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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Contains the author's essays that are personal on the surface, and stresses upon what impresses her in really good literature. Num Pages: 149 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BG; DSBF; DSBH; DSK; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5182 x 3404 x 10. Weight in Grams: 171.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
149
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780803263314
ISBN
9780803263314
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 18.58

Paperback. In this powerful and astonishing novel, Willa Cather created one of the most winning yet thoroughly convincing heroines in American fiction. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 214.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844083749
ISBN
9781844083749
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.81

Paperback. Editor(s): Lindemann, Marilee. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 162.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199552320
ISBN
9780199552320
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.82

Paperback. My Antonia took Cather out of the rank of provincial novelists while at the same time celebrating the provinces. It depicts the pioneering period of European settlement in the American prairie, through the stories of Jim Burden and Antonia Shimerda, who is the embodiment of the pioneer spirit. Editor(s): Sharistanian, Janet. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 196.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Reissued
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199538140
ISBN
9780199538140
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.81

Paperback. A rich and suggestive work which contrasts the middle-aged disillusion of Professor St Peter with his memories of his favourite student, the brilliant explorer and inventor Tom Outland Series: VMC. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 17. Weight in Grams: 174.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844083763
ISBN
9781844083763
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

Paperback. Series: Dover Thrift Editions. Num Pages: 176 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 134 x 13. Weight in Grams: 148. Series: Dover Thrift S. 176 pages, illustrations. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 209 x 134 x 13. Weight: 158.
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc.
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780486282404
ISBN
9780486282404
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 9.54

Hardback. Set during the great migration west to settle the plains of the North American continent, the narrative follows Antonia Shimerda, a pioneer who comes to Nebraska as a child and grows with the country, inspiring a childhood friend, Jim Burden, to write her life story. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 138 x 25. Weight in Grams: 362.
Publisher
Penguin Putnam Inc United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780143123156
ISBN
9780143123156
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.73

Paperback. Willa Cather's best known novel; a narrative that recounts a life lived simply in the silence of the southwestern desert. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 176.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844083725
ISBN
9781844083725
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. A portrait of a woman who reflects the conventions of her age even as she defies them and whose transformations embody the decline and coarsening of the American frontier. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 132 x 13. Weight in Grams: 138.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844083732
ISBN
9781844083732
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Hardcover. When their father dies young, exhausted by the failure of his attempts at agriculture, it is left to the visionary Alexandra to guide the family to prosperity and safeguard the fortune of her brothers. Strong-willed and fiercely independent, she succeeds against all odds, but only at the cost of her own fulfilment as a woman. Num Pages: 230 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 134 x 18. Weight in Grams: 342.
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
230
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841593418
ISBN
9781841593418
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.81

Paperback. The thrilling debut from comedy writer and stand up star, Will Smith - a novel about loneliness, about not belonging and about the corroding effects of keeping secrets. 'John le Carre meets 'Middlemarch' Independent Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 196 x 21. Weight in Grams: 222.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
HARPER COLLINS
Condition
New
SKU
KSG0015156
ISBN
9780007594290
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Hardcover. The thrilling debut from comedy writer and stand up star, Will Smith - a novel about loneliness, about not belonging and about the corroding effects of keeping secrets. 'John le Carre meets 'Middlemarch' Independent Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 147 x 30. Weight in Grams: 442. Some light shelf wear else as new.
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Fourth Estate
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
SKU
KTG0003613
ISBN
9780007594269
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 292. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0000592
ISBN
9781408831670
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. What if a demented London cabbie called Dave Rudman wrote a book to his estranged son to give him some fatherly advice? What if that book was buried in Hampstead and hundreds of years later, when rising sea levels have put London underwater, spawned a religion? This book offers a historical detective story set in the far future. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 360.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
9780141014548
ISBN
9780141014548
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.61

Paperback. Will Self's uncomfortable and disturbing allegory of the liberal West in the post-9/11 era Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 197 x 24. Weight in Grams: 250. 368 pages. Will Self's uncomfortable and disturbing allegory of the liberal West in the post-9/11 era. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 154 x 197 x 24. Weight: 252.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408827383
ISBN
9781408827383
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.67

Paperback. Will Self's stunning, hallucinogenic satire Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 197 x 33. Weight in Grams: 348.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
512
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408827406
ISBN
9781408827406
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.94

Paperback. Will Self's mesmeric, inimitable debut short-story collection Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 196 x 18. Weight in Grams: 240.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408827451
ISBN
9781408827451
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.64

Paperback. .
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141040172
ISBN
9780141040172
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.61

Paperback. It's 1987, and Joseph Pullman and his parents have moved to Maritime, Massachusetts. He befriends Dean Gillespie, and the boys are occupied burying animal corpses at the Killing Tree. This summer the cicadas are due to come out of their seventeen-year hibernation, and when a second local boy disappears, the residents confront the Pullmans' house. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 225.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099472230
ISBN
9780099472230
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.47

Paperback. On the surface Joseph Pullman seems to have left his unhappy childhood far behind: as the town undertaker and a council member, he is now a respected citizen of Henderson, Maryland. But Joe's father is in jail for the brutal murder of a young boy and despite his wife's questions, Joe can't - or won't - talk about his past. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 201 x 28. Weight in Grams: 308.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099472247
ISBN
9780099472247
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.22

Paperback. While the rest of the country is joining the new Happiness TM cult, Edwin (the wiry, grey-suited, low-level editor at US publisher Panderic Press) is in trouble. A cartel of drug, alcohol, tobacco and drug-rehab bosses have a contract out on him. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 20. Weight in Grams: 226.
Publisher
Canongate Books ed
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841953519
ISBN
9781841953519
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.54

Paperback. Jack McGreary is adrift of the faded boomtown of Paradise Flats. Raised by his eccentric and increasingly erratic father, Jack has learned to live by his wits. When a pair of fast-talking swindlers named Virgil and Miss Rose blow through town, Jack falls in with them and together they go on a crime spree across the American Southwest. Num Pages: 400 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 141 x 23. Weight in Grams: 274.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099516439
ISBN
9780099516439
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.50

Paperback. Num Pages: 122 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 203 x 10. Weight in Grams: 160.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
CB Editions
Condition
New
SKU
9781909585003
ISBN
9781909585003
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 4.99

Paperback. The story of two sisters, their lives and loves, their ups, downs and sibling rivalry, from the author of The Oversight Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 132 x 21. Weight in Grams: 278.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Picador
Edition
Reprints
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780330418751
ISBN
9780330418751
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.21

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