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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. On the Appalachian Mountains above her home, a young mother discovers a beautiful and terrible marvel of nature: the monarch butterflies have not migrated south for the winter this year. Is this a miraculous message from God, or a spectacular sign of climate change. Entomology expert, Ovid Byron, certainly believes it is the latter. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 125 x 47. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571290802
- ISBN
- 9780571290802
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.78
€ 13.99
€ 10.78
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 213 x 19. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Publisher
- Tramp Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780992817008
- ISBN
- 9780992817008
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.51
€ 13.00
€ 11.51
Paperback. As he's about to commit a massive act of violence, he finds himself shot back through time to resurface in the body of an FBI agent during the civil rights era, where he sees why 'Hell is Red River, Idaho, in the 1970s'. This book seeks an understanding of why human beings hate. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 137 x 9. Weight in Grams: 214.
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Harvill Secker
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846551529
- ISBN
- 9781846551529
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.11
€ 18.99
€ 15.11
Paperback. Moving between the majestic coastline of North Cornwall and the leafy suburbs of London, Flight is a story of secrets and lies - and of the indelible traces that are left behind when someone tries to disappear. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 24. Weight in Grams: 330. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Myriad Editions
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- SKU
- KOC0016551
- ISBN
- 9781908434609
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Going nowhere is easy .. it's falling in love that's hard. The first novel from the author of GOLDEN BOY, FLICK is 'a slow-burn cult classic' (GQ). Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 20. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780225173
- ISBN
- 9781780225173
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.26
€ 11.99
€ 10.26
Paperback. Freddy thinks he has committed matricide, and his fantasies - or perhaps realities - become stories which twist back through time to varying landscapes. He searches for a home, only to find it in an unexpected place. When able and allowed to return to the present, he can choose which tale to tell. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 12. Weight in Grams: 141. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Virago
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0001490
- ISBN
- 9781860491306
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. In the glittering world of international diamond dealing, all is not beautiful, polished and perfect.. Tilly Bagshawe is back with another smart and sexy round-the-world romp. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 35. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781409103288
- ISBN
- 9781409103288
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.88
€ 13.00
€ 11.88
Paperback. Deals with Flaubert, parrots, bears and railways; with our sense of the past and our sense of abroad; with France and England, life and art, sex and death, George Sand and Louise Colet, aesthetics and redcurrant jam; and, with its narrator, a retired English doctor, whose life and secrets are slowly revealed. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099540083
- ISBN
- 9780099540083
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.26
€ 13.99
€ 10.26
Hardcover. Examines the attempts of an increasingly bemused researcher to establish certain facts about a famous French novelist and the stuffed bird which used to sit on his desk. This book blends fact and fiction in a virtuoso kaleidoscope of vignettes from Noah's time to the present. Num Pages: 488 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 132 x 31. Weight in Grams: 604.
- Publisher
- Everyman Guides
- Number of pages
- 488
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841593487
- ISBN
- 9781841593487
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.41
€ 17.99
€ 13.41
Paperback. A dazzling new anthology of the very best very short fiction from around the world. Editor(s): Thomas, James; Shapard, Robert; Merrill, Christopher. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 210 x 21. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393346077
- ISBN
- 9780393346077
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.49
€ 17.99
€ 16.49
Hardcover. Takes you to a world where bicycles listen to conversations, inventors search for methods of 'diluting' water, and characters play truant while novelists sleep; a world where spiteful fairies wreak havoc and heroes from legend blunder into suburban sitting-rooms. Num Pages: 778 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 139 x 45. Weight in Grams: 844.
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- Combined volume
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841593098
- ISBN
- 9781841593098
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 18.96
€ 26.99
€ 18.96
paperback. An elegiac and poetic sequence of stories following the progress of a young girl through childhood and adolescence on the fringes of the Badlands in Alberta, Canada. Series: Parthian Shots S. Num Pages: 92 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 10. Weight in Grams: 141.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Parthian Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 92
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781902638102
- ISBN
- 9781902638102
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 8.30
€ 8.30
Paperback. The Flame Tree offers a vivid snapshot of a fast-developing Malaysia on the cusp of the new millennium, of moral choices and a womans search for her cultural identity. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 197 x 168 x 39. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- MONSOON BOOKS
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789814423908
- ISBN
- 9789814423908
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 11.01
€ 11.99
€ 11.01
Paperback.
- Publisher
- Parthian Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 250
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906998486
- ISBN
- 9781906998486
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.82
€ 11.99
€ 10.82
Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 199 x 29. Weight in Grams: 276.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408854464
- ISBN
- 9781408854464
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.13
€ 11.99
€ 10.13
Hardcover. Series: FIVE STAR FIRST EDITION MYSTER. 225 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 222 x 149 x 18. Weight: 390.
- Publisher
- Five Star
- Number of pages
- 225
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781594142703
- ISBN
- 9781594142703
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 6.01
€ 24.99
€ 6.01
Paperback. Longlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize, the overlapping lives of five newcomers to China's most dynamic city are the subject of this kaleidoscopic novel. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 138 x 29. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780007494187
- ISBN
- 9780007494187
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. A novel about a street in an unnamed city whose inhabitants speculate on the life of a mysterious Madam X. It interweaves their endless suppositions into a work that is at once political parable and surreal fantasia. Translator(s): Gernant, Karen; Chen, Zeping. Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 192 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Rep Tra
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300167962
- ISBN
- 9780300167962
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.17
€ 19.99
€ 16.17
Paperback. Five powerful stories exploring identity and selfhood. With haunting, Kafkaesque prose, Emanuela Barasch-Rubinstein creates a series of profound, internal narratives. Num Pages: 204 pages, No illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 128 x 17. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Holland House Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781909374799
- ISBN
- 9781909374799
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.41
€ 12.41
Paperback. Five Seasons is a moving and, at times, humorous novel about the need to fall in love again. It is A.B. Yehoshua's third novel and has long been out of print. Num Pages: 332 pages. BIC Classification: 2CSJ; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 24. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Peter Halban Publishers Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781870015943
- ISBN
- 9781870015943
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.30
€ 11.99
€ 10.30
Paperback. One quiet evening in Salisbury, the peace is shattered by a serious car crash. At that moment, five lives collide - a flower seller, a schoolboy, an army wife, a security guard, a widower - all facing their own personal disasters. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 197 x 23. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Publisher
- Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784161354
- ISBN
- 9781784161354
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.84
€ 13.00
€ 11.84
Paperback. Beyond the main street of Les Laveuses runs the Loire, smooth and brown as a sunning snake - but hiding a deadly undertow beneath its moving surface. This is where Framboise, a secretive widow, plies her culinary trade at the creperie - and lets her memory play strange games. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 23. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Edition
- paperback / softback
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780552998833
- ISBN
- 9780552998833
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.85
€ 13.00
€ 11.85
Hardcover. Num Pages: 128 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: FA; WSJH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 147 x 14. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Brindle and Glass Publishing, Ltd Canada
- Number of pages
- 116
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781897142189
- ISBN
- 9781897142189
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 19.76
€ 27.99
€ 19.76
Paperback. Peter Haskell, president of a major pharmaceutical company, has everything: power, position, and a family which mean everything to him. Olivia Thatcher is the wife of a famous senator. She has given to her husband's ambitions and career until her soul is bone-dry. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 105 x 24. Weight in Grams: 180. Clean copy, good to very good. Some light shelf wear
- Publisher
- Corgi Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KST0012525
- ISBN
- 9780552143783
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99