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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. Takes us to a dilapidated country estate where an ambitious artist of questionable talent, a family of landed aristocrats wondering where the money has gone, and a secretly cross-dressing squire all commingle among the ruins. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780226137186
- ISBN
- 9780226137186
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 19.36
€ 23.99
€ 19.36
paperback. The opening novel in Anthony Powell's brilliant twelve-novel sequence, A Dance to the Music of Time Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Cornerstone
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099472384
- ISBN
- 9780099472384
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 11.20
€ 11.99
€ 11.20
Paperback. On a sultry afternoon in the summer of 1936 a young woman is witness to an attempted murder in a London hotel room. Nina, a West End actress, faces a dilemma: she shouldn't have been at the hotel in the first place, and certainly not with a married man. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 27. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099593232
- ISBN
- 9780099593232
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.90
€ 15.99
€ 11.90
paperback. Summer of 1911. The streets of London ring with cheers for a new king's coronation and the cries of increasingly violent suffragette protests. Connie Callaway, fired up by the possibilities of independence, wants more than the conventional comforts of marriage. She is determined to fight for 'the greatest cause the world has ever known.' Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 33. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099531944
- ISBN
- 9780099531944
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.77
€ 23.99
€ 17.77
paperback. Freya Wyley meets Nancy Holdaway amid the wild celebrations of VE Day, the prelude to a devoted and competitive friendship.. Freya, ambitious and outspoken, pursues a career on Fleet Street while Nancy, less self-confident, struggles to get her first novel published. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781784703127
- ISBN
- 9781784703127
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 9.99
€ 14.99
€ 9.99
Paperback. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 341.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Ltd ,Canada Canada
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781551111384
- ISBN
- 9781551111384
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.72
€ 31.72
paperback. Features novels including "Southern Mail" and "Night Flight" that evoke the tragic courage and nobility of the airborne pioneers who took enormous risks, flying in open cock-pits in planes that were often fragile and unstable. Translator(s): Cate, Curtis. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 11. Weight in Grams: 140.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classic
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141183749
- ISBN
- 9780141183749
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.89
€ 15.99
€ 11.89
Paperback. In "The Little Prince",a small boy leaves the tiny planet on which he lives alone, on a trip to Earth, where he is introduced to the vagaries of adult behaviour. "Letter to a Hostage" is an open letter to a Jewish intellectual in hiding in occupied France. Illustrator(s): Saint-Exupery, Antoine De. Translator(s): Cuffe, T.V.F. Series: Penguin Modern Classics Translated Texts S. Num Pages: 160 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141185620
- ISBN
- 9780141185620
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.03
€ 10.99
€ 10.03
Paperback. Antoine Laurain s new masterpiece combines his trademark charm with a trenchant critique of the troubled state France is today." Translator(s): Boyce, Emily; Aitken, Jane. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 257 x 19. Weight in Grams: 164.
- Publisher
- Gallic Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910477304
- ISBN
- 9781910477304
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.89
€ 11.99
€ 10.89
Paperback. A collector unearths the find of a lifetime: an eighteenth-century portrait of a man uncannily like him. Translator(s): Boyce, Emily; Aitken, Jane. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198. .
- Publisher
- Gallic Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910477434
- ISBN
- 9781910477434
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.76
€ 13.99
€ 11.76
Paperback. Could a felt hat have the power to change lives? When President Francois Mitterrand leaves his hat behind at a Paris brasserie, it sets off a chain of momentous events in the lives of those who come to wear it. Translator(s): Rogers, Lalaurie Louise; Aitken, Jane; Boyce, Emily. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 197 x 16. Weight in Grams: 212.
- Publisher
- Gallic Books
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908313478
- ISBN
- 9781908313478
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.76
€ 13.99
€ 11.76
Paperback. Depicts a post-cataclysmic world in which the forces of capitalism have begun to reestablish themselves. Sharply opposed to such a trend, a group of crones confined to a nursing home - all of them apparently immortal - resolves to create an avenging grandson fashioned of lint and rags. Translator(s): Stump, Jordan. Num Pages: 166 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 10. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 166
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803220898
- ISBN
- 9780803220898
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 21.04
€ 21.99
€ 21.04
Paperback. Translator(s): Constantine, Peter. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 208 x 16. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Publisher
- Seven Stories Press,U.S.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- Later printing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781583220269
- ISBN
- 9781583220269
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 16.82
€ 18.99
€ 16.82
Paperback. Translator(s): Bloshteyn, Maria. Num Pages: 168 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 202 x 12. Weight in Grams: 168.
- Publisher
- NYRB Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Translation
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781590178362
- ISBN
- 9781590178362
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 14.62
€ 16.99
€ 14.62
Paperback. The importance of Chekhov's stories is now recognized by readers as well as by fellow authors. Their themes - alienation, the absurdity and tragedy of human existence - have as much relevance today as when they were written, and this superb new translation captures their modernist spirit. Among the fourteen stories included are 'The Lady with the Little Dog', 'Gusev', and 'Rothschild's Violin'. Translator(s): Bartlett, Rosamund. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 184.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199536689
- ISBN
- 9780199536689
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.89
€ 11.99
€ 10.89
Paperback. Translator(s): Volokhonsky, Larissa; Pevear, Richard. Series: Vintage Classics. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 205 x 28. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Edition
- Vintage Classics ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781400032921
- ISBN
- 9781400032921
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 19.63
€ 21.99
€ 19.63
Paperback. This stunning, literary commercial novel in the vein of Curtis Sittenfeld's Prep is a New York Times bestseller and a stand-out debut launch for Tinder Press Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 197 x 26. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Publisher
- Headline Publishing Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780755395194
- ISBN
- 9780755395194
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.51
€ 17.99
€ 13.51
Paperback. Translator(s): Broner, Martina. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 191 x 152. Weight in Grams: 367.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Archipelago
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780914671725
- ISBN
- 9780914671725
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.00
€ 19.99
€ 18.00
Paperback. In a novel set in Soviet-era Poland, a boy is bewitched by his teacher and vows to win her heart, but later, when he becomes a teacher himself, he sees the story from the opposite side of the instructor's desk. Reprint. Translator(s): Kolakowska, Agnieszka. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 29. Weight in Grams: 318. 438 pages. In a novel set in Soviet-era Poland, a boy is bewitched by his teacher and vows to win her heart, but later, when he becomes a teacher himself, he sees the story from the opposite side of the instructor's desk. Reprint. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 196 x 128 x 29. Weight: 314.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Number of pages
- 448
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841955209
- ISBN
- 9781841955209
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.09
€ 17.99
€ 13.09
Paperback. 'Relativity is a novel of assured and measured empathy, a story of familial love and familial hurt that is fair, honest and remarkably non-judgmental. Hayes is a convincing writer and a true storyteller: her characters are alive.' Christos Tsiolkas, author of THE SLAP Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 26. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472151704
- ISBN
- 9781472151704
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.31
€ 11.99
€ 10.31