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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Explores how the physical sensations we experience can be as strong as feelings of love or hate, with their power to bring chaos to our lives. This title features tales such as "The Day that Beaumont became Acquainted with his Pain", "Fever", and "A Day of Old Age". It portrays the landscape of the human consciousness. Translator(s): Woodward, Daphne. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 194.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141191423
ISBN
9780141191423
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.24

Paperback. Presents an account and indictment of colonialism. Translator(s): Anderson, Alison. Num Pages: Illus. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 12. Weight in Grams: 310.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Edition
1st
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803279667
ISBN
9780803279667
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 18.65

Paperback. Set largely in locations along the French Riviera, these 11 short stories depict with great compassion the harsh realities of life for the less-privileged inhabitants of this privileged region. Num Pages: 214 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 291.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803280076
ISBN
9780803280076
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.72

Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 163 x 20. Weight in Grams: 374.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Seven Stories Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9781609805838
ISBN
9781609805838
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.13

paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Seven Stories Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781609804015
ISBN
9781609804015
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 15.30

Hardcover. .
Publisher
Shanghai Peoples Publishing House
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9787208111103
ISBN
9787208111103
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 34.52

Paperback. The story of a man who rose from peasant stock to become Estonia's most famous medieval chronicler - The first novel in a historical trilogy by Estonia's most famous writer Translator(s): Beecher, Merike Lepasaar. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Format
Paperback
Publisher
MacLehose Press
Condition
New
Publication date
2018
SKU
V9781784299781
ISBN
9781784299781
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.47

Paperback. Timo von Bock's release by the Czar from nine years' incarceration does not spell the end of the Baron's troubles: he is confined to his Livonian estate to live under the constant eye of police informers planted among his own household, and is subjected to endless humiliations. It is claimed that he is a madman and in need of 'protection'. Translator(s): Hollo, Anselm. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 136 x 25. Weight in Grams: 396.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9781860465796
ISBN
9781860465796
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 18.94

Paperback. .
Publisher
Racom Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781933199535
ISBN
9781933199535
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 7.09

Paperback. .
Publisher
World Editions Netherlands
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9789462380653
ISBN
9789462380653
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 12.53

Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 410.
Publisher
Agate Bolden
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781932841947
ISBN
9781932841947
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 16.34

Hardcover. Tells the author's love story through alternating journal entries and with a complex layering of voices, revealing how a love affair takes shape through twin perspectives of a famed male novelist and the woman who desires him. Translator(s): Nasr, Ghassan. Series: Middle East Literature in Translation. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 481.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815608837
ISBN
9780815608837
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 23.41

Paperback. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 216 x 14. Weight in Grams: 232.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Dzanc Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9781936873531
ISBN
9781936873531
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.22

Paperback. Black Paintings from the Lives of the Men in the Goya Family. Series: Dedalus Europe 2012. 252 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Dimension: 200 x 129 x 22. Weight: 266. Translator(s): Jones, Antonia Lloyd.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Dedalus Books
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
252
Condition
New
SKU
V9781907650697
ISBN
9781907650697
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.39

Paperback. "[A] compelling debut.. Townsend's writing [is] full of fresh turns of phrase and keen insights."-Anaya Mathis, New York Times Book Review Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 141 x 26. Weight in Grams: 290.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393350821
ISBN
9780393350821
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 26.88

paperback. Claire is a young geologist working in Tunisia. Her partner sends her postcards from a cold flat in London. John is Irish and the wrong religion. She writes back - Tunisia is warm, full of the bright colours of the desert. Claire doesn't mention Ali - she doesn't think John would understand. Num Pages: 222 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 227.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Parthian Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
222
Condition
New
SKU
V9780952155881
ISBN
9780952155881
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.27

Paperback. Tells the story of a boy Willie Kiddar, his first 14 years, from conception on a Sunday afternoon to leaving school during the First World War. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 134 x 10. Weight in Grams: 240.
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books Ltd
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781852241278
ISBN
9781852241278
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.38

Paperback. The author's professional writing had always expressed complex ideas in expressive prose. And the notion emerged - why not compress ideas, stories, even whole novels, into single aphorisms? This collection of single aphorisms intends to provide food for thought. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 149 x 129. Weight in Grams: 126.
Publisher
Foulsham
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9780572030407
ISBN
9780572030407
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.30

Paperback. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 220 x 22. Weight in Grams: 392.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Washington Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780295995618
ISBN
9780295995618
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.79

Paperback. In the early morning hours of 6 November 1943, SS Reichsfuhrer Heinrich Himmler receives the coded message he has been waiting for: 'The Eagle has landed'. It was to become known as the most daring enemy mission of the entire war: Operation Eagle, Himmler's audacious plan to kidnap Winston Churchill on British soil. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FH; FJM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 199 x 31. Weight in Grams: 352.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
496
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Re-issue
Condition
New
SKU
V9781405917520
ISBN
9781405917520
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.01

Paperback. The electrifying WWII bestseller from the master of the game. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 113 x 30. Weight in Grams: 260. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0000884
ISBN
9780007223725
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. .
Publisher
Parthian Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906998141
ISBN
9781906998141
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.82

Paperback. Lost during the author's lifetime, it is an intense portrait of friendship and brotherhood and a meditation on the desire to escape society, following the fortunes of two men as they impulsively decide to work their passage on the S S Westminster: drinking, arguing, playing cards, dodging torpedoes and contemplating the beauty of the sea. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 318.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141193342
ISBN
9780141193342
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.88

Paperback. Presents the author's high school experiences as a sporting jock in Massachusetts and his time at Columbia University on a football scholarship. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 204.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141198217
ISBN
9780141198217
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.88

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