Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. A select group of scientists and astronomers - including the dignified Astronomer Royal, the pipe smoking Dr Marlowe and the maverick, eccentric Professor Kingsly - engage in a mad race to understand and communicate with the cloud, battling against trigger happy politicians. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 172.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141196404
- ISBN
- 9780141196404
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.87
€ 13.99
€ 10.87
Paperback. In the aftermath of Bangladesh's bloody war of independence in 1971, as thousands of migrants from the countryside flood the capital, journalist Khaleque Biswas begins to feel the stirrings of disillusionment. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 202 x 30. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Publisher
- Periscope
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781859640067
- ISBN
- 9781859640067
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.61
€ 13.99
€ 11.61
Paperback. Maddie and Harry: she's an estate agent, he's a teacher. They'll say they live in the Black Country. They'll say how they met Jonathan Cotard, explain how they later argued, had a car accident, thought they'd killed someone. The Black Country. For Maddie and Harry, it's darker than it should be. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 197 x 19. Weight in Grams: 174.
- Publisher
- Salt Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784630348
- ISBN
- 9781784630348
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.09
€ 11.99
€ 10.09
Paperback.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241958933
- ISBN
- 9780241958933
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.73
€ 14.99
€ 11.73
Paperback. Tolea, an eccentric middle-aged intellectual who has been dismissed from his job as a high school teacher on "moral grounds", is investigating his father's death forty years after the fact, and is drawn into a web of suspicion and black humour. Translator(s): Camiller, Patrick. Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 195 x 22. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Edition
- Rep Tra
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300182941
- ISBN
- 9780300182941
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.90
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€ 15.90
Paperback. In this gripping and deeply evocative crime novel, Benjamin Black returns us to the dark, mesmerising world of Raymond Chandler's The Long Goodbye and his singular detective Philip Marlowe; one of the most iconic detectives in crime fiction. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF; FFH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 161 x 23. Weight in Grams: 402. Very minor wear, but remains excellent
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Air Iri OME
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- 9781447238041
- ISBN
- 9781447238041
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 15.99€ 6.75
€ 15.99
€ 6.75
Paperback. A masterpiece of the literature of colonialism - the story of a strong but doomed and unequal bond between a Dutch boy and his Indonesian best friend Translator(s): Rilke, Ina. Num Pages: 140 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 11. Weight in Grams: 134.
- Publisher
- Granta Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 140
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846273230
- ISBN
- 9781846273230
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.66
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Paperback. Num Pages: 322 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 132 x 29. Weight in Grams: 356. 322 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 201 x 132 x 29. Weight: 356.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Arcadia Books
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 322
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906413934
- ISBN
- 9781906413934
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.18
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€ 10.18
Paperback. A nocturnal wander through the hazes of memory and the mysteries of the past from Patrick Modiano, Nobel Laureate 2014 Translator(s): Polizzotti, Mark. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 199 x 15. Weight in Grams: 118.
- Publisher
- Quercus Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857054883
- ISBN
- 9780857054883
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.11
€ 11.99
€ 10.11
Hardcover. Editor(s): Lynch, Kelly M. Num Pages: 263 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 248 x 159 x 0. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 263
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780838754313
- ISBN
- 9780838754313
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 102.64
€ 102.64
Paperback. When his byre - and the forty-three cows within it - goes up in flames, Barnabas Kane asks the rural community for help to get his family back on their feet, yet all his requests yield are suspicion and sanctimony. Humiliated, Barnabas grows ever more indignant. Before long this anger makes its mark on an innocent, and toil turns to tragedy. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 19. Weight in Grams: 192.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- riverrun
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781782062073
- ISBN
- 9781782062073
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.81
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Paperback. Translator(s): Bernofsky, Susan. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 127 x 9. Weight in Grams: 142.
- Publisher
- The New York Review of Books, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 114
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781590176689
- ISBN
- 9781590176689
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 14.48
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Paperback. A gripping and surreal story of madness and redemption, about one man's struggle to reclaim his life and family after the death of his son and the news of a pregnancy. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Legend Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785079689
- ISBN
- 9781785079689
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Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.87
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Paperback. Julie Guilles is in trouble. She's fled her home in Occupied France for a seedy neighbourhood in New York and has been laying low - but not low enough. Because now she has the Gestapo, the FBI and her shady Uncle, the Duc de Guille, all on her tail, and her options are running out. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 200.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784870492
- ISBN
- 9781784870492
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.87
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Paperback. Jim Francis has finally found the perfect life - and is now unrecognisable, even to himself. A successful painter and sculptor, he lives quietly with his wife, Melanie, and their two young daughters, in an affluent beach town in California. But Francis has a very dark past, with another identity and a very different set of values. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 202.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781784700553
- ISBN
- 9781784700553
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.45
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Paperback. The devilishly playful, intellectually inspiring, emotionally involving new novel from Siri Hustvedt, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 29. Weight in Grams: 262.
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444779660
- ISBN
- 9781444779660
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.97
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Paperback. It isn't just Nanny who finds it difficult in France when Grace and her young son Sigi are finally able to join her dashing aristocratic husband Charles-Edouard after the war. For Grace is out of her depth among the fashionably dressed and immaculately coiffured French women, and shocked by their relentless gossiping and bedhopping. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 182.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241974728
- ISBN
- 9780241974728
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.87
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Paperback. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140. .
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781632861894
- ISBN
- 9781632861894
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.48
€ 14.99
€ 11.48
Paperback. Jeo and Mikal, foster-brothers from a small Pakistani city, secretly enter Afghanistan: not to fight with the Taliban, but to help and care for wounded civilians. But it soon becomes apparent that good intentions can't keep them out of harm's way.. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 29. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571287949
- ISBN
- 9780571287949
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.15
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€ 9.15
paperback. Although Bridget told herself she had loved Lawrence for years, could she trust him? She decided that there were apt grounds for doubt of his loyalty, so she called off their marriage. Lawrence could not forgive Bridget for the humiliation of rejection, so he made his own plans to punish her. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 182 x 108 x 18. Weight in Grams: 150. Fine copy showing minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Corgi
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSS0014514
- ISBN
- 9780552146098
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. The dazzling debut of Siri Hustvedt, author of the international bestseller WHAT I LOVED. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 184.
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780340581230
- ISBN
- 9780340581230
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.91
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€ 10.91
Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 208.
- Publisher
- Jacaranda Books Art Music Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781909762046
- ISBN
- 9781909762046
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 11.58
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Paperback. Num Pages: 214 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 133 x 12. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- NeWest Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 214
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781896300283
- ISBN
- 9781896300283
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 14.04
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Paperback. Get ready for an epic debut novel of insurrection and ambition, love and revenge, set in fledgling independent America. This astonishing debut is reminiscent of the finest of early Cormac McCarthy. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 138 x 199 x 29. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Publisher
- Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611855661
- ISBN
- 9781611855661
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.83
€ 11.99
€ 9.83