Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. The Internal Revenue Service Regional Examination Centre in Peoria, Illinois, 1985. Here the workers fight a never-ending war against the urgency of their own boredom. Here then, squeezed between the trivial and the quotidian, lies all human life. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 27. Weight in Grams: 414.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141046730
- ISBN
- 9780141046730
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.53
€ 16.99
€ 12.53
Paperback. I-SPY AT THE SEASIDE Hello, children! Welcome to your very own I-Spy Book. In these pages you'll be able to look for all kinds of secret, exciting things that are found only by the sea. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 147 x 24. Weight in Grams: 250. Used paperback in very good condition. Some shelf wear.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- SKU
- KRF0038232
- ISBN
- 9780007276073
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Epic adventure, grand passion and historical intrigue in the bestselling tradition of Wilbur Smith. Num Pages: 720 pages, n/a. BIC Classification: FA; FJH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 138 x 47. Weight in Grams: 570.
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Number of pages
- 720
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780340827871
- ISBN
- 9780340827871
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.35
€ 17.99
€ 13.35
paperback. At the heart of the Sultan's empire stands the Palace of Dreams. Inside, the dreams of every citizen are collected, sorted and interpreted in order to identify the 'master-dreams' that will provide the clues to the Empire's destiny and that of its Monarch. An entire nation's consciousness is thus laid bare and at the mercy of its government.. Translator(s): Bray, Barbara. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 148.
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099518273
- ISBN
- 9780099518273
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.06
€ 13.99
€ 11.06
Paperback. Love gets in the way of progress when Raman, a sign painter, meets Daisy, who wishes to bring birth control to the city of Malgudi. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 9. Weight in Grams: 116.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140185492
- ISBN
- 9780140185492
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.14
€ 18.99
€ 15.14
Paperback. From the winner of the National Book Award for Fiction, 2012 comes this elegantly crafted novel that explores the strange power that lost children exert on the memories of those they leave behind Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 20. Weight in Grams: 212.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007232093
- ISBN
- 9780007232093
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.45
€ 15.99
€ 11.45
Paperback. On a family sheep station in the interior of Australia, a brother and sister work the property while their reclusive brother, Wesley Antill, spends years toiling away in one of the sheds, writing a philosophy. Now he has died. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 148.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099524281
- ISBN
- 9780099524281
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.43
€ 10.99
€ 9.43
Paperback. The thrilling conclusion to the Sign of Seven trilogy: a classic novel of love and magic from number one bestseller Nor Roberts. Series: Sign of Seven Trilogy. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 197 x 36. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349412290
- ISBN
- 9780349412290
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
€ 13.99
€ 11.09
Paperback. Number One bestselling author Jodi Picoult explores the heartbreaking issue of teen suicide in this deeply moving and impossible to put down novel, perfect for fans of Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 37. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444754353
- ISBN
- 9781444754353
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 8.67
€ 8.67
Paperback. If only real life was like the movies.. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 32. Weight in Grams: 352. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KTG0012195
- ISBN
- 9781847561008
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
paperback. V. S. Pritchett, one of our greatest short-story writers, has chosen forty-one stories written in the English language for this volume, producing a collection that successfully displays the wealth and variety of an art that spans some 200 years. Editor(s): Pritchett, V. S. Series: Oxford Books of Prose & Verse. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 128 x 33. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Number of pages
- 576
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199583133
- ISBN
- 9780199583133
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.39
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Paperback. Beginning with the late nineteenth-century writings which first assimilated and reworked Western literary traditions, and coming right up to the younger generation dealing with the pitfalls and paradoxes of modern life, this anthology offers a stimulating survey of the development of the Japanese short story, the Japanese literary genre. Editor(s): Goossen, Theodore W. Series: Oxford Books of Prose & Verse. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 131 x 30. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 484
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199583195
- ISBN
- 9780199583195
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.36
€ 16.99
€ 13.36
Paperback. Ireland has always been a nation of story-tellers. This magnificent anthology chronicles the development of a rich literary tradition, from the earliest folk-tales to James Joyce, Liam O'Flaherty, and the rising stars of the new generation. Editor(s): Trevor, William. Series: Oxford Books of Prose & Verse. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 35. Weight in Grams: 426.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Oxford
- Number of pages
- 592
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199583140
- ISBN
- 9780199583140
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 13.08
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Paperback. Spanning the centuries from the late eighteenth to the late twentieth, this collection opens with a rumbustious tale from the Marquis de Sade, takes in the masters of the nineteenth century, from Stendhal and Balzac to Maupassant, and reaches to Quebec, Africa, and the French Carribbean in the twentieth century. Editor(s): Fallaize, Elizabeth. Series: Oxford Books of Prose & Verse. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 376
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199583171
- ISBN
- 9780199583171
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.39
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Paperback. A fresh contemporary design for A. S. Byatt's celebrated anthology of English short stories The Oxford Book of English Short Stories.The 37 stories featured here are selected from the 19th and 20th centuries, by authors ranging from Dickens, Trollope, and Hardy to J. G. Ballard, Angela Carter, and Ian McEwan. Editor(s): Byatt, A. S. Series: Oxford Books of Prose & Verse. Num Pages: 472 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Number of pages
- 472
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199561605
- ISBN
- 9780199561605
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.36
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Paperback. In Ponyboy's world there are two types of people. There are the Socs, the rich society kids who get away with anything. Then there are the greasers, like Ponyboy, who aren't so lucky. Ponyboy has a few things he can count on: his older brothers, his friends, and trouble with the Socs, whose idea of a good time is beating up greasers like Ponyboy. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 10. Weight in Grams: 124.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141189116
- ISBN
- 9780141189116
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.13
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€ 11.13
Paperback. Meursault, his anti-hero, will not lie. When his mother dies, he refuses to show his emotions simply to satisfy the expectations of others. And when he commits a random act of violence on a sun-drenched beach near Algiers, his lack of remorse compounds his guilt in the eyes of society and the law. Yet he is as much a victim as a criminal. Translator(s): Smith, Sandra. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 146 x 8. Weight in Grams: 102.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141198064
- ISBN
- 9780141198064
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.75
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Paperback. Meursault is different. He will not lie. He will not pretend. He is true to himself. So when his mother dies and he is unmoved, he refuses to do the proper thing and grieve. Returning to Algiers after the funeral, he carries on life as usual until he becomes involved in a violent murder. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 114 x 9. Weight in Grams: 78.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Number of pages
- 128
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241950050
- ISBN
- 9780241950050
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Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.23
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Hardback. Albert Camus' laconic masterpiece about a Frenchman who murders an Arab in colonial Algeria was famous in its time for diagnosing a state of alienation and spiritual exhaustion which summed up the mood of the mid-twentieth century. This book shows that this early success was no passing fashion. Translator(s): Laredo, Joseph. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 136 x 16. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Everyman United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 127
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- New ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857151398
- ISBN
- 9781857151398
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.00
€ 19.99
€ 16.00
Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 196 x 33. Weight in Grams: 262.
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Main Market Ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781509802128
- ISBN
- 9781509802128
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.42
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Paperback. A mesmerising novel about obsessive love Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Tinder Press
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780755388790
- ISBN
- 9780755388790
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.50
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Paperback. From the author of WINTER'S BONE, twelve timeless Ozarkian tales of those on the fringes of society, by the 'least known major writer in the country today' (Denis Lehane, USA Today) Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 127 x 12. Weight in Grams: 126.
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444735789
- ISBN
- 9781444735789
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
€ 13.99
€ 11.09
Paperback. Traditional Chinese edition of The Outcast by Costa Novel Award winner Sadie Jones. In Traditional Chinese. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 30. Weight in Grams: 336. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAK0011249
- ISBN
- 9780099513421
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. The perfect high-concept summer bestseller, Nicola's stunning debut novel heralds the arrival of the new Irish Sophie Kinsella Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 20. Weight in Grams: 222. Good copy with some shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Headline Review
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- SKU
- KRA0010833
- ISBN
- 9780755386857
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99