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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. One early September afternoon, Yosef and Mariam, young Ethiopians set off on a road trip in search of an identity as an American couple. Thirty years later, Yosef has died, and the couple's son, Jonas, is desperate to make sense of the volatile generational and cultural ties that have forged him. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 198 x 22. Weight in Grams: 234.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099521037
- ISBN
- 9780099521037
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 17.61
€ 23.99
€ 17.61
Paperback. An unforgettable tale of love, friendship and revolution set between Africa and America, by the winner of the Guardian First Book Award. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 197 x 17. Weight in Grams: 198.
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444793758
- ISBN
- 9781444793758
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.06
€ 13.99
€ 11.06
Paperback. Seventeen years after fleeing the revolutionary Ethiopia that claimed his father's life, Stepha Stephanos is a man still caught between two existences: the one he left behind, aged nineteen, and the new life he has forged in Washington D C Sepha spends his days in a sort of limbo. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 176.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099502739
- ISBN
- 9780099502739
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. An American woman gets stranded in a rural outpost in India and discovers who she is and what she cares about while recovering the lost babyof a local family . Winner of The Viginia Prize for Fiction and previously shortlisted for the Radio First Chapter Story Competition Will appeal to lovers of Indian-themed novels and films Num Pages: 260 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 251 x 18. Weight in Grams: 210.
- Publisher
- Aurora Metro Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910798393
- ISBN
- 9781910798393
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.44
€ 13.99
€ 13.44
Paperback. *The re-issued, re-jacketed paperback of the award-winning debut novel. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 190.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349108728
- ISBN
- 9780349108728
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.85
€ 13.00
€ 11.85
Paperback. * The paperback of the stunning second book, from the award-winning author of SOME KIND OF BLACK, a sprawling, rich odyssey brimming with invention and intelligence Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 144 x 24. Weight in Grams: 226.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- New edition
- SKU
- KLN0018210
- ISBN
- 9780349114422
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.49
€ 5.49
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Allen & Unwin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 2nd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781925266122
- ISBN
- 9781925266122
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.96
€ 19.99
€ 15.96
Paperback. From the author of Fierce People comes a blistering, haunting, aching novel about what you do when the unthinkable happens - and when the memory of it refuses to be left behind Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 272. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KCW0001591
- ISBN
- 9781408800744
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. "Nightwood" was acknowledged by T S Eliot as one of the great novels of the 20th-century. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 12. Weight in Grams: 158.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- Revised edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571235285
- ISBN
- 9780571235285
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.74
€ 13.99
€ 10.74
Paperback. Offers a parody accompanied by the author's illustrations. This book pokes fun at the wealthy expatriates who were author's literary contemporaries and remains controversial today, it seems to have delighted its cast of characters, which was also the first audience. Series: Ladies Almanack. Num Pages: 138 pages, 23 illustrations. BIC Classification: 5SL; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 11. Weight in Grams: 159.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- New York University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 138
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- New Ed
- SKU
- V9780814711804
- ISBN
- 9780814711804
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.40
€ 27.99
€ 26.40
Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 132 x 15. Weight in Grams: 210.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780811216715
- ISBN
- 9780811216715
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.16
€ 16.99
€ 15.16
Paperback. A delightful re-issue from the author of I Capture the Castle. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 300 x 140 x 29. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472151179
- ISBN
- 9781472151179
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.97
€ 13.99
€ 10.97
Paperback. When Jane Minton arrives at Dome House as a secretary-housekeeper, she finds herself sharing the comfortable country home of four attractive young people. Their charming widower father, Rupert Carrington is too occupied with his London business to see very much of them. Jane is warmly welcomed into this happy household. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 177 x 25. Weight in Grams: 220. 384 pages. When Jane Minton arrives at Dome House as a secretary-housekeeper, she finds herself sharing the comfortable country home of four attractive young people. Their charming widower father, Rupert Carrington is too occupied with his London business to see very much of them. Jane is warmly welcomed into this happy household. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 140 x 177 x 25. Weight: 220.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780333007
- ISBN
- 9781780333007
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Paperback. During a summer festival in an English spa town Miles Quentin, a distinguished actor, and his devoted wife become friendly with the local MP Geoffrey Thornton, and his young daughters Robin and Kit. All of these people seem untroubled at first. But the surface of their lives conceals problems which start to come to light. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 181 x 127 x 19. Weight in Grams: 166.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780333021
- ISBN
- 9781780333021
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Paperback. Cassandra Mortmain lives with her impoverished family in a crumbling castle. Her journal records her life with her bored sister Rose, her stepmother Topaz, her little brother Thomas and her novelist father who suffers from a financially crippling writer's block. However, all their lives are turned upside down when American heirs to castle arrive. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 27. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- New Edition
- SKU
- 9780099460879
- ISBN
- 9780099460879
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.75
€ 11.99
€ 9.75
Paperback. With the Vatican closing in on the sacred knowledge can Stella and Jennings stop them before their influence enslaves mankind? Num Pages: 439 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Publisher
- John Hunt Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 439
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780991351
- ISBN
- 9781780991351
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.54
€ 18.99
€ 17.54
Paperback. In the 1600s Sara de Vos, a mother and painter, loses her young daughter suddenly to illness. In her grief, she secretly begins paintingh a dark landscape of a girl watching a group of ice skaters from the edge of a wood In 1950s New York, Martijn de Groot has At the Edge of a Wood hanging above his bed. Though it is a dark, peculiar painting, by a scarcely known female painter of the Golden Age, he holds the painting dear and when it is stolen, he is beeft. In Brooklyn, struggling art student Ellie Shipley accepts a commission to paint an intricate forgery of de Vos' sole surviving work, not realising that her decision will come to haunt her. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. .
- Publisher
- Allen & Unwin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781925266801
- ISBN
- 9781925266801
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.74
€ 13.99
€ 10.74
Paperback. Don't get mad, get even. The funny, heartfelt and engrossing story of one man's attempt to take a stand on behalf of all commuters. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 137 x 26. Weight in Grams: 334. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Oneworld Publications
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- SKU
- KTG0007379
- ISBN
- 9781780743721
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. It is 1977 and seventeen-year-old Mona Manoliu has fallen in love with Mihai, a mysterious boy who lives in the romantic mountain city where she spends her summers. One day Mona sees Mihai wearing the black leather jacket favoured by the secret police. Is it possible he is one of them? Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 24. Weight in Grams: 280. Well-read paperback in good condition. Some shelf wear.
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- SKU
- KRF0022060
- ISBN
- 9780552774741
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. It is 1977 and seventeen-year-old Mona Manoliu has fallen in love with Mihai, a mysterious boy who lives in the romantic mountain city where she spends her summers. One day Mona sees Mihai wearing the black leather jacket favoured by the secret police. Is it possible he is one of them? Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 24. Weight in Grams: 280. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- SKU
- KOC0017136
- ISBN
- 9780552774741
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. A troubling satire of the romantic myth of stardom and the empty heart of rock and roll, more relevant than ever in our celebrity-obsessed times. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 212.
- Publisher
- Picador
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Reprints
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780330524896
- ISBN
- 9780330524896
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 4.99
€ 9.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. David Bell embodies the American dream. He's twenty-eight, has survived office coups, scandals, and beaten lesser rivals, to become an extremely successful TV exec. The images that flicker across America's screens, the fantasies that enthrall viewers, they are of his making. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 197 x 25. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Re-issue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241953389
- ISBN
- 9780241953389
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.88
€ 13.00
€ 11.88
Paperback. When "history" presents itself in the form of two disgruntled CIA operatives who decide that an unsuccessful attempt on the life of JFK will galvanize the nation against Communism, the scales are irrevocably tipped. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 27. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141188225
- ISBN
- 9780141188225
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.06
€ 13.99
€ 11.06
Paperback. Prosperous, good-looking and empty inside, 28-year-old advertising executive David Bell appears on the surface to have everything. But he is a man on the brink of losing his sanity. Trapped in a Manhattan office with soulless sycophants as his only company, he makes an abrupt decision to leave New York for America's mid-west. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 24. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- Trade Paperback Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141188232
- ISBN
- 9780141188232
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08