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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Hardback. Num Pages: 354 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 217 x 32. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Vertical Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 354
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781939130822
- ISBN
- 9781939130822
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 23.14
€ 33.99
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Paperback. The No. 1 Sunday Times and internationally bestselling account of life as an autistic child. 'Brilliant .. both moving and strangely optimistic' (Daily Telegraph). Translator(s): Mitchell, David; Yoshida, Keiko. Num Pages: 192 pages, 11. BIC Classification: BGA; MJNA; VFJB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 15. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781444776775
- ISBN
- 9781444776775
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
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Pamphlet. Translator(s): Barton, Polly. Series: Keshiki. Num Pages: 48 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 4. .
- Publisher
- UEA Publishing Project
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781911343028
- ISBN
- 9781911343028
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 9.14
€ 9.99
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Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 272. Clean, well read copy in very good condition.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- SKU
- KLJ0006237
- ISBN
- 9780802138842
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Headline Publishing Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472216038
- ISBN
- 9781472216038
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.06
€ 19.99
€ 15.06
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Random House USA Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780399594397
- ISBN
- 9780399594397
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.11
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Paperback. Sara slept with the enemy but survived. She was one of the lucky ones. She was a stranger in a small town. She changed her name. Her looks. Her life. All to escape the most dangerous man she ever met. Her husband. Num Pages: 332 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 182 x 113 x 27. Weight in Grams: 182.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Cornerstone United Kingdom
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 332
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099949107
- ISBN
- 9780099949107
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.82
€ 20.99
€ 16.82
Paperback. Fanny is married to absent-minded Oxford don Alfred and content with her role as a plain, tweedy housewife. But overnight her life changes when Alfred is appointed English Ambassador to Paris. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 18. Weight in Grams: 174.
- Publisher
- Fig Tree
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241974704
- ISBN
- 9780241974704
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.95
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Paperback. Longing for love, obsessed with weddings and sex, Linda and her sisters and cousin Fanny are on the lookout for a perfect lover. But finding Mr Right is much harder than any of the sisters had thought. Linda must suffer marriage first to a stuffy Tory MP and then to a handsome and humourless communist, before finding real love in war-torn Paris.. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 196 x 17. Weight in Grams: 164.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241974681
- ISBN
- 9780241974681
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
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Paperback. Nancy's sisters Unity and Diana were furious with her for making fun of Diana's husband, Oswald Moseley, and his politics, and the book caused a rift between them all that endured for years. Nancy Mitford skewers her family and their beliefs with her customary jewelled barbs, but there is froth, comedy and heart here too. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 14. Weight in Grams: 130.
- Publisher
- Fig Tree
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241974711
- ISBN
- 9780241974711
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
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Paperback. Captures the foibles and fancies of the English upper class. Set in the privileged world of the county house party and the London season, this is a comedy of English manners. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141181493
- ISBN
- 9780141181493
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.88
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Paperback. It isn't just Nanny who finds it difficult in France when Grace and her young son Sigi are finally able to join her dashing aristocratic husband Charles-Edouard after the war. For Grace is out of her depth among the fashionably dressed and immaculately coiffured French women, and shocked by their relentless gossiping and bedhopping. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 182.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241974728
- ISBN
- 9780241974728
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
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Paperback. Groomed for the perfect marriage by her mother, fearsome Lady Montdore, Polly instead scandalises society by declaring her love for her uncle 'Boy' Dougdale, the Lecherous Lecturer, and promptly eloping to France. But the consequences of this union no one could quite expect.. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 18. Weight in Grams: 184.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241974698
- ISBN
- 9780241974698
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
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Paperback. Centres on an adulterous affair between Saffie, a silent young German woman, who is first maid and then wife to a famous flautist, and Andras, a Jewish flute-mender. The story unfolds in Paris at the height of the Algerian war in the 1950s. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 132 x 20. Weight in Grams: 208. Fine copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- KSS0001051
- ISBN
- 9780099283645
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. A novel in which love, music and faith rage against the spectre of evil. It is a tale of a present haunted by the past. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 306. Clean copy.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Main
- SKU
- KEX0205000
- ISBN
- 9781843548522
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
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Paperback. Beautifully set, brilliantly realised, this acclaimed novel from the golden age of epic storytelling is now repackaged as a Hodder 'Great Read' Num Pages: 640 pages, n/a. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 44. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Number of pages
- 640
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780340938355
- ISBN
- 9780340938355
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
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Paperback. Describes Jenny Kilgour's coming of age as she has to choose between the kindly harshness of her grandfather's life on a remote hill farm, and the vulgar and glorious energy of Bella Cassie, a local girl who left the community to pursue success as a singer, and has now returned to scandalise them all. Editor(s): Watson, Roderick. Series: Canongate Classics. Num Pages: 672 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 43. Weight in Grams: 446. "The Quarrywood", "Weatherhouse", "A Pass in the Grampian", "The Living Mountain". 672 pages, 1 map. Describes Jenny Kilgour's coming of age as she has to choose between the kindly harshness of her grandfather's life on a remote hill farm, and the vulgar and glorious energy of Bella Cassie, a local girl who left the community to pursue success as a singer, and has now returned to scandalise them all. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Dimension: 200 x 130 x 43. Weight: 532.
- Publisher
- Canongate UK
- Number of pages
- 672
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780862415891
- ISBN
- 9780862415891
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 15.30
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Paperback. * A brutally honest, linguistically inventive and profoundly moving novel that will inspire a generation of readers Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844085446
- ISBN
- 9781844085446
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.65
€ 19.65
Hardback. Translator(s): Balcom, John. Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231148108
- ISBN
- 9780231148108
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.48
€ 46.99
€ 33.48
Paperback. BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 134 x 27. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Random House USA Inc
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780385498357
- ISBN
- 9780385498357
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.37
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Paperback. Follows the Al Jawad family into the awakening world of the 1920's and the sometimes violent clash between Islamic ideals, personal dreams and modern realities. Having given up his vices after his son's death, ageing patriarch Al-Sayyid Ahmad pursues an arousing lute-player - only to find she has married his eldest son. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 26. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780552995818
- ISBN
- 9780552995818
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.14
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Paperback. Ahmad, a middle-class shopkeeper runs his household strictly according to the Qur'an while at night he explores the pleasures of Cairo. A tyrant at home, Ahmad forces his gentle, oppressed wife and two daughters to live cloistered lives behind the house's latticed windows, while his three very different sons live in fear of his harsh will. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 33. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780552995801
- ISBN
- 9780552995801
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
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Paperback. As Cairo shrugs off the final vestiges of colonialism, Ahmad Al Jawad has lost his power and surveys the world from a latticed balcony. Unable to control his family's destiny, he watches helplessly as his dynasty and the traditions he holds dear disintegrate before his eyes. But through Ahamd's three grandsons we see modern how Egypt takes shape. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 232.
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780552995825
- ISBN
- 9780552995825
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.88
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Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 102
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780385499224
- ISBN
- 9780385499224
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.40
€ 16.99
€ 13.40