Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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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
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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
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Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.95
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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
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Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.12
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.46
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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
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Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 22.98
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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
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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
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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
€ 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
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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
€ 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
€ 17.99
€ 13.19