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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. While fulfilling his dead father's dream of creating a prosperous farm in California, Joseph Wayne comes to believe that a magnificent tree on the farm embodies his father's spirit. His brothers and their families share in Joseph's prosperity and the farm flourishes - until one brother kills the tree. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 188.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141185507
- ISBN
- 9780141185507
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.00
€ 19.99
€ 15.00
Paperback. Titus, heir to Lord Sepulchrave, has just been born, he stands to inherit the miles of rambling stone and mortar that stand for Gormenghast Castle. There are tears and strange laughter; fierce births and deaths beneath umbrageous ceilings; dreams and violence and disenchantment contained within a labyrinth of stone. Num Pages: 496 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 33. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780749394929
- ISBN
- 9780749394929
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 13.91
€ 19.99
€ 13.91
Paperback. Titus, now almost twenty, as he escapes from the Castle, and becomes lost in a sandstorm. Helped by the owner of a travelling zoo and his ex-lover Juno, Titus ends up stranded in a bustling city. And now Titus, the deserter, the traitor, longs for his home, and looks for it all the time to prove, if only to himself, that Gormenghast is truly real. Num Pages: 272 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 17. Weight in Grams: 198.
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780749394875
- ISBN
- 9780749394875
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.00
€ 19.99
€ 15.00
Paperback. This is a book for anyone who has ever felt their life careering out of control. Clever, touching, disturbing, it will take you from laughter to tears and back again. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 131 x 25. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Publisher
- SHORT BOOKS LTD
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906021351
- ISBN
- 9781906021351
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.50
€ 10.99
€ 9.50
Paperback. Now in paperback: From the bestselling author of Roses, a sweeping drama of long-hidden secrets, enduring bonds, and unlikely redemption, set in turn-of-the-century Texas. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135. .
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & Company
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781455533848
- ISBN
- 9781455533848
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.00
€ 19.99
€ 15.00
Paperback. Series: Neversink. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 174.
- Publisher
- Melville House Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781612193885
- ISBN
- 9781612193885
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.15
€ 19.99
€ 15.15
Paperback. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 209 x 27. Weight in Grams: 380. Fine copy with light shelf wear. Small sticker on front and back cover, remains a fine copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Random House Inc
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KCW0014763
- ISBN
- 9780812975949
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. WINNER OF THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2011. Set in the Niger Delta, Tiny Sunbirds Far Away explores the world of twelve-year-old Blessing and her family. Part comic, part tragic, it shows that some families can survive almost anything. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 30. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Publisher
- Quercus Publishing
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849163750
- ISBN
- 9781849163750
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.06
€ 13.99
€ 11.06
Paperback. Is real love just a fairytale? Funny, perceptive and real, this title portrays the rawness of motherhood, the flipside of love and the powerful lure of paths not taken. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FRD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 134 x 195 x 24. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Publisher
- Black and White Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845027216
- ISBN
- 9781845027216
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.19
€ 10.99
€ 9.19
Paperback. 'Tinkers' is about the legacy of consciousness and the porousness of identity from one generation to the next. At once heartbreaking and life affirming, it is an elegiac meditation on love, loss, and the fierce beauty of nature. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 14. Weight in Grams: 184 191pp
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Cornerstone
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- 9780099538042
- ISBN
- 9780099538042
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.33
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€ 10.33
Num Pages: 282 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 234 x 159 x 27. Weight in Grams: 574.
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- M P Publishing Limited United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 282
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849822176
- ISBN
- 9781849822176
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
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€ 11.09
Paperback. The story of a life told backwards. Its narrator, Doctor Tod T. Friendly, trapped and hurtling towards a terrible secret, moves "out of the blackest sleep" to find himself surrounded by doctors and on the deathbed of a man in whose body he is imprisoned. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 132.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099455356
- ISBN
- 9780099455356
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
Paperback. Addresses memory, suicide, the Great Depression, the loss of American eloquence, and the obsolescent thrill of reading books. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 176.
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099267546
- ISBN
- 9780099267546
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
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€ 11.05
Paperback. Rosie Highgrove-Jones grows up hating her double-barrelled name. She dreams of riding out over the wide plains of the family property, working on the land. Instead she's stuck writing the social pages of the local paper. Then the horrible death of her fiance sparks a series of shocking revelations for Rosie and her family. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 20. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Publisher
- Preface Publishing
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848090873
- ISBN
- 9781848090873
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.23
€ 17.99
€ 14.23
Paperback. When Austin King entertains some distant relatives he unwittingly sets in motion events that will threaten his marriage, his law practice and his standing in the community. Austin's eagerness to please his foster cousin Nora is mistaken for other motives, especially since Nora is besotted with him. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 22. Weight in Grams: 234.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781860465543
- ISBN
- 9781860465543
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.94
€ 11.99
€ 9.94
Paperback. Petronius Longus, captain of the Aventine watch and Falco's oldest friend, has finally nailed one of Rome's top criminals. Under Roman law, citizens are not imprisoned but are allowed 'time to depart' into exile outside the Empire. One dark and gloomy dawn, Petro and Falco put the evil Balbinus aboard a ship. Series: Falco. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 276.
- Publisher
- Cornerstone United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099515135
- ISBN
- 9780099515135
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. 'Magnetic..A major imaginative triumph' OBSERVER Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 152. Used paperback, in good condition. Some shelf wear.
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- SKU
- KIN0008013
- ISBN
- 9780340551196
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. 'Magnetic..A major imaginative triumph' OBSERVER Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 152. 207pp.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- SKU
- KEX0195668
- ISBN
- 9780340551196
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- Spokesman Books United Kingdom
- Edition
- Revised
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780851244396
- ISBN
- 9780851244396
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.48
€ 14.48
Paperback. Fintan Buckley is a pleasant, rather conventional and unimaginative man, who works as a legal adviser in Dublin. As he goes about his life, working and spending time with his family, Fintan begins to experience states of altered consciousness and auditory hallucinations, which seem to take him out of a linear experience of time. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 132 x 18. Weight in Grams: 278. Nice copy in clean dustwrapper. First edition signed by the author.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- Main
- Number of pages
- 240
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber United Kingdom
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- SKU
- KEX0303028
- ISBN
- 9780571290864
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 35.00
€ 35.00
Paperback. When Fintan Buckley develops an interest in old autochrome photographs, strange things start to happen. To all appearances, Fintan holds down a successful job and enjoys life with his conventional middle-class family in Dublin, yet inwardly he starts to experience states of altered consciousness, with unsettling hallucinations and sudden insights. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 188.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571290871
- ISBN
- 9780571290871
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.71
€ 13.99
€ 10.71
Paperback. With distinctive voices, compelling characters, on-the-ground observation, and suspense, this book offers a serious, illuminating take on the changing tides of race, class, and politics in late twentieth-century Chicago. It tells the story of a plasterer turned landlord in Chicago who, in the late 1970s. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 55 x 85 x 15. Weight in Grams: 327.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226202648
- ISBN
- 9780226202648
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 18.34
€ 20.99
€ 18.34
Paperback. * First, highly acclaimed and bestselling novel by writer/comedian David Baddiel - 'a novel about sleep, sex and skewed clocks'. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349113555
- ISBN
- 9780349113555
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.85
€ 13.00
€ 11.85
Paperback. A vibrant, often humorous tale of life, love - and infidelity - from the bestselling author of PROMISES, PROMISES. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 23. Weight in Grams: 246.
- Publisher
- Orion
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 2nd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752883465
- ISBN
- 9780752883465
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
€ 13.99
€ 11.09