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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. It's Summer, 1944. In the 'stifling heat of equatorial Newark', a terrifying epidemic is raging. Vigorous, decent, twenty-three year old playground director Bucky Cantor is devoted to his charges and disappointed with himself because his weak eyes have excluded him from serving in the war. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 196 x 21. Weight in Grams: 218.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099542261
ISBN
9780099542261
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.01

Paperback. * Moving saga set in Glasgow Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 177 x 109 x 27. Weight in Grams: 218.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Piatkus Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9780749942724
ISBN
9780749942724
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.46

Paperback. Set in three households in Maputo, this is the story of how a South African conspiracy to infiltrate and destabilize Mozambique creates tragedy for ordinary people. It weaves together present events and past memories in the drama of a few short hours. Translator(s): Bartlett, Richard; Oliveira, Isaura de. Series: Heinemann African Writers Series. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 8. Weight in Grams: 124.
Publisher
Pearson Education Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9780435912093
ISBN
9780435912093
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.21

Paperback. Superintendent Lascano is a detective working under the shadow of military rule in Buenos Aires in the late 1970s. He is sent to investigate the discovery of two bodies but when he arrives at the roadside crime scene he finds three. Translator(s): Soutar, Jethro. Num Pages: 227 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 188. 227 pages. Superintendent Lascano is a detective working under the shadow of military rule in Buenos Aires in the late 1970s. He is sent to investigate the discovery of two bodies but when he arrives at the roadside crime scene he finds three. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA; FF. Dimension: 197 x 131 x 16. Weight: 188. Translator(s): Soutar, Jethro.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Bitter Lemon Press
Number of pages
227
Condition
New
SKU
V9781904738565
ISBN
9781904738565
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 14.95

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Greenwich Exchange Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
516
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906075316
ISBN
9781906075316
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.53

Paperback. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 137 x 8. Weight in Grams: 91.
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Arlen Books
Number of pages
64
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
SKU
9781851320714
ISBN
9781851320714
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 13.00

Paperback. Series: BODYGUARD. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. .
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Little, Brown & Company
Condition
New
Format
Paperback
SKU
V9781455590278
ISBN
9781455590278
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.99
€ 8.16

Paperback. The best intentions expose the darkest secrets.. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 134 x 22. Weight in Grams: 260.
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781447211259
ISBN
9781447211259
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.21

Paperback / so. BIC Classification: FA; FH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 22. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Inanna Publications and Education Inc. Canada
Condition
New
SKU
V9781771333139
ISBN
9781771333139
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.58

paperback. Translator(s): Entrekin, Alison. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 132 x 15. Weight in Grams: 220.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
New Directions
Condition
New
SKU
9780811220026
ISBN
9780811220026
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 14.52

Paperback. As Joana, endlessly mutable, moves through different emotional states, different inner lives and different truths, this impressionistic, dreamlike and fiercely intelligent novel asks if any of us ever really know who we are. Her innovation in fiction brought her international renown. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 13. Weight in Grams: 158.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141197340
ISBN
9780141197340
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. Matt and Susan, two rival palaeontologists and former lovers, are summoned by a secret US government agency to help locate their college mentor, who has disappeared without trace in the remote mountains of Tajikstan. When Matt and Susan finally make contact, the implications of their dramatic discovery are more than simply scientific. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FHD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 114 x 181 x 27. Weight in Grams: 222. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Arrow
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0005644
ISBN
9780099631019
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Lucid, insane, deadly serious, wildly playful, biblomaniacal, and perversely imaginative' Nicole Krauss Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT; WHP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 133 x 19. Weight in Grams: 226.
Edition
Reprints
Publisher
Picador USA
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780330510516
ISBN
9780330510516
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.00

Paperback. An acclaimed, award-winning comic novel about truth, lies and storytelling, with an unforgettably unreliable narrator, translated from its innovative Swiss vernacular back into the Glaswegian that was its original inspiration. Translator(s): McLaughlin, Donal. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 200.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Freight Books
Edition
Tra
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908754226
ISBN
9781908754226
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 14.35

Paperback. Series: Plays. Num Pages: 96 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: DD; FA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 209 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 128.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Currency Press Pty Ltd Australia
Number of pages
96
Condition
New
SKU
V9780868195742
ISBN
9780868195742
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.06

Paperback. Num Pages: 98 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 151 x 8. Weight in Grams: 148.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Open Letter
Condition
New
SKU
V9781934824924
ISBN
9781934824924
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 13.25

Paperback. A story of the troubled life of an introspective historian, Antoine Roquentin, and an exposition of one of the most influential and significant philosophical attitudes of modern times - existentialism. It chronicles Antoine's struggle with the realisation that he is an entirely free agent in a world devoid of meaning. Translator(s): Baldick, Robert. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; FA; FC; HPCF3. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 208.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780141185491
ISBN
9780141185491
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.14

Paperback. Even though they were mother and daughter they were known mostly as 'the sisters'. It was a union that would lead them both into lives they wished they had not had. Num Pages: 594 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FH; FR; FT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 368.
Publisher
Repeater
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910924440
ISBN
9781910924440
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.70

paperback. Translator(s): Luna, Oscar. Num Pages: 164 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 141 x 14. Weight in Grams: 204.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Aflame Books
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906300081
ISBN
9781906300081
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.37

Paperback. Num Pages: 414 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 172 x 109 x 30. Weight in Grams: 198.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Hyperion New York
Number of pages
414
Publication date
2007
Edition
Reprint
SKU
KRS0005923
ISBN
9780786893928
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

paperback. Translator(s): Lichtenstein, J. T. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 127 x 10. Weight in Grams: 142.
Edition
Reprint
Publisher
Seven Stories Press,U.S.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781609806057
ISBN
9781609806057
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.82

Paperback. The captivating new novel from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of ASTONISHING SPLASHES OF COLOUR Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 268.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
New Ed
SKU
KLN0018223
ISBN
9780340896518
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.49

Paperback. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 111 x 180 x 18. Weight in Grams: 172.
Publisher
Old Street Publishing United Kingdom
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908699411
ISBN
9781908699411
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.41

Paperback. A young girl's mutilated body is discovered in a sealed room. Her remains are carefully arranged, in what seems to have been a cruel and macabre ritual, which appears to have taken place over 60 years ago. For newly appointed Edinburgh Detective Inspector Tony McLean this baffling cold case ought to be a low priority. Series: Inspector Mclean. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 29. Weight in Grams: 330.
Publisher
Penguin Books
Number of pages
464
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405913140
ISBN
9781405913140
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.81

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