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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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
€ 11.01

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

€ 18.99
€ 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

Paperback. Magda, a Polish immigrant, grows cannabis in Eastern Poland and ships it to the UK. But her plans are interrupted when she has to attend a funeral. Magda begins to tell the story of her life, her double life in London, her strained relationship with her family and her success in the male world of drug dealing. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 125 x 12. Weight in Grams: 268.
Publisher
Stork
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780957132603
ISBN
9780957132603
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.37

Paperback. A novel that brings together - the new world and the old, the Seine and the St Lawrence, mothers and sons, outsiders and insiders. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 32. Weight in Grams: 345.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099441984
ISBN
9780099441984
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.29

Hardcover. Num Pages: 222 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 162 x 20. Weight in Grams: 512.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Museum of New Mexico Press (Red Crane Books) United States
Edition
1ST
Number of pages
222
Condition
New
SKU
V9781878610720
ISBN
9781878610720
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 24.81

paperback. The final volume in the extraordinary speculative fiction trilogy - a decade in the making - from one of the greatest writers in the English language today. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 33. Weight in Grams: 392.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Virago
Condition
New
SKU
9781844087877
ISBN
9781844087877
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 9.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 205 x 25. Weight in Grams: 374.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9781101873427
ISBN
9781101873427
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.42

Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 142 x 20. Weight in Grams: 316.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Manic D Press, Inc.
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781933149752
ISBN
9781933149752
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.38

Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 21. Weight in Grams: 182.
Publisher
Michael Joseph
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780718185633
ISBN
9780718185633
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.85

Paperback. The dazzling new novel by the Man Booker-nominated, Granta Best of Young British novelist, Ned Beauman. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153. .
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781473613591
ISBN
9781473613591
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.95

paperback. The buzzing life of bars, warm evenings by the Manzanares river, the subterranean terrors of the Metro, student days in the sixties, the ruthless underworld of the city's mafia - this captivating anthology reflects the kaleidoscopic character of Madrid. Renowned writers such as Galdos and Marias appear alongside others who will be less familiar. Editor(s): Constantine, Helen. Translator(s): Jull Costa, Margaret. Num Pages: 326 pages, 19 black-and-white photographs. BIC Classification: 1DSE; DQ; FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 196 x 17. Weight in Grams: 354.
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Number of pages
326
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199583270
ISBN
9780199583270
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.39

CD-Audio. A sleepy Irish town facing monumental change, dramatised in six parts with a full cast including David Soul and Lorcan Cranitch. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 143 x 15. Weight in Grams: 176.
Publisher
BBC Audio, A Division Of Random House
Format
CD
Publication date
2017
Edition
Unabridged
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785296253
ISBN
9781785296253
CD
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 23.30

Paperback. When the maidservant Auguste gives birth to her illegitimate daughter Magda, she feels burdened with a child she didn't want. The girl grows up to become an ambitious woman, desperate for love and recognition. The Nazi propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels, appears to answer her need and together they have six children. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 133 x 11. Weight in Grams: 152.
Publisher
Salt Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
118
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781907773402
ISBN
9781907773402
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.87

Paperback. A tale of teenage romance in New England. It features the story of Jack and Maggie who are in love with the idea of being in love, looking ahead to marriage with hope and trepidation. It captures the intensity and the ordinariness of adolescent life, with its torments and complications. It also discusses about growing up in America. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 15. Weight in Grams: 160.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141190037
ISBN
9780141190037
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. With total sales of over 1.8 million (source: BookScan) to her name, Lyn Andrews is one of the UK's favourite saga authors Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 50. Weight in Grams: 344.
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780755341818
ISBN
9780755341818
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

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