Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Results 3913 - 3936 of 15621
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. London, 1918. Billy Prior is working for Intelligence in the Ministry of Munitions. But his private encounters with women and men - pacifists, objectors, homosexuals - conflict with his duties as a soldier, and it is not long before his sense of himself fragments and breaks down. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FJMF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 19. Weight in Grams: 206.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141030944
- ISBN
- 9780141030944
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.33
€ 13.99
€ 10.33
Paperback. In Pat Barker's Another World, the First World War casts its shadow down the generations. At 101 years old, Geordie, a proud Somme veteran, lingers painfully through the days before his death. His grandson Nick is anguished to see this once-resilient man haunted by the ghosts of the trenches and the horror surrounding his brother's death. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 192. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KOG0000949
- ISBN
- 9780140258981
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
Paperback. * by one of the finest chroniclers of the lives of northern working-class women Series: Virago Modern Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 126 x 19. Weight in Grams: 206.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- Virago
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780860686118
- ISBN
- 9780860686118
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
€ 13.99
€ 11.09
Paperback. Craiglockhart War Hospital, Scotland, 1917, and army psychiatrist William Rivers is treating shell-shocked soldiers. Under his care are the poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, as well as mute Billy Prior, who is only able to communicate by means of pencil and paper. Rivers's job is to make the men in his charge healthy enough to fight. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FJMF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 17. Weight in Grams: 184.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141030937
- ISBN
- 9780141030937
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.33
€ 13.99
€ 10.33
Paperback. * an early work by the winner of the 1995 Booker Prize Series: VMC. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1982
- Publisher
- Virago
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780860682837
- ISBN
- 9780860682837
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Paperback. The students at the Slade School of Art gather in Henry Tonks' studio for his life-drawing class. But for Paul Tarrant the class is troubling, underscoring his own uncertainty about making a mark on the world. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 188.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- First Thus
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141019475
- ISBN
- 9780141019475
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. As the bombs fall on the blacked-out city, ambulance driver Elinor Brooke races from bomb sites to hospitals trying to save the lives of injured survivors, working alongside former friend Kit Neville, while her husband Paul works as an air-raid warden. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241966037
- ISBN
- 9780241966037
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
Paperback. Returning to Afghanistan after his photographer friend is killed by a sniper, war reporter Stephen Sharkey seeks release from his nightmares in an England seemingly at peace with itself. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140270754
- ISBN
- 9780140270754
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.77
€ 20.99
€ 16.77
Paperback. The poets and soldiers Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen are dispatched to Craiglockhart War Hospital in Scotland in 1917. There, army psychiatrist William Rivers is treating brutalised, shell-shocked men. It is Rivers' job to fix these men and make them ready to fight again. Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 106 x 177 x 23. Weight in Grams: 198.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241970768
- ISBN
- 9780241970768
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.21
€ 11.99
€ 10.21
Paperback. * An early novel by one of England's most important contemporary novelists. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 12. Weight in Grams: 128.
- Publisher
- Virago
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780860683988
- ISBN
- 9780860683988
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Paperback. When Toby is reported 'Missing, Believed Killed', another secret casts a lengthening shadow over Elinor's world: how exactly did Toby die - and why? Elinor determines to uncover the truth. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 195 x 20. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141042206
- ISBN
- 9780141042206
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
Paperback. There is a secret at the heart of the town of Rabbit Back, involving its most famous occupant, a world-renowned children's author, and a strange literary game played by the local Literary Society. As Ella, an aspiring author, makes unsettling discoveries about White's and the Society's past, we explore the nature of literature and truth. Translator(s): Rogers, Lola. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Publisher
- Pushkin Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782270430
- ISBN
- 9781782270430
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.48
€ 15.99
€ 11.48
Paperback. An emotionally implosive novel about confronting the death of a loved one and the possibility of hope a child brings. Translator(s): Black, Tamsin. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 127 x 10. Weight in Grams: 157.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Bellevue Literary Press United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781934137550
- ISBN
- 9781934137550
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 14.75
€ 15.99
€ 14.75
Paperback. Raimund Gregorius is a mild-mannered, middle-aged professor of ancient languages. One morning, as he is teaching, he is seized by a restlessness that drives him to abandon his classroom then and there - shocking his students, and surprising even himself. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 31. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Edition
- Main
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843547136
- ISBN
- 9781843547136
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.71
€ 13.99
€ 10.71
Paperback. A widow's quiet retirement in the foothills of the Alps is turned upside down by the arrival of a mysterious stranger. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Publisher
- Gallic Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 248
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Translation
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910477250
- ISBN
- 9781910477250
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.95
€ 10.99
€ 9.95
Paperback. Heads will roll as two friends with a shocking secret are reunited in Versailles. Translator(s): Boyce, Emily. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 142 x 11. Weight in Grams: 144.
- Publisher
- Gallic Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Translation
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908313720
- ISBN
- 9781908313720
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.93
€ 10.99
€ 9.93
Paperback. The future is on its way to Picardy with the construction of a motorway. But nearby is a house where nothing has changed since 1945. Traumatised by events that year, Yolande hasn't left her home since. Life has not been kinder to Bernard, her brother, who has a terminal illness. With no longer anything to lose, he becomes reckless - and murderous. Translator(s): Florence, Melanie. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 9. Weight in Grams: 116.
- Publisher
- Gallic Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908313164
- ISBN
- 9781908313164
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 9.12
€ 9.99
€ 9.12
Paperback. Given the choice, Martial would not have moved to Les Conviviales. But Odette loved the idea of a brand-new retirement village in the south of France. So that was that. Translator(s): Boyce, Emily. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 10. Weight in Grams: 130.
- Publisher
- Gallic Books
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908313492
- ISBN
- 9781908313492
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.82
€ 11.99
€ 10.82
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781498740333
- ISBN
- 9781498740333
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 39.69
€ 39.69
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Dedalus Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 140
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781909232310
- ISBN
- 9781909232310
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.32
€ 11.32
Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Dalkey Archive Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781564789099
- ISBN
- 9781564789099
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.02
€ 16.02
Paperback. Translator(s): Hunter, Adriana. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 211 x 23. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Publisher
- Europa Editions
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Translation
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781609453503
- ISBN
- 9781609453503
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.24
€ 16.99
€ 12.24
Paperback. A sweet and touching novel which can be read both as a coming of age story, set against a fascinating backdrop, and at a deeper level as a commentary on life in country where there is very little freedom of expression. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 128 x 17. Weight in Grams: 208.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408707500
- ISBN
- 9781408707500
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.30
€ 11.99
€ 10.30
Paperback. The novel that became a huge bestseller in Iran, before it was banned by the government. Translator(s): Khalili, Sara. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 140 x 30. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Publisher
- Abacus
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349138770
- ISBN
- 9780349138770
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02