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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Hardback. At once a bittersweet romance and a vividly detailed portrait of life in a southern Taiwanese coastal town in the 1970s, this prize-winning Taiwanese bestseller about love, betrayal, family life, and the power of tradition captures the intimacy of agricultural life in the midst of an increasingly industrialized society. Translator(s): Wu, Michelle. Series: Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 160 x 29. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231117920
ISBN
9780231117920
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 99.60
€ 76.26

Paperback. A happiness drug is found to be intolerable to society. This book describes the process by which its disseminators are hounded to death. Series: Library of Wales. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 280.
Publisher
Parthian Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
264
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905762798
ISBN
9781905762798
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.38

Paperback. A novel, that recounts the rollicking tale of a young deaf boy and how he learned to survive and thrive at the turn of the twentieth century. Series: Gallaudet Classics in Deaf Studies. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Gallaudet University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9781563686368
ISBN
9781563686368
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 24.51

Paperback. WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 145 x 26. Weight in Grams: 266. Some minor shelf wear but overall in a very good condition
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSC0002366
ISBN
9781408809938
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. From the beginning, Oliver Walzel is a natural - at ping-pong; he can chop, flick and half-volley like a champion. At sex he is not a natural, but with tuition his game improves. This is the story of coming-of-age in 1950s Manchester. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 132 x 26. Weight in Grams: 278.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Vintage
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099274728
ISBN
9780099274728
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.84

Paperback. Barney Fugleman has two major preoccupations in life: sex and literature. He is obsessed by the life and work of a man hailed by many as a genius of the nineteenth century. This curious propulsion drives him out of Finchley, and out of the life he shares with Sharon and her 'rampant marvellings', to Cornwall. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 186.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099288282
ISBN
9780099288282
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.84

Hardcover. From the very beginning, Oliver Walzer is a natural - at ping-pong. Without even a bat, he can chop, flick, half-volley like a champion. This is a story of one man's coming of age in the Manchester of the 1950s. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 144 x 36. Weight in Grams: 525. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear. Dust wrapper has some minor edge wear but remains very good
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Condition
Used, Very Good
Edition
First Edition
SKU
KKD0002984
ISBN
9780224051576
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Two people fall in love, not yet knowing where they have come from or where they are going. They aren't sure if they have fallen in love of their own accord, or whether they've been pushed into each other's arms. But who would have pushed them, and why? Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 240.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
9780099598381
ISBN
9780099598381
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 6.00

Paperback. Sefton Goldberg: mid-thirties, English teacher at Wrottesley Poly in the West Midlands; small, sweaty, lustful, defiantly unappreciative of beer, nature and organised games; gnawingly aware of being an urban Jew islanded in a sea of country-loving Anglo-Saxons. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 199 x 16. Weight in Grams: 184.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099452034
ISBN
9780099452034
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. Felix Quinn calls himself a happy man. He is married to and adores the beautiful Marisa. But a childhood experience has taught him that loss is intrinsic to love, and Felix realises that he can only be truly happy if his wife is sleeping with another man. Enter Marius into Marisa's affections. And now Felix must ask himself, is he really happpy? Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 232.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099526735
ISBN
9780099526735
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. Fixated on the crimes which have been committed against his people, but unable to live among them, Max moves away, and draws cartoon histories of Jewish suffering in which no one is much interested. He is drawn into the Holocaust obsessions from which he realises there can be, and should be, no release. This book is a comedy of cataclysm. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 330.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099501367
ISBN
9780099501367
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.84

Paperback. With an absent wife and a daughter going off the rails, wealthy art collector and philanthropist Simon Strulovitch is in need of someone to talk to. So when he meets Shylock at a cemetery in Cheshire's Golden Triangle, he invites him back to his house. It's the beginning of a remarkable friendship.. Series: Hogarth Shakespeare. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 196 x 20. Weight in Grams: 206.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099593287
ISBN
9780099593287
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. One day, out of the blue, Henry Nagel receives a solicitor's letter telling him he has inherited a sumptuous apartment in St John's Wood. Divine intervention? Or his late father's love-nest? Henry doesn't know, but he is glad to escape the North. After nearly sixty years of angry disappointment, Henry's life is about to change. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 132 x 22. Weight in Grams: 244.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099472162
ISBN
9780099472162
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.47

Paperback. Half-brothers Michel and Bruno have a mother in common but little else. This is the story of two brothers, but the subject of the novel is in its dismantling of society and its assumptions, a dissection of modern lives and loves. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 276.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
First UK Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099283362
ISBN
9780099283362
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

hardcover. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 222 x 26. Weight in Grams: 428.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780714530208
ISBN
9780714530208
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 19.56

paperback. Num Pages: 124 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 140 x 11. Weight in Grams: 159.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
124
Condition
New
SKU
V9780714530123
ISBN
9780714530123
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.31

Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 132 x 15. Weight in Grams: 150.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
Edition
Reissue
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780811223430
ISBN
9780811223430
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.79

Paperback. Translator(s): Silver, Katherine. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 135 x 203 x 19. Weight in Grams: 298.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9780811219174
ISBN
9780811219174
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.51

Paperback. Translator(s): Silver, Katherine. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 134 x 12. Weight in Grams: 180.
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780811217071
ISBN
9780811217071
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.90

Paperback. Translator(s): Klein, Lee. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FHP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127. .
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780811225397
ISBN
9780811225397
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 14.46

Paperback. Num Pages: 144 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 142 x 9. Weight in Grams: 182.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Sterling Publishers Pvt.Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
V9788178621821
ISBN
9788178621821
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 6.33

Keywords: Fiction - General - Family Sagas - Women's Interest
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Number of pages
752
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KHS0058469
ISBN
9780751531701
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Translator(s): Raphael, Sylvia. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 528 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 128 x 27. Weight in Grams: 364.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
528
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199553945
ISBN
9780199553945
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.84

Paperback. The Great Depression had turned the American dream into a bitter tragedy. That's when Elsie and Homer's epic adventure began .. A journey of a thousand miles. With an alligator on the back seat. And John Steinbeck as a passenger. This is a tale where everything is true,except the bits that are made up. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 1KB; 3JJG; BM; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. Weight in Grams: 270.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780008154240
ISBN
9780008154240
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.16

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