Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Hardback. In Paris, Montreal, Seville, Berlin, and towns large and small, the author has dreamt - and she has remembered her dreams. In this small volume, she shares her dreams of the years 2008-10, a time of global upheaval that happened to coincide with upheavals in her own life. Illustrator(s): Banerjee, Sunandini. Translator(s): Fagan, Teresa Lavender. Series: The French List. Num Pages: 116 pages, 24 colour plates. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 150 x 11. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 116
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857420299
- ISBN
- 9780857420299
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 17.07
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Paperback. First published in 1962 as 'La Placa del Diamant', this is considered the most important Catalan novel of all time. This is a new English translation. Translator(s): Bush, Peter. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 126 x 15. Weight in Grams: 158.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Virago
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781844087372
- ISBN
- 9781844087372
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.00
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€ 11.00
Paperback. Touching and wonderfully funny, In Custody is woven around the yearnings and calamities of a small-town scholar in the north of India. An impoverished college lecturer, Deven, sees a way to escape from the meanness of his daily life when he is asked to interview India's greatest Urdu poet, Nur - a project that can only end in disaster. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 174.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099428497
- ISBN
- 9780099428497
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.18
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€ 10.18
Hardback. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 144 x 28. Weight in Grams: 550.
- Publisher
- Random House USA Inc
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812994384
- ISBN
- 9780812994384
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.24
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€ 19.24
Hardback. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FM; FQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127. .
- Publisher
- Tachyon Publications
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- hardcover
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781616962487
- ISBN
- 9781616962487
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 19.46
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€ 19.46
Paperback. Hannah Olsen and her husband Lars own Langani Farm and Safari Lodge where they struggle to protect their wildlife and land from poachers and corrupt officials. But the developing relationship between their daughter and a young African boy with a terrifying legacy tests the strength of their family. Num Pages: 608 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 136 x 32. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Number of pages
- 608
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099520634
- ISBN
- 9780099520634
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.76
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Paperback. A collection of macabre short stories. Ian McEwan received the Somerset Maugham Award in 1976 for a previous collection of short stories entitled "First Love, Last Rites". Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 128 x 10. Weight in Grams: 124.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099754718
- ISBN
- 9780099754718
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.87
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Paperback. A group of angry and ill-assorted people accept an invitation to make a journey to discover the real Arcadia. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 29. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784082574
- ISBN
- 9781784082574
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.95
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Paperback. A stunning novel set in the stark beauty of Orkney and the heady atmosphere of Penang in the 1930s Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Number of pages
- 512
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780753820070
- ISBN
- 9780753820070
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.74
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€ 11.74
Paperback. Historian Lia Carrer has finally returned to southwestern France, determined to rebuild her life after the death of her husband. But instead of finding solace in the region's quiet hills and medieval ruins, she falls in love with Raoul, a man whose very existence challenges everything she knows about life-and about her husband's death. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FM; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Publisher
- Sourcebooks, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781492625209
- ISBN
- 9781492625209
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.59
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Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Comma Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905583768
- ISBN
- 9781905583768
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.33
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€ 13.33
Paperback. A story inspired by the emigration to America in 1876 of Helena Modrzejewska, Poland's most celebrated actress, accompanied by her husband, Count Karol Chlapowski, her fifteen-year-old son, Rudolf, the young journalist and future author of "Quo Vadis", Henryk Sienkiewicz, and a few friends; their brief sojourn in Anaheim, California. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141190105
- ISBN
- 9780141190105
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.52
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€ 12.52
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Omnidawn Publishing United States
- Number of pages
- 160
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781890650193
- ISBN
- 9781890650193
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 12.44
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Paperback. IN A SUMMER SEASON is one of Elizabeth Taylor's finest novels in which, in a moving and powerful climax, she reveals love to be the thing it is: beautiful, often funny, and sometimes tragic. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 198 x 23. Weight in Grams: 156.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- New
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844083206
- ISBN
- 9781844083206
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.89
€ 13.99
€ 10.89
Hardback. SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2010 'One of the most beautiful and unsettling books I've ever read. I can't remember a more troubling and intense study of rootlessness and loneliness; Galgut is a writer of great, almost frightening, depth.' Tash Aw Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 148 x 22. Weight in Grams: 338. Very good copy in clean dustwrapper. Second impression
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- SKU
- KEX0303109
- ISBN
- 9781848873223
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 45.00
€ 45.00
Paperback. For ambitious industrialist Charles Freeman, it offers new opportunities and marriage to Mary. He buys the big house on the hill and nails his aspirations to the future. In quick succession, three sons and a daughter bring life to the big house and, with it, the seeds of family joy and tragedy. Num Pages: 688 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 36. Weight in Grams: 442.
- Publisher
- Cornerstone United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 688
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099538004
- ISBN
- 9780099538004
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.22
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€ 19.22
Hardcover. This novel by the French writer Gabriel Josipovici is an exploration into the power of memory and imagination, also raising the question of how far it is possible for non-Jews to understand Jews. Josipovici's other works include "Text and Voice" and "Steps: selected fiction and drama". Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 145 x 15. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780856359989
- ISBN
- 9780856359989
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.12
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€ 14.12
Paperback. Memories she had long chosen to forget begin to resurface. Memories of an eccentric childhood in a large and shabby house, where the children were very much left to fend for themselves within the loose boundaries of their parents' unorthodox values. A chaotic existence peopled by a rich collection of feckless 'guests'. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 32. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Publisher
- Cornerstone United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 512
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099469186
- ISBN
- 9780099469186
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.95
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Paperback. The central novel from V.S. Naipaul's Booker Prize-winning narrative of displacement, published for the first time in a stand-alone edition. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 14. Weight in Grams: 164.
- Publisher
- Picador USA
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780330522908
- ISBN
- 9780330522908
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.58
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€ 11.58
Paperback. From the author of the best-selling This Book Will Save Your Life, an intense, thrilling portrait of the patient-analyst relationship gone awry Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 198.
- Publisher
- Granta Books
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847087270
- ISBN
- 9781847087270
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.87
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Paperback. Num Pages: 266 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 463.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Hoover Institution Press
- Edition
- First Hoover Institution Press printing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780817994426
- ISBN
- 9780817994426
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.84
€ 25.84
Paperback. Including Books, Street Fashion and Jewelry. 144 pages. A unique and utterly charming book that is at once a novel and a work of art. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 234 x 186 x 12. Weight: 334.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Number of pages
- 144
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408804728
- ISBN
- 9781408804728
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 19.37
€ 19.99
€ 19.37
Paperback. When Tiro, the confidential secretary of a Roman senator, opens the door to a terrified stranger on a cold November morning, he sets in motion a chain of events which will eventually propel his master into one of the most famous courtroom dramas in history. The stranger is a Sicilian, a victim of the island's corrupt Roman governor, Verres. Series: Cicero Trilogy. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 31. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Publisher
- Cornerstone
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099527664
- ISBN
- 9780099527664
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.98
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Paperback. His tautest, most compulsively readable work since American Psycho. A sequel to Less Than Zero, it imagines what became of that book's group of over-privileged, dead-eyed kids as forty-year-olds' Hari Kunzru, Observer Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 162. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Picador
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KJE0000800
- ISBN
- 9780330452618
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 11.99€ 4.82
€ 11.99
€ 4.82