Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. Longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize and a modern Chinese classic with over one million copies sold. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 29. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780007489886
- ISBN
- 9780007489886
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. To a small flat in South London comes a Sumerian bowl, but the bowl is the Collector Collector, clay with something to say, an object d'art who will offer Rosa, its owner, vast swathes of unrecorded history from the last 5000 years. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 132 x 14. Weight in Grams: 164.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099268192
- ISBN
- 9780099268192
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.77
€ 20.99
€ 16.77
Paperback. Features the adventures of two young Hungarian basketball players through the turbulent years between the end of World War II and the anti-Soviet uprising of 1956. This work tells the story of the two improbably heroes, Pataki and Gyuri, who travel the length and breadth of Hungary in a epic quest for food, lodging, and female companionship. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 212.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099438052
- ISBN
- 9780099438052
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.01
€ 13.99
€ 11.01
Paperback. France. A skint, clapped-out British philosopher meets an incompetent, freshly released, one-armed, armed robber. The Thought Gang is born as the duo blag their way from Montpellier to Toulon for the ultimate bank robbery. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 242.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099516927
- ISBN
- 9780099516927
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Paperback. Using the credit card and identity of a handcuffs salesman, professional failure Tyndale Corbett arrives in Miami for a law enforcement conference to discover the joys of luxury hotels and above all the delight of being someone else, someone successful. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 132 x 22. Weight in Grams: 274. 300 pages. Using the credit card and identity of a handcuffs salesman, professional failure Tyndale Corbett arrives in Miami for a law enforcement conference to discover the joys of luxury hotels and above all the delight of being someone else, someone successful. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 202 x 132 x 22. Weight: 240.
- Publisher
- Alma Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 300
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846880841
- ISBN
- 9781846880841
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.37
€ 11.37
Paperback. In this beautifully crafted novel about the interlinked lives of two women, Thrity Umrigar explores the complex relationships between the classes in India, rarely addressed in contemporary fiction. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 22. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007212330
- ISBN
- 9780007212330
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.41
€ 15.99
€ 11.41
Paperback. A novel about a widow in Ohio dealing with the loss of her husband and country. After he died she has to make a decision: go back to India, the place where her fondest memories were born, or remain in Ohio with her only son and his American wife. She marvels at how successful he has been adjusting to American culture. Series: P.S. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780061240249
- ISBN
- 9780061240249
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.07
€ 17.99
€ 16.07
Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 205 x 24. Weight in Grams: 262.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780062259318
- ISBN
- 9780062259318
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 15.94
€ 17.99
€ 15.94
BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 198 x 128 x 25. Weight in Grams: 289. Good clean copy with some shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- GARDNERS BOOKS HOLDING ACC
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publication date
- 1900
- SKU
- KIN0037098
- ISBN
- 9781472231765
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 7.99€ 4.99
€ 7.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 393 pages, maps. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Texas Christian University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875655697
- ISBN
- 9780875655697
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.31
€ 27.99
€ 26.31
hardcover. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135 x 33. Weight in Grams: 658.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- New
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780714530413
- ISBN
- 9780714530413
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 21.47
€ 24.99
€ 21.47
Paperback. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 135 x 16. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Alberta Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780888643490
- ISBN
- 9780888643490
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.15
€ 19.99
€ 16.15
Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 15. Weight in Grams: 278.
- Publisher
- The New York Review of Books, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781590175835
- ISBN
- 9781590175835
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 16.02
€ 18.99
€ 16.02
Paperback. In contemporary Spain, a man arrives at an insane asylum in Seville claiming to be the legendary navigator Christopher Columbus. Who he really is, and the events that lead him to break with reality, lie at the centre of this page-turning novel. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 27. Weight in Grams: 338. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- On Demand
- Publisher
- Picador
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- SKU
- KRA0010711
- ISBN
- 9780330471985
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover. This text looks at the United States-Mexico border in fiction, film and song. Borderlands have long served as backgrounds for depicting social instability. They are readily used as backdrops for films, novels, ballads, and tales in which characters shift easily from one culture to another. Num Pages: 312 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KLCM; AB; APF; AVQ; FA; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 553.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Texas Christian University Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875652573
- ISBN
- 9780875652573
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 28.70
€ 31.99
€ 28.70
Paperback. Phil and George are brothers, more than partners, joint owners of the biggest ranch in their Montana valley. Phil is the bright one, George the plodder. Phil is a brilliant chess player, a voracious reader, an eloquent storyteller; George learns slowly, and devotes himself to the business. Phil is a sadist; George has a gentle, loving soul. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 22. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781784870621
- ISBN
- 9781784870621
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.78
€ 13.99
€ 10.78
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; FA; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 139 x 16. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- New Falcon Publications,U.S. United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781561841288
- ISBN
- 9781561841288
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.59
€ 23.99
€ 16.59
paperback. Vineland, a zone of blessed anarchy in northern California, is the last refuge of hippiedom, a culture devastated by the sobriety epidemic, Reaganomics, and the Tube. Here, in an Orwellian 1984, Zoyd Wheeler and his daughter Prairie search for Prairie's long-lost mother, a Sixties radical who ran off with a narc. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 26. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780749391416
- ISBN
- 9780749391416
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.14
€ 13.99
€ 11.14
paperback. Tyrone Slothrop, a GI in London in 1944, has a big problem. Whenever he gets an erection, a Blitz bomb hits. Slothrop gets excited, and then, "a screaming comes across the sky," heralding an angel of death, a V-2 rocket. Soon Tyrone is on the run from legions of bizarre enemies through the phantasmagoric horrors of Germany. Num Pages: 912 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 48. Weight in Grams: 660.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099533214
- ISBN
- 9780099533214
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.53
€ 14.99
€ 12.53
Paperback. Charles Mason (1728 -1786) and Jeremiah Dixon (1733-1779) were the British Surveyors best remembered for running the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that we know today as the Mason-Dixon Line. This title tells their story. Num Pages: 784 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 42. Weight in Grams: 566.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099771913
- ISBN
- 9780099771913
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 12.53
€ 17.99
€ 12.53