Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Results 10249 - 10272 of 14937
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. Picture two people, young and in love. Picture them being separated from one another. Picture them keeping their love alive through letters. But now imagine they've not just been separated geographically, but also historically. Imagine that their love and letters now defy time and place, life and death.. Translator(s): Bromfield, Andrew. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 36. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Quercus Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 368
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780871080
- ISBN
- 9781780871080
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.87
€ 13.99
€ 10.87
Paperback. Hungarian classic and winner of the 2002 Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize, now re-edited and re-jacketed. Translator(s): Thursfield, Patrick. Series: The Writing on the Wall. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 198 x 29. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Publisher
- Quercus Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 3rd Revised edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910050927
- ISBN
- 9781910050927
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.31
€ 17.99
€ 13.31
Paperback. Hungarian Classic and winner of the 2002 Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize, now re-edited and re-jacketed Translator(s): Banffy-Jelen, Katlin; Thursfield, Patrick. Series: The Writing on the Wall. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 200 x 40. Weight in Grams: 488.
- Publisher
- Quercus Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910050910
- ISBN
- 9781910050910
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.31
€ 17.99
€ 13.31
Paperback. The bestselling cult comedy from Mil Millington published alongside his new novel, Love and Other Near Death Experiences Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780753820735
- ISBN
- 9780753820735
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.97
€ 13.99
€ 10.97
Paperback. Is this love or just oxytocin? The brilliant second novel by the bestselling author of Things my Girlfriend and I Have Argued About Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780753820728
- ISBN
- 9780753820728
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.87
€ 13.99
€ 10.87
Paperback. The new novel from the bestselling author of THINGS MY GIRLFRIEND AND I HAVE ARGUED ABOUT. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 190.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780753826270
- ISBN
- 9780753826270
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.97
€ 13.99
€ 10.97
Paperback. Kundera whirls through comedy and tragedy towards his central question: how does a person, any person, live today? In constructing his answer, he writes of politics, sex, literature, modern man's alienation - and of their antidotes: laughter and forgetting. Translator(s): Asher, Aaron. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571174379
- ISBN
- 9780571174379
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.58
€ 13.99
€ 10.58
Paperback. A budding poet and his adoring mother are the central characters of this early novel. Translator(s): Kussi, Peter; Asher, Aaron. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 311
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571197774
- ISBN
- 9780571197774
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.66
€ 13.99
€ 10.66
Paperback. Readers are taken through a midsummer's night in which two tales of seduction, separated by more than 200 years, interweave and oscillate between the sublime and the ridiculous. They provide merely a narrative framework for Kundera's novel, within which is condensed existential analysis. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 10. Weight in Grams: 116.
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571179435
- ISBN
- 9780571179435
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.66
€ 13.99
€ 10.66
Paperback. This collection contains stories about the sport of love - Don Juanism, ageing, male and female power and seductions undertaken for all kinds of intriguing motives. Milan Kundera is author of "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" and "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting". Translator(s): Rappaport, S. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 242.
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571206926
- ISBN
- 9780571206926
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.58
€ 13.99
€ 10.58
paperback. Offers a wide range of philosophical speculations and it descants on a variety of styles. This book draws together the Czechoslovakia of the Prague Spring and the Russian invasion, the philosophy of Nietzsche, and the love affairs of a number of heartbreakingly familiar characters. Translator(s): Heim, Michael Henry. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 246.
- Edition
- Main
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571135394
- ISBN
- 9780571135394
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.66
€ 13.99
€ 10.66
Paperback. A man and a woman meet by chance while returning to their homeland, which they had abandoned 20 years earlier when they chose to become exiles. Will they manage to pick up the thread of their strange love story, interrupted as soon as it began and then lost in the tides of history? Translator(s): Asher, Linda. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 16. Weight in Grams: 172.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571215515
- ISBN
- 9780571215515
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.66
€ 13.99
€ 10.66
Paperback. Klima, a celebrated jazz trumpeter, receives a phone call announcing that a young nurse with whom he spent a brief night at a fertility spa is pregnant. She has decided he is the father and so begins a comedy which, during five madcap days, unfolds with ever-increasing speed. Translator(s): Asher, Aaron. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DD; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 20. Weight in Grams: 232.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571194711
- ISBN
- 9780571194711
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.66
€ 13.99
€ 10.66
Paperback. This is the first novel by the author of "Immortality", which won "The Independent" Award for Foreign Fiction in 1991. Milan Kundera is also the author of "The Book of Laughter and Fogetting". Translator(s): Heim, Michael Henry. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 23. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571166930
- ISBN
- 9780571166930
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.94
€ 11.99
€ 9.94
Paperback. A novel by the author of "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". A moment of confusion sets in motion a complex chain of events which crosses and recrosses the divide between fantasy and reality. Translator(s): Asher, Linda. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 11. Weight in Grams: 134.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571195671
- ISBN
- 9780571195671
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.66
€ 13.99
€ 10.66
paperback. A novel, divided into seven parts and exploring immortality. This is the author's seventh novel. His previous works include "The Joke", "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" and "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". He has written one play, "Jacques and his Master". Translator(s): Kussi, Peter. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 27. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- FABER & FABER
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571144563
- ISBN
- 9780571144563
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.78
€ 13.99
€ 10.78
paperback. Offering a strange sort of summation and laughter, this titles casts light on the most serious of problems and at the same time saying not one serious sentence. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 198 x 10. Weight in Grams: 108.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Faber And Faber Ltd.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571316496
- ISBN
- 9780571316496
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.94
€ 11.99
€ 9.94
Paperback. *The story of a young girl's dreams, aspirations and melodramas told with zest and verve by the 16-year-old author Series: VMC. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 125 x 17. Weight in Grams: 178.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1980
- Publisher
- Angus & Robertson
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- UK ed.
- SKU
- V9780860681939
- ISBN
- 9780860681939
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.89
€ 13.99
€ 10.89
Paperback. Translator(s): Dickey, Stephen M.; Pavetic-Dickey, Janja. Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters. Num Pages: 456 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300226980
- ISBN
- 9780300226980
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.91
€ 19.99
€ 15.91
Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 153 x 26. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Archipelago Books United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781935744320
- ISBN
- 9781935744320
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.51
€ 17.99
€ 16.51
Paperback. Num Pages: 290 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 135 x 17. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- New American Library New York
- Number of pages
- 290
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- SKU
- KNH0004151
- ISBN
- 9780451216489
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
paperback. Editor(s): Durrell, Lawrence. Num Pages: 397 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 135 x 29. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1969
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
- Number of pages
- 397
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780811201117
- ISBN
- 9780811201117
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 21.31
€ 24.99
€ 21.31
Hardcover. In the mid-1970s, the North Sea oil boom is in full swing and there is work for all. Though Catherine Williams's children are adult and all four have oil-related jobs, she is not happy with the upheaval the oil industry has caused and believes that Davy Jones will demand payment from those who rob his locker with men's lives. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 163 x 26. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Publisher
- Robert Hale
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Alabama
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780719813269
- ISBN
- 9780719813269
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 26.65
€ 26.99
€ 26.65
Paperback. Love, laughter, friendship and chocolate. The heartwarming new novel from Sunday Times top 10 bestseller, Milly Johnson Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 32. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Paperback Original
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781471140464
- ISBN
- 9781471140464
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.83
€ 11.99
€ 9.83