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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. Meursault is different. He will not lie. He will not pretend. He is true to himself. So when his mother dies and he is unmoved, he refuses to do the proper thing and grieve. Returning to Algiers after the funeral, he carries on life as usual until he becomes involved in a violent murder. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 114 x 9. Weight in Grams: 78.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Number of pages
- 128
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241950050
- ISBN
- 9780241950050
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.26
€ 11.99
€ 10.26
Paperback. Now a film by Jacques Audiard starring Marion Cotillard Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 212.
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Main Market
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447226246
- ISBN
- 9781447226246
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.21
€ 11.99
€ 10.21
Paperback. Packed with ideas and inspiration, The Mystery Feast offers numerous pathways into the magical world of storytelling. Based on decades of honing his art, this stimulating booklet gives a glimpse into the mind of Ben Okri, a master of contemporary storytelling. Num Pages: 48 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 131 x 9. Weight in Grams: 50.
- Publisher
- Clairview Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905570768
- ISBN
- 9781905570768
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 6.56
€ 6.56
Hardcover. .
- Edition
- 1st Everyman
- Publisher
- Everyman Paperback Classics
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841591735
- ISBN
- 9781841591735
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.04
€ 19.99
€ 15.04
Paperback. THE SUNDAY TIMES DOUBLE BESTSELLER 'Part whodunnit, part coming of age, this is a gripping debut about the secrets behind every door' RACHEL JOYCE Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKEM; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 34. Weight in Grams: 324.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780008132170
- ISBN
- 9780008132170
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.63
€ 13.99
€ 10.63
Hardcover. When someone breaks into the cricket pavilion and steals two silver cups, the whole school is agog. Could it possibly be an inside job? Nothing less than the honour of St Austin's is at stake, not to mention the reputation of Jim Thomson, an excellent athlete with a talent for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Series: Everyman's Library P G Wodehouse. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 133 x 18. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Publisher
- Everyman United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841591674
- ISBN
- 9781841591674
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.47
€ 17.99
€ 13.47
Paperback. The day Joe Remington brought his new bride to Fell Rise, he had already sensed she might not settle easily into his home just outside the Tyneside town of Fellburn. Then when Elaine became pregnant, she saw it as a disaster and only the willingness of her unmarried sister Betty to come an see her through her confinement made it bearable. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 108 x 25. Weight in Grams: 206. Clean copy with some very light shelfwear. Good to very good
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Corgi
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KST0017000
- ISBN
- 9780552136228
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. A mother shouldn't have favourites. A brilliantly observed family drama from celebrated comedian and writer Jenny Eclair. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 23. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780751547559
- ISBN
- 9780751547559
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Paperback. No one knows what goes on behind closed doors.. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 134 x 37. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Publisher
- Headline Publishing Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 528
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780755349050
- ISBN
- 9780755349050
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
€ 13.99
€ 11.09
Paperback. Veering between the comic and tragic, the self-contemptuous and the inspired, Leaving the Atocha Station is a dazzling introduction to one of the smartest, funniest and most audacious writers of a generation Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 131 x 12. Weight in Grams: 140.
- Publisher
- Granta Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847086914
- ISBN
- 9781847086914
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.75
€ 13.99
€ 10.75
Paperback. Introducing a world literary figure: Sayed Kashua's Let It Be Morning is written with the moral clarity of Damon Galgut and the existential power of Albert Camus. Translator(s): Shlesinger, Miriam. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 22. Weight in Grams: 272. A Novel. 288 pages. A young journalist, recently married, is seeking a quieter life away from the city. Suddenly, the village becomes a pawn in the power struggles of the Middle East. As the situation grows increasingly dire, paranoia begins to threaten the community's equilibrium, forcing the hero to decide what it means to be human in an inhuman situation. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 197 x 132 x 22. Weight: 272. Translator(s): Shlesinger, Miriam.
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843545439
- ISBN
- 9781843545439
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 18.53
€ 24.99
€ 18.53
Paperback. Scout has returned to Maycomb from New York to visit her father Atticus. She is forced to grapple with issues both personal and political as she tries to understand both her father's attitude toward society, and her own feelings about the place where she was born and spent her childhood. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 268 x 24. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Publisher
- Cornerstone
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781785150296
- ISBN
- 9781785150296
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 6.00
€ 12.99
€ 6.00
Paperback. Anna Noon is a twenty-year-old student with a taste for perverse sex involving an enigmatic older man and a ventriloquist's dummy. She lives in Aberdeen and her sex life revolves around the ancient stone circles in the region. The sublime grandeur of the stones provides a backdrop against which Anna is able to act out her provocative psychodramas. Num Pages: 192 pages, map. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 139 x 13. Weight in Grams: 136.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841953533
- ISBN
- 9781841953533
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.74
€ 13.99
€ 10.74
Paperback. Series: Studies in Austrian Literature, Culture & Thought: Translation S. Num Pages: 196 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSG; DSK; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 141 x 14. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Publisher
- Ariadne Press United States
- Number of pages
- 196
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781572410138
- ISBN
- 9781572410138
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 21.38
€ 27.99
€ 21.38
Paperback. BIC Classification: FA. .
- Publisher
- Legend Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785079443
- ISBN
- 9781785079443
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.98
€ 11.99
€ 10.98
Paperback. Can Katherine Carter build a new life in the open-hearted community of Rotherhithe as the Great War looms ..? Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 175 x 112 x 26. Weight in Grams: 212. Some age and shelf wear.
- Condition
- Used, Acceptable
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Headline Publishing Group
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- New Ed
- SKU
- KNH0010553
- ISBN
- 9780747255376
Paperback
Condition: Used, Acceptable
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. On the eve of Angolan independence, Ludo bricks herself into her apartment, where she will remain for the next thirty years. She lives off vegetables and pigeons, burns her furniture and books to stay alive and keeps herself busy by writing her story on the walls of her home. Translator(s): Hahn, Daniel. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 197 x 19. Weight in Grams: 212.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099593126
- ISBN
- 9780099593126
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Paperback. Set in a small mid-western town in America in the 1950s where a child's senseless death, the breakup of a marriage and the arrival of a stranger lead to changes in many lives, and to the restoration of a family's dreams. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 106 x 21. Weight in Grams: 174.
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Edition
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Corgi London
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- SKU
- KLN0016064
- ISBN
- 9780552142458
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Set in a small mid-western town in America in the 1950s where a child's senseless death, the breakup of a marriage and the arrival of a stranger lead to changes in many lives, and to the restoration of a family's dreams. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 106 x 21. Weight in Grams: 174. Clean copy, good to very good
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Corgi London
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- SKU
- KST0015756
- ISBN
- 9780552142458
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. It is 1940, and bombs fall nightly on London. In the thick of the chaos is young American radio reporter Frankie Bard. She huddles close to terrified strangers in underground shelters, and later broadcasts stories about survivors in rubble-strewn streets. But for her listeners, the war is far from home. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 240. Some light shelf wear, else as new
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- SKU
- KRA0010103
- ISBN
- 9780141046617
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. A semi-autobiographical novel that explores the emotional conflicts through the protagonist, Paul Morel, and the suffocating relationships with a demanding mother and two very different lovers. It is a pre-Freudian exploration of love and possessiveness Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 127 x 21. Weight in Grams: 262. Clean copy with some shelfwear. Good to very good
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- SKU
- KST0032034
- ISBN
- 9781853260476
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. 1959: Bodies have started turning up around London, dismembered in the same bizarre and horrifying way. Is it possible that the blood trail leads back to Troy's police force and his own forgotten past? Series: Inspector Troy. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 30. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Publisher
- Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press United States
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781611855876
- ISBN
- 9781611855876
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.01
€ 11.99
€ 10.01
Paperback. On a freezing January morning in 1961, eight-year-old Anna's mother disappears into the fog. That same morning, a spy case breaks in the news. Obsessed by stories of espionage, Anna's brother Peter begins to construct a theory that their mother, a refugee from eastern Germany, was an undercover spy and might even still be alive. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 21. Weight in Grams: 226. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- SKU
- KIN0032527
- ISBN
- 9781408801000
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Coming home for Christmas? That's what this time of year is supposed to be about, isn't it? Back to your perfect, loving family. Or not quite, if you're Rachel or Laurie. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 24. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Publisher
- Quercus Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780876627
- ISBN
- 9781780876627
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05