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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. They spend their days - and too many of their nights - at work. Away from friends and family, they share a stretch of stained carpet with a group of strangers they call colleagues. There's Chris Yop, clinging to his ergonomic chair; Lynn Mason, the boss, whose breast cancer everyone pretends not to talk about. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 52. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141027630
- ISBN
- 9780141027630
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. Burrard Inlet is the body of water that divides Vancouver's North Shore from the rest of the Lower Mainland. In this collection of award-winning stories, Tyler Keevil uses that rugged landscape as a backdrop for characters who are struggling against the elements, each other, and themselves. Num Pages: 254 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 203 x 22. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Parthian Books
- Edition
- Second edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910409978
- ISBN
- 9781910409978
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.98
€ 10.99
€ 9.98
Paperback. Illustrator(s): Scott, Asgeir. Num Pages: 138 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 134 x 11. Weight in Grams: 208.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Spokesman Books United Kingdom
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 138
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780851246284
- ISBN
- 9780851246284
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.41
€ 12.41
Paperback. A story set in the mid-19th century, when moves to abolish slavery are at their height, and one man's world of love turns to violence when his daughter dies at the hands of her mother. From the author of EN-GENDERING and NOBEL SPEECH. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099273936
- ISBN
- 9780099273936
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 10.38
€ 12.99
€ 10.38
Paperback. Offers a portrayal of a man who has glimpsed the hollowness of his existence. But beyond depicting one man's disillusionment, this novel exposes the universal human condition and its absurdities - and our innocence that, once lost, can never be recaptured. Editor(s): Buss, Robin. Translator(s): Buss, Robin. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 130 x 7. Weight in Grams: 80.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141187945
- ISBN
- 9780141187945
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 8.97
€ 9.99
€ 8.97
Paperback. A warm and funny novel about folk musicians, by one of Britain's most popular radio broadcasters. Num Pages: 320 pages, n/a. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 19. Weight in Grams: 220.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780340715697
- ISBN
- 9780340715697
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.85
€ 13.00
€ 11.85
Paperback. In a small Pennsylvania town in the late 1940s, schoolteacher George Caldwell yearns to find some meaning in his life. Alone with his teenage son for three days in a blizzard, Caldwell sees his son grow and change as he himself begins to lose touch with his life. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 242.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141189048
- ISBN
- 9780141189048
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.14
€ 18.99
€ 15.14
Paperback. Charles Mason (1728 -1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British Surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today as the Mason-Dixon Line. This title tells their story. Num Pages: 784 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 42. Weight in Grams: 566.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099771913
- ISBN
- 9780099771913
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 12.53
€ 17.99
€ 12.53
Paperback. Jean Paget is just twenty years old and working in Malaya when the Japanese invasion begins. When she is captured she joins a group of other women and children whom the Japanese force to walk for miles through the jungle leading to the deaths of many. Due to her courageous spirit, Jean takes on the role of leader of the sorry gaggle of prisoners. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 112 x 178 x 24. Weight in Grams: 190.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- Publication date
- 2015
- Format
- Paperback
- SKU
- 9781784870027
- ISBN
- 9781784870027
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 7.99€ 5.80
€ 7.99
€ 5.80
Hardback. Waldo, a feted filmmaker, is confined by old age and ill health to his London apartment. Frail and frustrated, he is cared for by his lovely younger wife, Zee. But when he suspects that Zee is beginning an affair with Eddie, Waldo is pressed to action: determined to expose the couple, he sets himself first to prove his suspicions correct and more. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571332014
- ISBN
- 9780571332014
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 4.99
€ 18.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Sharp-eyed Marianne lives in a white tower made of steel and concrete with her father and other Professors. Outside, where land is thickly wooded and wild beasts roam, live Barbarians, who raid and pillage in order to survive. Marianne is strictly forbidden to leave her civilized world but, fascinated by these savage outsiders, decides to escape. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 10. Weight in Grams: 142.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141192383
- ISBN
- 9780141192383
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.27
€ 11.99
€ 10.27
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Random House
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Limited Ed
- Number of pages
- 464
- SKU
- 9780091887193
- ISBN
- 9780099497028
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 7.50
€ 13.99
€ 7.50
Paperback. Viktor, with only his pet penguin for company, composes obituaries for the local newspaper, even though their subjects cling to life. When he sees his work in print for the first time, his pride turns to terror. He and Misha are drawn into a trap from which there appears to be no escape. Translator(s): Bird, George. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 172.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781860469459
- ISBN
- 9781860469459
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 5.47
€ 11.99
€ 5.47
Paperback. Craiglockhart War Hospital, Scotland, 1917, and army psychiatrist William Rivers is treating shell-shocked soldiers. Under his care are the poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, as well as mute Billy Prior, who is only able to communicate by means of pencil and paper. Rivers's job is to make the men in his charge healthy enough to fight. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FJMF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 17. Weight in Grams: 184.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141030937
- ISBN
- 9780141030937
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.33
€ 13.99
€ 10.33
Paperback. A baby girl is abandoned, banished from London to the storm-ravaged American city of New Bohemia. Her father has been driven mad by jealousy, her mother to exile by grief. Seventeen years later, Perdita doesn't know a lot about who she is or where she's come from - but she's about to find out. Series: Hogarth Shakespeare. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 25. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099598190
- ISBN
- 9780099598190
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 4.99
€ 12.99
€ 4.99
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780007341931
- ISBN
- 9780007341931
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 5.70
€ 11.99
€ 5.70
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- O'Brien Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780862785604
- ISBN
- 9780862785604
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 9.27
€ 9.99
€ 9.27
Paperback. Ira Levin's classic novel reissued with a new introduction by Chuck Palahniuk. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 200 x 17. Weight in Grams: 172.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781849015882
- ISBN
- 9781849015882
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.25
€ 11.99
€ 10.25
Paperback. THE FOURTH PATRICK MELROSE NOVEL Series: The Patrick Melrose Novels. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 208.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781447203025
- ISBN
- 9781447203025
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 4.99
€ 12.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. THE THIRD PATRICK MELROSE NOVEL Series: The Patrick Melrose Novels. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 14. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781447202967
- ISBN
- 9781447202967
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 4.99
€ 10.99
€ 4.99
paperback. THE SECOND PATRICK MELROSE NOVEL Series: The Patrick Melrose Novels. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 192.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- Format
- Paperback
- SKU
- 9781447202950
- ISBN
- 9781447202950
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 4.99
€ 11.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. The tenth wonderful story in Alexander McCall Smith's much-loved Isabel Dalhousie series. Series: Isabel Dalhousie Novels. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 197 x 22. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Abacus
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780349141022
- ISBN
- 9780349141022
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 5.70
€ 11.99
€ 5.70
Paperback. * The new novel from Alexander McCall Smith, full of his trademark humour and wisdom. Series: 44 Scotland Street. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 22. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Abacus
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780349118970
- ISBN
- 9780349118970
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 4.99
€ 10.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. * Highly original 'detective' stories with unique setting and characters Series: No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 125 x 16. Weight in Grams: 184.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Abacus
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780349116655
- ISBN
- 9780349116655
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.95
€ 17.95