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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. An international bestseller. A charming and wonderful novel about a cat that brings joy into a couple's life. Translator(s): Selland, Eric. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 10. Weight in Grams: 124.
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Main Market Ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781447279402
ISBN
9781447279402
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.98

Paperback. A family prospering until the day father and surgeon Kweku Sai is victim of a grave injustice. Ashamed, he abandons his beautiful wife Fola and their little boys and girls, causing the family to fracture and spiral out into the world - New York, London, New England - on uncertain, troubled journeys until, many years later, tragedy unites them. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 25. Weight in Grams: 314.
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780670919888
ISBN
9780670919888
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. What does it mean to be a good daughter, sister, friend and citizen - and a good Muslim? Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 20. Weight in Grams: 208.
Publisher
Canongate Books
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847679758
ISBN
9781847679758
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.75

Paperback. The highly acclaimed romantic tragedy of love, migration, and the search for identity from the Granta 'Best of Young British' author Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 197 x 29. Weight in Grams: 292.
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847679789
ISBN
9781847679789
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.54

Paperback. Boualem Yekker, a bookstore owner lives in a country being overtaken by the Vigilant Brothers, a radically conservative party that seeks to control every element of life according to the laws of their stringent moral theology: no work of beauty created by human hands should rival the wonders of their god. Translator(s): De Jager, Marjolijn. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 130 x 10. Weight in Grams: 182.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803215917
ISBN
9780803215917
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.59

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

Paperback. A poetic vision of power, colonialism, and gender in North Africa, The Sand Child has been justifiably celebrated around the world as a daring and significant work of international fiction. Translator(s): Sheridan, Alan. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 142 x 11. Weight in Grams: 208.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
Johns Hopkins paperback ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801864407
ISBN
9780801864407
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 26.39

Paperback. These two searingly funny and unsettling portraits of teenagers beyond the control and largely beneath the notice of adults in 1980s Taiwan are the first English translations of works by Taiwan's most famous and best-selling literary cult figure. Translator(s): Berry, Michael. Series: Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan. Num Pages: 272 pages, 43 cartoon drawings. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Edition
Revised ed.
SKU
V9780231120975
ISBN
9780231120975
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 22.32

Paperback. Alice has a perfect life - a great job, happy kids, a wonderful husband. Until he goes missing one night; she receives a suspicious phone call; things don't quite add up. Alice needs to know what's going on. But when she uncovers the truth she faces a brutal choice. And how can she be sure it is the truth? Sometimes it's better not to know. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 35. Weight in Grams: 354.
Publisher
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784162399
ISBN
9781784162399
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.29

Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 141 x 26. Weight in Grams: 414.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
M P Publishing Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849822459
ISBN
9781849822459
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.46

Paperback. Old Johnny Ifor had never gone anywhere. Not physically, anyway. But in his mind, in the journals he's inherited, in the stories he starts to tell to Jonathon, he travels across oceans and generations. Num Pages: 331 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 413.
Publisher
Parthian Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9781902638768
ISBN
9781902638768
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.47

Paperback. If I Forget You is at once a great love story and a moving exploration of what it means to love and to lose, and how the choices we make can change our lives forever, from the bestselling author, T.C. Greene. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FRD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782399377
ISBN
9781782399377
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.23

Paperback. Set in 1795, "Water Music" is the rambunctious account of two men's wild adventures through the gutters of London and the Scottish Highlands to their unlikely meeting in darkest Africa. Boyle's other works include "The Tortilla Curtain". Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 31. Weight in Grams: 308.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Granta Books
Condition
New
SKU
9781862071551
ISBN
9781862071551
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.95

Paperback. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408881767
ISBN
9781408881767
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.93

Paperback. Num Pages: 464 pages, maps (black and white). BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 29. Weight in Grams: 322.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
464
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408831373
ISBN
9781408831373
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.83

Paperback. When Delaney Mossbacher knocks down a Mexican pedestrian, he neither reports the accident nor takes his victim to hospital. Instead the man accepts $20 and limps back to poverty and his pregnant 17-year-old wife. But these two men are fated against each other, as Delaney attempts to clear the land of the illegal immigrants. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 127 x 24. Weight in Grams: 258. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
Used, Very Good
Format
Paperback
SKU
KAC0002223
ISBN
9780747525721
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Presents a saga in which scandalous affairs rage behind closed doors, broken hearts are tossed aside, fires rip through the wings of the house and paparazzi lie in wait outside the front door for the tragedy. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 30. Weight in Grams: 372. 464 pages. Presents a saga in which scandalous affairs rage behind closed doors, broken hearts are tossed aside, fires rip through the wings of the house and paparazzi lie in wait outside the front door for the tragedy. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 30. Weight: 320.
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
464
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408800980
ISBN
9781408800980
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.25

Paperback. Trained in the way of the Samurai, dreaming of the City of Brotherly Love, Hiro Tanaka impetuously jumps ship off the coast of Georgia - only to wash up on a barrier island populated by rednecks, descendants of black slaves, and a colony of crazed artists. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 25. Weight in Grams: 250.
Condition
Used, Good
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publication date
1996
Edition
New edition
SKU
KLN0015365
ISBN
9780747529330
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 276 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 384.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Brindle & Glass
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
SKU
V9781897142424
ISBN
9781897142424
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 19.72

Publisher
United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
SKU
V9780425253366
ISBN
9780425253366
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 17.09

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