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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. The Spanish Flu killed thirty million people in 1918. Now, with history threatening to repeat itself, a scientific expedition speeds toward a remote island on the Arctic Sea. For reporter Frank Daly, it is the story of a lifetime. But, when he meets up with the ship upon its return, it is clear that something has gone terribly wrong. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FH; FJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 110 x 27. Weight in Grams: 236. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Arrow
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
1st Arrow Books Edition
SKU
KAK0003746
ISBN
9780099184027
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. .
Publisher
Troubador Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785898914
ISBN
9781785898914
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.57

Paperback. Num Pages: 156 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FJW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 106 x 12. Weight in Grams: 86.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc United States
Number of pages
156
Publication date
1985
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780553252248
ISBN
9780553252248
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.98

hardcover. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 138. . Good clean copy showing light age and shelfwear, and light wear to dust jacket
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Fleet London
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMO0000261
ISBN
9780708898550
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.70

Paperback. Mysterious beans are found on the market stalls of the East, to which ancient superstition lends the power of favouring the birth of male children. When a French entomologist obtains a few of these beans, he worries that the world has entered a critical phase of its history. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 126 x 14. Weight in Grams: 150.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349105994
ISBN
9780349105994
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. Bernard Jacquelain returns from the trenches a changed man. The city is a whirl of decadence and corruption and he embarks on a life of parties and shady business dealings, as well as an illicit affair. But as another war threatens, everything around him starts to crumble, and the future for him and for France suddenly looks dangerously uncertain. Translator(s): Smith, Sandra. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 199 x 24. Weight in Grams: 228.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099520368
ISBN
9780099520368
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.69

Paperback. Translator(s): Smith, Sandra. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 233 x 159 x 17. Weight in Grams: 326.
Publisher
Chatto & Windus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
9780701186609
ISBN
9780701186609
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. From the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of NOS4A2 comes a chilling novel about a worldwide pandemic of spontaneous combustion. One pregnant woman is determined to survive and see her baby born - and only the enigmatic man known as the Fireman can help her. Num Pages: 784 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Gollancz
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780575130739
ISBN
9780575130739
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.86

Paperback. Sounds a clarion warning to the world. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSK; FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 6. Weight in Grams: 78.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140182750
ISBN
9780140182750
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.29

Paperback. When Theo Griepenkerl happens upon the fifth Gospel in a war-torn Iraqi museum, he can't believe his luck. Driven by greed and a lust for fame, he capitalises on his find by publishing it. His book is a sensation. But he can hardly imagine the incendiary consequences his discovery will have for Christians, Arabs, and Amazon customers alike. Series: Myths. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 145 x 15. Weight in Grams: 150. Clean copy with some reader wear.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Canongate Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Main
SKU
KTM0000676
ISBN
9781847672797
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 145 x 26. Weight in Grams: 266. Some minor shelf wear but overall in a very good condition
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSC0002366
ISBN
9781408809938
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Now available as a stunning Canon 'A work of glittering Sparkian ice, whose thinly frozen surface tempts you to jump up and down jovially above something deeper and darker' ALI SMITH Series: Canons. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 12. Weight in Grams: 108.
Publisher
Canongate Canons
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Main - Canons ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782117575
ISBN
9781782117575
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.75

hardcover. First published in 1912, Theodore Dreiser's third novel, "The Financier", captures the ruthlessness and sparkle of the Gilded Age alongside the charismatic amorality of the power brokers and bankers of the mid-nineteenth century. This volume is an edition of "The Financier" to draw on the uncorrected page proofs of the original 1912 version. Editor(s): Mulligan, Roark. Series: The Dreiser Edition. Num Pages: 672 pages, 10 b&w. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 247 x 45. Weight in Grams: 1088.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
672
Condition
New
SKU
V9780252035043
ISBN
9780252035043
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 102.70

Paperback. Frank Cowperwood, a fiercely ambitious businessman, emerges as the very embodiment of greed as he relentlessly seeks satisfaction in wealth, women, and power. As Cowperwood deals and double-deals, betrays and is in turn betrayed, his rise and fall come to represent the American success story stripped down to brutal realities. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 420.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
528
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9780143105541
ISBN
9780143105541
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. In true controversial James Frey style, this brilliant new novel is the final Testament of the Holy Bible. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 125 x 196 x 26. Weight in Grams: 274.
Publisher
John Murray Press
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848543195
ISBN
9781848543195
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. A brilliant reworking of the detective story by the much-acclaimed Michael Chabon, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & KLAY. Num Pages: 128 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 114.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
1St Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007196036
ISBN
9780007196036
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.69

Paperback. * In this fascinating and thrilling novel, Robert Winder brilliantly imagines the writing of Shakespeare's missing royal play, Henry VII, and creates a suspenseful page-turner as well as a literary tour de force Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 196 x 29. Weight in Grams: 352.
Publisher
Abacus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
9780349122502
ISBN
9780349122502
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 4.99

Paperback. Two Irish-American scholars from Harvard journey to Albania in the 1930s with a tape recorder in order to record the last genuinely oral epic singers. Their purpose, they say, is to show how Homer's epics might have been culled from a verbal tradition. The two dedicated scholars realise only too late that they have stumbled over an ants' nest. Translator(s): Bellos, David. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 11. Weight in Grams: 136.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099497196
ISBN
9780099497196
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Paperback. 'Stunning. An essential novel' Irvine Welsh Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 412.
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
On Demand
Condition
New
SKU
V9781447219309
ISBN
9781447219309
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.69

paperback. Muhammad Ali met George Foreman in the ring. Foreman's genius employed silence, serenity and cunning. He had never been defeated. His hands were his instrument, and 'he kept them in his pockets the way a hunter lays his rifle back into its velvet case'. This book focuses on the 1975 World Heavyweight Boxing Championship in Kinshasa, Zaire. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; 3JJPL; DNF; FA; WSTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 15. Weight in Grams: 192.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780141184142
ISBN
9780141184142
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 10.33

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