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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 145 x 26. Weight in Grams: 266. Some minor shelf wear but overall in a very good condition
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSC0002366
ISBN
9781408809938
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Now available as a stunning Canon 'A work of glittering Sparkian ice, whose thinly frozen surface tempts you to jump up and down jovially above something deeper and darker' ALI SMITH Series: Canons. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 12. Weight in Grams: 108.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Canongate Canons
Condition
New
SKU
9781782117575
ISBN
9781782117575
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.41

Paperback. Frank Cowperwood, a fiercely ambitious businessman, emerges as the very embodiment of greed as he relentlessly seeks satisfaction in wealth, women, and power. As Cowperwood deals and double-deals, betrays and is in turn betrayed, his rise and fall come to represent the American success story stripped down to brutal realities. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 420.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
528
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9780143105541
ISBN
9780143105541
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.89

Paperback. In true controversial James Frey style, this brilliant new novel is the final Testament of the Holy Bible. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 125 x 196 x 26. Weight in Grams: 274.
Publisher
John Murray Press
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848543195
ISBN
9781848543195
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.89

Paperback. A brilliant reworking of the detective story by the much-acclaimed Michael Chabon, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & KLAY. Num Pages: 128 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 114.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
1St Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007196036
ISBN
9780007196036
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.50

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 135 x 14. Weight in Grams: 222.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780811218115
ISBN
9780811218115
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 15.94

Hardback. An affectionate satire of the culture of self-indulgence, The Final Days of Great American Shopping exposes the American obsessions with money, mass marketing, and material objects. Readers meet acolorful cast of characters doing their best to buy happiness in a series of sixteen closely linked stories from the past, present, and future. Num Pages: 152 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 181.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of South Carolina Press United States
Number of pages
152
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611176384
ISBN
9781611176384
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 25.46

Paperback. * In this fascinating and thrilling novel, Robert Winder brilliantly imagines the writing of Shakespeare's missing royal play, Henry VII, and creates a suspenseful page-turner as well as a literary tour de force Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 196 x 29. Weight in Grams: 352.
Publisher
Abacus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
9780349122502
ISBN
9780349122502
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 4.99

Paperback. Two Irish-American scholars from Harvard journey to Albania in the 1930s with a tape recorder in order to record the last genuinely oral epic singers. Their purpose, they say, is to show how Homer's epics might have been culled from a verbal tradition. The two dedicated scholars realise only too late that they have stumbled over an ants' nest. Translator(s): Bellos, David. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 11. Weight in Grams: 136.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099497196
ISBN
9780099497196
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.89

Paperback. 'Stunning. An essential novel' Irvine Welsh Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 412.
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
On Demand
Condition
New
SKU
V9781447219309
ISBN
9781447219309
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.42

paperback. Muhammad Ali met George Foreman in the ring. Foreman's genius employed silence, serenity and cunning. He had never been defeated. His hands were his instrument, and 'he kept them in his pockets the way a hunter lays his rifle back into its velvet case'. This book focuses on the 1975 World Heavyweight Boxing Championship in Kinshasa, Zaire. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; 3JJPL; DNF; FA; WSTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 15. Weight in Grams: 192.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780141184142
ISBN
9780141184142
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 9.93

Paperback. When Maisie Shergold, art historian, meets Michael Curran, folk musician, on the platform of Paddington Station she falls in love with him instantly. Ignoring the differences in their backgrounds, ages, and personal outlook, she pursues the affair with a single-minded intensity that borders on obsession. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 131 x 18. Weight in Grams: 238.
Publisher
Parthian Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781909844872
ISBN
9781909844872
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.21

Paperback. Shortlisted for the Hugo, Nebula, Locus, World Fantasy, Kitschie and Audie awards this is the stunning first instalment in a fantasy trilogy set in a world of volcanoes and earthquakes, where the power to control the earth is the most dangerous of all. The New York Times calls The Fifth Season 'intricate and extraordinary' Series: Broken Earth Trilogy. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 198 x 45. Weight in Grams: 350.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Orbit
Condition
New
SKU
9780356508191
ISBN
9780356508191
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.35

Paperback. Num Pages: 486 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 159 x 38. Weight in Grams: 612.
Publisher
Bantam
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Condition
New
SKU
V9780553373806
ISBN
9780553373806
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 16.06

Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 260.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405927079
ISBN
9781405927079
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.66

Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 13. Weight in Grams: 146.
Publisher
Cornerstone United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099586623
ISBN
9780099586623
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.94

Paperback. Working under the code name 'Ashlyn', Jennifer Hunter leads a double life. Her friends and family all think she's an investment banker who's too busy to date. In reality, Jennifer is a professional honey-trap, hired by suspicious wives and girlfriends to test the fidelity of the men in their lives. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 33. Weight in Grams: 406. Good clean copy showing light shelf and reading wear, remains a nice copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Ebury Publishing
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0011728
ISBN
9780091928445
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. For fans of Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn, The Fever is Megan Abbott's dark and thrilling novel about a mysterious illness that sweeps through a high school. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 23. Weight in Grams: 230.
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
2000th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781447226338
ISBN
9781447226338
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.44

Paperback. Two rival families. One East End. The explosive first novel in the Mitchells & O'Haras trilogy Series: The Mitchells and O'Haras Trilogy. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKES; 1DBKESL; 2AB; 3JJPR; FA; FH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 35. Weight in Grams: 336.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780008228644
ISBN
9780008228644
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.56

paperback. Offering a strange sort of summation and laughter, this titles casts light on the most serious of problems and at the same time saying not one serious sentence. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 198 x 10. Weight in Grams: 108.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Faber And Faber Ltd.
Condition
New
SKU
9780571316496
ISBN
9780571316496
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.61

Paperback. .
Publisher
Cinnamon Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910836712
ISBN
9781910836712
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 4.70

Paperback. A story about sexual fantasy in which the main character, Arno Strine, a temporary typist, has mastered the technique of freezing time so that he can undress women. Nicholson Baker is the author of "Vox". Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 20. Weight in Grams: 230.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Edition
First Printing (by the Numbers), Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099286714
ISBN
9780099286714
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.65

Paperback. Beautiful and independent, Arabella has been brought up in rural seclusion by her widowed father. Devoted to reading French romances, the young woman imagines all sorts of misadventures that can befall a heroine such as herself. This is a parody of the style of Cervantes, and a telling and comic depiction of eighteenth-century English society. Editor(s): Gilroy, Amanda; Verhoeven, Wil. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 356.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780140439878
ISBN
9780140439878
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 9.67

Paperback. The first novel from the Orange Prize-winning author of We Need to Talk about Kevin is a compelling and provocative story of love and how we suffer for it. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 34. Weight in Grams: 356.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007564019
ISBN
9780007564019
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.51

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