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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Doc Ebersole lives with the ghost of Hank Williams. Literally. In 1963, ten years after giving Hank the overdose that killed him, Doc is wracked by addiction. But when Graciela, a young Mexican immigrant, appears in the neighbourhood in search of Doc's services, miraculous things begin to happen. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 188.
Publisher
Vintage
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099554479
ISBN
9780099554479
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.65

Paperback. Everything that can be done to fend off the boredom of retirement and old age, while still holding a beer. Translator(s): Harvey, Rosalind. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 22. Weight in Grams: 294.
Publisher
And Other Stories
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Translation
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908276742
ISBN
9781908276742
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.66

Paperback. A bold and original novel about John Humble, the Yorkshire Ripper hoaxer Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 205 x 23. Weight in Grams: 200.
Publisher
Granta Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781783780860
ISBN
9781783780860
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.02

Paperback. 'A deft masterpiece with never a false note' - Guardian Translator(s): Hunt, Jonathan. Series: Canons. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 130 x 34. Weight in Grams: 196.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Canongate Canons
Condition
New
SKU
9781782117155
ISBN
9781782117155
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.50

paperback. 'I'm off', says Felix Ferrer to his wife. 'I'm leaving you'. And closing the door on their suburban home, Ferrer, a creature of appetite, impulse and habit, a man of our times, embarks on a journey to the extremes. Not weighing up every girl he sees. Not ignoring his doctor's warnings to avoid the very hot and the very cold. Translator(s): Waldman, Guido. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 15. Weight in Grams: 190.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9781860469503
ISBN
9781860469503
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.23

Hardback. This book demonstrates that Fitzgerald's narrative is riddled with chronological incoherences, improbabilities, and flat contractions -- almost none of which, surprisingly, have been previously noted. Num Pages: 154 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 230 x 157 x 15. Weight in Grams: 420.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
154
Condition
New
SKU
V9780945636380
ISBN
9780945636380
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 102.82

Hardcover. "Hooper had known, from the very first moment he had looked into Kingshaw's face, that it would all be easy, that he would always be able to make him afraid." This tragic tale of two isolated children explores the nature of cruelty and the power of evil. Series: New Longman Literature. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: 5AN; FA; YFB; YQEF. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 208 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 342.
Publisher
Pearson Education Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
296
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Edition
1 New ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780582434462
ISBN
9780582434462
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 21.50

Paperback. 'I didn't want you to come here.' So says the note that the boy Edmund Hooper passes to Charles Kingshaw upon his arrival at Warings. But, young Kingshaw and his mother have come to live with Hooper and his father in the ugly, isolated Victorian house for good. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 166.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1973
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
KSS0005885
ISBN
9780140034912
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 10.33

Paperback. 'Some people are coming here today, now you will have a companion.' But young Edmund Hooper doesn't want anyone else in Warings, the large and rambling Victorian house he shares with his widowed father. Nevertheless Charles Kingshaw and his mother are soon installed and Hooper sets about subtly persecuting the fearful new arrival. Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 110 x 14. Weight in Grams: 124.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin
Publication date
2014
Edition
PENGUIN ESSENTIALS
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241970782
ISBN
9780241970782
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. A couple of glasses of bubbly with the girls and Poppy's life has gone into meltdown. Not only has she lost her engagement ring, but in the panic that followed, she's lost her phone too. When she spots an abandoned phone in a bin it seems it was meant to be. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 28. Weight in Grams: 326.
Publisher
Black Swan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780552774406
ISBN
9780552774406
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.23

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Twisted Spoon Press Czech Republic
Edition
Tra
Number of pages
156
Condition
New
SKU
V9788086264271
ISBN
9788086264271
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 11.86

Paperback. In the culture and biases of Venice and the childhood of a young man named Iago could not escape his status as runt of the litter in his family nor his distasteful tendencies toward honesty that made him a social outcast. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 136 x 25. Weight in Grams: 300.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9780062026873
ISBN
9780062026873
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.06

Paperback. A stunningly-written portrait of Lucifer encountering the world of the senses, telling his version of the Bible, and discovering what it's like to be human - in Clerkenwell. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 132 x 19. Weight in Grams: 192.
Publisher
Scribner
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780743220132
ISBN
9780743220132
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.78

Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 174 x 110 x 21. Weight in Grams: 154.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Spectra
Publication date
1991
Edition
Media Tie In
Condition
New
SKU
V9780553294385
ISBN
9780553294385
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.09

Paperback. .
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
227
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813927671
ISBN
9780813927671
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.70

Paperback. Num Pages: 178 pages, 217 pictures reproduced. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 303 x 229 x 16. Weight in Grams: 1002.
Publisher
Schiffer Pub Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
SKU
V9780887400995
ISBN
9780887400995
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 25.12

Paperback. The brand new romantic suspense novel from NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Linda Howard is a breathless tale of a man, a woman, and a battle for survival against an unforgiving winter - and an unrelenting killer. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 20. Weight in Grams: 206.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349400136
ISBN
9780349400136
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.48

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Baen Books
Edition
Original
Condition
New
SKU
V9781451637915
ISBN
9781451637915
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.27

Hardcover. .
Edition
1st Everyman
Publisher
Everyman Paperback Classics
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841591735
ISBN
9781841591735
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.04

Paperback. Shortlisted for The Orange Prize and highly praised on hardback publication. Set in Lenigrad of the 1930s, ICE ROAD is a compelling and passionate story about ordinary people - Boris, Natasha, Irina - caught up in history Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 36. Weight in Grams: 388.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
560
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844080595
ISBN
9781844080595
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.81

Paperback. A thrilling race against time and the Russian military to rescue the men trapped in two disabled nuclear submarines in the Arctic. BIC Classification: FA; FHD; FJM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 104 x 26. .
Publication date
2017
Publisher
St Martin´s Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
Format
Paperback
SKU
V9781250117663
ISBN
9781250117663
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.33

Paperback. Translator(s): Gambrell, Jamey. Num Pages: 704 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 127 x 39. Weight in Grams: 718.
Publisher
The New York Review of Books, Inc United States
Number of pages
704
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781590173862
ISBN
9781590173862
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 23.30

Paperback. Follows the fortunes of several wildly different characters - including an expat farmer and a young English aristocrat - as they are swept up in the fighting in German East Africa during the First World War, their lives converging amid battle, betrayal, love, comedy and tragedy. Series: Penguin Decades. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 196 x 27. Weight in Grams: 294.
Publisher
Hamish Hamilton
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241953563
ISBN
9780241953563
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.80

Paperback. Illustrator(s): Chilvers, Alex. Num Pages: 126 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 128 x 9. Weight in Grams: 170.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Honest Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
126
Condition
New
SKU
V9780957142701
ISBN
9780957142701
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 10.95

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