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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. 384 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 202 x 132 x 21. Weight: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Anchor
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9781400031047
ISBN
9781400031047
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 16.53

Paperback. Asher Lev is the artist who painted the sensational 'Brooklyn Crucifixion'. Into it, he poured all the anguish and torment a Jew can feel when torn between the faith of his fathers and the calling of his art. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 240.
Edition
New Ed
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1974
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140036428
ISBN
9780140036428
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.74

Paperback. Asher Lev is a gifted loner, the artist who painted the sensational "Brooklyn Crucifixion". Into it he poured all the anguish and torment a Jew can feel when torn between the faith of his fathers and the calling of his art. Here he plunges back into his childhood and recounts the story of love and conflict which dragged him to this crossroads. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 252.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141190563
ISBN
9780141190563
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.95

Paperback. From the No. 1 bestselling author of BAD BEHAVIOUR and IF YOU WERE ME comes an engaging, warm and thought-provoking new novel about a secret that can't be kept under wraps any longer - whatever the consequences. Not to be missed by readers of Jane Green, Lisa Jewell and Marian Keyes. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472210708
ISBN
9781472210708
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.97

Paperback. Presents depiction of a young man's sexual initiation and corruption by his mother, where the profane becomes sacred, and intense experience is shown as the only way to transcend the boundaries of society and morality. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 13. Weight in Grams: 158.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141195551
ISBN
9780141195551
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.73

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Tangent Books
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906477608
ISBN
9781906477608
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.24

Paperback. Editor(s): Bernheimer, Kate. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 33. Weight in Grams: 548.
Publisher
Penguin Putnam Inc United States
Number of pages
544
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Original
Condition
New
SKU
V9780143117841
ISBN
9780143117841
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 20.03

Paperback. It's 1950s Jerusalem. Hannah Gonen has just married and is thrilled and pained by her young well-meaning husband, Michael. Haunted by her dreams of two boys who disappeared from Jerusalem after the establishment of the state of Israel, Hannah gradually withdraws from her husband into a private world of fantasy and suppressed desires. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 178.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099529057
ISBN
9780099529057
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.95

Paperback. Holly Wright has had a difficult few years. After her mother's death, she's become expert at keeping people at a distance - including her boyfriend, Rupert. But when Holly receives an unexpected letter explaining that an aunt she never met has left her a house on the Greek island of Zakynthos, the walls she has built begin to crumble. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 29. Weight in Grams: 306.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405925273
ISBN
9781405925273
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.19

Hardcover. Offers an insight into the genesis of comic literature's most celebrated double-act. All the stories are set in New York, four of them featuring Jeeves and Wooster themselves; the rest concerning Reggie Pepper, an earlier version of Bertie. Plots involve the usual cast of young clots, choleric millionaires, chorus-girls and vulpine aunts. Series: Everyman's Library P G Wodehouse. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 135 x 18. Weight in Grams: 292.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Everyman
Condition
New
SKU
9781841591469
ISBN
9781841591469
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 13.91

Paperback. A compulsive and haunting tale of the passion, betrayal, sensuality and ambiguity at the heart of shifting metropolitan lives Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 228. Clean copy with some shelf wear, minor nicks and bumps on cover but otherwise clean
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Condition
Used, Good
Edition
01st Edition
SKU
KSS0007313
ISBN
9780747268178
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. A compulsive and haunting tale of the passion, betrayal, sensuality and ambiguity at the heart of shifting metropolitan lives Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 228. Good copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
01st Edition
SKU
KKD0007779
ISBN
9780747268178
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Larry is a teenager wrestling not only with his sexuality and the implications of a physical relationship with his younger brother, but with the very point of his existence. He is numb to almost all that surrounds him. As the book opens, Larry has been paid $500 by a senior to kill a fellow pupil and retrieve the boy's notebook. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 134 x 9. Weight in Grams: 97. 128 pages. Larry is a teenager wrestling not only with his sexuality and his physical relationship with his brother, but with the very point of his existence. When a senior pays him to kill a fellow pupil and retrieve a notebook, it seems simple, but once he delves into the notebook, complications arise. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 198 x 134 x 9. Weight: 96.
Publisher
Canongate Books
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841954127
ISBN
9781841954127
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.63

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Dedalus Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st
Number of pages
140
Condition
New
SKU
V9781909232310
ISBN
9781909232310
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.22

Paperback. Tells the tale of a small boy who wanders into the heart of a fantastical African forest, the dwelling place of innumerable wild, grotesque and terrifying beings. He is captured by ghosts, buried alive and wrapped up in spider webs, but after several years he marries and accepts his new existence. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 150.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571316915
ISBN
9780571316915
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.66

Hardcover. or fans of Adrian Mole and Nick Hornby and readers of all ages, this is a novel for the listicle generation. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 132. Weight in Grams: 567.
Publisher
Square Peg
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910931585
ISBN
9781910931585
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.17

paperback. Steve Almond's stunning first collection of short stories explores the lives of young men in their twenties and thirties, their confusions, their obsessions, their emotional complexities, taking a clear-eyed view of relationships between young men and women who have come of age in an era without innocence. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 134 x 16. Weight in Grams: 174.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
9780099443629
ISBN
9780099443629
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.99
€ 8.57

Paperback. A romantic and brilliantly funny novel for fans of The Secret Lives of Dresses, The Artist and My Week with Marilyn. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 138 x 27. Weight in Grams: 240.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton United Kingdom
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444737714
ISBN
9781444737714
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.18

Paperback. Peter is a gifted young writer, and Maureen Tarnopol is the woman who wants to be his muse but who instead is his nemesis. Their union is based on fraud and shored up by moral blackmail, but it is so perversely durable that, long after Maureen's death, Peter is still trying - and failing - to write his way free of it. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 21. Weight in Grams: 244.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099515319
ISBN
9780099515319
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.87

Paperback. Melbourne, the late 1940s. A young conservative Australian poet named Christopher Chubb decides to teach his country a lesson about pretension and authenticity. Choosing as his target the most avant-garde of the literary magazines, he submits for publication the entire oeuvre of one Bob McCorkle, a working-class poet. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 127 x 19. Weight in Grams: 210.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
Main - Re-issue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571216208
ISBN
9780571216208
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.16

Paperback. A hilarious, original story for anyone who has ever been dumped, dumped or lived in a dump - with the cross-over and bestselling appeal of BRIDGET JONES, HIGH FIDELITY and THIS LIFE. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 258. Good copy with some shelf wear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Edition
paperback / softback
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KTG0008991
ISBN
9780340718162
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. A hilarious, original story for anyone who has ever been dumped, dumped or lived in a dump - with the cross-over and bestselling appeal of BRIDGET JONES, HIGH FIDELITY and THIS LIFE. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 258. Some minor shelf wear, but remains very good.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
paperback / softback
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
SKU
KTJ0007969
ISBN
9780340718162
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. A hilarious, original story for anyone who has ever been dumped, dumped or lived in a dump - with the cross-over and bestselling appeal of BRIDGET JONES, HIGH FIDELITY and THIS LIFE. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 258. Good clean copy with some reader wear.
Condition
Used, Like New
Edition
paperback / softback
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
SKU
KTM0005802
ISBN
9780340718162
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

paperback. .
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Faber & Faber London
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
First Edition
SKU
KEX0199684
ISBN
9780571239689
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

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