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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the tale of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. This story of heroic endeavour won Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature. It stands as a unique and timeless vision of the beauty and grief of man's challenge to the elements. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 198 x 7. Weight in Grams: 88.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- 9780099273967
- ISBN
- 9780099273967
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 9.75
€ 13.99
€ 9.75
Paperback. The old man has gone 84 days without catching a fish, everything about him is old except his eyes, they are the colour of the sea. He finally catches a fish, but this is no ordinary fish, nor is his fierce and determined response. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 112 x 8. Weight in Grams: 64.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099908401
- ISBN
- 9780099908401
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.47
€ 10.99
€ 9.47
Paperback. Malcolm, Peter and Charlie and their Soave-sodden wives have one main ambition left in life: to drink Wales dry. But their routine is both shaken and stirred when they are joined by professional Welshman Alun Weaver (CBE) and his wife, Rhiannon. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 278.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099461050
- ISBN
- 9780099461050
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
Paperback. A child is found standing on the street, with an empty bucket in her hand, and no memory of her name, her family or her past. Elsewhere, a girl grows up surrounded by familiar faces - a wet nurse, a piano teacher, a gardener, a best friend and a distant mother - but soon finds them slipping mysteriously from her life. Translator(s): Bernofsky, Susan. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 176.
- Publisher
- Portobello Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846270581
- ISBN
- 9781846270581
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.78
€ 13.99
€ 10.78
Paperback. Jaraby expects to get the job, but he reckons without the bitterness of Nox, who still remembers the humiliations of his school years. And when Jaraby's son gets into trouble with the law, Nox has the perfect stick with which to beat him. Series: William Trevor Backlist Novels. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 132.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241969250
- ISBN
- 9780241969250
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.25
€ 17.99
€ 14.25
Paperback. The characters who inhabit Blake's haunting landscape-awash in their own worlds, adrift in their own lives-struggle to salvage what they can of their hopes and dreams from the encroaching tides. Series: Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction. Num Pages: 244 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 159 x 225 x 18. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421421032
- ISBN
- 9781421421032
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 22.19
€ 24.99
€ 22.19
Paperback. A long-awaited new novel set in the period of the French and Indian Wars brings a new dimension to the region s history" Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University Press of New England United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781584652137
- ISBN
- 9781584652137
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 16.45
€ 18.99
€ 16.45
Paperback. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 157 x 29. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Harmony
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781400082001
- ISBN
- 9781400082001
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.76
€ 19.99
€ 14.76
Paperback. Keneally at his powerful best, with the gripping tale of a priest and a serial killer in World War II Australia. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 232. Good clean copy. Covers and page edges showing some shelfwear, remains in good condition
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- SKU
- KSG0009114
- ISBN
- 9780340624760
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Four unforgettable books by acclaimed poet, novelist and dissident Irina Ratushinskaya, beautifully repackaged. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 37. Weight in Grams: 292.
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton General Division
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781473637269
- ISBN
- 9781473637269
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.85
€ 15.99
€ 11.85
paperback. It's 1963 and a young German reporter has been assigned the suicide of a holocaust survivor. The news story seems straightforward, this is a tragic insight into one man's suffering. But a long hidden secret is discovered in the pages of the dead man's diary. What follows is life-and-death hunt for a notorious former concentration camp-commander. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 30. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099559832
- ISBN
- 9780099559832
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 10.33
€ 12.99
€ 10.33
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780062434852
- ISBN
- 9780062434852
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 7.48
€ 15.99
€ 7.48
Paperback. From New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling writer Neil Gaiman, comes a novel of memory, magic and survival, about the power of stories and the darkness inside each of us. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 196 x 27. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Publisher
- Headline Publishing Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472228420
- ISBN
- 9781472228420
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
€ 13.99
€ 11.09
Paperback. She changed her name. She changed her life. But someone won't let her go. The international number one bestseller from Nora Roberts - the world's greatest storyteller. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 35. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780349407784
- ISBN
- 9780349407784
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 5.70
€ 10.99
€ 5.70
Paperback. In an attempt to escape her past, Bessy Buckley takes a job working as a maid in a big country house. But when Arabella, her beautiful mistress, asks her to undertake a series of bizarre tasks, Bessy begins to realise that she hasn't quite landed on her feet. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 35. Weight in Grams: 438.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571223367
- ISBN
- 9780571223367
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.06
€ 13.99
€ 10.06
Paperback. A sophisticated and suspenseful novel about the poignant lives of two women living in different eras. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 140 x 210 x 20. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393346770
- ISBN
- 9780393346770
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 15.86
€ 17.99
€ 15.86
Paperback. 1920s Yorkshire Frankie Ford is honest and hardworking and has ambitions to become a ward sister at a prestigious London teaching hospital. But, hiding a secret, Frankie flees her comfortable home counties life to begin training as a district nurse in the poverty-stricken streets of Leeds. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Arrow Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099599593
- ISBN
- 9780099599593
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.34
€ 25.99
€ 19.34
Paperback. Diderot's The Nun (La Religieuse) is the seemingly true story of a young girl forced by her parents to enter a convent and take holy orders. A novel mingling mysticism, madness, sadistic cruelty and nascent sexuality, it gives a scathing insight into the effects of forced vocations and the unnatural life of the convent. This new translation includes Diderot's all-important prefatory material. Translator(s): Goulbourne, Russell. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 182.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199555246
- ISBN
- 9780199555246
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.25
€ 17.99
€ 14.25
Paperback. A dark and hilarious pot-infused novel of teenage maladjustment from a compelling new voice in American fiction. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 234 x 24. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Publisher
- Corsair
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349002392
- ISBN
- 9780349002392
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.43
€ 17.99
€ 13.43
Hardback. Translation of: Lexique nomade [a collection of short meditations by contemporary novelists at the 3rd Assises internationales du roman] Editor(s): Villa Gillet; Le Monde. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: CBW; DSB; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 180 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 232.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231150804
- ISBN
- 9780231150804
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.32
€ 18.99
€ 15.32
Paperback. A sweeping story of upstairs, downstairs, love and loss by the author of Mr Rosenblum's List. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 26. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780340995693
- ISBN
- 9780340995693
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.06
€ 13.99
€ 11.06
Paperback. The tenth wonderful story in Alexander McCall Smith's much-loved Isabel Dalhousie series. Series: Isabel Dalhousie Novels. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 197 x 22. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Abacus
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780349141022
- ISBN
- 9780349141022
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 5.70
€ 11.99
€ 5.70
Hardback. Waldo, a feted filmmaker, is confined by old age and ill health to his London apartment. Frail and frustrated, he is cared for by his lovely younger wife, Zee. But when he suspects that Zee is beginning an affair with Eddie, Waldo is pressed to action: determined to expose the couple, he sets himself first to prove his suspicions correct and more. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135. . Like new except for damage to back bottom of dust jacket
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KOG0005127
- ISBN
- 9780571332014
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 18.99€ 4.99
€ 18.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. Waldo, a feted filmmaker, is confined by old age and ill health to his London apartment. Frail and frustrated, he is cared for by his lovely younger wife, Zee. But when he suspects that Zee is beginning an affair with Eddie, Waldo is pressed to action: determined to expose the couple, he sets himself first to prove his suspicions correct and more. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571332014
- ISBN
- 9780571332014
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 4.99
€ 18.99
€ 4.99