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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Paperback. Set in the post-Snowden era of creeping surveillance of ordinary citizens and everyday life, I Am No One explores how a world without privacy is a world without freedom of expression. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 27. Weight in Grams: 328.
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782397984
ISBN
9781782397984
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.01

Paperback. Published 2002. V. Good
Condition
Used, Like New
Edition
1st Edition
Publisher
Mercier Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
SKU
KDK0011518
ISBN
9781860231490
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. In Karen Rose's brilliant thriller I CAN SEE YOU, the first in her Minneapolis series, a killer is targeting the participants of an online role-playing game called Shadowland. Series: Minneapolis Series. Num Pages: 656 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 42. Weight in Grams: 370.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Condition
New
SKU
V9780755370979
ISBN
9780755370979
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.06

Paperback. When the Nazis invade Denmark, British-born Kay Eberstern is sickened when Bror - her husband of twenty-five years - collaborates with the enemy to save his family home. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 268 x 197 x 34. Weight in Grams: 368.
Publisher
Michael Joseph
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780718158002
ISBN
9780718158002
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.84

Paperback. Cassandra Mortmain lives with her impoverished family in a crumbling castle. Her journal records her life with her bored sister Rose, her stepmother Topaz, her little brother Thomas and her novelist father who suffers from a financially crippling writer's block. However, all their lives are turned upside down when American heirs to castle arrive. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 27. Weight in Grams: 302.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
Edition
New Edition
SKU
9780099460879
ISBN
9780099460879
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.75

Paperback. It is 1989 and all over Europe Communism is crumbling. Arvid Jansen is in the throes of a divorce. At the same time, his mother is diagnosed with cancer. Over a few intense autumn days, we follow Arvid as he struggles to find a new footing in his life, while everything around him is changing at staggering speed. Translator(s): Barslund, Charlotte. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 135 x 15. Weight in Grams: 178.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099536024
ISBN
9780099536024
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.87

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