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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

paperback. In the relentless summer heat, four abruptly orphaned children retreat into a shadowy, isolated world, and find their own strange and unsettling ways of fending for themselves. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 10. Weight in Grams: 122.
Publisher
Vintage
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099755111
ISBN
9780099755111
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.00

Paperback. A collection of stories, in which moments of change, chance encounters, the twist of fate leads a person to a new way of thinking or being. It presents a radiant, indelible portrait of just how dangerous and strange ordinary life can be. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 244.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Thames & Hudson Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780500300343
ISBN
9780500300343
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. First published in Sweden, Bjor Larsson's thriller became a bestseller in Europe. Series: Mariners Library Fiction Classic. Num Pages: 400 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: FA; FH; FJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 138 x 218 x 29. Weight in Grams: 478.
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781574091144
ISBN
9781574091144
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.31

paperback. The Top 10 International Bestseller, now in paperback. 'A universal story, and a testimony to the struggle to find meaning, grace, and humanity, even amid the most unimaginable horrors.' Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 126 x 19. Weight in Grams: 174.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Condition
New
SKU
9781843547419
ISBN
9781843547419
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.83

Paperback. After a nervous collapse while serving at the altar, his college principal sends him on a placement to London where he enters an unfamiliar world of outcasts, down-and-outs, rent boys, religious fundamentalists and people with AIDS. In increasing despair, he embarks on a journey through the world of Jack the Ripper. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 28. Weight in Grams: 316.
Publisher
Arcadia Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906413224
ISBN
9781906413224
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 6.69

Paperback. A companion volume which expands on the knowledge contained in each of the nine insights of "The Celestine Prophecy". It aims to foster readers' spiritual growth by putting them in touch with evidence of their own experience. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; FA; VXA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 20. Weight in Grams: 218.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Bantam
Condition
New
SKU
V9780553503708
ISBN
9780553503708
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.80

Paperback. Drawing on the ancient wisdom found in a Peruvian manuscript, this book tells you how to make connections between the events happening in your own life right now, and lets you see what is going to happen to you in the years to come. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; FA; VXA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 234. ENGLISH LANGUAGE EDITION
Edition
Reprint
Publisher
Bantam
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Condition
New
SKU
V9780553409024
ISBN
9780553409024
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.77

Paperback. Set in the invented Mississippi Delta town of Madagascar, this book depicts a rural South dependent on agribusiness and the fruits of some less attractive forms of capitalism - gambling and other vices. It presents a novel which is filled with music, wisdom, and spontaneous joy. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 603.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Edition
Pbk. Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780820328386
ISBN
9780820328386
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 27.98

Paperback. Presents the story of Michael Caradock, a writer whose life has ended violently on an isolated Welsh island. This book follows his protected Welsh childhood, his crucial first encounters with sex, his literary success in London and his final withdrawal to Wales. Series: Library of Wales. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 140 x 38. Weight in Grams: 554.
Publisher
Parthian Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
592
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905762958
ISBN
9781905762958
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.48

Paperback. Num Pages: 190 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 161 x 234 x 18. Weight in Grams: 312.
Publisher
Somerville Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780992736415
ISBN
9780992736415
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 14.51

Paperback. Tells the story of a young man trapped in a cave in a fictional Johntown, Tennessee. This man's predicament becomes the center of national attention as television cameras, promoters, and newscasters converge on the small town to exploit the rescue attempts, and the thousands of spectators gathered at the mouth of the cave. Num Pages: 424 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 503.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University Press of Kentucky
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813191553
ISBN
9780813191553
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.07

Paperback. Cipriano and his daughter craft a new line of small ceramic figurines and the Centre orders cast quantities and then recants. Resigned to idleness, Cipriano moves to a soulless megaplex, until late one night he comes across a horrifying secret in the bowels of the artificial city. This is an Orwellian nightmare, a family fable and a love story. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 212.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099449157
ISBN
9780099449157
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.10

Paperback. Holden Caulfield is a dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Navigating his way through challenges of growing up, Holden dissects the 'phony' aspects of society, and the 'phonies' themselves: the headmaster whose affability depends on the wealth of the parents, his roommate who scores with girls using sickly-sweet affection. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 16. Weight in Grams: 172
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Penguin
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
9780241950432
ISBN
9780241950432
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.12

mass_market. Holden, knowing he is to be expelled from school, decides to leave early. He spends three days in New York City and tells the story of what he did and suffered there. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 170 x 106 x 16. Weight in Grams: 118.
Edition
Reprint
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Publication date
1995
Condition
New
SKU
V9780316769488
ISBN
9780316769488
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 10.90

Paperback. A devastating novel of love and desire and one man's search for his soul in a world of violence and political intrigue, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award 1998 Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 222.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780747260332
ISBN
9780747260332
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

Paperback. .
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers United Kingdom
Number of pages
226
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007333851
ISBN
9780007333851
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.58

Paperback. In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy boards a huge liner bound for England - a 'castle that was to cross the sea'. As the ship makes its way across the Indian Ocean, through the Suez Canal, into the Mediterranean, the boys become involved in the worlds and stories of the adults around them, tumbling from one adventure and to another. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 274.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099554424
ISBN
9780099554424
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.88

paperback. The first adult novel by J.K. Rowling Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 197 x 37. Weight in Grams: 396. Good clean copy showing light age and shelfwear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Sphere
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMO0001602
ISBN
9780751552867
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.70

hardcover. The first adult novel by J.K. Rowling. When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty facade is a town at war. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 163 x 41. Weight in Grams: 810. Good clean copy showing light age and wear. Light nicks and tears to dust jacket
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Little, Brown
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMO0000492
ISBN
9781408704202
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.70

Hardback.
Publisher
Europa Editions United States
Number of pages
192
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781609451820
ISBN
9781609451820
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 22.72

Paperback. Turns the 78 tarot cards to a new purpose, linking word and image to the purposes of narrative. A band of travellers, trapped in an gloomy castle in the heart of a wood, find themselves struck dumb and are only able to converse by using the tarot cards to tell one another how they came to be there. Num Pages: 144 pages, 8pp colour halftones, b&w illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 3. Weight in Grams: 120.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099268055
ISBN
9780099268055
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.49

Paperback. Two former lovers are brought back together .. but can they really trust their pasts? The new novel from the bestselling author of SOPHIE'S WORLD. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 250.
Publisher
Phoenix
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780753827697
ISBN
9780753827697
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Hardback. .
Publisher
Seven Stories Press,U.S.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781609806576
ISBN
9781609806576
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 20.95

Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 216 x 25. Weight in Grams: 436.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Dzanc Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9781938103018
ISBN
9781938103018
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.27

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