yavet tips unexpectedly toward peace. Covert ops Captain Jazen Parker and his sharp-shooting lover and partner Kit Born slide from world-saving hazardous duty to escorting a telepathic alien monster home from Earth to mate. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 173 x 106 x 46. Weight in Grams: 196.
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Baen Books
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
Format
Paperback
SKU
V9781476780467
ISBN
9781476780467
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.57

paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Harper Perennial United States
Edition
Reissue
Number of pages
354
Condition
New
SKU
V9780062262882
ISBN
9780062262882
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 14.63

Paperback. Cupcake runs a successful bakery with his best friend, Eggplant, but dreams of going abroad to meet his idol, Turkish Delight, who is the most famous pastry chef in the world. Num Pages: 160 pages, chiefly Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 216 x 157 x 12. Weight in Grams: 333.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9781596434196
ISBN
9781596434196
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 17.49

Paperback. It's New York, 1950. A young PR man working at General Electric sold his first magazine piece. By the time he'd sold his third, he decided to quit his job and make a living as a full-time writer. That young man was Kurt Vonnegut. This title collects his stories from the postwar years. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 159 x 20. Weight in Grams: 238.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099282969
ISBN
9780099282969
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.87

Paperback. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 181 x 134 x 23. Weight in Grams: 190.
Publisher
Empire Publications (UK)
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781901746877
ISBN
9781901746877
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.15

Paperback. A journalist and her fixer struggle for the truth where truth is now a victim. Num Pages: 688 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 136 x 35. Weight in Grams: 814.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Halban Publishers United Kingdom
Number of pages
672
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905559473
ISBN
9781905559473
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.87

Paperback. Too much to take? Just leave it all behind.. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 242. Good clean copy showing light shelfwear to covers and page edges, remains in good condition
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
SKU
KSG0009418
ISBN
9780747266778
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 210 x 16. Weight in Grams: 302.
Publisher
Harbour Books (East) Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905128228
ISBN
9781905128228
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.27

Paperback. Series: Dedalus Hall of Fame. Num Pages: 194 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 142 x 16. Weight in Grams: 204.
Publisher
Dedalus Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781909232914
ISBN
9781909232914
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.24

paperback. THE SECOND PATRICK MELROSE NOVEL Series: The Patrick Melrose Novels. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 192.
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Condition
New
Format
Paperback
SKU
9781447202950
ISBN
9781447202950
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 4.99

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