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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. 1945: a lost German bomber crashes on the Vatnajokull glacier in Iceland. Inexplicably, in the midst of World War Two, there are both German and American officers on board. One of the senior German officers claims that their best chance of survival is to try to walk to the nearest farm and sets off, a briefcase handcuffed to his wrist. Translator(s): Cribb, Victoria. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 27. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099535638
- ISBN
- 9780099535638
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 23. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241255797
- ISBN
- 9780241255797
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Paperback. Affirms the integrity of ordinary lives as it tells the story of the Baines sisters. This work traces the sisters' lives from childhood in their father's drapery shop in provincial Bursley, England, during the mid-Victorian era, through their married lives, to the modern industrial age, when they are reunited as old women. Num Pages: 624 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 432.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 624
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141442112
- ISBN
- 9780141442112
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.62
€ 18.62
Paperback. Translator(s): Burr, Malcolm. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 2ABM; FA; HB; RG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 171 x 26. Weight in Grams: 484.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- McPherson & Co Publishers,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780929701493
- ISBN
- 9780929701493
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.56
€ 19.99
€ 18.56
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 130 x 198 x 11. Weight in Grams: 144.
- Format
- Paperback
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910124000
- ISBN
- 9781910124000
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 8.91
€ 9.99
€ 8.91
Paperback. Series: Phoenix Books. Num Pages: 466 pages, vi, 464 p. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 202 x 133 x 26. Weight in Grams: 509.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226112541
- ISBN
- 9780226112541
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 21.20
€ 25.99
€ 21.20
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Book Guild Publishing Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781911320913
- ISBN
- 9781911320913
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.83
€ 11.99
€ 10.83
Paperback. Series: Modern Library. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 132 x 9. Weight in Grams: 126. A clean copy. Cover is creased and bent in places; text remains unaffected
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Modern Library Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- Modern Library Pbk. Ed
- SKU
- KLJ0015880
- ISBN
- 9780812968545
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 7.81
€ 7.81
Paperback. Series: Modern Library. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 132 x 9. Weight in Grams: 126. Series: Modern Library. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 132 x 9. Weight in Grams: 126. Good clean copy with some minor reading wear
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Modern Library Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- Modern Library Pbk. Ed
- SKU
- KLJ0015873
- ISBN
- 9780812968545
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 7.81
€ 7.81
paperback. Summoning up more than 20 years of Japan's most dramatic history, the geisha's story uncovers a hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation. It moves from a small fishing village in 1929 to the glamorous and decadent Kyoto of the 30s and on to postwar New York. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 31. Weight in Grams: 356. Well read, but remains good
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- SKU
- KST0009345
- ISBN
- 9780099771517
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
paperback. Summoning up more than 20 years of Japan's most dramatic history, the geisha's story uncovers a hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation. It moves from a small fishing village in 1929 to the glamorous and decadent Kyoto of the 30s and on to postwar New York. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 31. Weight in Grams: 356. Good clean copy with some light shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- KTK0080838
- ISBN
- 9780099771517
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Random House
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Limited Ed
- Number of pages
- 464
- SKU
- 9780091887193
- ISBN
- 9780099497028
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 7.50
€ 13.99
€ 7.50
Paperback. In 1837, two young African princes arrive at the court of Willem I in the Netherlands. Treated as curiosities by white people, their friendship suffers and their paths diverge. Years later, as the 20th century dawns, the elderly Kwasi sits down to write his autobiography. Translator(s): Rilke, Ina. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 22. Weight in Grams: 252.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099287872
- ISBN
- 9780099287872
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.88
€ 13.00
€ 11.88
Paperback. Tells of Arthur Koestler's travels through Russia and remote parts of Soviet Central Asia and of his life as an exile. This book puts in perspective his experiences in Franco's prisons under sentence of death and in concentration camps in Occupied France, and ends with his escape from there in 1940 to England, where he found stability and a home. Num Pages: 528 pages, Illustrations, 1 map, ports. BIC Classification: BGLA; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 34. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics London
- Number of pages
- 528
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099490685
- ISBN
- 9780099490685
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.04
€ 19.99
€ 15.04
Paperback. Peter Slavek starts out as a brave young revolutionary, but suffers a breakdown. On the analyst's couch he is made to discover that his crusading zeal was derived from unconscious guilt. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 144.
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099515418
- ISBN
- 9780099515418
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.25
€ 17.99
€ 14.25
Paperback. Darkness at Noon is set in an unnamed country ruled by a totalitarian government. Rubashov, once a powerful player in the regime, finds the tables turned on him when he is arrested and tried for treason. His reflections on his previous life and his experiences in prison form the heart of this moving and though-provoking masterpiece. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 164. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0004956
- ISBN
- 9780099424918
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Offers an exercise in the bizarre leaving you disoriented and on edge. From the first page, the author turns even fundamental truths upside-down, as his character Ambrose explains, "there have been those who have sounded the very depths of sin, who all their lives have never done an 'ill deed'" setting the stage for a tale entirely without logic. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 1 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 18. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 1
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st Ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780143105596
- ISBN
- 9780143105596
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.01
€ 13.99
€ 11.01
Paperback. Extensive historical documents provide a rich context for Arthur Morrison's harrowing, controversial novel of London slum life. Editor(s): Maltz, Diana. Series: Broadview Editions. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 216 x 19. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Broadview Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781551119854
- ISBN
- 9781551119854
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 20.52
€ 26.99
€ 20.52
paperback. Num Pages: 283 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 232.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 283
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780714531113
- ISBN
- 9780714531113
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.35
€ 13.99
€ 13.35
Paperback. Julian Donahue is in love with his iPod. Each song triggers a memory - there's one for the day when he met his wife-to-be, and another for the day his son was born. But when a tragedy tears his family apart, even music loses its hold on him. Then, one night, he stumbles into a bar where an Irish woman sings with a voice that demands his attention. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- SKU
- KEX0302719
- ISBN
- 9780715638736
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Series: Modern Library. Num Pages: 416 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 141 x 23. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Publisher
- Random House USA Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- Modern Library Pbk. Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812970159
- ISBN
- 9780812970159
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 15.55
€ 20.99
€ 15.55
Paperback. A novella that tells how through a simple sexual admission a husband and wife ware driven apart into rival worlds of erotic revenge. Translator(s): Davies, J.M.Q. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSBF; DSK; FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 98. Good clean copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141182247
- ISBN
- 9780141182247
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.27
€ 13.99
€ 10.27
Paperback. Translator(s): Watt, Norman. Num Pages: 270 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; DSB; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 402.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Ariadne Press United States
- Number of pages
- 270
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781572410749
- ISBN
- 9781572410749
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 29.35
€ 40.99
€ 29.35
Paperback. Lucas Corso, a gin-swilling book hunter and an expert in Napoleonic war games, is hired to authenticate an Alexandre Dumas manuscript. At the same time a Spanish bookseller asks him to investigate two other editions of the book. Num Pages: 336 pages, 31. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 238.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099448594
- ISBN
- 9780099448594
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08