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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Walk to orchard .. Check inside paper sack: extra diapers, two bottles, four cans of Borden's evaporated milk, five twenty-dollar bills. Set infant under most plentiful tree. Run. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
Publisher
Blackfriars
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349134475
ISBN
9780349134475
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.23

Paperback. This is the story of John Self, consumer extraordinaire. Rolling around New York and London, he makes deals, spends wildly and does reckless movie-world business, all the while grabbing everything he can to sate his massive appetites: alcohol, tobacco, pills, pornography, a mountain of junk food and more. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 25. Weight in Grams: 282.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099461883
ISBN
9780099461883
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. Vish Puri is as fond of butter chicken as the next Punjabi. And when there's plenty on offer at the Delhi Durbar hotel where he's attending an India Premier League cricket match dinner, he's the first to tuck in. Irfan Khan, father of Pakistani star cricketer Kamran Khan, can't resist either. But the creamy dish proves his undoing. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 264.
Publisher
Cornerstone United Kingdom
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099561873
ISBN
9780099561873
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. The vibrant new novel from Isabel Allende takes her back to her homeland of Chile, and tells the story of the first Spanish woman to arrive on its shores with the Conquistadors in the 1500s. Num Pages: 356 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 23. Weight in Grams: 268.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007241187
ISBN
9780007241187
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.37

Paperback. An eminent Australian writer is invited to contribute to a book entitled "Strong Opinions". For him, troubled by Australia's complicity in the wars in the Middle East, it is a chance to air some urgent concerns: how should a citizen of a modern democracy react to their state's involvement in a war that involves the use of torture? Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 176.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099516224
ISBN
9780099516224
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.01

Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153. .
Publisher
Quercus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784297923
ISBN
9781784297923
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 14.16

Paperback. Follows the life of Serge Carrefax, a man who surges into the electric modernity of the early twentieth century, transfixed by the technologies that obliterate him. Born to the sound of one of the experimental wireless stations, Serge finds himself steeped in a weird world of transmissions. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 22. Weight in Grams: 230.
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099547020
ISBN
9780099547020
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.88

Paperback. As a novelist, Graham Swift delights in the possibilities of the human voice, imagining his way into the minds and hearts of an extraordinary range of characters. In Making an Elephant, his first ever work of non-fiction, the voice is his own. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 198 x 130. .
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2018
Condition
New
SKU
V9781471161940
ISBN
9781471161940
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.95

paperback. Translator(s): Reeck, Matt; Ahmad, Aftab. Num Pages: 574 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 206 x 138 x 39. Weight in Grams: 502.
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Translation
Condition
New
SKU
V9780811224130
ISBN
9780811224130
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 19.46

Paperback. .
Publisher
Amazon Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781503939509
ISBN
9781503939509
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.59

Paperback. The complete edition of a timeless classic, includes the recently rediscovered Part Four and 'Last Words' by Richard Bach.Jonathan Livingston Seagull, the most celebrated inspirational fable of our time, tells the story of a bird determined to be more than ordinary. Num Pages: 144 pages, (1 x 8pp mono plate section). BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 170 x 129 x 6. Weight in Grams: 168.
Publisher
Harper Thorsons
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
New Illustrated Thorsons Classics edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780006490340
ISBN
9780006490340
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.65

Hardcover. This is a history of India since independence, seen through the eyes of characters born on the day that independence was granted. The book is a multi-layered narrative, in which the complexities of the sub-continent are projected through the minds of its many characters. Num Pages: 589 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 141 x 37. Weight in Grams: 670.
Publisher
Everyman
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857152173
ISBN
9781857152173
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 17.27

Paperback. An emotional, heartwarming story from New York Times bestselling author Elin Hilderbrand about a grieving family that finds solace where they least expect it. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781473611214
ISBN
9781473611214
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Hardcover. What do a dead cat, a computer whizz-kid, an electric monk, quantum mechanics, a chronologit over 200 years old, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and pizza have in common? Apparently not much, until Dirk Gently begins his investigation. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FL; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 146 x 41. Weight in Grams: 650.
Publisher
William Heinemann
Number of pages
512
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Edition
First Edition, First Impression
Condition
New
SKU
V9780434009190
ISBN
9780434009190
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 18.89

Paperback. This journey down the assembly lines of the Centaur Carr Company frequently borders on the surreal and is studded with bizzare characters and the grit and banter of factory life. Num Pages: 225 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. Weight in Grams: 179.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Vintage
Number of pages
225
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
New edition
SKU
KNW0005442
ISBN
9780749397623
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. When Oliver 'Lol' Lawrence was recruited for an undercover assignment in the Arabian Gulf, the stakes were as high as they get: the players were gambling with the lifeblood of the industrialized world - the flow of oil. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FJM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 110. Weight in Grams: 165.
Publisher
22 Books
Number of pages
280
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Condition
New
SKU
V9781898125471
ISBN
9781898125471
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 7.01

Paperback. A man barges into a writer's house and, holding a gun to his head, demands that he tell him a story, something to take him away from real world. A pathological liar discovers one day that the lies he tells come true. A young woman finds a zip in her boyfriend's mouth, and when she opens it he unfolds to reveal a completely different man inside. Translator(s): Silverston, Sondra; Shlesinger, Miriam; Englander, Nathan. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 131 x 20. Weight in Grams: 218.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099563327
ISBN
9780099563327
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

paperback. Phillip Roth confronts his double, an imposter whose self-appointed task is to lead the jews out of Israel and back to Europe, a moses in reverse and a monstrous nemesis to the 'real' Philip Roth. This work is at once a spy story, a political thriller, a meditation on identity, and a confession. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 326.
Publisher
Vintage
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099307914
ISBN
9780099307914
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.81

Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FRH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 358.
Publisher
Truran United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9781850221791
ISBN
9781850221791
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.19

Hardcover. Includes stories that are set in the gruelling camps and sweltering training fields that marked the limbo point between civilian life and the horrors of war. This collection focuses on young men who, always conscious of the imminence of action, try to maintain their sanity in the wake of their abrupt removalfrom normal life. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 336.
Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
KTG0003677
ISBN
9780224087384
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

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