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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. An autobiographical novel of race and class by one of the leading Black writers of the 20th century. Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks. Num Pages: 344 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 19. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780472064687
ISBN
9780472064687
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.15

Paperback. This long-acknowledged classic about Caribbean exiles torn between returning and staying is a powerful study of the impossibility of disentangling British and Caribbean lives, the novel explores the unacknowledged power of history, the nature of misogyny, and the conflict between the calls of art and revolution. Series: Caribbean Modern Classics. Num Pages: 270 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 135. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Peepal Tree Press Ltd.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845231675
ISBN
9781845231675
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.04

Paperback. A compelling and intricate novel of emigration and the effects of colonialism on a people Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly. Dimension: 139 x 216 x 22. Weight in Grams: 368.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780472064700
ISBN
9780472064700
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.19

Paperback. Series: Caribbean Modern Classics. Num Pages: 436 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 137 x 33. Weight in Grams: 506.
Publisher
Peepal Tree Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
436
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845231453
ISBN
9781845231453
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.91

Paperback. Features three novels that come together in the humorous parable of greed, religion and slum youth that is The Boy Who Wanted Peace; in the fate of old and disturbed Miss Partridge who is obsessed with the innocence of young Grace; and in the mental collapse of Mr Alfred, a middle-aged schoolteacher who is in love with one of this pupils. Series: Canongate Classics. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 36. Weight in Grams: 410.
Publisher
Canongate UK
Number of pages
616
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780862418854
ISBN
9780862418854
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.31

Paperback. Set in a rural mining village in South Wales in the years leading up to the Second World War, this book recreates a magical but alive world that will resonate with our memories, real and imagined, of childhood. Series: Library of Wales. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 133 x 13. Weight in Grams: 190.
Publisher
Parthian Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905762514
ISBN
9781905762514
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.34

Paperback. Num Pages: 222 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 288.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University Press of Kentucky
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813191751
ISBN
9780813191751
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.14

Paperback. Series: Art of the Novella S. Num Pages: 77 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 133 x 7. Weight in Grams: 102.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Melville House Publishing United States
Number of pages
77
Condition
New
SKU
V9780976658306
ISBN
9780976658306
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 10.33

Hardcover. A story which evokes a bygone rural life, and is charged with a personal passion that intensifies the novel's outer dramas of seduction and betrayal and inner dramas of moral growth and redemption. Num Pages: 598 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 136 x 35. Weight in Grams: 700.
Publisher
Everyman
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857150599
ISBN
9781857150599
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.66

Paperback. Num Pages: 458 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 550.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd Canada
Number of pages
458
Condition
New
SKU
V9781551115740
ISBN
9781551115740
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 32.80

Paperback. Coming back home from the Far East after years serving in Burma, George returns to South Wales to deal with ferociously Communist self-appointed commissars of the local colliery, and getting enough black market coupons off Jack Bach the butcher's wife to buy a suit and marry beautiful, dark-haired Peggy the Papers. Num Pages: ill. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 143 x 22. Weight in Grams: 312.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Parthian Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908069955
ISBN
9781908069955
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.40

Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 128 x 28. Weight in Grams: 234.
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
First Edition, First
Condition
New
SKU
V9780486805306
ISBN
9780486805306
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.62

Paperback. .
Publisher
K A Nitz
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780473281809
ISBN
9780473281809
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 6.00

Paperback. Features observations on life complemented by illustrations. Illustrator(s): Searle, Ronald. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 432 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; FA; FC; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 320.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141186009
ISBN
9780141186009
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.88

Paperback. The gripping sequel to the 1939 classic crime masterpiece, ROGUE MALE. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780222103
ISBN
9781780222103
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.00

paperback. Num Pages: 182 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 19. Weight in Grams: 249.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Dedalus Limited United Kingdom
Edition
REV ed.
Number of pages
182
Condition
New
SKU
V9781903517048
ISBN
9781903517048
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.34

Paperback. Twenty years out of the combat zone, hidden from killers, but now fate has thrust Alex Crawford back into the front line. Though he is an aid worker, the secret service minders who have protected him for twenty years have reactivated him: they want information about the man who perpetrated a massacre in a Muslim village in Bosnia. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FH; FJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 170 x 178 x 30. Weight in Grams: 328. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Arrow London
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
SKU
KAK0009719
ISBN
9780099549413
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Twenty years out of the combat zone, hidden from killers, but now fate has thrust Alex Crawford back into the front line. Though he is an aid worker, the secret service minders who have protected him for twenty years have reactivated him: they want information about the man who perpetrated a massacre in a Muslim village in Bosnia. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FH; FJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 170 x 178 x 30. Weight in Grams: 328. Good copy with some shelf wearth
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Arrow London
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
SKU
KYB0000429
ISBN
9780099549413
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Packer has a new assignment. A wealthy businessman, Kamata, wants to rescue an ailing car company, but the moment the announcement is made, death threats are made against him by a former prisoner-of-war. Kamata is kidnapped and Packer is soon in the jungle, both hunter and hunted as he searches for the missing man and is tracked by his enemies. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF; FH; FJM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 111 x 31. Weight in Grams: 212. 8vo. Very good former library copy.Religon
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Arrow
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
SKU
KEX0286927
ISBN
9780099427957
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Hardcover. When Gordo O'Connor answers the doorbell one night when he is at home alone with his sons, he encounters an angry man who shoots him in the chest. Fortunately he escapes serious injury, but the gunshot begins a chain of events that alters the course of his life forever. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 603.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Texas Christian University Press
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780875652696
ISBN
9780875652696
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.48

Paperback.
Publisher
Flamingo
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
SKU
V9780006550785
ISBN
9780006550785
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.39

Paperback. Num Pages: 374 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 142 x 25. Weight in Grams: 406.
Publisher
Harbour Books (East) Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Paperback re-issue
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905128273
ISBN
9781905128273
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 10.01

Paperback. 'Not since Colin MacInnes's City of Spades and Absolute Beginners thirty years ago has a novel stuck a flick-knife so accurately into the young and marginal city' The Times Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 199 x 18. Weight in Grams: 198. 288 pages. 'Not since Colin MacInnes's City of Spades and Absolute Beginners thirty years ago has a novel stuck a flick-knife so accurately into the young and marginal city' The Times. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 164 x 199 x 18. Weight: 198.
Publisher
Canongate Books
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857862716
ISBN
9780857862716
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.50

Paperback. 'A beautifully composed rave generation rhapsody .. dripping with eroticism.' Sunday Times Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 202. A Romance. 288 pages. 'A beautifully composed rave generation rhapsody . dripping with eroticism.' Sunday Times. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 198 x 130 x 18. Weight: 202.
Publisher
Canongate Books
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857864055
ISBN
9780857864055
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.73

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