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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. The new novel from the bestselling author of THINGS MY GIRLFRIEND AND I HAVE ARGUED ABOUT. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 190.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780753826270
- ISBN
- 9780753826270
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.12
€ 13.99
€ 11.12
Paperback. J. G. Ballard - author of 'Crash' - explores the extremes of ecology and feminism in this highly acclaimed modern fable. Newly reissued with an introduction by Rivka Galchen. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 190.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Fourth Estate
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780006548140
- ISBN
- 9780006548140
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.73
€ 13.99
€ 10.73
Paperback. This long-acknowledged classic about Caribbean exiles torn between returning and staying is a powerful study of the impossibility of disentangling British and Caribbean lives, the novel explores the unacknowledged power of history, the nature of misogyny, and the conflict between the calls of art and revolution. Series: Caribbean Modern Classics. Num Pages: 270 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 135. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Peepal Tree Press Ltd.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845231675
- ISBN
- 9781845231675
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.44
€ 27.44
Paperback. Includes beguiling, provocative stories about manipulative men and the women who outwit them, about destructive marriages and curdled friendships, about mothers and sons, about moments which change or haunt a life. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099524298
- ISBN
- 9780099524298
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
€ 13.99
€ 10.45
Paperback. Editor(s): Parkes, Nii Ayikwei. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 143 x 12. Weight in Grams: 186. 248 pages. Editor(s): Parkes, Nii Ayikwei. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Dimension: 206 x 143 x 12. Weight: 186.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Peepal Tree Press Ltd.
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845231545
- ISBN
- 9781845231545
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 28.67
€ 28.67
Paperback. Num Pages: 133 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 11. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Dalkey Archive Press
- Number of pages
- 133
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781564780324
- ISBN
- 9781564780324
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.93
€ 11.93
Paperback. Offers a parody accompanied by the author's illustrations. This book pokes fun at the wealthy expatriates who were author's literary contemporaries and remains controversial today, it seems to have delighted its cast of characters, which was also the first audience. Series: Ladies Almanack. Num Pages: 138 pages, 23 illustrations. BIC Classification: 5SL; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 11. Weight in Grams: 159.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 138
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- New Ed
- SKU
- V9780814711804
- ISBN
- 9780814711804
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.56
€ 27.99
€ 26.56
Paperback. Two families. Seven days. One house. Angela and her brother Richard have spent twenty years avoiding each other. Now, after the death of their mother, they bring their families together for a holiday in a rented house on the Welsh border. Four adults and four children. Seven days of shared meals, log fires, card games and wet walks. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 32. Weight in Grams: 334. Good copy with some shelf wear.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KTG0009263
- ISBN
- 9780099570165
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. * Set in Bethnal Green, this story opens just after the Ripper murders. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 110 x 25. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780751548419
- ISBN
- 9780751548419
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.53
€ 10.99
€ 9.53
Paperback. Chrissie, in the twenty-three years she'd been together with Richie, had always believed that he loved her. He loved their three daughters and their house in Highgate and their happy, lively existence. But if she really was the love of his life, why had he never given her the one thing that would have made her life perfect? Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 30. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780552775434
- ISBN
- 9780552775434
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.10
€ 13.99
€ 11.10
Paperback. A brilliant novel from Ghana portraying a crucial period in the nation's history. Series: Heinemann African Writers Series. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 131 x 19. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Heinemann
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- Publication date
- 2011
- SKU
- V9780435045708
- ISBN
- 9780435045708
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.37
€ 17.37
Paperback. When the body of a young woman is discovered deep beneath the icy waters of Lake Grant, a note left under a rock by the shore points to suicide. But within minutes, it becomes clear that this is no suicide. It's a brutal, cold-blooded murder. Series: The Will Trent Series. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 81 x 35. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099509769
- ISBN
- 9780099509769
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.13
€ 13.99
€ 11.13
Paperback. An ambitious, epic dystopian novel - part political thriller and part satire. Translator(s): McCarthy, Ralph; De Wolf, Charles; Takemori, Ginny. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 42. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Pushkin Press
- Number of pages
- 672
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781908968494
- ISBN
- 9781908968494
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 12.53
€ 13.99
€ 12.53
Paperback. Ranging from the ultra realistic "Some Hours in the Life of a Witch" to the surreal fantasy world of "Fulfilment" and "The Wife of Bath", the stories in this book describe ordinary and not so ordinary lives, and the lives of women in particular, in the feminist and post-feminist era in Ireland. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 217 x 11. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Cork University Press
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781855942011
- ISBN
- 9781855942011
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.60
€ 10.99
€ 10.60
Paperback. Tells of a day, crucial and cathartic, in the life of a young Catholic schoolteacher who has returned to Ireland after a year's sabbatical in London where he married an American divorcee. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 12. Weight in Grams: 146.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571225705
- ISBN
- 9780571225705
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.64
€ 13.99
€ 10.64
paperback. Moving away from crime fiction, Pauline McLynn has crafted a mesmerising novel about human relationships. 'This is Pauline McLynn's fourth novel, and the author is going from strength to strength with every outing. Fizzing with vividly sketched characters, The Woman on the Bus is a skilfully written story' Sunday Tribune Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 27. Weight in Grams: 302. Good Clean copy with minor shelf wear.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Headline Review
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMF0000289
- ISBN
- 9780747267829
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 12.99€ 9.58
€ 12.99
€ 9.58
Paperback. FLIGHTS, which was awarded Poland's biggest literary prize in 2008, is a novel about travel in the twenty-first century and human anatomy. Olga Tokarczuk perfectly interwtines travel narratives and reflections on travel with observations on the body and on life and death Translator(s): Croft, Jennifer. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 125. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Fitzcarraldo Editions
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781910695432
- ISBN
- 9781910695432
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.67
€ 16.99
€ 12.67
Paperback. Three friends. Three lives ripped apart by war. A stand out novel from the Sunday Times Number One bestseller Penny Vincenzi. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 41. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Headline Review
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780755332649
- ISBN
- 9780755332649
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 10.27
€ 12.99
€ 10.27
Paperback. A novel, about a man who, recovering from death, is convinced that he is in hell. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 124 x 22. Weight in Grams: 260. ******THIS IS A PREORDER TO BE DELIVERED ON OR AROUND THE PUBLICATION DAY IN FEBRUARY 2022****
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571225910
- ISBN
- 9780571225910
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.11
€ 11.99
€ 10.11
Paperback. Peter Carey is justly renowned for his novels, which have included the Booker Prize-winning titles Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang. He is also a dazzling writer of short stories. This volume collects together all the stories from The Fat Man in History and War Crimes as well as three other stories. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 126 x 26. Weight in Grams: 258. ******THIS IS A PREORDER TO BE DELIVERED ON OR AROUND THE PUBLICATION DAY IN FEBRUARY 2022****
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571175864
- ISBN
- 9780571175864
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 12.98
€ 17.99
€ 12.98
Paperback. Num Pages: 385 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 169 x 21. Weight in Grams: 277.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Random House USA Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 385
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780553385526
- ISBN
- 9780553385526
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.15
€ 18.99
€ 17.15
Paperback. From the beginning of the world, when God created Audrey Hepburn, the guilt complex and worker ants, to the end, broadcast live on a TV chat show, this book whips through our tortuous past with the deftness of a surgeon's scalpel. Num Pages: 176 pages, 10 line drawings. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 126 x 13. Weight in Grams: 172.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Telegram Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846590498
- ISBN
- 9781846590498
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 14.70
€ 15.99
€ 14.70
Paperback. A young man is fighting for his life. Into his room walks a bewitching woman who believes she can save him. Their journey will have you believing in the impossible. A Richard and Judy Best Read 2009 pick. Num Pages: 502 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 348. 502 pages. A young man is fighting for his life. Into his room walks a bewitching woman who believes she can save him. Their journey will have you believing in the impossible. A Richard and Judy Best Read 2009 pick. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 195 x 129 x 32. Weight: 430.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847671691
- ISBN
- 9781847671691
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.61
€ 15.99
€ 12.61
Paperback. VAS combines a variety of voices, from journalism and libretto to poem and comic book. Often these voices meet in counterpoint, and the meaning of the narrative emerges from their juxtapositions, harmonies, or discords. Num Pages: 370 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 138 x 30. Weight in Grams: 606.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 370
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226807409
- ISBN
- 9780226807409
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.99€ 28.96
€ 36.99
€ 28.96