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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Wonderful Booker Prize-shortlisted novel now reissued Num Pages: 224 pages, n/a. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 197 x 14. Weight in Grams: 166. Very good copy with light shelf wear. Light nicks, remains very good
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KCW0017659
ISBN
9780340637838
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Features Jim Nolan, who is disenfranchised and alone, and, his family destroyed by the system. Desperate to find his place in the world, Jim joins the Communist Party and becomes entangled in a strike of migrant workers which spirals out of control, unflinchingly detailing the apocalyptic violence that breaks out when the masses become the mob. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 384 pages, Notes. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 274.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141186023
ISBN
9780141186023
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Paperback. Nora Roberts - The World's Greatest Storyteller. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 236.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780749958527
ISBN
9780749958527
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Hardback. In Paris, Montreal, Seville, Berlin, and towns large and small, the author has dreamt - and she has remembered her dreams. In this small volume, she shares her dreams of the years 2008-10, a time of global upheaval that happened to coincide with upheavals in her own life. Illustrator(s): Banerjee, Sunandini. Translator(s): Fagan, Teresa Lavender. Series: The French List. Num Pages: 116 pages, 24 colour plates. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 150 x 11. Weight in Grams: 282.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
116
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857420299
ISBN
9780857420299
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 17.45

Paperback. First published in 1962 as 'La Placa del Diamant', this is considered the most important Catalan novel of all time. This is a new English translation. Translator(s): Bush, Peter. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 126 x 15. Weight in Grams: 158.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Virago
Condition
New
SKU
9781844087372
ISBN
9781844087372
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.00

Paperback. Touching and wonderfully funny, In Custody is woven around the yearnings and calamities of a small-town scholar in the north of India. An impoverished college lecturer, Deven, sees a way to escape from the meanness of his daily life when he is asked to interview India's greatest Urdu poet, Nur - a project that can only end in disaster. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 174.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099428497
ISBN
9780099428497
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.29

Hardback. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 144 x 28. Weight in Grams: 550.
Publisher
Random House USA Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812994384
ISBN
9780812994384
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 23.15

Paperback. Hannah Olsen and her husband Lars own Langani Farm and Safari Lodge where they struggle to protect their wildlife and land from poachers and corrupt officials. But the developing relationship between their daughter and a young African boy with a terrifying legacy tests the strength of their family. Num Pages: 608 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 136 x 32. Weight in Grams: 442.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
608
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Illustrated
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099520634
ISBN
9780099520634
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.85

Paperback. A collection of macabre short stories. Ian McEwan received the Somerset Maugham Award in 1976 for a previous collection of short stories entitled "First Love, Last Rites". Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 128 x 10. Weight in Grams: 124.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099754718
ISBN
9780099754718
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. A group of angry and ill-assorted people accept an invitation to make a journey to discover the real Arcadia. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 29. Weight in Grams: 294.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784082574
ISBN
9781784082574
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.13

Paperback. A stunning novel set in the stark beauty of Orkney and the heady atmosphere of Penang in the 1930s Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 354.
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Number of pages
512
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780753820070
ISBN
9780753820070
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.86

Paperback. .
Publisher
Comma Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905583768
ISBN
9781905583768
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.43

Paperback. A story inspired by the emigration to America in 1876 of Helena Modrzejewska, Poland's most celebrated actress, accompanied by her husband, Count Karol Chlapowski, her fifteen-year-old son, Rudolf, the young journalist and future author of "Quo Vadis", Henryk Sienkiewicz, and a few friends; their brief sojourn in Anaheim, California. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 296.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141190105
ISBN
9780141190105
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.62

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Omnidawn Publishing United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9781890650193
ISBN
9781890650193
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 12.69

Paperback. IN A SUMMER SEASON is one of Elizabeth Taylor's finest novels in which, in a moving and powerful climax, she reveals love to be the thing it is: beautiful, often funny, and sometimes tragic. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 198 x 23. Weight in Grams: 156.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
New
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844083206
ISBN
9781844083206
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

Hardback. SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2010 'One of the most beautiful and unsettling books I've ever read. I can't remember a more troubling and intense study of rootlessness and loneliness; Galgut is a writer of great, almost frightening, depth.' Tash Aw Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 148 x 22. Weight in Grams: 338. Very good copy in clean dustwrapper. Second impression
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
SKU
KEX0303109
ISBN
9781848873223
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 45.00

Paperback. For ambitious industrialist Charles Freeman, it offers new opportunities and marriage to Mary. He buys the big house on the hill and nails his aspirations to the future. In quick succession, three sons and a daughter bring life to the big house and, with it, the seeds of family joy and tragedy. Num Pages: 688 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 36. Weight in Grams: 442.
Publisher
Cornerstone United Kingdom
Number of pages
688
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099538004
ISBN
9780099538004
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 19.38

Paperback. Memories she had long chosen to forget begin to resurface. Memories of an eccentric childhood in a large and shabby house, where the children were very much left to fend for themselves within the loose boundaries of their parents' unorthodox values. A chaotic existence peopled by a rich collection of feckless 'guests'. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 32. Weight in Grams: 360.
Publisher
Cornerstone United Kingdom
Number of pages
512
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099469186
ISBN
9780099469186
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. The central novel from V.S. Naipaul's Booker Prize-winning narrative of displacement, published for the first time in a stand-alone edition. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 14. Weight in Grams: 164.
Publisher
Picador USA
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780330522908
ISBN
9780330522908
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.70

Paperback. From the author of the best-selling This Book Will Save Your Life, an intense, thrilling portrait of the patient-analyst relationship gone awry Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 198.
Publisher
Granta Books
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847087270
ISBN
9781847087270
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.99

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