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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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

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

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

Paperback. Don Rigoberto - by day a grey insurance executive, by night a pornographer and sexual enthusiast - misses Lucrecia, his estranged second wife. The pair separated following a sexual encounter between Lucrecia and Alfonso, Rigoberto's son. To compensate for her absence, Rigoberto fills his notebooks with memories, fantasies and unsent letters. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 298.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571195756
ISBN
9780571195756
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.77

Paperback. * The love story to end all love stories from the internationally bestselling author * Now a major motion picture starring Ryan Gosling (Golden Globe winning and Oscar nominated star of La La Land) and Rachel McAdams Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 125 x 16. Weight in Grams: 194.
Edition
36th Edition
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780751540475
ISBN
9780751540475
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

Paperback. Maximilian Ponder has been shut away for 30 years, attempting to record every memory he has ever had .. A stunning debut about friendship, memory and what makes up a life. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 286.
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780220833
ISBN
9781780220833
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.47

Paperback. From the author of The Stars Look Down and The Citadel, and the creator of Dr Finlay's Casebook Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 370.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
9781447244141
ISBN
9781447244141
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.94

Paperback. SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2008. An epic chronicle of the last twenty years of British life from the Booker shortlisted and Granta Best of Young British novelist, Philip Hensher. Num Pages: 752 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 47. Weight in Grams: 528.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007461684
ISBN
9780007461684
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.88

Paperback. Every week, a writer of political propaganda and a professional blood donor meet for dinner. They are unlikely friends - one of them tortured by his 'art', the other fat and wealthy from the earthy business of providing spare blood for the citizens of China. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 134 x 12. Weight in Grams: 148.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099459064
ISBN
9780099459064
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. In May 1937, a man in his early thirties waits by the lift of a Leningrad apartment block. He waits all through the night, expecting to be taken away to the Big House. Any celebrity he has known in the previous decade is no use to him now. And few who are taken to the Big House ever return. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 283 x 18. Weight in Grams: 182.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784703325
ISBN
9781784703325
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 111 x 177 x 20. Weight in Grams: 142.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784703332
ISBN
9781784703332
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.83

Paperback. Tom Hurst, a junior lecturer at the College, breaking every rule of the whodunnit genre, follows a trail of arcane clues that leads him to Botswana and Mma Delicious Ontoast. His investigations then take him to Sweden and Burt Colander; to Edinburgh, where he is grudgingly helped by DI John "Just-Now" Rhombus; and to Richmond, Virginia. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; WHG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 18. Weight in Grams: 193.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
Main
SKU
KLN0018184
ISBN
9781841958514
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.49

Paperback. A spellbinding tale about what the human heart can inflict and the mind endure Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Film tie-in edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408865934
ISBN
9781408865934
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.66

Paperback. A collection of tales that have played an integral role in the development of modern dark fantasy. Editor(s): Hoppenstand, Gary. Series: Bison Frontiers of Imagination. Num Pages: 406 pages, 9 illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5182 x 3429 x 24. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Edition
Illustrated
Number of pages
406
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803292987
ISBN
9780803292987
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 21.95

Paperback. The Nightingale Sisters Series: Nightingales. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 29. Weight in Grams: 312.
Publisher
Cornerstone United Kingdom
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099569428
ISBN
9780099569428
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.26

paperback. Sarah Waters, the award-winning author of three novels set in Victorian London, returns with a stunning novel that marks a departure from the 19th century. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 34. Weight in Grams: 402.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Virago
Condition
New
Edition
UK ed.
SKU
V9781844082414
ISBN
9781844082414
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.89

Paperback. Anton is a young Other owing allegiance to the Light. As a Night Watch agent he must patrol the streets and metro of the city, protecting ordinary people from the vampires and magicians of the Dark. Series: Night Watch. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 40. Weight in Grams: 390.
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
Arrow
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099489924
ISBN
9780099489924
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. Two teenagers from opposite sides of the tracks fuel the latest from the southern master known for his "achingly poignant and ripsnortingly funny" novels. (Raleigh News & Observer) Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 218.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Little, Brown & Company United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780316117616
ISBN
9780316117616
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 16.58

Paperback. A haunting novel about two brothers' fraught relationship in 1950s Ireland Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 38. Weight in Grams: 390.
Publisher
Oneworld Publications
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780748344
ISBN
9781780748344
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.70

Paperback. "Five-year-old Pea (shortened from her French name, Pivoine) and her eerily precocious younger sister, Margot, are left to their own devices for most of one oppressively hot summer in the French countryside after their father is killed in a farm accident and their pregnant and deeply depressed mother takes to her bed."--Library Journal. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 17. Weight in Grams: 228. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
SKU
KHN0002077
ISBN
9781408841846
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Series: Modesty Blaise S. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FH; FJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 21. Weight in Grams: 268.
Publisher
Souvenir Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780285636156
ISBN
9780285636156
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.13

Paperback. Jonathan Pine is merely the night manager at a luxury hotel. But when a single attempt to pass on information to the British authorities about an international businessman at the hotel with suspicious dealings - backfires terribly, and people close to Pine begin to die. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 126 x 201 x 21. Weight in Grams: 328.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141393018
ISBN
9780141393018
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. Gabriel Noone, whose late night radio stories have brought him into the homes of millions, gets the proofs of a memoir of a sickly thirteen-year-old boy who suffered sexual abuse at the hands of his parents. When Noone phones the boy, it becomes clear that Pete sees in this heartsick, middle-aged storyteller, the loving father he's always wanted. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 258. Good clean copy. Showing some shelf and reading wear, remains a nice copy
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Black Swan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
SKU
KSG0010541
ISBN
9780552142403
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. The hypnotic tale of a psychological battle on unequal terms and a superbly drawn portrait of two very particular women - a beautifully written, unnerving and acutely moving debut. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 172 x 19. Weight in Grams: 200.
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444776690
ISBN
9781444776690
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.06

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