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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. A blackly comic campus satire combined with a heart-breaking family mystery, The Falling Sky brilliantly mixes fiction and astronomy into a fascinating, compelling and moving narrative. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 253 x 161 x 21. Weight in Grams: 302.
Publisher
Freight Books
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
9781908754141
ISBN
9781908754141
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.95

Paperback. Reimagines the lives of a legendary couple - Sun Yat-sen, known as the "Father of the Chinese Revolution," and his wife, Song Qingling. This novel touches on Sun Yat-sen's tormented political life and Song Qingling's rumored affairs and isolation after her husband's death. Translator(s): Du, Nancy. Series: Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan. Num Pages: 192 pages, frontispiece. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231138536
ISBN
9780231138536
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 25.00

Paperback. Num Pages: 228 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 141 x 14. Weight in Grams: 284.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Newest Pr
Condition
New
SKU
V9781927063750
ISBN
9781927063750
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 15.87

Paperback. Num Pages: 269 pages, illustration, maps. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 229 x 18. Weight in Grams: 430.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
NeWest Press Canada
Number of pages
269
Condition
New
SKU
V9781927063323
ISBN
9781927063323
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 15.87

Paperback. A village in the Tuscan hills, a summer of sun and chirping cicadas, and three boys who are utterly different but bound to each other in friendship. Years later, despite being thousands of miles apart, the three have never been closer in spirit. But is it destiny or a more earthly force that is determining the course of their lives? Translator(s): Curtis, Howard. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 266. Some light shelf wear else as new.
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Pushkin Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
SKU
KTG0006069
ISBN
9781908968166
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

paperback. Num Pages: 308 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127. Weight in Grams: 175.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Compress, Cape Town
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781919833101
ISBN
9781919833101
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.38

Paperback. When his parents split up, and his dad leaves home, a ten-year-old boy begs the sky to help him. The next day an ice storm covers his city. When the power goes out and the temperature drops, people must turn to each other to survive. But for one neighbourhood the catastrophe brings surprising new beginnings. Translator(s): Anderson, Alison. Num Pages: 272 pages, no. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 199 x 19. Weight in Grams: 194. 272 pages. When his parents split up, and his dad leaves home, a ten-year-old boy begs the sky to help him. The next day an ice storm covers his city. When the power goes out and the temperature drops, people must turn to each other to survive. But for one neighbourhood the catastrophe brings surprising new beginnings. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 136 x 199 x 19. Weight: 184. Translator(s): Anderson, Alison.
Publisher
Canongate Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857861627
ISBN
9780857861627
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.02

Paperback. The owner of the bookshop The Verb To Be, is a red-haired giant imprisoned in an enormous body and his solitude. One wet afternoon, driving a vanload of new and second-hand books, EtienneVollard knocks down and seriously injures a little girl, Eva. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 172. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0001410
ISBN
9780099468691
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. A poetic exploration of trauma and renewal from the last avant-garde visionary of the twentieth century. Translator(s): Wedell, Noura. Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents. Num Pages: 232 pages, 1 color illus, 10 b&w illus. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
Publisher
Autonomedia United States
Number of pages
232
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781584350897
ISBN
9781584350897
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 16.41

Paperback. In a spaceship that can travel at the speed of light, Ulysse, a journalist, sets off from Earth for the nearest solar system. He finds there a planet which resembles his own, but on Soror humans behave like animals, and are hunted by a civilised race of primates. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 15. Weight in Grams: 160.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099529040
ISBN
9780099529040
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.10

Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 210 x 24. Weight in Grams: 354.
Publisher
Europa Editions
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781609452759
ISBN
9781609452759
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 18.08

Paperback. Denmark's foremost literary author turns crime fiction on its head. Bess and Halland live in a small town, where everyone knows everyone else. When Halland is found murdered in the main square the police encounter only riddles. For Bess bereavement marks the start of a journey that leads her to a reassessment of first friends then family. Translator(s): Martin, Aitken. Num Pages: 189 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 16. Weight in Grams: 230.
Publisher
Peirene Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
189
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780956284075
ISBN
9780956284075
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.66

Paperback. Num Pages: 398 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FT; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 266 x 30. Weight in Grams: 418.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
V9781503952478
ISBN
9781503952478
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 16.13

Paperback. A novel of the young, born during or just after "the war to end all wars". They grow to young adulthood as the inheritors of the hatred spawned by the Treaty of Versailles: Derek Ramsey, born only weeks after his father fell in France. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 135 x 29. Weight in Grams: 356.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780062229359
ISBN
9780062229359
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.79

Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 171 x 114 x 26. Weight in Grams: 181. 8vo Clean copy
Condition
Used, Very Good
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Bantam USA
Publication date
1996
Edition
Reprint
SKU
KEX0262873
ISBN
9780553569087
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Hardback. IN Series: SB - The Swiss List. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 226 x 134 x 19. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857423078
ISBN
9780857423078
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 21.11

Paperback. The major European bestseller that was made into the celebrated film. Translator(s): Buten, H. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 124 x 27. Weight in Grams: 248.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349101101
ISBN
9780349101101
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.90

Hardcover. .
Publisher
RIZZOLI/UNIVERSAL
Number of pages
180
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780847849079
ISBN
9780847849079
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 20.63

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Quercus Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857051578
ISBN
9780857051578
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.10

Paperback. A murder investigation in post-war France becomes an exploration of the legacy of German occupation. Translator(s): Cullen, John. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 194.
Publisher
Quercus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906694685
ISBN
9781906694685
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.10

Paperback. A collection of short stories from one of our most popular novelists - the perfect gift. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 132 x 16. Weight in Grams: 188.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007145898
ISBN
9780007145898
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.72

Paperback. Social mores come under bestselling author Philippa Gregory's acute scrutiny in this reissue of a long-unavailable novel of betrayal, revenge and liberation.. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 194.
Publisher
HarperCollins
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
paperback / softback
Condition
New
SKU
V9780006514657
ISBN
9780006514657
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.95

Paperback. Terrific novel set in the Roaring Twenties, reissued to accompany Philippa Gregory's new bestselling novel, The Other Boleyn Girl Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 40. Weight in Grams: 452.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007233069
ISBN
9780007233069
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.96

Paperback. A contemporary psychological thriller in the style of Ruth Rendell, from one of today's most versatile and compelling storytellers. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 111. Weight in Grams: 229. Well-read paperback, in good condition. Some shelf wear and may have some light soiling.
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
HarperCollins
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
SKU
KRF0030675
ISBN
9780006496434
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

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