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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. Anya has been backpacking in the Spice Islands, but her last postcard home arrived months ago. Now her anxious father, Francesco, has gone in search of her. Almost within sight of land, the ferry he's travelling on sinks and Francesco and two other Europeans are washed ashore on the island Anya was heading for. Translator(s): Jamieson, Christopher. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- SKU
- KLN0016503
- ISBN
- 9780747586012
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 5.49
€ 5.49
Paperback. Examines a subject that has long been taboo - the sufferings of the Germans during the Second World War. This book explores the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff, the maritime disaster of all time, and the repercussions upon three generations of a German family. Translator(s): Winston, Krishna. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; BTM; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 16. Weight in Grams: 198. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- SKU
- KAK0006760
- ISBN
- 9780571216529
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 11.99€ 9.99
€ 11.99
€ 9.99
Paperback. First published in 1977, this novel is based on the fairy story "The Fisherman and his Wife". Multi-layered and laced with poetry and humour, it analyzes the battle of the sexes. Translator(s): Manheim, Ralph. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 33. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 560
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780749394851
- ISBN
- 9780749394851
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.43
€ 17.99
€ 13.43
Hardcover. Presents Hitler's rise and fall through the eyes of the dwarfish narrator whose magic powers become symbolic of the dark forces dominating the German nation in the period. Translator(s): Manheim, Ralph. Num Pages: 550 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FJMS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 209 x 176 x 33. Weight in Grams: 634.
- Publisher
- Everyman's Library
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857151473
- ISBN
- 9781857151473
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.58
€ 23.99
€ 16.58
Paperback. Examines a subject that has long been taboo - the sufferings of the Germans during the Second World War. This book explores the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff, the maritime disaster of all time, and the repercussions upon three generations of a German family. Translator(s): Winston, Krishna. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; BTM; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 16. Weight in Grams: 198.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571216529
- ISBN
- 9780571216529
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.99
€ 11.99
€ 9.99
Paperback. In an explosive fusion of myth and reality, magic and romance, Dog Years charts forty years of German history, starting with 1917, to expose the madness of a society that bred and nurtured the horrors of the Third Reich before anaesthetising itself with the chaos of disintegration. Translator(s): Manheim, Ralph. Num Pages: 624 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 34. Weight in Grams: 438. Clean copy with some shelf wear with minor nicks and bumps on cover but remains a clean copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KSS0008127
- ISBN
- 9780749394509
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 14.99€ 10.75
€ 14.99
€ 10.75
Paperback. Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. She longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But even her affairs bring her disappointment and the consequences are devastating. Translator(s): Davis, Lydia. Series: Penguin Classics. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FC; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 145 x 26. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780143106494
- ISBN
- 9780143106494
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.25
€ 17.99
€ 14.25
Hardcover. or fans of Adrian Mole and Nick Hornby and readers of all ages, this is a novel for the listicle generation. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 132. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Publisher
- Square Peg
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910931585
- ISBN
- 9781910931585
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.47
€ 17.99
€ 13.47
Paperback. Life was always difficult for Banger Peyton-Crumbe, an antiquated, misanthropic blood-sport obsessive, but it gets considerably worse when he is killed in a shooting incident and returns to earth as a pheasant. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 220.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099563471
- ISBN
- 9780099563471
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Paperback. Could a famous musician ever completely disappear? Num Pages: 191 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 139 x 10. Weight in Grams: 190.
- Publisher
- John Hunt Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782798965
- ISBN
- 9781782798965
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.36
€ 12.36
Paperback. The Fat of Fed Beasts is an ambitious literary mix of existential uncertainty, murder, bureaucracy, unreliable father figures and disaffected policemen. It asks why we do what we do, whether it matters, and what, if anything, our lives are worth. And it's funny. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 180.
- Publisher
- Salt Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784630249
- ISBN
- 9781784630249
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.10
€ 11.99
€ 10.10
Paperback. Editor(s): Sui, Gwee Li. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 142 x 39. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Dalkey Archive Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781564789051
- ISBN
- 9781564789051
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 6.23
€ 19.99
€ 6.23
Paperback. Num Pages: 422 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 134 x 27. Weight in Grams: 406.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Gwasg Carreg Gwalch
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845274313
- ISBN
- 9781845274313
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.34
€ 18.34
Paperback. Carmel McKisco, a 20-year-old girl working nights in a Manchester dive bar, cut off from her family, and from her ex, forms strange alliances with her customers and daydreams about escaping to Cornwall. She soon finds herself compelled to confront her romantic preoccupations, for better or worse. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 138.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099437154
- ISBN
- 9780099437154
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
paperback. .
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099565192
- ISBN
- 9780099565192
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.28
€ 17.99
€ 14.28
Paperback. In the tradition of New York Times bestselling authors Marisa de los Santos and Emily Giffin, Gwendolyn Zepeda delivers a moving women's fiction novel about unexpected friendships. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 132 x 24. Weight in Grams: 292.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & Company United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780446564038
- ISBN
- 9780446564038
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 18.16
€ 25.99
€ 18.16
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Parthian Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 184
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905762965
- ISBN
- 9781905762965
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.98
€ 10.99
€ 9.98
Paperback. As the newly-built foundries of South Wales enter their first decline, a travelling harpist from the rural north arrives in town to find his friends caught in a fiercly-fought industrial dispute, a dispute which quickly spirals out of control. Num Pages: 390 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 215 x 27. Weight in Grams: 380.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Parthian Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781908069733
- ISBN
- 9781908069733
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 9.35
€ 12.99
€ 9.35
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Seren
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781721902
- ISBN
- 9781781721902
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.98
€ 10.99
€ 9.98
Paperback. In OSCAR WILDE AND THE CANDLELIGHT MURDERS, the first in Gyles Brandreth's acclaimed Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries series featuring Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle, the brutal murder of a young rent-boy puts Oscar in grave danger.. 'Intelligent, amusing and entertaining' Alexander McCall Smith Series: Oscar Wilde Mystery. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 252.
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Hodder
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- SKU
- KEX0302766
- ISBN
- 9780719569302
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 12.99€ 10.41
€ 12.99
€ 10.41