Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. "Carries the flavor of the old world, its underlying ferocity leavened by a lyrical mysticism.. Her prose is transcendent."-Washington Post Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393350234
- ISBN
- 9780393350234
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 16.04
€ 16.99
€ 16.04
Paperback. A sophisticated and suspenseful novel about the poignant lives of two women living in different eras. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 140 x 210 x 20. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393346770
- ISBN
- 9780393346770
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.74
€ 16.99
€ 15.74
Paperback. Contemporary short stories enacting giddy, witty revenge on the documents that define and dominate our lives. Editor(s): Shields, David; Vollmer, Matthew. Num Pages: 368 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 153 x 26. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- Original
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393341959
- ISBN
- 9780393341959
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.21
€ 19.99
€ 18.21
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 203 x 124 x 21. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- M P Publishing Limited United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849822060
- ISBN
- 9781849822060
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 8.59
€ 9.99
€ 8.59
Paperback. Num Pages: 152 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 149 x 11. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Spokesman Books United Kingdom
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 152
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780851246291
- ISBN
- 9780851246291
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.20
€ 12.20
Paperback. Translator(s): Garnett, Constance. Series: New Directions Pearls. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 116 x 177 x 7. Weight in Grams: 74.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
- Number of pages
- 73
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780811219471
- ISBN
- 9780811219471
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 11.88
€ 11.99
€ 11.88
Paperback. Young rural widow Nasula suffers years of economic hardship, dreaming of a better life for her daughter. She goes to Lusaka to sell her last sack of highly sought-after Mbala beans, but in the city finds herself exposed to new and predatory dangers. Series: Heinemann African Writers Series. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 191 x 120 x 9. Weight in Grams: 144.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Pearson Education Limited United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780435912024
- ISBN
- 9780435912024
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.13
€ 17.13
Paperback. The two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning biologist delivers "an astonishing literary achievement" (Anthony Gottlieb, The Economist). Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 138 x 24. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393339703
- ISBN
- 9780393339703
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 16.34
€ 16.99
€ 16.34
Paperback. Paula Spencer begins on the eve of Paula's forty-eighth birthday. She hasn't had a drink for four months and five days. Her youngest children, Jack and Leanne, are still living with her. They're grand kids, but she worries about Leanne. Paula still works as a cleaner. This work shows the inner life of this battered house-cleaner. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 206.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099501374
- ISBN
- 9780099501374
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.01
€ 14.99
€ 12.01
Paperback. Jane hasn't lived anywhere longer than six months since her son was born five years ago. She keeps moving in an attempt to escape her past. Now the idyllic seaside town of Pirriwee has pulled her to its shores and Jane finally feels like she belongs. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 31. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781405916363
- ISBN
- 9781405916363
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
€ 13.99
€ 10.45
Paperback. Tells the story of the legendary road trip that Jack Kerouac took before the publication of "On the Road", told through the persona of Jack Duluoz and accompanied by his thinly-disguised Beat cohorts Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and William Burroughs. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 23. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141198262
- ISBN
- 9780141198262
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 5.80
€ 11.99
€ 5.80
Paperback. Living in the Blackwood family home with only her sister Constance and her Uncle Julian for company, Merricat just wants to preserve their delicate way of life. But ever since Constance was acquitted of murdering the rest of the family, the world isn't leaving the Blackwoods alone. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 11. Weight in Grams: 136.
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Format
- Paperback
- SKU
- 9780141191454
- ISBN
- 9780141191454
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.85
€ 11.99
€ 9.85
Paperback. Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in an Oregon State mental hospital with a strict and unbending routine, unopposed by her patients, who remain cowed by mind-numbing medication and the threat of electroshock therapy. But her regime is disrupted by the arrival of McMurphy - who resolves to oppose her rules on behalf of his fellow inmates. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 19. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141187884
- ISBN
- 9780141187884
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
€ 13.99
€ 10.45
Paperback. One day, sitting in traffic, married Dublin mum Stella Sweeney attempts a good deed. The resulting car crash changes her life. For she meets a man who wants her telephone number. But in this meeting is born the seed of something which will take Stella thousands of miles from her old life, turning an ordinary woman into a superstar. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 47. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141043104
- ISBN
- 9780141043104
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.45
€ 10.99
€ 10.45
Paperback. In seventeenth-century France, against a backdrop of witch trials, regicide and religious frenzy, Juliette, one-time actress and rope-dancer, seeks refuge with her young daughter in the remote abbey of Saint Marie-de-la-Mer, and reinvents herself as Soeur Auguste. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 25. Weight in Grams: 290. Good copy with some shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Transworld Pub
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Edition
- paperback / softback
- SKU
- KRA0012064
- ISBN
- 9780552770019
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover. Two men meet for a pint in a Dublin pub. They chew the fat, set the world to rights, take the piss. They talk about their wives, their kids, their kids' pets, their football teams and - this being Ireland in 2011-12 - about the euro, the crash, the presidential election, the Queen's visit. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 131 x 12. Weight in Grams: 176.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780224097819
- ISBN
- 9780224097819
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.07
€ 13.99
€ 11.07
Paperback. THE IT GIRL is the first in a sassy, sophisticated, completely addictive new series starring Jenny Humphrey from the hit series GOSSIP GIRL Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 240. Clean copy with some reader wear.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Headline Publishing Group
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KTM0001040
- ISBN
- 9780755339976
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. When a teenage girl goes missing her mother discovers she doesn't know her daughter as well as she thought. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 30. Weight in Grams: 388. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KTG0007074
- ISBN
- 9781405915298
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. 'There isn't anyone remotely like him in contemporary American literature' New York Times Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 19. Weight in Grams: 198.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Picador
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780330511254
- ISBN
- 9780330511254
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 10.45
€ 14.99
€ 10.45
Paperback. Winner of the National Book Award and a New York Times bestseller Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 137 x 21. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781408801185
- ISBN
- 9781408801185
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.90
€ 10.99
€ 10.90
Paperback. The day Benny Catchprice was fired from the spare-parts department of Catchprice Motors by his aunt Cathy, was also the day that tax inspector Maria Takis arrived to begin her overdue audit of the family business. From the author of "Oscar and Lucinda" which won the 1988 Booker Prize. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 19. Weight in Grams: 261. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0000182
- ISBN
- 9780571166329
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 10.99€ 9.70
€ 10.99
€ 9.70
Paperback. Jacques Rebiere and Thomas Midwinter, both sixteen when this story starts in 1876, come from different countries and contrasting families. They are united by an ambition to understand how the mind works and whether madness is the price we pay for being human. This work explores the question of what kind of beings men and women really are. Num Pages: 800 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 46. Weight in Grams: 580. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- KKD0000118
- ISBN
- 9780099458265
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
Paperback. A sequel to "Virgin in the Garden" and "Still Life". A cast of characters play out their personal dramas amid the clashing politics, passionate ideals and stirring languages of the early-1960s. Their crises mirror some of the major world events of the age in which they live. Num Pages: 624 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 33. Weight in Grams: 462. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0000111
- ISBN
- 9780099839408
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. * A major paperback from one of our great writers:following the first of her speculative fiction, ORYX AND CRAKE Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 169 x 33. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Virago Press Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780349004075
- ISBN
- 9780349004075
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.29
€ 14.99
€ 11.29