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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Results 1945 - 1968 of 12836
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. All round high-flier Olympia Crawford Rubinstein has it all, a busy legal career, a solid marriage and a perfect family. Until one day she opens an invitation for her twin daughters to attend an exclusive coming out ball and her good fortune is changed irrevocably. Could one calamitous evening ruin the perfect life? Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 107 x 17. Weight in Grams: 140. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Corgi London
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- SKU
- KAK0011652
- ISBN
- 9780552151849
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. George Bowling, forty-five, mortgaged, married with children, is an insurance salesman with an expanding waistline, a new set of false teeth - and a desperate desire to escape his dreary life. He fears modern times - since, in 1939, the Second World War is imminent - foreseeing food queues, soldiers, secret police and tyranny. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 196.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141185699
- ISBN
- 9780141185699
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.26
€ 11.99
€ 10.26
Paperback. A darkly comic novel about the fall and rise of a TV presenter. Written by an insider, it's a page-turning account of life on the sofa and in front of the cameras. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 218. Clean copy.Trade paperback
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- SKU
- KEX0219185
- ISBN
- 9780007268894
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. A darkly comic novel about the fall and rise of a TV presenter. Written by an insider, it's a page-turning account of life on the sofa and in front of the cameras. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 218. Clean copy
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- SKU
- KEX0245308
- ISBN
- 9780007268894
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 8. Weight in Grams: 120.
- Publisher
- Copy Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780955379260
- ISBN
- 9780955379260
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.44
€ 13.99
€ 13.44
Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408880364
- ISBN
- 9781408880364
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.93
€ 13.99
€ 10.93
Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 178 x 111. .
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408885307
- ISBN
- 9781408885307
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 8.56
€ 9.99
€ 8.56
Paperback. The Man Booker longlisted Communion Town reveals the shadows and sinister inhabitants of a city that never appears the same way twice. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 210.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780007454778
- ISBN
- 9780007454778
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover. The Man Booker-longlisted novel explores how each of us conjures up our own city. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 139 x 27. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780007454761
- ISBN
- 9780007454761
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 4.99
€ 18.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. The Man Booker longlisted Communion Town reveals the shadows and sinister inhabitants of a city that never appears the same way twice. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 210. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0000700
- ISBN
- 9780007454778
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Features four last prose fictions by Samuel Beckett that were originally published individually, and their composition spanned the final decade of his life. This edition also includes several short prose texts such as: "Heard in the Dark" I & II, "One Evening", "The Way", and, "Ceiling". Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DSK; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 13. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571244737
- ISBN
- 9780571244737
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.53
€ 15.99
€ 11.53
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 272. 240 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 196 x 129 x 18. Weight: 264.
- Publisher
- Daunt
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781907970030
- ISBN
- 9781907970030
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.52
€ 13.00
€ 11.52
Paperback. Num Pages: 800 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 44. Weight in Grams: 798.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc United States
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Number of pages
- 800
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780553382167
- ISBN
- 9780553382167
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.37
€ 26.99
€ 25.37
Paperback. A collection of stories. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141189451
- ISBN
- 9780141189451
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. Here are the collected stories of English novelist Elizabeth Taylor, including some only recently discovered. From the awkward passions of lonely holiday-makers to the fresh-faced anticipation of three school friends preparing for their first dance, she wryly captures the ordinary excetionalness of life. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 150 x 46. Weight in Grams: 838.
- Publisher
- Virago
- Number of pages
- 640
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844088409
- ISBN
- 9781844088409
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.00
€ 19.99
€ 15.00
Paperback. Includes a collection spans many genres, offering ingenious alternative histories, mystery and horror, satirical reflections and a devilishly funny attacks. In this book, the stories reveal the scope of his imagination and the warmth beneath his acerbic humour, and they all share the unmistakable style and wit of one of Britain's writers. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 134 x 25. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 528
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141195292
- ISBN
- 9780141195292
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.41
€ 17.99
€ 13.41
Paperback. Features stories ranging from teenagers coming into awareness of their sexual and artistic powers to humdrum housewives whose lives are shattered by unexpected epiphanies to old people who don't know what to do with themselves. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 34. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141197388
- ISBN
- 9780141197388
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.00
€ 19.99
€ 15.00
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- New European Publications United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781872410418
- ISBN
- 9781872410418
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.42
€ 17.99
€ 16.42
Paperback. Paperback reissue of a modern classic, Iain Banks' COMPLICITY, 'ingenious, daring and brilliant' - Guardian. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 127 x 21. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Publisher
- Abacus
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Digital original
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349139135
- ISBN
- 9780349139135
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
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€ 11.09
Paperback. In a brasserie of the Boulevard St Germain, a renowned novelist watches, entranced, the motions of a young woman's hand folding a restaurant bill into a paper boat. This passing observation - slim fingers against a white linen tablecloth - provides the springboard for this story of love and jealousy. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 134 x 12. Weight in Grams: 124.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099449829
- ISBN
- 9780099449829
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 8.70
€ 9.99
€ 8.70
Paperback. Editor(s): Hutner, Heidi; Garret, Nicole. Series: Broadview Editions. Num Pages: 334 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 215 x 17. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Ltd Canada
- Number of pages
- 334
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781554810260
- ISBN
- 9781554810260
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.92
€ 38.99
€ 28.92
Paperback. A chilling novel that pays twisted homage to Defoe's 'Robinson Crusoe'. Newly reissued with an introduction from Neil Gaiman. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 142.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007287048
- ISBN
- 9780007287048
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.70
€ 13.99
€ 10.70
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- John Hunt Publishing
- Number of pages
- 314
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782791898
- ISBN
- 9781782791898
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.48
€ 16.99
€ 15.48
Paperback. Robert Poste's child is back at Cold Comfort Farm. But all is not well. Flora finds the farm transformed into a twee haven filled with Toby jugs and peasant pottery, and rooms labeled'Quiete Retreate' and 'Greate laundrie'. It is, Flora winces, 'exactly like being locked in the Victoria and Albert Museum after closing time'. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 12. Weight in Grams: 134.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099528685
- ISBN
- 9780099528685
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08