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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 137 x 12. Weight in Grams: 180.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1969
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
Edition
3 Rev ed
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
SKU
V9780811201902
ISBN
9780811201902
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 14.66

Paperback. Translator(s): Lambert, John. Series: Belgian Literature Series. Num Pages: 108 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 126 x 179 x 8. Weight in Grams: 112.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
DALKEY ARCHIVE PRESS
Condition
New
SKU
9781564785053
ISBN
9781564785053
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.00
€ 6.23

Paperback. VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS. Also in the Vintage Minis series: Desire by Haruki Murakami Babies by Anne Enright Depression by William Styron Race by Toni Morrison Series: Vintage Minis. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 110. .
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784872724
ISBN
9781784872724
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.99
€ 7.91

paperback. From one of Britain's best-loved literary novelists comes a magical, lyrical tale of the young orphan Silver, taken in by the ancient lighthousekeeper Mr. Pew, who reveals to her a world of myth and mystery through the art of storytelling. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 204.
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007181506
ISBN
9780007181506
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.70

Paperback. A funny and tender celebration of love in all its frailty, confusion and excess, from the author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit and Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 170.
Publisher
Granta Books
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
2nd edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847087317
ISBN
9781847087317
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.02

Paperback. A secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulation of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest is so heavily worked that the letters feel like braille. I like to keep my body rolled away from prying eyes, never unfold too much, tell the whole story. I didn't know that Louise would have reading hands. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 12. Weight in Grams: 144.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099598275
ISBN
9780099598275
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. An e-writer called Ali or Alix will write to order anything you like, provided that you are prepared to enter the story as yourself and take the risk of leaving it as someone else. You can be the hero of your own life. You can have freedom just for one night. But there is a price to pay. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 16. Weight in Grams: 186.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099598299
ISBN
9780099598299
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. A collection of short stories that reveals various facets of an extraordinary imagination. In prose that is full of imagery and word-play, it creates physical and psychological worlds that are at once familiar and yet shockingly strange. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 132 x 16. Weight in Grams: 178.
Publisher
Trafalgar Square
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099274537
ISBN
9780099274537
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.81

Paperback. Set in a London of the near future, its three principal characters, Handel, Picasso and Sappho, separately flee the city and find themselves on the same train, drawn to one another through the curious agency of a book. This book features a question and a quest: How shall I live? Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 15. Weight in Grams: 176.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099598282
ISBN
9780099598282
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. On the airwaves, all the talk is of the new blue planet - pristine and habitable, like our own 65 million years ago, before we took it to the edge of destruction. And off the air, Billie and Spike are falling in love. What will happen when their story combines with the world's story, as they whirl towards Planet Blue, into the future? Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 143 x 20. Weight in Grams: 184.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141032603
ISBN
9780141032603
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback.
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849161831
ISBN
9781849161831
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.23

Paperback. An e-writer called Ali or Alix will write to order anything you like, provided that you are prepared to enter the story as yourself and take the risk of leaving it as someone else. You can be the hero of your own life. You can have freedom just for one night. But there is a price. Ali discovers that she too will have to pay it. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 16. Weight in Grams: 182. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSS0003439
ISBN
9780099285434
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Tells the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by her mother as one of God's elect. Zealous and passionate, she seems destined for life as a missionary, but then she falls for one of her converts. At sixteen, Jeanette decides to leave the church, her home and her family, for the young woman she loves. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 15. Weight in Grams: 172.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
9780099598183
ISBN
9780099598183
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. A baby girl is abandoned, banished from London to the storm-ravaged American city of New Bohemia. Her father has been driven mad by jealousy, her mother to exile by grief. Seventeen years later, Perdita doesn't know a lot about who she is or where she's come from - but she's about to find out. Series: Hogarth Shakespeare. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 25. Weight in Grams: 228.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
9780099598190
ISBN
9780099598190
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 4.99

paperback. Celebrating the power of the imagination as it playfully juggles with our perception of history and reality, this book features the story about love and sex; lies and truths; and twelve dancing princesses who lived happily ever after, but not with their husbands. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 12. Weight in Grams: 142.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
9780099598176
ISBN
9780099598176
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.45

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Bella Books United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9781594933073
ISBN
9781594933073
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.81

Paperback. It's Tibet, 1954. Steeped in the Quaker tradition of non-violence and longing to live in a society that has embraced pacifism for centuries, two Americans Emma and Gerald Kittredge are soon happily adopted by their Tibetan neighbours, Dorje and Rinchen. But the arrival of Maoist soldiers into their quiet life shatters everything. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 27. Weight in Grams: 360.
Publisher
Oneworld Publications United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781851687367
ISBN
9781851687367
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.70

Paperback. .
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781471129094
ISBN
9781471129094
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.66

Paperback. Translator(s): Bangerter, Lowell A. Series: Studies in Austrian Literature, Culture & Thought: Translation S. Num Pages: 101 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 142 x 9. Weight in Grams: 330.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Ariadne Press United States
Number of pages
101
Condition
New
SKU
V9780929497549
ISBN
9780929497549
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 14.42

Paperback. In the Korean War, Yefgenii Yeremin is dubbed 'Ivan the Terrible', shooting down more American jets than any other pilot. But the Soviet Union's involvement in Korea must be kept secret, so Yefgenii is exiled to a remote Arctic base. But in 1964, a man arrives from Moscow, in search of a volunteer prepared to sacrifice everything for his country. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 17. Weight in Grams: 226.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099468523
ISBN
9780099468523
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.23

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