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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. Contains diverse writing from the Spanish-speaking world. This book explores stylistic contrasts and gives an insight into the cultural and social milieu of the Spanish-speaking world. It includes notes on unusual Spanish words and phrases and is suitable for English students of the language as well as Spanish-speaking students of English. Editor(s): Lawaetz, Gudie. Num Pages: 208 pages, notes. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 158. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1972
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSS0001703
- ISBN
- 9780140033786
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. The four novellas that make up this book share a common theme: deception and self-deception, practised on or by the protagonists. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 135 x 17. Weight in Grams: 225. Clean copy with some shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KSS0001768
- ISBN
- 9780099273745
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Presents a funny, bittersweet tale of love in the south of England. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 156. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSS0001826
- ISBN
- 9780747557708
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. 'Mona Simpson is a wonderful writer, very spare and economical but with extraordinary emotional power. Off Keck Road is her best book yet - lucid and beautiful' Kate Atkinson 'Mona Simpson is a wonderful writer, very spare and economical but with extraordinary emotional power. Off Keck Road is her best book yet - lucid and beautiful' Kate Atkinson Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 147. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- Main
- SKU
- KSS0001827
- ISBN
- 9781843540014
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Catalina is the one person unable to join in the festivities of the Feast of the Assumption. But then she has a vision of the Virgin, and is miraculously cured. In the dark days of the Spanish Inquisition, such a claim to blessedness has serious consequences, especially when she seems more inclined to obey her heart than the demands of the Church. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 182. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSS0001975
- ISBN
- 9780099286844
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Orphaned at a cruelly young age by the death of both parents, diminutive Hugo Dinsmore goes to live with brutish country relatives. It is there that he is drawn into the entourage of the Eggman, a local gangster, before breaking free in his own spectacular but hazardous fashion. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 378. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSS0002056
- ISBN
- 9780099422259
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Rosa Fiore is a solitary woman who has resigned herself to a loveless life, and expresses her passionate nature through her cooking. Then, one day, she meets an enigmatic chef, known only as l'Inglese, whose research on the heritage of Sicilian cuisine leads him into Rosa's library and her heart. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 194. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- paperback / softback
- SKU
- KSS0002166
- ISBN
- 9780552999090
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages, YES. BIC Classification: BGL; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 26 x 151 x 232. Weight in Grams: 479. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Hachette Books Ireland
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSS0002172
- ISBN
- 9780340752395
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. The protagonist of this novel is a 15-year-old North London schoolboy called Gabriel. He is forced to come to terms with a new life, and use his gift for painting in order to make sense of his world, once the equilibrium of the family has been shattered by his father's departure. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 140. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- SKU
- KSS0002232
- ISBN
- 9780571209293
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover. Around 1400, in the city of Mainz, a man was born whose invention of moveable metal type was to change the written word for ever and alter the course of history itself. Johann Gutenberg died 60 years later, robbed of his business, his printing presses and, so he thought, of his immortality. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 137 x 25. Weight in Grams: 440. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear in good dust wrapper
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSS0002258
- ISBN
- 9780701169657
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Sir Alexander Haye, zoologist and TV personality, goes to Mannar to acquire an elephant for London Zoo. Procuring a mother and calf, the task of escorting them falls to his twin brother, Max, who delivers them to their fate and then returns to his sanctuary. Malaria overcomes him and he plunges into fever and hallucination. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 135 x 10. Weight in Grams: 110. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSS0002344
- ISBN
- 9780099283348
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Gathered together yearly for Harry's "false birthday", Ben and his chums areused to waking up in unfamiliar towns and strange moods. This time however, Harry is approaching 40, and his mind has tended firmly towards the unresolved past. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 197 x 21. Weight in Grams: 226. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- New Edition
- SKU
- KSS0002384
- ISBN
- 9780099759812
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. In this collection of stories, Kureishi chronicles the loveless, the lost and the dispossessed. They represent the frustrated and intoxicating, the melancholic and sensitive, capable of great cruelty and willing to break constraints of an old life to make way for the new. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 17. Weight in Grams: 216. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSS0002396
- ISBN
- 9780571203918
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. 'A subtle examination of innocence and guilt' (Observer). Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 10. Weight in Grams: 106. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSS0002423
- ISBN
- 9780340562314
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. A dramatic novel about a tragedy in Australia in 1984 which had its roots in Eastern Europe and World War II. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 145 x 25. Weight in Grams: 284. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- SKU
- KSS0002426
- ISBN
- 9780340394595
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. An astonishing literary debut centred around four students as they apply to medical school, qualify as doctors and face the realities of working in medicine, from a powerful new voice in fiction. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 131 x 26. Weight in Grams: 286. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSS0002920
- ISBN
- 9780007263813
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. * A penetrating new novel about the burden of celebrity and the making of American myths and heroes by one of America's bestselling writers * 'Updike is one of the very few people who are among Oates's peers' - TLS Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 33. Weight in Grams: 334. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Virago
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSS0003024
- ISBN
- 9781860497704
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. The Sunday Times bestseller - an intensely moving and beautifully written new novel from the Booker-prize winning author of Last Orders and Waterland Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 197 x 16. Weight in Grams: 170. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSS0003064
- ISBN
- 9781471155246
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Stories of searching, desire and grief that radically rewrite the South African experience from the perspective of a diaspora generation Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 18. Weight in Grams: 292. Clean copy with some shelf wear, minor nicks and bumps on cover but otherwise clean
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- And Other Stories
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KSS0003077
- ISBN
- 9781908276445
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. A girl can't do without them! Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 40. Weight in Grams: 426. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Headline Review
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSS0003134
- ISBN
- 9780755332496
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. * The third novel in the London-based Corduroy Mansions series from Alexander McCall Smith, comparable in warmth and humour to 44 Scotland Street Series: Corduroy Mansions. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 20. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Abacus
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349123851
- ISBN
- 9780349123851
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
€ 13.99
€ 11.09
Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 2ABM; FA; YXF. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 138 x 206 x 11. Weight in Grams: 188.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1960
- Publisher
- New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780811200424
- ISBN
- 9780811200424
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.55
€ 17.99
€ 16.55
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2020
- Publisher
- Persea Books Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- New
- SKU
- V9780892554652
- ISBN
- 9780892554652
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.51
€ 17.99
€ 16.51
Paperback. The best of Keith Waterhouse in the Daily Mail Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 199 x 22. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781444753936
- ISBN
- 9781444753936
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05