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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. .
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Main Market Ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781447266648
ISBN
9781447266648
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.41

Paperback. David Bell embodies the American dream. He's twenty-eight, has survived office coups, scandals, and beaten lesser rivals, to become an extremely successful TV exec. The images that flicker across America's screens, the fantasies that enthrall viewers, they are of his making. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 197 x 25. Weight in Grams: 274.
Publisher
Penguin
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Re-issue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241953389
ISBN
9780241953389
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.88

Paperback. From the outbreak of the Second World War to the evacuation of Dunkirk, GOODBYE SWEETHEART follows the fortunes of the people who live in a working-class street in Portsmouth. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 113 x 25. Weight in Grams: 280. Well-read paperback in good condition.Some shelf wear; may have some light soiling.
Condition
Used, Good
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Orion
Publication date
1999
Edition
New Ed
SKU
KRF0031016
ISBN
9781857978124
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. A dark and deeply moving psychological tale about a man with the mind of a murderer and the heart of a saint Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FH; FJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 111 x 1. Weight in Grams: 209. Well-read paperback in good condition.Some shelf wear; may have some light soiling.
Condition
Used, Good
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Number of pages
416
Publication date
2003
SKU
KRF0030990
ISBN
9780743429061
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Granta Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847089465
ISBN
9781847089465
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.02

Hardcover. First published in 1925, this traces a day in the life of society hostess, Clarissa Dalloway. It is Woolf's first complete rendering of her "stream of consciousness" mode, which displays the inner workings of the mind as it considers the surface and darker depths of reality. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 209 x 136 x 27. Weight in Grams: 398.
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857151572
ISBN
9781857151572
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.00

Paperback. Talks about the fictional adventures of an early 20th-century painting and the women whose lives it touches. This novel opens with bold, passionate Gwen, struggling to be an artist, leaving for Paris where she becomes Rodin's lover and paints a small, intimate picture of a quiet corner of her attic room. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 258.
Publisher
Vintage
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
Reprint Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099496861
ISBN
9780099496861
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

paperback. Twenty-nine-year-old Lewis, caught between working at a recruitment agency, helping his father out in the barbers and keeping his mother in touch with world news. But when he receives an email from Christy, an old school friend, he is intrigued by her society for Hope for Newborns. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 216 x 24. Weight in Grams: 328.
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Main
SKU
KNW0009929
ISBN
9780571238217
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Patrick Flanery is an exceptionally gifted novelist, and he is just getting started' Philip Gourevitch, New Yorker Following the critical acclaim for this muscular debut novel, Flanery has confirmed himself, quite simply, as a literary star. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 29. Weight in Grams: 300.
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857892027
ISBN
9780857892027
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.01

Paperback. The best of Bukowski's novels, stories, and poems, this collection reads like an autobiography, relating the extraordinary story of his life and offering a sometimes harrowing, invariably exhilarating reading experience--a must for this counterculture idol's legions of fans. Num Pages: 512 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 137 x 30. Weight in Grams: 386.
Publisher
HarperPerennial
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Condition
New
SKU
V9780060924584
ISBN
9780060924584
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.63

Paperback. Part satire, part visionary epic, part intellectual tour de force Series: Picador Classic. Num Pages: 1152 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. .
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Main Market Ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781447289432
ISBN
9781447289432
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 18.02

Paperback. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 500.
Publisher
The New York Review of Books, Inc United States
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781590172483
ISBN
9781590172483
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 16.38

Paperback. When Natalie Moore is killed in a freak accident in France, her mother, Jessica knows instinctively there is more to it. However, Natalie's father, Charlie is so paralysed by the horror of losing his daughter, that he refuses even to discuss his wife's suspicions. This book presents a story of love, resistance, loyalty and betrayal. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 34. Weight in Grams: 406. Clean copy in good condition
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
New Ed
Publisher
Arrow
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
SKU
KST0025907
ISBN
9780099492337
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. When Natalie Moore is killed in a freak accident in France, her mother, Jessica knows instinctively there is more to it. However, Natalie's father, Charlie is so paralysed by the horror of losing his daughter, that he refuses even to discuss his wife's suspicions. This book presents a story of love, resistance, loyalty and betrayal. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 34. Weight in Grams: 406. Previously read copy. Some shelfwear and/or soiling. Good overall
Condition
Used, Good
Edition
New Ed
Publisher
Arrow
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
SKU
KST0029678
ISBN
9780099492337
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Afghanistan, 2009. A Rifle section is halfway through their six-month tour of duty in Helmand Province. Forty-seven others have been wounded and flown back home. Young men with tans, scruffy beards, peeling noses and lips burnt raw by the Afghan sun. This book tells the story of four young men in this Rifle section. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 132 x 8. Weight in Grams: 86.
Publisher
RANDOM HOUSE EXPORT
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780552165518
ISBN
9780552165518
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.50

Paperback.
Publisher
John Hunt Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
309
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780997261
ISBN
9781780997261
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.48

Paperback. Here we encounter a blind piano tuner whose wonderful memories of his first wife are cruelly distorted by his second; a woman in a difficult marriage who must choose between her indignant husband and her closest friend; and two children, survivors of divorce, who mimic their parents' melodramas. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 158.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140258349
ISBN
9780140258349
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Paperback. Follows the lives of the Pargiters, a large middle-class London family, from an uncertain spring in 1880 to a party on a summer evening in the 1930s. We see them each endure and remember heart-break, loss, radical change and stifling conformity, marriage and regret. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 296.
Publisher
Vintage
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099982807
ISBN
9780099982807
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 5SG; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 11. Weight in Grams: 118.
Publisher
Faber and Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
New ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571206117
ISBN
9780571206117
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 8.50

Paperback. The narrator of this novel has temporarily abandoned his work-in-progress - an essay on Kafka - and exchanged his writer's pen for the orange vest of a Prague road-sweeper. As he works, he meditates on Czechoslovakia, Kafka, life, art and his passionate and adulterous affair with Daria. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 14. Weight in Grams: 200.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099429586
ISBN
9780099429586
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. Dolphin culture evolved over millions of years so they could remain perfectly attuned with their world, the ocean. But the growing pressure of man's activities become intolerable and in frustration they seek an aggressive new path, making a shocking departure from the ancient philosophy that has guided them so well through the millennia. Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 412. Rise of the Guardians. 260 pages. Dolphin culture evolved over millions of years so they could remain perfectly attuned with their world, the ocean. But the growing pressure of man's activities become intolerable and in frustration they seek an aggressive new path, making a shocking departure from the ancient philosophy that has guided them so well through the millennia. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 233 x 155 x 20. Weight: 418.
Publisher
Aquapress
Number of pages
260
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905492237
ISBN
9781905492237
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.99
€ 8.27

Paperback. Compulsive daydreamer Isadora Wing has come to a crossroads. Five years of marriage have made her itchy - itchy for men, and itchy for solitude. Ditching her second husband during a work conference in Vienna she decides to cut and run, criss-crossing her way across Europe in search of the perfect no-strings-attached tryst. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 250. A well-read copy in good condition.
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Edition
New Ed
SKU
KRF0003690
ISBN
9780749396053
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. .
Publisher
Racom Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781933199535
ISBN
9781933199535
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 7.11

Paperback. Sheer, enchanted storytelling from one of the best-loved writers of our time Series: The Eliot chronicles. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FR; FT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781473655973
ISBN
9781473655973
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.06

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