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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Num Pages: 200 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 203 x 21. Weight in Grams: 198.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
The New York Review of Books, Inc
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781681370163
ISBN
9781681370163
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.74

Paperback. Charlie Croker was once a fabled college football star and is now a late-middle-aged Atlanta real estate entrepeneur-turned conglomerate king, whose expansionist ambitions and outsize ego have at last hit up against reality. Num Pages: 752 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 39. Weight in Grams: 560.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099554776
ISBN
9780099554776
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.39

Paperback. As the police boat speeds across Miami's Biscayne Bay, the scene is set for Officer Nestor Camacho's great moment of heroism. Except that in this feverous melting pot of a city, Nestor's one act of heroism can be seen as an utter betrayal of his Cuban roots. Num Pages: 720 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 46. Weight in Grams: 514.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
720
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099578536
ISBN
9780099578536
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 21.05

Paperback. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 176 x 111 x 46. Weight in Grams: 378.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
9780099578543
ISBN
9780099578543
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 5.70

Paperback. Tom's premier work on carving Santa Claus, elves, gnomes, and wizards. These fanciful, delightful characters come to life at his hands. He shares skills and projects that are perfect for the beginning carver, the person who likes to whittle for fun and relaxation, or the experienced carver. Num Pages: 64 pages, 250+ colour photos. BIC Classification: AFKC; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 271 x 216 x 8. Weight in Grams: 334.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Schiffer Pub Ltd
Edition
1St Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780887402777
ISBN
9780887402777
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.06

hardcover. Charles Croker, Atlanta real-estate entrepreneur, is having to face the reality of massive debt. Conrad Hensly, idealistic father of two, is fired from his job in the Croker Global Foods warehouse in Oakland. Back in Atlanta, Fareek "The Cannon" Fannon, star running-back, is accused of date rape. Num Pages: 752 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 167. Weight in Grams: 1030. Clean copy fine in dust wrapper. DW showing light shelf wear. Remains a very good copy
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Jonathan Cape London
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMK0022617
ISBN
9780224030366
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.44

Paperback. The last memorable novel by the author of The Tango Singer, one of Latin America's leading novelists until his death in January 2010. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 19. Weight in Grams: 204. 288 pages. The last memorable novel by the author of The Tango Singer, one of Latin America's leading novelists until his death in January 2010. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Dimension: 198 x 131 x 19. Weight: 204.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408822029
ISBN
9781408822029
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.13

Paperback. Eva Peron entered immortality on 26th July, 1952. The bizarre after-life of her embalmed body - hidden, hijacked, replicated, smuggled abroad, buried, resurrected, repatriated - echoed her equally strange life. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Transworld Publishers
Condition
New
SKU
V9780552778961
ISBN
9780552778961
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.67

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Edition
New edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780747585787
ISBN
9780747585787
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.94

Paperback. Translator(s): Barton, Polly. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 21. Weight in Grams: 156.
Publisher
Pushkin Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782272700
ISBN
9781782272700
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.78

Paperback. A collection of short stories that examines the lives and experiences of mixed-blood and metis people in modern America. Series: Native Storiers: A Series of American Narratives. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 10. Weight in Grams: 227.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803226340
ISBN
9780803226340
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.87

Paperback. A romantic comedy about sex, marriage and the benefits and drawbacks of being a grownup. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 2. Weight in Grams: 270.
Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781760293819
ISBN
9781760293819
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.24

Paperback. Multi-generational story about two families and the love affair that brings them together, told in the voices of nine people and the day that changes their life forever. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 178.
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444763577
ISBN
9781444763577
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

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

€ 13.00
€ 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

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

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

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

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

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

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