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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Cardiff in the 1980s is a place where maths can get you noticed. Rumis Vasi is the town's 'maths prodigy': untangling numbers and Rubik's Cubes protects her from the harsh vagaries of the playground and gives a pattern to her world. But after years of her father's determined tutoring, Rumi finds that numbers are beginning to lose their innocence. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 200.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141030395
ISBN
9780141030395
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.66

Paperback. Eddie Cameron is a salesman for Rocklight Ltd., an electrical equipment firm in Glasgow, where he has been fiddling the firm's expenses. Eddie's life is in tatters - his wife hates him, and his violent temper has left his mistress teetering on the edge of sanity. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 14. Weight in Grams: 158.
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782113034
ISBN
9781782113034
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.75

Paperback. From the two-time Man Booker winner, the story of the 18th Century Irish giant, Charles O'Brien. Num Pages: 224 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 16. Weight in Grams: 166.
Publisher
Fourth Estate
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
ePub edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857028867
ISBN
9781857028867
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.66

Paperback. Winner of the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 29. Weight in Grams: 324.
Publisher
Sceptre
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780340739754
ISBN
9780340739754
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.06

Paperback. A stunning literary ghost-story of entanglement and obsession; ambition and betrayal - set in present-day Cambridge, but entangled with the 17th century Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 262.
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780753823576
ISBN
9780753823576
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

Paperback. For readers of Cormac McCarthy and T. C. Boyle comes this harrowing and hypnotic new novel about a community of eccentric outcasts living in the Utah desert Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 27. Weight in Grams: 286.
Publisher
Oneworld Publications
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780748207
ISBN
9781780748207
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.66

Paperback. 'An amazing book, written with force and passion. And Denny is a very funny and slightly demented tour guide to twenty-first century Dublin.' Matt Haig Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 242.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9781847673305
ISBN
9781847673305
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 8.05

Paperback. Opens with a shipwreck, leaving a party of sightseers temporarily marooned on an island. The stranded castaways make their way towards the refuge of the isle's reclusive savant; but the big isolated house which is home to Professor Silas Kreutznaer and his laconic assistant, Licht, is also home to another, unnamed presence. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 188.
Publisher
Picador,
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Main Market
Condition
New
SKU
V9780330371858
ISBN
9780330371858
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.98

Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FFH; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 217 x 36. Weight in Grams: 368.
Publisher
Unbound
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781783529827
ISBN
9781783529827
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.90

Paperback. Num Pages: 243 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 145 x 203 x 16. Weight in Grams: 290.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Clinical Press Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
V9781854570802
ISBN
9781854570802
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. Features three tales from the hand of master storyteller Patrick McGrath. This work excavates the layers of New York's turbulent history. Series: Writer and the City Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, map. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 43. Weight in Grams: 188. Tales of Manhattan Then and Now. Series: Writer and the City Series. 256 pages, map. Features three tales from the hand of master storyteller Patrick McGrath. This work excavates the layers of New York's turbulent history. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 197 x 129 x 43. Weight: 188.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
New
SKU
V9780747583721
ISBN
9780747583721
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.14

Paperback. Dublin, 1907. A young actress begins an affair with a damaged older man, the leading playwright at the theatre where she works. Many years later, Molly, now a poverty-stricken old woman, makes her way through London's bomb-scarred city streets, alone but for a snowdrift of memories. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 180. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KTG0010666
ISBN
9780099481546
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Hardcover. It's Dublin 1907, a city of whispered rumours. Rebellious and flirtatious, Molly Allgood is a girl of the inner city tenements, dreaming of stardom in America. She has dozens of admirers but in the backstage of her life there is a secret. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 148 x 26. Weight in Grams: 440. 246pp. This leather-bound edition of Ghost Light, signed by the author, is limited to 75 numbered copies, this is number 69. Finely bound in full green leather, with decorated boards and title in gilt on front board and spine. With slip case
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvill Secker
Condition
New
SKU
KSG0026381
ISBN
9780436205712
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 225.00

Paperback. Num Pages: 420 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 30. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
420
Condition
New
SKU
V9780714530949
ISBN
9780714530949
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.43

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 246.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Eschia Books Canada
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781926696201
ISBN
9781926696201
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.99

Paperback. Seventeen years ago Angela Carr aborted an unwanted child. The child's father, Christopher Moore, was devastated by the loss and he retreated from the world. Unable to accept what had happened between them both went their separate ways. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 196.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241958407
ISBN
9780241958407
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 141 x 26. Weight in Grams: 414.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
M P Publishing Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849822459
ISBN
9781849822459
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.46

Paperback. A family prospering until the day father and surgeon Kweku Sai is victim of a grave injustice. Ashamed, he abandons his beautiful wife Fola and their little boys and girls, causing the family to fracture and spiral out into the world - New York, London, New England - on uncertain, troubled journeys until, many years later, tragedy unites them. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 25. Weight in Grams: 314.
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780670919888
ISBN
9780670919888
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. Num Pages: 162 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 11. Weight in Grams: 194.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Spinifex Press Australia
Number of pages
162
Condition
New
SKU
V9781875559084
ISBN
9781875559084
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.36

Paperback. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 140. Weight in Grams: 204.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Carnegie-Mellon University Press United States
Number of pages
120
Condition
New
SKU
V9780887484872
ISBN
9780887484872
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 18.34

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