Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. Young, handsome and fabulously rich, Jay Gatsby is the bright star of the Jazz Age, but as writer Nick Carraway is drawn into the decadent orbit of his Long Island mansion, where the party never seems to end, he finds himself faced by the mystery of Gatsby's origins and desires. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 196 x 18. Weight in Grams: 182.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141182636
- ISBN
- 9780141182636
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 8.78
€ 9.99
€ 8.78
Hardcover. Set in the post-Great War Long Island/New York world of the rich. The narrator, Nick Carraway, sympathetically records the pathos of Gatsby's romantic dream which founders on the reality of corruption, the insulated selfishness of Tom and Daisy, and the cutting edge of violence. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 134 x 17. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Publisher
- Everyman United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857150193
- ISBN
- 9781857150193
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.81
€ 16.99
€ 12.81
Paperback. Series: Wynette, Texas. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FRD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 186 x 142 x 29. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780062106087
- ISBN
- 9780062106087
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.59
€ 9.59
Paperback. Arthur Morgan is aboard the Queen Mary bound for the United States, where a scholarship at an Ivy League university awaits him, along with the promise of a glittering future. But the few days spent on the ship will have a defining effect on the young Frenchman, when he encounters the love of his life. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 2. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Gallic Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781910477281
- ISBN
- 9781910477281
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.51
€ 11.99
€ 10.51
Paperback. Gill Gamesh, John Baal, Rupert Mundys: If you've never heard of them, it's because of the Communist plot, and the capitalist scandal, that expunged the entire Patriot League from baseball memory. This novel turns baseball's status as national passtime and myth into an occasion for unfettered picturesque heroism and perfidy, and ebullient wordplay. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 26. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099889403
- ISBN
- 9780099889403
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.65
€ 14.99
€ 11.65
Paperback. From the author of 'Blonde', 'The Falls' and 'We Were the Mulvaneys', this new novel takes in the themes of race, immigration, family and social mobility, and is Joyce Carol Oates at her storytelling best. Num Pages: 600 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 38. Weight in Grams: 440. Fine copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KJE0003514
- ISBN
- 9780007258468
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
Paperback. The Nobel Prize-winner Doris Lessing's first novel is a taut and tragic portrayal of a crumbling marriage, set in South Africa during the years of Arpartheid. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 13. Weight in Grams: 154.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007498802
- ISBN
- 9780007498802
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.83
€ 11.99
€ 9.83
Paperback. Marius, the general who saved Rome from barbarian invasion and became consul an unprecedented six times, has fallen into decline. Sulla, his closest associate, has withdrawn himself from his commander's circle in preparation for his own bid for power. As a deadly enmity develops between the two men, Rome must fight its own battle for survival. Series: Masters of Rome. Num Pages: 1072 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 49. Weight in Grams: 738.
- Publisher
- Cornerstone
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099462491
- ISBN
- 9780099462491
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.84
€ 19.99
€ 14.84
Hardcover. Set in the depression of the 1930s, this is the story of one of the thousands of destitute families which fled the Dust Bowl for the promise of California. The novel was awarded the Pulitzer Prize when it was first published in 1939. Num Pages: 578 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 212 x 129 x 41. Weight in Grams: 656.
- Publisher
- Everyman London
- Number of pages
- 578
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857151541
- ISBN
- 9781857151541
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 16.34
€ 21.99
€ 16.34
Paperback. Set against the background of Dust Bowl Oklahoma and Californian migrant life, this is about Tom Joad and his family, who, like thousands of others, are forced to travel west in search of the promised land. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141185064
- ISBN
- 9780141185064
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.93
€ 13.99
€ 10.93
Paperback. The Man Booker prize-winning author's critically acclaimed selection of the best Irish short stories of the last sixty years, following Richard Ford's best-selling Granta Book of the American Short Story. Editor(s): Enright, Anne. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; DQ; FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 29. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Publisher
- Granta Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847082558
- ISBN
- 9781847082558
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.39
€ 19.99
€ 14.39
Paperback. 29 short stories by the best new African writers, selected by one of Africa's most eminent contemporary writers, Helon Habila. Editor(s): Habila, Helon. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 25. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Publisher
- Granta Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847083333
- ISBN
- 9781847083333
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 12.85
€ 17.99
€ 12.85
Paperback. Book 3: The Agnes Browne Trilogy. At forty-seven years of age Agnes (star of BAFTA-nominated TV series Mrs Browne's Boys), now thirteen years happily widowed, enters the 1980s with a fruit stall in Moore Street, a French lover and six children .. With a new introduction by the author, Brendan O'Carroll. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 146.
- Publisher
- O´Brien Press Ltd
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847173249
- ISBN
- 9781847173249
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.63
€ 10.99
€ 10.63
Paperback.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007152810
- ISBN
- 9780007152810
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.21
€ 14.99
€ 11.21
Paperback. Num Pages: 528 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 175 x 110 x 32. Weight in Grams: 405.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Pelican Publishing Co United States
- Number of pages
- 528
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781565549012
- ISBN
- 9781565549012
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.10
€ 11.10
Paperback. Describes Jenny Kilgour's coming of age as she has to choose between the kindly harshness of her grandfather's life on a remote hill farm, and the vulgar and glorious energy of Bella Cassie, a local girl who left the community to pursue success as a singer, and has now returned to scandalise them all. Editor(s): Watson, Roderick. Series: Canongate Classics. Num Pages: 672 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 43. Weight in Grams: 446. "The Quarrywood", "Weatherhouse", "A Pass in the Grampian", "The Living Mountain". 672 pages, 1 map. Describes Jenny Kilgour's coming of age as she has to choose between the kindly harshness of her grandfather's life on a remote hill farm, and the vulgar and glorious energy of Bella Cassie, a local girl who left the community to pursue success as a singer, and has now returned to scandalise them all. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Dimension: 200 x 130 x 43. Weight: 532.
- Publisher
- Canongate UK
- Number of pages
- 672
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780862415891
- ISBN
- 9780862415891
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 15.15
€ 20.99
€ 15.15
Paperback. As far as Benjamin's parents are concerned, his future is sewn up. Now he has graduated from college, will go to Yale or Harvard, get a good job and enjoy life. When his parents' friend, an older woman, strips naked in front of him and they begin an affair, it seems he might have found a way out. That is, until her daughter comes into the picture. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 160.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141190242
- ISBN
- 9780141190242
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.86
€ 13.99
€ 10.86
Paperback. When Benjamin came down from university, this is how he talked - 'For twenty-one years I have been shuffling back and forth between classrooms and libraries. Now you tell me what the hell it's got me'. It was not what his father expected from a college education, and everyone was appalled when Ben raped Mrs Robinson and ran off with her daughter. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 138.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1973
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140026931
- ISBN
- 9780140026931
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.95
€ 13.99
€ 10.95
Hardback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 257 x 25. Weight in Grams: 574.
- Publisher
- Bancroft Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781610881593
- ISBN
- 9781610881593
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 25.66
€ 38.99
€ 25.66
Paperback. In award-winning writer Simon Mawer's new novel, a banished priest discovers the fifth gospel, and with it, the power to bring down the Christian faith. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349113586
- ISBN
- 9780349113586
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.91
€ 13.99
€ 10.91
Paperback. Tracks the disillusionments and epiphanies of young punks living on the outskirts of Gainesville, FL. This title explores the boundaries (if there are any) between religion and politics, faith and fanaticism, and what happens when those boundaries break down. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 136 x 16. Weight in Grams: 192.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Original
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780061881824
- ISBN
- 9780061881824
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 14.47
€ 14.99
€ 14.47
Paperback. Lew Archer, world-weary private investigator, is hired by Larry and Irene Chalmers when they suspect that their troubled son Nick is involved in their own burglary. But when a fellow investigator - one who's been working with Nick - turns up dead, Archer soon realizes this isn't simply about some stolen loot. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 17. Weight in Grams: 214.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141196602
- ISBN
- 9780141196602
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.95
€ 13.99
€ 10.95
Paperback. A feisty, flirty tale of one woman's quest to cure her disastrous love life, by Sunday Times bestselling author of Meet Me at the Cupcake Cafe (winner of the 2012 Melissa Nathan Award for Comedy Romance) and Welcome to Rosie Hopkins' Sweetshop of Dreams (RNA Romantic Novel of the Year Award 2013 winner). . The perfect summer read. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 24. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780751551099
- ISBN
- 9780751551099
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.97
€ 13.99
€ 10.97
Paperback. Fanny Savage was once dutiful, clever, vulnerable and dreamy. Now married to Will, a successful politician with big ambitions, her life is a whirlwind of public engagements and loyalty to the party, a position that requires her to look good and remain silent. But she's no fool. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 20. Weight in Grams: 226. Clean copy
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- KEX0245584
- ISBN
- 9780141009797
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99