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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. In this collection of 20 short stories, the editor Richard Ford has selected his personal favourites of Chekhov's work. Includes are "The Kiss", "The Darling", as well as lesser known tales such as "A Blunder", "Hush" and "Champagne". Translator(s): Garnett, Constance. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 27. Weight in Grams: 280.
Publisher
Granta Books
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
1st Edition Thus
Condition
New
SKU
V9781862073005
ISBN
9781862073005
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.45

Paperback. Once upon a time that was called 1828, before all fishes in the sea and all living things on the land were destroyed, there was a man named William Buelow Gould, a white convict who fell in love with a black woman and discovered too late that to love is not safe. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 35. Weight in Grams: 338.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784702892
ISBN
9781784702892
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.80

Paperback. Mathinna, an Aboriginal girl from Van Diemen's Land, is adopted by nineteenth-century explorer, Sir John Franklin, and his wife, Lady Jane. Franklin is confident that shining the light of reason on Mathinna will lift her out of savagery and desire. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 196.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784702922
ISBN
9781784702922
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.00

Paperback. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Burma Death Railway, surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle's young wife two years earlier. Struggling to save the men under his command from starvation, from cholera, from beatings, he receives a letter that will change his life forever. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 35. Weight in Grams: 326.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099593584
ISBN
9780099593584
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. .
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784702915
ISBN
9781784702915
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. Trapped within a waterfall on the wild Franklin River, Tasmanian river guide, Aljaz Cosini, lies drowning. As the tourists he has been guiding down the river seek to save him, Aljaz is beset by visions horrible and fabulous. As the rapids rise, Aljaz relives not just his own life but also his country's dreaming. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 240.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784702908
ISBN
9781784702908
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.62

Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 405.
Publisher
Rare Bird Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781942600534
ISBN
9781942600534
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.01

Paperback. President Elect Jack Meade wakes up in a hospital bed after being found near death on a beach. His last memory was of cruising off the Florida coast. No one believes he is the new President. Then on TV he sees a live interview with his doppelganger - he has been replaced with a dead ringer. Num Pages: 506 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FH; FJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 109. Weight in Grams: 262. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Arrow
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0005474
ISBN
9780099269946
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. 196 pages. Alma Nel leaves her home on the edge of the Kalahari to retrieve the body of her gay son in Amsterdam. Driven by guilt and grief, she resolves to reconstruct Staal's life and the events leading up to his death, undertaking a bizarre quest in a strange and surreal world. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 212 x 137 x 15. Weight: 224.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Jacana Media
Number of pages
196
Condition
New
SKU
V9781431402687
ISBN
9781431402687
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.45

Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 217 x 9. Weight in Grams: 194.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Santa Fe Writer's Project United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9781939650054
ISBN
9781939650054
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 14.21

Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 207 x 128 x 17. Weight in Grams: 260.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Poetry Wales Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9781854114204
ISBN
9781854114204
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.30

Paperback. Series: Modern Library. Num Pages: 960 pages. BIC Classification: FA; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 203 x 134 x 31. Weight in Grams: 520.
Publisher
Modern Library Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
1st Modern Library
Condition
New
SKU
9780375756757
ISBN
9780375756757
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.18

Paperback. Together, the nine stories in Don't Think illuminate the astonishing fact of existence itself while justifying the Philadelphia Inquirer's assessment that Burgin is one of America's most distinctive storytellers. Series: Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421419718
ISBN
9781421419718
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 22.04

Hardback. A collection of stories that features: "Memorial Day", "Memo and Oblivion" and "The Interview". In "Memorial Day", an aging man at a public swimming pool recalls a brief but momentous affair he had with a young British woman in London thirty years ago and the paradoxical role his recently deceased father played in it. Series: Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 168 x 25. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9781421402734
ISBN
9781421402734
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 31.72

Paperback. Reissued to mark the 30th Anniversary of Brautigan's death. Introduced by Jarvis Cocker Series: The Canons. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 148.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Canongate Books
Condition
New
SKU
9780857862648
ISBN
9780857862648
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. .
Publisher
Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099437581
ISBN
9780099437581
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.21

Paperback. Written in 160 pages of a loose-leaf notebook, this book comes to terms with the death of a friend by going on a personal odyssey which zigzags through time and landscapes, from Oakland to Hawaii, and the wilds of Montana. It walks a line between fiction and memoir, between dark introspection and a lust for life. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 198 x 8. Weight in Grams: 94.
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841951461
ISBN
9781841951461
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.71

Paperback. Presents episodic novel that set amongst the rural waterways of America. This title begins at the foot of the Benjamin Franklin statue in San Francisco's Washington Square, wanders through the wonders of America's rural waterways and ends, inevitably, with mayonnaise. Series: Canons. Num Pages: 140 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 136 x 10. Weight in Grams: 116.
Publisher
Canongate Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
8th
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782113805
ISBN
9781782113805
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.71

Paperback. Contains 62 stories that set mainly in Tacoma, Washington (where the author grew up) and in the flower-powered San Francisco of the late fifties and early sixties. Series: Canons. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 10. Weight in Grams: 128.
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Main - Canons edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782113782
ISBN
9781782113782
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.71

Paperback. Jesse and Lee share a house owned by a very nice Chinese dentist, where it rains in the hall. They move to cabins on the cliffs at Big Sur where the deafening croaks of frogs can be temporarily silenced by the cry, 'Campbell's Soup'. Series: Canons. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 11. Weight in Grams: 126.
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Main - Canons ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782113799
ISBN
9781782113799
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.74

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