Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. Featuring characters, who in their different ways, square up to death and rage against the dying light, this book is written by the winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2011. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 15. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Vintage Books USA
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099554998
- ISBN
- 9780099554998
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.01
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Paperback. Set in a small town on Cape Cod in 1950, this tells of the relationship between Peggy Cort, a 28-year-old librarian, and James Carlson Sweatt, an "over-tall" 11-year-old. They are odd candidates for friendship, but they still find their lives entwined in ways that neither one could have predicted. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 194.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099739913
- ISBN
- 9780099739913
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.22
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Paperback. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 107 x 171 x 38. Weight in Grams: 226.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Kensington Publishing
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780786037261
- ISBN
- 9780786037261
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.62
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Paperback. Life in general is getting in the way of Pam, Maggie, Ellie and Toni losing weight. And the men aren't helping either. There's an ex-husband who suddenly wants his children; a rich, powerful playboy who has everything. No doubt about it, drastic action is needed. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 19. Weight in Grams: 322. Clean copy in good condition. Some shelf wear.
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Bantam
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- SKU
- KRF0008951
- ISBN
- 9780553816846
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 10.32
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Paperback. Childhood is exhilarating and terrifying. For the young Karl Ove, new houses, classes and friends are met with manic excitement and creeping dread. Adults occupy godlike positions of power, benevolent in the case of his doting mother, tyrannical in the case of his cruel father. In this book, the author shares about his childhood. Translator(s): Bartlett, Don. Series: Knausgaard. Num Pages: 496 pages, maps (colour). BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 26. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099581499
- ISBN
- 9780099581499
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.88
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Paperback. When archaeologist Louise Cantor's son Henrik is found dead in his flat, she refuses to believe it was suicide. Clues that only a mother could detect lead her to believe that something more sinister took place. Henrik had kept many things back from her and she is shocked to learn he had contracted HIV. Translator(s): Thompson, Laurie. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 30. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Number of pages
- 464
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099542049
- ISBN
- 9780099542049
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.36
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€ 19.36
Paperback. Clean copy.
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Edition
- Re-issue
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC London
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- SKU
- KEX0216064
- ISBN
- 9780747536932
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Lionel Asbo - a very violent but not very successful criminal - has always looked out for his nephew, Desmond Pepperdine. He gives him fatherly advice and introduces him to the joys of Internet porn. Des, on the other hand, desires nothing more than books, a girl to love and to steer clear Uncle Li's psychotic pitbulls, Joe and Jeff. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 124 x 20. Weight in Grams: 212.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099565680
- ISBN
- 9780099565680
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
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Paperback. From the international bestseller Nicholas Sparks Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 24. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780751540888
- ISBN
- 9780751540888
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.04
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€ 11.04
Paperback. Nineteenth-century Europe abounds with conspiracy both ghastly and mysterious. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian priests are strangled with their own intestines. French criminals plan bombings by day and celebrate black masses by night. Every nation has its own secret service, perpetrating forgeries, plots, and massacres. Translator(s): Dixon, Richard. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 121 x 24. Weight in Grams: 420.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Number of pages
- 576
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099555971
- ISBN
- 9780099555971
Paperback
Condition: New
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Paperback. If you think Brazilian is a nationality, that PJ's are pyjamas and that Beyond is somewhere far away, then you have never met a Bergdorf Blonde. Plum Syke's heroine is British but has moved to America, working for a glossy magazine. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 228. Good clean copy with some shelf wear. Minor creasing on cover, pages are in good condition
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- SKU
- KAK0000049
- ISBN
- 9780141013947
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. If you think Brazilian is a nationality, that PJ's are pyjamas and that Beyond is somewhere far away, then you have never met a Bergdorf Blonde. Plum Syke's heroine is British but has moved to America, working for a glossy magazine. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 228. Used paperback, in good condition. Some shelf wear.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- SKU
- KIN0007745
- ISBN
- 9780141013947
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Greg wakes up in a remote war zone, sole survivor of an air crash caused by a suicide bomber. Aman faces the disappearance of his wife and children in a family blood feud. Samira is forced to cope with the complexities of life as an asylum-seeker in the UK. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Publisher
- Signal Books
- Number of pages
- 280
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781904955795
- ISBN
- 9781904955795
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.13
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Paperback. Novelists have noticed that contemporary reality keeps outdoing their imaginations. Yet there is still the obligation to attempt a reading of the present and the very near future. This work serves as an example of how the novel, or more particularly the comic novel, can respond to this transformation. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 21. Weight in Grams: 252.
- Publisher
- Vintage Books USA
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099267591
- ISBN
- 9780099267591
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
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Paperback. A powerful testament to the human spirit, STORM BAY looks back to the early days of Van Dieman's Land and the thousands of prisoners who suffered to create a great State and earn the respect of a nation Num Pages: 640 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 116 x 177 x 42. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Headline Publishing Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 640
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780755303762
- ISBN
- 9780755303762
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
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Paperback. Here are the collected stories of English novelist Elizabeth Taylor, including some only recently discovered. From the awkward passions of lonely holiday-makers to the fresh-faced anticipation of three school friends preparing for their first dance, she wryly captures the ordinary excetionalness of life. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 150 x 46. Weight in Grams: 838.
- Publisher
- Virago
- Number of pages
- 640
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844088409
- ISBN
- 9781844088409
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.96
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Paperback. Dimension: 111 x 184 x 9. Weight in Grams: 82.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141049267
- ISBN
- 9780141049267
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.82
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Paperback. Septembers, Chris Prendergast's first novel, is a simmering tale of burning monuments, bad decisions and growing anger. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 197 x 12. Weight in Grams: 146.
- Publisher
- Salt Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781907773785
- ISBN
- 9781907773785
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.09
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Paperback. 'I am Akram Khan, formerly Sergeant Khan of the Yeoman's Guard, and I am submitting. I am saving my pleasures for when I am dead.' So begins the story of a young man's journey to radicalisation. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 28. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782397328
- ISBN
- 9781782397328
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.95
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Paperback. Joe Trace - in his fifties, door-to-door salesman of beauty products, erstwhile devoted husband - shoots to death his lover of three months, impetuous, eighteen-year-old Dorcas. At the funeral, his determined, hard-working wife, Violet - who is given to stumbling into dark mental cracks - tries with a knife to disfigure the corpse. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099750918
- ISBN
- 9780099750918
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.01
€ 13.99
€ 11.01