Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. Decades ago Massachusetts salesman Ellis Hock spent four years in Africa - and the continent has never left him. So when his wife walks out and his business goes belly up, Ellis turns back to the one place in which he briefly found happiness. Yet returning to the village of Malabo shocks him. The school he built is a ruin. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Publisher
- Hamish Hamilton
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241957745
- ISBN
- 9780241957745
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.00€ 16.77
€ 19.00
€ 16.77
Hardcover. Num Pages: 314 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 163 x 33. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1984
- Publisher
- Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 314
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780714528205
- ISBN
- 9780714528205
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.35
€ 13.99
€ 13.35
Paperback. A body is discovered among some ruins. It appears to be an open-and-shut case but the more Inspector Yusuf Khalifa of the Luxor police uncovers about the dead man, the more uneasy he becomes. And his investigation turns out to be anything but routine. Khalifa doesn't know it yet, but he is on the trail of an extraordinary long-lost artifact. Num Pages: 720 pages, Maps. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 106 x 45. Weight in Grams: 372. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Bantam
- Publication date
- 2006
- SKU
- KAK0005749
- ISBN
- 9780553814057
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Issa Boureima is a young, hip African street vendor who sells knock-off designer bags and hats in an open-air market on 125th street in Harlem. His goal is to become a "Jaguar" - a West African term for a keen entrepreneur able to spot trends and turn a profit in any marketplace. Num Pages: 222 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 145 x 17. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 222
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226775289
- ISBN
- 9780226775289
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 24.97
€ 31.99
€ 24.97
paperback. The British Raj in India is in its final days. For Guy Perron, Field Sergeant and historian, these last days are a time to reflect on the legacy the British has left behind in India. And for the British families still residing in India, decisions about their future must be made and final goodbyes must be said. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 40. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099478836
- ISBN
- 9780099478836
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 11.14
€ 12.99
€ 11.14
paperback. Tusker and Lily Smalley stayed on in India. Given the chance to return 'home' when Tusker, once a Colonel in the British Army, retired, they chose instead to remain in the small hill town of Pangkot, with its eccentric inhabitants and archaic rituals left over from the days of the Empire. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 184.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099443193
- ISBN
- 9780099443193
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.45
€ 11.99
€ 10.45
Paperback. India, August 9th 1942: the morning brings raids and the arrest by British police of Congress Party members. Amongst the prisoners is the distinguished ex-Chief Minister Mohammed Ali Kasim. Loyal to the party's central vision of a unified free India, his incarceration is a symptom of the growing deterioration of Anglo-Indian relations. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 29. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Publisher
- Cornerstone United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 544
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099478829
- ISBN
- 9780099478829
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
Hardcover. Records the encounter between East and West through the experiences of a dozen people caught up in the upheavals of the Second World War and the growing campaign for Indian independence. This book describes the love between an English girl and an Indian boy, Daphne Manners and Hari Kumar. Num Pages: 1032 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 127 x 47. Weight in Grams: 898.
- Publisher
- Everyman United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 1032
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857152975
- ISBN
- 9781857152975
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 18.98
€ 26.99
€ 18.98
Paperback. It is the last, bitter days of World War II and the British Raj in India is crumbling. Ensconced in the Indian Hill Station of Pankot are the English wives, mothers, daughters and widows of the officers embroiled in the ongoing conflict. All eyes are upon Captain Merrick and the British military to protect them in this troubled time. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 26. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Publisher
- Cornerstone United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099436164
- ISBN
- 9780099436164
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
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€ 11.02
Paperback. Num Pages: 340 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 18. Weight in Grams: 242.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Cleis Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781627780957
- ISBN
- 9781627780957
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.03
€ 17.99
€ 16.03
Paperback. BIC Classification: FA. .
- Publisher
- Legend Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785079573
- ISBN
- 9781785079573
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.39
€ 16.99
€ 15.39
Paperback. Num Pages: 298 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 145 x 203 x 17. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Publisher
- Clinical Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781854570543
- ISBN
- 9781854570543
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.04
€ 13.99
€ 11.04
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Skyhorse Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781510709331
- ISBN
- 9781510709331
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.22
€ 16.99
€ 15.22
Paperback. A riot of confession, complaint, and sensual detail, this novel charts the first year alone of a man who has abandoned his wife, life, family, and homeland, seeking an impossible ideal: freedom. Translator(s): Snook, Jean M. Num Pages: 190 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Dalkey Archive Press United States
- Number of pages
- 172
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781564788443
- ISBN
- 9781564788443
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 14.68
€ 15.99
€ 14.68
Paperback. Series: Dover Thrift Editions. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 160.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Dover Publications Inc.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780486424484
- ISBN
- 9780486424484
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 5.46
€ 5.46
Paperback. Ruprecht Van Doren is an overweight genius whose hobbies include very difficult maths and the Search of Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. Daniel 'Skippy' Juster is his roommate. In the grand old Dublin institution that is Seabrook College for Boys, nobody pays either of them much attention. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 197 x 31. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141009957
- ISBN
- 9780141009957
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
Paperback. Tells the story of Dubliner Charles Hythloday and the heroic squandering of the family inheritance. This title features drinking, greyhound racing, vanishing furniture, more drinking, old movies, assorted Dublin lowlife, eviction and the perils of community theatre. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 30. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241955895
- ISBN
- 9780241955895
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
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Paperback. While marooned at his banking job in the bewilderingly damp and insular realm known as Ireland, Claude Martingale is approached by a down-on-his-luck author, Paul, looking for his next great subject. Claude finds that his life gets steadily more exciting under Paul's fictionalizing influence; he even falls in love with a beautiful waitress. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Number of pages
- 480
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241953860
- ISBN
- 9780241953860
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Hardcover. 'My first mistake was to be heterosexual'. Such is one of the complaints in conversations between Henry Hart - who is a father of two young girls - and his friend, Darius Saddler - who is gay and unattached. This book relates the attempts of Hart and Saddler to knit their lives, and to extricate Hart from the problems he has brought upon himself. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 148 x 24. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846551499
- ISBN
- 9781846551499
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.37
€ 17.99
€ 13.37
Paperback. The 50th anniversary edition of Metcalf's extraordinary novel, a reckoning with Columbus, America, myth, and his great-grandfather Herman Melville. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Coffee House Press
- Edition
- Anniversary Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566893923
- ISBN
- 9781566893923
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.93
€ 17.99
€ 16.93
Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 255 x 23. Weight in Grams: 246.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408862292
- ISBN
- 9781408862292
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.78
€ 19.99
€ 14.78
Hardback. Drawn with exquisite detail and told in a voice that recalls the stylish gossip of the Flapper, Paul Levitt's debut novel will entertain readers with its uncanny evocation of an era when the fangster held a place of celebrity and a teenage girl could be his unwitting collaborator. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 163 x 32. Weight in Grams: 667.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Roberts Rinehart Publishers United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781570984044
- ISBN
- 9781570984044
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 24.85
€ 26.99
€ 24.85
Hardback. New Jersey-based Jewish gangsters wanted the U.S. to boycott the 1936 Berlin Olympics. When a young woman in the employ of Abner "Longie" Zwillman, the Don of New Jersey, goes missing, Jay Klug and his friend T-Bone Searle try to find her before she falls victim to a brutal Nazi killer. Num Pages: 270 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 161 x 24. Weight in Grams: 549.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Taylor Trade Publishing United States
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781630760786
- ISBN
- 9781630760786
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 25.52
€ 29.99
€ 25.52
Paperback. When his byre - and the forty-three cows within it - goes up in flames, Barnabas Kane asks the rural community for help to get his family back on their feet, yet all his requests yield are suspicion and sanctimony. Humiliated, Barnabas grows ever more indignant. Before long this anger makes its mark on an innocent, and toil turns to tragedy. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 19. Weight in Grams: 192.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- riverrun
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781782062073
- ISBN
- 9781782062073
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.81
€ 13.99
€ 10.81