Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. 254 pages. Set in the Bronx at the beginning of the hip-hop era, this novel captures the exploding street culture of the early 1980s through the eyes of four teenagers who hang out together in a local park. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 137 x 209 x 14. Weight: 282.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Augustus Publishing
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780979281600
- ISBN
- 9780979281600
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 15.88
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Paperback. An engrossing examination of political and personal life in Central America, from the award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking. Writing with the economical swiftness and concentrated perception that has made her one of America's most distinguished writers, Joan Didion creates a gleaming novel of innocence and evil. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 131 x 18. Weight in Grams: 202.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Number of pages
- 300
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007415007
- ISBN
- 9780007415007
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.70
€ 11.99
€ 9.70
Paperback. As Peter MacAulay writes his will, he reflects on his life and how world events filter through to his home, Stornoway. He reveals his passions for history, engines and fish, and witnesses changing times - and things that don't change - in the Hebrides. It's about stories, a litany of small histories witnessed during one very individual lifetime. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 200 x 38. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Publisher
- Saraband
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908643971
- ISBN
- 9781908643971
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.69
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€ 10.69
Paperback. A psychological novel that is a coming-to-terms with the ghosts, corpses and repressed nightmares of Europe's recent past. It is made up of three first-person narratives integrated into a work of tragic intensity. Num Pages: 720 pages. BIC Classification: DN; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 142 x 44. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099766315
- ISBN
- 9780099766315
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.64
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€ 14.64
Paperback. The son of the local sergeant in an isolated Garda station on the border between Cavan and Fermanagh, his days are balanced between the brooding, taciturn presence of his father, whom he loves and fears in equal measure, and the reassurance of his quiet, gentle mother. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781784162559
- ISBN
- 9781784162559
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 9.15
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€ 9.15
Paperback. A beautiful, funny and most of all uplifting story of family and love, perfect for fans of The Rosie Project, David Nicholls and Jojo Moyes. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 27. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780751563290
- ISBN
- 9780751563290
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.07
€ 11.99
€ 10.07
Hardcover.
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- SKU
- KLN0013689
- ISBN
- 9780701176860
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Lem Gulliver (25, maths teacher), can't seem to leave home. He can't understand how the people around him manage the plot of a grown-up life - careers, mortgages, marriages, homes, friends. With no girlfriend, no place of his own, no ambition and no prospects, the only real direction in his life seem to be the tracks of the Victoria line. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 160.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099464532
- ISBN
- 9780099464532
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.28
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Paperback. Series: Picador Classic. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. .
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Main Market Ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781509813865
- ISBN
- 9781509813865
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.44
€ 13.99
€ 11.44
Paperback. 'I should like to go to France,' said Ma. And so at the end of a rainy English August the Larkins - all ten of them, bundle into the old Rolls and cross the Channel. France proves less than welcoming to an eccentric English family. When the manager learns that Ma and Pop are unmarried yet sharing a room under his roof, the trouble really begins. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 138.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141029641
- ISBN
- 9780141029641
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.06
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Paperback. Written in agony, this book features elegiac meditation on the creation of life, and of art. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 12. Weight in Grams: 150.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141197371
- ISBN
- 9780141197371
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.81
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Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- New Directions
- Number of pages
- 167
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780811219624
- ISBN
- 9780811219624
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 16.07
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Paperback. It's 1772, the Royal Colony of North Carolina, and the governor calls upon Jamie Fraser to unite the back country and preserve the colony for King and Crown. One minor problem: Jamie Fraser's wife, Claire, is a time-traveller, as are his daughter and son-in-law. Series: Outlander. Num Pages: 1424 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 54. Weight in Grams: 822.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Cornerstone
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781784751326
- ISBN
- 9781784751326
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.30
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€ 10.30
Hardback. A special hardback edition of the 2015 Man Booker Winner Num Pages: 704 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 242 x 48. Weight in Grams: 1016.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Oneworld Publications
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781780749761
- ISBN
- 9781780749761
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 6.49
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€ 6.49
paperback. Set against the backdrop of 1970s reggae culture, disco, sex and excess comes this remarkable re-imagining of the attempted assassination of Bob Marley Num Pages: 688 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 34. Weight in Grams: 482. Paperback in very good condition.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Oneworld Publications
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KRF2233534
- ISBN
- 9781780746357
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 14.99€ 5.12
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€ 5.12
Paperback. Tells about David's path through the Christian Brothers' regime, from Juniorate through to the Leaving Cert year to Teacher Training, and from there to work on the mission. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 144 x 15. Weight in Grams: 160. Some slight wear to the cover but overall in a good condition
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- SKU
- KSC0000924
- ISBN
- 9781845887391
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Translator(s): Mier-Cruz, Benjamin. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Minnesota Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780816677993
- ISBN
- 9780816677993
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.48
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€ 18.48
Paperback. Querry, a world famous architect, is the victim of a terrible attack of indifference: he no longer finds meaning in art or pleasure in life. Arriving anonymously at a Congo leper village, he is diagnosed as the mental equivalent of a 'burnt-out case', a leper who has gone through a stage of mutilation. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 166.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- Centenary Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099478430
- ISBN
- 9780099478430
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.82
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Paperback. Part of the twelve-novel sequence, "A Dance to the Music of Time". Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 208.
- Publisher
- Cornerstone United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099472391
- ISBN
- 9780099472391
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.83
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Hardback. Translator(s): Fagan, Teresa Lavender. Series: SB-The French List. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 20. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Translation
- SKU
- V9780857423757
- ISBN
- 9780857423757
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 17.94
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Paperback. Contains twelve of author's celebrated short stories, together with "The Grass Harp" and "Breakfast at Tiffany's". This title also includes various sketches of places from Tangiers to Brooklyn, and insights into the lives of his contemporaries, from Jane Bowles and Cecil Beaton to Marilyn Monroe and Tennessee Williams. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 736 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 32. Weight in Grams: 506.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141185309
- ISBN
- 9780141185309
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 12.37
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Paperback. A sly, unsettling exploration of the questionable appetites that lurk beneath the veneer of North American civilization, PEN/Faulkner Award-winner Sabina Murray's latest book is a tour de force of intelligent suspense that seduces readers with dark delight on the taboo subject of cannibalism. Num Pages: 294 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 142 x 20. Weight in Grams: 322. Fine copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
- Edition
- First Trade Paper
- Number of pages
- 294
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- KST0009805
- ISBN
- 9780802142009
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 5.49
€ 5.49
Paperback. Why did a Hercules C130, the world's sturdiest plane, carrying Pakistan's military dictator General Zia ul Haq, go down on 17 August, 1988? Was it because of: mechanical failure, human error, the CIA's impatience, a blind woman's curse or Generals not happy with their pension plans. This novel takes one of the subcontinent's enduring mysteries. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099516743
- ISBN
- 9780099516743
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.85
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Paperback. The prize-winning debut novel from the author of What to Look for in Winter Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408822968
- ISBN
- 9781408822968
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.19
€ 10.99
€ 9.19