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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. A select group of scientists and astronomers - including the dignified Astronomer Royal, the pipe smoking Dr Marlowe and the maverick, eccentric Professor Kingsly - engage in a mad race to understand and communicate with the cloud, battling against trigger happy politicians. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 172.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141196404
ISBN
9780141196404
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.01

Paperback. In the aftermath of Bangladesh's bloody war of independence in 1971, as thousands of migrants from the countryside flood the capital, journalist Khaleque Biswas begins to feel the stirrings of disillusionment. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 202 x 30. Weight in Grams: 374.
Publisher
Periscope
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781859640067
ISBN
9781859640067
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.61

Paperback. Maddie and Harry: she's an estate agent, he's a teacher. They'll say they live in the Black Country. They'll say how they met Jonathan Cotard, explain how they later argued, had a car accident, thought they'd killed someone. The Black Country. For Maddie and Harry, it's darker than it should be. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 197 x 19. Weight in Grams: 174.
Publisher
Salt Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784630348
ISBN
9781784630348
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.10

Paperback.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241958933
ISBN
9780241958933
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.88

Paperback. Tolea, an eccentric middle-aged intellectual who has been dismissed from his job as a high school teacher on "moral grounds", is investigating his father's death forty years after the fact, and is drawn into a web of suspicion and black humour. Translator(s): Camiller, Patrick. Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 195 x 22. Weight in Grams: 352.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Yale University Press United States
Edition
Rep Tra
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780300182941
ISBN
9780300182941
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.13

Paperback. In this gripping and deeply evocative crime novel, Benjamin Black returns us to the dark, mesmerising world of Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye and his singular detective Philip Marlowe; one of the most iconic detectives in crime fiction. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF; FFH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 161 x 23. Weight in Grams: 402. Very minor wear, but remains excellent
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Air Iri OME
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
9781447238041
ISBN
9781447238041
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 15.99
€ 6.75

Paperback. A masterpiece of the literature of colonialism - the story of a strong but doomed and unequal bond between a Dutch boy and his Indonesian best friend Translator(s): Rilke, Ina. Num Pages: 140 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 11. Weight in Grams: 134.
Publisher
Granta Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
140
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846273230
ISBN
9781846273230
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.73

Paperback. Num Pages: 322 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 132 x 29. Weight in Grams: 356. 322 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 201 x 132 x 29. Weight: 356.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Arcadia Books
Edition
2nd Edition
Number of pages
322
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906413934
ISBN
9781906413934
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.23

Paperback. A nocturnal wander through the hazes of memory and the mysteries of the past from Patrick Modiano, Nobel Laureate 2014 Translator(s): Polizzotti, Mark. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 199 x 15. Weight in Grams: 118.
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857054883
ISBN
9780857054883
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.22

Hardcover. Editor(s): Lynch, Kelly M. Num Pages: 263 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 248 x 159 x 0. Weight in Grams: 560.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
263
Condition
New
SKU
V9780838754313
ISBN
9780838754313
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 104.83

Paperback. When his byre - and the forty-three cows within it - goes up in flames, Barnabas Kane asks the rural community for help to get his family back on their feet, yet all his requests yield are suspicion and sanctimony. Humiliated, Barnabas grows ever more indignant. Before long this anger makes its mark on an innocent, and toil turns to tragedy. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 19. Weight in Grams: 192.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
riverrun
Condition
New
SKU
9781782062073
ISBN
9781782062073
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.81

Paperback. Translator(s): Bernofsky, Susan. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 127 x 9. Weight in Grams: 142.
Publisher
The New York Review of Books, Inc United States
Number of pages
114
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781590176689
ISBN
9781590176689
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 14.68

Paperback. A gripping and surreal story of madness and redemption, about one man's struggle to reclaim his life and family after the death of his son and the news of a pregnancy. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Legend Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785079689
ISBN
9781785079689
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.98

Paperback. Julie Guilles is in trouble. She's fled her home in Occupied France for a seedy neighbourhood in New York and has been laying low - but not low enough. Because now she has the Gestapo, the FBI and her shady Uncle, the Duc de Guille, all on her tail, and her options are running out. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 200.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784870492
ISBN
9781784870492
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. Jim Francis has finally found the perfect life - and is now unrecognisable, even to himself. A successful painter and sculptor, he lives quietly with his wife, Melanie, and their two young daughters, in an affluent beach town in California. But Francis has a very dark past, with another identity and a very different set of values. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 202.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
9781784700553
ISBN
9781784700553
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. The devilishly playful, intellectually inspiring, emotionally involving new novel from Siri Hustvedt, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 29. Weight in Grams: 262.
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444779660
ISBN
9781444779660
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Paperback. It isn't just Nanny who finds it difficult in France when Grace and her young son Sigi are finally able to join her dashing aristocratic husband Charles-Edouard after the war. For Grace is out of her depth among the fashionably dressed and immaculately coiffured French women, and shocked by their relentless gossiping and bedhopping. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 182.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241974728
ISBN
9780241974728
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. In the tradition of J. Courtney Sullivan's Maine and Jennifer Close's Girls in White Dresses comes a wonderful novel about a tight-knit Irish Catholic clan over the course of twenty years. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 137 x 21. Weight in Grams: 242.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Little, Brown & Company United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9781455574025
ISBN
9781455574025
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 18.21

Paperback. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140. .
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781632861894
ISBN
9781632861894
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.64

Paperback. Jeo and Mikal, foster-brothers from a small Pakistani city, secretly enter Afghanistan: not to fight with the Taliban, but to help and care for wounded civilians. But it soon becomes apparent that good intentions can't keep them out of harm's way.. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 29. Weight in Grams: 368.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571287949
ISBN
9780571287949
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.20

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