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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. A darkly satirical tale of the generation and gender gaps in Japanese society. Translator(s): McCarthy, Ralph. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 142 x 14. Weight in Grams: 188.
Publisher
Pushkin Press
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
First
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908968449
ISBN
9781908968449
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.41

paperback. Ten years on from "Trainspotting", Sick Boy is back in Edinburgh after a long spell in London. Having failed spectacularly as a hustler, pimp, husband, father and businessman, Sick Boy taps into an opportunity which to him represents one last throw of the dice. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 31. Weight in Grams: 346. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0004420
ISBN
9780099422464
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

paperback. Ten years on from "Trainspotting", Sick Boy is back in Edinburgh after a long spell in London. Having failed spectacularly as a hustler, pimp, husband, father and businessman, Sick Boy taps into an opportunity which to him represents one last throw of the dice. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 31. Weight in Grams: 346. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
Format
Paperback
SKU
KKD0006069
ISBN
9780099422464
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

paperback. Ten years on from "Trainspotting", Sick Boy is back in Edinburgh after a long spell in London. Having failed spectacularly as a hustler, pimp, husband, father and businessman, Sick Boy taps into an opportunity which to him represents one last throw of the dice. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 31. Weight in Grams: 346.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
9780099422464
ISBN
9780099422464
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 8.00

Paperback. A novel by the author of "Asylum". Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 212. Fine copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0003372
ISBN
9780747574156
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.70

Paperback. Num Pages: 173 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 135 x 14. Weight in Grams: 158.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Seven Stories Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
173
Condition
New
SKU
V9781583228562
ISBN
9781583228562
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 13.27

Hardcover. Introduced by Benedict Kiely Twelve of Patrick Doyle's best stories which draws equally on his three collections. Includes a recognised masterpiece, Leles Vulgaris, in which the badger's fight assumes epic proportions, and presents other memorable accounts of people living with and in spite of forces at work in an elemental world. Num Pages: 236 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130. .
Publisher
O'Brien Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1983
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780862780104
ISBN
9780862780104
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.10

Paperback. 'Elegant, scrupulously poised, always intelligent and, not least, original' Angela Carter The characters in Anne Enright's fierce and witty first collection of stories stand at an oblique angle to society. Full of desire, but out of kilter, their response to a dislocated reality is mutinous, wild, unforgettable. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 124.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
9780099437390
ISBN
9780099437390
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 9.99

paperback. Porterhouse is a backwoods institution which is supported by fee-paying students who buy their degrees. Sir Godber Evans, the new Master, is determined to make radical changes, provoking the wrath of the Dean, the Senior Tutor and, most intransigent of all, Skullion the Head Porter. Series: Porterhouse Blue Series. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 228.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Arrow
Condition
New
SKU
9780099435464
ISBN
9780099435464
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.27

Paperback. A story that tells about the confession of Alexander Portnoy who is thrust through life by his unappeasable sexuality, yet held back at the same time by the iron grip of his unforgettable childhood. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 206.
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099399018
ISBN
9780099399018
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.95

Paperback. Best selling international author, Isabel Allende tackles her homeland head-on in this staggering, epic romance. Translator(s): Peden, Margaret Sayers. Num Pages: 320 pages, genealogy tab. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 145 x 22. Weight in Grams: 226. Clean copy in good to very good condition.
Condition
Used, Acceptable
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
paperback / softback
SKU
KRF0000798
ISBN
9780007123018
Paperback
Condition: Used, Acceptable

€ 4.99

Paperback. The recently discovered first novel by the world famous author of Life: A User's Manual and A Void Translator(s): Bellos, David. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 14. Weight in Grams: 126.
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782060963
ISBN
9781782060963
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.86

Paperback. Part One of the Brensham Trilogy. 280 pages, black & white illustrations. This is the first book of the famous trilogy of English country life, "The Brensham Trilogy," by John Moore.A wonderful and exuberant chronicle of an English market town between the wars, distinguished with a historic abbey, a winding river and bustling pubs with a cast of characters that could have stepped out of Hogarth or Shakespeare.. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 234 x 155 x 15. Weight: 424.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
280
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781448204250
ISBN
9781448204250
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 14.99

Paperback. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man represents the transitional stage between the realism of Joyce's "Dubliners" and the symbolism of "Ulysses", and is essential to the understanding of the later work Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 180. Clean copy with some shelf wear and yellowing
Condition
Used, Good
Edition
New Ed
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
SKU
KOC0018278
ISBN
9781853260063
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 10.99
€ 4.99

Paperback. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man represents the transitional stage between the realism of Joyce's "Dubliners" and the symbolism of "Ulysses", and is essential to the understanding of the later work Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 178. 237pp
Edition
New Ed
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Condition
New
SKU
9781853260063
ISBN
9781853260063
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 4.99

Paperback. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man represents the transitional stage between the realism of Joyce's "Dubliners" and the symbolism of "Ulysses", and is essential to the understanding of the later work Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 178. Good clean copy with some reader wear.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
New Ed
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
SKU
KTM0007720
ISBN
9781853260063
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 10.99
€ 4.99

Paperback. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man represents the transitional stage between the realism of Joyce's "Dubliners" and the symbolism of "Ulysses", and is essential to the understanding of the later work Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 180.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Wordsworth Editions
Condition
New
SKU
KKE0000942
ISBN
9781853260063
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 4.99

Paperback. Ossyane, a young Lebanese man and his Jewish wife Clara return to live in Haifa after World War II. Just as war breaks out in the new-born state of Israel, Ossayne is forced to go to Beirut. The border with Israel closes behind him and he becomes separated from his wife with tragic consequences. Translator(s): Manguel, Alberto. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 156.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New e.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781860468902
ISBN
9781860468902
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.86

Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 134 x 22. Weight in Grams: 288.
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
annotated edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780345487674
ISBN
9780345487674
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.59

Paperback. A novel about a character from Alice Walker's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, "The Color Purple". This is Tashi's story, a shattering account of a young African woman whose decision to go through the female initiation ceremony has terrible consequences. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 214. Good copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0007752
ISBN
9780099224112
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Hardcover. .
Publisher
Everyman
Number of pages
568
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841593555
ISBN
9781841593555
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 16.34

Paperback. Tells the tale of a pair of young scholars investigating the lives of two Victorian poets. This book features a trail of letters, journals and poems they uncover a web of passion, deceit and tragedy, and their quest becomes a battle against time. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 372.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780099503927
ISBN
9780099503927
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.14

Paperback. Winner of the 1990 Booker Prize, this novel describes the romance between two 19th-century poets and the parallel relationship of their two biographers and includes passages of "Victorian verse". It is structured in the form of a literary and biographical treasure hunt. Num Pages: 528 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 33. Weight in Grams: 370.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Vintage
Edition
1st, First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099800408
ISBN
9780099800408
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.73

Paperback. An intense and ingenious novel about a writer's inspiration, a father's love, and a man's fear of losing his legacy. Translator(s): Watkinson, Laura. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 24. Weight in Grams: 178.
Publisher
MacLehose Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782066187
ISBN
9781782066187
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.10

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