Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. When attractive English widow Lidia takes a holiday in Italy, she causes a scandal by marrying Gino, a highly unsuitable Italian 12 years her junior. Her snobbish in-laws make no attempts to hide their disapproval, and when Lidia's decision eventually brings disaster, her English relatives embark on an expedition to face the uncouth foreigner. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 134.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141441450
- ISBN
- 9780141441450
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.17
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Paperback. Rickie Elliot, a sensitive and intelligent young man with an intense imagination and a certain amount of literary talent, sets out from Cambridge full of hopes to become a writer. But when his stories are not successful, he decides instead to marry the beautiful but shallow Agnes, agreeing to abandon his writing and become a schoolmaster. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 26. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141441481
- ISBN
- 9780141441481
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.17
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Hardcover. Set in British India in the 1920s, this book looks at racial conflict. The characters struggle to overcome their own differences and prejudices, but when the Indian Dr Aziz is tried for the alleged assault of Adela Quested even the strongest inter-racial friendships come under pressure. Num Pages: 282 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 135 x 25. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Publisher
- Everyman United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 282
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857150292
- ISBN
- 9781857150292
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.29
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Paperback. * A delightful and witty celebration of the suburban British housewife Series: VMC. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 36. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Publisher
- Virago
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1984
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780860685227
- ISBN
- 9780860685227
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.29
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Paperback. Num Pages: 310 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 215 x 20. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 310
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781439178102
- ISBN
- 9781439178102
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.93
€ 18.99
€ 17.93
Paperback. Welcome to America at the turn of the twentieth century, where the rhythms of ragtime set the beat. Harry Houdini astonishes audiences with magical feats of escape, the mighty J P Morgan dominates the financial world and Henry Ford manufactures cars by making men into machines. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 2. Weight in Grams: 220.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141188171
- ISBN
- 9780141188171
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.87
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Paperback. * A new masterpiece from E. L. Doctorow - the story of two eccentric New York brothers adapting to life in a century of change, it is humane, wise, funny and moving Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 15. Weight in Grams: 154.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Young Readers
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349122595
- ISBN
- 9780349122595
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.98
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Paperback. A brutal and brilliant novel set in the American Civil War. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 26. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Publisher
- Abacus
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349119595
- ISBN
- 9780349119595
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.97
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Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 21. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241256428
- ISBN
- 9780241256428
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.95
€ 13.99
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Paperback. As Cold War hysteria inflames America, FBI agents pay a surprise visit to a Communist man and his wife in their New York apartment. After a trial that divides the country, the couple are sent to the electric chair for treason. Decades later, in 1967, their son Daniel struggles to understand the tragedy of their lives. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141188188
- ISBN
- 9780141188188
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.74
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Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 768
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140119633
- ISBN
- 9780140119633
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.20
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Paperback. "Of all the work by young men who have sprung up since 1920 one book survives-The Enormous Room by E. E. Cummings."-F. Scott Fitzgerald Editor(s): Firmage, George James. Num Pages: 416 pages, 56 drawings. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 210 x 24. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Publisher
- Liveright
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780871409287
- ISBN
- 9780871409287
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.32
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€ 15.32
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV; FW; WS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 230 x 16. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Career Assurance Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781934759592
- ISBN
- 9781934759592
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 15.71
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Paperback. Num Pages: 80 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; FA; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 143 x 6. Weight in Grams: 138.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada Canada
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 80
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780888394682
- ISBN
- 9780888394682
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.66
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Paperback. Spanning the centuries from the late eighteenth to the late twentieth, this collection opens with a rumbustious tale from the Marquis de Sade, takes in the masters of the nineteenth century, from Stendhal and Balzac to Maupassant, and reaches to Quebec, Africa, and the French Carribbean in the twentieth century. Editor(s): Fallaize, Elizabeth. Series: Oxford Books of Prose & Verse. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADF; FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 376
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199583171
- ISBN
- 9780199583171
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.28
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Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Fox, Finch & Tepper
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780993046704
- ISBN
- 9780993046704
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.58
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Paperback. A must-have for all Dylan Thomas fans Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 39. Weight in Grams: 188.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780460870764
- ISBN
- 9780460870764
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.41
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Paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 208 x 21. Weight in Grams: 226.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Soho Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781616955717
- ISBN
- 9781616955717
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.72
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Paperback. "Set in the Midwest, One-Hundred-Knuckled Fist tells the stories of everyday, blue-collar workers with dark humor and a gritty, experimental style, revealing the absurdity of the daily grind and its crushing reality" -- Series: Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction. Num Pages: 186 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 11. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 186
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780803288546
- ISBN
- 9780803288546
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.66
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Paperback. Num Pages: 120 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 183 x 127 x 7. Weight in Grams: 140.
- Publisher
- Samuel French Inc United States
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780573617546
- ISBN
- 9780573617546
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.75
€ 17.75
Paperback. Translator(s): Abu-Zeid, Kareem James. Num Pages: 112 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 7. Weight in Grams: 140.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780811222860
- ISBN
- 9780811222860
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.31
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Paperback. Num Pages: 302 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 5SL; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Publisher
- Spinifex Press Australia
- Number of pages
- 302
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781875559541
- ISBN
- 9781875559541
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.79
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Paperback. Num Pages: 196 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 144.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Spinifex Press Australia
- Number of pages
- 196
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781875559695
- ISBN
- 9781875559695
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.79
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Paperback. Presents a novel based on the testimonies of a number of women who survived the Spanish Civil War, and suffered imprisonment under the France regime, as well as on accounts of others who died fighting for freedom. This book is a bestseller in Spain, where it was voted 'Book of the year'. Translator(s): Caistor, Nick. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843432098
- ISBN
- 9781843432098
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 17.98
€ 25.99
€ 17.98