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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. A sweet and touching novel which can be read both as a coming of age story, set against a fascinating backdrop, and at a deeper level as a commentary on life in country where there is very little freedom of expression. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 128 x 17. Weight in Grams: 208.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408707500
ISBN
9781408707500
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.26

Paperback. Translator(s): Hunter, Adriana. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 211 x 23. Weight in Grams: 338.
Publisher
Europa Editions
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Translation
Condition
New
SKU
V9781609453503
ISBN
9781609453503
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.26

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Dedalus Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st
Number of pages
140
Condition
New
SKU
V9781909232310
ISBN
9781909232310
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.38

Paperback. .
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Inc
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781498740333
ISBN
9781498740333
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 39.85

Paperback. Given the choice, Martial would not have moved to Les Conviviales. But Odette loved the idea of a brand-new retirement village in the south of France. So that was that. Translator(s): Boyce, Emily. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 10. Weight in Grams: 130.
Publisher
Gallic Books
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908313492
ISBN
9781908313492
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.82

Paperback. The future is on its way to Picardy with the construction of a motorway. But nearby is a house where nothing has changed since 1945. Traumatised by events that year, Yolande hasn't left her home since. Life has not been kinder to Bernard, her brother, who has a terminal illness. With no longer anything to lose, he becomes reckless - and murderous. Translator(s): Florence, Melanie. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 9. Weight in Grams: 116.
Publisher
Gallic Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908313164
ISBN
9781908313164
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 9.12

Paperback. Heads will roll as two friends with a shocking secret are reunited in Versailles. Translator(s): Boyce, Emily. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 142 x 11. Weight in Grams: 144.
Publisher
Gallic Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Translation
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908313720
ISBN
9781908313720
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.98

Paperback. Raimund Gregorius is a mild-mannered, middle-aged professor of ancient languages. One morning, as he is teaching, he is seized by a restlessness that drives him to abandon his classroom then and there - shocking his students, and surprising even himself. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 31. Weight in Grams: 306.
Edition
Main
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843547136
ISBN
9781843547136
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.74

Paperback. There is a secret at the heart of the town of Rabbit Back, involving its most famous occupant, a world-renowned children's author, and a strange literary game played by the local Literary Society. As Ella, an aspiring author, makes unsettling discoveries about White's and the Society's past, we explore the nature of literature and truth. Translator(s): Rogers, Lola. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 288.
Publisher
Pushkin Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782270430
ISBN
9781782270430
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.48

Paperback. When Toby is reported 'Missing, Believed Killed', another secret casts a lengthening shadow over Elinor's world: how exactly did Toby die - and why? Elinor determines to uncover the truth. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 195 x 20. Weight in Grams: 256.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141042206
ISBN
9780141042206
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. * An early novel by one of England's most important contemporary novelists. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 12. Weight in Grams: 128.
Publisher
Virago
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780860683988
ISBN
9780860683988
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. The poets and soldiers Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen are dispatched to Craiglockhart War Hospital in Scotland in 1917. There, army psychiatrist William Rivers is treating brutalised, shell-shocked men. It is Rivers' job to fix these men and make them ready to fight again. Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 106 x 177 x 23. Weight in Grams: 198.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241970768
ISBN
9780241970768
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.26

Paperback. Returning to Afghanistan after his photographer friend is killed by a sniper, war reporter Stephen Sharkey seeks release from his nightmares in an England seemingly at peace with itself. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 218.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140270754
ISBN
9780140270754
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 16.82

Paperback. As the bombs fall on the blacked-out city, ambulance driver Elinor Brooke races from bomb sites to hospitals trying to save the lives of injured survivors, working alongside former friend Kit Neville, while her husband Paul works as an air-raid warden. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Penguin
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241966037
ISBN
9780241966037
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. The students at the Slade School of Art gather in Henry Tonks' studio for his life-drawing class. But for Paul Tarrant the class is troubling, underscoring his own uncertainty about making a mark on the world. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 188.
Publisher
Penguin
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
First Thus
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141019475
ISBN
9780141019475
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. * an early work by the winner of the 1995 Booker Prize Series: VMC. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 186.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1982
Publisher
Virago
Condition
New
SKU
V9780860682837
ISBN
9780860682837
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. Craiglockhart War Hospital, Scotland, 1917, and army psychiatrist William Rivers is treating shell-shocked soldiers. Under his care are the poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, as well as mute Billy Prior, who is only able to communicate by means of pencil and paper. Rivers's job is to make the men in his charge healthy enough to fight. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FJMF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 17. Weight in Grams: 184.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780141030937
ISBN
9780141030937
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.33

Paperback. * by one of the finest chroniclers of the lives of northern working-class women Series: Virago Modern Classics. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 126 x 19. Weight in Grams: 206.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
Virago
Condition
New
SKU
V9780860686118
ISBN
9780860686118
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

Paperback. In Pat Barker's Another World, the First World War casts its shadow down the generations. At 101 years old, Geordie, a proud Somme veteran, lingers painfully through the days before his death. His grandson Nick is anguished to see this once-resilient man haunted by the ghosts of the trenches and the horror surrounding his brother's death. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 192. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KOG0000949
ISBN
9780140258981
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.70

Paperback. London, 1918. Billy Prior is working for Intelligence in the Ministry of Munitions. But his private encounters with women and men - pacifists, objectors, homosexuals - conflict with his duties as a soldier, and it is not long before his sense of himself fragments and breaks down. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FJMF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 19. Weight in Grams: 206.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780141030944
ISBN
9780141030944
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.33

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