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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. "Carries the flavor of the old world, its underlying ferocity leavened by a lyrical mysticism.. Her prose is transcendent."-Washington Post Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393350234
ISBN
9780393350234
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 16.27

paperback. Born in a small Sicilian village and orphaned at age nine, Modesta spends her childhood in a convent raised by nuns. Through sheer cunning, she manages to escape, and eventually becomes a princess. Sensual, proud, and determined, Modesta wants to discover the infinite richness of life. Translator(s): Appel, Anne Milano. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 704 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 476.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780141198477
ISBN
9780141198477
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.53

Paperback. Translator(s): McNeil, Rhett. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 142 x 7. Weight in Grams: 138.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press United States
Number of pages
120
Condition
New
SKU
V9781628970340
ISBN
9781628970340
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 13.21

Paperback. Joan-Marc's out of work, he's alone, he has a heart condition, his mother's addicted to pills, he can't stand his sister. Otherwise, life is beautiful. And there's a lot that his estranged second wife doesn't know about him. In this book, he sets out to tell her. Translator(s): McDowell, Megan. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 248 x 28. Weight in Grams: 486.
Publisher
Harvill Secker
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781846558757
ISBN
9781846558757
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 14.16

Paperback. These eight stories deal with ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances, war and its aftershocks prominent among them. Num Pages: 128 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 146 x 13. Weight in Grams: 242.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Biblioasis Canada
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9780973597172
ISBN
9780973597172
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 20.99

Paperback. A novel about the way news is made, and the way the media creates and manipulates the stories we see before us. It makes us think again about the stories we are fed by the media around us. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 183. Clean copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Faber & Faber London
Edition
Main
Number of pages
224
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KEX0200941
ISBN
9780571240265
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. A novel about the way news is made, and the way the media creates and manipulates the stories we see before us. It makes us think again about the stories we are fed by the media around us. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 183. Clean copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Faber & Faber London
Edition
Main
Number of pages
224
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KEX0200942
ISBN
9780571240265
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. A novel about the way news is made, and the way the media creates and manipulates the stories we see before us. It makes us think again about the stories we are fed by the media around us. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 183. Clean copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Faber & Faber London
Edition
Main
Number of pages
224
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KEX0200943
ISBN
9780571240265
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. A novel about the way news is made, and the way the media creates and manipulates the stories we see before us. It makes us think again about the stories we are fed by the media around us. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 183. Clean copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Faber & Faber London
Edition
Main
Number of pages
224
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KEX0200944
ISBN
9780571240265
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 108 x 18. Weight in Grams: 113.
Publication date
1987
Publisher
Random House USA Inc United States
Edition
Reissue
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Format
Paperback
SKU
V9780449215043
ISBN
9780449215043
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 9.89

Paperback. .
Publisher
Sunstone Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781632930163
ISBN
9781632930163
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 7.27

Paperback. Gore Vidal's fictional recreation of the Roman Empire teetering on the crux of Christianity and ruled by an emperor who was an inveterate dabbler in arcane hocus-pocus, a prig, a bigot, and a dazzling and brilliant leader. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 35. Weight in Grams: 362.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group London
Number of pages
544
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349104737
ISBN
9780349104737
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.92

Paperback. * The magnificent concluding volume of Vidal's epic NARRATIVES OF EMPIRE, embodying the passage of American history. Series: Narratives of Empire. Num Pages: 480 pages, genealogical table. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 31. Weight in Grams: 334.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349114279
ISBN
9780349114279
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.95

Paperback. Vidal's historical novel set in the 5th century BC and narrated by Cyrus Spitama, son of a Persian prince and Greek sorceress, grandson of the prophet Zoroaster, and ambassador to the courts of India, China and Greece. Pericles, Thucydides, Sophocles and Confucius are among the book's characters. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 44. Weight in Grams: 400.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349104751
ISBN
9780349104751
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.92

Paperback. In their teens, Jim Willard and Bob Ford share a moment of sexual intimacy and Jim spends years searching for the recreation of that moment. When the opportunity occurs, it explodes with violence and pain. This was one of the first pieces of explicitly gay fiction. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 5SG; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 13. Weight in Grams: 138.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
New Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349106571
ISBN
9780349106571
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.00

Paperback. Gore Vidal's two related novels in a single volume, with a new introduction by the author. Myra Breckinridge arrives in Hollywood intending to prove that it is possible to work out in life all one's fantasies - and survive. And in "Myron" she returns to battle it out with her eponymous alter ego. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 124 x 30. Weight in Grams: 300.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349103655
ISBN
9780349103655
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.96

Paperback. From the author of MYRA BRECKINRIDGE and DARK GREEN, BRIGHT RED, a novel, first published in 1949, describing the growing-up of a brilliant and precocious schoolboy whose parents separate when he is young, and whose mother is portrayed as a 'monster'. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 128 x 16. Weight in Grams: 302. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0001547
ISBN
9780349110240
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

paperback. Illustrator(s): Aoyama, Gosho. Series: Case Closed. Num Pages: 200 pages, chiefly Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 192.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
VIZ Media LLC
Condition
New
SKU
9781591163275
ISBN
9781591163275
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 7.73

Paperback. Num Pages: 213 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 14. Weight in Grams: 346.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Brindle and Glass Publishing, Ltd Canada
Edition
First
Number of pages
213
Condition
New
SKU
V9781897142349
ISBN
9781897142349
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 23.63

Paperback. Series: Captive Hearts. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FRH; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 109 x 177 x 25. Weight in Grams: 190.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781402294990
ISBN
9781402294990
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.01

Paperback. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 154 x 17. Weight in Grams: 358.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Graywolf Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9781555973643
ISBN
9781555973643
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.91

Paperback. 'Astonishing and luminous' - Hilary Mantel. The dazzling new novel from the prize-winning author of The Land of Decoration. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 20. Weight in Grams: 224.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444769982
ISBN
9781444769982
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.25

Paperback. A new edition of the debut novel about a New England town originally published in 1956, accompanied by an introduction which considers the writer's treatment of class, gender, race, ethnicity, and power. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 141 x 44. Weight in Grams: 468.
Publisher
Northeastern
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
First Thus
Condition
New
SKU
V9781555534004
ISBN
9781555534004
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.16

Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 141 x 18. Weight in Grams: 334.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Northeastern University Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9781555536695
ISBN
9781555536695
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 16.97

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