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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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

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

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
€ 19.69

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

€ 15.99
€ 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

€ 15.99
€ 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
€ 10.23

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

€ 12.37

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
€ 16.14

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

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
€ 6.00

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

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
€ 10.81

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
€ 10.98

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

€ 8.27

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
€ 18.90

paperback. Series: Vintage Classics. Num Pages: 226 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 131 x 18. Weight in Grams: 264.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Random House USA Inc United States
Number of pages
226
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780307474520
ISBN
9780307474520
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 11.80

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
€ 16.46

Paperback. Num Pages: 155 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 150 x 13. Weight in Grams: 259.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Manic D Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
155
Condition
New
SKU
V9780916397548
ISBN
9780916397548
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.23

Paperback. Num Pages: 135 pages, maps. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 127 x 9. Weight in Grams: 188.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Arsenal Pulp Press Canada
Number of pages
135
Condition
New
SKU
V9781551520902
ISBN
9781551520902
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 12.83

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
€ 13.39

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

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

€ 15.99
€ 11.88

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

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
€ 10.25

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