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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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
€ 13.37

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

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

€ 11.60

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

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
PM Press United States
Edition
Reissue
Number of pages
442
Condition
New
SKU
V9781604864427
ISBN
9781604864427
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.77

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

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

Paperback. What are boys thinking? That's what the heartbroken and hilarious girls and women in these stories want to know. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 146 x 12. Weight in Grams: 285.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Biblioasis Canada
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9781897231357
ISBN
9781897231357
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.01

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

€ 15.99
€ 11.84

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

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

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
€ 11.05

Hardcover. The first volume in "The Works of Stephen Crane" contains Crane's "Bowery Tales," including "Maggie: A Girl of the Streets" and "George's Mother." Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 165 x 32. Weight in Grams: 748.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1969
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Edition
University of Virginia
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813902586
ISBN
9780813902586
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 105.70

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 5SL; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 310.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Arsenal Pulp Press Canada
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781551522135
ISBN
9781551522135
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.89

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
€ 9.47

Paperback / so. Series: Boomerang Novel. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FRD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 132 x 20. Weight in Grams: 227.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780062331106
ISBN
9780062331106
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 13.96

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
€ 11.02

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

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
€ 13.83

Paperback. Num Pages: 372 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 142 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press Boston
Condition
New
SKU
V9781564781741
ISBN
9781564781741
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.07

Paperback. Num Pages: 322 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Seven Stories Press,U.S. United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
322
Condition
New
SKU
V9781583220405
ISBN
9781583220405
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.07

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
€ 23.94

Paperback. A novel about the way news is made, and the way the media creates and manipulates the stories we see before us. It makes us think again about the stories we are fed by the media around us. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 183. Clean copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Faber & Faber London
Edition
Main
Number of pages
224
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KEX0200944
ISBN
9780571240265
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. A novel about the way news is made, and the way the media creates and manipulates the stories we see before us. It makes us think again about the stories we are fed by the media around us. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 183. Clean copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Faber & Faber London
Edition
Main
Number of pages
224
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KEX0200943
ISBN
9780571240265
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

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