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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. Offers a irreverent overview of Indonesian history in the Sukarno and Suharto eras and insights into the postcolonial condition. This title tells a story that begins in the 1930s, before Indonesia's independence from Dutch rule, and follows the fortunes of a poor Javanese village woman who becomes a servant in the household of President Sukarno. Translator(s): Keeler, Ward. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 216 x 13. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780295983929
- ISBN
- 9780295983929
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.73
€ 32.99
€ 29.73
Paperback. This humorous adventure story is about life in rural Ireland during World War II. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FJMS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 332. 8vo. Good copy .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- Mercier Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KEX0290131
- ISBN
- 9781856350013
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 15.99€ 13.61
€ 15.99
€ 13.61
Paperback. Num Pages: 308 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 209 x 26. Weight in Grams: 338.
- Publisher
- Amazon Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781503941106
- ISBN
- 9781503941106
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.62
€ 11.99
€ 10.62
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Random House USA Inc
- Edition
- Bilingual
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780307473738
- ISBN
- 9780307473738
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 13.99
€ 18.99
€ 13.99
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Virago
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844087600
- ISBN
- 9781844087600
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.58
€ 23.99
€ 16.58
Paperback. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 234 x 19. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Publisher
- Tramp Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2019
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780992817015
- ISBN
- 9780992817015
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.00€ 12.73
€ 15.00
€ 12.73
Paperback. In 'Dubliners', completed when Joyce was only 25, the author produced a definitive group portrait. The book is rooted in an accurate apprehension of the detail of Dublin life. Illustrator(s): Brocquy, Louis Le. Num Pages: 265 pages, 60 lithographs. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 446.
- Publisher
- The Lilliput Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780946640850
- ISBN
- 9780946640850
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.42
€ 17.99
€ 16.42
paperback. Contains stories that show us truants, seducers, gossips, rally-drivers, generous hostesses, corrupt politicians, failing priests, amateur theologians, struggling musicians, moony adolescents, victims of domestic brutishness, sentimental aunts and poets, patriots earnest or cynical, and people striving to get by. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 127 x 14. Weight in Grams: 132. Contains stories that show us truants, seducers, gossips, rally-drivers, generous hostesses, corrupt politicians, failing priests, amateur theologians, struggling musicians, moony adolescents, victims of domestic brutishness, sentimental aunts and poets, patriots earnest or cynical, and people striving to get by. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 127 x 14. Weight in Grams: 132.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Wordsworth
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KKE0000935
- ISBN
- 9781853260483
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Hardcover. The first products of Joyce's maturity, these stories look sideways to the tender realism of Chekhov and forward to Joyce's later work "Portrait of the Artist". In the most celebrated tale, "The Dead", the author constructs the first of his poetic monologues. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 136 x 28. Weight in Grams: 510. 287pp
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Number of pages
- 300
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781857150490
- ISBN
- 9781857150490
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 13.91
€ 19.99
€ 13.91
paperback. A collection of modernist short stories which create a picture of the day-to-day experience of Dublin life. The author stories are rooted in the rich detail of Dublin life, portraying ordinary, often defeated lives with unflinching realism. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 256. Clean copy with some shelf wear and yellowing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics London
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- KOG0001580
- ISBN
- 9780141182452
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 10.99€ 9.35
€ 10.99
€ 9.35
paperback. A collection of modernist short stories which create a picture of the day-to-day experience of Dublin life. The author stories are rooted in the rich detail of Dublin life, portraying ordinary, often defeated lives with unflinching realism. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics London
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- 9780141182452
- ISBN
- 9780141182452
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.35
€ 10.99
€ 9.35
paperback. Contains stories that show us truants, seducers, gossips, rally-drivers, generous hostesses, corrupt politicians, failing priests, amateur theologians, struggling musicians, moony adolescents, victims of domestic brutishness, sentimental aunts and poets, patriots earnest or cynical, and people striving to get by. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 127 x 14. Weight in Grams: 132. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Wordsworth
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- New edition
- SKU
- KSS0009967
- ISBN
- 9781853260483
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
paperback. Contains stories that show us truants, seducers, gossips, rally-drivers, generous hostesses, corrupt politicians, failing priests, amateur theologians, struggling musicians, moony adolescents, victims of domestic brutishness, sentimental aunts and poets, patriots earnest or cynical, and people striving to get by. Series Editor(s): Carabine, Dr. Keith. Series: Wordsworth Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 127 x 14. Weight in Grams: 132. Good copy with some shelf wear, yellowing of pages
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Wordsworth
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Edition
- New edition
- SKU
- KKD0007877
- ISBN
- 9781853260483
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. A series of short stories, in which the author captures uneasy souls, shabby lives and innocent minds in the dark streets and homes of his native city. In doing so, he conjures uncertainties and desires, illumines moments of joy and sorrow otherwise lost in private memory, and pierces the many mysteries at the heart of things. Editor(s): Gabler, Hans Walter. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 198.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099573142
- ISBN
- 9780099573142
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.06
€ 13.99
€ 11.06
Paperback. Dub Steps has a strange long aftertaste. It is science fiction with ordinary characters trying to understand what it is to be alive. People have gone, suddenly, inexplicably, and the remaining handful have to find each other and start again. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155. .
- Publisher
- Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd South Africa
- Number of pages
- 376
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781431422203
- ISBN
- 9781431422203
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.45
€ 17.99
€ 16.45
Paperback. Ben Du Toit is an ordinary, decent, harmless man whose sense of justice is outraged by the death at the hands of the police of a man knew. As Ben investigates, he finds that his curiosity becomes labelled as rebellion. The author has won South Africa's CNA award for both Afrikaans and English work. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780749399894
- ISBN
- 9780749399894
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Paperback. In 1976, four students took a trip to the desert. Now the repercussions of the fateful summer are coming back to haunt them. As for Nina, she's having enough trouble with her son, James. But when Hugo, long-forgotten agent of misfortune, threatens to pay them all a visit, disaster seems unavoidable. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 278.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099277644
- ISBN
- 9780099277644
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. The drunk man lies on a moonlit hillside looking at a thistle, jaggy and beautiful, which epitomises Scotland's divided self. The man reflects on the fate of the nation, the human condition in general and his own personal fears. This book contains commentary and notes, and takes the reader through the author's complex and opaque use of language. Editor(s): Buthlay, Kenneth. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 21. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Publisher
- Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846970269
- ISBN
- 9781846970269
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.57
€ 17.99
€ 16.57
Paperback. Claire Randall was swept through time into the arms of James Fraser whose love for her became legend - a tale of tragic passion that ended with her return to the present to bear his child. Two decades later, Claire travelled back again to reunite with Jamie, this time in frontier America. Series: Outlander. Num Pages: 1200 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 133 x 47. Weight in Grams: 702.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Cornerstone
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781784751340
- ISBN
- 9781784751340
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 9.85
€ 13.99
€ 9.85
Paperback. No. 1 New York Times bestseller: 'Powerful.. Suspenseful.. chilling' New York Times 'Powerful.. Suspenseful.. Chilling' New York Times Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 240.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Headline Publishing Group
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780747264651
- ISBN
- 9780747264651
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
€ 13.99
€ 11.09