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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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