Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. Okonkwo is the greatest wrestler and warrior alive, and his fame spreads throughout West Africa like a bush-fire. But when he accidentally kills a clansman, things begin to fall apart. Then Okonkwo returns from exile to find missionaries and colonial governors have arrived in the village. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 138.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141186887
- ISBN
- 9780141186887
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.00
€ 13.99
€ 11.00
Paperback. Chris, Ikem and Beatrice are like-minded friends working under the military regime of His Excellency, the Sandhurst-educated President of Kangan. In the pressurized atmosphere of oppression and intimidation they are simply trying to live and love, and remain friends. But in a world where each day brings a new betrayal, hope is hard to cling on to. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 180.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141186900
- ISBN
- 9780141186900
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.86
€ 13.99
€ 10.86
Paperback. Obi Okonkwo is an idealistic young man who has now returned to Nigeria for a job in the civil service. However in his new role he finds that the way of government seems to be corruption. Obi manages to resist the bribes offered to him, but when he falls in love with an unsuitable girl, he sinks further into emotional and financial turmoil. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 9. Weight in Grams: 114.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141191553
- ISBN
- 9780141191553
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.95
€ 13.99
€ 10.95
Paperback. A modern classic of Soviet literature, a love story that ranks alongside Turgenev's First Love. Translator(s): Riordan, James. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 130 x 8. Weight in Grams: 88.
- Publisher
- Telegram Books
- Number of pages
- 96
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- First edition & printing in this form
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846590320
- ISBN
- 9781846590320
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.28
€ 11.28
Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 220 x 23. Weight in Grams: 242.
- Publisher
- Granta Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847088383
- ISBN
- 9781847088383
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.87
€ 11.99
€ 9.87
Paperback. A dark urban fantasy thriller from one of the all-time masters of the genre Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 28. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Publisher
- Pan Publishing
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Main Market
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780330492324
- ISBN
- 9780330492324
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.56
€ 14.99
€ 11.56
Paperback. Venture into the Railsea - an epic journey for readers of all ages. Num Pages: 384 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 30. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Main Market Ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447213673
- ISBN
- 9781447213673
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.79
€ 13.99
€ 10.79
Paperback. From the Orange Prize-winning author of 'Half of a Yellow Sun' come twelve dazzling stories that turn a penetrating eye on the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Nigeria and the West. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 176.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Number of pages
- 300
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007306213
- ISBN
- 9780007306213
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.50
€ 13.99
€ 10.50
Paperback. The limits of fifteen-year-old Kambili's world are defined by the high walls of her family estate and the dictates of her fanatically religious father. Her life is regulated by schedules: prayer, sleep, study, prayer. Num Pages: 336 pages, port. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 22. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007189885
- ISBN
- 9780007189885
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.83
€ 11.99
€ 9.83
Paperback. SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEY'S WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2014. From the award-winning author of 'Half of a Yellow Sun,' a powerful story of love, race and identity. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; 1KBB; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 32. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007356348
- ISBN
- 9780007356348
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.58
€ 13.99
€ 10.58
Paperback. Sisi, Ama, Efe and Joyce are prostitutes, the girls who stand in the windows of the red-light district, promising to make men's dreams come true - if only for half an hour and fifty euros. The murder of Sisi, the most enigmatic of the women, shatters their already fragile world. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- 9780099523949
- ISBN
- 9780099523949
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 9.92
€ 13.99
€ 9.92
Paperback. Mma has just buried her mother, and now she is alone. She has been left everything. But she's also inherited her mother's bad name. A bold, brash woman, the only thing her mother refused to discuss was her past. Why did she flee her family and bring her daughter to a new town when she was a baby? What was she escaping from? Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 137 x 20. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780224093835
- ISBN
- 9780224093835
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.69
€ 20.99
€ 16.69
Paperback. Seventeen-year-old Abike Johnson is the favourite child of her wealthy father. A world away from Abike's mansion, in the city's slums, lives a seventeen-year-old hawker struggling to make sense of the world. When Abike buys ice cream from him one day, they strike up an unlikely and tentative romance, defying the prejudices of Nigerian society. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 127 x 19. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571268917
- ISBN
- 9780571268917
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.53
€ 13.99
€ 10.53
Paperback. At the end of the twentieth-century an old woman sits among the birch trees and thinks back over her life, her loves, and the joys and tragedies that have befallen her family and her people. She is a member of the Evenki tribe who wander the remote forests of north-eastern China with their herds of reindeer. Translator(s): Humes, Bruce. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustration (black and white). BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 232.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099555650
- ISBN
- 9780099555650
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.95
€ 13.99
€ 10.95
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Rupa & Co India
- Edition
- 2014th Edition
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788129135537
- ISBN
- 9788129135537
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 9.18
€ 9.99
€ 9.18
Paperback.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- SKU
- KNW0008637
- ISBN
- 9780552773867
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.49
€ 5.49
Hardcover. Clean copy
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Brandon / Mount Eagle Publications Ltd Kerry
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- KEX0220145
- ISBN
- 9780863223273
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Brandon / Mount Eagle Publications Ltd Kerry
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KLN0016126
- ISBN
- 9780863223273
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Brandon / Mount Eagle Publications Ltd Kerry
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KLN0015815
- ISBN
- 9780863223273
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Clean copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Brandon / Mount Eagle Publications Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- KEX0220376
- ISBN
- 9780863222047
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Clean copy
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- Brandon / Mount Eagle Publications Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- SKU
- KEX0220135
- ISBN
- 9780863222047
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Brandon / Mount Eagle Publications Ltd Kerry
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- SKU
- KEX0198336
- ISBN
- 9780863223273
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Paperback, black spine. 206pp
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Brandon / Mount Eagle Publications Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- SKU
- KON0821133
- ISBN
- 9780863222047
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Reassembles the Charles W Chesnutt's work in the conjure tale genre. This work allows the reader to see how the original volume was created, how an African American author negotiated with the tastes of the dominant literary culture of the late nineteenth century, and how that culture both promoted and delimited his work. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 143 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822313878
- ISBN
- 9780822313878
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.05
€ 27.05