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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
paperback. The opening novel in Anthony Powell's 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.
- Publisher
- Cornerstone
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099472384
- ISBN
- 9780099472384
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.04
€ 13.99
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Paperback. Part of a twelve-novel sequence, "A Dance to the Music of Time". Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 19. Weight in Grams: 210. Fine in fine dust wrapper. Lightly toned, text is clear and remains fine
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Cornerstone United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0027227
- ISBN
- 9780099472537
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 24.00
€ 24.00
Paperback. A post as special correspondent for a new and fragile Baltic state gives the young but melancholy Lushington an opportunity to turn his back on an unhappy love affair. While gathering information at the many parties he attends, he hopes to report on unrest, an assassination, perhaps even a revolution. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 199 x 17. Weight in Grams: 154. Good clean copy with some shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Cornerstone
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KAC0002362
- ISBN
- 9781784750619
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 13.99€ 10.67
€ 13.99
€ 10.67
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: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 55 x 85 x 18. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780226132969
- ISBN
- 9780226132969
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 19.30
€ 23.99
€ 19.30
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€ 19.30
€ 23.99
€ 19.30
Paperback. Liverpool, 1939. Lonely historian Tom Baines is at work on a study of the city's architectural past but the ominous news from Europe, together with his burgeoning friendship with Richard, a young photographer, and his beautiful wife, Bella, are proving a distraction. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 123 x 26. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- British Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099531937
- ISBN
- 9780099531937
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.70
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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
€ 13.00€ 11.88
€ 13.00
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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€ 17.70
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€ 17.70
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
hardcover. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 140. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1970
- Publisher
- London, Calder & Boyars United Kingdom
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780714507262
- ISBN
- 9780714507262
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.41
€ 13.99
€ 13.41
Paperback. The first of Trollope's six Palliser novels, Can You Forgive Her? explores the dilemma of Alice Vavasor, torn between two suitors, and the choices faced by two other independent women. The tensions within Victorian society highlighted by the plot are illuminated in the introduction and notes to this new edition. Editor(s): Birch, Dinah. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 752 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 153 x 34. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 752
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199578177
- ISBN
- 9780199578177
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.40
€ 16.99
€ 13.40
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€ 9.46
€ 10.99
€ 9.46
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. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 11. Weight in Grams: 138.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Penguin Classic
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141183749
- ISBN
- 9780141183749
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.14
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€ 11.14
Paperback. 'He was about to commit a forbidden act. A transgression. For no man should rummage through a woman's handbag.' Translator(s): Boyce, Emily. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 131 x 13. Weight in Grams: 160.
- Publisher
- Gallic Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908313867
- ISBN
- 9781908313867
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.73
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€ 11.73
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€ 10.81
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€ 10.81
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€ 11.65
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€ 11.65
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€ 11.66
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€ 11.66
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
€ 20.99€ 20.79
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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€ 10.30
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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€ 19.60
€ 21.99
€ 19.60