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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Hardback. Translator(s): Short, David. Num Pages: 140 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 178 x 127. .
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Karolinum,Nakladatelstvi Univerzity Karlovy,Czech Republic Czech Republic
Number of pages
140
Condition
New
SKU
V9788024632919
ISBN
9788024632919
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 18.76

Paperback. Focuses on the trauma of a mother who awakens one morning to the shattering news that her son is lying dead in the morgue and her struggle to understand his decision to be a Naxalite. Editor(s): Devi, Mahasweta; Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 143 x 7. Weight in Grams: 184.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Seagull Books Pvt.Ltd India
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
Edition
Translation
SKU
V9788170461449
ISBN
9788170461449
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 13.99

Paperback. The Naga people of the troubled northeastern region of India have endured more than a century of bloodshed in their struggle for an independent Nagaland and a national identity. This title features stories that are set against this uneasy backdrop. It includes stories that spring from the internal fault lines of the Indian nation-state. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 9. Weight in Grams: 156.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Zubaan India
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9789381017975
ISBN
9789381017975
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 14.11

Paperback. Fateema Lokhandwala, a young Muslim woman in present-day Gujarat. A member of the Muslim minority, she struggles to carve out a place for herself, seeking her true identity and encountering triumph and tragedy along the way. This book is a critique of the damage caused by Indian identity politics. Translator(s): Kothari, Rita. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 199 x 14. Weight in Grams: 244.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Zubaan India
Number of pages
200
Condition
New
SKU
V9789383074877
ISBN
9789383074877
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.86

Paperback. Tells the tales of women overcoming violence and repression. This collection takes you into a world where spirits converse with humans and where unsuspecting people are drawn into forces greater than themselves. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 10. Weight in Grams: 136.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Zubaan India
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9789383074921
ISBN
9789383074921
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.86

Paperback. A collection of micro-fictions by one of Argentina's most prolific and distinguished authors. Translator(s): Stewart, Steven J. Series: Latin American Women Writers. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 11. Weight in Grams: 254.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803220904
ISBN
9780803220904
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.79

Paperback. Alec and Jerry shouldn't have been friends: Alec's life was one of privilege, while Jerry's was one of toil. But this hardly mattered to two young men whose shared love of horses brought them together and whose whole lives lay ahead of them. When war breaks out in 1914, both Jerry and Alec sign up - yet for quite different reasons. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 11. Weight in Grams: 122. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAK0012389
ISBN
9780141046969
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 13.99
€ 9.64

Paperback.
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Urban Books
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
Format
Paperback
SKU
V9781601625939
ISBN
9781601625939
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 10.14

Paperback. No matter who you are, love comes at a price.. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 35. Weight in Grams: 378. Clean copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KEX0246464
ISBN
9781409102465
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. In 1942, Charlotte Gray, a young scottish woman, goes to Occupied France on a dual mission: to run an apparently simple errand for a British special operations group and to search for her lover, an English airman who has gone missing in action. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 354. Fine copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0003233
ISBN
9780099394310
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.70

Paperback. Fifteen-year-old Charley Thompson wants a home and some structure to his life. But as the son of a single father working at warehouses across the Pacific Northwest, he's been pretty much on his own for some time. This book opens as he and his father arrive in Portland, Oregon and Charley takes a stables job, illegally, at the local race track. Num Pages: 288 pages, maps. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 20. Weight in Grams: 232. Fine copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0003244
ISBN
9780571235735
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.70

Paperback. A novel from an American writer. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 14. Weight in Grams: 176. Fine copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0003259
ISBN
9780747574651
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.70

Paperback. Tells the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright, beautiful, and talented couple whose empty suburban life is held together by the dream that greatness is only just round the corner. The author shows how Frank and April mortgage their hopes and ideals, betraying in the end not only each other, but their own best selves. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 248. Fine copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0003271
ISBN
9780099518624
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 11.99
€ 10.33

Paperback. 'Like A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD written by Tina Fey' (Sam Baker, RED). The 2013 Women's Prize shortlisted, NEW YORK TIMES bestseller. Includes Reading Group Notes. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 20. Weight in Grams: 262. Fine copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0003282
ISBN
9781780221243
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.70

Paperback. Mags keeps everything safe in the box. Letters. Postcards. Photographs. Each memento plays a role in the secret story that's always in her thoughts. A story that can't remain hidden forever. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 24. Weight in Grams: 226. Fine copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Hachette Books Ireland
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0003289
ISBN
9781473618084
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.70

Paperback. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 330. Fine copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Poolbeg Press Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0003308
ISBN
9781781999530
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.70

Paperback. A new novel from Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist. Translator(s): Hopkinson, Amanda; Caistor, Nick. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 170. Fine copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0003322
ISBN
9780007116058
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.70

Paperback. Gustav Hackendahl's will is law. Known as 'Iron Gustav', he runs his family and his Berlin carriage business with stern, unyielding discipline. But his children have wills of their own, and soon they slip from his control - some to better lives, some towards disaster. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 133 x 27. Weight in Grams: 408. Fine copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0003333
ISBN
9780141196534
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.70

Paperback. It is summer, 1929, and in a small German town a storm is brewing. The shabby reporter Tredup leads a precarious existence working for the "Pomeranian Chronicle" - until he takes some photographs that offer the chance to make a fortune. In Kruger's bar, the farmers are plotting their revenge on greedy officials. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 153 x 27. Weight in Grams: 420. Fine copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0003344
ISBN
9780141196565
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.70

Paperback. Stifled by the torpor of colonial South Africa and trapped in a web of reciprocal oppression, a lonely sheep farmer seeks comfort in the arms of a black concubine. But when his embittered spinster daughter Magda feels shamed, this lurch across the racial divide marks the end of a tenuous feudal peace. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 11. Weight in Grams: 132. Fine copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0003354
ISBN
9780099465942
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.70

Paperback. A novel by the author of "Asylum". Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 212. Fine copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0003372
ISBN
9780747574156
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.70

Paperback. A doctor to the rich and famous goes to extreme lengths to protect his daughter in this dark and addictive novel from the author of the million-copy bestseller The Dinner Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 33. Weight in Grams: 312. Fine copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0003376
ISBN
9781782390725
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.70

Paperback. Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage floundering. But this time it is different: his wife is having the affair, and he is still in love with her. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 288. Fine copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0003387
ISBN
9780099549024
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.70

Paperback. The residents of Pepys Road, London - a banker and his shopaholic wife, an elderly woman dying of a brain tumour, the Pakistani family who run the local shop, the young football star from Senegal and his minder - all receive anonymous postcards with a simple message: We Want What You Have. Who is behind it? What do they want? Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 199 x 38. Weight in Grams: 438. Fine copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0003391
ISBN
9780571234622
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.70

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