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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. One woman runs from her past, as another tries to escape her future; a young boy holds close a terrible secret, and a father does everything he can to protect him. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 126 x 21. Weight in Grams: 496. 464 pages. One woman runs from her past, as another tries to escape her future; a young boy holds close a terrible secret, and a father does everything he can to protect him. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 197 x 126 x 21. Weight: 432.
Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Number of pages
464
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781742379210
ISBN
9781742379210
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.19

Paperback. Kundera whirls through comedy and tragedy towards his central question: how does a person, any person, live today? In constructing his answer, he writes of politics, sex, literature, modern man's alienation - and of their antidotes: laughter and forgetting. Translator(s): Asher, Aaron. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 248.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571174379
ISBN
9780571174379
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.71

Hardcover. Prague, I see a city..takes the form of a novel of quest, in which the heroine abandons the material world of everyday society and linear history, perceiving it as false, temporary and distracting and journeys in search of her true identity. Num Pages: 104 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 135 x 210 x 18. Weight in Grams: 248.
Publisher
Jantar Publishing
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780956889065
ISBN
9780956889065
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.95

Paperback. A gripping novel which vividly brings to life the negotiations which led to the betrayal of Czechoslovakia by England and France at the Munich Conference in 1938. Translator(s): Whiteside, Shaun. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 194. Clean copy. Good to very good
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Quercus
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
SKU
KST0016741
ISBN
9781847247865
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. "A fugitive framed for murder gets a new face and a new life from a mysterious foreigner. So why are the cops still after him?" Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 126 x 27. Weight in Grams: 330. 352 pages. "A fugitive framed for murder gets a new face and a new life from a mysterious foreigner. So why are the cops still after him?". Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 195 x 126 x 27. Weight: 330.
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848875371
ISBN
9781848875371
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.95

Paperback. In this, her second novel, (awarded the 1967 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize) Angela Carter's brilliant imagination and starting intensity of style explore and extend the nature and boundaries of love. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 164.
Publisher
Virago
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1981
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780860681908
ISBN
9780860681908
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. Number One bestselling author Jodi Picoult's first novel is a compelling drama of family, loss and misunderstanding, and reconciliation. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 28. Weight in Grams: 366.
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444754384
ISBN
9781444754384
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Paperback. Contains 62 stories that set mainly in Tacoma, Washington (where the author grew up) and in the flower-powered San Francisco of the late fifties and early sixties. Series: Canons. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 10. Weight in Grams: 128.
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Main - Canons edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782113782
ISBN
9781782113782
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.71

Paperback. The brilliant new novel from the Man Booker shortlisted author of The Clothes on Their Backs Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 22. Weight in Grams: 258.
Publisher
Virago Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844087518
ISBN
9781844087518
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. Magical, romantic and heart-warming, this is the new novel by the New York Times bestselling author of GARDEN SPELLS and THE GIRL WHO CHASED THE MOON. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 22. Weight in Grams: 220.
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444706673
ISBN
9781444706673
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. Written by Ryunosuke Akutagawa - one of Japan's foremost stylists and a modernist master whose short stories are marked by imagery, cynicism, beauty, and wild humour. His other works include: "Rashomon"; "In a Bamboo Grove"; "The Nose"; "O-Gin"; "Loyalty"; "Death Register"; "The Life of a Stupid Man"; and "Spinning Gears". Translator(s): Rubin, Jay. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 238.
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
Translation
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140449709
ISBN
9780140449709
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages. Dimension: 197 x 130. .
Publisher
Avon
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780008102142
ISBN
9780008102142
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.31

Hardback. Part of the "Tiny Stories" series, this book gathers together 32 illustrated stories. Num Pages: 88 pages, Black and White Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 160 x 12. Weight in Grams: 164.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
64
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780062121660
ISBN
9780062121660
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.65

Paperback. A son confesses to his mother that he is cheating on his girlfriend; a student falls in love with her lecturer and embarks on an affair with a man in the pub who looks just like him. Young mothers pent-up in childcare dream treacherously of other possibilities. This title includes these stories about family life that are somehow undomesticated. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 116.
Publisher
Vintage
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099499251
ISBN
9780099499251
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Hardcover. A riotous story of revolution, romance and redemption from one of America's greatest living novelists. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 162 x 30. Weight in Grams: 580.
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Inc
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
9780743295550
ISBN
9780743295550
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 6.07

Paperback. Series: Stories to Remember S. Num Pages: 168 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: CJBR; FA; YFB. Category: (ES) Secondary; (UA) A / AS level. Dimension: 122 x 186 x 10. Weight in Grams: 168.
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Macmillan Education
Number of pages
168
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1982
Edition
Abridged edition
SKU
KLN0014312
ISBN
9780333099261
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 216 x 20. Weight in Grams: 336.
Publisher
Sussex Academic Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781898595700
ISBN
9781898595700
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 64.97
€ 64.27

Paperback. The first great coming of age novel for the In-Betweeners generation Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 18. Weight in Grams: 186. 240 pages. The first great coming of age novel for the In-Betweeners generation. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 197 x 133 x 18. Weight: 226.
Publisher
Canongate Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857861870
ISBN
9780857861870
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.69

Paperback. A spellbinding novel about marriage, passion, loss, renewal, and the healing power of love Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 30. Weight in Grams: 312.
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781471131981
ISBN
9781471131981
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.97

Paperback. 'A wonderfully, life-affirming book..Carmel Harrington writes with such honesty' New York Times bestselling author, Hazel Gaynor Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 2AB; 3JMG; 5HE; 5HM; FA; FR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. Weight in Grams: 270.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780008150136
ISBN
9780008150136
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.38

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