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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. Everyone knows the real Silvia, don't they? Silvia Shute lies in hospital in a coma. Family and friends gather at her bedside, each thinking they know the real Silvia. But do they? For Silvia hides a secret. One she can never tell. And as her visitors congregate so the truth about Silvia is slowly revealed. Again, and again and again.. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 27. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141046358
- ISBN
- 9780141046358
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Paperback. Robert Mitchum was a Hollywood bad-boy and one of the greatest screen actors of the twentieth century. But his pre-fame life is cloaked in mystery, the truth hidden within conflicting tales of time spent as a Depression-era hobo, prizefighter, escaped felon - and secret poet. This book provides a personification of Film Noir, Robert Mitchum. Num Pages: 544 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 215 x 38. Weight in Grams: 586.
- Publisher
- Parthian Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 544
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905762132
- ISBN
- 9781905762132
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.39
€ 13.99
€ 13.39
Paperback. Penelope Fitzgerald's Booker Prize-winning novel of loneliness and connecting is set among the houseboat community of the Thames and has a new introduction from Alan Hollinghurst. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 200.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007320967
- ISBN
- 9780007320967
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.93
€ 11.99
€ 9.93
Paperback. Guy Crouchback is now attached to a commando unit undergoing training on the Hebridean isle of Mugg, where the whisky flows freely and HM forces have to show respect for the laird. But the comedy of Mugg is followed by the bitterness of Crete. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 196.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141184678
- ISBN
- 9780141184678
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. Bea Maxwell has been kissed only once and has never been in love. Apart form a stint away in Chicago, she has always lived in Green Bay where she cares for her invalid mother. This story charts her solitary but self-possessed life. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128. Weight in Grams: 148.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Main
- SKU
- KEX0200325
- ISBN
- 9781843540014
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. 'Mona Simpson is a wonderful writer, very spare and economical but with extraordinary emotional power. Off Keck Road is her best book yet - lucid and beautiful' Kate Atkinson 'Mona Simpson is a wonderful writer, very spare and economical but with extraordinary emotional power. Off Keck Road is her best book yet - lucid and beautiful' Kate Atkinson Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 147. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- Main
- SKU
- KSS0001827
- ISBN
- 9781843540014
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. 'Mona Simpson is a wonderful writer, very spare and economical but with extraordinary emotional power. Off Keck Road is her best book yet - lucid and beautiful' Kate Atkinson 'Mona Simpson is a wonderful writer, very spare and economical but with extraordinary emotional power. Off Keck Road is her best book yet - lucid and beautiful' Kate Atkinson Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 147. Good clean copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Edition
- Main
- SKU
- KKD0001659
- ISBN
- 9781843540014
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Bea Maxwell has been kissed only once and has never been in love. Apart form a stint away in Chicago, she has always lived in Green Bay where she cares for her invalid mother. This story charts her solitary but self-possessed life. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128. Weight in Grams: 148.
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KEX0200310
- ISBN
- 9781843540014
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Hardcover. Here is a quirky and fantastical novel about things lost and things found from a startling new voice in fiction. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 218 x 27. Weight in Grams: 420. Good clean copy in dustwrapper. DW with some minor shelf wear.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- SKU
- KTG0003631
- ISBN
- 9780007562473
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover. Here is a quirky and fantastical novel about things lost and things found from a startling new voice in fiction. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 218 x 27. Weight in Grams: 420. Some light shelf wear, else as new
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- SKU
- KRA0009974
- ISBN
- 9780007562473
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Drifters in search of work, George and his childlike friend Lennie, have nothing in the world except the clothes on their back - and a dream that one day they will have some land of their own. Eventually they find work on a ranch in California's Salinas Valley, but their hopes are dashed as Lennie - struggling against extreme cruelty, and more. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 183 x 10. Weight in Grams: 98.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- 9780141023571
- ISBN
- 9780141023571
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 9.75
€ 13.99
€ 9.75
Paperback. Drifters in search of work, George and his childlike friend Lennie, have nothing in the world except the clothes on their back - and a dream that one day they will have some land of their own. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 14. Weight in Grams: 112.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- 9780141185101
- ISBN
- 9780141185101
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.44
€ 10.99
€ 9.44
hardcover. Describes how in 1949, as a young reporter, the author witnessed the opening of several tombs as an old convent made way for a new hotel. One of the tombs contained a skeleton of a young girl with reddish hair that measured 22 metres, 11 centimetres long. This novel talks about her legend as a popular saint. Num Pages: 5 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 145. Weight in Grams: 379. Good clean copy, showing light age and shelfwear. Light wear to dust jacket
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape London
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMO0000898
- ISBN
- 9780224040259
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
Paperback. When a witch doctor appears on the Marquis de Casalduero's doorstep prophesising a plague of rabies in the Colombian seaport, he dismisses her claims - until he hears that his young daughter, Sierva Maria, was one of four people bitten by a rabid dog, and the only one to survive. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 12. Weight in Grams: 132.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780241968741
- ISBN
- 9780241968741
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
€ 13.99
€ 10.45
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Twisted Spoon Press Czech Republic
- Number of pages
- 154
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788086264301
- ISBN
- 9788086264301
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.41
€ 12.41
Paperback. After a few months studying in Heidelberg, and a brief spell in Paris as would-be artist, Philip Carey settles in London to train as a doctor. And that is where he meets Mildred, the loud but irresistible waitress with whom he plunges into a formative, tortured and masochistic affair which very nearly ruins him. Num Pages: 720 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 39. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Number of pages
- 720
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099284963
- ISBN
- 9780099284963
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.39
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€ 13.39
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, maps. BIC Classification: FA; FJM; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Gefen Publishing House
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789652295330
- ISBN
- 9789652295330
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 14.20
€ 18.99
€ 14.20
Hardcover. In this psychological novel, memories spawn tales within tales and seemingly disparate elements are woven into a tapestry of extraordinary moments that reveals the authorAEs penetrating observations on the interdependency of humanity and nature in its wholeness. Translator(s): Wilson, Michiko N.; Wilson, Michael K. Series: Cornell East Asia Series. Num Pages: 274 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Univ of Hawaii Pr
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781933947303
- ISBN
- 9781933947303
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 139.86
€ 139.86
Paperback. Series: Caribbean Modern Classics. Num Pages: 436 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 137 x 33. Weight in Grams: 506.
- Publisher
- Peepal Tree Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 436
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845231453
- ISBN
- 9781845231453
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.96
€ 19.99
€ 15.96
Paperback. From the lauded, bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 27. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447272366
- ISBN
- 9781447272366
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.98
€ 13.99
€ 10.98
Paperback. As soon as Octavia caught a glimpse of Jeremy in the nightclub, she knew she just had to have him. It didn't matter that he'd just got engaged to an old school friend of hers, plump, good natured Gussie; he was looking at Octavia in the way that suggested bed rather than breakfast, and she was weak at the knees.. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 128 x 19. Weight in Grams: 198.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Corgi
- Number of pages
- 272
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- Re-issue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780552152525
- ISBN
- 9780552152525
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.65
€ 13.99
€ 11.65
Paperback. A thrilling maritime action and adventure story set against a dramatic backdrop of conspiracy, mayhem and sabotage. BIC Classification: FA; FH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 140 x 26. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Publisher
- Red Door Publishing Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910453032
- ISBN
- 9781910453032
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.38
€ 11.38
Paperback. Tokyo, January 26th, 1948. As the third year of the US Occupation of Japan begins, a man enters a downtown bank. He speaks of an outbreak of dysentery and says he is a doctor, sent by the Occupation authorities. Clear liquid is poured into sixteen teacups. Sixteen employees of the bank drink this liquid according to strict instructions. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571232031
- ISBN
- 9780571232031
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.74
€ 13.99
€ 10.74
paperback. Corrie Browne is an ordinary girl with extraordinary ambitions. Determined to find the father she has never known, her search takes her from the quiet Suffolk village where she lives, to a new life in London, a fast pace television career - and to three people who come to dominate her life. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 42. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099534297
- ISBN
- 9780099534297
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 18.53
€ 24.99
€ 18.53