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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Hardcover. This novel renews the Victorian family saga in a modern setting, tracing the history of the Brangwens through several generations. The book was banned when it first appeared in 1915 for its sensuous immediacy and the frankness with which it explores emotional and sexual life. Num Pages: 460 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 137 x 29. Weight in Grams: 552.
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857151619
- ISBN
- 9781857151619
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.00
€ 19.99
€ 15.00
Paperback. Num Pages: 110 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 122 x 10. Weight in Grams: 150. Some light shelf wear else as new.
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- Hesperus Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- SKU
- KTG0007676
- ISBN
- 9781843914198
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 110 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 122 x 10. Weight in Grams: 150.
- Publisher
- Hesperus Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KTG0007680
- ISBN
- 9781843914198
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. Constance Chatterley feels trapped in her sexless marriage to the invalid Sir Clifford. Unable to fulfil his wife emotionally or physically, Clifford encourages her to have a liaison with a man of their own class. But Connie is attracted instead to her husband's gamekeeper. Editor(s): Squires, Michael; Poplawski, Paul. Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: D; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 136 x 34. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141192482
- ISBN
- 9780141192482
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 15.29
€ 20.99
€ 15.29
Paperback. A rollicking, laugh-out-loud funny-novel set to sizzle in summer 2011. Num Pages: 284 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 250. Clean copy
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers London
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- SKU
- KEX0245532
- ISBN
- 9780007332151
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Is the meaning of life to find the meaning of life? Num Pages: 284 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 318. Fine copY
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Number of pages
- 284
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- SKU
- KST0010930
- ISBN
- 9780007332199
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. A rollicking, laugh-out-loud funny-novel set to sizzle in summer 2011. Num Pages: 284 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 250. Clean copy in very good condition.
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers London
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- SKU
- KNH0012019
- ISBN
- 9780007332151
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Is the meaning of life to find the meaning of life? Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 133 x 18. Weight in Grams: 194. Some light shelf wear, else as new
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- SKU
- KRA0011659
- ISBN
- 9780007332182
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. A semi-autobiographical novel that explores the emotional conflicts through the protagonist, Paul Morel, and the suffocating relationships with a demanding mother and two very different lovers. It is a pre-Freudian exploration of love and possessiveness Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 127 x 21. Weight in Grams: 262. Clean copy with some shelfwear. Good to very good
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- SKU
- KST0032034
- ISBN
- 9781853260476
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. The 'progress' of the modern industrialised world had led to the carnage of the First World War. What, then, did it mean to call ourselves 'human'? What are the definitive forms of our relationships - love, marriage, family, friendship - really worth? Without directly referring to the war, this novel explores these questions. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 464 pages, notes, bibliography. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 25. Weight in Grams: 294. Well read copy, but binding still tight. 508pp.
- Condition
- Used, Acceptable
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- New edition
- SKU
- KLN0007979
- ISBN
- 9781853260070
Paperback
Condition: Used, Acceptable
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Random House USA Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 496
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780375758003
- ISBN
- 9780375758003
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.56
€ 16.99
€ 13.56
Paperback. The 'progress' of the modern industrialised world had led to the carnage of the First World War. What, then, did it mean to call ourselves 'human'? What are the definitive forms of our relationships - love, marriage, family, friendship - really worth? Without directly referring to the war, this novel explores these questions. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 464 pages, notes, bibliography. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 25. Weight in Grams: 294. Used Copy But Remains Readable
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- New edition
- SKU
- KDK0015037
- ISBN
- 9781853260070
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. The first novel written in the Yoruba language and one of the first to be written in any African language. Illustrator(s): Onobrakpeya, Bruce. Translator(s): Soyinka, Wole. Num Pages: 153 pages, 6 B&W illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 203 x 12. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Publisher
- City Lights Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780872866300
- ISBN
- 9780872866300
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.51
€ 16.99
€ 15.51
Paperback. Bjorn Hansen, a respectable town treasurer, has just turned fifty and is horrified by the thought that chance has ruled his life. Eighteen years ago he left his wife and their two-year-old son for his mistress, who persuaded him to start afresh in a small, provincial town and to dabble in amateur dramatics. Translator(s): Lyngstad, Sverre. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 184.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784704988
- ISBN
- 9781784704988
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Paperback. It is Christmas Eve, and 55-year-old Professor Pal Andersen is alone, drinking coffee and cognac in his living room. Lost in thought, he looks out of the window and sees a man strangle a woman in the apartment across the street. Professor Andersen fails to report the crime. Translator(s): Langeland, Agnes Scott. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 128 x 11. Weight in Grams: 118.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Translation
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099578420
- ISBN
- 9780099578420
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.28
€ 17.99
€ 14.28
Paperback. Familiar with his students' hostile attitude towards both his lectures and himself, a senior school teacher reaches a decision that forces an assessment of his choice of life, of his marriage and ultimately of his values and worth in modern society. This is a story of a man lost in a world that no longer recognises either him or his talent. Translator(s): Lyngstad, Sverre. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 135 x 12. Weight in Grams: 184. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Harvill Secker
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0005757
- ISBN
- 9781843432104
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Familiar with his students' hostile attitude towards both his lectures and himself, a senior school teacher reaches a decision that forces an assessment of his choice of life, of his marriage and ultimately of his values and worth in modern society. This is a story of a man lost in a world that no longer recognises either him or his talent. Translator(s): Lyngstad, Sverre. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 135 x 12. Weight in Grams: 184. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Harvill Secker
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0005885
- ISBN
- 9781843432104
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Parthian Books United Kingdom
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908946416
- ISBN
- 9781908946416
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.00
€ 19.99
€ 16.00
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Parthian Books United Kingdom
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908946430
- ISBN
- 9781908946430
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.00
€ 19.99
€ 16.00
Paperback. Two boys, both sons of doctors, are sent to the top of a mountain for "re-education" in Mao's China; an education that involves carting buckets of excrement up and down precipitous paths. They discover instead the discreet charm of bourgeois literature and the local tailor's attractive daughter. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 130.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099286431
- ISBN
- 9780099286431
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. A white-knuckle fiction ride through the South Wales Valleys during the 20th century. Power, sex, money and ambition all twist through the pages as Smith creates a feast of intellectual and physical provocation stories that send a shudder of fearful recognition through to the reader. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 204 x 13. Weight in Grams: 164.
- Publisher
- Parthian Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910901922
- ISBN
- 9781910901922
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.41
€ 12.41
Paperback. Dream On is a composite novel: part black comedy and flashlight noir thriller, part meditation on the stories that connect up the frayed wires in the business of living. Num Pages: 350 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 143 x 21. Weight in Grams: 278.
- Publisher
- Parthian Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Second edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781909844711
- ISBN
- 9781909844711
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.41
€ 12.41
Paperback. After his death, a young woman returns to her grandfather's farm in Yorkshire. At his desk she finds the book he left unfinished when he died. Part story, part scholarship, his eccentric history of England moves from the founding of the printing press into virtual reality, linking four journeys, separated by the centuries, of four great men. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 139 x 24. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099578888
- ISBN
- 9780099578888
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.81
€ 20.99
€ 16.81