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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Translator(s): Dixon, Richard. Num Pages: 1 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140. Weight in Grams: 367.
Publisher
Archipelago Books United States
Number of pages
1
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780914671428
ISBN
9780914671428
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 17.09

Paperback. Translator(s): Eschleman, Clayton. Num Pages: 342 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 202 x 22. Weight in Grams: 516.
Publisher
Exact Change,U.S. United States
Number of pages
342
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9781878972187
ISBN
9781878972187
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 19.53

Paperback. *'Frost in May is the unsurpassed novel of convent school life' Hermione Lee, Observer Series: VMC. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 15. Weight in Grams: 156.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844083787
ISBN
9781844083787
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

Paperback. 'THE HUNGER GAMES meets the London riots on board Noah's Ark' THE TIMES Includes reading group notes and a fascinating glimpse into Lalla's childhood in the short story prequel 'The Time Being'. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780227344
ISBN
9781780227344
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.07

Paperback. 'Relativity is a novel of assured and measured empathy, a story of familial love and familial hurt that is fair, honest and remarkably non-judgmental. Hayes is a convincing writer and a true storyteller: her characters are alive.' Christos Tsiolkas, author of THE SLAP Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 26. Weight in Grams: 284.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472151704
ISBN
9781472151704
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.25

Paperback. In a novel set in Soviet-era Poland, a boy is bewitched by his teacher and vows to win her heart, but later, when he becomes a teacher himself, he sees the story from the opposite side of the instructor's desk. Reprint. Translator(s): Kolakowska, Agnieszka. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 29. Weight in Grams: 318. 438 pages. In a novel set in Soviet-era Poland, a boy is bewitched by his teacher and vows to win her heart, but later, when he becomes a teacher himself, he sees the story from the opposite side of the instructor's desk. Reprint. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 196 x 128 x 29. Weight: 314.
Publisher
Canongate Books
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841955209
ISBN
9781841955209
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.07

Paperback. This stunning, literary commercial novel in the vein of Curtis Sittenfeld's Prep is a New York Times bestseller and a stand-out debut launch for Tinder Press Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 197 x 26. Weight in Grams: 284.
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780755395194
ISBN
9780755395194
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.39

Paperback. Translator(s): Volokhonsky, Larissa; Pevear, Richard. Series: Vintage Classics. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 205 x 28. Weight in Grams: 430.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Vintage
Edition
Vintage Classics ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781400032921
ISBN
9781400032921
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 19.60

Paperback. The importance of Chekhov's stories is now recognized by readers as well as by fellow authors. Their themes - alienation, the absurdity and tragedy of human existence - have as much relevance today as when they were written, and this superb new translation captures their modernist spirit. Among the fourteen stories included are 'The Lady with the Little Dog', 'Gusev', and 'Rothschild's Violin'. Translator(s): Bartlett, Rosamund. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 184.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199536689
ISBN
9780199536689
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.30

Paperback. Depicts a post-cataclysmic world in which the forces of capitalism have begun to reestablish themselves. Sharply opposed to such a trend, a group of crones confined to a nursing home - all of them apparently immortal - resolves to create an avenging grandson fashioned of lint and rags. Translator(s): Stump, Jordan. Num Pages: 166 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 10. Weight in Grams: 284.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
166
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803220898
ISBN
9780803220898
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.79

Paperback. Could a felt hat have the power to change lives? When President Francois Mitterrand leaves his hat behind at a Paris brasserie, it sets off a chain of momentous events in the lives of those who come to wear it. Translator(s): Rogers, Lalaurie Louise; Aitken, Jane; Boyce, Emily. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 197 x 16. Weight in Grams: 212.
Publisher
Gallic Books
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908313478
ISBN
9781908313478
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.66

Paperback. A collector unearths the find of a lifetime: an eighteenth-century portrait of a man uncannily like him. Translator(s): Boyce, Emily; Aitken, Jane. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198. .
Publisher
Gallic Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910477434
ISBN
9781910477434
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.65

Paperback. Antoine Laurain s new masterpiece combines his trademark charm with a trenchant critique of the troubled state France is today." Translator(s): Boyce, Emily; Aitken, Jane. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 257 x 19. Weight in Grams: 164.
Publisher
Gallic Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910477304
ISBN
9781910477304
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.81

Paperback. 'He was about to commit a forbidden act. A transgression. For no man should rummage through a woman's handbag.' Translator(s): Boyce, Emily. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 131 x 13. Weight in Grams: 160.
Publisher
Gallic Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908313867
ISBN
9781908313867
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.73

paperback. Features novels including "Southern Mail" and "Night Flight" that evoke the tragic courage and nobility of the airborne pioneers who took enormous risks, flying in open cock-pits in planes that were often fragile and unstable. Translator(s): Cate, Curtis. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 11. Weight in Grams: 138.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Penguin Classic
Condition
New
SKU
9780141183749
ISBN
9780141183749
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.14

Paperback. In "The Little Prince",a small boy leaves the tiny planet on which he lives alone, on a trip to Earth, where he is introduced to the vagaries of adult behaviour. "Letter to a Hostage" is an open letter to a Jewish intellectual in hiding in occupied France. Illustrator(s): Saint-Exupery, Antoine De. Translator(s): Cuffe, T.V.F. Series: Penguin Modern Classics Translated Texts S. Num Pages: 160 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 244.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141185620
ISBN
9780141185620
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.46

Paperback. The first of Trollope's six Palliser novels, Can You Forgive Her? explores the dilemma of Alice Vavasor, torn between two suitors, and the choices faced by two other independent women. The tensions within Victorian society highlighted by the plot are illuminated in the introduction and notes to this new edition. Editor(s): Birch, Dinah. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 752 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 153 x 34. Weight in Grams: 510.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
752
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199578177
ISBN
9780199578177
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.40

hardcover. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 140. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1970
Publisher
London, Calder & Boyars United Kingdom
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780714507262
ISBN
9780714507262
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.41

paperback. Freya Wyley meets Nancy Holdaway amid the wild celebrations of VE Day, the prelude to a devoted and competitive friendship.. Freya, ambitious and outspoken, pursues a career on Fleet Street while Nancy, less self-confident, struggles to get her first novel published. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Vintage
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
9781784703127
ISBN
9781784703127
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 9.99

paperback. Summer of 1911. The streets of London ring with cheers for a new king's coronation and the cries of increasingly violent suffragette protests. Connie Callaway, fired up by the possibilities of independence, wants more than the conventional comforts of marriage. She is determined to fight for 'the greatest cause the world has ever known.' Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 33. Weight in Grams: 338.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099531944
ISBN
9780099531944
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.70

Paperback. On a sultry afternoon in the summer of 1936 a young woman is witness to an attempted murder in a London hotel room. Nina, a West End actress, faces a dilemma: she shouldn't have been at the hotel in the first place, and certainly not with a married man. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 27. Weight in Grams: 282.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099593232
ISBN
9780099593232
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.88

Paperback. Liverpool, 1939. Lonely historian Tom Baines is at work on a study of the city's architectural past but the ominous news from Europe, together with his burgeoning friendship with Richard, a young photographer, and his beautiful wife, Bella, are proving a distraction. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 123 x 26. Weight in Grams: 304.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
British Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099531937
ISBN
9780099531937
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.70

Paperback. Takes us to a dilapidated country estate where an ambitious artist of questionable talent, a family of landed aristocrats wondering where the money has gone, and a secretly cross-dressing squire all commingle among the ruins. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780226137186
ISBN
9780226137186
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 19.30

Paperback. Takes us to a dilapidated country estate where an ambitious artist of questionable talent, a family of landed aristocrats wondering where the money has gone, and a secretly cross-dressing squire all commingle among the ruins. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 55 x 85 x 18. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780226132969
ISBN
9780226132969
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 19.30

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