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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for so many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full of hope but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe's new home is not only haunted by the memories of her past but also by the ghost of her baby. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099540977
- ISBN
- 9780099540977
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.88
€ 15.99
€ 11.88
Paperback. Joe Trace - in his fifties, door-to-door salesman of beauty products, erstwhile devoted husband - shoots to death his lover of three months, impetuous, eighteen-year-old Dorcas. At the funeral, his determined, hard-working wife, Violet - who is given to stumbling into dark mental cracks - tries with a knife to disfigure the corpse. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099750918
- ISBN
- 9780099750918
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Hardcover. Tells the story of Macon 'Milkman' Dead, heir to the richest black family in a midwestern town, as he makes a voyage of rediscovery, travelling southwards geographically and inwards spirituality. Num Pages: 362 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 133 x 25. Weight in Grams: 498.
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Number of pages
- 377
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857152166
- ISBN
- 9781857152166
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.63
€ 23.99
€ 16.63
Paperback. Four young women are brutally attacked in a convent near an all-black town in America in the mid-1970s. The inevitability of this attack, and the attempts to avert it, lie at the heart of Paradise. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099768210
- ISBN
- 9780099768210
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Paperback. A novel that immerses us in the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family - Pauline, Cholly, Sam and Pecola - in post-Depression 1940s Ohio. It shows how the past savagely defines the present. Unlovely and unloved, Pecola prays each night for blue eyes like those of her privileged white schoolfellows. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 166.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- First Thus
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099759911
- ISBN
- 9780099759911
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Paperback. Into a white millionaire's Caribbean mansion comes: Jadine, a graduate of the Sorbonne, art historian - an American black now living in Paris and Rome and Son, a criminal on the run, uneducated, violent, contemptuous - an American black from small-town Florida. He is a threat to her freedom she is a threat to his identity.. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 24. Weight in Grams: 232.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099760214
- ISBN
- 9780099760214
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. On the day that Jacob agrees to accept a slave in lieu of payment of a debt from a plantation owner, little Florens' life changes. With her intelligence and passion for wearing the cast-off shoes of her mistress, Florens has never blended into the background and now at the age of eight she is taken from her family to begin a new life. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 130.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Number of pages
- 176
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099502548
- ISBN
- 9780099502548
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. Sweetness wants to love her child, Bride, but she struggles to love her as a mother should. Bride, now glamorous, grown up, ebony-black and panther-like, wants to love her man, Booker, but she finds herself betrayed by a moment in her past, a moment borne of a desperate burn for the love of her mother. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 268 x 14. Weight in Grams: 142.
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099555926
- ISBN
- 9780099555926
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
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Paperback. Macon Dead Jr, the son of a wealthy black property owner, who has been brought up to revere the white world. Macon learns about the tyranny of white society from his friend Guitar, though he is more concerned to escape the tyranny of his father. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (XO) Open University set text. Dimension: 197 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- New Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099768418
- ISBN
- 9780099768418
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. Begins with a letter from a woman Frank has never met. A pleading letter. A letter that closed his throat. 'Come fast. She be dead if you tarry.' And that is it all it takes. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 10. Weight in Grams: 122.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099555940
- ISBN
- 9780099555940
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Hardcover. It is the mid-1800s. At Sweet Home in Kentucky, an era is ending as slavery comes under attack from the abolitionists. The world of Sethe, however, is to turn from one of love to one of violence and death - the death of Sethe's baby daughter, Beloved, who died at her mother's hands, and who will return to claim retribution. Num Pages: 360 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 137 x 26. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857152685
- ISBN
- 9781857152685
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.96
€ 19.99
€ 14.96
paperback. May, Christine, Heed, Junior, Vida - even L - all are women obsessed with Bill Cosey. He shapes their yearnings for a father, husband, lover, guardian, and friend. This novel ultimately comes full circle to that indelible, overwhelming first love that marks us forever. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 166.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099455493
- ISBN
- 9780099455493
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
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Paperback. It is the mid-1800s and as slavery looks to be coming to an end, Sethe is haunted by the violent trauma it wrought on her former enslaved life at Sweet Home, Kentucky. Her dead baby daughter, whose tombstone bears the single word, Beloved, returns as a spectre to punish her mother, but also to elicit her love. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 22. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Format
- Paperback
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Publication date
- 1997
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099760115
- ISBN
- 9780099760115
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
€ 13.99
€ 10.45
Paperback. Terrible, unspeakable things happened to Sethe at Sweet Home, the farm where she lived as a slave for many years until she escaped to Ohio. Her new life is full of hope but eighteen years later she is still not free. Sethe's new home is haunted by the ghost of her baby, who died nameless and whose tombstone is engraved with a single word: Beloved. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 254
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- 9780099511656
- ISBN
- 9780099511656
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 11.99
€ 12.99
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Paperback. As young girls, Nel and Sula shared each other's secrets and dreams in the poor black mid-West of their childhood. Then Sula ran away to live her dreams and Nel got married. Ten years later Sula returns and no one, least of all Nel, trusts her. This is a story of fear - the fear that traps us, justifying itself through perpetual myth and legend. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 156.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099760016
- ISBN
- 9780099760016
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.33
€ 13.99
€ 10.33
Paperback. Harry Selwyn is a master of detachment - from the realities of the past, from his own ageing body, and from his conscience. Even the sudden death of his wife is not allowed to interfere with the daily routine. He must prepare for tomorrow's race. He must return his ill-fitting trousers to the shop. And death will have to wait. Translator(s): Bianchi, Tony. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 202 x 20. Weight in Grams: 214.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Parthian Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910409695
- ISBN
- 9781910409695
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.41
€ 12.41
Hardcover. The highly anticipated return of Tony Earley, celebrated author of Jim the Boy. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 144 x 23. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780316246125
- ISBN
- 9780316246125
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 20.59
€ 30.99
€ 20.59
Paperback. A Washington Post Top 50 Fiction Book for 2014 Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 209 x 22. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Back Bay Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780316246149
- ISBN
- 9780316246149
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.47
€ 17.99
€ 13.47
Paperback. Harry Silver returns to face life in the "blended family." A wonderful new novel about modern times, which can be read as a sequel to the million selling Man and Boy, or completely on its own. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 20. Weight in Grams: 232. Used paperback, in good condition. Some shelf wear.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- SKU
- KIN0008068
- ISBN
- 9780006514824
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. New novel about men, love and relationships by the author of the Book of the Year, Man and Boy. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780006514817
- ISBN
- 9780006514817
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. The world-wide, mega selling author of Man and Boy is back with a sizzling, Shanghai tale of sex, romance and second wives Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 28. Weight in Grams: 304. Clean copy in very good condition.
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- SKU
- KNH0012136
- ISBN
- 9780007226498
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. New novel about men, love and relationships by the author of the Book of the Year, Man and Boy. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 282. In good condition. A well read copy
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- SKU
- KRS0010913
- ISBN
- 9780006514817
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. A fabulously engaging and exciting novel about a man who has to learn about life and love the hard way. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 30. Weight in Grams: 276. Some minor shelf wear, but remains good.
- Condition
- Used, Acceptable
- Publisher
- Harper
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- SKU
- KTJ0008185
- ISBN
- 9780006512134
Paperback
Condition: Used, Acceptable
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. The world-wide, mega selling author of Man and Boy is back with a sizzling, Shanghai tale of sex, romance and second wives Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 28. Weight in Grams: 304. Some minor shelf wear, but remains very good
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- SKU
- KTJ0007132
- ISBN
- 9780007226498
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99