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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. Unfortunately, Real Life isn't working that way for The Temp. She's managed the university bit, but the job, the dough and the happily-ever-after seem harder than anybody ever told her. Living in Stockwell while she moves through a series of jobs, she realises that something isn't right. Who cares about a boss who trusts you? Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 27. Weight in Grams: 278. Good clean copy with some reader wear.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- KTM0006208
- ISBN
- 9780099409878
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Follows three guys, their lovers, their kids and their mates, all trying to make sense of their lives in a world that makes less sense every day. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135 x 18. Weight in Grams: 270. "Commissioning organisation: John Williams. 212 p. 22 cm. Paperback. Fine clean copy, as new." Keywords: "Subjects - Fiction - By Period - General,Subjects - Fiction - General"
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC London
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- SKU
- KEX0161307
- ISBN
- 9780747570981
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Follows three guys, their lovers, their kids and their mates, all trying to make sense of their lives in a world that makes less sense every day. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135 x 18. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC London
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- SKU
- KRS0003832
- ISBN
- 9780747570981
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
paperback. Because of the boyhood trauma of seeing his mother make love to another man in the presence of his dying father, Mizoguchi becomes a hopeless stutterer. Taunted by his schoolmates, he feels utterly alone untill he becomes an acolyte at a famous temple in Kyoto, where he develops an all-consuming obsession with the temple's beauty. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 184.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099285670
- ISBN
- 9780099285670
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Paperback. Jem is a joyful mystery to Alice. She is something to give thanks for. And when she disappears from Alice's life, as suddenly as she entered it, a whirl of glamour, subversion and literary references, Alice is left bereft. But then she meets Giovanni, presumptuous and hectoring, passionate and beautiful, who leads her back to her childhood friend. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 302. 368 pages. Jem is a joyful mystery to Alice. She is something to give thanks for. And when she disappears from Alice's life, as suddenly as she entered it, a whirl of glamour, subversion and literary references, Alice is left bereft. But then she meets Giovanni, presumptuous and hectoring, passionate and beautiful, who leads her back to her childhood friend. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 197 x 129 x 24. Weight: 242.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780747594710
- ISBN
- 9780747594710
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.93
€ 13.99
€ 10.93
Paperback. A novel that is written by Anthony Powell. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 210.
- Publisher
- Cornerstone United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099472520
- ISBN
- 9780099472520
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140. .
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Publisher
- Restless Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781632061423
- ISBN
- 9781632061423
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.47
€ 18.99
€ 17.47
Paperback. David Armitage - husband, father and failure - has lived the life of an unsuccessful screenwriter for eleven years. When one of his scripts is bought for television, David's life is transformed, more dramatically than he could have ever imagined. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Cornerstone
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099469261
- ISBN
- 9780099469261
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.73
€ 13.99
€ 11.73
Paperback. When Gabby first met Elliott she knew he was the man for her. In twenty years of marriage she has never doubted her love for him - even when he refused to give her the one thing she still wants most of all. But now their two daughters are growing up Gabby feels that time and her youth are slipping away. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 286. Good copy with some shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0009945
- ISBN
- 9780718157586
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. The Mafia and the Ten Commandments meet in these interlinked short stories about the undebelly of Naples. This title uncovers the raw heart of a city, telling the stories of ordinary people forced to make extraordinary compromises in a place permeated by crime. Translator(s): Curtis, Howard. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 146 x 14. Weight in Grams: 182.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846556173
- ISBN
- 9781846556173
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.47
€ 17.99
€ 13.47
Paperback. Offers eleven stories about Native Americans who, like all Americans, find themselves at personal and cultural crossroads, faced with heartrending, tragic, sometimes wondrous moments of being that test their loyalties, their capacities, and their notions of who they are and whom they love. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 141 x 16. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099464563
- ISBN
- 9780099464563
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Paperback. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 141 x 10. Weight in Grams: 124.
- Publisher
- Dover Publications Inc.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780486797038
- ISBN
- 9780486797038
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.77
€ 11.99
€ 9.77
Paperback. In 1976, Niall's family emigrated to Australia, as part of the GBP10 Pom scheme. He lived there for 3 years, moving from Brisbane to Perth in a souped-up station wagon. 30 years later, he returned to retrace his steps. This is his memoir. Num Pages: 204 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 13. Weight in Grams: 198. 204 pages. In 1976, Niall's family emigrated to Australia, as part of the GBP10 Pom scheme. He lived there for 3 years, moving from Brisbane to Perth in a souped-up station wagon. 30 years later, he returned to retrace his steps. This is his memoir. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 13. Weight: 196.
- Publisher
- Parthian Books
- Number of pages
- 204
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905762149
- ISBN
- 9781905762149
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.41
€ 12.41
Paperback. * A new tense psychological thriller from the award-winning author, Russell Celyn Jones. * TEN SECONDS FROM THE SUN is an extraordinary story about what happens when a man is forced to construct a shiny new identity in an effort to escape a dark and terrible past. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 20. Weight in Grams: 206. Used paperback in very good condition. Some shelf wear.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- New
- Publisher
- Abacus
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- SKU
- KRF0038157
- ISBN
- 9780349117799
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Featuring undertakers, dark forests, resurrected butterflies and a singularly mean-spirited horse, this work features various stories. Num Pages: 192 pages, 10 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 200 x 128 x 12. Weight in Grams: 182.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571225491
- ISBN
- 9780571225491
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.77
€ 13.99
€ 10.77
Paperback. Bobby hoped up in a Middlesbrough tower block - works on his canvases under the influence of pills-on-toast, acid-on-crackers and Francis Bacon. When Bent Lewis, a famous art dealer and mover-shaker from London appears, Bobby and friends are sent on an adventure of self-discovery, hedonism and violence involving a 2.5cm-head curved claw hammer. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 232 x 22. Weight in Grams: 370. Clean copy
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber London
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Main
- SKU
- KEX0200930
- ISBN
- 9780571242252
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 11.63
€ 11.63
Paperback.
- Publisher
- Quercus Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781780872179
- ISBN
- 9781780872179
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 4.99
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Paperback. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 197 x 30. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Publisher
- Picador
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780330529907
- ISBN
- 9780330529907
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 9.74
€ 12.99
€ 9.74
paperback. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DN; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 146 x 6. Weight in Grams: 126.
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Publisher
- Dover Publications Inc.
- Number of pages
- 80
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780486298979
- ISBN
- 9780486298979
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 8.99€ 7.82
€ 8.99
€ 7.82
Paperback. From the author of The Great Gatsby comes a beautiful tale of love, wealth and destruction - set to the backdrop of the 1920s French Riviera. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 29. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Number of pages
- 448
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781409149552
- ISBN
- 9781409149552
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
Paperback. American psychoanalyst Dick Diver and his wife Nicole live in a villa on the French Riviera, surrounded by a circle of glamorous friends. When beautiful film star Rosemary Hoyt arrives she is drawn to the couple - Dick contemplates an affair, while Nicole believes she's found a new best friend. Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 114 x 26. Weight in Grams: 192.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 400
- Publication date
- 1999
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140282559
- ISBN
- 9780140282559
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.26
€ 11.99
€ 10.26
Paperback. It is the French Riviera in the 1920s. Nicole and Dick Diver are a wealthy, elegant, magnetic couple. A coterie of admirers are drawn to them, none more so than the blooming young starlet Rosemary Hoyt. When Rosemary falls for Dick, the Diver's calculated perfection begins to crack. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 252.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099541523
- ISBN
- 9780099541523
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.27
€ 11.99
€ 10.27
paperback. Between the First World War and the Wall Street Crash the French Riviera was the stylish place for wealthy Americans to visit. Among the most fashionable are psychoanalyst Dick Diver and his wife Nicole, who hold court at their villa. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 276. Very good clean copy showing minor age and wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics London
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMK0025459
- ISBN
- 9780141183596
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Eva Tyne, an Irish violinist living and working in New York, collapses after her solo debut and is rushed to hospital. Still dazed after the incident, she finds herself embarked on a chaotic and dangerous odyssey. Haunted by the ghost of her father, and racked with jealousy, Eva soon finds herself playing a desperate psychological game. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 17. Weight in Grams: 232
- Edition
- Main
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571229758
- ISBN
- 9780571229758
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 4.82
€ 11.99
€ 4.82