Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. Jix Dixon has a terrible job at a second-rate university. His life is full of things he could happily do without. If he can just deliver a lecture on Merrie England, a moderately successful career surely awaits him. But without luck, life is never simple.. Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 113 x 17. Weight in Grams: 152.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Number of pages
- 272
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241956847
- ISBN
- 9780241956847
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.10
€ 11.99
€ 10.10
Paperback. A thrilling and resonant novel from the author of Away, about loyalty, ambition, and the pleasures and perils of family, set in 1940s America Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 18. Weight in Grams: 184.
- Publisher
- Granta Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847089397
- ISBN
- 9781847089397
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.10
€ 10.99
€ 9.10
Paperback. Stunningly re-packaged to coincide with the release of The Longest Holiday Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 27. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Ltd
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781471129612
- ISBN
- 9781471129612
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.91
€ 11.99
€ 9.91
Paperback. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 197 x 49. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Publisher
- Poolbeg Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781842234761
- ISBN
- 9781842234761
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.37
€ 11.37
Paperback. Once again, Fiona Walker brings us a fantastic female character guaranteed to strike a chord with women everywhere. Num Pages: 432 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 34. Weight in Grams: 304. Fine copy showing minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSS0014133
- ISBN
- 9780340768099
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Presenting a collection of four stories and a novella, this title depicts the images of rural life and human emotion. The title story chronicles the life of Lucy Delano as she bears witness to the dramatic changes that her small town confronts. In "The Telephone Girl", a young man struggles to act on his emotions for Mimi, the telephone girl. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 349.
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815608509
- ISBN
- 9780815608509
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.58
€ 12.58
Paperback. Charts the unlikely meeting between East and West that follows Ludmila Derev's appearance on a Russian Brides website. Determined to save her family from starvation in the face of marauding troops, this title presents Ludmila's journey. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571230952
- ISBN
- 9780571230952
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.08
€ 10.99
€ 9.08
Paperback. Explores the emergence of political identity, which grows from class to national consciousness and celebrates that brand of idealism that has never since the early Eighties recaptured its clarity of purpose. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 137 x 24. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Parthian Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781902638942
- ISBN
- 9781902638942
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.24
€ 13.99
€ 13.24
Paperback. Luke's mum is dead. He finds himself in a small, scruffy northern hill town, with a near silent father, who he fears might be trying to drink himself to death. Then he meets Jon. Jon is massively strange. He wears 1950s clothes, has a side-parting and a twitch. The kids at school call him 'Slackjaw'. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 197 x 127 x 13. Weight in Grams: 160.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571274888
- ISBN
- 9780571274888
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.66
€ 13.99
€ 10.66
Paperback. Heather O'Neill is an extremely gifted writer and Lullabies for Little Criminals is her breathtaking first novel about one girl's struggle for survival on the mean streets of Montreal Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Publisher
- Quercus Publishing Plc United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847243935
- ISBN
- 9781847243935
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.86
€ 13.99
€ 10.86
Paperback. A journalist notices a link between a number of victims of cot death. All of the children had the same poem read to them the night before they died. The journalist desperately fights to find all copies of the book containing the accursed poem. This title is by the author of "Fight Club". Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 131 x 19. Weight in Grams: 198.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099437963
- ISBN
- 9780099437963
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.86
€ 13.99
€ 10.86
Paperback. Who is the Lullaby Girl? Found washed up on the banks of a remote loch, a mysterious girl is taken into the care of a psychiatric home in the Highlands of Scotland. Mute and covered in bruises, she has no memory of who she is or how she got there. The only clue to her identity is the Danish lullaby she sings.. Num Pages: 408 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 199 x 33. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Publisher
- Black and White Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845029500
- ISBN
- 9781845029500
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.75
€ 11.99
€ 9.75
Paperback. Nazi occupied Poland. A German army officer investigates the murder of an abbess amid the horrors of brutal occupation. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 181 x 197 x 24. Weight in Grams: 344. 288 pages. Nazi occupied Poland. A German army officer investigates the murder of an abbess amid the horrors of brutal occupation. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA; FF. Dimension: 181 x 197 x 24. Weight: 306.
- Publisher
- Bitter Lemon Press
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781904738664
- ISBN
- 9781904738664
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.74
€ 11.99
€ 10.74
Paperback. In Brasilia they're coming off their night shift, in Tokyo they're having their first whisky sours - that's what's happening elsewhere in the world when our hero wakes up. Together with his wife and dog, he lives at home with his parents. He has had the good education and, until recently, the good job. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099539841
- ISBN
- 9780099539841
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.09
€ 11.99
€ 10.09
Paperback. In a quaint Austrian ski resort, things are not quite what they seem. Hermann, the manager of a paper mill, has decided that sexual gratification begins at home. Which means Gerti - his wife and property. Gerti is not asked how she feels about the use Hermann puts her to. She is a receptacle into which Hermann pours his juices brutally. Translator(s): Hulse, Michael. Num Pages: 208 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 246.
- Publisher
- Profile Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781852421830
- ISBN
- 9781852421830
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.63
€ 15.63
Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 24. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Publisher
- Michael Joseph
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780718185619
- ISBN
- 9780718185619
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.95
€ 13.99
€ 10.95
Paperback. It was Rome, 63 BC. In a city on the brink of acquiring a vast empire, seven men are struggling for power - Cicero is consul; Caesar, his ruthless young rival; Pompey, the republic's greatest general; Crassus, its richest man; Cato, a political fanatic; Catilina, a psychopath; and, Clodius, an ambitious playboy. Series: Cicero Trilogy. Num Pages: 464 pages, map. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 132 x 27. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099406327
- ISBN
- 9780099406327
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.10
€ 11.99
€ 10.10
Paperback. The launch of a bright young talent for Headline commercial fiction, bringing together a fabulous read with a gorgeous, eye-catching package Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 129 x 34. Weight in Grams: 392. Previously read copy, with some shelfwear
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Headline Publishing Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- SKU
- KST0030813
- ISBN
- 9780755348527
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. * The B format publication of the ecstatically received collection of short stories about vengeful wives, jealous husbands, femme fatales, reluctant fiancees, daddy's girls, secretive nannies and worldly children Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 15. Weight in Grams: 184.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844087082
- ISBN
- 9781844087082
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.31
€ 13.99
€ 13.31
Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 136 x 24. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2020
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780060928513
- ISBN
- 9780060928513
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 17.45
€ 19.99
€ 17.45
Paperback. Num Pages: 154 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 136 x 11. Weight in Grams: 200.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Brindle and Glass Publishing, Ltd Canada
- Number of pages
- 154
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781897142080
- ISBN
- 9781897142080
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 15.59
€ 20.99
€ 15.59
Paperback. The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller She will change your life forever.. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FRD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. .
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007501892
- ISBN
- 9780007501892
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.77
€ 11.99
€ 9.77
Paperback. Num Pages: 518 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 142 x 28. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Dalkey Archive Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781564781369
- ISBN
- 9781564781369
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 6.49
€ 19.99
€ 6.49
Paperback. A lyrical and moving novel by a twice ORANGE-listed rising star, set in 1950s Sudan and Egypt. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 198 x 23. Weight in Grams: 234.
- Publisher
- Phoenix
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780753828113
- ISBN
- 9780753828113
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.97
€ 13.99
€ 10.97