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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. The executive director of an insurance company, Harold, and his doctor wife, Claudia, for whom violence could never be a means of solving personal conflict, are faced with something that could never happen to them: their son has committed murder. What kind of loyalty do a mother and a father owe a son who has committed this unimaginable horror? Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 252. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- New edition
- SKU
- KKD0004874
- ISBN
- 9780747542575
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. The executive director of an insurance company, Harold, and his doctor wife, Claudia, for whom violence could never be a means of solving personal conflict, are faced with something that could never happen to them: their son has committed murder. What kind of loyalty do a mother and a father owe a son who has committed this unimaginable horror? Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 252. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- New edition
- SKU
- KKD0004885
- ISBN
- 9780747542575
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Hardcover. 'Packed with humour and warmth' - Heat Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FRD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 240 x 164 x 28. Weight in Grams: 532. Some light shelf wear, else as new.
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- SKU
- KTG0014750
- ISBN
- 9780008192259
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. 'Packed with humour and warmth' - Heat Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FRD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. Weight in Grams: 270.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KTG0014313
- ISBN
- 9780008192266
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
hardcover. Nagai Kafu was one of the most important Japanese writers of fiction during the first half of the 20th century. These two works, which appear in English for the first time, are superb examples of the author's evocative descriptions of the moods and fancies of Tokyo. Translator(s): Dunlop, Lane. Num Pages: 244 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 134 x 23. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 244
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- SKU
- V9780804722599
- ISBN
- 9780804722599
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 81.27
€ 81.27
Paperback. Num Pages: 286 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 131 x 17. Weight in Grams: 220.
- Publisher
- Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 286
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780385264761
- ISBN
- 9780385264761
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.76
€ 19.99
€ 14.76
Paperback. Num Pages: 158 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 163 x 13. Weight in Grams: 174.
- Publisher
- Anchor
- Number of pages
- 158
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Edition
- 1st Doubleday Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780385264624
- ISBN
- 9780385264624
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 14.98
€ 18.99
€ 14.98
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 102
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780385499224
- ISBN
- 9780385499224
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.40
€ 16.99
€ 13.40
Paperback. As Cairo shrugs off the final vestiges of colonialism, Ahmad Al Jawad has lost his power and surveys the world from a latticed balcony. Unable to control his family's destiny, he watches helplessly as his dynasty and the traditions he holds dear disintegrate before his eyes. But through Ahamd's three grandsons we see modern how Egypt takes shape. Num Pages: 320 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 232.
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780552995825
- ISBN
- 9780552995825
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.88
€ 13.00
€ 11.88
Paperback. Ahmad, a middle-class shopkeeper runs his household strictly according to the Qur'an while at night he explores the pleasures of Cairo. A tyrant at home, Ahmad forces his gentle, oppressed wife and two daughters to live cloistered lives behind the house's latticed windows, while his three very different sons live in fear of his harsh will. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 33. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780552995801
- ISBN
- 9780552995801
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.45
€ 13.99
€ 10.45
Paperback. Follows the Al Jawad family into the awakening world of the 1920's and the sometimes violent clash between Islamic ideals, personal dreams and modern realities. Having given up his vices after his son's death, ageing patriarch Al-Sayyid Ahmad pursues an arousing lute-player - only to find she has married his eldest son. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 26. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780552995818
- ISBN
- 9780552995818
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.14
€ 14.99
€ 11.14
Paperback. BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 134 x 27. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Random House USA Inc
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780385498357
- ISBN
- 9780385498357
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.37
€ 25.99
€ 19.37
Hardback. Translator(s): Balcom, John. Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231148108
- ISBN
- 9780231148108
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 33.48
€ 46.99
€ 33.48
Paperback. * A brutally honest, linguistically inventive and profoundly moving novel that will inspire a generation of readers Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 137 x 18. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844085446
- ISBN
- 9781844085446
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.65
€ 19.65
Paperback. Describes Jenny Kilgour's coming of age as she has to choose between the kindly harshness of her grandfather's life on a remote hill farm, and the vulgar and glorious energy of Bella Cassie, a local girl who left the community to pursue success as a singer, and has now returned to scandalise them all. Editor(s): Watson, Roderick. Series: Canongate Classics. Num Pages: 672 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 43. Weight in Grams: 446. "The Quarrywood", "Weatherhouse", "A Pass in the Grampian", "The Living Mountain". 672 pages, 1 map. Describes Jenny Kilgour's coming of age as she has to choose between the kindly harshness of her grandfather's life on a remote hill farm, and the vulgar and glorious energy of Bella Cassie, a local girl who left the community to pursue success as a singer, and has now returned to scandalise them all. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Dimension: 200 x 130 x 43. Weight: 532.
- Publisher
- Canongate UK
- Number of pages
- 672
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780862415891
- ISBN
- 9780862415891
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 15.30
€ 20.99
€ 15.30
Paperback. Beautifully set, brilliantly realised, this acclaimed novel from the golden age of epic storytelling is now repackaged as a Hodder 'Great Read' Num Pages: 640 pages, n/a. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 44. Weight in Grams: 474.
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Number of pages
- 640
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780340938355
- ISBN
- 9780340938355
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Paperback. A novel in which love, music and faith rage against the spectre of evil. It is a tale of a present haunted by the past. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 306. Clean copy.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Main
- SKU
- KEX0205000
- ISBN
- 9781843548522
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Centres on an adulterous affair between Saffie, a silent young German woman, who is first maid and then wife to a famous flautist, and Andras, a Jewish flute-mender. The story unfolds in Paris at the height of the Algerian war in the 1950s. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 132 x 20. Weight in Grams: 208. Fine copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- KSS0001051
- ISBN
- 9780099283645
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Groomed for the perfect marriage by her mother, fearsome Lady Montdore, Polly instead scandalises society by declaring her love for her uncle 'Boy' Dougdale, the Lecherous Lecturer, and promptly eloping to France. But the consequences of this union no one could quite expect.. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 18. Weight in Grams: 184.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241974698
- ISBN
- 9780241974698
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Paperback. It isn't just Nanny who finds it difficult in France when Grace and her young son Sigi are finally able to join her dashing aristocratic husband Charles-Edouard after the war. For Grace is out of her depth among the fashionably dressed and immaculately coiffured French women, and shocked by their relentless gossiping and bedhopping. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 182.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241974728
- ISBN
- 9780241974728
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
€ 13.99
€ 11.09