Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. Includes twenty-one short stories from some of the best American writers over the last two hundred years that provide a multi-faceted portrait of a country, a people and the literature produced by this most exuberant of nations. Editor(s): Cochrane, James. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 197 x 26. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Re-issue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241952849
- ISBN
- 9780241952849
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.33
€ 17.99
€ 13.33
Paperback. James Clavell's classic portrayal of the Iranian revolution at its height in fresh new packaging to appeal to a new generation. Series: The Asian Saga. Num Pages: 1248 pages, maps. BIC Classification: FA; FH; FJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 53. Weight in Grams: 846.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780340766187
- ISBN
- 9780340766187
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.63
€ 17.99
€ 14.63
paperback. Bestselling James Clavell's classic novel of age-old feuds played out in modern Hong Kong - now in stunning new packaging. Series: The Asian Saga. Num Pages: 1296 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 57. Weight in Grams: 892.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Hodder Paperback
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780340750704
- ISBN
- 9780340750704
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 13.64
€ 19.99
€ 13.64
Paperback. Part memoir, part love story, part wildly scenic travel piece, The Greek for Love is every bit as sumptuous as its setting Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Publisher
- JOHN MURRAY
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719568626
- ISBN
- 9780719568626
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.97
€ 13.99
€ 10.97
Hardback. A story of Hollywood, celebrity and the love of two brothers. It conveys a family's predicament: the decline of one brother, their mother's disappearance and reappearance and the flayed emotions in search of healing, the loneliness and intimacy of despair and the buoyancy of filial love. Num Pages: 340 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 165. Weight in Grams: 679.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 340
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780747502371
- ISBN
- 9780747502371
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.07
€ 17.99
€ 13.07
Paperback. Bex belongs to a hidden society of misfits, homeless and runaways who live in the Narrows, the hidden paths that lie behind even the darkest of alleyways. For years they have lived apart from the rest of the world, but the Narrows are closing, and nobody knows why. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 132 x 26. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Snowbooks Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781907777592
- ISBN
- 9781907777592
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.90
€ 10.99
€ 9.90
Paperback. Archaeologist David Norfolk is searching for a 400-year-old Portuguese shipwreck off the coast of New South Wales. Such a find would rewrite the history of Australia. But instead he unearths the body of a man murdered fifty years earlier, and begins to unravel a more personal kind of history. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 148 x 196 x 21. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber London
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571245840
- ISBN
- 9780571245840
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.92
€ 11.92
Paperback. Leaving behind his father's failures, Gabriel Swift arrives to study with Edwin Poll, the greatest of the city's anatomists. It is his chance to find advancement by making a name for himself. But instead he finds himself drawn to his master's nemesis, Lucan, the most powerful of the city's resurrectionists and ruler of its trade in stolen bodies. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 284. Well-read paperback, in good condition. Some shelf wear.
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Edition
- Main
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- SKU
- KIN0007004
- ISBN
- 9780571232765
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 614
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- Revised
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780862411428
- ISBN
- 9780862411428
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 16.74
€ 24.99
€ 16.74
paperback. Explores how gospel singer Arthur Montana discovers his love for Jimmy and portrays how profoundly racial politics can shape the private business of love. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 133 x 36. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140187991
- ISBN
- 9780140187991
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.03
€ 13.99
€ 11.03
Hardcover. David has just proposed marriage to his American girlfriend, but while she is away on a trip he becomes involved in a doomed affair with a bartender named Giovanni. This title is set in the Paris of the 1950s, where a young American expatriate finds himself caught between his repressed desires and conventional morality. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 134 x 18. Weight in Grams: 328.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781841593722
- ISBN
- 9781841593722
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 15.62
€ 20.99
€ 15.62
Paperback. Sounds a clarion warning to the world. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSK; FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 6. Weight in Grams: 78.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140182750
- ISBN
- 9780140182750
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.29
€ 11.99
€ 10.29
Paperback. Tish is nineteen, and pregnant. Her lover Fonny, father of her child, is in jail accused of rape. The two families struggle win justice for Fonny. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 15. Weight in Grams: 182.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780140187977
- ISBN
- 9780140187977
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.87
€ 11.99
€ 10.87
Paperback. Set in the 1950s Paris of American expatriates, liaisons, and violence, this title presents a story of a fated love triangle that explores the conflicts between desire, conventional morality and sexual identity. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 11. Weight in Grams: 138.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- 9780141186351
- ISBN
- 9780141186351
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.65
€ 13.99
€ 11.65
Paperback. Presents a semi-autobiographical exploration of the troubled life of the Grimes family in Harlem during the Depression. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 127 x 18. Weight in Grams: 202.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141185910
- ISBN
- 9780141185910
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.57
€ 11.99
€ 9.57
Hardcover. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 138. .
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Number of pages
- 280
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841593715
- ISBN
- 9781841593715
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 15.68
€ 20.99
€ 15.68
Paperback. After Rufus Scott, an embittered and unemployed black jazz-musician commits suicide, his sister Ida and old friend Vivaldo become lovers. Yet their feelings for each other are complicated by Rufus's friends, especially the homosexual actor Eric Jones who has been Vivaldo's lover. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 19. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141186375
- ISBN
- 9780141186375
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.86
€ 13.99
€ 10.86
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140184495
- ISBN
- 9780140184495
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.87
€ 13.99
€ 10.87
Paperback. This story unfolds through the eyes of 13-year-old Yates Paul. He becomes consumed with revelations about his father's loneliness, his grandmother's stormy relationship with his alcoholic uncle,and the frustration of being the best photography assistant in town when no one else knows it. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University Press of Kentucky
- Edition
- Rep Sub
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813190358
- ISBN
- 9780813190358
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.70
€ 45.70
Paperback. On a sultry summer night in 1915, Jay Follet leaves his house in Knoxville, Tennessee, to tend to his father, who he believes is dying. The summons turns out to be a false alarm, but on his way back to his family, Jay has a car accident and is killed instantly. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 20. Weight in Grams: 252.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141187969
- ISBN
- 9780141187969
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.95
€ 13.99
€ 10.95
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Random House Trade Paperbacks
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812969825
- ISBN
- 9780812969825
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 16.63
€ 18.99
€ 16.63
Paperback. Num Pages: 844 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 133 x 34. Weight in Grams: 730.
- Publisher
- Random House USA Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 844
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780375760372
- ISBN
- 9780375760372
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 17.51
€ 25.99
€ 17.51
Paperback. Num Pages: 880 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 133 x 40. Weight in Grams: 668.
- Publisher
- Random House Trade Paperbacks
- Number of pages
- 880
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812970432
- ISBN
- 9780812970432
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.55
€ 23.99
€ 16.55
Paperback. Num Pages: 1152 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 132 x 31. Weight in Grams: 634.
- Publisher
- Dial Press Trade Paperback
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780375761423
- ISBN
- 9780375761423
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.01
€ 25.99
€ 19.01