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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Nigel Williams, one of the UK's finest comic writers, returns with a poignant comic portrait of four marriages: a caustic satire of suburban intrigue, tainted love and late-flowering lust. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 278.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472106759
ISBN
9781472106759
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.30

Paperback. Sonokrom, a village in the Ghanaian hinterland, has not changed for thousands of years. Kayo is a forensic pathologist convinced that scientific logic can shatter even the most inexplicable of mysteries. But as events in the village become incomprehensible, Kayo finds that Western logic and political bureaucracy are no longer equal to the task. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 134.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099526124
ISBN
9780099526124
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Hardcover. An Amphigory Devised for Your Amusement. 32 pages, colour illus. A story for adults that has been conceived in the style of "Edward Lear" and contains visual puns, leg-pulls and japes. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 277 x 184 x 10. Weight: 396.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Double Storey
Number of pages
32
Condition
New
SKU
V9781770130104
ISBN
9781770130104
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.42

Paperback. Cardiff in the 1980s is a place where maths can get you noticed. Rumis Vasi is the town's 'maths prodigy': untangling numbers and Rubik's Cubes protects her from the harsh vagaries of the playground and gives a pattern to her world. But after years of her father's determined tutoring, Rumi finds that numbers are beginning to lose their innocence. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 200.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141030395
ISBN
9780141030395
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.66

Paperback. Translator(s): Katz, Michael B. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 159 x 236 x 28. Weight in Grams: 682. 488 pages. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 159 x 236 x 28. Weight: 676. Translator(s): Katz, Michael R.
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Number of pages
488
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780801495472
ISBN
9780801495472
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 29.73

Paperback. Series: Modern Library. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 135 x 10. Weight in Grams: 142.
Publisher
Modern Library Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812971194
ISBN
9780812971194
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 14.04

Paperback. Translator(s): Garnett, Constance. Series: New Directions Pearls. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 116 x 177 x 7. Weight in Grams: 74.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
Number of pages
73
Condition
New
SKU
V9780811219471
ISBN
9780811219471
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.32

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Random House USA Inc United States
Number of pages
402
Condition
New
SKU
V9780679776444
ISBN
9780679776444
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 17.53

Paperback. Features stories of Russian life that are peopled by outsized characters including serfs, princes, Gypsy girls, horse dealers, nomadic Tartars and garrulous storytellers. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 39. Weight in Grams: 424.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099577362
ISBN
9780099577362
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.29

Paperback. Translator(s): Geddes, Tom. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 168.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9780714530789
ISBN
9780714530789
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.37

Paperback. Includes a selection of short fiction and famous dramas. This book includes stories ranging from comic to tragic and describes the isolated lives of low-ranking clerks, lunatics and swindlers. Translator(s): Wilks, Ronald. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 23. Weight in Grams: 272.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140449075
ISBN
9780140449075
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. Set before the start of the First World War, this moving fable sees a young English writer set out to Crete to claim a small inheritance. But when he arrives, he meets Alexis Zorba, a middle-aged Greek man with a zest for life. As their friendship develops, the Englishman is gradually won over, transformed and inspired along with the reader. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 199 x 23. Weight in Grams: 274.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
Later Printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571323272
ISBN
9780571323272
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.74

Paperback. Kazantzakis's classic novel, blacklisted by the Vatican, filmed by Scorsese, has been labelled heretical, blasphemous and a masterpiece. His Christ is an epic conception, wholly original. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 111 x 35. Weight in Grams: 308.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571178568
ISBN
9780571178568
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.74

Paperback. Against the background of the Greek civil war of the late 1940s, Captain Drakos, son of the local priest Father Yanaros, has taken to the mountains with a group of villagers and joined the Communist rebels. It is Holy Week and Father Yanaros feels that he himself is bearing the sins of the world. Translator(s): Dallas, A. G. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 113 x 18. Weight in Grams: 228.
Publisher
Faber and Faber
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571105069
ISBN
9780571105069
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.75

Paperback. This autobiographical novel is one of the last things written by Kazantzakis before he died in 1957. It paints a vivid picture of his childhood in Crete, and then steadily grows into a spiritual quest that takes him to Italy, Jerusalem, Paris, Vienna, Berlin and Russia. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 114 x 27. Weight in Grams: 322.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571195077
ISBN
9780571195077
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.75

Paperback. The inhabitants of a Greek village, ruled by the Turks, plan to enact the life of Christ in a mystery play but are overwhelmed by their task. A group of refugees, fleeing from the ruins of their plundered homes, arrive asking for protection - and suddenly the drama of the Passion becomes reality. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 111 x 30. Weight in Grams: 264.
Publisher
Faber and Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571190218
ISBN
9780571190218
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.78

Paperback. This is Kazantzakis's modern "Iliad". Set in late-19th-century Crete, when a new uprising takes place to rival those of 1854, 1866 and 1878. In the village of Megalokastro, a Cretan resistance fighter named Captain Michales, is matched by the Turkish bey, his blood-brother. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 110 x 30. Weight in Grams: 298.
Publisher
Faber and Faber
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571178575
ISBN
9780571178575
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.78

Paperback. The children have flown, the parents are free. Life is suddenly about to get very interesting indeed .. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 304.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Edition
Digital original
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
SKU
V9780751543667
ISBN
9780751543667
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.47

Paperback. In this semiautobiographical novel, the young French Algerian author Nina Bouraoui introduces us to a girl who feels that Algeria is the country of men. Her childhood years spent in Algeria lead her to explore the borderland between genders as she tries to find her balance between nations, races, and identities. Translator(s): Gavarini, Jehanne-Marie; Salvodon, Marjorie Attignol. Series: European Women Writers. Num Pages: 129 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 215 x 5. Weight in Grams: 168.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
129
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803262591
ISBN
9780803262591
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.33

paperback. The international bestseller THE LITTLE PARIS BOOKSHOP is a delightful, bittersweet tale about the distance one man will travel for the sake of love and friendship. Translator(s): Pare, Simon. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 198 x 31. Weight in Grams: 308. Clean copy showing light reading wear. Remains a very good copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMK0024188
ISBN
9780349140377
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.12

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