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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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

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

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
€ 11.54

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

€ 15.99
€ 11.45

Paperback. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd India
Condition
New
SKU
V9780143425045
ISBN
9780143425045
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.75

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
€ 24.46

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

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
€ 14.96

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
€ 13.39

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
€ 15.04

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

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
€ 11.02

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
€ 8.66

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

€ 40.99
€ 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

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
€ 15.39

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

Paperback. In Holt Douglas's line of work, there's nothing sweeter than a confession of guilt. Num Pages: 416 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FF; FH; HRCV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 28. Weight in Grams: 385.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Thomas Nelson Publishers United States
Number of pages
416
Condition
New
SKU
V9781401688868
ISBN
9781401688868
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 18.40

Paperback. Editor(s): Noll, Mark A. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210. .
Publisher
Apollos
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Condition
New
SKU
V9780851114217
ISBN
9780851114217
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.48

paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 234 x 154. Weight in Grams: 444. In good condition. A well read copy
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Hachette Books Ireland
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
SKU
KRS0010937
ISBN
9780340953150
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 234 x 154. Weight in Grams: 444. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Hachette Books Ireland
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
SKU
KTJ0049745
ISBN
9780340953150
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Fabulously funny, fresh and fast-paced rom com, set in a Karaoke bar. Shoutline: It's not over until Maddie Mulhern sings Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 198 x 26. Weight in Grams: 314.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Edition
Digital original
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780751545944
ISBN
9780751545944
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 8.67

Hardcover. 'My first mistake was to be heterosexual'. Such is one of the complaints in conversations between Henry Hart - who is a father of two young girls - and his friend, Darius Saddler - who is gay and unattached. This book relates the attempts of Hart and Saddler to knit their lives, and to extricate Hart from the problems he has brought upon himself. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 148 x 24. Weight in Grams: 402.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846551499
ISBN
9781846551499
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.37

Paperback. This book is one of the classics of modern Japanese fiction. It is the story of an adolescent who must learn to live with the painful fact that he is unlike other young men. Mishima's protagonist discovers that he is becoming a homosexual in a polite, post-war Japan. To survive, he must live behind a mask of propriety. Series: New Directions Paperbook. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 132 x 20. Weight in Grams: 264.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1958
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation United Kingdom
Condition
New
Edition
Later Printing
SKU
V9780811201186
ISBN
9780811201186
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.29

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