Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. Deals with Flaubert, parrots, bears and railways; with our sense of the past and our sense of abroad; with France and England, life and art, sex and death, George Sand and Louise Colet, aesthetics and redcurrant jam; and, with its narrator, a retired English doctor, whose life and secrets are slowly revealed. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 186.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099540083
- ISBN
- 9780099540083
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.26
€ 13.99
€ 10.26
Hardcover. Examines the attempts of an increasingly bemused researcher to establish certain facts about a famous French novelist and the stuffed bird which used to sit on his desk. This book blends fact and fiction in a virtuoso kaleidoscope of vignettes from Noah's time to the present. Num Pages: 488 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 132 x 31. Weight in Grams: 604.
- Publisher
- Everyman Guides
- Number of pages
- 488
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841593487
- ISBN
- 9781841593487
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.39
€ 17.99
€ 13.39
Paperback. Num Pages: 135 pages, maps. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 127 x 9. Weight in Grams: 188.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Arsenal Pulp Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 135
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781551520902
- ISBN
- 9781551520902
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 12.83
€ 13.99
€ 12.83
Paperback. Num Pages: 155 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 150 x 13. Weight in Grams: 259.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Manic D Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 155
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780916397548
- ISBN
- 9780916397548
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.23
€ 13.99
€ 13.23
Paperback. A dazzling new anthology of the very best very short fiction from around the world. Editor(s): Thomas, James; Shapard, Robert; Merrill, Christopher. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 210 x 21. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393346077
- ISBN
- 9780393346077
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.46
€ 17.99
€ 16.46
paperback. Series: Vintage Classics. Num Pages: 226 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 131 x 18. Weight in Grams: 264.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Random House USA Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 226
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- V9780307474520
- ISBN
- 9780307474520
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 11.80
€ 11.99
€ 11.80
Hardcover. Takes you to a world where bicycles listen to conversations, inventors search for methods of 'diluting' water, and characters play truant while novelists sleep; a world where spiteful fairies wreak havoc and heroes from legend blunder into suburban sitting-rooms. Num Pages: 778 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 139 x 45. Weight in Grams: 844.
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- Combined volume
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841593098
- ISBN
- 9781841593098
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 18.90
€ 26.99
€ 18.90
paperback. An elegiac and poetic sequence of stories following the progress of a young girl through childhood and adolescence on the fringes of the Badlands in Alberta, Canada. Series: Parthian Shots S. Num Pages: 92 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 10. Weight in Grams: 141.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Parthian Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 92
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781902638102
- ISBN
- 9781902638102
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 8.27
€ 8.27
Paperback. The Flame Tree offers a vivid snapshot of a fast-developing Malaysia on the cusp of the new millennium, of moral choices and a womans search for her cultural identity. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 197 x 168 x 39. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- MONSOON BOOKS
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789814423908
- ISBN
- 9789814423908
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.98
€ 11.99
€ 10.98
Paperback.
- Publisher
- Parthian Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 250
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906998486
- ISBN
- 9781906998486
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.81
€ 11.99
€ 10.81
Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 199 x 29. Weight in Grams: 276.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408854464
- ISBN
- 9781408854464
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.13
€ 11.99
€ 10.13
Hardcover. Series: FIVE STAR FIRST EDITION MYSTER. 225 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 222 x 149 x 18. Weight: 390.
- Publisher
- Five Star
- Number of pages
- 225
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781594142703
- ISBN
- 9781594142703
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 6.00
€ 24.99
€ 6.00
Paperback. Longlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize, the overlapping lives of five newcomers to China's most dynamic city are the subject of this kaleidoscopic novel. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 138 x 29. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780007494187
- ISBN
- 9780007494187
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. A novel about a street in an unnamed city whose inhabitants speculate on the life of a mysterious Madam X. It interweaves their endless suppositions into a work that is at once political parable and surreal fantasia. Translator(s): Gernant, Karen; Chen, Zeping. Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 192 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Rep Tra
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300167962
- ISBN
- 9780300167962
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.14
€ 19.99
€ 16.14
Paperback. Five powerful stories exploring identity and selfhood. With haunting, Kafkaesque prose, Emanuela Barasch-Rubinstein creates a series of profound, internal narratives. Num Pages: 204 pages, No illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 128 x 17. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Holland House Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781909374799
- ISBN
- 9781909374799
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.37
€ 12.37
Paperback. Five Seasons is a moving and, at times, humorous novel about the need to fall in love again. It is A.B. Yehoshua's third novel and has long been out of print. Num Pages: 332 pages. BIC Classification: 2CSJ; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 24. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Peter Halban Publishers Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781870015943
- ISBN
- 9781870015943
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.23
€ 11.99
€ 10.23
Paperback. One quiet evening in Salisbury, the peace is shattered by a serious car crash. At that moment, five lives collide - a flower seller, a schoolboy, an army wife, a security guard, a widower - all facing their own personal disasters. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 197 x 23. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Publisher
- Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784161354
- ISBN
- 9781784161354
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.84
€ 15.99
€ 11.84
Paperback. Beyond the main street of Les Laveuses runs the Loire, smooth and brown as a sunning snake - but hiding a deadly undertow beneath its moving surface. This is where Framboise, a secretive widow, plies her culinary trade at the creperie - and lets her memory play strange games. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 23. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Edition
- paperback / softback
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780552998833
- ISBN
- 9780552998833
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.85
€ 15.99
€ 11.85
Hardcover. Num Pages: 128 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: FA; WSJH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 147 x 14. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Brindle and Glass Publishing, Ltd Canada
- Number of pages
- 116
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781897142189
- ISBN
- 9781897142189
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 19.69
€ 27.99
€ 19.69
Paperback. Peter Haskell, president of a major pharmaceutical company, has everything: power, position, and a family which mean everything to him. Olivia Thatcher is the wife of a famous senator. She has given to her husband's ambitions and career until her soul is bone-dry. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 105 x 24. Weight in Grams: 180. Clean copy, good to very good. Some light shelf wear
- Publisher
- Corgi Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KST0012525
- ISBN
- 9780552143783
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Peter Haskell, president of a major pharmaceutical company, has everything: power, position, and a family which mean everything to him. Olivia Thatcher is the wife of a famous senator. She has given to her husband's ambitions and career until her soul is bone-dry. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 105 x 24. Weight in Grams: 180. Clean copy.
- Publisher
- Corgi Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KRS0020108
- ISBN
- 9780552143783
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Things have never been the same in the village since the evacuee arrived and the five boys mistook him for a Nazi spy. There have been a host of visitors: the Americans preparing for D-Day and a deserter hiding out in the woods. But it's the arrival of the Bee King who makes the biggest impression. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 17. Weight in Grams: 182. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- Main
- SKU
- KKD0001636
- ISBN
- 9780571206186
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
paperback. In Twicetown, once Key West, two missiles sit unexploded, objects of awe and indifference. Mr Cheung teaches the boy Fiskadoro to play the clarinet; Grandmother Wright, the oldest person in the world, endlessly relives the fall of Saigon; Cassius Clay Sugar Ray trades in radioactive artefacts. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099440840
- ISBN
- 9780099440840
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.04
€ 13.99
€ 11.04
Hardcover. Whether set against the open ocean or tiny mountain streams, in ancient China, tropical Tahiti, Paris under siege, or the vast Canadian wilderness, this title features stories that cast wide and strike deep into the universal joys, absurdities, insights, and tragedies of life. Editor(s): Hughes, Henry. Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Classics. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 186 x 27. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Publisher
- Everyman United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841596136
- ISBN
- 9781841596136
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.39
€ 17.99
€ 13.39