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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. Clean copy, some shelfwear. Good to very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Bantam
- Edition
- 1st Bantam
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KST0028951
- ISBN
- 9780553505016
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Tells the story of Enoch O'Reilly, the great flood that afflicts his small town, and rash of mysterious suicides that accompany it. Charlatan, Presleyite and local radiovangelist, O'Reilly is a man haunted by the childhood ghosts of his father's sinister radio set ..a false prophet destined for a terrible consummation with that old, evil river. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 161 x 29. Weight in Grams: 306. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMK0000666
- ISBN
- 9780571286751
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Focuses on Tom Johnson, a reasoned 'Chelsea hooligan' who represents a disaffected society operating by brutal rules. In this book, we are shown the realities of life - social degradation, unemployment, excessive drink and bad sex - and, more importantly, how they fall into a political context of surveillance, media manipulation and division. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 200.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099731917
- ISBN
- 9780099731917
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.06
€ 13.99
€ 11.06
Hardcover. David has just proposed marriage to his American girlfriend, but while she is away on a trip he becomes involved in a doomed affair with a bartender named Giovanni. This title is set in the Paris of the 1950s, where a young American expatriate finds himself caught between his repressed desires and conventional morality. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 134 x 18. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781841593722
- ISBN
- 9781841593722
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 15.62
€ 20.99
€ 15.62
Hardcover. Everyone is always out there searching for someone and something, usually for a lover, usually for love. But the murderee - Nicola Six - is searching for something and someone else: her murderer. She knows the time, she knows the place, she knows the motive, she knows the means. She just doesn't know the man. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 143 x 34. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781841593623
- ISBN
- 9781841593623
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 11.69
€ 16.99
€ 11.69
Paperback. Tells the story of an orphan who beguiles the world with her astonishing visions, triumphing over the worst of adversity and bringing light to a dark place. Translator(s): Sayers Peden, Margaret. Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 138 x 161 x 19. Weight in Grams: 168.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780241951651
- ISBN
- 9780241951651
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 9.70
€ 13.99
€ 9.70
Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FHD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 196 x 35. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780241291733
- ISBN
- 9780241291733
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.45
€ 11.99
€ 10.45
Hardcover. Includes tales such as 'Sound of Thunder', 'The Veldt', and 'The Fog Horn'. This title also contains the Irish stories, the Martian stories and the Mexican stories. Num Pages: 1176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 138 x 51. Weight in Grams: 960.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781841593265
- ISBN
- 9781841593265
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 18.50
€ 24.99
€ 18.50
Paperback. This tender novel tells the tale of Alfgrim, an abandoned child, whose mother gave birth to him in the turf-and-stone cottage of Bjorn of Brekkukot, the fisherman, on the outskirts of what is now Reykjavik. Translator(s): Magnusson, Magnus. Num Pages: 256 pages, maps. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 184.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781860469343
- ISBN
- 9781860469343
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.82
€ 13.99
€ 10.82
Paperback. In early 18th-century Lisbon, Baltasar, a soldier who has lost his left hand in battle, falls in love with Blimunda, a young girl with visionary powers. From the day that he follows her home from the auto-da-fe where her mother is burned at the stake, the two are bound body and soul by love of an unassailable strength. Translator(s): Pontiero, Giovanni. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 22. Weight in Grams: 252.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781860469015
- ISBN
- 9781860469015
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
€ 13.99
€ 10.45
Paperback. Ricardo Reis was a pseudonym created by Fernando Pessoa, the great Portugese poet. Six weeks, after Pessoa's death, Ricardo Reis returns to Lisbon to take up residence in a hotel,wander the streets, read the newspapers and muse on love, destiny, politics, life and death with his old friend. Translator(s): Pontiero, Giovanni. Num Pages: 384 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 31. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781860465024
- ISBN
- 9781860465024
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.74
€ 14.99
€ 11.74
Hardcover. Offering a portrait of Japanese life in the first half of the twentieth century, this book reveals the saga Makioka family struggling to marry off one of their daughters. Translator(s): Seidensticker, Edward G. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 213 x 137 x 27. Weight in Grams: 608.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781857151558
- ISBN
- 9781857151558
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 15.10
€ 21.99
€ 15.10
Hardcover. The first products of Joyce's maturity, these stories look sideways to the tender realism of Chekhov and forward to Joyce's later work "Portrait of the Artist". In the most celebrated tale, "The Dead", the author constructs the first of his poetic monologues. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 136 x 28. Weight in Grams: 510. 287pp
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781857150490
- ISBN
- 9781857150490
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 13.91
€ 19.99
€ 13.91
Paperback. Taking you on a trip to the shopping malls and theme parks and enviromental hazards that lie just around the chronological corner, this book introduces you to a gang of misfits and losers struggling to survive in an increasingly haywire world. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 19. Weight in Grams: 150.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781784871291
- ISBN
- 9781784871291
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.75
€ 11.99
€ 9.75
Paperback. It is 1919 and the end of the war has not brought peace for Emeline Vane. Lost in grief, she is suddenly alone at the heart of a depleted family. She can no longer cope. And just as everything seems to be slipping beyond her control, in a moment of desperation, she boards a train and runs away. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FR; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 21. Weight in Grams: 241.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781784160739
- ISBN
- 9781784160739
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.38
€ 11.99
€ 10.38
Paperback. Ben Chambers wakes up to find an unfamiliar object - rusty and lost - sitting underneath the willow tree in his garden. Refusing to throw it on the skip as his wife Amy advises, he takes it home. Ben does not want children, or even a job, and now he has found yet another reason to stay in his study and ignore everyone around him. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 199 x 25. Weight in Grams: 226.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781784160524
- ISBN
- 9781784160524
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.38
€ 13.99
€ 10.38
Paperback. Ten-year-old Elena lives in Florence with her cold and distant perfumier grandmother. Only when enveloped in aromas does Elena feel at home, and she has nurtured a unique gift: the ability to decipher the ingredients of a perfume, and experience the feelings it evokes. Years later, Elena's talent leads her to the cobbled streets of Paris. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 200 x 29. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781784160500
- ISBN
- 9781784160500
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.70
€ 10.99
€ 9.70
Paperback. Katie Brenner has the perfect life: a flat in London, a glamorous job, and a super-cool Instagram feed. OK, so the truth is that she rents a tiny room with no space for a wardrobe, has a hideous commute to a lowly admin job, and the life she shares on Instagram isn't really hers. But one day her dreams are bound to come true, aren't they? Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781784160425
- ISBN
- 9781784160425
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.70
€ 10.99
€ 9.70
Paperback. They say trouble always comes in threes. And for sisters Lyn, Cat and Gemma Kettle, the year they turn thirty-three is no exception. Through everything, the bonds of the sisters are strong enough to withstand whatever life throws at them. That is until the night of their thirty-fourth birthday dinner.. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 24. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- Format
- Paperback
- SKU
- 9781405918497
- ISBN
- 9781405918497
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
€ 13.99
€ 10.45
Paperback. Annie has a secret. But if she's not going to tell, we won't either. It's a heart-breaking secret she wishes she didn't have - yet Annie isn't broken, not quite yet. Especially now there's someone out there who seems determined to fix her. Kate has run away. But she's not going to tell us why - that would defeat the point of running, wouldn't it? Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 29. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781405911603
- ISBN
- 9781405911603
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.38
€ 13.99
€ 10.38