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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Hardback. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 144 x 28. Weight in Grams: 550.
Publisher
Random House USA Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812994384
ISBN
9780812994384
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 23.15

Paperback. Touching and wonderfully funny, In Custody is woven around the yearnings and calamities of a small-town scholar in the north of India. An impoverished college lecturer, Deven, sees a way to escape from the meanness of his daily life when he is asked to interview India's greatest Urdu poet, Nur - a project that can only end in disaster. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 174.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099428497
ISBN
9780099428497
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.29

Paperback. First published in 1962 as 'La Placa del Diamant', this is considered the most important Catalan novel of all time. This is a new English translation. Translator(s): Bush, Peter. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 126 x 15. Weight in Grams: 158.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Virago
Condition
New
SKU
9781844087372
ISBN
9781844087372
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.00

Hardback. In Paris, Montreal, Seville, Berlin, and towns large and small, the author has dreamt - and she has remembered her dreams. In this small volume, she shares her dreams of the years 2008-10, a time of global upheaval that happened to coincide with upheavals in her own life. Illustrator(s): Banerjee, Sunandini. Translator(s): Fagan, Teresa Lavender. Series: The French List. Num Pages: 116 pages, 24 colour plates. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 150 x 11. Weight in Grams: 282.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
116
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857420299
ISBN
9780857420299
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 17.45

Paperback. Nora Roberts - The World's Greatest Storyteller. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 236.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780749958527
ISBN
9780749958527
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. Features Jim Nolan, who is disenfranchised and alone, and, his family destroyed by the system. Desperate to find his place in the world, Jim joins the Communist Party and becomes entangled in a strike of migrant workers which spirals out of control, unflinchingly detailing the apocalyptic violence that breaks out when the masses become the mob. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 384 pages, Notes. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 274.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141186023
ISBN
9780141186023
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Paperback. Wonderful Booker Prize-shortlisted novel now reissued Num Pages: 224 pages, n/a. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 197 x 14. Weight in Grams: 166. Very good copy with light shelf wear. Light nicks, remains very good
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KCW0017659
ISBN
9780340637838
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Hardback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 514.
Publisher
Counterpoint United States
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781619024595
ISBN
9781619024595
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 21.19

Paperback. As a small South American town sweats under an oppressive heat, an unknown person creeps through the night sticking malicious posters to walls and doors. When the contents of one poster lead to a murder, everyone knows that the town is threatened by a malevolent presence, but is there anything the mayor, the doctor or the priest can do about it? Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 142.
Publisher
PENGUIN BOOKS
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Re-issue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241968710
ISBN
9780241968710
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.06

Hardback. Thomas knows there is something he needs to say to his mother before she dies. But will he reach her in time? And will he have the courage to say what he couldn't say before? His phone is buzzing, his mind is racing, and he can't concentrate on the significance of what is happening. Should he try to solve his friend's family crisis? Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 162 x 32. Weight in Grams: 605. Clean copy with minor shelf wear fine in dustjacket
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0001669
ISBN
9781911215707
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Jenny Jefferies despairs of her mother's knack for attracting the wrong kind of men, always with disastrous consequences. But both their lives might be about to change beyond their wildest dreams.. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 183 x 111 x 29. Weight in Grams: 240.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
SKU
V9780747261230
ISBN
9780747261230
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. You fell in love with Cannie Shapiro, now meet Rose Feller in Jennifer Weiner's follow-up to the much loved Good in Bed. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 129 x 31. Weight in Grams: 326.
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Number of pages
464
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849834018
ISBN
9781849834018
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 8.47

hardcover. Features a book of stories, drawings and poems that was first published in 1964 to great critical acclaim and became a phenomenon, selling over 600,000 copies in the UK alone and revealing a hitherto unseen side to author's artistic output and talent. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 183 x 138 x 10. Weight in Grams: 168.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Canongate Books
Condition
New
SKU
9781782115403
ISBN
9781782115403
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.54

Paperback. Num Pages: 324 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 197 x 27. Weight in Grams: 370. 8vo. .Very good copy
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
House of Stratus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New edition
SKU
KEX0275927
ISBN
9780755100996
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 12.00

Paperback. Maggie lives a life of careful routines and measured pleasures. But everything changes when, walking through Gatwick airport, she is approached by a young woman who whispers a single word: 'Help.' Maggie's actions save Anja from her brutal trafficker. Then Anja makes contact, and quickly insinuates herself into Maggie's ordered life.. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 205 x 21. Weight in Grams: 238.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
KSG0019205
ISBN
9780571316687
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Maggie lives a life of careful routines and measured pleasures. But everything changes when, walking through Gatwick airport, she is approached by a young woman who whispers a single word: 'Help.' Maggie's actions save Anja from her brutal trafficker. Then Anja makes contact, and quickly insinuates herself into Maggie's ordered life.. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 205 x 21. Weight in Grams: 238.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
SKU
KSG0019441
ISBN
9780571316687
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Kate O'Brien is thirty and has very little to think about except trying to keep her balance as she totters up London's media-land ladder. Fiona O'Brien is Kate's responsible older sister - with a husband, twin boys, a dog and now ..a life-changing problem. It's a problem that means Kate going back to Dublin. Pronto. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 208. Already read but clean
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Penguin Ireland
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KDK0011368
ISBN
9781844880690
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Kate O'Brien is thirty and has very little to think about except trying to keep her balance as she totters up London's media-land ladder. Fiona O'Brien is Kate's responsible older sister - with a husband, twin boys, a dog and now ..a life-changing problem. It's a problem that means Kate going back to Dublin. Pronto. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 208. Good clean copy with some reader wear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Penguin Ireland
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KTM0005784
ISBN
9781844880690
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. A story of unfulfilled love - tormented, funny, and affecting - and an impassioned embrace of our sexual differences. It is an intimate and unforgettable portrait of the solitariness of a bisexual man who is dedicated to making himself 'worthwhile'. Num Pages: 624 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 131 x 39. Weight in Grams: 436.
Publisher
Black Swan
Number of pages
624
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780552778442
ISBN
9780552778442
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.02

Paperback. Illuminates a place and people and describes the overlapping worlds of an extended Pakistani landowning family. This title includes stories that reveal the complexities of Pakistani class and culture, as they describe the loves, triumphs, misunderstandings and tragedies of everyday life. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 17. Weight in Grams: 214. 256 pages. Illuminates a place and people and describes the overlapping worlds of an extended Pakistani landowning family. This title includes stories that reveal the complexities of Pakistani class and culture, as they describe the loves, triumphs, misunderstandings and tragedies of everyday life. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Dimension: 198 x 128 x 17. Weight: 182.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408801048
ISBN
9781408801048
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.25

Hardback. Num Pages: 192 pages, 100+ b/w photos. BIC Classification: FA; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 161 x 22. Weight in Grams: 560.
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764307539
ISBN
9780764307539
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 25.30

Paperback. 1980s Syria, our young narrator is living a secluded life behind the veil in the vast and perfumed house of her grandparents in Aleppo. Her three aunts, Maryam the pious one; Safaa, the liberal; and the free-spirited Marwa, bring her up with the aid of their ever-devoted blind servant. Translator(s): Price, Leri. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 20. Weight in Grams: 234.
Publisher
Transworld Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780552776134
ISBN
9780552776134
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.41

Paperback. Num Pages: 56 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 138 x 5. Weight in Grams: 100.
Publisher
Leete's Island Books,U.S. United States
Number of pages
56
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1977
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780918172020
ISBN
9780918172020
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 12.53

Paperback. An essay on aesthetics. It explores architecture, jade, food, toilets, and combines an acute sense of the use of space in buildings, as well as perfect descriptions of lacquerware under candlelight and women in the darkness of the house of pleasure. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: FA; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 199 x 8. Weight in Grams: 66.
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099283577
ISBN
9780099283577
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.50

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