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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. A collection of short stories, set in the idyllic Salinas Valley in California, where simple people farm the land and struggle to find a place for themselves in the world. This book includes the tales: The Murderer and The Chrysanthemums. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 214.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780141185514
ISBN
9780141185514
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.53

Paperback. Drifters in search of work, George and his childlike friend Lennie, have nothing in the world except the clothes on their back - and a dream that one day they will have some land of their own. Eventually they find work on a ranch in California's Salinas Valley, but their hopes are dashed as Lennie - struggling against extreme cruelty, and more. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 183 x 10. Weight in Grams: 98.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
Edition
01st Edition
SKU
9780141023571
ISBN
9780141023571
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 9.75

Paperback. RUSSIA UNDER STALIN, THE MEXICO OF FRIDA KAHLO, TROTSKY'S ASSASSINATION, AND CONTEMPORARY CUBA, ALL IN A PRIZE WINNING HISTORICAL NOVEL. Translator(s): Kushner, Anna. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 164 x 42. Weight in Grams: 912.
Publisher
Bitter Lemon Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908524447
ISBN
9781908524447
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.31

Paperback. It is a sweltering August in Aberystwyth. A man wearing a Soviet museum curator's uniform walks into Louie Knight's office and spins a wild and impossible tale of love, death, madness and betrayal. Sure, Louie had heard about Hughesovka, the legendary replica of Aberystwyth built in the Ukraine by some crazy nineteenth-century czar. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 212. 288 pages. It is a sweltering August in Aberystwyth. A man wearing a Soviet museum curator's uniform walks into Louie Knight's office and spins a wild and impossible tale of love, death, madness and betrayal. Sure, Louie had heard about Hughesovka, the legendary replica of Aberystwyth built in the Ukraine by some crazy nineteenth-century czar. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 197 x 130 x 20. Weight: 210.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408801024
ISBN
9781408801024
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.73

Paperback / so. Num Pages: 308 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 135 x 18. Weight in Grams: 227.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc United States
Number of pages
308
Condition
New
SKU
V9780553386240
ISBN
9780553386240
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.08

paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140. Weight in Grams: 367.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Kensington Publishing United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
SKU
V9781496708427
ISBN
9781496708427
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 18.50

Paperback. Num Pages: 454 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 197 x 33. Weight in Grams: 468.
Publisher
Blacksmith Books Hong Kong
Number of pages
454
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
1ST
Condition
New
SKU
V9789889979973
ISBN
9789889979973
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.53

Paperback. Translator(s): Sryfi, Mbarek; Allen, Roger. Series: Middle East Literature in Translation. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 19. Weight in Grams: 416.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815633693
ISBN
9780815633693
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 40.51

Paperback. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 201 x 17. Weight in Grams: 188.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Penguin Books India Pvt Ltd India
Condition
New
SKU
V9780143334149
ISBN
9780143334149
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 10.58

Paperback. .
Publisher
The American University in Cairo Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9789774166440
ISBN
9789774166440
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.17

Paperback. Tells the story of an Untouchable in India's caste system, with an introduction by Ramachandra Guha, author of Gandhi Bakha is a proud and attractive young man, yet none the less he is an Untouchable - an outcast in India's caste system. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 137 x 9. Weight in Grams: 124.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141393605
ISBN
9780141393605
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Hardback. Translator(s): Fenkl, Heinz Insu. Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780231178648
ISBN
9780231178648
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 18.92

Paperback. Mungo Park set off from his home in the Scottish borders in May 1795 at the age of 23 to discover the course of the River Niger in West Africa. When he reappeared in England more than two and a half years later, he had been presumed dead, and the tale of his perilous journey published in 1799 was greeted with great acclaim. Series: STANFORD TRAVEL CLASSICS. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: FA. .
Publisher
John Beaufoy Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781909612785
ISBN
9781909612785
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.59

Paperback. France's greatest food critic is dying, after a lifetime in single-minded pursuit of sensual delights. Translator(s): Anderson, Alison. Num Pages: 136 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 10. Weight in Grams: 144. Used paperback, in good condition. Some shelf wear.
Condition
Used, Good
Edition
UK ed.
Publisher
Gallic Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
SKU
KRF0037347
ISBN
9781906040314
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. A hot summer. Two cities. Everyone started out with the best of intentions .. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 27. Weight in Grams: 300. Good copy with some wear on the cover and minor tearing on the spine
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Hachette Books Ireland
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
SKU
KAK0000941
ISBN
9781444733044
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 196 x 25. Weight in Grams: 272. Clean copy with some reader wear.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Hachette Books Ireland
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
SKU
KTM0000681
ISBN
9781444743357
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153 x 26. Weight in Grams: 464. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153 x 26. Weight in Grams: 464. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Hachette Books Ireland
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
SKU
KHN0001669
ISBN
9781444743371
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 200 x 22. Weight in Grams: 240. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Hachette Books Ireland
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KIN0032492
ISBN
9781444743388
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 16. Weight in Grams: 170.
Publisher
Ebury Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844135837
ISBN
9781844135837
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.08

Paperback. 'I am dazzled by The Bachelors. It is the cleverest and most elegant of all Spark's clever and elegant books' Evelyn Waugh Now available in print and eBook as a gorgeous canon Series: Canons. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 182.
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Main - Canons ed.
Condition
New
SKU
9781782117551
ISBN
9781782117551
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.74

Paperback. Passionate, free-thinking and unconventional, Miss Brodie is a teacher who exerts a powerful influence over her group of 'special girls' at Marcia Blaine School. They are the Brodie set, the creme de la creme, each famous for something - Monica for mathematics, Eunice for swimming, Rose for sex - who are initiated into a world of adult games. Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 114 x 9. Weight in Grams: 78.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Viking
Number of pages
128
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241956779
ISBN
9780241956779
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.33

Paperback. First published in 1968 and shortlisted for the Booker Prize, The Public Image couldn't be more relevant for today's celebrity-obsessed culture. This is Spark at her wittiest, wickedest best. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 11. Weight in Grams: 134.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844089673
ISBN
9781844089673
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Paperback. Miss Jean Brodie is a schoolmistress with a difference. She is proud, cultured and romantic but her educational ideas are highly progressive and even deeply shocking. So when she decides to transform a group of 'special girls' into the creme de la creme at Marcia Blaine School they are soon known, perhaps suspiciously, as the Brodie set. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 10. Weight in Grams: 128.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241964002
ISBN
9780241964002
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

Paperback. Muriel Spark's stunning debut novel Series: VMC. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 123 x 15. Weight in Grams: 148.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844085538
ISBN
9781844085538
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

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