Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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€ 11.01
€ 13.99
€ 11.01
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
Paperback. The international bestseller, by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2008, available for the first time in English translation. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 29. Weight in Grams: 350. 352 pages. The international bestseller, by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2008, available for the first time in English translation. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Dimension: 197 x 129 x 29. Weight: 350.
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848873810
- ISBN
- 9781848873810
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.48
€ 15.99
€ 11.48
Paperback.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 512
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780862414276
- ISBN
- 9780862414276
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 15.35
€ 21.99
€ 15.35
Paperback. Feckless, unwashed and charming, Trinity College law student Sebastian Balfe Dangerfield is an Irish-American with an English accent. Dreaming of dollars and ready women, he stumbles from public house to pawnbrokers, murmering delusive enticements in the ear of any girl who'll listen. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 23. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349108759
- ISBN
- 9780349108759
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.78
€ 15.99
€ 11.78
Paperback. Hereditation tells the story of the Sloane family. Living in New York in the middle of the 20th Century, brothers Erwin and Maynard share their brownstone Harlem house with their mother, a perpetually ill woman who has recently suffered the indignity of being abandoned by her philandering husband, Ezra. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 135 x 15. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Publisher
- Parthian Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 200
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906998097
- ISBN
- 9781906998097
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.39
€ 13.99
€ 13.39
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 135 x 18. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780062411914
- ISBN
- 9780062411914
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 16.27
€ 18.99
€ 16.27
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 476.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Graywolf Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781555975593
- ISBN
- 9781555975593
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 15.06
€ 15.99
€ 15.06
Paperback. A timely reissue of the extraordinary stories by JT LeRoy/Laura Albert that won international acclaim, to be timed with the theatrical release of the documentary Author: The JT LeRoy Story. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 198 x 20. Weight in Grams: 232.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472152565
- ISBN
- 9781472152565
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
€ 13.99
€ 11.09
Paperback. A reissue of the bestselling novel by JT LeRoy/Laura Albert - published to coincide with the new Jeff Feuerzeig documentary: Author: The JT LeRoy Story, which will have a theatrical release in July 2016. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 199 x 22. Weight in Grams: 154.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472152589
- ISBN
- 9781472152589
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
€ 13.99
€ 11.09
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FX. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 260 x 171 x 15. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Oni Press,US United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781929998395
- ISBN
- 9781929998395
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 17.19
€ 24.99
€ 17.19
Num Pages: 238 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 161 x 25. Weight in Grams: 506.
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- M P Publishing Limited United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781849821827
- ISBN
- 9781849821827
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.04
€ 13.99
€ 11.04
Paperback. For fans of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry this is a quirky, life-affirming story that has enormous appeal. And it's guaranteed to make you laugh. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 19. Weight in Grams: 208.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KRF2233110
- ISBN
- 9781447252740
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 4.99
€ 12.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. This first of four volumes accurately translating the wonderful tales of the Arabian nights. Editor(s): Mardrus, J. C.; Mathers, E. P. Num Pages: 656 pages. BIC Classification: FA; JFHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 36. Weight in Grams: 686.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 678
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415045391
- ISBN
- 9780415045391
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 45.66
€ 45.66
Paperback. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 144 x 203 x 35. Weight in Grams: 613.
- Publisher
- The New York Review of Books, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 592
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780940322226
- ISBN
- 9780940322226
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 27.11
€ 32.99
€ 27.11
Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 127 x 21. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Publisher
- The New York Review of Books, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780940322240
- ISBN
- 9780940322240
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 18.46
€ 20.99
€ 18.46
hardcover. The first adult novel by J.K. Rowling. When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty facade is a town at war. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 163 x 41. Weight in Grams: 810. Good clean copy showing light age and wear. Light nicks and tears to dust jacket
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Little, Brown London
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMO0000492
- ISBN
- 9781408704202
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
paperback. The first adult novel by J.K. Rowling Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 197 x 37. Weight in Grams: 396. Good clean copy showing light age and shelfwear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Sphere
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMO0001602
- ISBN
- 9780751552867
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70