Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. In their teens, Jim Willard and Bob Ford share a moment of sexual intimacy and Jim spends years searching for the recreation of that moment. When the opportunity occurs, it explodes with violence and pain. This was one of the first pieces of explicitly gay fiction. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 5SG; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 13. Weight in Grams: 138.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- New Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349106571
- ISBN
- 9780349106571
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.00
€ 13.99
€ 11.00
Paperback. Vidal's historical novel set in the 5th century BC and narrated by Cyrus Spitama, son of a Persian prince and Greek sorceress, grandson of the prophet Zoroaster, and ambassador to the courts of India, China and Greece. Pericles, Thucydides, Sophocles and Confucius are among the book's characters. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 44. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349104751
- ISBN
- 9780349104751
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.92
€ 19.99
€ 14.92
Paperback. * The magnificent concluding volume of Vidal's epic NARRATIVES OF EMPIRE, embodying the passage of American history. Series: Narratives of Empire. Num Pages: 480 pages, genealogical table. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 31. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Number of pages
- 480
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349114279
- ISBN
- 9780349114279
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.06
€ 19.99
€ 15.06
Paperback. Gore Vidal's fictional recreation of the Roman Empire teetering on the crux of Christianity and ruled by an emperor who was an inveterate dabbler in arcane hocus-pocus, a prig, a bigot, and a dazzling and brilliant leader. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 35. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group London
- Number of pages
- 544
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349104737
- ISBN
- 9780349104737
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.02
€ 19.99
€ 15.02
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Sunstone Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781632930163
- ISBN
- 9781632930163
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 7.27
€ 34.99
€ 7.27
Paperback. A novel about the way news is made, and the way the media creates and manipulates the stories we see before us. It makes us think again about the stories we are fed by the media around us. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 183. Clean copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber London
- Edition
- Main
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KEX0200944
- ISBN
- 9780571240265
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. A novel about the way news is made, and the way the media creates and manipulates the stories we see before us. It makes us think again about the stories we are fed by the media around us. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 183. Clean copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber London
- Edition
- Main
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KEX0200943
- ISBN
- 9780571240265
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. A novel about the way news is made, and the way the media creates and manipulates the stories we see before us. It makes us think again about the stories we are fed by the media around us. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 183. Clean copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber London
- Edition
- Main
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KEX0200942
- ISBN
- 9780571240265
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. A novel about the way news is made, and the way the media creates and manipulates the stories we see before us. It makes us think again about the stories we are fed by the media around us. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 183. Clean copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber London
- Edition
- Main
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KEX0200941
- ISBN
- 9780571240265
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Years after the end of the conflict that tore about the country of Yugoslavia, a man goes in search of this father's true identity. A hard-hitting examination of a generation from the former Yugoslavia that escaped the bullets but not the war. Translator(s): Charney, Noah. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 19. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Publisher
- Istros Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908236272
- ISBN
- 9781908236272
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.23
€ 17.99
€ 14.23
Paperback. Joan-Marc's out of work, he's alone, he has a heart condition, his mother's addicted to pills, he can't stand his sister. Otherwise, life is beautiful. And there's a lot that his estranged second wife doesn't know about him. In this book, he sets out to tell her. Translator(s): McDowell, Megan. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 248 x 28. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Publisher
- Harvill Secker
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846558757
- ISBN
- 9781846558757
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 14.25
€ 18.99
€ 14.25
paperback. Born in a small Sicilian village and orphaned at age nine, Modesta spends her childhood in a convent raised by nuns. Through sheer cunning, she manages to escape, and eventually becomes a princess. Sensual, proud, and determined, Modesta wants to discover the infinite richness of life. Translator(s): Appel, Anne Milano. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 704 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141198477
- ISBN
- 9780141198477
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 12.53
€ 15.99
€ 12.53
Paperback. "Carries the flavor of the old world, its underlying ferocity leavened by a lyrical mysticism.. Her prose is transcendent."-Washington Post Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393350234
- ISBN
- 9780393350234
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.27
€ 17.99
€ 16.27
Paperback. An artist at heart, Trystan Morgan grows up in his grandmother's valley mining cottage, duty-bound by her deep wish for him to be a preacher. Trystan's journey through the conflicting cultural, social and political values of his country in the mid-twentieth century is bewildering but finally liberating. This novel tells his story. Series: Library of Wales. Num Pages: 230 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 137 x 23. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Publisher
- Parthian Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 230
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906998134
- ISBN
- 9781906998134
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.38
€ 11.38
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Transworld Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780552168496
- ISBN
- 9780552168496
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.73
€ 23.99
€ 17.73
Paperback. 169pp
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Blackstaff Press Belfast
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780856408090
- ISBN
- 9780856408090
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.27
€ 10.27
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Blackstaff Press Ltd Belfast
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780856408106
- ISBN
- 9780856408106
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.08
€ 11.08
Paperback. Belfast, 1970s: Craig, St John and Mazine meet while at secondary school. Three very different people, they each come from testing backgrounds, and become friends just as life gets exciting and adulthood beckons. The years pass, and they try to live with themselves and the darker deeds of their hometown as honestly as they can. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 197 x 23. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571305230
- ISBN
- 9780571305230
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.99
€ 11.99
€ 9.99
Paperback. A fictionalised account of the the development of the Delorean gull-wing car. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 196 x 32. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Publisher
- Head of Zeus
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784971779
- ISBN
- 9781784971779
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.98
€ 10.99
€ 9.98
Paperback. A terrifying secret. A shocking discovery has been made deep within Rome's ancient catacombs. One that the Vatican is determined must never be made public - for the sake of all mankind. A deadly conspiracy. But there are others who want to keep the truth hidden for far more sinister reasons. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 147 x 198 x 30. Weight in Grams: 326. Used paperback in good condition. Some shelf wear.
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KRF0023433
- ISBN
- 9780099545736
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. A terrifying secret. A shocking discovery has been made deep within Rome's ancient catacombs. One that the Vatican is determined must never be made public - for the sake of all mankind. A deadly conspiracy. But there are others who want to keep the truth hidden for far more sinister reasons. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 147 x 198 x 30. Weight in Grams: 326. Good clean copy with some reader wear.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- SKU
- KTM0004788
- ISBN
- 9780099545736
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. The characters who inhabit Blake's haunting landscape-awash in their own worlds, adrift in their own lives-struggle to salvage what they can of their hopes and dreams from the encroaching tides. Series: Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction. Num Pages: 244 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 159 x 225 x 18. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781421421032
- ISBN
- 9781421421032
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 22.19
€ 24.99
€ 22.19
Hardback. Magnolias, water, mescal, stars, and fire return again and again in these seven sparse-yet tightly written-vignettes. Series: Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 149 x 14. Weight in Grams: 276.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 112
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801894312
- ISBN
- 9780801894312
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 27.92
€ 32.99
€ 27.92
Hardcover. Beautiful widow Joan D'Silva is at Howrah Station, fleeing Calcutta with her 11-year-old son Errol. Also on the same train is Laxhimi, a notorious hijira prostitute: charismatic, sensual and powerful. They are both running away to Lucknow to escape danger, but soon their lives will become entangled in a web of corruption and blackmail. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Parthian Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908946904
- ISBN
- 9781908946904
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.44
€ 13.99
€ 13.44