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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 290 x 30. Weight in Grams: 294.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405925334
ISBN
9781405925334
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

paperback. The buzzing life of bars, warm evenings by the Manzanares river, the subterranean terrors of the Metro, student days in the sixties, the ruthless underworld of the city's mafia - this captivating anthology reflects the kaleidoscopic character of Madrid. Renowned writers such as Galdos and Marias appear alongside others who will be less familiar. Editor(s): Constantine, Helen. Translator(s): Jull Costa, Margaret. Num Pages: 326 pages, 19 black-and-white photographs. BIC Classification: 1DSE; DQ; FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 196 x 17. Weight in Grams: 354.
Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Number of pages
326
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199583270
ISBN
9780199583270
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.39

Paperback. Translator(s): Reeder, Jonathan. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 35. Weight in Grams: 436.
Publisher
Pushkin Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782270713
ISBN
9781782270713
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.02

Paperback. Some secrets are best left buried .. Knee-deep in the mud of an ancient burial ground, a winter storm raging around him, and at least one person intent on his death: how did Murray Watson end up here? Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 27. Weight in Grams: 288. 400 pages. Some secrets are best left buried . Knee-deep in the mud of an ancient burial ground, a winter storm raging around him, and at least one person intent on his death: how did Murray Watson end up here?. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 198 x 128 x 27. Weight: 282.
Publisher
Canongate Books
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847672568
ISBN
9781847672568
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.78

Paperback. It is the summer of 1948 when a handsome, charismatic stranger, Charlie Beale, back from war in Europe, shows up in the sleepy town of Brownsburg, Virginia. All he has with him are two suitcases: one contains a fine set of butcher knives; the other is full of money. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 404. Used paperback, in very good condition. Some shelf wear.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Cornerstone
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
SKU
KRF0037642
ISBN
9780091953676
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. 2011's most heart-breaking debut Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 20. Weight in Grams: 212. 320 pages. Bed is a coming-of-age story like no other. It chronicles what love, loss and family can do to you in a lifetime. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 197 x 132 x 20. Weight: 216.
Publisher
Canongate Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847679826
ISBN
9781847679826
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.26

Paperback. Zahra has just returned to her hometown after being divorced by her husband for being too traditional and unable to keep up with his modern way of life. Having devoted herself to the creation of independent Morocco, she had expected to share the fruits of independence with him, but instead she finds herself cast out into a strange world. Translator(s): Parmenter, Barbara McKean. Series: CMES Modern Middle East Literatures in Translation Series. Num Pages: frontispiece. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 11. Weight in Grams: 244.
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
125
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Revised edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780292721722
ISBN
9780292721722
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.47

Paperback. August 1946. One year on from surrender and Tokyo lies broken and bleeding at the feet of its American victors. Against this extraordinary historical backdrop, Tokyo Year Zero opens with the discovery of the bodies of two young women in Shiba Park. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 25. Weight in Grams: 324.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571231997
ISBN
9780571231997
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.74

Paperback.
Publisher
Arcadia Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905147595
ISBN
9781905147595
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.84

Paperback. .
Publisher
Random House USA Inc United States
Number of pages
496
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780375758003
ISBN
9780375758003
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.56

Paperback. Soon to be a major motion picture starring Eddie Redmayne and directed by Tom Hooper, THE DANISH GIRL is a shockingly original novel about one of the most unusual and passionate love stories of the 20th century. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 24. Weight in Grams: 220.
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780753810798
ISBN
9780753810798
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. How to be a reader - how to be a writer. All you need to know. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBF; DSK; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 138.
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Condition
New
SKU
V9780340589373
ISBN
9780340589373
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.06

Hardcover. Translator(s): Turner, Gerald. Num Pages: 359 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 151 x 35. Weight in Grams: 602.
Publisher
Jantar Publishing
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780956889041
ISBN
9780956889041
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.52

Hardcover. Brings together an assortment of short stories inspired by romantic entanglement in its many forms: first love, infatuation, obsession, unrequited love, marriage, adultery, jealousy, and the complicated bonds of those who have spent their lives together. Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Classics. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 188 x 125 x 29. Weight in Grams: 414.
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
400
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841596020
ISBN
9781841596020
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.00

Paperback. A man, dispirited by ageing, endeavours to steal a younger man's face; a doctor yearns for a virus that might eliminate his discomfort by turning everyone else into doubles of himself; a Colonel lays out the precepts of the life of DE (Do Easy); and conspirators posthumously succeed in blowing up a train full of nerve gas. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 140.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141189840
ISBN
9780141189840
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. A young Jewish woman growing up in Germany in the middle of the twentieth century and an African general hired by the Doge to command his armies in sixteenth century Venice are bound by personal crisis and momentous social conflict. What emerges is Europe's age-old obsession with race, with sameness and difference, with blood. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 15. Weight in Grams: 168.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099520573
ISBN
9780099520573
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.61

Paperback. From the author of the 2016 Man Booker Prize winner The Sellout comes a novel as fast-paced and hard-edged as the Harlem streets it portrays Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 22. .
Publisher
Oneworld Publications
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781786072238
ISBN
9781786072238
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.71

Paperback. Following the critical acclaim for his debut, Patrick Flanery's Fallen Land is his astonishing break-out novel; a nail-biting story powered by a fierce anger at the utter failure of the American dream, and the greatest fears that lurk in every one of us. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 294.
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857898791
ISBN
9780857898791
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.99

Paperback. Three dead women; three children each with their families under suspicion; a community packed with secrets. And one serial killer. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 35. Weight in Grams: 314. Well-read paperback in good condition.Some shelf wear; may have some light soiling.
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Orion
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
SKU
KRF0030916
ISBN
9780752883298
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Spring is coming to the small towns of Michigan, but the snow still covers the land when Scripps O'Neil sets of for Chicago, decides to stop a while in Petoskey, and meets up with Yogi Johnson. Subtitled "A Romantic Novel in Honour of the Passing of a Great Race", this work parodies the themes and styles of the 'great race' of writers. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 110 x 9. Weight in Grams: 76.
Publisher
Arrow
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099909507
ISBN
9780099909507
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.26

Paperback. Thought-provoking and impossible to put down novel from the UK's Number One bestselling women's fiction author. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 30. Weight in Grams: 386. Good clean copy showing light shelf and reading wear, remains a nice copy
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
SKU
KSG0011838
ISBN
9781444754452
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Hardcover. A tale of Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge, one of Wodehouse's favourite protagonists, and his fraught attempt to establish a business farming chickens on the coast of Dorset. Series: Everyman's Library P G Wodehouse. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 186 x 136 x 21. Weight in Grams: 306.
Publisher
Everyman Paperback Classics
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841591766
ISBN
9781841591766
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.02

Paperback. Features a story of tragedy and of the past catching up with a father in modern-day Northern Ireland. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. . Well read, but remains good
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
SKU
KST0003684
ISBN
9780747574170
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. A lively, entertaining sequel to Pride and Prejudice, following the fates of the unmarried Bennet sisters in the 200th anniversary year of Jane Austen's death Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FRH; FZC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781409170624
ISBN
9781409170624
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

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