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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. When his byre - and the forty-three cows within it - goes up in flames, Barnabas Kane asks the rural community for help to get his family back on their feet, yet all his requests yield are suspicion and sanctimony. Humiliated, Barnabas grows ever more indignant. Before long this anger makes its mark on an innocent, and toil turns to tragedy. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 19. Weight in Grams: 192.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
riverrun
Condition
New
SKU
9781782062073
ISBN
9781782062073
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.81

Paperback. Michael, a writer of pornographic fiction, creates an ideal world of sex through his two stock athletes, Colonel Grimshaw and Mavis Carmichael, while he bungles every phase of his entanglement with an older woman who has the misfortune to fall in love with him. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 208.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571225712
ISBN
9780571225712
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.71

paperback. Series: Collected Letters of C.S. Lewis. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 135 x 15. Weight in Grams: 180.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
HarperOne
Condition
New
SKU
9780060652937
ISBN
9780060652937
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 15.94

Hardcover. Num Pages: 244 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 133 x 23. Weight in Grams: 402.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1982
Publisher
Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
V9780714527475
ISBN
9780714527475
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.40

paperback. Nell Dunn's 1967 novel which was made into a film directed by Ken Loach Series: VMC. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 139 x 37. Weight in Grams: 134.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Virago
Condition
New
SKU
9781844089819
ISBN
9781844089819
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.95

Paperback. The second book in the deliciously scandalous new GOSSIP GIRL THE CARLYLES series. Series: Gossip Girl. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 154.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Condition
New
SKU
V9780755339860
ISBN
9780755339860
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.99
€ 8.26

paperback. This book tells the stories of the vaqueros of the Wild Horse Desert for fourth- through eighth-grade students. Series: Jack & Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture. Num Pages: 138 pages, 62 b&w photos, 31 line drawings, 2 maps. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 6466 x 4531 x 203. Weight in Grams: 273.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
138
Condition
New
Edition
1st
SKU
V9780292712416
ISBN
9780292712416
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.72

paperback. No one knew how the blue-eyed, blond-haired white baby came to be abandoned, but the Crow tribe that found him raised him as one of its own. As he grew into adolescence, White Weasel was taken to Crooked-Bear, a white man who had long ago abandoned society for a solitary mountain existence and who acted as counsellor to the Crow elders. Num Pages: 304 pages, 7 halftones; 24 line drawings. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5004 x 3404 x 17. Weight in Grams: 309.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780803218789
ISBN
9780803218789
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.12

paperback. Num Pages: 195 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; FA; JPH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 14. Weight in Grams: 281.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Number of pages
195
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
V9780821412008
ISBN
9780821412008
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.84

Paperback. Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre first met in 1943, during the German occupation of France. Intellectual as well as political allies, they grew famous overnight after Paris was liberated. Num Pages: 302 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DDF; BGL; FA; HPCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 164 x 230 x 17. Weight in Grams: 424.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
302
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226000244
ISBN
9780226000244
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 21.05

Hardcover. Two out of the three novellas here have never before been published in English and they contain all the touchstones of Bernhard's work - illness and madness, isolation, tragic friendships, and dark humour. Translator(s): Jansen, Peter; Northcott, Kenneth. Num Pages: 184 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 212 x 162 x 21. Weight in Grams: 382.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
184
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226044323
ISBN
9780226044323
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 25.90

Paperback. Num Pages: 568 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 135 x 31. Weight in Grams: 618.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Persea
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
500
Condition
New
SKU
V9780892553525
ISBN
9780892553525
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.79

Paperback. The classic heist story from one of the most popular authors of the 20th century: a bestseller wherever books were read. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 112 x 18. Weight in Grams: 164.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780340286418
ISBN
9780340286418
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Paperback. Num Pages: 447 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 150 x 28. Weight in Grams: 590.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813531236
ISBN
9780813531236
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 39.54

paperback. The shadow of drug dealing falls across Fenland Tech and suddenly Wilt finds himself the target of suspicion. With his talent for making new enemies, an accusation of voyeurism in the staff lavatory leads to a massive confrontation at a nearby US airbase, surrounded by the forces of law and order. Series: Wilt Series. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 256.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Arrow
Condition
New
SKU
9780099466482
ISBN
9780099466482
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 9.59

paperback. Porterhouse is a backwoods institution which is supported by fee-paying students who buy their degrees. Sir Godber Evans, the new Master, is determined to make radical changes, provoking the wrath of the Dean, the Senior Tutor and, most intransigent of all, Skullion the Head Porter. Series: Porterhouse Blue Series. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 228.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Arrow
Condition
New
SKU
9780099435464
ISBN
9780099435464
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.27

paperback. The landscape is flawless, the trees majestic, the flora and the fauna are right and proper, the whole is picturesquely typical of rural England at its best. Sir Giles, an MP of few principles and curius tastes, plots to destroy all this. Against this, are ranged a mere handful of local residents led by Lady Maude. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 258.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Arrow
Condition
New
SKU
9780099435471
ISBN
9780099435471
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.27

paperback. This story concerns the debut of a totally filthy novel which puts the literary world in spasms. Frensic, a literary agent with a "nose for a bestseller" (as well as port and snuff), places this hot property with Hutchmeyer, the least respected publisher in the world. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 276.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Arrow
Condition
New
SKU
9780099435495
ISBN
9780099435495
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.27

paperback. In this novel, Sharpe turns his attention to a very minor public school, taking hilarious pot-shots at the public school system. The humorous and wild incidents include hoaxes, chases, car crashes, shootings and general mayhem. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 22. Weight in Grams: 242.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Arrow
Condition
New
SKU
9780099435549
ISBN
9780099435549
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.27

paperback. Chronicles about Henry Wilt, the hero who is no longer the victim of his own uncontrolled fantasies. As Head of a reconstituted Liberal Studies Department, he has assumed power without authority at the Fenland College of Arts and Technology and the fantasies he confronts are those of political bigots and reactionary bureaucrats. Series: Wilt Series. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 19. Weight in Grams: 232.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Arrow
Condition
New
SKU
9780099466499
ISBN
9780099466499
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.27

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