Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. Laughs, love, office life. And a little touch of magic .. From the bestselling author of LOOKING FOR ANDREW MCCARTHY and AMANDA'S WEDDING. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 152 x 31. Weight in Grams: 266. Good clean copy with some reader wear.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- New Ed
- SKU
- KTM0006993
- ISBN
- 9780007105557
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Recently divorced, thirty-six-year-old Neill Bassett is engaged in an extraordinary experiment. By day, he works at a Silicon Valley software company, where he is helping to create the world's first 'living' artificial intelligence - a computer programme based on the personality of his late father. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 165 x 25. Weight in Grams: 432. Fine copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- KSS0003909
- ISBN
- 9780241964866
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Watch out Bridget Jones and Ally McBeal - Johnathan Burlip wants you to know his side of the story! Num Pages: 290 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 15. Weight in Grams: 287. Keywords: "Subjects - Fiction - By Period,Subjects - Fiction - General"
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
- Number of pages
- 290
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- (Reissue)
- SKU
- KHS0057964
- ISBN
- 9780006513322
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Napoleon Publishing Canada
- Number of pages
- 80
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781894917506
- ISBN
- 9781894917506
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.13
€ 20.99
€ 20.13
Paperback. Bob Slocum is anxious, bored and fearful of his job. So why is it he wants nothing more than the chance to speak at the next company convention? In this book, the author takes us for a turn on the maddening hamster wheel of work. Series: Vintage Minis. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 110 x 6. Weight in Grams: 66.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784872786
- ISBN
- 9781784872786
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 8.99€ 7.91
€ 8.99
€ 7.91
Paperback. Includes stories such as - "Mr Loveday's Little Outing"; "Cruise"; "Period Piece"; "On Guard"; "An Englishman's Home"; "Excursion in Reality"; "Bella Fleace Gave a Party"; "Winner Takes All"; "Work Suspended"; "Scott-King's Modern Europe"; "Basil Seal Rides Again"; and "Charles Ryder's Schooldays". Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 242.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141184517
- ISBN
- 9780141184517
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.04
€ 13.99
€ 11.04
Paperback. From an astonishing new voice, this debut charts the life of Roscoe T Martin, first as a farm owner with a fractured family, then as prison inmate.. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 19. .
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781471152238
- ISBN
- 9781471152238
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.03
€ 11.99
€ 10.03
Paperback. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 135 x 16. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Alberta Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780888643490
- ISBN
- 9780888643490
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.06
€ 19.99
€ 16.06
Paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 145 x 24. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Dalkey Archive Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781564780362
- ISBN
- 9781564780362
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.23
€ 16.23
Paperback. The author's professional writing had always expressed complex ideas in expressive prose. And the notion emerged - why not compress ideas, stories, even whole novels, into single aphorisms? This collection of single aphorisms intends to provide food for thought. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 149 x 129. Weight in Grams: 126.
- Publisher
- Foulsham
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780572030407
- ISBN
- 9780572030407
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 8.26
€ 8.26
Paperback. Words And Women: Three is the third showcase collection of short prose by women writers in the East of England. The memoir, fiction, and creative non-fiction inside reflect the brilliance, boldness and depth of women's contemporary writing in the region. Editor(s): Bryan, Lynne. Num Pages: 220 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 229 x 22. Weight in Grams: 362.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Unthank Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910061343
- ISBN
- 9781910061343
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.40
€ 12.40
Paperback. Saved from a delinquent childhood by education, cheated out of Oxford by a tragic love tangle, Hilary Burde cherishes his obsessive guilt and ekes out a living in a dull civil service job. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099429128
- ISBN
- 9780099429128
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.88
€ 15.99
€ 11.88
paperback. Focuses on Lue Gim Gong, a real-life Chinese pioneer, who seized the opportunity to go to America's "Gold Mountain." This book presents the story of his attempt to assimilate the new culture, his few successes and his frequent setbacks as told by the women who cared most about him: his mother, a spinster who loved him, and a friend and co-worker. Num Pages: 408 pages, 1 illus. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 554.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780295987149
- ISBN
- 9780295987149
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.87
€ 32.99
€ 29.87
Paperback. Even though they attend a school of gifted students in New York City, child geniuses Louise Mayer and her twin sister Jillian have always felt alone in the world, isolated by their brilliance. Shortly before their ninth birthday, they make an amazing discovery. They're not alone. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 170 x 104 x 30. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Baen
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781476780788
- ISBN
- 9781476780788
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.54
€ 10.54
paperback. Editor(s): Cropper, Anthony; Daley, Ian. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 202 x 14. Weight in Grams: 172.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Route United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781901927245
- ISBN
- 9781901927245
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.46
€ 12.46
Paperback. Series: Modern Library. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 130 x 30. Weight in Grams: 540.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Random House USA Inc United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 528
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812976557
- ISBN
- 9780812976557
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.21
€ 20.99
€ 19.21
Paperback. Passing bya retirement home on her way from yet another awful day at school, she hears a familiar song playing through an open window. An old man is playing her musical idol Povel Ramel - a quirky jazz musician from the 194s -and it sparks a new stage in her ife. The man's name is Alvar and just like Steffi, he has a huge interest in music. Before long he starts telling his story.. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. .
- Publisher
- Allen & Unwin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781760292072
- ISBN
- 9781760292072
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.45
€ 15.99
€ 11.45
Paperback. Ten-year-old August Pullman wants to be ordinary. He does ordinary things. He eats ice-cream. He plays on his Xbox. He feels ordinary - inside. But Auggie is far from ordinary. Born with a terrible facial abnormality, he has been home-schooled by his parents his entire life, in an attempt to protect him from the cruelty of the outside world. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 197 x 26. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Adult Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780552778626
- ISBN
- 9780552778626
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.01
€ 13.99
€ 11.01
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Feminist Press at The City University of New York United States
- Edition
- Second Edition
- Number of pages
- 124
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781558617537
- ISBN
- 9781558617537
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 16.62
€ 18.99
€ 16.62
Paperback. A perceptive, wildly funny and deeply moving novel Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 188.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Headline Publishing Group
- Edition
- 1st Paperback Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780747251132
- ISBN
- 9780747251132
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.95
€ 13.99
€ 10.95
Paperback. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Texas Christian University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780875655994
- ISBN
- 9780875655994
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 24.03
€ 24.99
€ 24.03
Paperback. Translator(s): Moger, Robin. Num Pages: 312 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 153 x 229 x 24. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Publisher
- The American University in Cairo Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Translation
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789774166624
- ISBN
- 9789774166624
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.75
€ 20.99
€ 20.75
Hardcover. Translated for the first time in English, this collection of short fiction details the plight of urban Algerian women and raises far-reaching issues. The stories criticise the post-colonial socialist regime, which is seen as denying and subjugating women whilst celebrating the liberation of men. Translator(s): de Jager, Marjolijn; De Jager, Marjolijn. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 139 x 25. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813914022
- ISBN
- 9780813914022
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 53.99€ 48.00
€ 53.99
€ 48.00
Paperback. This collection of short stories details the plight of urban Algerian women and raises serious issues. The stories criticise the post-colonial regime, for denying and subjugating women whilst celebrating men's liberation. Clarisse Zimra's afterword includes an informing interview with the author. Translator(s): De Jager, Marjolijn. Series: CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 149 x 17. Weight in Grams: 342.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813918808
- ISBN
- 9780813918808
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.16
€ 30.99
€ 27.16