Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Hardback. Based on the true story of the author's aunt and namesake, and on the search to uncover her remarkable past, A Thin Bright Line encompasses Cold War intrigues, the origins of climate research, the joyful pangs of love, and the impossible compromises of queer life in the 1950s and '60s. Num Pages: 280 pages, , black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- University of Wisconsin Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780299309305
- ISBN
- 9780299309305
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 26.73
€ 29.99
€ 26.73
Paperback. Is real love just a fairytale? Funny, perceptive and real, this title portrays the rawness of motherhood, the flipside of love and the powerful lure of paths not taken. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FRD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 134 x 195 x 24. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Publisher
- Black and White Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845027216
- ISBN
- 9781845027216
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.14
€ 10.99
€ 9.14
Paperback. Annie has a secret. But if she's not going to tell, we won't either. It's a heart-breaking secret she wishes she didn't have - yet Annie isn't broken, not quite yet. Especially now there's someone out there who seems determined to fix her. Kate has run away. But she's not going to tell us why - that would defeat the point of running, wouldn't it? Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 29. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781405911603
- ISBN
- 9781405911603
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.38
€ 13.99
€ 10.38
Paperback. A fresh and funny coming of age tale with a single-girl heroine that readers of Caitlin Moran and Lena Dunham will love. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781409172208
- ISBN
- 9781409172208
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.30
€ 11.99
€ 10.30
Paperback. Aisha begins life as a Portuguese peasant, moving to Paris to seek out a less stifling existence as the nanny for a bourgeois couple. However, when Aisha's brother Jose, newly arrived in Paris, kills himself as a protest against the cruelty of the modern world, her life falls apart. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 196 x 21. Weight in Grams: 254. Some minor shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Main
- SKU
- KTJ0000567
- ISBN
- 9780571234905
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. A luminous, startling and utterly spellbinding debut which introduces a spectacular new voice in contemporary British fiction Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 15. Weight in Grams: 200. 240 pages. A luminous, startling and utterly spellbinding debut which introduces a spectacular new voice in contemporary British fiction. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Dimension: 198 x 131 x 15. Weight: 168.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408830437
- ISBN
- 9781408830437
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.64
€ 14.99
€ 11.64
Paperback. *Winner of the Romantic Comedy Novel of the Year RNA Award 2015* * A hilarious, honest and heartbreaking modern love story warning that if you're just a girl, standing in front of a boy, don't, whatever you do, tell him that you love him, by the bestselling author of 50 Ways to Find a Lover Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 125 x 27. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780751547658
- ISBN
- 9780751547658
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Paperback. * The big breakout novel from the hottest writer of romantic comedy Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 138 x 27. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Digital original
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780751547603
- ISBN
- 9780751547603
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
Paperback. A wry, moving and dark story about Russians adrift in New York by award-winning Ludmila Ultiskaya, hailed by Gary Shteyngart as 'one of the most important living writers'. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 15. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474602051
- ISBN
- 9781474602051
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.00
€ 13.99
€ 11.00
Paperback. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 612.
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810133488
- ISBN
- 9780810133488
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.49
€ 26.99
€ 25.49
Paperback. The Big Green Tent is the kind of book for which the term "Russian novel" was invented. A sweeping saga, it tells the story of three school friends who meet in 1950s Moscow and go on to embody the heroism, folly, compromise, and hope of the Soviet dissident experience. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 210 x 39. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Picador USA
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781250097446
- ISBN
- 9781250097446
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 22.95
€ 27.99
€ 22.95
Paperback. A woman finds herself filling a pit in the forest in the middle of the night; a family lock each other in their bedrooms to battle a strange plague; a wizard punishes two beautiful ballerinas by turning them into one hugely fat circus performer; a colonel is warned not to lift the veil from his dead wife's face. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 151 x 14. Weight in Grams: 172.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780718192075
- ISBN
- 9780718192075
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. With the satirical eye of Cindy Sherman, the psychological perceptiveness of Dostoevsky, and the bleak absurdities of Beckett, the author blends macabre spectacle with transformative moments of grace and shows just why she is Russia's preeminent contemporary fiction writer. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 158.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141198590
- ISBN
- 9780141198590
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.68
€ 13.99
€ 11.68
Paperback. Translator(s): Appelbaum, Stanley. Series: Dover Dual Language Italian. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 145 x 11. Weight in Grams: 242.
- Publisher
- Dover Publications Inc.
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780486280912
- ISBN
- 9780486280912
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.84
€ 16.99
€ 12.84
Paperback. Translator(s): Weaver, William. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 133 x 15. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Publisher
- The New York Review of Books, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- Translation
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781590171158
- ISBN
- 9781590171158
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.38
€ 23.99
€ 16.38
Paperback. Documents the infancy of film in Europe - complete with proto-divas, laughable production schedules, and cost-cutting measures with priceless effects - and offers a glimpse of the modern world through the camera's lens. This book captures early twentieth-century Italian filmmaking and reveals its truths as only a parody can. Series Editor(s): Moncrieff, Scott. Series: Cinema and Modernity. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: APF; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 136 x 203 x 19. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226669823
- ISBN
- 9780226669823
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 20.27
€ 24.99
€ 20.27
Paperback. A new short story collection from Luis Alberto Urrea, bestselling author of The Hummingbird's Daughter and The Devil's Highway. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Back Bay Books
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780316334396
- ISBN
- 9780316334396
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 16.89
€ 18.99
€ 16.89
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 148 x 17. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Dalkey Archive Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 220
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781564787293
- ISBN
- 9781564787293
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.76
€ 16.99
€ 15.76
Paperback. A humorous novel about human limits and how they are abolished in the world of dreams. Translator(s): Almani, Saleh. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789992195208
- ISBN
- 9789992195208
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 19.02
€ 26.99
€ 19.02
Paperback. Translator(s): Schifino, Martin. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 135 x 20. Weight in Grams: 272. 288 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Dimension: 215 x 135 x 20. Weight: 272. Translator(s): Schifino, Martin.
- Publisher
- Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780714531540
- ISBN
- 9780714531540
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.39
€ 13.99
€ 13.39