Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. *The story of a young girl's dreams, aspirations and melodramas told with zest and verve by the 16-year-old author Series: VMC. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 125 x 17. Weight in Grams: 178.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1980
- Publisher
- Angus & Robertson
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- UK ed.
- SKU
- V9780860681939
- ISBN
- 9780860681939
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.06
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paperback. Offering a strange sort of summation and laughter, this titles casts light on the most serious of problems and at the same time saying not one serious sentence. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 198 x 10. Weight in Grams: 108.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Faber And Faber Ltd.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571316496
- ISBN
- 9780571316496
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99
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paperback. A novel, divided into seven parts and exploring immortality. This is the author's seventh novel. His previous works include "The Joke", "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" and "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". He has written one play, "Jacques and his Master". Translator(s): Kussi, Peter. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 27. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- FABER & FABER
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571144563
- ISBN
- 9780571144563
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.78
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Paperback. This is the first novel by the author of "Immortality", which won "The Independent" Award for Foreign Fiction in 1991. Milan Kundera is also the author of "The Book of Laughter and Fogetting". Translator(s): Heim, Michael Henry. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 23. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571166930
- ISBN
- 9780571166930
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.94
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€ 9.94
Paperback. Klima, a celebrated jazz trumpeter, receives a phone call announcing that a young nurse with whom he spent a brief night at a fertility spa is pregnant. She has decided he is the father and so begins a comedy which, during five madcap days, unfolds with ever-increasing speed. Translator(s): Asher, Aaron. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DD; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 20. Weight in Grams: 232.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571194711
- ISBN
- 9780571194711
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.74
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paperback. Offers a wide range of philosophical speculations and it descants on a variety of styles. This book draws together the Czechoslovakia of the Prague Spring and the Russian invasion, the philosophy of Nietzsche, and the love affairs of a number of heartbreakingly familiar characters. Translator(s): Heim, Michael Henry. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 246.
- Edition
- Main
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571135394
- ISBN
- 9780571135394
Paperback
Condition: New
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Paperback. This collection contains stories about the sport of love - Don Juanism, ageing, male and female power and seductions undertaken for all kinds of intriguing motives. Milan Kundera is author of "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" and "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting". Translator(s): Rappaport, S. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 242.
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571206926
- ISBN
- 9780571206926
Paperback
Condition: New
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Paperback. A budding poet and his adoring mother are the central characters of this early novel. Translator(s): Kussi, Peter; Asher, Aaron. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 311
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571197774
- ISBN
- 9780571197774
Paperback
Condition: New
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Paperback. Kundera whirls through comedy and tragedy towards his central question: how does a person, any person, live today? In constructing his answer, he writes of politics, sex, literature, modern man's alienation - and of their antidotes: laughter and forgetting. Translator(s): Asher, Aaron. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571174379
- ISBN
- 9780571174379
Paperback
Condition: New
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Paperback. The new novel from the bestselling author of THINGS MY GIRLFRIEND AND I HAVE ARGUED ABOUT. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 190.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780753826270
- ISBN
- 9780753826270
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.97
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Paperback. Is this love or just oxytocin? The brilliant second novel by the bestselling author of Things my Girlfriend and I Have Argued About Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780753820728
- ISBN
- 9780753820728
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
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Paperback. The bestselling cult comedy from Mil Millington published alongside his new novel, Love and Other Near Death Experiences Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780753820735
- ISBN
- 9780753820735
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
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Paperback. Hungarian Classic and winner of the 2002 Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize, now re-edited and re-jacketed Translator(s): Banffy-Jelen, Katlin; Thursfield, Patrick. Series: The Writing on the Wall. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 200 x 40. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Publisher
- Quercus Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910050910
- ISBN
- 9781910050910
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.45
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Paperback. Hungarian classic and winner of the 2002 Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize, now re-edited and re-jacketed. Translator(s): Thursfield, Patrick. Series: The Writing on the Wall. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 198 x 29. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Publisher
- Quercus Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 3rd Revised edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910050927
- ISBN
- 9781910050927
Paperback
Condition: New
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Paperback. Picture two people, young and in love. Picture them being separated from one another. Picture them keeping their love alive through letters. But now imagine they've not just been separated geographically, but also historically. Imagine that their love and letters now defy time and place, life and death.. Translator(s): Bromfield, Andrew. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 36. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Quercus Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780871080
- ISBN
- 9781780871080
Paperback
Condition: New
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Paperback. Num Pages: 514 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 27. Weight in Grams: 602.
- Publisher
- Open Letter United States
- Number of pages
- 514
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781934824368
- ISBN
- 9781934824368
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.73
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Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Deep Vellum Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781941920039
- ISBN
- 9781941920039
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 15.62
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paperback. Num Pages: 287 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 151 x 21. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Overlook Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781468301526
- ISBN
- 9781468301526
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 6.49
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paperback. In his second collection of short stories, Mike McCormack joins head and heart in a series of tales which weave a fluid vision of a world morphing between the real and the hyperreal. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 138 x 21. Weight in Grams: 240. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- The Lilliput Press Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMK0021880
- ISBN
- 9781843512707
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. The celebrated debut short story collection from the author of Solar Bones, winner of the 2016 Goldsmiths Prize and BGE Irish Book of the Year Series: Canons. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FM; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Canongate Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781786891396
- ISBN
- 9781786891396
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 10.74
€ 12.99
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