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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Upton Sinclair's story exposed the conditions in the Chicago stockyards at the turn of the nineteenth century and brought into focus the odds against which immigrants and other working people struggled. This book was championed by the then president Theodore Roosevelt, and was a catalyst to the passing of the Pure Food and Meat Inspection act. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 308.
Publisher
Penguin Books
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1985
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140390315
ISBN
9780140390315
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.47

Paperback. Reveals the astonishing underground partnership that changed the course of history. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 133 x 25. Weight in Grams: 252.
Publisher
Legend Press Ltd
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906558154
ISBN
9781906558154
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 10.13

Paperback. Lamont Williams, recently released from prison and working as a hospital janitor, strikes up an unlikely friendship with a patient, an elderly Jewish Holocaust survivor who starts to tell him of his extraordinary past. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 36. Weight in Grams: 426.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
576
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571236855
ISBN
9780571236855
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.03

Paperback. From the winner of the National Book Award for Fiction, 2012 comes this elegantly crafted novel that explores the strange power that lost children exert on the memories of those they leave behind Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 20. Weight in Grams: 212.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007232093
ISBN
9780007232093
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.41

Paperback. Set in the post-Snowden era of creeping surveillance of ordinary citizens and everyday life, I Am No One explores how a world without privacy is a world without freedom of expression. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 27. Weight in Grams: 328.
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782397984
ISBN
9781782397984
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.01

Paperback. DCI Banks encounters a chilling character from his past in the 17th novel in the series - a number one bestseller. Series: DCI Banks. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 190 x 34. Weight in Grams: 378.
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444791969
ISBN
9781444791969
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 33. Weight in Grams: 332.
Publisher
Granta Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781783782154
ISBN
9781783782154
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.01

Paperback. Whoever said the afterlife would be easy..? The new inhabitants of an old house in deepest darkest Kent are about to discover the previous owner - a certain Mr Noel Coward - never quite left the building.. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 270.
Publisher
Ebury Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780091938857
ISBN
9780091938857
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.81

Paperback. Discover the original novels behind ITV's Midsomer Murders, featuring favourite characters Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby and Troy. Includes a brand-new foreword from John Nettles, star of the ITV drama. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 196 x 20. Weight in Grams: 202.
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472243652
ISBN
9781472243652
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.86

Paperback. The incredible new novel from internationally bestselling author of The Alchemist. After lying undiscovered for over 700 years, a manuscript holding the answers to a city's final questions is unearthed from a cave in Cairo. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 176.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007520619
ISBN
9780007520619
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.66

Paperback. A brilliant sequel to SOLDIERS' WIVES, in which the love lives and military careers of two schoolfriends criss cross each other. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 29. Weight in Grams: 294.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781857762
ISBN
9781781857762
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.98

Paperback. *Exquisite, luminous prose from one of the twentieth century's greatest novelists Series: VMC. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 216.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
Translation
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844083169
ISBN
9781844083169
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.06

Paperback. The stunning first novel in the V.I. Warshawski series, introducing one of the world's best-loved private investigators. Series: V.I. Warshawski. Num Pages: 304 pages, n/a. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 111 x 21. Weight in Grams: 176.
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9780340935125
ISBN
9780340935125
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. The adventure continues: time is in flux, and only Jana, Dora and Kaz can fix it. But can they trust each other? Series: Timebomb Trilogy. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FJH; FL; YFG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 131 x 198 x 26. Weight in Grams: 258.
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444752113
ISBN
9781444752113
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.26

Paperback. A sweeping, compelling story which brings to life the Iranian Revolution, from an author who experienced it first-hand Translator(s): Massotty, Susan. Num Pages: 448 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 132 x 29. Weight in Grams: 304.
Publisher
Canongate Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847672414
ISBN
9781847672414
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.75

Paperback. A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. He plans to focus on a period in the seventies when, the biographer senses, Coetzee was 'finding his feet as a writer'. He embarks on a series of interviews with people who were important to Coetzee - a married woman with whom he had an affair. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 18. Weight in Grams: 192.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099540540
ISBN
9780099540540
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.85

Paperback. Finland, 1809. Henrik and Erik are brothers who fought on opposite sides in the war between Sweden and Russia. With peace declared, they both return to their snowed-in farm. But who is the master? Sexual tensions, old grudges, family secrets: all come to a head in this dark and gripping saga. Editor(s): Jeremiah, Emily. Translator(s): Jeremiah, Fleur. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 196 x 12. Weight in Grams: 174.
Publisher
Peirene Press
Number of pages
112
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780956284068
ISBN
9780956284068
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.36

Paperback. The third novel in the Prior's Ford series - Change is coming to Prior's Ford whether the residents like it or not .. Series: Prior's Ford. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 224. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
1st Edition Thus
SKU
KOC0007811
ISBN
9780751542073
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 148 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 141 x 12. Weight in Grams: 202.
Publisher
Clockroot Books
Number of pages
148
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781566568630
ISBN
9781566568630
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.94

Paperback. Ben Joe is the only boy in a family of six sisters, Mama and Gram. He is studying for a law degree in New York when he hears his eldest sister Joanne has left her husband and returned home with her baby girl. Out of a mixture of homesickness and duty Ben Joe returns to the home in which he has always felt like an outsider. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 174.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099539100
ISBN
9780099539100
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. Memed grows up a serf to a vicious overlord on the plains of Turkey's Taurus region. When his plan to escape is dashed, and the young woman he loves murdered, Memed makes for the mountains to become an outlaw. Before long he has transformed from a young rebel to an infamous bandit, the scourge of corrupt oppressors and hero to the poor. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 26. Weight in Grams: 296.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784701086
ISBN
9781784701086
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. A spellbinding story of love, secrecy and courage, set against the backdrop of the Crimean war, from the author of THE ALCHEMIST'S DAUGHTER. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 290. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
SKU
KTJ0049185
ISBN
9780753823743
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. A spellbinding story of love, secrecy and courage, set against the backdrop of the Crimean war, from the author of THE ALCHEMIST'S DAUGHTER. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 290. Clean copy in good to very good condition.
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
SKU
KRF0000799
ISBN
9780753823743
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 15. Weight in Grams: 214.
Publisher
Daunt Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781907970931
ISBN
9781907970931
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.74

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