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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2011, Snowdrops is the debut of 2011: A stunning novel of moral ambiguity, uncertainty and corruption in Moscow. 'Snowdrops assaults all your senses with its power and poetry, and leaves you stunned and addicted' Independent Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 240. Good, clean copy
- Edition
- Main
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0007571
- ISBN
- 9781848874534
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Diamond Comic Distributors, Inc.
- Edition
- Original
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781451638127
- ISBN
- 9781451638127
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.42
€ 15.42
Paperback.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Baen Books United States
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- Format
- Paperback
- SKU
- V9781451638868
- ISBN
- 9781451638868
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.52
€ 11.52
Paperback. A.B. Guthrie Jr. is best known for his historical fiction; his classic novel The Way West earned him a Pulitzer Prize. The Big It and Other Stories collects his diverse shorter tales, written between 1946 and 1960. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 142 x 12. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803240551
- ISBN
- 9780803240551
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 20.99
€ 21.99
€ 20.99
Paperback. Tells a detective story, where secret passages, uninvited guests, a sinister valet and a puzzling murder lay the foundations for a classic crime caper. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 166.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Vintage Book Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099521273
- ISBN
- 9780099521273
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.10
€ 13.99
€ 11.10
Paperback. 400 pages, B/W ILLUSTRATIONS. 'First Command' is the second in a three-volume collection of the legendary John Grimes books! After moving on from the Terran Navy, John Grimes tries his hand at leading a private life, and finds he likes being his own man. The only problem is, his ship The Far Traveller has a (very stubborn and very feminine) mind of its own - and a penchant for getting Grimes into the worse sort of interplanetary pickles!. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 173 x 109 x 38. Weight: 394.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Baen
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781451638509
- ISBN
- 9781451638509
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.32
€ 11.32
576 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 117 x 170 x 30. Weight: 296.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Baen
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Number of pages
- 576
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781451638233
- ISBN
- 9781451638233
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.65
€ 10.65
Paperback. Winner of the 1990 Booker Prize, this novel describes the romance between two 19th-century poets and the parallel relationship of their two biographers and includes passages of "Victorian verse". It is structured in the form of a literary and biographical treasure hunt. Num Pages: 528 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 33. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Edition
- 1st, First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099800408
- ISBN
- 9780099800408
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.61
€ 15.99
€ 12.61
Paperback. Tells the tale of a pair of young scholars investigating the lives of two Victorian poets. This book features a trail of letters, journals and poems they uncover a web of passion, deceit and tragedy, and their quest becomes a battle against time. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099503927
- ISBN
- 9780099503927
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.14
€ 14.99
€ 11.14
Paperback. Fed up with stultifying criticism, Phineas decides to study the messiness of 'real life'. Doing nothing by halves, he sets out to write a biography of a great biographer. But a 'whole life' is hard to find. How do we put the idea of a person together? Everywhere he looks, he finds fragments and gaps. Trails run cold and mysteries are unresolved. Num Pages: 272 pages, portraits. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 18. Weight in Grams: 200. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0001474
- ISBN
- 9780099283935
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
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€ 11.76
€ 13.99
€ 11.76
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€ 11.93
€ 15.99
€ 11.93
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€ 11.76
€ 13.99
€ 11.76
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€ 17.77
€ 23.99
€ 17.77
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€ 12.61
€ 15.99
€ 12.61
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€ 13.49
€ 17.99
€ 13.49
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€ 14.33
€ 17.99
€ 14.33
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€ 11.76
€ 13.99
€ 11.76