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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Snipers in the hills overlook the shattered streets of Sarajevo. Knowing that the next bullet could strike at any moment, the ordinary men and women below strive to go about their daily lives as best they can. Kenan faces the agonizing dilemma of crossing the city to get water for his family. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 126 x 19. Weight in Grams: 172. 288 pages. Snipers in the hills overlook the shattered streets of Sarajevo. Knowing that the next bullet could strike at any moment, the ordinary men and women below strive to go about their daily lives as best they can. Kenan faces the agonizing dilemma of crossing the city to get water for his family. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 194 x 126 x 19. Weight: 196.
Edition
Main
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843547419
ISBN
9781843547419
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.76

Paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 145 x 18. Weight in Grams: 277.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Exile Editions Canada
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9781550964684
ISBN
9781550964684
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 19.18

Hardback. From the Pulitzer and Story Prize winner: sixteen new stories - provocative, funny, disturbing, magical - that delve into the secret lives and desires of ordinary people, alongside retellings of myths and legends that highlight the aspirations of the human spirit. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 243 x 29. Weight in Grams: 534.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472114303
ISBN
9781472114303
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 19.09

Paperback. Martin Dressler tells the story of a young entrepreneur in late-nineteenth-century New York City whose ambition to make concrete an elusive dream leads to a fabulous creation that houses the imagination itself. Winner of the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 23. Weight in Grams: 232.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472151094
ISBN
9781472151094
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.21

Paperback. Num Pages: 244 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Publisher
NeWest Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781926455785
ISBN
9781926455785
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 15.90

Paperback. Autumn,1942: Hitler's legions have swept across Europe. Soviet Russia reels under the German onslaught while across the channel, Britain struggles on. And in North Africa, Field Marshall Erwin Rommel and his Afrika Korps have routed the 8th Army, threatening the oil fields of the Middle East. The war hangs in the balance. Num Pages: 416 pages, maps. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 130 x 28. Weight in Grams: 284.
Publisher
Transworld Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780553819526
ISBN
9780553819526
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.61

Paperback. Set on a Georgia golf course in 1931, a caddie uses his mysterious powers to affect the game and the fate of the players. This is the film tie-in edition of "Bagger Vance", from the Director of "The Horse Whisperer" and starring Will Smith, Matt Damon, Jack Lemmon and Charlize Theron. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations, plan. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 214.
Publisher
Transworld Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
279
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
Film tie-in ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780553813074
ISBN
9780553813074
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.91

Paperback. Translator(s): Bulloch, Jamie. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 155 x 235 x 44. Weight in Grams: 778.
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857054982
ISBN
9780857054982
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.10

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Manic D Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9781933149660
ISBN
9781933149660
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.94

Paperback. Num Pages: 228 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 141 x 23. Weight in Grams: 234. Clean copy with shelf wear and yellowing
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
The Women's Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
SKU
KOC0017212
ISBN
9780704343092
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. The first novel from Stevie Smith, one of the country's favourite poets, was a runaway bestseller on first publication in 1936. It is as original now as it was then. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 127 x 21. Weight in Grams: 166.
Publisher
Virago
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780860681465
ISBN
9780860681465
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.14

paperback. * A powerful novel about cruelty in a world preparing for war, and a profound exploration of ambition, militarism, love, loyalty and death Series: VMC. Num Pages: 272 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 17. Weight in Grams: 306.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780860681304
ISBN
9780860681304
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.88

Paperback. Anna Noon is a twenty-year-old student with a taste for perverse sex involving an enigmatic older man and a ventriloquist's dummy. She lives in Aberdeen and her sex life revolves around the ancient stone circles in the region. The sublime grandeur of the stones provides a backdrop against which Anna is able to act out her provocative psychodramas. Num Pages: 192 pages, map. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 139 x 13. Weight in Grams: 136.
Publisher
Canongate Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841953533
ISBN
9781841953533
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.78

Paperback. The |Red Lobster chain restaurant perched in the far corner of a run-down Amrican mall hasn't been making its numcers and headquarters has pulled the plug. But manager Manny DeLeon still needs to navigate a tricky last shift with a near-mutinous staff and final onslaught of hungry retirees, lunatics and office parties. All the while he's wondering how to handle the waitress he's still in love with. A frank and funny yet emotionally resonant tale set during a restaurant's last day of operation. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. .
Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781760293864
ISBN
9781760293864
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.89

Hardback. A dazzling, intimate and wise novel of F. Scott Fitzgerald's final years. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 218 x 27. Weight in Grams: 458. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KCW0000978
ISBN
9781925266092
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Translator(s): Mier-Cruz, Benjamin. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780816677993
ISBN
9780816677993
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 19.83

Paperback. Stig Dagerman (1923-1954) is regarded as the most talented young writer of the Swedish post-war generation. By the 1940s, his fiction, plays, and journalism had catapulted him to the forefront of Swedish letters. This selection, containing a number of new translations of Dagerman's stories, is unified by the theme of the loss of innocence. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 322.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
David R. Godine Publisher Inc United States
Edition
First
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9781567924466
ISBN
9781567924466
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.49

paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 217 x 18. Weight in Grams: 348.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1978
Publisher
University Press of Kentucky
Edition
1st Edition in this form
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813113722
ISBN
9780813113722
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.89

Paperback. Num Pages: 350 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 231 x 29. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Four Winds Press United States
Number of pages
350
Condition
New
SKU
V9781940423043
ISBN
9781940423043
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.32

Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. .
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Main Market Ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781447280583
ISBN
9781447280583
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.23

Paperback. 'So intelligent and perceptive and so well-written .. this first novel is a fine achievement, something to savour. When I had finished it, I went back and read it again, and it seemed even better second time round.' Allan Massie, Scotsman Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 264.
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781447207634
ISBN
9781447207634
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.43

Paperback. Thrilling contemporary novel from the author of THE SNOW FALCON and STILL WATER. What could be better than this.. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 174 x 27. Weight in Grams: 226.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
HarperCollins
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
New Ed
SKU
KNW0005363
ISBN
9780006514572
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Thrilling contemporary novel from the author of THE SNOW FALCON and STILL WATER. What could be better than this.. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 174 x 27. Weight in Grams: 226.
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
HarperCollins
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
New Ed
SKU
KLN0013697
ISBN
9780006514572
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Thrilling contemporary novel from the author of THE SNOW FALCON and STILL WATER. What could be better than this.. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 174 x 27. Weight in Grams: 226.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
HarperCollins
Edition
New Ed
Number of pages
400
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KLN0014876
ISBN
9780006514572
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

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