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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. Paul Sturgis is a retired banker manager who lives alone in a dark little flat. He walks alone and dines alone, seeking out and taking pleasure in small exchanges with strangers: the cheerful Australian girl who cuts his hair, the lady at the drycleaners. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 138.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141040264
- ISBN
- 9780141040264
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.10
€ 13.99
€ 11.10
Paperback. Booker Prize-winning author of "Hotel Du Lac" Anita Brookner creates a hauntingly beautiful story of a young woman's growing awareness of her own mortality and the limits of love. With lucid, unsentimental prose and witty insight, "The Bay of Angels" is a vibrant addition to the Brookner canon. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 17. Weight in Grams: 162.
- Publisher
- Fig Tree
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241977835
- ISBN
- 9780241977835
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.76
€ 13.99
€ 11.76
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 32. Weight in Grams: 162.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241979471
- ISBN
- 9780241979471
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 16.91
€ 21.99
€ 16.91
Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 199 x 18. Weight in Grams: 144.
- Publisher
- Fig Tree
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241977781
- ISBN
- 9780241977781
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.33
€ 17.99
€ 14.33
Paperback. Dorothea May's tranquility is shattered by Kitty Levinson's announcement of her granddaughter's forthcoming marriage. As the wedding approaches, the scene is set for a highly charged conflict of generations, in which the claims of the young are in stark and selfish contrast to the disabling propriety of the old. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 89 x 16. Weight in Grams: 174.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- First
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140264258
- ISBN
- 9780140264258
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 16.87
€ 21.99
€ 16.87
Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 14. Weight in Grams: 142.
- Publisher
- Fig Tree
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241977767
- ISBN
- 9780241977767
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.10
€ 13.99
€ 11.10
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 23. Weight in Grams: 158.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241979488
- ISBN
- 9780241979488
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 16.87
€ 21.99
€ 16.87
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 199 x 23. Weight in Grams: 164.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241979396
- ISBN
- 9780241979396
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 16.91
€ 21.99
€ 16.91
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 23. Weight in Grams: 156.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241979518
- ISBN
- 9780241979518
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 16.91
€ 21.99
€ 16.91
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 23. Weight in Grams: 178.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241979402
- ISBN
- 9780241979402
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 16.87
€ 21.99
€ 16.87
Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 18. Weight in Grams: 142.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Fig Tree
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780241977774
- ISBN
- 9780241977774
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 10.45
€ 12.99
€ 10.45
Paperback. Set in contemporary Bombay and other cities, this is a collection of 11 short stories that reflect Desai's skill for evoking the full flavour of Indian life. The colours, smells and sounds, as well as some intensely individual characters, are here. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 110.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099428534
- ISBN
- 9780099428534
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.89
€ 11.99
€ 10.89
Paperback. A government official who is inspecting a faded mansion of forgotten treasures, comes across the final, shocking gift which is bleeding the museum dry. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 11. Weight in Grams: 134.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099553953
- ISBN
- 9780099553953
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.33
€ 17.99
€ 14.33
Paperback. Uma, the plain, spinster daughter of a close-knit Indian family, is trapped at home, smothered by her overbearing parents and their traditions, unlike her ambitious younger sister Aruna, who brings off a 'good' marriage, and brother Arun, the disappointing son and heir who is studying in America. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 176. Clean copy with some shelf wear, slight foxing on edges and ffep and minor nicks and bumps on cover but otherwise clean
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KSS0008702
- ISBN
- 9780099289630
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Touching and wonderfully funny, In Custody is woven around the yearnings and calamities of a small-town scholar in the north of India. An impoverished college lecturer, Deven, sees a way to escape from the meanness of his daily life when he is asked to interview India's greatest Urdu poet, Nur - a project that can only end in disaster. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 174.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099428497
- ISBN
- 9780099428497
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.33
€ 11.99
€ 10.33
paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 199 x 10. Weight in Grams: 124.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099428480
- ISBN
- 9780099428480
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 10.45
€ 19.99
€ 10.45
Paperback. A wonderfully moving novel of a young Jewish woman who comes of age just as the world is changing drastically Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 112 x 178 x 31. Weight in Grams: 210.
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Export
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781471152375
- ISBN
- 9781471152375
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 8.51
€ 9.99
€ 8.51
Hardback. Translator(s): Haun, A.D.; Witesman, Owen. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 196 x 10. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Dalkey Archive Press United States
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781564784223
- ISBN
- 9781564784223
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 13.96
€ 14.99
€ 13.96
Paperback. Loos's classic tale shows that questions of women and power-more relevant today than ever-can come in the most alluring of packages. Num Pages: 160 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 143 x 10. Weight in Grams: 142.
- Publisher
- Liveright
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780871403179
- ISBN
- 9780871403179
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 15.42
€ 15.99
€ 15.42
Paperback. Inspector Gowda is back in another nail-biting thriller set in Bangalore India, the city now a hub for child trafficking. Series: Inspector Gowda. Num Pages: 318 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 25. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Publisher
- Bitter Lemon Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908524744
- ISBN
- 9781908524744
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 16.29
€ 16.99
€ 16.29