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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Series: Benson and De Vere. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349142500
ISBN
9780349142500
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. Tells the story of a reality TV death camp, which has become the nation's obsession - an amoral spectacle played out through the media. This book is a satire on the modern predilection for reality television and celebrity, in which the audience at home develops a taste for blood. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 10. Weight in Grams: 124.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571234936
ISBN
9780571234936
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.69

Paperback. As young girls, Nel and Sula shared each other's secrets and dreams in the poor black mid-West of their childhood. Then Sula ran away to live her dreams and Nel got married. Ten years later Sula returns and no one, least of all Nel, trusts her. This is a story of fear - the fear that traps us, justifying itself through perpetual myth and legend. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 156.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
9780099760016
ISBN
9780099760016
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.33

Paperback. With a depiction of a group of Parisians as they flee the Nazi invasion, this book tells about the inhabitants of a small rural community under occupation. Translator(s): Smith, Sandra. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 292.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099488781
ISBN
9780099488781
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Paperback. As Cairo shrugs off the final vestiges of colonialism, Ahmad Al Jawad has lost his power and surveys the world from a latticed balcony. Unable to control his family's destiny, he watches helplessly as his dynasty and the traditions he holds dear disintegrate before his eyes. But through Ahamd's three grandsons we see modern how Egypt takes shape. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 232.
Publisher
Black Swan
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Condition
New
SKU
V9780552995825
ISBN
9780552995825
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.80

Paperback. A warm and witty contemporary debut for NEW YORK TIMES worldwide bestselling author Lisa Kleypas. Series: Travis. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 28. Weight in Grams: 272.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780749942199
ISBN
9780749942199
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

Paperback. Num Pages: 276 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 211 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 292.
Publisher
Skyscape
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781477829387
ISBN
9781477829387
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.42

Paperback. Published in 1911, Suffragette Sally is one of the best-known popular novels promoting the cause of women's suffrage in Britain at the beginning of the twentieth century. The novel details the militant campaign of the suffragist Women's Social and Political Union against the political establishment of the time. Editor(s): Lee, Alison. Num Pages: 375 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 144 x 19. Weight in Grams: 446.
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9781551114743
ISBN
9781551114743
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 29.67

Paperback. A man barges into a writer's house and, holding a gun to his head, demands that he tell him a story, something to take him away from real world. A pathological liar discovers one day that the lies he tells come true. A young woman finds a zip in her boyfriend's mouth, and when she opens it he unfolds to reveal a completely different man inside. Translator(s): Silverston, Sondra; Shlesinger, Miriam; Englander, Nathan. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 131 x 20. Weight in Grams: 218.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099563327
ISBN
9780099563327
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. What do you do when you find yourself suddenly single? Find out with the bestselling author of HOW WILL I KNOW? and IF YOU WERE ME Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 40. Weight in Grams: 338.
Publisher
Headline Review
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780755329953
ISBN
9780755329953
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Paperback. * The stunning new novel from Bonnie Burnard: 'A writer who can tell you hard truths, hopefully' Alice Munro Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 136 x 21. Weight in Grams: 328.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844086405
ISBN
9781844086405
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Paperback. Ollie Ewing is barely surviving. Back home in Sligo after 'a few experiences' in London, he collects trolleys in a supermarket car park and lives in a run-down house with a group of art students. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 23. Weight in Grams: 274.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
SKU
9780571281862
ISBN
9780571281862
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 6.12

Paperback. "Sudden Fiction International is even better than its predecessor. It's a fine teaching tool, a good gift, it's Around-the-World-in-Sixty-Stories, with many surprises, new friends, old friends, almost every stop a brief wonder in itself." -Alan Cheuse Editor(s): Shapard, Robert. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 139 x 27. Weight in Grams: 450.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393306132
ISBN
9780393306132
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.84

Paperback. Across the ocean, in early sixteenth-century Mexico, the Aztec Empire is under the fatal grip of Hernan Cortes and his Mayan lover. While they scheme and conquer, fight and fuck, their domestic comedy will change the course of history, throwing the world - and Rome's tennis match - into a mind-bending reverie of assassinations, and executions. Translator(s): Wimmer, Natasha. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
9780099598053
ISBN
9780099598053
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. Set in (what was then) Bombay against the backdrop of war in the Indian subcontinent and the birth of Bangladesh, telling the story of the peculiar way in which the conflict impinges on the lives of Gustad Noble, an ordinary man, and his family. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 23. Weight in Grams: 282.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
SKU
9780571230570
ISBN
9780571230570
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.10

Paperback. When it comes to jobs in hell, being a succubus seems pretty glamorous. A girl can be anything she wants, the wardrobe is killer, and mortal men will do anything just for a touch. Granted, they can often pay with their souls, but why get technical? Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 109 x 32. Weight in Grams: 248.
Publisher
Transworld Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
496
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
paperback / softback
Condition
New
SKU
V9780553818925
ISBN
9780553818925
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.64

Paperback. Gregory leads an existence of formidable foppishness, his days and nights a series of effortless, titillating conquests. His foster brother, Terry, has to make do with the leavings as he trawls through life in a miasma of grief. But roles are reversed with both lives dramatically changed. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 168.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099461852
ISBN
9780099461852
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.00

Paperback. From an acclaimed master of American fiction comes an intelligent and romantic novel about friendship, funerals and the myths we employ to make sense of ourselves Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 182.
Publisher
Granta Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847087812
ISBN
9781847087812
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.02

Paperback. As the 2022 French Presidential election looms, two candidates emerge as favourites: Marine Le Pen of the Front National, and Muhammed Ben Abbes of the growing Muslim Fraternity. Ben Abbes sweeps to power, and overnight the country is transformed. This proves to be the death knell of French secularism, as Islamic law comes into force.. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 2ADF; FA; FW; FYT; HRHP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 199 x 20. Weight in Grams: 184.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784702052
ISBN
9781784702052
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. In a room with no windows on the eastern coast of Africa, an Englishman, James More, is held captive by jihadist fighters. Posing as a water engineer to spy on al-Qaeda activity in the area, he now faces extreme privation, mock executions and forced marches through arid Somali badlands. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 156.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099555384
ISBN
9780099555384
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.29

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