Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. For six months, Julia has lived alone in a drab Parisian hotel on an allowance from her ex-lover, Mr Mackenzie. When his cheques stop, Julia decides to leave France and return to London. Past her prime, exhausted by broken love affairs and addled by drink, Julia is tragically unable to find what she really wants - love. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 126.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141183947
- ISBN
- 9780141183947
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Condition: New
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Paperback. Set against a background of winter-wet streets, Pernod in smoky cafes and cheap hotel rooms, Marya tries to make something substantial of her life in order to withstand the unreality of her surroundings. Alone, her Polish husband in prison, she is taken up by an English couple who slowly overwhelm her with their passions. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 128.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141183923
- ISBN
- 9780141183923
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Condition: New
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Paperback. 'It was as if a curtain had fallen, hiding everything I had ever known,' says Anna Morgan, eighteen years old and catapulted to England from the West Indies after the death of her beloved father. Working as a chorus girl, Anna drifts into the demi-monde of Edwardian London. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 11. Weight in Grams: 138.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141183954
- ISBN
- 9780141183954
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Condition: New
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Paperback. Born into an oppressive, colonialist society, white Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a young Englishman who is drawn to her innocent beauty and sensuality. After their marriage, however, disturbing rumours begin to circulate which poison her husband against her. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 124.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141185422
- ISBN
- 9780141185422
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.19
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Paperback. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 292.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141984858
- ISBN
- 9780141984858
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.87
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Paperback. Obsession, longing, deceit and even murder feature in this quartet of provocative novellas, which gives a modern twist to tales of women for whom all is not necessarily as it seems. Drawing on history, culture and lore, this is a riveting exploration of the complexities of motherhood: edgy and engrossing, moving, yet at times, disturbing. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 134 x 200 x 22. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Publisher
- Saraband
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908643575
- ISBN
- 9781908643575
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Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.95
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Paperback. BIC Classification: FA. .
- Publisher
- Legend Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785079443
- ISBN
- 9781785079443
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Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.83
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Family pleasures, marriage, the essential moments and mysteries of a seemingly ordinary world that break into magical territory before we can brace ourselves-Jean McGarry puts us in life's rough seas with what the New York Times has called a "deft, comic, and devastatingly precise" hand. Series: Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801896583
- ISBN
- 9780801896583
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Condition: New
€ 35.92
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Paperback. From the author of "Airs of Providence", "The Very Rich Hours", and "The Courage of Girls", this book brings together a dozen new stories. Series: Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 227.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 136
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801848537
- ISBN
- 9780801848537
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Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 29.95
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Paperback. The prequel to what will be the publishing event of the year: the final volume of Jean M. Auel's six-book series, The Land of Painted Caves Num Pages: 736 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 48. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Number of pages
- 736
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444704358
- ISBN
- 9781444704358
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Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.73
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Paperback. The triumphant finale of the hugely successful Earth's Childrens(R) series Num Pages: 800 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 50. Weight in Grams: 536.
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780340824276
- ISBN
- 9780340824276
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Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.65
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Paperback. Second novel in Jean M. Auel's magnificent epic of life 25,000 years ago when two kinds of human beings, Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon, shared the earth. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 37. Weight in Grams: 390.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444709889
- ISBN
- 9781444709889
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Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.77
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Paperback. Fourth novel in Jean M Auel's magnificent epic of life 25,000 years ago when two kinds of human beings, Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon, shared the earth. Series: Earth's Children. Num Pages: 848 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 56. Weight in Grams: 580.
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Number of pages
- 848
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444704372
- ISBN
- 9781444704372
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Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.74
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Paperback. The prequel to what will be the publishing event of the year: the final volume of Jean M. Auel's six-book series, The Land of Painted Caves Num Pages: 800 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 53. Weight in Grams: 532.
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Number of pages
- 800
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444713145
- ISBN
- 9781444713145
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Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.64
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Paperback. Kimberley Chang and her mother move from Hong Kong to New York. A new life awaits them - making a new home in a new country. But all they can afford is a verminous, broken-windowed Brooklyn apartment. The only heating is an unreliable oven. They are deep in debt. And neither one speaks one word of English. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 197 x 20. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141042749
- ISBN
- 9780141042749
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.86
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Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Penguin Putnam Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781594633805
- ISBN
- 9781594633805
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.05
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Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Cinnamon Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910836712
- ISBN
- 9781910836712
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 4.72
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Paperback. Grace Sachs, a happily married therapist with a young son, thinks she knows everything about women, men and marriage. She is about to publish a book called You Should Have Known, based on her pet theory: women don't value their intuition about what men are really like, leading to serious trouble later on. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 28. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571307531
- ISBN
- 9780571307531
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.03
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Paperback. For years, thirty-eight-year-old Portia Nathan has hidden behind her busy career as a Princeton admissions officer and her less than passionate relationship. Then the piece of her past that she has tried so hard to bury resurfaces, catapulting her on an extraordinary journey of the heart that challenges everything she ever thought she believed. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 197 x 28. Weight in Grams: 350.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Number of pages
- 464
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Tie-In
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571309092
- ISBN
- 9780571309092
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Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.66
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Paperback. Translator(s): Ford, Edward. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 141 x 6. Weight in Grams: 227.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Seven Stories Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781583225240
- ISBN
- 9781583225240
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Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 13.99
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Paperback. This play by a young Toulouse lawyer-poet, was published posthumously in 1611 and has since been largely neglected. It is reprinted here for the first time, accompanied by an introductory study, explanatory notes and a glossary. Series: Exeter French Texts. Num Pages: 84 pages, 1 b&w halftone, glossary. BIC Classification: DNF; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 210 x 145 x 9. Weight in Grams: 190.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of Exeter Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 84
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780859894883
- ISBN
- 9780859894883
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Condition: New
€ 38.32
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Paperback. Reminiscent of Voltaire, Broges and Kafka, "A Dog's Head" is a piece of realism. It tells the story of Edmund Du Chaillu, a boy born, to his bourgeois parents' horror, with the head of a spaniel. Edmund must endure his schoolmates' teasing as well as an urge to carry a newspaper in his mouth. Translator(s): Chancellor, Robin. Series: Phoenix Fiction S. Num Pages: 164 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 132 x 13. Weight in Grams: 190.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 164
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226174921
- ISBN
- 9780226174921
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Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 25.41
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Paperback. At home, Paul shares a private world with his sister Elisabeth, a world from which parents are tacitly excluded. Their room is where the Game is played, the Game being their own bizarre version of life. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 112.
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099561378
- ISBN
- 9780099561378
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 5.70
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Hardback. An anthology of modern Arabic fictional arts, featuring more than one hundred and forty writers from Oman to Mauritania. It features selections ranging from the work of late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century authors, such as the historical epics of the Christian Lebanese writer Jurji Zaydan, to the novels of Naguib Mahfouz. Editor(s): Jayyusi, Salma Khadra. Num Pages: 1064 pages. BIC Classification: 2CSR; DQ; DSBH; DSK; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 236 x 61. Weight in Grams: 1816.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 1064
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231132541
- ISBN
- 9780231132541
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 142.44€ 106.13
€ 142.44
€ 106.13