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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Johanne is a young woman in her twenties who lives with her mother. When she falls in love with Ivar, she finally feels ready to leave home. The couple plan a trip to America. But the morning of her departure, Johanne wakes up to find the door locked. Translator(s): Dawkin, Deborah. Num Pages: 174 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 138 x 198 x 16. Weight in Grams: 232.
Publisher
Peirene Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908670151
ISBN
9781908670151
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.37

paperback. The story of a Jewish family from rural Hungary and their immigration to Vienna. Translator(s): Snook, Jean M. Series: Biblioasis International Translation Series. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 414.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Biblioasis Canada
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9781897231548
ISBN
9781897231548
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 19.95

Paperback. For Willi Kufult, prison life means staying out of trouble, keeping his cell clean, snagging a precious piece of tobacco - and dreaming of the day of his release. Then he gets out. As Willi tries to make a new life for himself in Hamburg, finding a job and even love, he still cannot escape his past. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 199 x 23. Weight in Grams: 340.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
496
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141196541
ISBN
9780141196541
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.12

Paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 290.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Random House USA Inc
Edition
1st Edition Thus
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9781933633657
ISBN
9781933633657
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.17

Paperback. Gustav Hackendahl's will is law. Known as 'Iron Gustav', he runs his family and his Berlin carriage business with stern, unyielding discipline. But his children have wills of their own, and soon they slip from his control - some to better lives, some towards disaster. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 133 x 27. Weight in Grams: 408. Fine copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0003333
ISBN
9780141196534
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.70

Paperback. It is summer, 1929, and in a small German town a storm is brewing. The shabby reporter Tredup leads a precarious existence working for the "Pomeranian Chronicle" - until he takes some photographs that offer the chance to make a fortune. In Kruger's bar, the farmers are plotting their revenge on greedy officials. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 153 x 27. Weight in Grams: 420. Fine copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0003344
ISBN
9780141196565
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.70

Hardback. With subversive energy and masterful brevity, Mr Zed undermines arrogance, megalomania, and false authority. A determined speaker who doesn't care for ambitions, he forces topics that others would rather keep to themselves. This work collects the considerations and provocations of this squat park-bench philosopher. Translator(s): Chalmers, Martin. Series: The German List. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 20. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857422248
ISBN
9780857422248
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 18.22

Paperback. A young lawyer defends the indefensible: a lying, power obsessed adulterer and ruthless industrialist accused of wrongfully dismissing his mistress. Translator(s): Bell, Anthea. Num Pages: 325 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 27. Weight in Grams: 336.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Bitter Lemon Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
325
Condition
New
SKU
V9781904738671
ISBN
9781904738671
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.92

Paperback. Num Pages: 223 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 149 x 20. Weight in Grams: 386.
Publisher
Aspekt B.V., Uitgeverij
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9789461533586
ISBN
9789461533586
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.21

Paperback. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 18. Weight in Grams: 228.
Publisher
Spinifex Press Australia
Number of pages
264
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Edition
First Printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9781875559435
ISBN
9781875559435
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 14.15

Paperback. A novel of extraordinary intelligence and heart, a masterful depiction of heartbreak, and a dark and haunting examination of the tyranny of experience and memory. Num Pages: 736 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 197 x 49. Weight in Grams: 516.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
9781447294832
ISBN
9781447294832
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.14

Paperback. By the author of the bestselling and perenially popular CARTER BEATS THE DEVIL, an extravaganza of a novel in which Charlie Chaplin collides with the First World War at the dawn of the modern age. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 35. Weight in Grams: 402.
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
New e.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780340829837
ISBN
9780340829837
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.88

Hardback. A new novel from the bestselling Saudi author of Wolves of the Crescent Moon Translator(s): Calderbank, Anthony. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 431.
Publisher
MUNIRA´S BOTTLE Egypt
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9789774163463
ISBN
9789774163463
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.46

Hardback. A novel of loss and memory from the Egyptian Nobel laureate Translator(s): Stock, Raymond. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 207 x 17. Weight in Grams: 330.
Publisher
THE COFFEEHOUSE
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9789774163517
ISBN
9789774163517
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 22.98

Hardback. Budour marries a humble tailor named Girgis, but begins an extended affair with his Jewish employer, Luka. Her friend Sawsan goes off to the university, only to fall in love with a dangerous young Marxist named Salim. Translator(s): Rossetti, Chip. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 399.
Publisher
SAINT THERESA AND SLEEPING WITH STRANGERS
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9789774163401
ISBN
9789774163401
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 23.45

Hardback. This, "the greatest novel written by a nine-year-old, " had been in print in Britain since the '20s, but had been out of print in the U.S. for 35 years. It has two hilarious themes: love and social climbing. Illustrator(s): Anderson-Miller, Julia. Num Pages: 105 pages, 10 illus. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 191 x 127 x 19. Weight in Grams: 191. Clean copy with some shelf wear fine in dustjacket
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Academy Chicago Publishers
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0001911
ISBN
9780897333658
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 18.99
€ 16.26

Hardback. Translator(s): Rohlich, Thomas H. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 262 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 542.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
262
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691641355
ISBN
9780691641355
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 133.37

Paperback. In India, at the birth of the last century, an infant is brought howling into the world, his remarkable paleness marking him out from his brown-skinned fellows. Revered at first, he is later cast out from his wealthy home when his true parentage is revealed. So begins Pran Nath's odyssey of self-discovery. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 350.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Penguin
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141008288
ISBN
9780141008288
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.65

Paperback. It's the twenty-first century, and everything and everyone is connected. Meet Arjun Mehta, an Indian cybergeek catapulted into California's spiralling hi-tech sector; Leela Zahir, beguiling Bollywood actress filming in the midge-infested Scottish wilds; and Guy Swift, hyped-up marketing exec lost in a blue-sky tomorrow of his own devising. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 5. Weight in Grams: 216. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0001452
ISBN
9780141008295
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. 'ANOTHER INSTANT COBEN BOLITAR CLASSIC' Michael J Fox For ten long years two boys have been missing. Now you think you've seen one of them. He's a young man. And he's in trouble. Do you approach him? Ask him to come home with you? And how can you be sure it's really him? You thought your search for the truth was over. It's only just begun. Series: Myron Bolitar. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF; FH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 277.
Publisher
Cornerstone
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784751135
ISBN
9781784751135
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. .
Publisher
Drag City United States
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781937112103
ISBN
9781937112103
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 15.06

Hardcover. Its 1923. The US Bureau of Indian Affairs and its educational arm, the Indian Service, are under fire for a Christianize and civilize policy that seeks to draw Native American children from their ancestral cultures. The Indian Service seeks to still a Congressional uproar by giving the principals job to Quill Thompson, a critic of the policy. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 147 x 21. Weight in Grams: 422.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Texas Tech University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780896725997
ISBN
9780896725997
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 30.99
€ 26.39

Paperback. Life across the Roof of the World is more dangerous than ever as Khlit teams up with Abdul to thwart a gang of kidnappers, save the dazzling Retha, and reluctantly lead an Afghani rebellion against the forces of the Mogul. Part of a four-volume set, this title collects the Cossack stories of Harold Lamb and presents them in order. Editor(s): Jones, Howard Andrew. Num Pages: 606 pages, 1 map, 1 appendix. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 232 x 35. Weight in Grams: 902.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
606
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780803280489
ISBN
9780803280489
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.20

Paperback. Num Pages: 278 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 138 x 17. Weight in Grams: 284.
Publisher
Eland Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
278
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906011079
ISBN
9781906011079
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.19

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