Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Hardback. Centered on the question, "Is it possible that none of your memories count?", this book explores the reliability of remembrances and the thin line that separates fact from fantasy. Comprised of four thematically linked stories and a novella, it focuses on the cultural and psychological realities of contemporary Taiwan. Translator(s): Goldblatt, Howard. Series: Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan. Num Pages: 236 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 137 x 23. Weight in Grams: 396.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231141123
- ISBN
- 9780231141123
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 41.28
€ 41.28
Paperback. Provides a portrait of rural peasant life in Japan during the Meiji era. Translator(s): Waswo, Ann. Series: Voices from Asia S. Num Pages: 222 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 40.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520083721
- ISBN
- 9780520083721
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.78
€ 44.78
Paperback. A sweeping novel set in war-torn China, with a star-crossed love story at its centre. Series: Russian Concubine. Num Pages: 608 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 39. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780751540420
- ISBN
- 9780751540420
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.72
€ 14.99
€ 11.72
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 315.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Counterpoint
- Edition
- First Trade Paper Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781619021884
- ISBN
- 9781619021884
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.79
€ 16.99
€ 15.79
Paperback. * an early work by the winner of the 1995 Booker Prize Series: VMC. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Publisher
- Virago
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780860682837
- ISBN
- 9780860682837
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.94
€ 13.99
€ 10.94
Paperback. The new novel of life in nineteenth century Lancashire and Australia from one of Hodder's fastest growing saga writers. Num Pages: 528 pages, 3 maps. BIC Classification: FA; FT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 113 x 34. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780340821367
- ISBN
- 9780340821367
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.05
€ 11.99
€ 10.05
Paperback. Translator(s): Lannestock, Gustaf. Series: Emigrant Novels. Num Pages: 366 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 30. Weight in Grams: 520.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S. United States
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 366
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780873513197
- ISBN
- 9780873513197
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 25.49
€ 27.99
€ 25.49
Paperback. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 332.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Five Leaves Publications United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905512300
- ISBN
- 9781905512300
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.05
€ 11.05
Paperback. A modern-day Greek tragedy, this story revolves around Marco Morelli, an aspiring filmmaker with a passion for heights. Set in New York, Toronto, and on top of Mount Olympus, this sexy, vivid novel weaves mythology with current events. It will especially interest academics, members of the gay community, and film and art lovers. Num Pages: 220 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 15. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Tightrope Books
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781926639604
- ISBN
- 9781926639604
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 6.31
€ 26.99
€ 6.31
Paperback. Num Pages: 266 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 211 x 19. Weight in Grams: 232.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Cash Money Content
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781936399413
- ISBN
- 9781936399413
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.06
€ 17.99
€ 17.06
Paperback. When Thomas Lang, a hired gun with a soft heart, is contracted to assassinate an American industrialist, he opts instead to warn the intended victim - a good deed that doesn't go unpunished. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Cornerstone
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- 9780099469391
- ISBN
- 9780099469391
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
€ 13.99
€ 10.45
paperback. In this portrait of the murkier areas of London, Drover, a communist bus-driver, has been sentenced to death for killing a policeman in a political riot because he thought the policeman was going to strike his wife. A bitter irony hovers over the ensuing battles to save Drover. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 152.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099282228
- ISBN
- 9780099282228
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.04
€ 17.99
€ 14.04
Paperback. 'I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of l974.' Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 35. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780007528646
- ISBN
- 9780007528646
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 6.28
€ 12.99
€ 6.28
Paperback. WINNER OF THE GREATEST WELSH NOVEL Translator(s): Mitchell, Philip. Series: Canons. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 199 x 14. Weight in Grams: 154.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Canongate Canons
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781782116769
- ISBN
- 9781782116769
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.50
€ 13.99
€ 10.50
Paperback. 'A deft masterpiece with never a false note' - Guardian Translator(s): Hunt, Jonathan. Series: Canons. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 130 x 34. Weight in Grams: 196.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Canongate Canons
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781782117155
- ISBN
- 9781782117155
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.50
€ 13.99
€ 10.50
Paperback. Anarchic, irreverent and razor-sharp, this new collection of Muriel Spark's satires confirms its creator as the mistress of British wit Series: Canons. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 36. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781782117674
- ISBN
- 9781782117674
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.47
€ 13.99
€ 11.47
Paperback. 'Like Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections without the bitterness, mixed with Jeffrey Eugenides's The Virgin Suicides without the eccentricity, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee is a thoroughly enjoyable and engrossing read' - Sunday Telegraph Series: Canons. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 184.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Canongate Canons
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781782119159
- ISBN
- 9781782119159
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.02
€ 11.99
€ 10.02
Paperback. Raymond Marks is a normal boy, from a normal family, in a northern town. Until, on the banks of the Rochdale Canal, the flytrapping craze begins and, for Raymond, nothing is ever quite so normal again. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 31. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Black Swan Edition
- SKU
- V9780552996457
- ISBN
- 9780552996457
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.33
€ 17.99
€ 13.33
Paperback. I didn't realise my mother was a person until I was thirteen years old and she pulled me out of bed, put me in the back of her car, and we left home and my dad with no explanations. I thought that Ma was all that she was and all that she had ever wanted to be. I was wrong.. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 213.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Windmill Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099510642
- ISBN
- 9780099510642
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.92
€ 10.99
€ 9.92
Paperback. In Ponyboy's world there are two types of people. There are the Socs, the rich society kids who get away with anything. Then there are the greasers, like Ponyboy, who aren't so lucky. Ponyboy has a few things he can count on: his older brothers, his friends, and trouble with the Socs, whose idea of a good time is beating up greasers like Ponyboy. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 10. Weight in Grams: 124.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141189116
- ISBN
- 9780141189116
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.13
€ 14.99
€ 11.13
Paperback. Num Pages: 269 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 250 x 21. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780394756950
- ISBN
- 9780394756950
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.28
€ 15.28
paperback. Num Pages: 338 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 127 x 19. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Edition
- 1st Vintage international ed., Female ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780679727545
- ISBN
- 9780679727545
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 15.18
€ 20.99
€ 15.18
Paperback. Fall in back in love with life in this gripping read about fate and second chances. The eagerly awaited new novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 292.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847562791
- ISBN
- 9781847562791
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.70
€ 11.99
€ 9.70
Paperback. Another warm, wise and witty offering from Sunday Times bestseller Trisha Ashley. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 33. Weight in Grams: 358. 400 pages. Another warm, wise and witty offering from Sunday Times bestseller Trisha Ashley. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 33. Weight: 356.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847562814
- ISBN
- 9781847562814
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.47
€ 13.99
€ 10.47
Paperback. A sequel to "Virgin in the Garden" and "Still Life". A cast of characters play out their personal dramas amid the clashing politics, passionate ideals and stirring languages of the early-1960s. Their crises mirror some of the major world events of the age in which they live. Num Pages: 624 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 33. Weight in Grams: 462. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0000111
- ISBN
- 9780099839408
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
paperback. Jacques Rebiere and Thomas Midwinter, both sixteen when this story starts in 1876, come from different countries and contrasting families. They are united by an ambition to understand how the mind works and whether madness is the price we pay for being human. This work explores the question of what kind of beings men and women really are. Num Pages: 800 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 46. Weight in Grams: 580. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- KKD0000118
- ISBN
- 9780099458265
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.44
€ 5.44
Paperback. The day Benny Catchprice was fired from the spare-parts department of Catchprice Motors by his aunt Cathy, was also the day that tax inspector Maria Takis arrived to begin her overdue audit of the family business. From the author of "Oscar and Lucinda" which won the 1988 Booker Prize. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 19. Weight in Grams: 261. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0000182
- ISBN
- 9780571166329
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 10.99€ 9.70
€ 10.99
€ 9.70
Paperback. Winner of the National Book Award and a New York Times bestseller Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 137 x 21. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781408801185
- ISBN
- 9781408801185
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.92
€ 11.99
€ 10.92
Paperback. When a teenage girl goes missing her mother discovers she doesn't know her daughter as well as she thought. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 30. Weight in Grams: 388. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KTG0007074
- ISBN
- 9781405915298
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. When his twin brother dies in a car accident, Helmer returns to the small family farm. After his father has been transferred upstairs, Helmer sets about furnishing the house. 'A double bed and a duvet', advises Ada, who lives next door. Then Riet appears, the woman once engaged to marry his twin. Could Riet and her son live with him for a while? Translator(s): Colmer, David. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 131 x 19. Weight in Grams: 208. Some minor shelf wear but overall in a very good condition
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- KSC0001838
- ISBN
- 9780099516873
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
Hardcover. Two men meet for a pint in a Dublin pub. They chew the fat, set the world to rights, take the piss. They talk about their wives, their kids, their kids' pets, their football teams and - this being Ireland in 2011-12 - about the euro, the crash, the presidential election, the Queen's visit. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 131 x 12. Weight in Grams: 176.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780224097819
- ISBN
- 9780224097819
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.07
€ 13.99
€ 11.07
Paperback. In seventeenth-century France, against a backdrop of witch trials, regicide and religious frenzy, Juliette, one-time actress and rope-dancer, seeks refuge with her young daughter in the remote abbey of Saint Marie-de-la-Mer, and reinvents herself as Soeur Auguste. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 25. Weight in Grams: 290. Good copy with some shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Transworld Pub
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Edition
- paperback / softback
- SKU
- KRA0012064
- ISBN
- 9780552770019
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. One day, sitting in traffic, married Dublin mum Stella Sweeney attempts a good deed. The resulting car crash changes her life. For she meets a man who wants her telephone number. But in this meeting is born the seed of something which will take Stella thousands of miles from her old life, turning an ordinary woman into a superstar. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 47. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141043104
- ISBN
- 9780141043104
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.45
€ 10.99
€ 10.45
Paperback. Sal Paradise, a young innocent, joins his hero Dean Moriarty, a traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat, on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United States. Their search for release or fulfilment through drink, sex, drugs and jazz becomes an exploration of personal freedom, a test of the limits of the American dream. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 19. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- 9780141182674
- ISBN
- 9780141182674
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 10.50
€ 12.99
€ 10.50
Paperback. A story of Joad family, who are forced to travel west from Dust Bowl era Oklahoma in search of the promised land of California. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- 9780141185064
- ISBN
- 9780141185064
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
€ 13.99
€ 10.45
Paperback. Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in an Oregon State mental hospital with a strict and unbending routine, unopposed by her patients, who remain cowed by mind-numbing medication and the threat of electroshock therapy. But her regime is disrupted by the arrival of McMurphy - who resolves to oppose her rules on behalf of his fellow inmates. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 19. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141187884
- ISBN
- 9780141187884
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
€ 13.99
€ 10.45
Paperback. A day like any other for security chief Tracy Waterhouse, until she makes a shocking impulse purchase. That one moment of madness is all it takes for Tracy's humdrum world to be turned upside down, the tedium of everyday life replaced by fear and danger at every turn. Series: Jackson Brodie. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 32. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Thus
- SKU
- 9780552772464
- ISBN
- 9780552772464
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 11.09
€ 11.99
€ 11.09
Paperback. Jane hasn't lived anywhere longer than six months since her son was born five years ago. She keeps moving in an attempt to escape her past. Now the idyllic seaside town of Pirriwee has pulled her to its shores and Jane finally feels like she belongs. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 31. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781405916363
- ISBN
- 9781405916363
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 10.50
€ 12.99
€ 10.50
Paperback. New York, 1945 - Sara Smythe, a young, beautiful and intelligent woman, ready to make her own way in the big city, attends her brother's Thanksgiving Eve party. As the party gets into full swing, in walks Jack Malone, a US Army journalist back from a defeated Germany and a man unlike any Sara has ever met before. Num Pages: 656 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 134 x 42. Weight in Grams: 460.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Arrow Books Edition
- SKU
- V9780099415374
- ISBN
- 9780099415374
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.64
€ 14.99
€ 11.64
Paperback. Paula Spencer begins on the eve of Paula's forty-eighth birthday. She hasn't had a drink for four months and five days. Her youngest children, Jack and Leanne, are still living with her. They're grand kids, but she worries about Leanne. Paula still works as a cleaner. This work shows the inner life of this battered house-cleaner. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 206.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099501374
- ISBN
- 9780099501374
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.74
€ 13.99
€ 10.74
Paperback. The two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning biologist delivers "an astonishing literary achievement" (Anthony Gottlieb, The Economist). Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 138 x 24. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393339703
- ISBN
- 9780393339703
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 16.03
€ 16.99
€ 16.03
Paperback. Young rural widow Nasula suffers years of economic hardship, dreaming of a better life for her daughter. She goes to Lusaka to sell her last sack of highly sought-after Mbala beans, but in the city finds herself exposed to new and predatory dangers. Series: Heinemann African Writers Series. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 191 x 120 x 9. Weight in Grams: 144.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Pearson Education Limited United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780435912024
- ISBN
- 9780435912024
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.53
€ 17.53
Paperback. Translator(s): Garnett, Constance. Series: New Directions Pearls. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 116 x 177 x 7. Weight in Grams: 74.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
- Number of pages
- 73
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780811219471
- ISBN
- 9780811219471
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.83
€ 12.83
Paperback. Ahmet Midhat Efendi's famous 1875 novel Felatun Bey and Rakim Efendi takes place in late nineteenth-century Istanbul and follows the lives of two young men who come from radically different backgrounds. The novel provides readers with an elegant yet powerful appeal for progressive reforms and individual freedoms. Series: Middle East Literature in Translation. Num Pages: 176 pages, maps. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 154 x 16. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815610649
- ISBN
- 9780815610649
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.91
€ 22.91
Paperback. Num Pages: 152 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 149 x 11. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Spokesman Books United Kingdom
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 152
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780851246291
- ISBN
- 9780851246291
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.12
€ 12.12
Paperback. Num Pages: 415 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 128 x 31. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- No Exit Press
- Edition
- Later Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781842430286
- ISBN
- 9781842430286
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 15.80
€ 21.99
€ 15.80
Paperback. "A jewel of a story."-The New Yorker Translator(s): Silver, Katherine. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 147 x 9. Weight in Grams: 118.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 120
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393330397
- ISBN
- 9780393330397
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.31
€ 26.31
Paperback. Contemporary short stories enacting giddy, witty revenge on the documents that define and dominate our lives. Editor(s): Shields, David; Vollmer, Matthew. Num Pages: 368 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 153 x 26. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- Original
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393341959
- ISBN
- 9780393341959
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 18.37
€ 18.99
€ 18.37
Paperback. A sophisticated and suspenseful novel about the poignant lives of two women living in different eras. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 140 x 210 x 20. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393346770
- ISBN
- 9780393346770
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.50
€ 16.99
€ 15.50
Paperback. "Carries the flavor of the old world, its underlying ferocity leavened by a lyrical mysticism.. Her prose is transcendent."-Washington Post Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393350234
- ISBN
- 9780393350234
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.67
€ 16.99
€ 15.67
Paperback. A dazzling collection about how the familiar can suddenly turn strange, for readers of Lydia Davis, George Saunders, and Karen Russell. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 142 x 15. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393350531
- ISBN
- 9780393350531
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.06
€ 16.99
€ 15.06
Paperback. "[A] compelling debut.. Townsend's writing [is] full of fresh turns of phrase and keen insights."-Anaya Mathis, New York Times Book Review Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 141 x 26. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393350821
- ISBN
- 9780393350821
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.40
€ 38.40
Paperback. In this long-awaited sequel to the legendary graphic novel Kings in Disguise, a young circus hand gets involved in dangerous underground activity. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 274 x 206 x 22. Weight in Grams: 900.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393351224
- ISBN
- 9780393351224
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.89
€ 20.89
Paperback. Translator(s): Broomfield, Andrew. Series: New Directions Pearls. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 117 x 178 x 9. Weight in Grams: 104.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 105
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780811219426
- ISBN
- 9780811219426
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.92
€ 12.92
Paperback. Translator(s): Creswell, Robyn. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 204 x 144 x 8. Weight in Grams: 132.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
- Number of pages
- 120
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Annotated
- SKU
- V9780811220361
- ISBN
- 9780811220361
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.91
€ 22.91
Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 133 x 203 x 26. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780811222709
- ISBN
- 9780811222709
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.07
€ 23.07
Hardcover. A teenage girl and her unraveling family travel cross-country in preparation for the Rapture in this radiant, highly anticipated debut. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 145 x 22. Weight in Grams: 424.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780871405883
- ISBN
- 9780871405883
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 34.29
€ 34.29
Hardcover. Celebrate "an authentic American genius" (Gore Vidal) in James Purdy's first complete short story collection. Num Pages: 752 pages, frontispiece. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 238 x 167 x 45. Weight in Grams: 1206.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Liveright
- Edition
- First Edition ~1st Printing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780871406699
- ISBN
- 9780871406699
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.06
€ 46.06
Paperback. The twenty-first-century revival of James Purdy continues with his classic novel of innocence and corruption. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; WH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 209 x 18. Weight in Grams: 208.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Liveright
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780871409577
- ISBN
- 9780871409577
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.27
€ 16.99
€ 15.27
Paperback. "Endlessly powerful.. Here is one you should not miss, a gratifying feast in lush, lyrical, and full-throated form."-NPR.org Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 133. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781631491948
- ISBN
- 9781631491948
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.32
€ 16.99
€ 15.32
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 309 x 29. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781509806812
- ISBN
- 9781509806812
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.08
€ 10.99
€ 10.08
Paperback. A compelling argument about the origins of King Arthur wrapped in a brilliant novel. Num Pages: 352 pages, maps. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 141 x 211 x 21. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393348255
- ISBN
- 9780393348255
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.74
€ 16.99
€ 15.74
Hardcover. For fans of Denis Johnson and Peter Matthiessen, a literary thriller from one of the most exciting new voices in American fiction. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 246 x 168 x 31. Weight in Grams: 602.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780871408839
- ISBN
- 9780871408839
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 24.46
€ 25.99
€ 24.46
Paperback. "[A] galloping great read; it's a violent, tender, terrifying, genuine work of art."-Porter Shreve, San Francisco Chronicle, front-page review Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781631491498
- ISBN
- 9781631491498
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.07
€ 23.07
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 144 x 15. Weight in Grams: 186. Good copy with some shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Poolbeg Press Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Edition
- New edition
- SKU
- KRA0013040
- ISBN
- 9781853714047
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
paperback. It is the summer of 1916 and Roger Casement awaits the hangman in London's Pentonville Prison. Dublin lies in ruins after the disastrous Easter Rising led by his comrades of the Irish Volunteers. He has been caught after landing from a German submarine. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571275755
- ISBN
- 9780571275755
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 14.00
€ 15.99
€ 14.00
Paperback. In an old mansion in Cennethisar, a former fishing village near Istanbul, an old widow Fatma awaits the annual summer visit of her grandchildren. She has lived in the village for decades. Now mostly bedridden, she is attended by her faithful servant Recep, a dwarf and the doctor's illegitimate son. Translator(s): Finn, Robert. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 124 x 27. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571275953
- ISBN
- 9780571275953
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.35
€ 11.99
€ 9.35
Paperback. Ollie Ewing is barely surviving. Back home in Sligo after 'a few experiences' in London, he collects trolleys in a supermarket car park and lives in a run-down house with a group of art students. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 23. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571281862
- ISBN
- 9780571281862
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 6.02
€ 13.99
€ 6.02
Paperback. The fourth warm, witty and utterly enchanting instalment from 44 Scotland Street. Series: 44 Scotland Street. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 126 x 22. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Abacus
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349120539
- ISBN
- 9780349120539
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.82
€ 13.99
€ 10.82
Paperback. "A full-course meal, a rich, complex and memorable story that will leave you lingering gratefully at [Abu-Jaber's] table."-Ron Charles, Washington Post Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 142 x 24. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 362
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393342598
- ISBN
- 9780393342598
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.82
€ 16.99
€ 15.82
Paperback. In this heartbreakingly beautiful book of disillusioned intimacy and persistent yearning, beloved and celebrated author Andre Dubus III explores the bottomless needs and stubborn weaknesses of people seeking gratification in food and sex, work and love. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 143 x 210 x 19. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393348910
- ISBN
- 9780393348910
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 15.32
€ 15.99
€ 15.32
Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 132 x 15. Weight in Grams: 190.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780811218009
- ISBN
- 9780811218009
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.83
€ 21.83
Paperback. Translator(s): Silver, Katherine. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 135 x 203 x 19. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780811219174
- ISBN
- 9780811219174
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.82
€ 16.99
€ 15.82
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 134 x 15. Weight in Grams: 210.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780811226608
- ISBN
- 9780811226608
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.88
€ 16.99
€ 15.88
Paperback. The remarkable debut novel from Khaled Hosseini, now out in paperback in a stunning new package Translator(s): Abdel Hamid, Ehab. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 175 x 201 x 33. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury USA
- Edition
- Arabic ed
- Number of pages
- 512
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789992178966
- ISBN
- 9789992178966
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.83
€ 13.99
€ 10.83
Paperback. January 1961, and the beaten, stabbed and strangled body of a nineteen year old Pearl Gambol is discovered, after a dance the previous night at the Newry Orange Hall. Returning from London to investigate the case, Detective Eddie McCrink soon suspects that their may be people wielding influence over affairs. Series: The Blue Trilogy. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 244. 298pp
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571237562
- ISBN
- 9780571237562
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 6.02
€ 10.99
€ 6.02
Paperback. Since the publication of "Self-Help", her first collection of stories, Lorrie Moore has been hailed as one of the greatest and most influential voices in American fiction. This title gathers together her complete stories and also includes: "Paper Losses", "The Juniper Tree", and "Debarking". Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 46. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571239368
- ISBN
- 9780571239368
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.87
€ 14.99
€ 11.87
Paperback. When Euan and Ruth set off with their young daughter to live in Bahrain, it is meant to be an experience and adventure they will cherish. But on the night they arrive, Ruth discovers the truth behind the missionary work Euan has planned and feels her world start to crumble. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 123 x 196 x 27. Weight in Grams: 331.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Main
- SKU
- 9780571270538
- ISBN
- 9780571270538
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 4.99
€ 10.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. A title that follows a week in the lives of three sisters shortly before the start of the IRA ceasefire in 1994, undercut with the story of their childhood in Northern Ireland of the 1960s and 1970s. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 131 x 13. Weight in Grams: 156.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Edition
- Main
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571298808
- ISBN
- 9780571298808
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.83
€ 11.99
€ 10.83
Paperback. Grace Sachs, a happily married therapist with a young son, thinks she knows everything about women, men and marriage. She is about to publish a book called You Should Have Known, based on her pet theory: women don't value their intuition about what men are really like, leading to serious trouble later on. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 28. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571307531
- ISBN
- 9780571307531
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.03
€ 11.99
€ 10.03