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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. Hungry Hill' is a passionate story told with du Maurier's unique gift for drama. It follows five generations of an Irish family and the copper mine on Hungry Hill to which their fortunes and fates are so closely bound. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 35. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844084524
- ISBN
- 9781844084524
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. .
- Publisher
- Zaffre Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785763113
- ISBN
- 9781785763113
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.33
€ 10.99
€ 9.33
Paperback. The hunter arrives in an isolated community in the Tasmanian wilderness with a single purpose in mind - to find the last thylacine, the tiger of fable, fear and legend. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 13. Weight in Grams: 152.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Number of pages
- 170
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571200191
- ISBN
- 9780571200191
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.99
€ 11.99
€ 9.99
Paperback. Robert Grieve - pushing thirty and eager to side-step a life of quiet desperation as a small-town teacher - decides to go missing. As he crosses the border from Thailand to Cambodia, he tests the threshold of a new future. And on that first night, a small windfall precipitates a chain of events which changes Robert's life forever. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 274 x 24. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784700362
- ISBN
- 9781784700362
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.88
€ 15.99
€ 11.88
Paperback. After his death, a young woman returns to her grandfather's farm in Yorkshire. At his desk she finds the book he left unfinished when he died. Part story, part scholarship, his eccentric history of England moves from the founding of the printing press into virtual reality, linking four journeys, separated by the centuries, of four great men. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 139 x 24. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099578888
- ISBN
- 9780099578888
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.81
€ 20.99
€ 16.81
Paperback. Camille is doing her best to disappear. She barely eats, works at night as a cleaner and lives in a tiny attic room. Downstairs in a beautiful, ornate apartment, lives Philibert Marquet de la Durbelliere, a shy, erudite, upper-class man with an unlikely flatmate in the shape of the foul-mouthed but talented chef, Franck. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 33. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Publisher
- Riverhead Books
- Number of pages
- 480
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099494072
- ISBN
- 9780099494072
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 206 x 20. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Publisher
- Old Street Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910400074
- ISBN
- 9781910400074
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.44
€ 16.99
€ 15.44
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Old Street Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910400333
- ISBN
- 9781910400333
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.83
€ 11.99
€ 10.83
Paperback. A daring and original novel, this acerbic satire pulls no punches in its depiction of male chauvinism and religious bigotry, as told through the tragicomic tale of its young female protagonist, Hurma. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 160.
- Publisher
- Darf Publishers Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781850772774
- ISBN
- 9781850772774
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.54
€ 11.99
€ 10.54
Paperback. Na'ama Newman wakes up one morning to a new reality. Her husband Udi, formerly a healthy, active tour guide, announces that he can no longer move his legs. The paralysis is diagnosed as psychosomatic - Udi has gone on strike and Na'ama must cope with the crisis, while balancing the demands of work and motherhood. Translator(s): Bilu, Dalya. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 203. 288 pages. Na'ama Newman wakes up one morning to find her husband Udi, formerly a healthy, active tour guide, saying he can't move his legs. The paralysis is diagnosed as psychosomatic - Udi has gone on strike, and Na'ama must cope with the crisis, while balancing the demands of work and motherhood. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 196 x 129 x 19. Weight: 196. Translator(s): Bilu, Dalya.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841954165
- ISBN
- 9781841954165
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.71
€ 13.99
€ 10.71
Paperback. Sunday Times bestseller Adele Parks writes novels that real women want to read. With her trademark tell-it-like-it-is style, she gets right to the heart of the dilemmas people face in their lives and takes her stories to unexpected places. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 33. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Publisher
- Headline Publishing Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 512
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780755394258
- ISBN
- 9780755394258
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.23
€ 11.99
€ 10.23
Paperback. Eira is alone. Thirty-six years old and living on her own. She loved Jack, but their relationship had to end - she could never have a baby with an alcoholic. Now she works in a quiet museum, in the middle of a park, desperately lonely and aching for someone to love. And one spring morning, she finds a baby in a box on the museum steps. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 175.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099498346
- ISBN
- 9780099498346
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 8.70
€ 9.99
€ 8.70
Paperback. Jack McGreary is adrift of the faded boomtown of Paradise Flats. Raised by his eccentric and increasingly erratic father, Jack has learned to live by his wits. When a pair of fast-talking swindlers named Virgil and Miss Rose blow through town, Jack falls in with them and together they go on a crime spree across the American Southwest. Num Pages: 400 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 141 x 23. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099516439
- ISBN
- 9780099516439
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.50
€ 10.99
€ 9.50
Paperback. After fraudulently winning a writing competition, Sidony Redruth is sent by her editor to write the first-ever travel book on Hy Brasil, a near-mythical island somewhere in the Atlantic, whose very existence has been a matter of debate as late as the nineteenth century. Num Pages: 448 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 31. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 448
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841954110
- ISBN
- 9781841954110
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.52
€ 15.99
€ 11.52
Paperback. Illustrator(s): Opris, Cristian. Num Pages: 180 pages, 2 duotone and b&w. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 137 x 12. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Publisher
- Twisted Spoon Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788086264189
- ISBN
- 9788086264189
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.41
€ 11.41
Hardback. Helene Cixous is one of France's leading contemporary writers. This new book is a work of fiction about the most implacable of human certainties - death. It explores death, mourning and loss by means of a poetic fiction: imagining a magic telephone through which one can open up a lifeline to departed loved ones. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745642994
- ISBN
- 9780745642994
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.12
€ 60.12
Paperback. It is set in a strangely destabilized historical moment, where President Kennedy is entering his third term in office, and a new federal agency maintains the mental health of returning soldiers by wiping their memories through drugs and therapy, while those beyond help roam at will, re-enacting the atrocities they have witnessed. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 23. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571330133
- ISBN
- 9780571330133
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.02
€ 11.99
€ 10.02
paperback. Translator(s): Ito, Aiko. Series: Tuttle classics. Num Pages: 696 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 134 x 31. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Publisher
- Tuttle Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- Bilingual ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780804832656
- ISBN
- 9780804832656
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.38
€ 23.99
€ 16.38
Paperback. Translator(s): Delargy, Marlaine. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 234 x 153. .
- Publisher
- Quercus Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781786480408
- ISBN
- 9781786480408
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.06
€ 19.99
€ 15.06
Paperback. In a flat above a noisy north London market, translator Iona Kirkpatrick starts work on a Chinese letter. Two lovers, Mu and Jian, have been driven apart by forces beyond their control. As Iona unravels the story of the lovers, Jian and Mu seem to be travelling further and further away from each other. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 199 x 26. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099583738
- ISBN
- 9780099583738
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Paperback. A portrayal of family, faith and history which sweeps the reader across continents and generations, from pre-war Transylvania to present-day New York, via Paris and England. It explores in devastating detail what happens when unwavering love, unyielding law and centuries of tradition collide. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 131 x 18. Weight in Grams: 210.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099571940
- ISBN
- 9780099571940
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. Num Pages: 426 pages, chiefly Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 190 x 35. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Kodansha America, Inc
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781935429432
- ISBN
- 9781935429432
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 17.35
€ 24.99
€ 17.35
Paperback. I am Max Lamm is a darkly humorous exploration of family loyalty, disgrace and collective hysteria. Raphel Brous's raucous debut heralds the arrival of a distinctive young writer destined to make his mark. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 15. Weight in Grams: 198.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472105974
- ISBN
- 9781472105974
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.41
€ 10.99
€ 9.41
Paperback. When missing persons investigator David Raker is approached by Richard Kite, he believes he's meeting another desperate relative searching for a loved one. But the person Kite wants Raker to find is himself. Dubbed The Lost Man by the media after he is found unconscious and badly beaten on a lonely South Coast beach ten months ago, Kite still has no memory of who he is, where he is from; even his name isn't his own. And with no one contacting the police since his discovery, it seems that no one is looking for him either. But is that really the case? As Raker digs deeper, he finds troubling details about the man he's trying to help reclaim his life.. Series: DAVID RAKER 8. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. .
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405917841
- ISBN
- 9781405917841
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.85
€ 15.99
€ 11.85