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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Stifled by the torpor of colonial South Africa and trapped in a web of reciprocal oppression, a lonely sheep farmer seeks comfort in the arms of a black concubine. But when his embittered spinster daughter Magda feels shamed, this lurch across the racial divide marks the end of a tenuous feudal peace. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 11. Weight in Grams: 132. Fine copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0003354
ISBN
9780099465942
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.70

Paperback. Paul Rayment is on the threshold of a comfortable old age when a calamitous cycling accident results in the amputation of a leg. Humiliated, his body truncated, his life circumscribed, he turns away from his friends. He hires a nurse named Marijana, with whom he has a European childhood in common: hers in Croatia, his in France. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 196. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0002866
ISBN
9780099490623
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. An eminent Australian writer is invited to contribute to a book entitled "Strong Opinions". For him, troubled by Australia's complicity in the wars in the Middle East, it is a chance to air some urgent concerns: how should a citizen of a modern democracy react to their state's involvement in a war that involves the use of torture? Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 176.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099516224
ISBN
9780099516224
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.01

Paperback. This work contains two novellas. In the first, a specialist in psychological warfare is driven to murderous action by the stresses of a macabre project to win the Vietnam War, and in the second, a megalomaniac Boer frontiersman wreaks hideous vengeance on a Hottentot tribe. Num Pages: 208 pages, 20 cm. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 156.
Publisher
Vintage
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099268338
ISBN
9780099268338
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. He plans to focus on a period in the seventies when, the biographer senses, Coetzee was 'finding his feet as a writer'. He embarks on a series of interviews with people who were important to Coetzee - a married woman with whom he had an affair. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 18. Weight in Grams: 192.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099540540
ISBN
9780099540540
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.77

In the early eighteenth century, Susan Barton finds herself adrift from a mutinous ship and cast ashore on a remote desert island. There she finds shelter with its only other inhabitants: a man named Cruso and his tongueless slave, Friday. In time, she builds a life for herself as Cruso's companion and, eventually, his lover. Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 112 x 180 x 11. Weight in Grams: 94.
Publisher
Viking
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241973691
ISBN
9780241973691
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.29

Paperback. In Cape Town, South Africa, an elderly classics professor writes a letter to her distant daughter, recounting the strange and disturbing events of her dying days. She has been opposed to the lies and the brutality of apartheid all her life, but now she finds herself coming face to face with its true horrors. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 14. Weight in Grams: 150.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241951019
ISBN
9780241951019
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. In the early eighteenth century, Susan Barton finds herself adrift from a mutinous ship and cast ashore on a remote desert island. There she finds shelter with its only other inhabitants: a man named Cruso and his tongueless slave, Friday. In time, she builds a life for herself as Cruso's companion and, eventually, his lover. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 11. Weight in Grams: 120.
Publisher
Penguin Books London
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241950111
ISBN
9780241950111
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 177 x 124 x 21. Weight in Grams: 178.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099581550
ISBN
9780099581550
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.98

Paperback. When Peter Pan and his fairy companion Tinker Bell fly in through the window of Wendy's nursery one night, it is the beginning of an adventure that whisks Wendy and her brothers Michael and John off to Neverland. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 14. Weight in Grams: 216.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780142437933
ISBN
9780142437933
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 8.67

Hardback. "Lavishly illustrated with interactive elements"--Front cover. Illustrator(s): Minalima Ltd. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FC; YFA. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 245 x 167 x 34. Weight in Grams: 892.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Condition
New
SKU
9780062362223
ISBN
9780062362223
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 29.99
€ 18.66

hardcover. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FM; YFB; YFH. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 216 x 138. .
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408869130
ISBN
9781408869130
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 22.39

Paperback. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: FA; YFH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 129 x 198 x 35. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
9781408855706
ISBN
9781408855706
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 10.12

Hardback. Illustrator(s): Kay, Jim. Num Pages: 336 pages, Colour illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: FA; FM; YFB; YFH. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 267 x 226. .
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408845660
ISBN
9781408845660
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 32.57

Hardback. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FM; YFB; YFH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 198 x 137 x 46. Weight in Grams: 614.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408855928
ISBN
9781408855928
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 17.80

Book. Illustrator(s): Kay, Jim. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FM; YFB; YFH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 287 x 345 x 44. Weight in Grams: 3634.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Illustrated
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408871874
ISBN
9781408871874
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 237.73
€ 151.90

Hardback. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FM; YFB; YFH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 199 x 137 x 46. Weight in Grams: 612.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408855959
ISBN
9781408855959
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 17.93

Hardback. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: FA; YFH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 199 x 137 x 41. Weight in Grams: 548.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408855942
ISBN
9781408855942
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 17.81

Hardback. Num Pages: 816 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FM; YFB; YFH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 198 x 137 x 56. Weight in Grams: 754.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408855935
ISBN
9781408855935
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 17.86

Hardback. Illustrator(s): Kay, Jim. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FM; YFB; YFH. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 321 x 271. .
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Illustrated
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408884768
ISBN
9781408884768
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 237.73
€ 151.34

Paperback. Num Pages: 282 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127. Weight in Grams: 240.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
PM Press United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
282
Condition
New
SKU
V9781629631172
ISBN
9781629631172
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.92

Paperback. A collection that gives a multi-faceted view of Scotland, the Scots and the Scottish short story, with stories ranging from Roman Britain through the trials of those at home during the Second World War to a country and people determined to assert their independence. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 137 x 16. Weight in Grams: 178.
Publisher
Viking
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241955475
ISBN
9780241955475
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 16.77

paperback. The second in a two volume collection of short stories by the acclaimed author of 'Empire of the Sun', 'Crash' and 'Super-Cannes'. The new edition is introduced by Adam Thirwell. Num Pages: 784 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 46. Weight in Grams: 562.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Fourth Estate
Condition
New
SKU
9780007245765
ISBN
9780007245765
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.53

paperback. With a new introduction by Deborah Levy and a striking new cover design by the artist Stanley Donwood, Ballard's final novel sees consumerism evolve into something even more sinister. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 228.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Fourth Estate
Condition
New
SKU
9780007232475
ISBN
9780007232475
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 11.29

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