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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Three men, three lives and three eras sinuously entwine in a dark, startling and unsettling narrative of sex, exploitation and dependence set against London's strangely constant gay underworld. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 248.
Publisher
MYRIAD EDITIONS
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780956251534
ISBN
9780956251534
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.65

Paperback. Num Pages: 420 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 165 x 26. Weight in Grams: 498.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
M P Publishing Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
420
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849821353
ISBN
9781849821353
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.46

Hardcover. London has the greatest literary tradition of any city in the world. Its roll-call of story-tellers includes cultural giants who changed the way the world thought about writing, like Shakespeare, Defoe and Dickens. This title includes stories of fact and fiction and occasionally something in between. Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Classics. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 3J; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 189 x 124 x 30. Weight in Grams: 438.
Publisher
Everyman's Library
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841596167
ISBN
9781841596167
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.95

Paperback. A compelling historical novel set in south London 1912 - based on a true story Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 198 x 32. Weight in Grams: 252.
Publisher
Virago
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349007830
ISBN
9780349007830
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

Paperback. Editor(s): Hinnant, Charles H. Series: Broadview Editions. Num Pages: 212 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 321.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd Canada
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
SKU
V9781551117379
ISBN
9781551117379
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.27

Hardcover. Everyone is always out there searching for someone and something, usually for a lover, usually for love. But the murderee - Nicola Six - is searching for something and someone else: her murderer. She knows the time, she knows the place, she knows the motive, she knows the means. She just doesn't know the man. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 143 x 34. Weight in Grams: 666.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Everyman
Condition
New
SKU
9781841593623
ISBN
9781841593623
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 11.69

Paperback. The narrator, Samson Young, enters the Black Cross, a thoroughly undesirable public house, and finds the main players of his drama assembled, just waiting to begin. It's a gift of a story from real life.. all Samson has to do is to write it as it happens. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 31. Weight in Grams: 378.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099748618
ISBN
9780099748618
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.80

Paperback. A collection of dazzling London-based short stories, some never before collected, from one of the masters of the genre. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 26. Weight in Grams: 252.
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781473213296
ISBN
9781473213296
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.88

Paperback. It is 1938 and the prospect of war hangs over every London inhabitant. But the city doesn't stop. Everywhere people continue to work, drink, fall in love, and struggle to get on in life. At the lodging-house at Number 10 Dulcimer Street, Kennington, the buttoned-up clerk Mr Josser returns home with the clock he has received as a retirement gift. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 752 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 508.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
752
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141442334
ISBN
9780141442334
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.81

Paperback. Paul Rainey is a 40-year-old functioning alcoholic on anti-anxiety medication who commutes into London every day from Hove to sell advertising space in non-existent trade publications. Perceiving through a fog of psychoactive substances his own dissatisfaction with where his life is going - he only wishes there were something to be done about it. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 17. Weight in Grams: 246.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099515890
ISBN
9780099515890
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Hardcover. .
Publisher
RIZZOLI/UNIVERSAL
Number of pages
180
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780847849079
ISBN
9780847849079
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 19.60

Paperback. A fifteen year-old boy meets a middle-aged woman on the internet. When his long-term girlfriend and first love Alice, betrays him at a house party, Etgar goes looking for cyber solace in the arms of Macy, a stunning but bored housewife he meets online. What could possibly go wrong..? Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 136 x 23. Weight in Grams: 320.
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782111580
ISBN
9781782111580
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.52

Paperback. Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, frustrated college professor. In love with his landlady's twelve-year-old daughter Lolita, he'll do anything to possess her. Unable and unwilling to stop himself, he is prepared to commit any crime to get what he wants. Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? Or is he all of these? Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 110 x 20. Weight in Grams: 204.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin
Publication date
2011
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241951644
ISBN
9780241951644
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

hardcover. Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, out of love, 'to fix once for all the perilous magic of nymphets'. Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? Or is he all of these? Num Pages: 329 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 134 x 28. Weight in Grams: 524. Good clean copy with light nicks and tears to dust jacket. Gift inscription to ffep
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Everyman
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMO0001559
ISBN
9781857151336
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.70

Paperback. Poet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, out of love, 'to fix once for all the perilous magic of nymphets'. Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster? Or is he all of these? Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 14. Weight in Grams: 234.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
9780141182537
ISBN
9780141182537
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, fastidious college professor. He also likes little girls. And none more so than Lolita, who he'll do anything to possess. Is he in love or insane? A silver-tongued poet or a pervert? A tortured soul or a monster?! Or is he all of these? Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 113 x 28. Weight in Grams: 266.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141023496
ISBN
9780141023496
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.23

Paperback. Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged, frustrated college professor. In love with his landlady's twelve-year-old daughter Lolita, he'll do anything to possess her. Unable and unwilling to stop himself, he is prepared to commit any crime to get what he wants. Is he in love or insane? A tortured soul or a monster? Or is he all of these? Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 188 x 23. Weight in Grams: 264.
Publisher
Penguin
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241953242
ISBN
9780241953242
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Grove Press New York
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780802141996
ISBN
9780802141996
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.67

Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 199 x 18. Weight in Grams: 178.
Publisher
Spinifex Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781742199627
ISBN
9781742199627
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 14.15

Hardback. Num Pages: 342 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 130 x 31. Weight in Grams: 498.
Publisher
M P Publishing Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
342
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849821988
ISBN
9781849821988
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

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