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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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
€ 9.89

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
€ 10.86

Paperback. "Engaging, stirring and hard to put down."--The New York Times Book Review Num Pages: 308 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 133 x 23. Weight in Grams: 414.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Biblioasis Canada
Number of pages
308
Condition
New
SKU
V9781771960014
ISBN
9781771960014
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 18.52

Paperback. To commemorate the 400th anniversary of the deaths of Shakespeare and Cervantes, six Hispanic and six English-language authors have each contributed a previously unpublished story in tribute to these giants of world literature. With Ben Okri, Deborah Levy, Kamila Shamsie, Yuri Herrera, Valeria Luiselli and others, introduced by Salman Rushdie. Editor(s): Hahn, Daniel; Valencia, Margarita. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 24. Weight in Grams: 278.
Publisher
And Other Stories
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908276780
ISBN
9781908276780
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.30

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
€ 10.22

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

€ 15.75

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

€ 15.99
€ 11.08

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

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

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
€ 13.39

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
€ 17.70

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

€ 19.00
€ 15.75

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
€ 9.94

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
€ 6.23

hardcover. Num Pages: 106 pages, 100 photographs. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 285 x 220 x 16. Weight in Grams: 807.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Stacey International United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
106
Condition
New
SKU
V9781900988896
ISBN
9781900988896
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 9.04

Paperback. Les Anglais are in the kitchen and the French are up in arms Series: Fogas Chronicles. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 136 x 18. Weight in Grams: 208.
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444708233
ISBN
9781444708233
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co
Edition
Student
Condition
New
SKU
V9781585101535
ISBN
9781585101535
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 21.87

Paperback. The thirteenth novel in the Kinsey Millhone mystery series, now with a stunning new look Series: Kinsey Millhone Alphabet Series. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 24. Weight in Grams: 278.
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781447212348
ISBN
9781447212348
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.93

Paperback. Kicked out of college and harassed by his lawyer, Miles Faber abandons New York and embarks on a defiant pilgrimage across the Caribbean to find the shrine of Sib Legeru, an obscure poet and painter. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 160.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141187808
ISBN
9780141187808
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.29

Paperback. Private Investigator Tommy Storm is hired by a top Hollywood film producer to find his missing daughter and her leading man. As Storm and his goody two-shoes doppelganger investigate the case, sinister forces conspire to commit the ultimate murder. The question is: who is on the side of the angels, and can either Storm tell the difference? Num Pages: 134 pages. BIC Classification: F; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 217 x 9. Weight in Grams: 144.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
John Hunt Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
134
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846949531
ISBN
9781846949531
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.30

Paperback. Journey Prize--winning author returns with a kaleidoscope of off-kilter short stories about parenting in its many forms. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 133 x 20. Weight in Grams: 371.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Coach House Books Canada
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9781552452585
ISBN
9781552452585
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.53

Paperback. Roberto Arlt (1900-1942), celebrated in Argentina for his tragicomic, punch-in-the-jaw writing during the 1920s and 1930s, was a forerunner of Latin American "boom" and "postboom" novelists such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Isabel Allende. This title presents a set against the chaotic background of Buenos Aires in the early twentieth century. Translator(s): Aynesworth, Michele McKay. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 139 x 12. Weight in Grams: 262.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780822329404
ISBN
9780822329404
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.37

Paperback. In a novel set in Soviet-era Poland, a boy is bewitched by his teacher and vows to win her heart, but later, when he becomes a teacher himself, he sees the story from the opposite side of the instructor's desk. Reprint. Translator(s): Kolakowska, Agnieszka. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 29. Weight in Grams: 318. 438 pages. In a novel set in Soviet-era Poland, a boy is bewitched by his teacher and vows to win her heart, but later, when he becomes a teacher himself, he sees the story from the opposite side of the instructor's desk. Reprint. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 196 x 128 x 29. Weight: 314.
Publisher
Canongate Books
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841955209
ISBN
9781841955209
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.07

Paperback. Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. She longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But even her affairs bring her disappointment and the consequences are devastating. Translator(s): Davis, Lydia. Series: Penguin Classics. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 145 x 26. Weight in Grams: 416.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780143106494
ISBN
9780143106494
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.39

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