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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. 'They all broke the rules. They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved, and how. And how much.' Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 260. 339pp. Bailiúchán den Alt Rialta "Ceart nó Mícheart a scríobh Seán Ó Ruadhain agus a d'fhoilsiogh I bFeasta idir 1960-65
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- 9780006550686
- ISBN
- 9780006550686
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.57
€ 11.99
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Hardcover. A global phenomenon, The Alchemist has been read and loved by over 62 million readers, topping bestseller lists in 74 countries worldwide. Now this magical fable is beautifully repackaged in an edition that lovers of Paulo Coelho will want to treasure forever. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 120 x 27. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Condition
- New
- Format
- Hardback
- SKU
- 9780008144227
- ISBN
- 9780008144227
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 10.24
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Paperback. Set in (what was then) Bombay against the backdrop of war in the Indian subcontinent and the birth of Bangladesh, telling the story of the peculiar way in which the conflict impinges on the lives of Gustad Noble, an ordinary man, and his family. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 23. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571230570
- ISBN
- 9780571230570
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.10
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Paperback. Features ten stories that depicts the underside of life, deep in the American South. This book is about the weaknesses and follies of humanity, about the operation of grace in our lives and about the necessity of humility. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 15. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571322855
- ISBN
- 9780571322855
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.94
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Paperback. WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2008 WINNER OF THE GALAXY BRITISH BOOK AWARDS 'AUTHOR OF THE YEAR' 2009 '[An] extraordinary and brilliant first novel.. Adiga is a real writer - that is to say, someone who forges an original voice and vision.' Sunday Times Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Main
- SKU
- 9781848878082
- ISBN
- 9781848878082
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.50
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Paperback. 'a sad and splendid book' New York Times Book Review Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 150.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141022826
- ISBN
- 9780141022826
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.81
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€ 9.81
Paperback. An old man looks into the eyes of a burglar left to guard him while his brother is beaten; an Irish priest in a war-torn Syrian town teaches its men the art of hurling; a squad of broken friends assemble to take revenge on a rapist; a young man sets off on his morning run, reflecting on the ruins of his relationship, but all is not as it seems. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 16. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781784160241
- ISBN
- 9781784160241
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.24
€ 10.99
€ 10.24
Paperback. Sumire is in love with a woman seventeen years her senior. But whereas Miu is glamorous and successful, Sumire is an aspiring writer who dresses in an oversized second-hand coat and heavy boots like a character in a Kerouac novel. Sumire spends hours on the phone talking to her best friend K about the big questions in life. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 172.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- 9780099448471
- ISBN
- 9780099448471
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
€ 13.99
€ 10.45
Paperback. Cassandra Mortmain lives with her impoverished family in a crumbling castle. Her journal records her life with her bored sister Rose, her stepmother Topaz, her little brother Thomas and her novelist father who suffers from a financially crippling writer's block. However, all their lives are turned upside down when American heirs to castle arrive. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 27. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- New Edition
- SKU
- 9780099460879
- ISBN
- 9780099460879
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.75
€ 11.99
€ 9.75
Paperback. A sweltering week in late August. Where better to enjoy the last days of summer than on the beautiful Bay of Naples? But even as Rome's richest citizens relax in their villas around Pompeii and Herculaneum, there are ominous warnings that something is going wrong. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Cornerstone
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099527947
- ISBN
- 9780099527947
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.10
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€ 10.10
Paperback. As a girl, Clara del Valle can read fortunes, make objects move as if they had lives of their own, and predict the future. Following the mysterious death of her sister, Rosa the Beautiful, Clara is mute for nine years. When she breaks her silence, it is to announce that she will be married soon to the stern and volatile landowner Esteban Trueba. Series: Vintage Magic. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 33. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099528562
- ISBN
- 9780099528562
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.27
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Paperback. Finally given the heave-ho by Pandora, Adrian Mole finds himself in the unenviable situation of living with the love-of-his-life as she goes about shacking up with other men. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 149 x 196 x 21. Weight in Grams: 252.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Re-issue
- SKU
- 9780141046457
- ISBN
- 9780141046457
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.61
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Paperback. One of the first things ninety-two-year-old Marian Leatherby overhears when she is given an ornate hearing trumpet is her family plotting to commit her to an institution. Soon, she finds herself trapped in a sinister retirement home, where the elderly must inhabit buildings shaped like igloos and birthday cakes. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 138.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141187990
- ISBN
- 9780141187990
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
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Paperback. In 1939, five-year-old Jacques Austerlitz is sent to England on a Kindertransport and placed with foster parents. This childless couple promptly erase from the boy all knowledge of his identity and he grows up ignorant of his past. Translator(s): Bell, Anthea. Num Pages: 448 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 198 x 30. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780241951804
- ISBN
- 9780241951804
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.53
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€ 12.53
Paperback. Blending political reality with magic realism, fantasy and comic invention, this book is one of the most daringly original works of the twentieth century. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780241968581
- ISBN
- 9780241968581
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
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Paperback. A Russian woman named Lara arrives in Afghanistan at the house of Marcus Caldwell, an Englishman and widower living in the shadow of the Tora Bora mountains. Marcus' daughter, Zameen, may have known Lara's brother, a Soviet soldier who disappeared in the area many years previously. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 30. Weight in Grams: 352 436pp
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Main
- SKU
- 9780571238804
- ISBN
- 9780571238804
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.33
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€ 10.33
Paperback. For Jack Reacher being invisible has become a habit. He spends his days digging swimming pools by hand and his nights as the bouncer in the local strip club in the Florida Keys. He doesn't want to be found. But someone has sent a private detective to seek him out. Then Reacher finds the guy beaten to death with his fingertips sliced off. Series: Jack Reacher. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF; FH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 34. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- 9780857500069
- ISBN
- 9780857500069
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.45
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Paperback. This title involves left-wing academics, right-wing capitalists, true-blue country gentry, workers, peasants, police and lawyers. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099435532
- ISBN
- 9780099435532
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.76
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Paperback. What if a demented London cabbie called Dave Rudman wrote a book to his estranged son to give him some fatherly advice? What if that book was buried in Hampstead and hundreds of years later, when rising sea levels have put London underwater, spawned a religion? This book offers a historical detective story set in the far future. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141014548
- ISBN
- 9780141014548
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.61
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Paperback. Okonowo is the greatest warrior alive and he is one of the powerful men of his clan. But he also has a fiery temper. Determined not to be like his father, he refuses to show his weakness. When outsiders threaten the traditions of his clan, he takes violent action. Will the great man's pride eventually destroy him? Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 113 x 15. Weight in Grams: 152.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- 9780141023380
- ISBN
- 9780141023380
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.64
€ 11.99
€ 9.64