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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. An indomitable passion for the freedom to write fuels Kurdish refugee Jalal Barzanji's unforgettable journey. Translator(s): Salih, Dr. Sabah A. Series: Wayfarer. Num Pages: 288 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 227 x 18. Weight in Grams: 438.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Alberta Press Canada
Edition
UK ed.
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780888645364
ISBN
9780888645364
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 22.24

paperback. Seven enigmatic and compelling stories about the myth and mystery of mountains. Series: Robert Kroetsch Series. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 288 x 18. Weight in Grams: 300.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Alberta Press Canada
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9781772122619
ISBN
9781772122619
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 22.36

paperback. Winner of the 2004 Caine Prize. This is the fifth anthology of Caine Prize short listed stories, and includes the proceedings of a Caine Prize African Writers' Workshop Massachusetts University Press. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 207 x 144 x 14. Weight in Grams: 304.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Jacana Media South Africa
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9781770091450
ISBN
9781770091450
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.57

Paperback. Upton Sinclair's story exposed the conditions in the Chicago stockyards at the turn of the nineteenth century and brought into focus the odds against which immigrants and other working people struggled. This book was championed by the then president Theodore Roosevelt, and was a catalyst to the passing of the Pure Food and Meat Inspection act. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 308.
Publisher
Penguin Books
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1985
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140390315
ISBN
9780140390315
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.47

Hardback. A novel, in which the narrator unexpectedly finds himself back in the world of his childhood: Switzerland in the 1940s. He returns to his childhood home to find his parents frantic because their son is missing. Then, in another switch, the young boy that he was back then turns up in the present of the early 1990s, during the Gulf War. Translator(s): McLaughlin, Donal. Series: SB - The Swiss List. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 136 x 212 x 17. Weight in Grams: 230.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857422118
ISBN
9780857422118
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 18.36

Hardback. The day after his ninety-fourth birthday, a man is sitting in a beautiful garden. It is a paradise where he often played during his childhood, and it is here that he is recording the story of his adventures with Mr Adamson. Translator(s): McLaughlin, Donal. Series: SB - The Swiss List. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 11. Weight in Grams: 417.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Edition
Translation
SKU
V9780857422323
ISBN
9780857422323
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 21.20

Paperback. The Hugo and Nebula Award-winning masterpiece from one of the all-time greats of Science Fiction. Series: S.F. Masterworks. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FLC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781473221628
ISBN
9781473221628
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

hardcover. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
McPherson United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780929701592
ISBN
9780929701592
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 22.70

Paperback. A powerful and vivid debut collection describing the plight of children caught up in difficult and often harrowing situations throughout the continent of Africa. Num Pages: 304 pages, map. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 20. Weight in Grams: 208.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Abacus
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349120645
ISBN
9780349120645
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.06

Paperback. Official Netflix Original Film tie-in about the experiences of Agu, a child-soldier fighting in an Africian civil war. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 18. Weight in Grams: 138.
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781473625556
ISBN
9781473625556
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.06

Paperback. Award-winning writer and doctor Uzo Iweala travels a continent getting to know the people whose lives have been affected by HIV and AIDs. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 198 x 15. Weight in Grams: 158.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
John Murray Press
Edition
1st
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780719523601
ISBN
9780719523601
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

paperback. V. S. Pritchett, one of our greatest short-story writers, has chosen forty-one stories written in the English language for this volume, producing a collection that successfully displays the wealth and variety of an art that spans some 200 years. Editor(s): Pritchett, V. S. Series: Oxford Books of Prose & Verse. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 128 x 33. Weight in Grams: 412.
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Number of pages
576
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199583133
ISBN
9780199583133
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.39

Paperback. .
Publisher
Globe Pequot Press United States
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
First Printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9781590130193
ISBN
9781590130193
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.96

Paperback. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 219 x 24. Weight in Grams: 400.
Publisher
Ward Wood Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908742582
ISBN
9781908742582
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 14.46

Paperback. The central novel from V.S. Naipaul's Booker Prize-winning narrative of displacement, published for the first time in a stand-alone edition. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 14. Weight in Grams: 164.
Publisher
Picador USA
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780330522908
ISBN
9780330522908
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.72

Paperback. An astonishing novel about hope, despair, poverty and laughter. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 137 x 13. Weight in Grams: 166.
Publisher
Picador USA
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Reprints
Condition
New
SKU
V9780330523004
ISBN
9780330523004
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.80

Paperback. The great novel of Africa from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 135 x 23. Weight in Grams: 246.
Edition
Reprints
Publisher
Picador USA
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780330522991
ISBN
9780330522991
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 15.32

Paperback. 'A wonderful book .. a magical book' Jan Morris, Independent Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 328.
Publisher
Picador USA
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780330522861
ISBN
9780330522861
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.94

Paperback. A masterpiece. Naipaul has never been funnier than this' Independent on Sunday Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 180.
Publisher
Picador USA
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780330522854
ISBN
9780330522854
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.66

Paperback. V.S. Naipaul's first novel -- humorous, endlessly inventive and brilliantly imagined. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 16. Weight in Grams: 186.
Publisher
Picador USA
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780330522939
ISBN
9780330522939
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.37

Paperback. V. S. Naipaul's novel of fraudulent revolution, schizophrenia and murder. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 151 x 18. Weight in Grams: 228.
Publisher
Picador USA
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780330522915
ISBN
9780330522915
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.22

Hardcover. Follows the fortunes of Mr Biswas, the outsider who refuses to conform to the customs of his grander in-laws whose house he lives in. Finally finding a house of his own, he triumphs over the smaller minds who would repress him. Num Pages: 564 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 139 x 32. Weight in Grams: 632.
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
564
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Edition
56272nd
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857152135
ISBN
9781857152135
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 16.61

Paperback. After a hiatus of seven years, V.S. Naipaul returned to fiction with A Way in the World: an exquisite meditation on rootlessness and belonging. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 135 x 26. Weight in Grams: 314.
Publisher
Picador USA
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780330522885
ISBN
9780330522885
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.22

Paperback. A profound and moving and often humorous novel that evokes a colonial man's experience in the post-colonial world. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 236.
Publisher
Picador USA
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780330522922
ISBN
9780330522922
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.83

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