.png){kind=logo}
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Results 4369 - 4392 of 12821
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. A debut novel, this title is a road trip into the heart of a country and a man, a travelogue of loss and redemption, and a Pilgrim's Progress for a godless world. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 191. 256 pages. A debut novel, this title is a road trip into the heart of a country and a man, a travelogue of loss and redemption, and a Pilgrim's Progress for a godless world. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 197 x 129 x 17. Weight: 188.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841956985
- ISBN
- 9781841956985
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.03
€ 17.99
€ 13.03
Paperback. Hereditation tells the story of the Sloane family. Living in New York in the middle of the 20th Century, brothers Erwin and Maynard share their brownstone Harlem house with their mother, a perpetually ill woman who has recently suffered the indignity of being abandoned by her philandering husband, Ezra. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 135 x 15. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Publisher
- Parthian Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 200
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906998097
- ISBN
- 9781906998097
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.44
€ 13.99
€ 13.44
Paperback. An intimate and devastating portrait of Romania during and after the Second World War, through the prism of a moving and utterly original friendship Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2012 Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 21. Weight in Grams: 262. 320 pages. An intimate and devastating portrait of Romania during and after the Second World War, through the prism of a moving and utterly original friendship Shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction 2012. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 130 x 198 x 21. Weight: 222.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408830420
- ISBN
- 9781408830420
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.90
€ 13.99
€ 10.90
Paperback. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 111 x 180 x 18. Weight in Grams: 172.
- Publisher
- Old Street Publishing United Kingdom
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908699411
- ISBN
- 9781908699411
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.41
€ 11.41
Hardcover. Clean copy in very good condition.
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers London
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st
- SKU
- KNH0012018
- ISBN
- 9780007322220
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. The hermetic world of boxing is notoriously difficult for outsiders to understand, though it has provided a source of fascination to numerous writers. This work is a collection of short stories and a novella. It aims to bring a different understanding to the violence and purity of the sweet science, opening a window into the fighter's sole. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 125 x 17. Weight in Grams: 182. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- SKU
- KAK0006871
- ISBN
- 9780099490586
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Pickpocket John Jacob Turnstile is on his way to be detained at His Majesty's Pleasure when he is offered a lifeline, what seems like a freedom of sorts - the job of personal valet to a departing naval captain. Little does he realise that it is anything but - and by accepting the devil's bargain he will put his life in perilous danger. Num Pages: 560 pages, maps. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 35. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- paperback / softback
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780552773928
- ISBN
- 9780552773928
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.84
€ 15.99
€ 11.84
Paperback.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007164622
- ISBN
- 9780007164622
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.38
€ 15.99
€ 11.38
Paperback. Translator(s): Hanson, Katherine; Messick, Judith. Num Pages: 170 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 11. Weight in Grams: 190.
- Publisher
- Norvik Pr
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781909408050
- ISBN
- 9781909408050
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.50
€ 18.99
€ 17.50
Paperback. Tells the story of a young Scottish doctor drawn into the heart of the Ugandan dictator's surreal and brutal regime. Privy to Idi Amin's thoughts and ambitions, he is both fascinated and appalled. As Uganda plunges into civil chaos, he realises action is imperative - but which way should he jump? Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 125 x 24. Weight in Grams: 288. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- Main - Film Tie In
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- SKU
- KAK0006864
- ISBN
- 9780571232888
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. It had always been the six of us. Since we met at university twenty-five years ago, we'd faced everything together. Break-ups and marriages, motherhood and death. We were closer than sisters; the edges of our lives bled into each other. But that was before the night of the reunion. The night of exposed secrets and jagged accusations. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 33. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781405917957
- ISBN
- 9781405917957
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. From internationally acclaimed and bestselling author Vincent Lam comes a superbly crafted, highly suspenseful, and deeply affecting novel set against the turmoil of the Vietnam War. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 197 x 26. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007263837
- ISBN
- 9780007263837
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.63
€ 13.99
€ 10.63
Paperback. A novel about the aftermath of war. Sean McNicol's best friend Mitch saved his life in Afghanistan, in an act of impulsive heroism. Now Mitch is dead and Sean has left the Royal Marines with a head full of ghosts and guilt. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 127 x 31. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Publisher
- Sandstone Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781910124062
- ISBN
- 9781910124062
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.51
€ 16.51
Paperback. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 197 x 130. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780008136031
- ISBN
- 9780008136031
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.69
€ 13.99
€ 10.69
Paperback. On Millennium night, with Blair presiding over a sexed-up new version of the country, Benjamin Trotter finds himself watching the celebrations on his parents' TV. Watching, in fact, his younger brother, Paul, now a New Labour MP who has bought wholeheartedly into the Blairite dream. Neither of them can know that their lives are about to implode. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 28. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Re-issue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241967720
- ISBN
- 9780241967720
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. Returning to Afghanistan after his photographer friend is killed by a sniper, war reporter Stephen Sharkey seeks release from his nightmares in an England seemingly at peace with itself. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140270754
- ISBN
- 9780140270754
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.82
€ 20.99
€ 16.82
Paperback. Defeated and embittered by a country which treats him as a non-being, the 'invisible man' retreats into an underground cell, where the author smokes, drinks, listens to jazz and recounts his search for identity in white society. Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 113 x 181 x 38. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Publisher
- Penguin Essentials
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- PENGUIN ESSENTIALS
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241970560
- ISBN
- 9780241970560
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 215 x 259 x 34. Weight in Grams: 1472.
- Publisher
- Mpress Media
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780993170478
- ISBN
- 9780993170478
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 36.73
€ 36.73
Paperback. A band of savage 13-year-old boys reject the adult world as hypocritical and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness. When the mother of one of them begins an affair with a ship's officer, he and his friends idealise the man at first; but it is not long before they conclude that he is in fact soft and romantic. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 142.
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099284796
- ISBN
- 9780099284796
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. Ann Widdecombe's controversial novel about the position of men in today's society. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 23. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780226842
- ISBN
- 9781780226842
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 126 x 31. Weight in Grams: 292.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472119827
- ISBN
- 9781472119827
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
Paperback. The Burden of the Desert is fast-paced and gripping, and asks questions that will linger long after the last page is turned. Via the lives of a fascinating group of characters, former war correspondent Justin Huggler memorably evokes the atmosphere of a military occupation whose aftershocks are still being felt today. BIC Classification: FA; FJM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 31. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Publisher
- Short Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780722009
- ISBN
- 9781780722009
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.98
€ 10.99
€ 9.98
Paperback. Patrick Leigh Fermor's first and only novel, now back in print. Num Pages: 144 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 110.
- Publisher
- John Murray Publishers Ltd
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719555299
- ISBN
- 9780719555299
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
€ 13.99
€ 11.09
Paperback. It is a sweltering August in Aberystwyth. A man wearing a Soviet museum curator's uniform walks into Louie Knight's office and spins a wild and impossible tale of love, death, madness and betrayal. Sure, Louie had heard about Hughesovka, the legendary replica of Aberystwyth built in the Ukraine by some crazy nineteenth-century czar. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 212. 288 pages. It is a sweltering August in Aberystwyth. A man wearing a Soviet museum curator's uniform walks into Louie Knight's office and spins a wild and impossible tale of love, death, madness and betrayal. Sure, Louie had heard about Hughesovka, the legendary replica of Aberystwyth built in the Ukraine by some crazy nineteenth-century czar. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 197 x 130 x 20. Weight: 210.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408801024
- ISBN
- 9781408801024
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.62
€ 13.99
€ 11.62