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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. A scholar pursues an elusive biographer, stumbling upon buried fragments of distant lives; a woman walks out of her previous existence and encounters an ice-blond stranger from a secretive world. This title deals with betrayal and loyalty, quests and longings, loneliness and passion - the mysterious absences at the heart of the fullest lives. Num Pages: 240 pages, facsimiles. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 135 x 15. Weight in Grams: 176. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0001472
- ISBN
- 9780099273769
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. A sequel to "Virgin in the Garden" and "Still Life". A cast of characters play out their personal dramas amid the clashing politics, passionate ideals and stirring languages of the early-1960s. Their crises mirror some of the major world events of the age in which they live. Num Pages: 624 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 33. Weight in Grams: 462. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0000111
- ISBN
- 9780099839408
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. A.S. Byatt's fairy tales and fables are among the best-loved features of her fiction. This volume contains "The Glass Coffin" and "Gode's Tale" of the Breton Baie des Trepasses, together with three other stories with medieval and oriental settings, including the title tale. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 19. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099521310
- ISBN
- 9780099521310
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
Paperback. Morpho Eugenia and The Conjugal Angel are two fascinating novellas and, like A. S. Byatt's Booker Prize-winning novel, Possession, they are set in the mid-nineteenth century, weaving fact and fiction, reality and romance. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099224310
- ISBN
- 9780099224310
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.88
€ 15.99
€ 11.88
Paperback. Each story is in some way inspired by a painting of Henri Matisse, each is also about the intimate connection between seeing and feeling - about the ways in which a glance we meant to be casual may suddenly call forth the deepest reserves of our being. This book includes stories which are all about human beings. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 120.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099472711
- ISBN
- 9780099472711
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Paperback. Tells the story of Anna Severell's struggle at the age of seventeen to evolve her own personality in the shadow of her father, Henry Severell, a famous English novelist. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Publisher
- Vinatge 1991
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099889601
- ISBN
- 9780099889601
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.61
€ 23.99
€ 17.61
paperback. In this sequel to "The Virgin in the Garden", Byatt illuminates the conflicts between ambition and domesticity, confinement and self-fulfilment, while providing a observation of intellectual and cultural life in England during the 1950s. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 29. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099479918
- ISBN
- 9780099479918
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.81
€ 15.99
€ 11.81
Paperback. While Frederica - the spirited heroine of "The Virgin in the Garden", "Still Life" and "Babel Tower" - falls almost by accident into a career in television in London, tumultuous events in her home county of Yorkshire threaten to change her life, and those of the people she loves. This work depicts the clashing forces in English life. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 31. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099443391
- ISBN
- 9780099443391
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.35
€ 17.99
€ 13.35
Paperback. A novel which combines enlightenment and sexuality, Elizabethan drama and contemporary comedy. It is a tale of a brilliant and eccentric family, fatefully divided. The author won the Booker Prize and the "Irish Times"/Aer Lingus International Fiction Prize in 1990 for "Possession". Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 43. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099478010
- ISBN
- 9780099478010
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.47
€ 17.99
€ 13.47
Paperback. Cassandra, an Oxford don, and Julia, a best-selling novelist, are sisters who share disturbing memories of a bizarre childhood game - and of Simon, who loved them both. The memories re-surface when they see Simon on a television programme, and their relationship is played out to a fatal finish. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099998402
- ISBN
- 9780099998402
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Hardcover. .
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Number of pages
- 568
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841593555
- ISBN
- 9781841593555
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.59
€ 23.99
€ 16.59
Paperback. A fresh contemporary design for A. S. Byatt's celebrated anthology of English short stories The Oxford Book of English Short Stories.The 37 stories featured here are selected from the 19th and 20th centuries, by authors ranging from Dickens, Trollope, and Hardy to J. G. Ballard, Angela Carter, and Ian McEwan. Editor(s): Byatt, A. S. Series: Oxford Books of Prose & Verse. Num Pages: 472 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Number of pages
- 472
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199561605
- ISBN
- 9780199561605
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.36
€ 16.99
€ 13.36
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 107 x 21. Weight in Grams: 172.
- Publisher
- Corgi
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1978
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780552075831
- ISBN
- 9780552075831
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. Magda, a Polish immigrant, grows cannabis in Eastern Poland and ships it to the UK. But her plans are interrupted when she has to attend a funeral. Magda begins to tell the story of her life, her double life in London, her strained relationship with her family and her success in the male world of drug dealing. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 125 x 12. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Publisher
- Stork
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780957132603
- ISBN
- 9780957132603
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.41
€ 12.41
Paperback. This is the mass market edition of HoneyB's steamy erotic tale about three men who marry for all the wrong reasons in the vein of New York Times bestselling author Zane. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 124 x 171 x 22. Weight in Grams: 158.
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & Company
- Condition
- New
- Format
- Paperback
- SKU
- V9781455554973
- ISBN
- 9781455554973
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 8.75
€ 9.99
€ 8.75
Paperback. Num Pages: 64 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: FA; FX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 209 x 6. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- S Q Publications,US United States
- Number of pages
- 64
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780865620537
- ISBN
- 9780865620537
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.27
€ 11.99
€ 10.27
Paperback. Offers a bridge between the short story and the novel, combining the qualities of both. This title includes eight stories which are written by different authors with each one portraying a character for a single day (the story is named after that day: Thursday, Tuesday and so on). Series: The Short Story Reinvented. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 15. Weight in Grams: 158. 224 pages. Offers a bridge between the short story and the novel, combining the qualities of both. This title includes eight stories which are written by different authors with each one portraying a character for a single day (the story is named after that day: Thursday, Tuesday and so on). Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 196 x 131 x 15. Weight: 158.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Legend Press Ltd
- Edition
- 2nd edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906558055
- ISBN
- 9781906558055
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.11
€ 10.99
€ 10.11
Paperback. A collection of Irish short stories. Featuring, among many others, William Trevor and Roddy Doyle, Rebecca Miller and Richard Ford, Christine Dwyer Hickey and Colm Toibin, it shows the short story to be a vibrant, thriving form and one that should continue to be celebrated and encouraged. Editor(s): O'Connor, Joseph. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 28. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571255276
- ISBN
- 9780571255276
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.03
€ 17.99
€ 13.03
Hardcover. With its intricate rhyme scheme and dance-like pattern of repeated lines, its marriage of recurrence and surprise, the villanelle has fascinated poets ever since it was introduced almost two centuries ago. This title collects the poems that range from the classic villanelles of the nineteenth century. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 117 x 164 x 19. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Publisher
- Everyman United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841597928
- ISBN
- 9781841597928
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. Series: CLASSICS. Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 132 x 197 x 19. Weight in Grams: 194.
- Publisher
- Rupa Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788129142238
- ISBN
- 9788129142238
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 9.23
€ 9.99
€ 9.23
Paperback. Editor(s): Hinnant, Charles H. Series: Broadview Editions. Num Pages: 212 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 321.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Ltd Canada
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781551117379
- ISBN
- 9781551117379
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 42.27
€ 42.27
Paperback. Editor(s): Birchwater, Sage. Num Pages: 216 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 179 x 13. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Caitlin Press Canada
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781894759373
- ISBN
- 9781894759373
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 15.80
€ 20.99
€ 15.80
paperback. Glass jars among trees is a collection of recent South African writing. The editors have selected works from published and unpublished writers that reflect a wide variety of writing styles and formats. Editor(s): Salafrance, Arja; Finlay, Alan. Num Pages: 188 pages. BIC Classification: DC; DQ; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 135 x 11. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Jacana Media
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781919931234
- ISBN
- 9781919931234
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.54
€ 18.99
€ 17.54
paperback. Editor(s): Daley, Ian. Series: Route Series of Contemporary Stories. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 134 x 16. Weight in Grams: 178.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Route United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781901927429
- ISBN
- 9781901927429
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.41
€ 12.41