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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. The people of a Yoruba village gather on ten memorable nights to hear the stories and wisdom of their chief. They learn of his adventures, among them his encounter with the Jungle Witch and her ostrich, his visit to the town of the water people and his imprisonment by the Goddess of Diamonds. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 199 x 11. Weight in Grams: 126.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571320738
- ISBN
- 9780571320738
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Condition: New
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Paperback. Features characters from folklore, archetypal figures from Yoruba society, supernatural or magical happenings, acute human observation and often a moral point. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 146 x 8. Weight in Grams: 106.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571316885
- ISBN
- 9780571316885
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Condition: New
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Paperback. A novel that tells the phantasmagorical story of an alcoholic man and his search for his dead palm-wine tapster. As he travels through the land of the dead, he encounters a host of supernatural and often terrifying beings - among them the complete gentleman who returns his body parts to their owners and the insatiable hungry-creature. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 202 x 9. Weight in Grams: 116.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571311538
- ISBN
- 9780571311538
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.75
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Paperback. Ajaiyi is a man born into poverty who is determined to improve his situation. In the hope of finding the money he needs, he travels through unfamiliar lands filled with strange creatures. He meets the Spirit of Fire with its huge feathered head and flaming body, and receives assistance from a wizard and a unicorn. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 194.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571316878
- ISBN
- 9780571316878
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.71
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Paperback. After four years of marriage, the brave hunter of the Rocky Town and his beautiful wife, Lola, are still without a child. Equipped with juju, sharpened machete, bow and poisonous arrows, flints and thunderbolts, he sets off in search of the Witch-Herbalist's medicine. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 144 x 18. Weight in Grams: 226.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571316922
- ISBN
- 9780571316922
Paperback
Condition: New
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Paperback. Tells the story of Adebisi, a brave African huntress who sets out for the Jungle of the Pigmies to rescue her four brothers. Along the way, she conquers a giant, serves as the barber to a king and endures the horrors of the pigmies' prison. Yet she will not give up. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 157 x 11. Weight in Grams: 140.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571316892
- ISBN
- 9780571316892
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.78
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Paperback. Tells the tale of a small boy who wanders into the heart of a fantastical African forest, the dwelling place of innumerable wild, grotesque and terrifying beings. He is captured by ghosts, buried alive and wrapped up in spider webs, but after several years he marries and accepts his new existence. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 155 x 11. Weight in Grams: 150.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571316915
- ISBN
- 9780571316915
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Condition: New
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Paperback. Set in the summer of 1947, this is a rites-of-passage novel about a lonely boy growing up in Jerusalem in the last years of British rule. From underground resistance he is drawn into friendship with the enemy, in the form of a British soldier to whom he teaches Hebrew in return for English lessons. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 8. Weight in Grams: 98. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSS0003899
- ISBN
- 9780099754015
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
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Paperback. Three stories in which history and imaginative narrative intertwine to re-create the world of Jerusalem during the last days of the British Mandate. A book as complex, vivid and uncompromising as Jerusalem itself (The Nation). Translated by Nicholas de Lange in collaboration with the Author. A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 15. Weight in Grams: 164.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099747406
- ISBN
- 9780099747406
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
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Paperback. In the winter of 1985 Yonaton Lifshitz decides to leave the kibbutz where he was born, and his sterile marriage, to start a new life. But the arrival of Azariah Gitlin brings about a painful reconciliation of their different destinies in a society struggling with changing realities. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099265818
- ISBN
- 9780099265818
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Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.88
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Paperback. An unnamed author waits in a bar in Tel Aviv on a stifling hot night. He is there to give a reading of his work but as he sits, bored, he begins to conjure up the life stories of the people he meets. Later, when the reading is done he asks a woman for a drink. Translator(s): Lange, Nicholas de. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 116.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099521020
- ISBN
- 9780099521020
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Condition: New
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Paperback. It's 1950s Jerusalem. Hannah Gonen has just married and is thrilled and pained by her young well-meaning husband, Michael. Haunted by her dreams of two boys who disappeared from Jerusalem after the establishment of the state of Israel, Hannah gradually withdraws from her husband into a private world of fantasy and suppressed desires. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 178.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099529057
- ISBN
- 9780099529057
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Condition: New
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Paperback. Fina, our eponymous hero, is a receptionist at a gynaecology clinic. A preposterous, yet curiously attractive figure, he spends his hours fantasising about solving the nation's problems and pursuing women with equivocal success. This is his story. Translator(s): Lange, Nicholas de. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 132 x 19. Weight in Grams: 220.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099933601
- ISBN
- 9780099933601
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Condition: New
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Paperback. A collection of stories, in which the lives of ordinary Israelis are set against the backdrop of community life in Kibbutz. The fate of these individuals, their drives, ambitions and idiosyncrasies are grounded by the physical and social structure of their community as the stories portray their world as a microcosm of the wider world. Translator(s): Lange, Nicholas de; Simpson, P. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 14. Weight in Grams: 160.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099982005
- ISBN
- 9780099982005
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Condition: New
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Paperback. Following the bizarre accidental death of his wife, an Israeli secret agent retires to the suburbs. After a lifetime of uncovering other people's secrets, he is forced to look back at the lies he has told himself. The author's other books include "My Michael" and "The Slopes of Lebanon". Translator(s): Lange, Nicholas de. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099913405
- ISBN
- 9780099913405
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Condition: New
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Paperback. Ariella, unhappy in love, confides in the woman whose husband she stole. Nahum, a devoted father, can't find the words to challenge his daughter's promiscuous lover. And amid this group of people unwilling and unable to say what they mean, Martin attempts to teach Esperanto. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 201 x 13. Weight in Grams: 154.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099581475
- ISBN
- 9780099581475
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Condition: New
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Paperback. Albert, an accountant and recent widower is trying to put his life back together. His son has gone off to find himself in Tibet. The son's girlfriend makes friendly daughterly overtures to Albert, whose response is less platonic. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 137 x 14. Weight in Grams: 156.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099283959
- ISBN
- 9780099283959
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Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.08
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Paperback. A teenage son shoots himself under his parents' bed. They sleep that night unaware he is lying dead beneath them. A stranger turns up at a man's door to persude him that they must get rid of his ageing mother in order to sell the house. An old man grumbles to his daughter about the unexplained digging and banging he hears under the house at night. Translator(s): Lange, Nicholas de. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 18. Weight in Grams: 196.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099541363
- ISBN
- 9780099541363
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Condition: New
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Paperback. Shmuel, a young, idealistic student, is drawn to a mysterious handwritten note on a campus noticeboard. This takes him to a strange house, where an elderly invalid man requires a paid companion, to argue with and read to him. But there is someone else in the house, too.. Translator(s): De Lange, Nicholas. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784701956
- ISBN
- 9781784701956
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Condition: New
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Paperback. For fans of Fitzgerald and Capote, a witty, elegant fairytale of New York, set in 1938. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 24. Weight in Grams: 242.
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton General Division
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444708875
- ISBN
- 9781444708875
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.06
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