Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
paperback. Lise has been driven to distraction by working in the same accountants' office for sixteen years. So she leaves everything behind her, transforms herself into a laughing, garishly-dressed temptress and flies abroad on the holiday of a lifetime. But her search for adventure, sex and the obsessional experience takes on a far darker significance. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 9. Weight in Grams: 102.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141188348
- ISBN
- 9780141188348
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.31
€ 11.99
€ 10.31
Paperback. Over seventy years have passed since sisters Rose and Connie Doughty found an abandoned baby near their home on the island Scribbly Gum. With no one to take care of it, Rose and Connie took the baby in as their own. Since then the 'Munro Baby Mystery' has brought fame and fortune, putting Scribbly Gum on the tourist map. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 26. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405918510
- ISBN
- 9781405918510
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
€ 13.99
€ 11.09
Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 15 x 151 x 232. Weight in Grams: 565. 8vo. Good clean copy of the large format paperback edition.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Hachette Books Ireland
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- SKU
- KEX0259631
- ISBN
- 9780755326211
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 107 x 21. Weight in Grams: 172.
- Publisher
- Corgi
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1978
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780552075831
- ISBN
- 9780552075831
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.76
€ 13.99
€ 11.76
Paperback. Featuring undertakers, dark forests, resurrected butterflies and a singularly mean-spirited horse, this work features various stories. Num Pages: 192 pages, 10 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 200 x 128 x 12. Weight in Grams: 182.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571225491
- ISBN
- 9780571225491
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.83
€ 13.99
€ 10.83
Hardcover. Set mainly in London or New York, this title includes many stories that concerns ordinary people - shopassistants, schoolmasters, secretaries, servants, unsuccessful writers - living the life of rented rooms and cheap cafes. Series: Everyman's Library P G Wodehouse. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 189 x 138 x 34. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Publisher
- Everyman United Kingdom
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841591704
- ISBN
- 9781841591704
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.33
€ 17.99
€ 14.33
Paperback. "Originally published in French as L'Origine de l'homme by Editions P.O.L, Paris, 2002"--T.p. verso. Translator(s): Wing, Betsy. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 306. 265 pages. The Origin of Man is the story of one man--and all humanity--waging a war against oblivion without ever quite winning the day. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 203 x 140 x 14. Weight: 306. Translator(s): Wing, Betsy.
- Publisher
- Dalkey Archive Press
- Number of pages
- 265
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781564787378
- ISBN
- 9781564787378
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 16.54
€ 16.99
€ 16.54
Paperback. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Publisher
- The New York Review of Books, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 300
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781590172872
- ISBN
- 9781590172872
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.73
€ 23.99
€ 17.73
Paperback. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 139 x 10. Weight in Grams: 182.
- Publisher
- Persephone Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- New ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780953478040
- ISBN
- 9780953478040
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 19.36
€ 23.99
€ 19.36
Paperback. Former steel worker Harry Perkins has led the Labour Party to a stunning victory at the general election. His manifesto includes removal of American bases and public control of finance. The Establishment is appalled by the prospect. As M15 conspires with the city and the press barons, Perkins finds himself in a no-holds-barred battle for survival. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 16. Weight in Grams: 190.
- Publisher
- Serpent's Tail
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846687402
- ISBN
- 9781846687402
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.18
€ 11.99
€ 10.18
Paperback. Emma Funnell is the matriarch of Bramble House, built for her as a wedding gift. Now, in 1968, she is in her seventies, with the avowed intent of living to be a hundred. And, as she has always done, she continues to rule the roost, for apart from herself three generations of the Funnell family live in the house - all of them women. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 109 x 24. Weight in Grams: 190. Good copy with some shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Corgi
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- SKU
- KRA0003344
- ISBN
- 9780552133036
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Copy Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781909570009
- ISBN
- 9781909570009
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.49
€ 13.99
€ 13.49
Paperback. Charts the unlikely meeting between East and West that follows Ludmila Derev's appearance on a Russian Brides website. Determined to save her family from starvation in the face of marauding troops, this title presents Ludmila's journey. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571230952
- ISBN
- 9780571230952
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.19
€ 10.99
€ 9.19
Paperback. Series: Stay More. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Weight in Grams: 0.7.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Amazon Publishing
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781612181042
- ISBN
- 9781612181042
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.75
€ 11.99
€ 10.75
Paperback. On the airwaves, all the talk is of the new blue planet - pristine and habitable, like our own 65 million years ago, before we took it to the edge of destruction. And off the air, Billie and Spike are falling in love. What will happen when their story combines with the world's story, as they whirl towards Planet Blue, into the future? Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 143 x 20. Weight in Grams: 184.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141032603
- ISBN
- 9780141032603
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.10
€ 13.99
€ 11.10
Paperback. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 131 x 27. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Publisher
- Arcadia Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781901969078
- ISBN
- 9781901969078
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.92
€ 14.99
€ 11.92
Paperback. 29 short stories by the best new African writers, selected by one of Africa's most eminent contemporary writers, Helon Habila. Editor(s): Habila, Helon. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 25. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Publisher
- Granta Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847083333
- ISBN
- 9781847083333
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.09
€ 17.99
€ 13.09
Paperback. A tragic love story set against the backdrop of the Cultural Revolution, and a major film from the director of House of Flying Daggers Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 118 x 23. Weight in Grams: 292.
- Publisher
- Virago
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844087037
- ISBN
- 9781844087037
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.03
€ 10.99
€ 10.03
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 142 x 16. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Publisher
- Baker Publishing Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- Repack
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764228490
- ISBN
- 9780764228490
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.61
€ 16.99
€ 12.61
Hardcover. Not far in the future the seas have risen and the central latitudes are emptying but it's still a good time to be rich in San Francisco where weapons drones patrol the skies to keep out the multitudinous poor. This novel is a follow-up to the bestselling debut The Lost Books of the Odyssey. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FJM; FL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780224098243
- ISBN
- 9780224098243
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 17.47
€ 24.99
€ 17.47