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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. In 1947 the workers on the Dakar-Niger Railway came out on strike. Throughout this novel, written from the workers' perspective, the community social tensions emerge, and increase as the strike lengthens. The author's other novels include "Xala" and "Black Docker". Translator(s): Price, Francis. Series: Heinemann African Writers Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 210. Series: Heinemann African Writers Series. 256 pages, Illustrations, maps. In 1947 the workers on the Dakar-Niger Railway came out on strike. Throughout this novel, written from the workers' perspective, the community social tensions emerge, and increase as the strike lengthens. The author's other novels include "Xala" and "Black Docker". Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 198 x 130 x 15. Weight: 212. Translator(s): Price, Francis.
Publisher
Longman
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780435909598
ISBN
9780435909598
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.30

Paperback. *A moving, Booker shortlisted story of a girl's coming of age, beautifully rejacketed for this reissue Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 127 x 15. Weight in Grams: 162.
Publisher
Abacus
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349121499
ISBN
9780349121499
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Parthian Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
273
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908069900
ISBN
9781908069900
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.36

Hardcover. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 143 x 25. Weight in Grams: 386.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Amistad
Edition
1St Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780062348135
ISBN
9780062348135
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 22.07

Paperback. Num Pages: 119 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 9. Weight in Grams: 136.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Sentient Publications United States
Number of pages
119
Condition
New
SKU
V9781591810728
ISBN
9781591810728
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.00

Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 20. Weight in Grams: 216.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408845035
ISBN
9781408845035
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.13

Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 260 x 14. Weight in Grams: 214.
Publisher
Arsenal Pulp Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781551526065
ISBN
9781551526065
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.81

Paperback. Sweetness wants to love her child, Bride, but she struggles to love her as a mother should. Bride, now glamorous, grown up, ebony-black and panther-like, wants to love her man, Booker, but she finds herself betrayed by a moment in her past, a moment borne of a desperate burn for the love of her mother. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 268 x 14. Weight in Grams: 142.
Publisher
Chatto & Windus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099555926
ISBN
9780099555926
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. Num Pages: 134 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSK; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 142 x 10. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press United States
Number of pages
134
Condition
New
SKU
V9781564781307
ISBN
9781564781307
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 11.98

Paperback. The novel based on the book featured in the TV series "Californication," written by the show's main character Hank Moody played by David Duchovny. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 139 x 15. Weight in Grams: 180.
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Original
Condition
New
SKU
V9781416598237
ISBN
9781416598237
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.71

Paperback. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 128 x 6. Weight in Grams: 92.
Publisher
Seven Stories Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Later printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9781609800734
ISBN
9781609800734
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.52

Paperback. An extraordinary account of a young woman's journey into motherhood Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 20. Weight in Grams: 222. 320 pages. An extraordinary account of a young woman's journey into motherhood. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 197 x 127 x 20. Weight: 222.
Publisher
Canongate Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857860064
ISBN
9780857860064
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.98

Paperback. Presents a semi-autobiographical exploration of the troubled life of the Grimes family in Harlem during the Depression. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 127 x 18. Weight in Grams: 206.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141185910
ISBN
9780141185910
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Hardcover. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 138. .
Publisher
Everyman
Number of pages
280
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841593715
ISBN
9781841593715
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.00
€ 15.75

Paperback. .
Publisher
Valley Spring Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
3rd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780992639730
ISBN
9780992639730
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.66

Paperback. .
Publisher
Cornerstone
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784755287
ISBN
9781784755287
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.86

paperback. Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch - 'Scout' - returns home from New York City to visit her ageing father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South, Jean Louise's homecoming turns bittersweet when she learns disturbing truths about her family. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 204. Clean copy showing some age and light shelf wear. Remains a very good copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Arrow
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMK0022333
ISBN
9781784752460
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 11.99
€ 4.99

Paperback. Scout has returned to Maycomb from New York to visit her father Atticus. She is forced to grapple with issues both personal and political as she tries to understand both her father's attitude toward society, and her own feelings about the place where she was born and spent her childhood. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 268 x 24. Weight in Grams: 388.
Publisher
Cornerstone
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
9781785150296
ISBN
9781785150296
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 6.00

Paperback. Includes seven dramatic stories which reveal Faulkner's compassionate understanding of the Deep South. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 131 x 19. Weight in Grams: 198.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099546160
ISBN
9780099546160
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.00
€ 16.71

Paperback. Describes the world of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg and Neal Cassady. This novel chronicles the private lives the Beats lived before they became public figures. It also describes an individualistic post-World II New York where crime is celebrated, writing is revered, and parties, booze, discussions, drugs and sex punctuate life. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 266.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141188393
ISBN
9780141188393
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

paperback. A story of four boys growing up in the Edinburgh schemes, and about the loyalties, the experiences - and the secrets - that hold them together into their thirties. What binds the four of them is the friendship formed by the scheme, their school, and their ambition to escape from both; their loyalty fused in street morality. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 30. Weight in Grams: 420.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
9780099285922
ISBN
9780099285922
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.14

Hardcover. Num Pages: 187 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 147 x 17. Weight in Grams: 352.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Cune Press,US United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
187
Condition
New
SKU
V9781885942197
ISBN
9781885942197
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.47

Paperback. From the prizewinning author of BOXER, BEETLE and the Booker-longlisted THE TELEPORTATION ACCIDENT comes Ned Beauman's third and most thrilling novel to date. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 180.
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444765533
ISBN
9781444765533
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

Paperback. Born on Emancipation Day, 1863, to a sharecropping family of African and Indian blood, Elijah Yancy never lived as a slave, but his self-image as a free person is at war with his surroundings: Spartanburg, South Carolina, in the Reconstructed South. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 141 x 19. Weight in Grams: 342.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Counterpoint United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9781578051755
ISBN
9781578051755
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.27

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