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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Series: Texas Tradition Series. Num Pages: 252 pages, ill. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 336.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Texas Christian University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780875652849
ISBN
9780875652849
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.02

Paperback. Jasmine Vijh, widowed in India at 17, flees to America. This is the story of her daring travels, her painful yet exhilarating cross-cultural metamorphosis and, eventually, the home she finds in Iowa where she accepts how inextricably her fate has become part of America's. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 17. Weight in Grams: 184.
Publisher
Virago
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Condition
New
SKU
V9781853812781
ISBN
9781853812781
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.78

Paperback. Three sisters struggle to change the course of their destinies in a China that does not belong to them. Yumi uses her dignity, Yuxiu her seductive powers, and Yuyang her desire for success. This story vividly captures the demonic desire for power that possesses people. Translator(s): Goldblatt, Howard. Num Pages: 347 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 308.
Publisher
Telegram Books United Kingdom
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
aFirst Edition First Printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846590238
ISBN
9781846590238
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 11.66

Paperback. From the author of the acclaimed The Girl Below comes a stunning novel of one woman's attempt to outrun the destiny that is predicted for her, moving from a remote New Zealand commune in the waning days of 1970s free-love experimentation to the heady music scene of 1980s London. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349134444
ISBN
9780349134444
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.25

Paperback. Shortlisted for the 2015 DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, this title reveals the pain, loneliness and longing of the characters affected by the bomb blast at a station. It celebrates the power of the written word to heal individuals and communities plagued by violence. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 186.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099589846
ISBN
9780099589846
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.23

Paperback. It's the summer of 1976 and Adrea is falling in love, while nursing the decrepit residents of Heron Close, a care home in Chalk Farm. This is the summer that sees Blue Oyster Cult and Supertramp superseded by Patti Smith and the Stranglers, and as the heat rises in and out of the Roundhouse, the lives of residents and carers are about to burn. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 151 x 24. Weight in Grams: 302.
Publisher
Granta UK
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
New
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846270369
ISBN
9781846270369
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.95

Paperback.
Publisher
Granta Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140140828
ISBN
9780140140828
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.91

Paperback. Featuring sixteen short fiction works, this collection moves from 19th century Russia to Second World War Los Angeles. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 196 x 14. Weight in Grams: 162.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241957264
ISBN
9780241957264
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. Follows the fortunes of several wildly different characters - including an expat farmer and a young English aristocrat - as they are swept up in the fighting in German East Africa during the First World War, their lives converging amid battle, betrayal, love, comedy and tragedy. Series: Penguin Decades. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 196 x 27. Weight in Grams: 294.
Publisher
Hamish Hamilton
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241953563
ISBN
9780241953563
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.80

Paperback. Los Angeles 1936. Kay Fischer, a young, ambitious architect, is shadowed by Salvador Carriscant, an enigmatic stranger claiming to be her father. Within weeks of their first meeting, Kay will join him for an extraordinary journey into the old man's past, initially in search of a murderer, but finally in celebration of a glorious, undying love. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 242.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Re-issue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141046907
ISBN
9780141046907
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. Lorimer Black - young, good-looking, but with a somewhat troubled expression - does not understand why his world is being torn apart, though he does know that for the most part it is made up of bluster and hypocrisy. His business, trying to keep insurance companies from paying out the money they've promised. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 278.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
384
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141044187
ISBN
9780141044187
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.01

Paperback. All Henderson Dores dreams of is fitting in. But America, land of the loony millionaire and the subway poet, and sharp-suited hood, of paralysing personal frankness and surreally fantasized facilities, is hard enough for an Englishman to fit in to. Henderson could never shed enough inhibitions to become just another weirdo. Or could he? Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 250.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141046921
ISBN
9780141046921
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. A collection of twenty-four tales told in bold, distinct voices from Brazil to Africa and from Nice to Hollywood. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 304. Short Stories. 368 pages. A collection of twenty-four tales told in bold, distinct voices from Brazil to Africa and from Nice to Hollywood. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Dimension: 198 x 129 x 24. Weight: 250.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780747592297
ISBN
9780747592297
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.62

Paperback. Millions die on the Western Front but in East Africa a quite different war is being waged - one with little point and which is so ignored that it will carry on after the Armistice because no one bothers to tell both sides to stop. Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 181 x 116 x 26. Weight in Grams: 232.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin
Publication date
2014
Edition
PENGUIN ESSENTIALS
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241970751
ISBN
9780241970751
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.22

Paperback. 'I live on Brazzaville Beach.. I am here because two sets of strange and extraordinary events happened to me.. One in England, first, and then one in Africa.' On Brazzaville Beach, on the edge of Africa, Hope Clearwater examines the complex circumstances that brought her there. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 27. Weight in Grams: 298.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141044194
ISBN
9780141044194
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. One May evening in London, as a result of a chance encounter and a split-second decision, the young climatologist Adam Kindred loses everything - home, job, reputation, passport, credit cards, money - never to get them back. With the police and a hit man in merciless pursuit, Adam has no choice but to go underground. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 28. Weight in Grams: 294. 416 pages. One May evening in London, as a result of a chance encounter and a split-second decision, the young climatologist Adam Kindred loses everything - home, job, reputation, passport, credit cards, money - never to get them back. With the police and a hit man in merciless pursuit, Adam has no choice but to go underground. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 197 x 130 x 28. Weight: 292.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408802854
ISBN
9781408802854
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.86

Hardback. A thrilling, plot-twisting new novel set in Europe during the first world war, from the bestselling author of Any Human Heart, Restless and Ordinary Thunderstorms Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 158 x 35. Weight in Grams: 614. Very good copy in near fine dustwrapper.First edition signed by the author
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KEX0303521
ISBN
9781408817742
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 50.00

Paperback. A thrilling, plot-twisting new novel set in Europe during the first world war, from the bestselling author of Any Human Heart, Restless and Ordinary Thunderstorms Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 29. Weight in Grams: 328.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408830390
ISBN
9781408830390
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.85

Paperback. Every life is both ordinary and extraordinary, but Logan Mountstuart's - lived from the beginning to the end of the twentieth century - contains more than its fair share of both. As a writer who finds inspiration with Hemingway in Paris and Virginia Woolf in London, as a spy recruited by Ian Fleming and betrayed in the war. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 33. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
Edition
1st Edition
SKU
9780141044170
ISBN
9780141044170
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.07

Paperback. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 135 x 6. Weight in Grams: 96.
Publisher
Drag City United States
Number of pages
80
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
2nd ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780982048023
ISBN
9780982048023
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.27

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