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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Aidoo's first novel explores the thoughts and experiences of a Ghanaian girl on her travels in Europe Series: Longman African Writers/Classics. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA; YFB; YQEF. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 189 x 126 x 6. Weight in Grams: 136.
Publisher
Pearson Education Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Condition
New
SKU
V9780582308459
ISBN
9780582308459
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.53

Paperback. Takes readers into Sri Lanka, Wales, Spain, India, Morocco and the lives and minds of the characters. This book creates a sense of mild disorientation and unreality that makes readers begin to see the world in a different way. Num Pages: 150 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 142.
Publisher
Parthian Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
150
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906998080
ISBN
9781906998080
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.22

Paperback. On the eve of his ninetieth birthday a newspaper columnist in Colombia decides to give himself 'a night of mad love with a virgin adolescent'. But on seeing this beautiful girl he falls deeply under her spell. His love for his 'Delgadina' causes him to recall all the women he has paid to perform acts of love. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 8. Weight in Grams: 100.
Publisher
PENGUIN BOOKS
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Re-issue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241968543
ISBN
9780241968543
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.87

Paperback. The centenary edition with a new introduction by Paul Theroux: three men meet on a ship bound for Haiti. Hiding behind their actors' masks, they hesitate on the edge of life -- afraid of love, afraid of pain, afraid of fear itself. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 125 x 20. Weight in Grams: 226.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Edition
Centenary Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099478379
ISBN
9780099478379
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.98

Paperback. A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR An American myth and a contemporary portrait of the scars of the past that run through a family, and of our desperate need to escape our history, to subsume it with pleasure - or to rise above it with glory. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. Weight in Grams: 270.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
9780008173319
ISBN
9780008173319
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

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
€ 10.18

Paperback. .
Number of pages
259
Publisher
Amazon Publishing United States
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781503936645
ISBN
9781503936645
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.62

Hardcover. Gathers some of the unforgettable canines which include Kipling's heroically faithful 'Garm', Bret Harte's irrepressible scoundrel of a 'yaller dog' and the aggressively affectionate three-legged pit bull who lives in a block of flats for dogs in Jonathan Lethem's 'Ava's Apartment'. Editor(s): Tesdell, Diana Secker. Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Classics. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 190 x 126 x 28. Weight in Grams: 410.
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
Everyman Paperback Classics
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841596068
ISBN
9781841596068
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.72

Paperback. Ever wasted hours debating your 'All Time England XI'? Well now it's 2022 and the discussion is finally over, England have eleven players as good as any of them. The unbeatable national team have reached the final of the Qatar World Cup. But one journalist is convinced there is a scandalous secret behind England's incredible form. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 22. Weight in Grams: 212.
Publisher
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784161392
ISBN
9781784161392
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.65

Paperback. Readers are taken through a midsummer's night in which two tales of seduction, separated by more than 200 years, interweave and oscillate between the sublime and the ridiculous. They provide merely a narrative framework for Kundera's novel, within which is condensed existential analysis. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 10. Weight in Grams: 116.
Publisher
Faber and Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571179435
ISBN
9780571179435
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.66

Paperback. Shortlisted for the Costa First Novel award 2013, this bitterly humorous debut is a novel of love, narcissism, and ailing cattle. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 199 x 23. Weight in Grams: 236. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
SKU
KAK0002849
ISBN
9780007412105
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. A moving Liverpool saga in the hugely popular Nellie McDonough and Molly Bennett series Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 113 x 31. Weight in Grams: 266.
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Edition
Revised
Condition
New
SKU
V9780747251316
ISBN
9780747251316
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.97

Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 35. Weight in Grams: 316.
Publisher
Old Street Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910400487
ISBN
9781910400487
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.74

Paperback. Series: Dover Thrift Editions. Num Pages: 80 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 133 x 5. Weight in Grams: 70.
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc. United States
Number of pages
80
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
First Edition (first thus)
Condition
New
SKU
V9780486426877
ISBN
9780486426877
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 7.19

Hardcover. This narrative chronicles the decline of the American South through the experiences of Benjy Compson, who struggles to articulate his vision of life. William Faulkner is the author of "As I Lay Dying" and "Sanctuary" and he won the Nobel Prize in 1949. Num Pages: 278 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 134 x 24. Weight in Grams: 452.
Publisher
Everyman
Number of pages
278
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857150698
ISBN
9781857150698
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.86

Paperback. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 133 x 10. Weight in Grams: 172.
Publisher
World Editions
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9789462380219
ISBN
9789462380219
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.61

Paperback. New Year. New Martina Reilly. Brand New Look for this Bestselling Author. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 158 x 26. Weight in Grams: 466. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Hachette Books Ireland Ireland
Number of pages
352
Publication date
2012
SKU
KIN0034700
ISBN
9781444725933
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 12.99
€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 156 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FJW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 106 x 12. Weight in Grams: 86.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc United States
Number of pages
156
Publication date
1985
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780553252248
ISBN
9780553252248
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 9.63

Paperback. Addresses memory, suicide, the Great Depression, the loss of American eloquence, and the obsolescent thrill of reading books. Num Pages: 240 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 176.
Publisher
Vintage Books
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099267546
ISBN
9780099267546
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.98

Paperback. It's high summer when Molly Pargeter drags her amiably bickering family to a rented Tuscan villa for the holidays. Molly is sure that the house is the perfect setting for their three-week getaway, but soon she becomes fascinated by the lives of the absent owners - and things start to go horribly wrong. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 144 x 20. Weight in Grams: 230.
Number of pages
304
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141034874
ISBN
9780141034874
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.00
€ 17.53

Paperback. In Cape Town, South Africa, an elderly classics professor writes a letter to her distant daughter, recounting the strange and disturbing events of her dying days. She has been opposed to the lies and the brutality of apartheid all her life, but now she finds herself coming face to face with its true horrors. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 14. Weight in Grams: 150.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241951019
ISBN
9780241951019
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.95

Paperback. An ambitious, engrossing and multi-layered debut novel Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781473636514
ISBN
9781473636514
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.89

Paperback. The Winner Stands Alone is the enthralling new novel by the incomparable Paulo Coelho. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 30. Weight in Grams: 386.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007306084
ISBN
9780007306084
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.58

Paperback. Barbara Comyns' delightful classic novel set in bohemian 1930s London, with a new introduction by Maggie O'Farrell. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 154.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844089277
ISBN
9781844089277
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.91

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