Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. A novel that immerses us in the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family - Pauline, Cholly, Sam and Pecola - in post-Depression 1940s Ohio. Unlovely and unloved, Pecola prays each night for blue eyes like those of her privileged white schoolfellows. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 174.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099759911
- ISBN
- 9780099759911
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
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Paperback. It is the mid-1800s and as slavery looks to be coming to an end, Sethe is haunted by the violent trauma it wrought on her former enslaved life at Sweet Home, Kentucky. Her dead baby daughter, whose tombstone bears the single word, Beloved, returns as a spectre to punish her mother, but also to elicit her love. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 22. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Format
- Paperback
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Publication date
- 1997
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099760115
- ISBN
- 9780099760115
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
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Hardcover. It is the mid-1800s. At Sweet Home in Kentucky, an era is ending as slavery comes under attack from the abolitionists. The world of Sethe, however, is to turn from one of love to one of violence and death - the death of Sethe's baby daughter, Beloved, who died at her mother's hands, and who will return to claim retribution. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 137 x 26. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857152685
- ISBN
- 9781857152685
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.86
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€ 14.86
Paperback. Begins with a letter from a woman Frank has never met. A pleading letter. A letter that closed his throat. 'Come fast. She be dead if you tarry.' And that is it all it takes. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 10. Weight in Grams: 122.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099555940
- ISBN
- 9780099555940
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.87
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Paperback. Sweetness wants to love her child, Bride, but she struggles to love her as a mother should. Bride, now glamorous, grown up, ebony-black and panther-like, wants to love her man, Booker, but she finds herself betrayed by a moment in her past, a moment borne of a desperate burn for the love of her mother. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 268 x 14. Weight in Grams: 142.
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099555926
- ISBN
- 9780099555926
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.95
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€ 10.95
Paperback. On the day that Jacob agrees to accept a slave in lieu of payment of a debt from a plantation owner, little Florens' life changes. With her intelligence and passion for wearing the cast-off shoes of her mistress, Florens has never blended into the background and now at the age of eight she is taken from her family to begin a new life. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 130.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Number of pages
- 176
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099502548
- ISBN
- 9780099502548
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.87
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Paperback. Into a white millionaire's Caribbean mansion comes: Jadine, a graduate of the Sorbonne, art historian - an American black now living in Paris and Rome and Son, a criminal on the run, uneducated, violent, contemptuous - an American black from small-town Florida. He is a threat to her freedom she is a threat to his identity.. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 24. Weight in Grams: 232.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099760214
- ISBN
- 9780099760214
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.86
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Paperback. Four young women are brutally attacked in a convent near an all-black town in America in the mid-1970s. The inevitability of this attack, and the attempts to avert it, lie at the heart of Paradise. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099768210
- ISBN
- 9780099768210
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.86
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€ 10.86
Hardcover. Tells the story of Macon 'Milkman' Dead, heir to the richest black family in a midwestern town, as he makes a voyage of rediscovery, travelling southwards geographically and inwards spirituality. Num Pages: 362 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 133 x 25. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Number of pages
- 377
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857152166
- ISBN
- 9781857152166
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 16.29
€ 21.99
€ 16.29
Paperback. Joe Trace - in his fifties, door-to-door salesman of beauty products, erstwhile devoted husband - shoots to death his lover of three months, impetuous, eighteen-year-old Dorcas. At the funeral, his determined, hard-working wife, Violet - who is given to stumbling into dark mental cracks - tries with a knife to disfigure the corpse. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099750918
- ISBN
- 9780099750918
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.86
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Paperback. Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for so many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full of hope but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe's new home is not only haunted by the memories of her past but also by the ghost of her baby. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099540977
- ISBN
- 9780099540977
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.65
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Paperback. Multi-generational story about two families and the love affair that brings them together, told in the voices of nine people and the day that changes their life forever. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 178.
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444763577
- ISBN
- 9781444763577
Paperback
Condition: New
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Paperback. A romantic comedy about sex, marriage and the benefits and drawbacks of being a grownup. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 2. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Publisher
- Allen & Unwin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781760293819
- ISBN
- 9781760293819
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.15
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€ 9.15
Paperback. A collection of short stories that examines the lives and experiences of mixed-blood and metis people in modern America. Series: Native Storiers: A Series of American Narratives. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 10. Weight in Grams: 227.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803226340
- ISBN
- 9780803226340
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.66
€ 21.66
Paperback. Translator(s): Barton, Polly. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 21. Weight in Grams: 156.
- Publisher
- Pushkin Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782272700
- ISBN
- 9781782272700
Paperback
Condition: New
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Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780747585787
- ISBN
- 9780747585787
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.79
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€ 15.79
Paperback. Eva Peron entered immortality on 26th July, 1952. The bizarre after-life of her embalmed body - hidden, hijacked, replicated, smuggled abroad, buried, resurrected, repatriated - echoed her equally strange life. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Transworld Publishers
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780552778961
- ISBN
- 9780552778961
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.57
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€ 17.57
Paperback. The last memorable novel by the author of The Tango Singer, one of Latin America's leading novelists until his death in January 2010. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 19. Weight in Grams: 204. 288 pages. The last memorable novel by the author of The Tango Singer, one of Latin America's leading novelists until his death in January 2010. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Dimension: 198 x 131 x 19. Weight: 204.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408822029
- ISBN
- 9781408822029
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.03
€ 11.99
€ 10.03
hardcover. Charles Croker, Atlanta real-estate entrepreneur, is having to face the reality of massive debt. Conrad Hensly, idealistic father of two, is fired from his job in the Croker Global Foods warehouse in Oakland. Back in Atlanta, Fareek "The Cannon" Fannon, star running-back, is accused of date rape. Num Pages: 752 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 167. Weight in Grams: 1030. Clean copy fine in dust wrapper. DW showing light shelf wear. Remains a very good copy
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- London : Jonathan Cape
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMK0022617
- ISBN
- 9780224030366
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 6.70
€ 6.70
Paperback. Tom's premier work on carving Santa Claus, elves, gnomes, and wizards. These fanciful, delightful characters come to life at his hands. He shares skills and projects that are perfect for the beginning carver, the person who likes to whittle for fun and relaxation, or the experienced carver. Num Pages: 64 pages, 250+ colour photos. BIC Classification: AFKC; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 271 x 216 x 8. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Schiffer Pub Ltd
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780887402777
- ISBN
- 9780887402777
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.91
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Paperback. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 176 x 111 x 46. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099578543
- ISBN
- 9780099578543
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 5.70
€ 9.99
€ 5.70
Paperback. As the police boat speeds across Miami's Biscayne Bay, the scene is set for Officer Nestor Camacho's great moment of heroism. Except that in this feverous melting pot of a city, Nestor's one act of heroism can be seen as an utter betrayal of his Cuban roots. Num Pages: 720 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 46. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Number of pages
- 720
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099578536
- ISBN
- 9780099578536
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 20.88
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€ 20.88
Paperback. Charlie Croker was once a fabled college football star and is now a late-middle-aged Atlanta real estate entrepeneur-turned conglomerate king, whose expansionist ambitions and outsize ego have at last hit up against reality. Num Pages: 752 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 39. Weight in Grams: 560.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099554776
- ISBN
- 9780099554776
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.29
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Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 203 x 21. Weight in Grams: 198.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- The New York Review of Books, Inc
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781681370163
- ISBN
- 9781681370163
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.63
€ 19.99
€ 14.63