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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Combining terror and nostalgia, surreal comedy and the poetry of the commonplace, this book is a triumph of storytelling by our writer. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 126 x 201 x 13. Weight in Grams: 150.
Publisher
Penguin
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Re-issue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241968659
ISBN
9780241968659
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Paperback. Young officer John Hilliard returns to his battalion in France following a period of sick leave in England. Despite having trouble adjusting to all the new faces, the stiff and reserved Hilliard forms a friendship with David Barton, an open and cheerful new recruit who has still to be bloodied in battle. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FJMF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 13. Weight in Grams: 142.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1973
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140036954
ISBN
9780140036954
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Paperback. Strange Magic is the first in a witty commercial trilogy with the winning combination of witches and magic .. and Essex Girls Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 28. .
Publisher
Oneworld Publications
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781786070982
ISBN
9781786070982
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.56

Paperback. Reissue - with a stunning new cover - of Anita Shreve's outstanding second novel - 'a superbly crafted, intelligent exploration of the complications of an abusive relationship' BOOKLIST Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 26. Weight in Grams: 264. Good copy with some minor shelf wear. First pages slightly stained.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KTG0004548
ISBN
9780349105864
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Reissue - with a stunning new cover - of Anita Shreve's outstanding second novel - 'a superbly crafted, intelligent exploration of the complications of an abusive relationship' BOOKLIST Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 26. Weight in Grams: 264. Good, clean copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Edition
New edition
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0006872
ISBN
9780349105864
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210. . 8vo . Some light shelfwear otherwise a good copy. Signed and inscribed by the author
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Salmon Poetry
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KEX0281025
ISBN
9780948339653
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 15.00

Paperback. Jerome Palissier spends many summers at his uncle's house in the Normandy countryside. There he falls in love with his cousin Alissa and she with him. But gradually she becomes convinced that Jerome's love for her is endangering his soul. In the interests of his salvation, she decides to suppress everything that is beautiful in herself. Translator(s): Bussy, Dorothy. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 9. Weight in Grams: 102.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141185248
ISBN
9780141185248
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Paperback. Kennedy Marr is a novelist from the old school. Irish, acerbic, and a borderline alcoholic and sex-addict, his mantra is drink hard, write hard and try to screw every woman you meet. He's writing film scripts in LA, fucking, drinking and insulting his way through Californian society, but also suffering from writers block and unpaid taxes. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 136 x 25. Weight in Grams: 288.
Publisher
Windmill Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099592150
ISBN
9780099592150
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. At age fifty, Professor William Henry Devereaux, Jr, has more than a mid-life crisis to deal with. As a child, his parents found him merely exasperating. Half in love with three women, unable to understand his daughter or come to terms with his father, Hank has a dangerous philosophy. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 133 x 26. Weight in Grams: 286.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099376217
ISBN
9780099376217
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. Num Pages: 480 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; APFA; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 136 x 215 x 36. Weight in Grams: 574.
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
Methuen Publishing
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
SKU
V9780413715609
ISBN
9780413715609
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 28.87

Paperback. A pornographic fantasy in which the young male narrator and his lovers Simone and Marcelle embark on a sexual quest involving sadism, torture, orgies, madness and defilement, culminating in a final act of transgression. Translator(s): Neugroschel, Joachim. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 9. Weight in Grams: 102.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780141185385
ISBN
9780141185385
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.75

Paperback. An erotic novel, which is a sequel to "Story of O". Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 106 x 19. Weight in Grams: 212.
Publisher
Corgi Books
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1976
Edition
New
Condition
New
SKU
V9780552089302
ISBN
9780552089302
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

Paperback. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 7. Weight in Grams: 211.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd Canada
Number of pages
120
Condition
New
SKU
V9781554811649
ISBN
9781554811649
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.63

Paperback. The Story of Anna P is a sparse disturbing novel reflecting the past, present and future of a woman, Anna P, who lives on an island off the coast of Italy but can no longer remember how she got there. She comes from South Africa but has almost no memories of the place or people there. The only person she has any relationship with is a sex worker wh Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 157 x 13. Weight in Grams: 242.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd South Africa
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781431410163
ISBN
9781431410163
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.44

Paperback. Editor(s): O'Neill, Patricia. Num Pages: 366 pages, map. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 142 x 19. Weight in Grams: 438.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd Canada
Number of pages
366
Condition
New
SKU
V9781551112862
ISBN
9781551112862
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.33

Hardcover. The girl in the story is both conduit and activating conscience. Through her clairvoyance we experience what her grandmother, who lives in a beech tree, terms "the noise of time". Has she been reading Mandelstam, whose memoir of the the name was absorbed in "The Egyptian Stamp" (1928)? Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 136. .
Publisher
Lilliput Press
Number of pages
160
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843510147
ISBN
9781843510147
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.05

Paperback. The timeless boyhood adventures of a mischievous lad in 19th-century New England, in a new edition for today's readers. Illustrator(s): White, A.B. Series: Hardscrabble Classics. Num Pages: 314 pages, 71 drawings. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBF; DSK; FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (J) Children / Juvenile; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
University Press of New England United States
Number of pages
314
Condition
New
SKU
V9780874517941
ISBN
9780874517941
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 14.50

Paperback. Mary Stewart's wonderful novel of suspense and intrigue, reissued in beautiful series style. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 212.
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444715071
ISBN
9781444715071
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. Tim Blackburn's wife died in a ball of flame in the Channel, victim of a mystery bomber. His son had died years earlier in Northern Ireland, killed in a terrorist attack. And his daughter Nicole had vanished in the North Pacific after joining an outlawed organisation called Genesis dedicated to saving the planet, by violence if necessary. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 32. Weight in Grams: 336.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241955611
ISBN
9780241955611
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.81

Paperback. The third novel in the bestselling Fairacre series. Num Pages: 224 pages, 18 Line Drawing(s). BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 124 x 18. Weight in Grams: 214.
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780752877457
ISBN
9780752877457
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

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