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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. The classic, heartrending story of a British boy's four year ordeal in a Japanese prison camp during the Second World War. Newly reissued with an introduction by John Lanchester. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 27. Weight in Grams: 242.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780007221523
- ISBN
- 9780007221523
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 8.29
€ 13.99
€ 8.29
paperback. With a new introduction by Deborah Levy and a striking new cover design by the artist Stanley Donwood, Ballard's final novel sees consumerism evolve into something even more sinister. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Fourth Estate
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780007232475
- ISBN
- 9780007232475
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 11.29
€ 12.99
€ 11.29
paperback. The second in a two volume collection of short stories by the acclaimed author of 'Empire of the Sun', 'Crash' and 'Super-Cannes'. The new edition is introduced by Adam Thirwell. Num Pages: 784 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 46. Weight in Grams: 562.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Fourth Estate
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780007245765
- ISBN
- 9780007245765
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.53
€ 19.99
€ 15.53
Paperback. A collection that gives a multi-faceted view of Scotland, the Scots and the Scottish short story, with stories ranging from Roman Britain through the trials of those at home during the Second World War to a country and people determined to assert their independence. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 137 x 16. Weight in Grams: 178.
- Publisher
- Viking
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241955475
- ISBN
- 9780241955475
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.82
€ 20.99
€ 16.82
Hardback. Num Pages: 816 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FM; YFB; YFH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 198 x 137 x 56. Weight in Grams: 754.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408855935
- ISBN
- 9781408855935
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 17.93
€ 25.99
€ 17.93
Hardback. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: FA; YFH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 199 x 137 x 41. Weight in Grams: 548.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408855942
- ISBN
- 9781408855942
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 17.81
€ 25.99
€ 17.81
Hardback. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FM; YFB; YFH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 199 x 137 x 46. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408855959
- ISBN
- 9781408855959
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 17.86
€ 25.99
€ 17.86
Hardback. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FM; YFB; YFH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 198 x 137 x 46. Weight in Grams: 614.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408855928
- ISBN
- 9781408855928
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 17.93
€ 25.99
€ 17.93
Hardback. Illustrator(s): Kay, Jim. Num Pages: 336 pages, Colour illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: FA; FM; YFB; YFH. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 267 x 226. .
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408845660
- ISBN
- 9781408845660
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 42.99€ 32.57
€ 42.99
€ 32.57
Paperback. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: FA; YFH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 129 x 198 x 35. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781408855706
- ISBN
- 9781408855706
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.12
€ 10.99
€ 10.12
hardcover. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FM; YFB; YFH. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 216 x 138. .
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Children's Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408869130
- ISBN
- 9781408869130
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 22.62
€ 33.99
€ 22.62
Book. Illustrator(s): Kay, Jim. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FM; YFB; YFH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 287 x 345 x 44. Weight in Grams: 3634.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781408871874
- ISBN
- 9781408871874
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 249.99€ 169.99
€ 249.99
€ 169.99
Hardback. "Lavishly illustrated with interactive elements"--Front cover. Illustrator(s): Minalima Ltd. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FC; YFA. Category: (J) Children / Juvenile. Dimension: 245 x 167 x 34. Weight in Grams: 892.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Inc
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780062362223
- ISBN
- 9780062362223
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 18.66
€ 29.99
€ 18.66
Paperback. When Peter Pan and his fairy companion Tinker Bell fly in through the window of Wendy's nursery one night, it is the beginning of an adventure that whisks Wendy and her brothers Michael and John off to Neverland. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 14. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780142437933
- ISBN
- 9780142437933
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 8.67
€ 9.99
€ 8.67
Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 177 x 124 x 21. Weight in Grams: 178.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099581550
- ISBN
- 9780099581550
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.98
€ 10.99
€ 9.98
Paperback. In the early eighteenth century, Susan Barton finds herself adrift from a mutinous ship and cast ashore on a remote desert island. There she finds shelter with its only other inhabitants: a man named Cruso and his tongueless slave, Friday. In time, she builds a life for herself as Cruso's companion and, eventually, his lover. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 11. Weight in Grams: 120.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books London
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241950111
- ISBN
- 9780241950111
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
Paperback. In Cape Town, South Africa, an elderly classics professor writes a letter to her distant daughter, recounting the strange and disturbing events of her dying days. She has been opposed to the lies and the brutality of apartheid all her life, but now she finds herself coming face to face with its true horrors. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 14. Weight in Grams: 150.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241951019
- ISBN
- 9780241951019
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.04
€ 13.99
€ 11.04
In the early eighteenth century, Susan Barton finds herself adrift from a mutinous ship and cast ashore on a remote desert island. There she finds shelter with its only other inhabitants: a man named Cruso and his tongueless slave, Friday. In time, she builds a life for herself as Cruso's companion and, eventually, his lover. Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 112 x 180 x 11. Weight in Grams: 94.
- Publisher
- Viking
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241973691
- ISBN
- 9780241973691
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.26
€ 11.99
€ 10.26
Paperback. A young English biographer is working on a book about the late writer, John Coetzee. He plans to focus on a period in the seventies when, the biographer senses, Coetzee was 'finding his feet as a writer'. He embarks on a series of interviews with people who were important to Coetzee - a married woman with whom he had an affair. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 18. Weight in Grams: 192.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099540540
- ISBN
- 9780099540540
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.85
€ 14.99
€ 11.85
Paperback. This work contains two novellas. In the first, a specialist in psychological warfare is driven to murderous action by the stresses of a macabre project to win the Vietnam War, and in the second, a megalomaniac Boer frontiersman wreaks hideous vengeance on a Hottentot tribe. Num Pages: 208 pages, 20 cm. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 156.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099268338
- ISBN
- 9780099268338
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Paperback. An eminent Australian writer is invited to contribute to a book entitled "Strong Opinions". For him, troubled by Australia's complicity in the wars in the Middle East, it is a chance to air some urgent concerns: how should a citizen of a modern democracy react to their state's involvement in a war that involves the use of torture? Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 176.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099516224
- ISBN
- 9780099516224
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Paperback. Paul Rayment is on the threshold of a comfortable old age when a calamitous cycling accident results in the amputation of a leg. Humiliated, his body truncated, his life circumscribed, he turns away from his friends. He hires a nurse named Marijana, with whom he has a European childhood in common: hers in Croatia, his in France. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 196. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0002866
- ISBN
- 9780099490623
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Stifled by the torpor of colonial South Africa and trapped in a web of reciprocal oppression, a lonely sheep farmer seeks comfort in the arms of a black concubine. But when his embittered spinster daughter Magda feels shamed, this lurch across the racial divide marks the end of a tenuous feudal peace. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 11. Weight in Grams: 132. Fine copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KJE0003354
- ISBN
- 9780099465942
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
paperback. A divorced, middle-aged English professor finds himself increasingly unable to resist affairs with his female students. When discovered by the college authorities he is expected to apologize to save his job, but instead he refuses and resigns, retiring to live with his daughter on her remote farm. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 15. Weight in Grams: 166.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099289524
- ISBN
- 9780099289524
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.45
€ 11.99
€ 10.45