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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. VAS combines a variety of voices, from journalism and libretto to poem and comic book. Often these voices meet in counterpoint, and the meaning of the narrative emerges from their juxtapositions, harmonies, or discords. Num Pages: 370 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 138 x 30. Weight in Grams: 606.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
370
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226807409
ISBN
9780226807409
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 35.99
€ 28.58

Paperback. A young man is fighting for his life. Into his room walks a bewitching woman who believes she can save him. Their journey will have you believing in the impossible. A Richard and Judy Best Read 2009 pick. Num Pages: 502 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 348. 502 pages. A young man is fighting for his life. Into his room walks a bewitching woman who believes she can save him. Their journey will have you believing in the impossible. A Richard and Judy Best Read 2009 pick. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 195 x 129 x 32. Weight: 430.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Canongate Books
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847671691
ISBN
9781847671691
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.48

Paperback. Series: Dover Thrift Editions. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 134 x 21. Weight in Grams: 268.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc. United States
Edition
Trade Paperback Edition
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780486424590
ISBN
9780486424590
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.77

Paperback. Num Pages: 576 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADF; DSC; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 171 x 27. Weight in Grams: 796.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
576
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253207876
ISBN
9780253207876
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 22.97

Paperback. Num Pages: 385 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 169 x 21. Weight in Grams: 277.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Random House USA Inc United States
Number of pages
385
Condition
New
SKU
V9780553385526
ISBN
9780553385526
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.35

Paperback. Peter Carey is justly renowned for his novels, which have included the Booker Prize-winning titles Oscar and Lucinda and True History of the Kelly Gang. He is also a dazzling writer of short stories. This volume collects together all the stories from The Fat Man in History and War Crimes as well as three other stories. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 126 x 26. Weight in Grams: 258. ******THIS IS A PREORDER TO BE DELIVERED ON OR AROUND THE PUBLICATION DAY IN FEBRUARY 2022****
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
SKU
9780571175864
ISBN
9780571175864
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.98

Paperback. A novel, about a man who, recovering from death, is convinced that he is in hell. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 124 x 22. Weight in Grams: 260. ******THIS IS A PREORDER TO BE DELIVERED ON OR AROUND THE PUBLICATION DAY IN FEBRUARY 2022****
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
SKU
9780571225910
ISBN
9780571225910
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.11

Paperback. Three friends. Three lives ripped apart by war. A stand out novel from the Sunday Times Number One bestseller Penny Vincenzi. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 41. Weight in Grams: 444.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Headline Review
Condition
New
SKU
9780755332649
ISBN
9780755332649
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.27

Paperback. FLIGHTS, which was awarded Poland's biggest literary prize in 2008, is a novel about travel in the twenty-first century and human anatomy. Olga Tokarczuk perfectly interwtines travel narratives and reflections on travel with observations on the body and on life and death Translator(s): Croft, Jennifer. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 125. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Fitzcarraldo Editions
Condition
New
SKU
9781910695432
ISBN
9781910695432
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.67

paperback. Moving away from crime fiction, Pauline McLynn has crafted a mesmerising novel about human relationships. 'This is Pauline McLynn's fourth novel, and the author is going from strength to strength with every outing. Fizzing with vividly sketched characters, The Woman on the Bus is a skilfully written story' Sunday Tribune Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 27. Weight in Grams: 302. Good Clean copy with minor shelf wear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Headline Review
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMF0000289
ISBN
9780747267829
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 12.99
€ 9.58

Paperback. Ranging from the ultra realistic "Some Hours in the Life of a Witch" to the surreal fantasy world of "Fulfilment" and "The Wife of Bath", the stories in this book describe ordinary and not so ordinary lives, and the lives of women in particular, in the feminist and post-feminist era in Ireland. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 217 x 11. Weight in Grams: 244.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Cork University Press
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9781855942011
ISBN
9781855942011
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 10.60

Paperback. An ambitious, epic dystopian novel - part political thriller and part satire. Translator(s): McCarthy, Ralph; De Wolf, Charles; Takemori, Ginny. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 42. Weight in Grams: 540.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Pushkin Press
Number of pages
672
Condition
New
SKU
9781908968494
ISBN
9781908968494
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 12.53

Paperback. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 200.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc United States
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780060727666
ISBN
9780060727666
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.50

Paperback. When the body of a young woman is discovered deep beneath the icy waters of Lake Grant, a note left under a rock by the shore points to suicide. But within minutes, it becomes clear that this is no suicide. It's a brutal, cold-blooded murder. Series: The Will Trent Series. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 81 x 35. Weight in Grams: 370.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Arrow
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099509769
ISBN
9780099509769
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.06

Paperback. A brilliant novel from Ghana portraying a crucial period in the nation's history. Series: Heinemann African Writers Series. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 131 x 19. Weight in Grams: 294.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Heinemann
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Publication date
2011
SKU
V9780435045708
ISBN
9780435045708
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.21

Paperback. Chrissie, in the twenty-three years she'd been together with Richie, had always believed that he loved her. He loved their three daughters and their house in Highgate and their happy, lively existence. But if she really was the love of his life, why had he never given her the one thing that would have made her life perfect? Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 30. Weight in Grams: 322.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Black Swan
Condition
New
SKU
V9780552775434
ISBN
9780552775434
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. * Set in Bethnal Green, this story opens just after the Ripper murders. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 110 x 25. Weight in Grams: 244.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
SKU
V9780751548419
ISBN
9780751548419
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.47

Paperback. Two families. Seven days. One house. Angela and her brother Richard have spent twenty years avoiding each other. Now, after the death of their mother, they bring their families together for a holiday in a rented house on the Welsh border. Four adults and four children. Seven days of shared meals, log fires, card games and wet walks. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 32. Weight in Grams: 334. Good copy with some shelf wear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KTG0009263
ISBN
9780099570165
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Offers a parody accompanied by the author's illustrations. This book pokes fun at the wealthy expatriates who were author's literary contemporaries and remains controversial today, it seems to have delighted its cast of characters, which was also the first audience. Series: Ladies Almanack. Num Pages: 138 pages, 23 illustrations. BIC Classification: 5SL; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 11. Weight in Grams: 159.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
New York University Press United States
Number of pages
138
Condition
New
Edition
New Ed
SKU
V9780814711804
ISBN
9780814711804
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.31

Paperback. Editor(s): Parkes, Nii Ayikwei. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 143 x 12. Weight in Grams: 186. 248 pages. Editor(s): Parkes, Nii Ayikwei. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Dimension: 206 x 143 x 12. Weight: 186.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Peepal Tree Press Ltd.
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9781845231545
ISBN
9781845231545
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.19

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