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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Written by the author of "True Grit". Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 212.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
y First edition thus
Condition
New
SKU
V9780747572640
ISBN
9780747572640
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.94

Paperback. These are stories about people who make choices that seem inevitable, whose longings and misgivings evoke eternal human experience. With her trademark compassion and wit, Hempel takes readers into the marriages, minor disasters and moments of revelation in an uneasy America. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 30. Weight in Grams: 296.
Publisher
Quercus Publishing Plc United Kingdom
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847247322
ISBN
9781847247322
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.39

Paperback. Alexei Sayle is back, with a new collection of dark, timely, and comic tales. These dazzlingly written stories cut right to the heart of the modern world Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 127 x 22. Weight in Grams: 222.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton United Kingdom
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780340819449
ISBN
9780340819449
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. 288 pages. Shortlisted for The Booker Prize. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 198 x 132 x 20. Weight: 202.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408827024
ISBN
9781408827024
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.99

Paperback. A.S. Byatt's fairy tales and fables are among the best-loved features of her fiction. This volume contains "The Glass Coffin" and "Gode's Tale" of the Breton Baie des Trepasses, together with three other stories with medieval and oriental settings, including the title tale. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 19. Weight in Grams: 218.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Edition
New edition
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099521310
ISBN
9780099521310
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 200 x 16. Weight in Grams: 310. 288 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 153 x 200 x 16. Weight: 310.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Indigo Dreams Publishing
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781907401732
ISBN
9781907401732
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.34

Paperback. Yoko Ogawa, a lonely teenaged girl falls in love with her foster-brother as she watches him leap from a high diving board into a pool - an unspoken infatuation that draws out darker possibilities. A young woman records the daily moods of her pregnant sister in a diary, but rather than a story of growth the diary reveals a sinister tale of greed. Translator(s): Snyder, Stephen. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 132.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099521358
ISBN
9780099521358
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.27

Hardback. Craig Raine's dazzlingly original second novel, The Divine Comedy is a gripping meditation on sex and death and God and the myriad ways in which the human body plays dirty tricks on us. Its publication is an important literary event. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 225 x 24. Weight in Grams: 417. 192 pages. Craig Raine's dazzlingly original second novel, The Divine Comedy is a gripping meditation on sex and death and God and the myriad ways in which the human body plays dirty tricks on us. Its publication is an important literary event. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 159 x 225 x 24. Weight: 414.
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Number of pages
192
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848872837
ISBN
9781848872837
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.00
€ 15.24

Paperback. The brilliant novel from the bestselling author of The Horse Whisperer Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 157 x 29. Weight in Grams: 308. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KRA0009140
ISBN
9780751539349
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. The brilliant novel from the bestselling author of The Horse Whisperer Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 157 x 29. Weight in Grams: 308. Good copy with some shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KHN0001834
ISBN
9780751539349
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 17.95

Hardback. Part glamorous travelogue, part slow-burn mystery, this full-bodied tale of a runaway is at once formally inventive and heartbreakingly familiar.. (It's also insanely funny.)' Lena Dunham Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 157 x 23. Weight in Grams: 376.
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782397694
ISBN
9781782397694
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.48

Paperback. 'Part glamorous travelogue, part slow-burn mystery, this full-bodied tale of a runaway is at once formally inventive and heartbreakingly familiar.. (It's also insanely funny.)' Lena Dunham Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 18. Weight in Grams: 170.
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782397717
ISBN
9781782397717
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.73

Paperback. Translator(s): Snook, Jean M. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 141 x 203 x 24. Weight in Grams: 394.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press United States
Edition
1st
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9781564785268
ISBN
9781564785268
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 16.25

Hardcover. Translator(s): Beaumont, Barbara. Num Pages: 902 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 165 x 53. Weight in Grams: 1383.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
New
Number of pages
902
Condition
New
SKU
V9780714529097
ISBN
9780714529097
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 19.42

Paperback. Translator(s): Beaumont, Barbara. Num Pages: 905 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 148 x 50. Weight in Grams: 1176.
Publisher
Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Condition
New
SKU
V9780714530222
ISBN
9780714530222
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.53

Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 203 x 19. Weight in Grams: 228.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780062364081
ISBN
9780062364081
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.35

mass_market. Felicito Yanaque has raised himself from poverty to ownership of a trucking business. He receives a threatening letter demanding protection money. The police don't take him seriously, Felicito refuses to pay up and gets sucked into a nightmare. Then his mistress is kidnapped, and matters become seriously complicated. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 112 x 34. Weight in Grams: 226.
Edition
Open Market - Airside ed
Number of pages
400
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
KTG0016393
ISBN
9780571310722
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 6.99
€ 4.99

Paperback. Felicito Yanaque has raised himself from poverty to ownership of a trucking business. He receives a threatening letter demanding protection money. The police don't take him seriously, Felicito refuses to pay up and gets sucked into a nightmare. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 28. Weight in Grams: 338.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571310746
ISBN
9780571310746
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.46

Paperback. The internationally-renowned author of "The Assault" delivers a rich mosaic of 20th-century trauma in which many themes--loyalty, friendship, family, art, fate, good and evil--suffuse a suspenseful and resplendent narrative. Num Pages: 736 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 136 x 34. Weight in Grams: 496.
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
Penguin Books, Limited (UK)
Number of pages
736
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241953204
ISBN
9780241953204
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 13.37

Paperback. A wonderfully inventive and entertaining journey through time and the history of chocolate! Num Pages: 258 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 132 x 14. Weight in Grams: 194. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0001993
ISBN
9780007107834
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. An enthralling story of secrets, scandal, identity and infidelity, from the bestselling author of The Day You Saved My Life Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 27. Weight in Grams: 310.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780751543568
ISBN
9780751543568
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. On a lazy, quiet afternoon, in the blink of an eye, our world shatters into two parallel universes, as men vanish from women and women from men. After families and loved ones separate from one another, life continues in different ways for men and women, boys and girls. An explosion of violence sweeps one world that still operates technologically. Series: Bison Frontiers of Imagination. Num Pages: 416 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 201 x 135 x 23. Weight in Grams: 449.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803298415
ISBN
9780803298415
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 18.53

Paperback. Dennis Huggins drifts into the dangerous life of drug dealer and discovers that, hard as the struggle for respect on the streets is, the struggle for love is harder still. At least Dennis has involved parents looking out for him; too many of his friends have no guidance other than that offered by their fellow shottaz, or the black Muslims. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 192.
Publisher
Profile Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846686573
ISBN
9781846686573
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.09

Paperback. Now available in paperback, the original English-language translation of O Cadhain's raucous masterpiece Translator(s): Titley, Alan (Professor Emeritus of Modern Irish UCC). Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127. .
Publisher
Yale University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
9780300219821
ISBN
9780300219821
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.00
€ 11.93

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