Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Results 1873 - 1896 of 15635
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. What if every woman in town suddenly went on strike? For the people of Stellar Plains, the staging of a new school production of an Athenian drama coincides with a mysterious cold wind that blows into houses and into hearts, stilling passion and cooling sheets. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 19. Weight in Grams: 208.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099553960
- ISBN
- 9780099553960
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.23
€ 11.99
€ 10.23
Paperback. Ryder, a renowned pianist, arrives in a Central European city he cannot identify for a concert he cannot remember agreeing to give. But then as he traverses a landscape by turns eerie and comical - and always strangely malleable, as a dream might be - he comes steadily to realise he is facing the most crucial performance of his life. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 127 x 34. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571283897
- ISBN
- 9780571283897
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.94
€ 11.99
€ 9.94
Hardcover. The Uncommon Reader is none other than HM the Queen who drifts accidentally into reading when her corgis stray into a mobile library parked at Buckingham Palace. She reads widely and intelligently. Her reading naturally changes her world view and her relationship with people such as the oleaginous prime minister and his repellent advisers. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 175 x 134 x 14. Weight in Grams: 215. Good copy with some minor shelf wear. Dustwrapper with minor edge wear but remains good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- SKU
- KKD0008952
- ISBN
- 9781846680496
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. It has been a most uncommon life, but the one constant during each stage of his journey are the voices which accompany him, voices which for other members of his family, including Brynja, have been far less benign. Now Alfred's final duty is to make sure that Julia understands so that Brynja does not become yet another family tragedy. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 35. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Publisher
- Black and White Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785300820
- ISBN
- 9781785300820
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.81
€ 11.99
€ 10.81
Paperback. * The fifth volume of Alexander McCall Smith's wonderful serial novels set in Edinburgh's New Town Series: 44 Scotland Street. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Publisher
- Abacus
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349121147
- ISBN
- 9780349121147
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
€ 13.99
€ 11.09
paperback. Offers a wide range of philosophical speculations and it descants on a variety of styles. This book draws together the Czechoslovakia of the Prague Spring and the Russian invasion, the philosophy of Nietzsche, and the love affairs of a number of heartbreakingly familiar characters. Translator(s): Heim, Michael Henry. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 140 x 21. Weight in Grams: 246.
- Edition
- Main
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571135394
- ISBN
- 9780571135394
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.78
€ 13.99
€ 10.78
Paperback. Sex, Lies, and Rocky Roads.. Life is simple for Champa. He has a good job as a chauffeur in his hometown of Lhasa, and if his Chinese boss Plum is a little domineering, well, he can understand that she's a serious art-collector after all. When he starts to sleep with his boss as well as drive her around, life becomes a whole lot more complicated. Translator(s): Harman, Nicky. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 13. Weight in Grams: 140.
- Publisher
- Transworld Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780552779500
- ISBN
- 9780552779500
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 15.94
€ 17.99
€ 15.94
Paperback. John Emmerson was a lonely man. He had a wife, a son, friends, but he was isolated from all the people and events about him by the tragedy of his past. Then, he met Cissie, and for the first time his loneliness eased a little. Cissie was everything his wife Ann was not. And, she was quick to sense the needs of a desolate, unhappy man. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 110 x 21. Weight in Grams: 160. 336pp
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Corgi
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Edition
- New Ed
- SKU
- KEX0192190
- ISBN
- 9780552140768
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. * Longlisted for the National Book Award * A stunning exploration of characters shaped by the forces of history, the debut work of fiction by a 2013 National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" Honoree. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 209 x 19. Weight in Grams: 242.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393349962
- ISBN
- 9780393349962
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.14
€ 16.99
€ 15.14
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393241136
- ISBN
- 9780393241136
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.31
€ 26.99
€ 23.31
Hardcover. SHORTLISTED FOR THE ENGLISH PEN DEBUT FICTION PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 'The UnAmericans' is a debut story collection of great poise Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 137 x 25. Weight in Grams: 396. Clean copy. Fine in dustjacket. DJ has a slice to front and minor staining overall
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- SKU
- KOC0028170
- ISBN
- 9780007548811
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. In 1970s Ireland the British establishment conducted its struggle with the IRA in the "dirty war". This novel, set around the real-life figure of Captain Nairac, recreates the intrigue, loyalism and violence of a time when friend could turn foe overnight and nothing was ever quite as it seemed. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 128 x 19. Weight in Grams: 195.
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Main
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- SKU
- 9780571221752
- ISBN
- 9780571221752
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 4.82
€ 4.82
Hardcover. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF; FH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 246 x 33. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- William Morrow
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780062286833
- ISBN
- 9780062286833
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 25.00
€ 30.99
€ 25.00
paperback. Translator(s): Soutar, Jethro. Series: Dedalus Africa. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
- Edition
- Second
- Publisher
- Dedalus Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910213544
- ISBN
- 9781910213544
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.44
€ 13.99
€ 13.44
Paperback. Set in the present-day Czech Republic, this novel traces a year in the life of a Protestant pastor, Daniel Vedra. Ostensibly a happily married father of three, he is gradually beset by spiritual doubt and temptations, both physical and material. Translator(s): Brain, A.G. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 130. Weight in Grams: 300. Fine copy showing minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Granta Books
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSS0016679
- ISBN
- 9781862071155
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. The setting is Oaxaca, Mexico, where Harry Quinn has come to free his girlfriend's brother, Sonny, from jail and furthermore get him away from the suavely sadistic drug dealer who suspects Sonny of having cheated him. This is a novel of menace and eroticism. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 199 x 14. Weight in Grams: 178.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780747584971
- ISBN
- 9780747584971
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 9.99
€ 13.99
€ 9.99
Paperback. As Abi would the first to know. She has spent her life in the shadow of her stunningly beautiful, glamorous older sister Cleo. Headhunted as model when she was sixteen. Could having beauty, wealth and fame lead to more unhappiness than not having them? Who in the family really is the ugly sister? Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 126 x 197 x 31. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141047256
- ISBN
- 9780141047256
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
Paperback. An intelligent, moral take on a highly topical issue - this will take Thomas Keneally to a new level, gaining him a new generation of fans Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 147 x 20. Weight in Grams: 214.
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- New Ed
- SKU
- KLN0016597
- ISBN
- 9780340825266
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. What if the thing you most longed for was resting on a two week wait? Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 348. Good clean copy with some reader wear.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- Main Market
- Publisher
- Picador
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- SKU
- KTM0004440
- ISBN
- 9780330544108
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC London
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780747573333
- ISBN
- 9780747573333
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.23
€ 17.99
€ 14.23
Paperback. One Dayon fast-forward: falling in love is the easy part. What matters most is what happens next .. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 197 x 30. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781471142444
- ISBN
- 9781471142444
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.20
€ 10.99
€ 9.20
Paperback. How female solidarity begins-in experience, thought, action, and force of conviction. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 213 x 141 x 11. Weight in Grams: 208.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- University Press of New England United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780819567604
- ISBN
- 9780819567604
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.58
€ 16.99
€ 15.58
Paperback. In 1837, two young African princes arrive at the court of Willem I in the Netherlands. Treated as curiosities by white people, their friendship suffers and their paths diverge. Years later, as the 20th century dawns, the elderly Kwasi sits down to write his autobiography. Translator(s): Rilke, Ina. Num Pages: 352 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 22. Weight in Grams: 252.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099287872
- ISBN
- 9780099287872
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.88
€ 15.99
€ 11.88
Paperback. This book is outrageously defamatory, scandalously exaggerated, disturbingly sensationalised, yet also hideously, addictively entertaining. I don't know whether to consult my lawyer, or my shrink. - Piers Morgan Num Pages: 460 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 26. Weight in Grams: 276. Good, clean copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- KSG0006560
- ISBN
- 9781448209866
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99