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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. If you can't trust your family.. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKES; 1DBKESL; 2AB; 3JJPR; FA; FH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 197 x 32. Weight in Grams: 312.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780008228620
ISBN
9780008228620
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.63

Paperback. A satirical epic of the Soviet soul by the bestselling author of Death and the Penguin Translator(s): Dralyuk, Boris. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FJMS; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
MacLehose Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848666061
ISBN
9781848666061
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.89

Paperback. A quirky, stylish, feelgood novel of high stakes, lost love and poker from the bestselling author of GOODNIGHT STEVE MCQUEEN. Num Pages: 352 pages, n/a. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 242.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
New Ed
SKU
KNW0005396
ISBN
9780340820322
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. A quirky, stylish, feelgood novel of high stakes, lost love and poker from the bestselling author of GOODNIGHT STEVE MCQUEEN. Num Pages: 352 pages, n/a. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 242. Good clean copy with some reader wear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Edition
New Ed
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KTM0006148
ISBN
9780340820322
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. The beguiling story of a man, a woman and a nasty crime, from 'the hottest thriller writer in the US' [Time]. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 230.
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780753822456
ISBN
9780753822456
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Texas Christian University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780875655703
ISBN
9780875655703
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 22.34

Paperback. The Big Green Tent is the kind of book for which the term "Russian novel" was invented. A sweeping saga, it tells the story of three school friends who meet in 1950s Moscow and go on to embody the heroism, folly, compromise, and hope of the Soviet dissident experience. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 210 x 39. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Picador USA
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781250097446
ISBN
9781250097446
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 22.95

Paperback. A.B. Guthrie Jr. is best known for his historical fiction; his classic novel The Way West earned him a Pulitzer Prize. The Big It and Other Stories collects his diverse shorter tales, written between 1946 and 1960. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 142 x 12. Weight in Grams: 224.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803240551
ISBN
9780803240551
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.84

Paperback. 'I feel like The Wurzels visiting Buckingham Palace!' Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. Weight in Grams: 270.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Digital original ePub edition
Condition
New
SKU
KEX0295742
ISBN
9780008226589
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. The big man is Dan Scoular, a legend of physical prowess in a decaying Ayrshire mining community. When a bare-knuckle fight offers both money and a purpose, he finds it turns into a monumental struggle to keep his heritage and integrity intact. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 196 x 18. Weight in Grams: 190.
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782113027
ISBN
9781782113027
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.73

Paperback. Presented as a collection of found papers, appendices and notes, this book tells the story of John Sutherland of 'The Grey House', who is dying and creating in the last days of his life a musical composition that will define it. It takes you to a new understanding of how fiction can affect you. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 126 x 32. Weight in Grams: 374.
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
496
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571282340
ISBN
9780571282340
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.78

paperback. A Sunday Times bestseller in hardback, THE BIG OVER EASY heralds the start of an ingenious new series from the creator of the international phenomenon Thursday Next. Series: Nursery Crime Adventures. Num Pages: 416 pages, b/w line illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 288.
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780340897102
ISBN
9780340897102
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

Paperback. *A fiendishly clever, yet serious tale of middle-class frustration that will touch anyone who has ever wanted to escape their life. The Thriller goes into a new domain - The Real World. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 26. Weight in Grams: 256.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Abacus
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349117386
ISBN
9780349117386
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. Bo Mason, his wife, Elsa, and their two boys live a transient life of poverty and despair. Drifting from town to town and from state to state, the violent, ruthless Bo seeks out his fortune - in the hotel business, in new farmland and eventually, in illegal rum-running through the treacherous back roads of the American Northwest. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 656 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 31. Weight in Grams: 442.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
656
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141392349
ISBN
9780141392349
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.94

Paperback. Often imitated but never bettered, it is in Marlowe's long shadow that every fictional detective must stand - and under the influence of Raymond Chandler's addictive prose that every crime author must write. Marlowe's entanglement with the Sternwood family - and an attendant cast of colourful underworld figures. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 30. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780141182612
ISBN
9780141182612
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.53

Paperback. 196 pages. Alma Nel leaves her home on the edge of the Kalahari to retrieve the body of her gay son in Amsterdam. Driven by guilt and grief, she resolves to reconstruct Staal's life and the events leading up to his death, undertaking a bizarre quest in a strange and surreal world. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 212 x 137 x 15. Weight: 224.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Jacana Media
Number of pages
196
Condition
New
SKU
V9781431402687
ISBN
9781431402687
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.45

Paperback. The bumper book of Billy Palmer: following our hero from his apple-scrumping childhood in post-war Somerset and his coming-of-age in the Soho of the swinging sixties, to his romp through '80s New York and his final return to London Num Pages: 544 pages, ill. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 36. Weight in Grams: 438.
Publisher
Granta Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
544
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846272141
ISBN
9781846272141
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.95

Paperback. Fed up with stultifying criticism, Phineas decides to study the messiness of 'real life'. Doing nothing by halves, he sets out to write a biography of a great biographer. But a 'whole life' is hard to find. How do we put the idea of a person together? Everywhere he looks, he finds fragments and gaps. Trails run cold and mysteries are unresolved. Num Pages: 272 pages, portraits. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 18. Weight in Grams: 200. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0001474
ISBN
9780099283935
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. 'Much of The Bird Room's appeal is down to Killen's taut, sharp prose style - not flashy but alternately laconic, melancholy and dryly witty - that gives an edgy, sometimes creepy and very contemporary sense of beauty to the everyday and the banal.' Metro Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 150.
Publisher
Canongate Books
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847672612
ISBN
9781847672612
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 9.22

Paperback. From the award-winning author of White Ghost Girls comes an evocative tale of memory, loss - and the redemptive power of friendship. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 159 x 25. Weight in Grams: 444.
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848873674
ISBN
9781848873674
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.97

Paperback. In Alex Gray's page-turning new Glasgow-set crime novel, Detective Lorimer must protect his city from a terrifying threat in the countdown to the 2014 Commonwealth Games. Series: William Lorimer. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 142 x 33. Weight in Grams: 344.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780751548273
ISBN
9780751548273
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Paperback. Every family has its secrets.. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 184.
Publisher
John Murray General Publishing Division United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719523625
ISBN
9780719523625
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.25

Paperback. * This collection of short stories enabled du Maurier's devoted readership to see her, for the first time, in a very different guise -- as an exponent of the sinister and macabre. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 204.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
New Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844080878
ISBN
9781844080878
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.26

Paperback. Awarm, tender and utterly hilarious story about love and betrayal from the author of the hugely successful The Yorkshire Pudding Club Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 132 x 30. Weight in Grams: 318.
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849834094
ISBN
9781849834094
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.97

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