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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. The latest in CWA Gold dagger winner William Brodrick's much loved Father Anselm series - and Anselm faces the most difficult and troubling case of his life. Series: Father Anselm Novels. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 198 x 30. Weight in Grams: 304.
- Publisher
- Abacus
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349000398
- ISBN
- 9780349000398
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.04
€ 13.99
€ 11.04
Paperback. A hugely moving and intelligent novel from the bestselling author of The Sixth Lamentation and The Gardens of the Dead, A Whispered Name reaches into the mysteries of one man's past and casts light on the long shadows war leaves behind. Series: Father Anselm Novels. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 23. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349121291
- ISBN
- 9780349121291
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.04
€ 13.99
€ 11.04
Paperback. A special edition of The Well-Tempered Clavier as part of The Legend Press Collection, celebrating 10 years of publishing. Series: The Legend Press Collection. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 197 x 24. Weight in Grams: 226.
- Publisher
- Legend Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785079788
- ISBN
- 9781785079788
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.98
€ 11.99
€ 10.98
Paperback. 'Elegant, nicely crafted and insightful' - The Times Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 5SG; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 242.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349107752
- ISBN
- 9780349107752
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.89
€ 15.99
€ 11.89
Paperback. A composite novel written by 12 authors, including Henry James, William Dean Howells, Mary E. Wilkins Freeman and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. The introduction presents an account of the creation of the novel, and June Howard offers additional context and critical perspective. Num Pages: 416 pages, 12 illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 136 x 56. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Duke University Press London
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822328384
- ISBN
- 9780822328384
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.73
€ 32.99
€ 29.73
paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 143 x 17. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Dover Publications Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780486468877
- ISBN
- 9780486468877
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 11.85
€ 11.99
€ 11.85
Paperback. Num Pages: 518 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 142 x 28. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Dalkey Archive Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781564781369
- ISBN
- 9781564781369
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 6.23
€ 19.99
€ 6.23
Paperback. Featuring a collection of short stories, this book includes fictions such as 'A Bear Hunt', 'A Rose for Emily', 'Two Soldiers' and 'The Brooch'. Num Pages: 864 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 175 x 198 x 49. Weight in Grams: 636.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 912
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099546054
- ISBN
- 9780099546054
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.59
€ 23.99
€ 16.59
Paperback. A group of soldiers travel by train across the United States in the aftermath of the First World War. One of them is horribly scarred, blind and almost entirely mute. Moved by his condition, a few civilian fellow travellers decided to see him home to Georgia, to a family who believed him dead, and a fiancee who grew tired of waiting. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 133 x 19. Weight in Grams: 196.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099282822
- ISBN
- 9780099282822
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.85
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Paperback. In New Orleans in 1937, a man and woman embark on a headlong flight into the wilderness of illicit passion. In Mississippi ten years earlier, a convict sets forth across a flooded river, risking his one chance at freedom to rescue a pregnant woman. From these separate stories, the author composes a symphony of deliverance and damnation. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 19. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Publisher
- Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099282921
- ISBN
- 9780099282921
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.04
€ 13.99
€ 11.04
Paperback. Successive episodes in the death and burial of Addie Bundren are recounted by various members of the family circle, principally as they are carting their mother's coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, in order to bury her among her people. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 190.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099479314
- ISBN
- 9780099479314
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 8.68
€ 8.68
paperback. Spolit, feckless Temple Drake, the daughter of a judge, runs away from school with an unsuitable man. Abandoned by him with a gang of moonshiners, Temple falls into the clutches of the psychotic Popeye. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 178.
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099541028
- ISBN
- 9780099541028
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.04
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€ 11.04
Hardcover. This narrative chronicles the decline of the American South through the experiences of Benjy Compson, who struggles to articulate his vision of life. William Faulkner is the author of "As I Lay Dying" and "Sanctuary" and he won the Nobel Prize in 1949. Num Pages: 278 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 134 x 24. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Number of pages
- 278
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857150698
- ISBN
- 9781857150698
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.04
€ 19.99
€ 15.04
Paperback. Quentin Compson and Shreve, his Harvard room-mate, are obsessed by the tragic rise and fall of Thomas Sutpen. As a poor white boy, Sutpen was turned away from a plantation owner's mansion by a negro butler. From then on, he was determined to force his way into the upper echelons of Southern society. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Publication date
- 1995
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099475118
- ISBN
- 9780099475118
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.47
€ 9.47
Paperback. Depicting the gradual disintegration of the Compson family through four fractured narratives, this novel explores intense, passionate family relationships where there is no love, only self-centredness. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 208.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Publication date
- 1995
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099475019
- ISBN
- 9780099475019
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 8.70
€ 8.70
Paperback. Num Pages: 267 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 134 x 16. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Number of pages
- 267
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780679732259
- ISBN
- 9780679732259
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.84
€ 18.99
€ 15.84
Paperback. Joe Christmas - a man doomed, deracinated and alone - wanders the Deep South in search of an identity, and a place in society. After killing his perverted God-fearing lover, it becomes inevitable that he is pursued by a lynch-hungry mob. Yet after the sacrifice, there is new life, a determined ray of light in the author's complex and tragic world. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 25. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099283157
- ISBN
- 9780099283157
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
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€ 11.08
Paperback. Nancy, a black nursemaid, is about to be hanged for killing her mistress' baby. The mother, Temple Drake, knows the reason why. The night before the execution, a lawyer pleads with Temple to intercede, but will the past allow for justice or absolution in the present? Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 126 x 20. Weight in Grams: 184.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099585916
- ISBN
- 9780099585916
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
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Paperback. Includes seven dramatic stories which reveal Faulkner's compassionate understanding of the Deep South. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 131 x 19. Weight in Grams: 198.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099546160
- ISBN
- 9780099546160
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.71
€ 20.99
€ 16.71
Paperback. An elderly, proud black farmer, Lucas Beauchamp, is wrongfully arrested for the murder of a white man. The lynch mob are baying for his blood. His sole hope lies with a young white boy, bent on repaying an old favour, who with the help of Lucas's cynical lawyer will work to find the truth and hatch a risky plot to prove his innocence. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 17. Weight in Grams: 188. Good clean copy with some shelf wear. Inscription on ffep and writing on last page, remains a good copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Edition
- New Ed
- SKU
- KCW0001450
- ISBN
- 9780099740315
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 13.99€ 10.05
€ 13.99
€ 10.05
paperback. Faulkner's final novel is a tale of three Mississippi travellers. Ned, Boon and young Lucius travel to Memphis in a stolen car to find love and fortune. Once there, Ned trades in the car for a racehorse, Lucius comes of age, and Boon sets about trying to win the heart of a prostitute named 'Miss Corrie'. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 126 x 23. Weight in Grams: 210.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099542360
- ISBN
- 9780099542360
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 10.60
€ 16.99
€ 10.60
hardcover. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 133 x 14. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- McPherson United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780929701585
- ISBN
- 9780929701585
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.61
€ 20.99
€ 19.61
Paperback. The Bloodworths come from Ackerman's Field, Tennessee. Theirs is a rough and violent past and Boyd Bloodworth - father of the hero, Fleming - is intent on continuing the tradition. The year is 1952 and E.F. Bloodworth, Boyd's father, has returned after 20 years of roaming. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 21. Weight in Grams: 220.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571212149
- ISBN
- 9780571212149
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 10.45
€ 12.99
€ 10.45
Paperback. Flynne Fisher lives in rural near-future America where jobs are scarce and veterans from the wars are finding it hard to recover. She scrapes a living doing some freelance online game-playing, participating in some pretty weird stuff. Wilf Netherton lives in London, seventy-some years later, on the far side of decades of slow-motion apocalypse. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 34. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241961001
- ISBN
- 9780241961001
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05