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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. In Hanky Park, near Salford, Harry and Sally Hardcastle grow up in a society preoccupied with grinding poverty, exploited by bookies and pawnbroker, bullied by petty officials and living in fear of the dole queue and the Means Test. His love affair with a local girl ends in a shotgun marriage, and, disowned by his family, he is tempted by crime. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099224815
- ISBN
- 9780099224815
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
Paperback. . 8vo.Good copy
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Childrens Book Group
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- 1st Harper Trophy Ed
- SKU
- KEX0244366
- ISBN
- 9780064409308
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. Nineteen classic fairy tales, retold for younger readers in the early twentieth-century, including "Rapunzel," "Little Red Riding-Hood," "Rumpelstiltskin," and "The Sleeping Beauty." Illustrator(s): Watson, A. H. Series: Oddly Modern Fairy Tales. Num Pages: 248 pages, 38 line illus. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 149 x 199 x 21. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Edition
- Updated edition with a New Introduction
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691159218
- ISBN
- 9780691159218
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 34.90
€ 34.90
Hardcover. Starting with "Broomsticks and Other Tales" of 1925, with its twelve stories, this book continues with "The Lord Fish" of 1933 with seven stories. It includes three distinctive stories, 'Pigtails, Ltd', 'The Thief' and 'A Nose'. These stories are quirky, sometimes frightening, and often preoccupied with states of mind and personal identity. Editor(s): de la Mare, Giles. Num Pages: 376 pages, 19ill. BIC Classification: FA; FYB; YFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 240 x 166 x 34. Weight in Grams: 720.
- Publisher
- Giles de la Mare Publishers United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 376
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781900357050
- ISBN
- 9781900357050
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 16.83
€ 24.99
€ 16.83
Paperback. Presenting an American epic poem, and a catalogue of nineteenth-century American life of all ages and races, this volume features rhythms and images, and its inclusive, praiseful joy. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 9. Weight in Grams: 76.
- Publisher
- Random House UK
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099595540
- ISBN
- 9780099595540
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.29
€ 11.99
€ 10.29
Paperback. Series: Dover Thrift Editions. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 367 x 4. Weight in Grams: 62.
- Publisher
- Dover Publications Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 64
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- Edition Unstated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780486414102
- ISBN
- 9780486414102
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
Paperback. Huge American bestselling novel that tells of identical twins: a paranoid schizophrenic and his brother whose life is dominated by his resentment of and love for his damaged twin Num Pages: 912 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 165 x 55. Weight in Grams: 636.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins London
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780006513230
- ISBN
- 9780006513230
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 12.96
€ 17.99
€ 12.96
Paperback. A haunting and heartbreaking story of coming of age. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 34. Weight in Grams: 336. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- New edition
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster UK
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- SKU
- KRA0010852
- ISBN
- 9780684860091
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. From the author of the international number one bestseller I KNOW THIS MUCH IS TRUE comes a magnificent novel of a life turned upside-down by tragedy - and the search for a way to carry on in the aftermath. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 36. Weight in Grams: 444.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007290802
- ISBN
- 9780007290802
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.38
€ 25.99
€ 19.38
Paperback. From New York Times bestselling author Wally Lamb, a disquieting and ultimately uplifting novel about a marriage, a family, and human resilience in the face of tragedy. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 37. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007532865
- ISBN
- 9780007532865
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 18.53
€ 24.99
€ 18.53
Paperback. Bo Mason, his wife, Elsa, and their two boys live a transient life of poverty and despair. Drifting from town to town and from state to state, the violent, ruthless Bo seeks out his fortune - in the hotel business, in new farmland and eventually, in illegal rum-running through the treacherous back roads of the American Northwest. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 656 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 31. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 656
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Printing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141392349
- ISBN
- 9780141392349
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.94
€ 19.99
€ 15.94
Paperback. When two young couples meet for the first time during the Great Depression, they quickly find they have much in common: Charity Lang and Sally Morgan are both pregnant, while their husbands Sid and Larry both have jobs in the English department at the University of Wisconsin. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 262.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141394954
- ISBN
- 9780141394954
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Paperback. Tells the story of Lyman Ward, a retired professor of history and author of books about the Western frontier, who returns to his ancestral home in the Sierra Nevada. Wheelchair-bound with a crippling bone disease, Ward embarks on a search to rediscover his grandmother, who made her own journey to Grass Valley nearly a 100 years earlier. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 30. Weight in Grams: 422.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- unknown
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141188003
- ISBN
- 9780141188003
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.47
€ 17.99
€ 13.47
Paperback. Editor(s): Fowlie, Wallace. Series: Dover Dual Language French. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Publisher
- Dover Publications
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780486264431
- ISBN
- 9780486264431
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.73
€ 23.99
€ 17.73
paperback. * 'A book of formidable creative intelligence, and real moral purpose' OBSERVER Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 19. Weight in Grams: 220.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349111889
- ISBN
- 9780349111889
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.88
€ 15.99
€ 11.88
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 246.
- Publisher
- Methuen Publishing Ltd
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780413773272
- ISBN
- 9780413773272
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 14.42
€ 15.99
€ 14.42
paperback. Lyman Converse is too young to fight in the Civil War, but he lives to see his own son enlist in World War I. Through all the years his closest friend is Easy, an escaped black slave who took refuge in his father's house. Everything Converse values most is gradually lost to time, including the family-owned soapstone quarry. Num Pages: 341 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5182 x 3404 x 18. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 341
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803297791
- ISBN
- 9780803297791
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 18.66
€ 18.99
€ 18.66
Paperback. The story of a father accused of child abuse, seen through the eyes of his six-year-old son. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 142 x 19. Weight in Grams: 200.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- John Murray Publishers
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719569098
- ISBN
- 9780719569098
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.66
€ 13.99
€ 11.66
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & Company United States
- Edition
- 1 Original
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780446178099
- ISBN
- 9780446178099
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.29
€ 17.99
€ 14.29
Paperback. Behind the bar at Jameel's in Cairo hang two mugs engraved with the names of Ram and Font. During their years together in London, they drank many a pint of Bass from these mugs. But there is no Bass in Nasser's Egypt, so Ram and Font have to make do with a heady mixture of beer, vodka and whisky. Series: Serpent's Tail Classics. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 188.
- Publisher
- Profile Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 220
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846687563
- ISBN
- 9781846687563
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.93
€ 13.99
€ 10.93