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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Alan Harrison is mourning the death of his wife. A trip to Sweden is in the offing - but will it help him get over it? Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 216 x 21. Weight in Grams: 340.
Publisher
John Hunt Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781785355318
ISBN
9781785355318
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.48

Paperback. The second volume of short stories by Stanley Donwood, Radiohead's artist. Donwood writing is an existentialist commentary on society wrapped in dark humour. This first edition designed by Dowood is a strictly limited run of 1,000 copies. Num Pages: 144 pages, Black and white lino cuts. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 112 x 14. Weight in Grams: 144.
Publisher
Tangent Books
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906477554
ISBN
9781906477554
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.73

Paperback. On to the shores of Texas a raging sea coughs up two castaways: Jim and Natty, shipwrecked on their way home from Treasure Island. The Nightingale sunk, their silver gone, captured, weak and afraid, the pair steal a treasure they should have left well alone. The adventure of the New World lies in wait.. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 200 x 35. Weight in Grams: 298.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099583783
ISBN
9780099583783
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.29

Paperback. A profound and moving and often humorous novel that evokes a colonial man's experience in the post-colonial world. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 236.
Publisher
Picador USA
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780330522922
ISBN
9780330522922
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.97

Paperback. This stunning, literary commercial novel in the vein of Curtis Sittenfeld's Prep is a New York Times bestseller and a stand-out debut launch for Tinder Press Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 197 x 26. Weight in Grams: 284.
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780755395194
ISBN
9780755395194
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.39

Paperback. Rabih Alameddine follows his international bestseller The Hakawati with an enchanting story of the life of a book-loving, obsessive, seventy-two-year-old, blue-haired 'unnecessary woman', living in Beirut. This is a novel to savour. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 23. Weight in Grams: 240.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472119209
ISBN
9781472119209
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. From the writer of The Crying Game, Mistaken is part thriller, part gothic tragedy, part comedy of manners, brilliantly evoking the divided Dublin of the 1960s and the trauma of adolescence Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 195 x 27. Weight in Grams: 264. Clean copy with some shelf wear
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
John Murray Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
SKU
KOC0018155
ISBN
9781848544192
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. This year's Big American Novel is a high-concept epic that races through one family's experience of the twentieth century Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 197 x 35. Weight in Grams: 406.
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847672322
ISBN
9781847672322
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.99

Paperback. Mr Palomar is a delightful eccentric whose chief activity is looking at things. He is seeking knowledge. Whether contemplating a fine cheese, a hungry gecko, a woman sunbathing topless or a flight of migrant starlings, Mr Palomar's observations render the world afresh. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 102.
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Edition
Re-issue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099430872
ISBN
9780099430872
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472216038
ISBN
9781472216038
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.06

Paperback. When nine-year-old orphan Georgia James is unexpectedly fostered by the kindly Celia and her bank manager husband she can hardly believe her luck. But then - on her fifteenth birthday - she suffers the cruellest betrayal of all at the hands of her foster father and is forced to run away, leaving everything she loves behind her. Num Pages: 624 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 33. Weight in Grams: 464.
Publisher
Arrow
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099557456
ISBN
9780099557456
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.69

Paperback. 'Sleep-sabotagingly moreish' Cosmopolitan Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 134 x 25. Weight in Grams: 338.
Publisher
Headline Review London
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780755325450
ISBN
9780755325450
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

Paperback. It is the Gold Coast, Queensland, in 1914, and a man returns home from England to claim the land he has inherited. For Ashley Crowther, it is a landscape "that could accommodate a good deal". For Jim Saddler, the land is a sanctuary. For Imogen it is a place of study. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 116.
Edition
1st Edition Thus.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099273820
ISBN
9780099273820
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.29

Paperback. "From the author of Secrets of the Sea House comes the mystery of a runaway bride. Can a century of family secrets be unravelled in time to bring her back? For fans of Kate Morton and Rachel Hore. " Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 28. Weight in Grams: 250.
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782391166
ISBN
9781782391166
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.01

Paperback. Charity Royall lives unhappily with her hard-drinking adoptive father in a village, until a visiting architect awakens her sexual passion and the hope for escape. Exploring Charity's relation to her father and her lover, this title delves into dark cultural territory: repressed sexuality, small-town prejudice, and, in subtle hints, incest. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 15. Weight in Grams: 186.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140186796
ISBN
9780140186796
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.50

Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. .
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Main Market Ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781447280583
ISBN
9781447280583
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.21

Paperback. Translator(s): Collins, Charlotte. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. .
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Main Market Ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781509806591
ISBN
9781509806591
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.00

Hardcover.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Brandon / Mount Eagle Publications Ltd Kerry
Number of pages
288
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Edition
0th Edition
SKU
KEX0198336
ISBN
9780863223273
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Isla Dewar's unique combination of brilliant characterisation, beautifully evoked landscapes and incisive humour is honed to its finest in this lovely novel Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 272.
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9780747261582
ISBN
9780747261582
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 282.
Publisher
Persephone Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781903155974
ISBN
9781903155974
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 19.29

Paperback. With the Vatican closing in on the sacred knowledge can Stella and Jennings stop them before their influence enslaves mankind? Num Pages: 439 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 412.
Publisher
John Hunt Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
439
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780991351
ISBN
9781780991351
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.54

Paperback. Sam the Lion runs the pool-hall, the picture house and the all-night cafe. Coach Popper whips his boys with towels and once took a shot at one when he disturbed his hunting. Billy wouldn't know better than to sweep his broom all the way to the town limits if no one stopped him. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 196.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141194448
ISBN
9780141194448
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Hardback. Translator(s): Hansson, Anders; McDougall, Bonnie S.; Dung, Kai-cheung. Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 185 x 148 x 20. Weight in Grams: 312. The Archaeology of an Imaginary City. Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia. 192 pages, illustrations. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Dimension: 185 x 148 x 20. Weight: 308. Translator(s): Hansson, Anders; McDougall, Bonnie S.; Dung, Kai-cheung.
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
192
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231161008
ISBN
9780231161008
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 22.22

Paperback. 'An unputdownable blockbuster' Woman and Home Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 41. Weight in Grams: 434.
Publisher
Headline Review
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780755332397
ISBN
9780755332397
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.84

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