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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Anya has been backpacking in the Spice Islands, but her last postcard home arrived months ago. Now her anxious father, Francesco, has gone in search of her. Almost within sight of land, the ferry he's travelling on sinks and Francesco and two other Europeans are washed ashore on the island Anya was heading for. Translator(s): Jamieson, Christopher. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 170.
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
SKU
KLN0016503
ISBN
9780747586012
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 5.49

Paperback. Jane has had her baby and is living along with him in a country cottage. Her idyllic time there is soon complicated by the arrival of Toby, the love of her life, and her friend Dorothy. The two women start up a shop in the village, and it is their changing fortunes and feelings for the men on whom so much of their lives are staked. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 194.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099529071
ISBN
9780099529071
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.79

Paperback. When the beautiful teenage Lily arrives in Lima in 1950, fifteen-year-old Ricardo falls instantly in love with her. She claims to be from Chile, but vanishes the moment it becomes clear that she has lied about both her name and her nationality. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 122 x 26. Weight in Grams: 328.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571234110
ISBN
9780571234110
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.52

Paperback. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 228 x 23. Weight in Grams: 556.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
376
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226412610
ISBN
9780226412610
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 20.27

Paperback. A hardback sensation - more than 50,000 copies sold Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 139 x 24. Weight in Grams: 318. Clean copy in good condition. Some shelf wear.
Condition
Used, Good
Edition
paperback / softback
Publisher
Picador, London
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
SKU
KRF0009064
ISBN
9780330419338
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. A hardback sensation - more than 50,000 copies sold Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 139 x 24. Weight in Grams: 318. Clean copy in good condition
Edition
paperback / softback
Publisher
Picador, London
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KIN0005299
ISBN
9780330419338
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. His name is Lord Doyle. His plan: to gamble away his last days in the dark and decadent casino halls of Macau. His game: baccarat punto blanco - 'that slutty dirty queen of casino card games.' Though Doyle is not a Lord at all. He is a fake; a corrupt lawyer who has spent a career siphoning money from rich clients. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 162.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099599685
ISBN
9780099599685
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

Paperback. A man of devilish charm and enterprising spirit, Dougal Douglas is employed to revitalize the ailing firm of Meadows, Meade & Grindley. Strange things begin to happen as Dougal exerts an uncanny influence on the inhabitants of Peckham Rye and brings lies, tears, blackmail and even murder into the lives of all he meets. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 126.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141188355
ISBN
9780141188355
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. Num Pages: 261 pages. BIC Classification: DC; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 202.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Spinifex Press Australia
Edition
1st
Number of pages
261
Condition
New
SKU
V9781875559619
ISBN
9781875559619
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.99

Paperback. A collection of Carson McCullers' stories, including her novella "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe" and "Wunderkind". Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 126.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141183695
ISBN
9780141183695
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. There's little room in this world for a moral man. Num Pages: 284 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 226.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
KSG0014613
ISBN
9780007339549
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Informed by vivid research, The Balloonist is a passionate novel of an almost forgotten service of World War I Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 29. Weight in Grams: 318.
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781471139000
ISBN
9781471139000
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.23

Paperback. In a crumbling Irish mansion, two elderly sisters, Ella and Roberta O'Callaghan, live alone with their secrets, memories and mutual hatred. Long estranged by a dark family tragedy, they communicate only by terse notes. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FR; FT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 29. Weight in Grams: 316.
Publisher
Black and White Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845029524
ISBN
9781845029524
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.15

Paperback. For the millions addicted to Strictly Come Dancing - a romantic, funny and moving novel that will make you want to put on your dancing shoes.. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 30. Weight in Grams: 324.
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780340933954
ISBN
9780340933954
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

paperback. Possessing a style of deceptive simplicity, emotional immediacy and tremendous psychological point, among the novels, short stories and screenplays that complete his career, the author's crowning accomplishment is the Arturo Bandini tetralogy. Num Pages: 768 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 46. Weight in Grams: 562. 768 pages. Possessing a style of deceptive simplicity, emotional immediacy and tremendous psychological point, among the novels, short stories and screenplays that complete his career, the author's crowning accomplishment is the Arturo Bandini tetralogy. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 197 x 129 x 46. Weight: 612.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd.
Number of pages
768
Publication date
2004
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841954974
ISBN
9781841954974
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.73

Paperback. Series: Sonchai Jitpleecheep. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 199 x 22. Weight in Grams: 260.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472151445
ISBN
9781472151445
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. An absorbing and original novel of politics, family ties and betrayal set in Soviet Georgia Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 19. Weight in Grams: 216.
Publisher
Granta Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847087430
ISBN
9781847087430
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.02

Paperback. A 21st century Bonfire of the Vanities, set in LA. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 132 x 27. Weight in Grams: 296.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Number of pages
432
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444726770
ISBN
9781444726770
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. Num Pages: 896 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 177 x 111 x 52. Weight in Grams: 492.
Publisher
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784160418
ISBN
9781784160418
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.41

Paperback. Elizabeth Reegan, after years of freedom - and loneliness - marries into the enclosed Irish village of her upbringing. The children are not her own; her husband is straining to break free from the servile security of the police force; and her own life, threatened by illness, seems to be losing the last vestiges of its purpose. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 127 x 17. Weight in Grams: 274.
Publisher
Faber & Faber London
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571225651
ISBN
9780571225651
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.74

Hardcover. A trilogy of novels - "The Sportswriter", "Independence Day", and "The Lay of the Land" - that charts the life and times of one of the most beloved and enduring characters in modern fiction. Num Pages: 1336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 135 x 66. Weight in Grams: 1194.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Everyman
Condition
New
SKU
9781841593197
ISBN
9781841593197
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 21.87

Paperback. One rainy afternoon in Istanbul, a woman walks into a doctor's surgery. 'I need to have an abortion', she announces. She is nineteen years old and unmarried. What happens that afternoon will change her life. Twenty years later, Asya Kazanci lives with her extended family in Istanbul. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 197 x 25. Weight in Grams: 260.
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241972908
ISBN
9780241972908
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Hardcover.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780714528212
ISBN
9780714528212
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.39

Paperback. Longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize and a modern Chinese classic with over one million copies sold. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 29. Weight in Grams: 334.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
9780007489886
ISBN
9780007489886
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

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