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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. Alice Thompson's new novel is a Gothic story of book collecting, mutilation and madness. Violet is obsessed with the books of fairy tales her husband acquires, but her growing delusions see her confined in an asylum. As she recovers and is realead a terrifying series of events is unleashed. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Publisher
- Salt Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784630430
- ISBN
- 9781784630430
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Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.15
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Paperback. A lauded 'masterpiece' that tells with compassion and humour the story of Janusz Korczak, a hero of the Polish Jewish ghetto Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 20. Weight in Grams: 202.
- Publisher
- Quercus Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784290320
- ISBN
- 9781784290320
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.88
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Paperback. As Cold War hysteria inflames America, FBI agents pay a surprise visit to a Communist man and his wife in their New York apartment. After a trial that divides the country, the couple are sent to the electric chair for treason. Decades later, in 1967, their son Daniel struggles to understand the tragedy of their lives. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141188188
- ISBN
- 9780141188188
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.88
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Paperback. What if a demented London cabbie called Dave Rudman wrote a book to his estranged son to give him some fatherly advice? What if that book was buried in Hampstead and hundreds of years later, when rising sea levels have put London underwater, spawned a religion? This book offers a historical detective story set in the far future. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141014548
- ISBN
- 9780141014548
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.61
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Paperback. Editor(s): Sinha, Arunava; Haq, Kaiser; Islam, Khademul. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128. .
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905583805
- ISBN
- 9781905583805
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.43
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€ 13.43
Paperback. Sitting at his desk, Bernardo Soares imagined himself free forever of Rua dos Douradores, of his boss Vasques, of Moreira the book-keeper, of all the other employees, the errand boy, the post boy, even the cat. But if he left them all tomorrow and discarded the suit of clothes he wears, what else would he do? Because he would have to do something. Translator(s): Jull Costa, Margaret. Series: Serpent's Tail Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages, maps. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 20. Weight in Grams: 198.
- Publisher
- Serpent's Tail
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846687358
- ISBN
- 9781846687358
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.70
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Paperback. Features a complete translation of The Book of Disquiet. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 42. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241200131
- ISBN
- 9780241200131
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.39
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Paperback. Num Pages: 424 pages, map. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 135 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- The New York Review of Books, Inc
- Number of pages
- 424
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781590172339
- ISBN
- 9781590172339
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 14.01
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Paperback. The darkly compelling confession of an improbable murderer, shortlisted for the 1989 Booker Prize. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 184 220pp
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Picador
- Edition
- Main Market
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780330371872
- ISBN
- 9780330371872
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 10.45
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Hardcover. Takes us into the hauntingly confused worlds of two ageing male protagonists - washed-up scientist Freddie Montgomery, desperate to explain why he is being held in an Irish prison for murder and recently widowed art historian Max Morden, who has returned to a sleepy seaside boarding house to relive the events of his first adolescent awakenings. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 211 x 27. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841593678
- ISBN
- 9781841593678
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.40
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Paperback. The novel that became a huge bestseller in Iran, before it was banned by the government. Translator(s): Khalili, Sara. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Publisher
- Abacus
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349138770
- ISBN
- 9780349138770
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
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paperback. Editor(s): Seif, Atef Abu. Series: Reading the City. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 201 x 11. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905583645
- ISBN
- 9781905583645
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 14.46
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Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Comma Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910974018
- ISBN
- 9781910974018
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Condition: New
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Paperback. This is going to be a little uncomfortable.. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 34. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408809648
- ISBN
- 9781408809648
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.23
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Paperback. Eleven years old and on the cusp of puberty, Aron Kleinfeld is precocious, imaginative - the leader of his gang of friends. But his bar mitzvah is looming, his friends are all hitting puberty and Aron, terrified and revolted by what he sees around him, enters a state of arrested development. Translator(s): Rosenberg, Betsy. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 248. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- SKU
- KTG0006000
- ISBN
- 9780099552321
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905583720
- ISBN
- 9781905583720
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 14.46
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Paperback. Kundera whirls through comedy and tragedy towards his central question: how does a person, any person, live today? In constructing his answer, he writes of politics, sex, literature, modern man's alienation - and of their antidotes: laughter and forgetting. Translator(s): Asher, Aaron. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571174379
- ISBN
- 9780571174379
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.78
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Paperback. A brilliant debut from a striking and original American voice Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 16. Weight in Grams: 210.
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Main Market Ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447202431
- ISBN
- 9781447202431
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.41
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Paperback. Sweeping and heartrending - the perfect summer read for fans of Victoria Hislop and Kate Morton. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 44. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007575350
- ISBN
- 9780007575350
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.42
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Paperback. Memory is an albino woman, languisihing in prison in Harare, Zimbabwe. At nine years old she was adopted by a wealthy man - a man whose murder she is now convicted of. Facing the death penalty, she tells the story os the chain of events that brought her there. But is everything exactly as she remembers it? Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 21. Weight in Grams: 226.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571249916
- ISBN
- 9780571249916
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.78
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Paperback. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 179 x 11. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Publisher
- Wakefield Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780984115587
- ISBN
- 9780984115587
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 14.36
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Paperback. Abducted from her West African village at the age of eleven and sold as a slave in the American South, Aminata Diallo thinks only of freedom. After escaping the plantation, torn from her husband and child, she passes through Manhattan in the chaos of the Revolutionary War, is shipped to Nova Scotia, and then joins a group of freed slaves. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 126 x 30. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780552775489
- ISBN
- 9780552775489
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.39
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Paperback. A startling, hard-edged dissection of slavery and a tour de force of both voice and storytelling Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 32. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Publisher
- Oneworld Publications
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780746524
- ISBN
- 9781780746524
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.69
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Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Dedalus Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781909232815
- ISBN
- 9781909232815
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.39
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