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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Michael first met the Hanbury's of Egypt Hill when he was a student. He was intrigued by their bohemian lifestyle. Twelve years later, Michael is invited back to the house and jumps at the chance of escaping his turbulent domestic situation. But his illusions about the family are shattered as the rotten core of the Hanbury myth is revealed. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 198. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0002008
ISBN
9780571228140
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. His third novel, Jacques Stephen Alexis brings his powerful characterization and political consciousness to the age-old question of whether a prostitute can leave "the life" to find her own identity and true love. La Nina Estrelita is plying her trade during Holy Week, 1949 in Port-au-Prince. Translator(s): Danticat, Edwidge; Coates, Carrol F. Series: CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 336.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813921396
ISBN
9780813921396
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.82

Paperback. An inspiring first novel, In the Field tackles the social obstacles that overshadow interracial family life in a rural town. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 133 x 23. Weight in Grams: 385.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Biblioasis Canada
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9781926845265
ISBN
9781926845265
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 18.32

Paperback. Social worker Keith, separated from his wife and their teenage son, is floundering in a world of fraught sexual politics, parental responsibilities and class expectations. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 242. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0000809
ISBN
9780099539742
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Clean copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Brandon / Mount Eagle Publications Ltd
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KEX0220376
ISBN
9780863222047
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Clean copy
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Brandon / Mount Eagle Publications Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
SKU
KEX0220135
ISBN
9780863222047
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Paperback, black spine. 206pp
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Brandon / Mount Eagle Publications Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
SKU
KON0821133
ISBN
9780863222047
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. The great English novel about Egypt, which is also the great Egyptian novel about England. Num Pages: 800 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 50. Weight in Grams: 650. 800 pages. The great English novel about Egypt, which is also the great Egyptian novel about England. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 196 x 129 x 50. Weight: 554.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC london
Number of pages
800
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
SKU
V9780747545897
ISBN
9780747545897
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.72

Paperback. An elegantly constructed story within a story, laced with the wit that characterises the work of this outstanding European writer. Translator(s): Dixon, Adrienne. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 133 x 11. Weight in Grams: 144.
Publisher
Quercus Publishing Plc United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782067191
ISBN
9781782067191
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. Series: Phoenix Books. Num Pages: 466 pages, vi, 464 p. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 202 x 133 x 26. Weight in Grams: 509.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226112541
ISBN
9780226112541
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 21.05

Num Pages: 485 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 160 x 39. Weight in Grams: 792.
Publication date
2005
Publisher
M P Publishing Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
485
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849821957
ISBN
9781849821957
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Paperback. Set with a War in background, this is a story containing several characters who are all in the dark, with their dreams, secrets and fantasies. Electric light, new to their world, may be a boon but it reveals both grime and secrets. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 230.
Publisher
Vintage Books
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099507123
ISBN
9780099507123
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. Hidden deep in the mountains, the recruits at 'Unit 701', China's secret services, operate in a dark, shadowy world. There is the 'wind-listener', a blind surveillance officer who can hear sounds from miles away, the beautiful, unstable maths genius who meets a violent end, and, the old man who deciphers codes in his dreams. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 25. Weight in Grams: 296.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Translation
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141391458
ISBN
9780141391458
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.63

Paperback. Features a portrait of people attempting to come to terms with a devastating historical event and their role within it. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 25. Weight in Grams: 368. .Clean copy in dustwrapper.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Faber & Faber London
Edition
Main
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KEX0200126
ISBN
9780571236367
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Jeff and Tonino, two Parisian football fans with serious drinking habits, are on their way to the European Cup final. So too are newlyweds Tana and Francesco; troubled young couple Gabriel and Virginie; and Geoff Andrewson, travelling with his brothers. As these four groups of characters cross paths, it gives way to a horrific tragedy. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 23. Weight in Grams: 250.
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571236374
ISBN
9780571236374
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.73

Paperback. Nine-year-old Suleiman is just awakening to the wider world beyond the games on the hot pavement outside his home and beyond the loving embrace of his parents. He becomes the man of the house when his father goes away on business, but then he sees his father, standing in the market square in a pair of dark glasses. Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 113 x 180 x 18. Weight in Grams: 142.
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241973622
ISBN
9780241973622
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.27

Paperback. Nine-year-old Suleiman is just awakening to the wider world beyond the games on the hot pavement outside his home and beyond the loving embrace of his parents. He becomes the man of the house when his father goes away on business, but then he sees his father, standing in the market square in a pair of dark glasses. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 137 x 17. Weight in Grams: 188.
Publisher
Penguin
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241957073
ISBN
9780241957073
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

paperback. Tells the story of Anna Blume and her journey to find her lost brother, William, in the unnamed City. The author takes us to an unspecified and devastated world in which the self disappears amidst the horrors that surround us. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 16. Weight in Grams: 168.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Faber And Faber Ltd.
Condition
New
SKU
9780571227303
ISBN
9780571227303
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.64

Paperback. * Highly original 'detective' stories with unique setting and characters featuring Mma Ramotswe and her No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency. Series: The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 174.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Abacus
Edition
New
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349117423
ISBN
9780349117423
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

Paperback. A luminous love story and an internationally acclaimed masterpiece, published in the UK for the first time Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 134 x 197 x 18. Weight in Grams: 208. 288 pages. Bernardo Greene is attempting to rebuild his life. Imprisoned and tortured by Pinochet's regime for introducing his students to political poetry, he has arrived at Copenhagen's centre for rehabilitating torture victims at the age of forty-nine, to begin, to begin again. Across from the King's Garden, Michela Ibsen also seeks a new beginning. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 134 x 197 x 18. Weight: 208.
Edition
UK ed.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408809846
ISBN
9781408809846
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.30

Paperback. An autobiographical novel of race and class by one of the leading Black writers of the 20th century. Series: Ann Arbor Paperbacks. Num Pages: 344 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 19. Weight in Grams: 363.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
University of Michigan Press
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780472064687
ISBN
9780472064687
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 30.15

Paperback. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: 1KJWWB; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241296066
ISBN
9780241296066
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.01

Paperback. The elegant, haunting story of the forgotten people and places of Paris from the reigning Nobel Laureate. Translator(s): Cameron, Professor Euan. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 13. Weight in Grams: 118.
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857055286
ISBN
9780857055286
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.27

Paperback. Four unforgettable books by acclaimed poet, novelist and dissident Irina Ratushinskaya, beautifully repackaged. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 27. Weight in Grams: 280.
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton General Division
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781473637245
ISBN
9781473637245
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

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