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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. A rich and sensitive novel about loss and alienation, about life lived in exile, and about the search for home, shortlisted for the Arabic Booker Translator(s): Peate, John. Series: Hoopoe Fiction. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: 1FB; 1HBE; 1KBBEY; FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 130 x 23. .
Publisher
Hoopoe Fiction
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9789774168192
ISBN
9789774168192
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.46

Paperback. A sweeping saga of generations of a rural Egyptian family and the history of the wider Egypt that affects their lives. Winner of the 2012 Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature Translator(s): Roberts, Nancy. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 151 x 15. Weight in Grams: 406.
Publisher
The American University in Cairo Press Egypt
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9789774166204
ISBN
9789774166204
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 19.20

Paperback. As heady as a game of underground poker, and as racy as a night of debauchery in the city, this work of pulp-fiction packs pedal-to-the-floor action from start to finish. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 152 x 210 x 22. Weight in Grams: 268.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
MONSOON BOOKS
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9789814423847
ISBN
9789814423847
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 11.01

Paperback. In 1981 a mother abandoned her child and drove into the night, never to return. Her disappearance was reported in the press as a fatal road accident. Her body was never found. Thirty years later, Rowan has a child of her own. Leaving her young family and life in London, she returns to her childhood home to find a failed utopia shrouded in secrecy. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 125 x 17. Weight in Grams: 198. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0000299
ISBN
9780099565758
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Jake Whyte is the sole resident of an old farmhouse on an unnamed British island, a place of ceaseless rains and battering winds. It's just her, her untamed companion, Dog, and a flock of sheep. Which is how she wanted it to be. But something is coming for the sheep - every few nights it picks one off, leaves it in rags. It could be anything. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 190.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099572374
ISBN
9780099572374
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.01

Paperback. Frank and Leon are two men from different times, discovering that sometimes all you learn from your parents' mistakes is how to make different ones of your own. Frank is trying to escape his troubled past by running away to his family's beach shack. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 224.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099535836
ISBN
9780099535836
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

paperback. Translator(s): Boyars, A.; Franklin, S. Num Pages: 193 pages, 2ill. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 137 x 14. Weight in Grams: 310.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
193
Condition
New
SKU
V9780714526171
ISBN
9780714526171
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.31

Hardcover. Whether set against the open ocean or tiny mountain streams, in ancient China, tropical Tahiti, Paris under siege, or the vast Canadian wilderness, this title features stories that cast wide and strike deep into the universal joys, absurdities, insights, and tragedies of life. Editor(s): Hughes, Henry. Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Classics. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 186 x 27. Weight in Grams: 398.
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841596136
ISBN
9781841596136
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.39

hardcover. "Originally published in French as La maemoire aux abois (c) Editions Hoebeke, 2010" -- Verso title page. Translator(s): Daw, Paul Curtis. Series: CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 825.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Virginia Press United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Edition
Translation
SKU
V9780813938080
ISBN
9780813938080
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 78.67

Paperback. After seven years of marriage, the beautiful Lady Brenda Last is bored with life at Hetton Abbey, the Gothic mansion that is the pride and joy of her husband, Tony. She drifts into an affair with the shallow socialite John Beaver and forsakes Tony for the Belgravia set. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 216.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780141183961
ISBN
9780141183961
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.82

Paperback. The Bright Young Things of twenties Mayfair, with their paradoxical mix of innocence and sophistication, exercise their inventive minds and vile bodies in every kind of capricious escapade - whether promiscuity, dancing, cocktail parties or sports cars. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 199 x 15. Weight in Grams: 194.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780141182872
ISBN
9780141182872
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.82

Paperback. Tells the story of Charles Ryder's infatuation with the Marchmains and the rapidly disappearing world of privilege they inhabit. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 236.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780141182483
ISBN
9780141182483
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. Set among the manicured lawns and euphemisms of Whispering Glades Memorial Park in Hollywood, this novel satirizes the American way of death and offers Waugh's memento mori. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 8. Weight in Grams: 104.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780141184241
ISBN
9780141184241
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.38

Paperback. Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of 'The Daily Beast', has always prided himself on his intuitive flair for spotting ace reporters. That is not to say he has not made the odd blunder, however, and may in a moment of weakness make another. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 188.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780141184029
ISBN
9780141184029
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.82

Paperback. Guy Crouchback has lost his Halberdier idealism. A desk job in London gives him the chance of reconciliation with his former wife. Then, in Yugoslavia, as a liaison officer with the partisans, he finally becomes aware of the futility of a war he once saw in terms of honour. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 188.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141186870
ISBN
9780141186870
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. Guy Crouchback, determined to get into the war, takes a commission in the Royal Corps of Halberdiers. His spirits high, he sees all the trimmings but none of the action. And his first campaign, an abortive affair on the West African coastline, ends with an escapade which seriously blots his Halberdier copybook. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 196.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141185736
ISBN
9780141185736
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. What happened to the characters of Decline and Fall and Vile Bodies when the war broke out? This title shows them adjusting to the changing social pattern of the times. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 176.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141184012
ISBN
9780141184012
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. A collection of short stories composed between 1910-62. It includes "Mr Loveday's Little Outing"; "Cruise"; "A House of Gentlefolks"; and, "The Sympathetic Passenger". Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 354.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
512
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141193687
ISBN
9780141193687
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.96

Paperback. Guy Crouchback is now attached to a commando unit undergoing training on the Hebridean isle of Mugg, where the whisky flows freely and HM forces have to show respect for the laird. But the comedy of Mugg is followed by the bitterness of Crete. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 196.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141184678
ISBN
9780141184678
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. Guy Crouchback, a Catholic and a gentleman is commissioned into the Royal Corps of Halberdiers during the war years 1939-45. High comedy - in the company of Brigadier Ritchie-Hook or the denizens of Bellamy's Club - is only part of the shambles of his war. When action comes in Crete and in Yugoslavia, he discovers not heroism, but humanity. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 736 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 127 x 30. Weight in Grams: 510.
Publisher
Press
Number of pages
736
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141184975
ISBN
9780141184975
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.96

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