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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. From the New York Times bestseller comes a haunting novel with the poetic quality of William Faulkner Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 24. Weight in Grams: 216.
Publisher
Canongate Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782118015
ISBN
9781782118015
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.78

Paperback. Jacob, a Jewish slave held in a mountain village after escaping a massacre by Cossacks, will be killed if he tries to escape. The one saving grace is his love for his master's daughter, Wanda. They begin a secret affair, trying to avoid the cruelty of the other villagers, until one day Jacob's fortunes unexpectedly change. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 194 x 14. Weight in Grams: 182.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141197623
ISBN
9780141197623
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.81

Hardback. When Kino, an Indian pearl-diver, finds 'the Pearl of the world' he believes that his life will be magically transformed. He will marry Juana in church and their little boy, Coyotito, will be able to attend school. Obsessed by his dreams, Kino is blind to the greed, fear and even violence the pearl arouses in him and his neighbours. Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 205 x 15. Weight in Grams: 232.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
9780141394688
ISBN
9780141394688
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.91

Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 216.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408857212
ISBN
9781408857212
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.89

Paperback. Mathieu Delarue, a philosophy teacher, has so far managed to contain sex and personal freedom in separate compartments. But now he is in trouble, trying to raise 4,000 francs to procure a safe abortion for his mistress, Marcelle. Beyond all this, filtering an uneasy light on his predicament, rises the threat of the coming of the Second World War. Translator(s): Sutton, Eric. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 224.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141185286
ISBN
9780141185286
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 203 x 16. Weight in Grams: 282.
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780811223225
ISBN
9780811223225
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.47

Paperback. Explores the modern crises of time, human identity, society, religion and the afterlife. This title asks as many questions as it answers and readers will leave the story with no doubt that we are in a new phase of existence as a species - and that there is no turning back. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 17. Weight in Grams: 186.
Publisher
Cornerstone
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099538189
ISBN
9780099538189
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.66

Paperback. Alice is going to live forever. She's been promised this since childhood. All she has to do is follow the true religion of The Unbelievable Potential of Human Beings. Her mother is a pillar of the church and her brother is a deacon. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 19. Weight in Grams: 196.
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Vintage
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
SKU
KLN0016504
ISBN
9780099506911
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 5.49

Paperback. When the Americans make an offer to buy land in Iceland to build a NATO airbase after the Second World War, a storm of protest is provoked throughout the country. Narrated by a country girl from the north, this novel follows her experiences after she takes up employment as a maid in the house of her Member of Parliament. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 12. Weight in Grams: 162.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099455158
ISBN
9780099455158
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.01

Paperback. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 175 x 106 x 29. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Random House USA Inc United States
Number of pages
560
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780804179768
ISBN
9780804179768
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.38

Paperback. Presents the four stories that feature characters such as Neil, Carlo and Hillary Chan, among others and illustrate with great sympathy the loneliness and bleak humour of modern life. Num Pages: 136 pages, chiefly ill. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 267 x 188 x 12. Weight in Grams: 534.
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
136
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571233427
ISBN
9780571233427
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 16.11

Paperback. An exciting collection of novellas and stories, both original and specially chosen by the author, featuring much-loved Otherworld characters in heart-stopping, pulse-racing action. Series: Otherworld. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 28. Weight in Grams: 276.
Publisher
Orbit
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780356500676
ISBN
9780356500676
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. Set in Peru during the 1950s, this novel tells the story of an 18 year old student who falls for a 32 year old divorcee. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 199 x 26. Weight in Grams: 330.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571288601
ISBN
9780571288601
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.69

Paperback. Winner of the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, this is the new novel from the author of 'King of the Badgers' and the Man Booker-shortlisted 'The Northern Clemency'. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 230.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
9780007450107
ISBN
9780007450107
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 137 x 19. Weight in Grams: 320.
Publisher
Galley Beggar Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910296141
ISBN
9781910296141
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.52

Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 135 x 26. Weight in Grams: 362.
Publisher
Europa Editions
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
First Paperback Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781609452698
ISBN
9781609452698
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 18.24

Paperback. A burned-out private detective is enlisted by an army of presidential goons to retrieve the US Constitution..the real one. Series: P.S. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 181 x 131 x 22. Weight in Grams: 226.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780061252051
ISBN
9780061252051
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.70

Paperback. Egypt, 1964. The great temple at Abu Simbel must be dismantled and resurrected high above the rising waters of the Aswan Dam. This daunting task is overseen by Avery, a young engineer who, at the same time, is carefully building a life with his new wife, Jean. But not everything can be saved once the floodgates have opened. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 24. Weight in Grams: 248.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408801086
ISBN
9781408801086
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.78

hardcover.
Edition
British First
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
9780857386359
ISBN
9780857386359
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Presents episodic novel that set amongst the rural waterways of America. This title begins at the foot of the Benjamin Franklin statue in San Francisco's Washington Square, wanders through the wonders of America's rural waterways and ends, inevitably, with mayonnaise. Series: Canons. Num Pages: 140 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 136 x 10. Weight in Grams: 116.
Publisher
Canongate Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
8th
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782113805
ISBN
9781782113805
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.71

Paperback. In his follow-up to Love, Love Me Do, Mark Haysom moves us from 60s to 70s Briton in a novel about one ordinary family's hopes and dreams. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 42. Weight in Grams: 704.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
KOC0027677
ISBN
9780349403939
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. * A passionate novel about mothers and daughters, roots and exile, set among an Anglo-Iranian family Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 19. Weight in Grams: 196. Good clear copy with some minor shelf wear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Abacus, London
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
SKU
KIN0031851
ISBN
9780349119557
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 209 x 24. Weight in Grams: 342.
Publisher
Amazon Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781503941502
ISBN
9781503941502
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.66

Paperback. The Harrisons are a large and close-knit family. But with the grandchildren fast becoming adults and elderly Pamela struggling to adapt to widowhood and the emptiness of Ashley House, the four children of the middle generation find themselves equally lost in a changing world. This is a multi-generational story of love, lies and family ties. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 128 x 41. Weight in Grams: 396. Clean copy in good condition
Condition
Used, Good
Edition
First Edition
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
SKU
KST0026397
ISBN
9780141021829
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

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