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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
paperback. In Twicetown, once Key West, two missiles sit unexploded, objects of awe and indifference. Mr Cheung teaches the boy Fiskadoro to play the clarinet; Grandmother Wright, the oldest person in the world, endlessly relives the fall of Saigon; Cassius Clay Sugar Ray trades in radioactive artefacts. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099440840
- ISBN
- 9780099440840
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.04
€ 13.99
€ 11.04
Paperback. Things have never been the same in the village since the evacuee arrived and the five boys mistook him for a Nazi spy. There have been a host of visitors: the Americans preparing for D-Day and a deserter hiding out in the woods. But it's the arrival of the Bee King who makes the biggest impression. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 17. Weight in Grams: 182. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- Main
- SKU
- KKD0001636
- ISBN
- 9780571206186
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
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.
- Publisher
- Corgi Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KRS0020108
- ISBN
- 9780552143783
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
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
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. 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
€ 14.99€ 11.85
€ 14.99
€ 11.85
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
€ 14.99€ 11.84
€ 14.99
€ 11.84
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. 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. 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. 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
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. 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
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. 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. 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
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. 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. 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. 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
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
€ 14.99€ 11.86
€ 14.99
€ 11.86
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. 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. 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