Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. 'THE HUNGER GAMES meets the London riots on board Noah's Ark' THE TIMES Includes reading group notes and a fascinating glimpse into Lalla's childhood in the short story prequel 'The Time Being'. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780227344
- ISBN
- 9781780227344
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.95
€ 16.95
Paperback. The prequel to what will be the publishing event of the year: the final volume of Jean M. Auel's six-book series, The Land of Painted Caves Num Pages: 800 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 53. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Number of pages
- 800
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444713145
- ISBN
- 9781444713145
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.88
€ 14.99
€ 11.88
paperback. Port and Kit Moresbury, a sophisticated American couple, are finding it more than a little difficult to live with each other. Endeavoring to escape this predicament, they set off for North Africa intending to travel through Algeria - uncertain of exactly where they are heading, but determined to leave the modern world behind. Editor(s): Hoffman, Michael. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141187778
- ISBN
- 9780141187778
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 10.83
€ 12.99
€ 10.83
Paperback. Rosamunde Pilcher's phenomenal, heart-warming bestseller Num Pages: 688 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 43. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Publisher
- Hodder Paperbacks
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780340752463
- ISBN
- 9780340752463
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.81
€ 14.99
€ 11.81
paperback. A remarkable collection of stories from a young American writer of huge potential. 'A show-stopping debut, as close to faultless as any writer could wish for.' Los Angeles Times Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 172.
- Publisher
- Fourth Estate
- Number of pages
- 226
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007146987
- ISBN
- 9780007146987
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.94
€ 11.99
€ 9.94
Paperback. Translator(s): Locke, Hillary. Num Pages: 221 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 209 x 19. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Publisher
- Amazon Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781503938052
- ISBN
- 9781503938052
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.14
€ 16.99
€ 15.14
Paperback. Set at the end of last century, The Sharks is a thrilling tale of mutiny and shipwreck, which bears comparison with Melville's Moby Dick or Conrad's Typhoon in its suspense and its evocation of the fascination of the sea. Translator(s): Murer, Esther Greenleaf. Num Pages: 242 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 211 x 17. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Publisher
- Norvik Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 2nd Revised edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781909408128
- ISBN
- 9781909408128
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.57
€ 18.99
€ 17.57
Paperback. Sara Highbury, forty-eight years old, is the manageress of a boarding house. She lives her life in the past, haunted by a love affair with a diamond digger called Herbert. One day, a young child arrives at Sara's door. Apparently the girl is Herbert's illegitimate daughter and it seems there is no one else to look after her. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 14. Weight in Grams: 173.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099535775
- ISBN
- 9780099535775
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.22
€ 11.99
€ 10.22
Paperback. Num Pages: 298 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 26. Weight in Grams: 388. 298 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 26. Weight: 388.
- Publisher
- Arcadia Books
- Number of pages
- 298
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906413859
- ISBN
- 9781906413859
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 12.71
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€ 12.71
Paperback. Translator(s): Thomas, Dominic. Series: Global African Voices. Num Pages: 132 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 8. Weight in Grams: 177.
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253019257
- ISBN
- 9780253019257
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.76
€ 20.99
€ 20.76
Paperback. Two local prostitutes are found brutally strangled. Serrailler is called back urgently from his sabbatical but by the time he reaches Lafferton another girl has vanished. Then the wife of the Dean at the Cathedral goes missing - has the killer widened their net or is there more than one murderer at large? Series: Simon Serrailler. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 169 x 24. Weight in Grams: 278.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099499282
- ISBN
- 9780099499282
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.13
€ 13.99
€ 11.13
Paperback. Written in 1915, The Shadow-Line is based upon events and experiences from twenty-seven years earlier, to which Conrad returned obsessively in his fiction. A young sea-captain faces a succession of crises on his first command, for which he feels himself responsible. The novel is a work full of 'sudden passions', as well as a penetrating analysis of the nature of manhood. Editor(s): Hawthorn, Jeremy. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages, map. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 102 x 11. Weight in Grams: 148.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Revised edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199555567
- ISBN
- 9780199555567
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Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.87
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Paperback. A spellbinding tale of grief, jealousy and betrayal, from the author of the Richard & Judy Book Club selected SECRETS OF THE TIDES. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 132 x 30. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 480
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781409127956
- ISBN
- 9781409127956
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.12
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€ 11.12
Paperback. Your best friend has suffered a devastating brain injury - she's a shadow of her former self. Alone and grieving, you turn to the only other person who understands your pain. Her husband. What started out as comfort between friends has become something more.. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 126 x 34. Weight in Grams: 346. Good, clean copy showing minor shelfwear on covers and page edges
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Edition
- First edition
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0006777
- ISBN
- 9781848450448
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Tells the story of Anna Severell's struggle at the age of seventeen to evolve her own personality in the shadow of her father, Henry Severell, a famous English novelist. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Publisher
- Vinatge 1991
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099889601
- ISBN
- 9780099889601
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.59
€ 21.99
€ 17.59
Paperback. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 204 x 141 x 15. Weight in Grams: 274. 205 pages. The debut novel of Bernard Comment, acclaimed author and editor, now available in English for the first time, The Shadow of Memory brings a fairy-tale premise into the modern world, where information--and its loss--can be a matter of life and death. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 204 x 141 x 15. Weight: 274.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Dalkey Archive Press
- Number of pages
- 205
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781564788436
- ISBN
- 9781564788436
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 15.51
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€ 15.51
paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Seven Stories Press United States
- Number of pages
- 512
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781609805074
- ISBN
- 9781609805074
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 17.27
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Paperback. Translator(s): Lammers, Wayne P. Series: Japanese Literature Series. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 204 x 142 x 21. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Dalkey Archive Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781564786418
- ISBN
- 9781564786418
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.97
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€ 18.97
Paperback. A haunting novel from the best-selling author of the Ibis trilogy. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Publisher
- John Murray Press
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848544178
- ISBN
- 9781848544178
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.78
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€ 11.78
Paperback. A young and inexperienced sea captain finds that his first command leaves him with a ship stranded in tropical seas and a crew smitten with fever. As he wrestles with his conscience and with the increasing sense of isolation that he experiences, the captain crosses the 'shadow-line' between youth and adulthood. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 126.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140180978
- ISBN
- 9780140180978
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Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.21
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€ 10.21
Paperback. Tea-Bag, a young Nigerian girl, has fled a refugee camp in Spain for the promise of a new life in Sweden. Tania has made a long and dangerous journey to escape themisery of life in a brothel. Leila has travelled with her family from Iran. All of them are facing different challenges in their new home. Translator(s): Segerberg, Ebba. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 136 x 21. Weight in Grams: 242.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099455486
- ISBN
- 9780099455486
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.70
€ 21.99
€ 17.70
Paperback. An aggressive personal trainer who has just become a media hero after taking down a would-be gunman in Miami. The one witness to the daring rescue is Lena Sorensen - an overweight depressive who is becoming increasingly obsessed with Lucy.. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 36. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099535560
- ISBN
- 9780099535560
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.01
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Paperback. Clutching his vodka and his memories, he seeks refuge on an island in the Cyclades. There by chance he meets a young woman who reactivates love's vocabulary. His survival instinct faintly reappears through the distorting mirror of alcohol. Yet the craving is an irresistible, clever adversary that shows no mercy. Translator(s): Connolly, David. Num Pages: 199 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 216 x 20. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Arcadia Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 199
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781900850216
- ISBN
- 9781900850216
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.92
€ 14.99
€ 11.92
The Seven Deadly Sins: A Celebration of Virtue and Vice
McEwen, Todd, Sutherland, John, Smith, Ali, R...
Hardcover. A Celebration of Virtue and Vice. 224 pages. Editor(s): Porter, Rosalind; Clark, Alex. Seven of our most acclaimed authors and thinkers go head to head with Lust, Greed, Gluttony, Envy, Wrath, Sloth and Vanity to explore what we really mean when we talk about sin. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Dimension: 201 x 134 x 22. Weight: 334.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Union Books
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908526151
- ISBN
- 9781908526151
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 6.32
€ 6.32