Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. From the WINNER OF THE FORWARD PRIZE FOR BEST COLLECTION 2014, a 'humorous, bittersweet fiction, combin[ing] the fantastical realism of Marquez with the domestic comedy of Andrea Levy' INDEPENDENT Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 246.
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780753823118
- ISBN
- 9780753823118
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
paperback. In the small university town of Salterton, Ontario, dreams are quietly taking shape, or falling apart. There's the Salterton Little Theatre Company, in which professional director Valentine Rich is tormented by the amateurish efforts of his actors. Num Pages: 816 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 37. Weight in Grams: 548.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Number of pages
- 816
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241952634
- ISBN
- 9780241952634
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.26
€ 25.99
€ 19.26
Paperback. This is a grouping of some 40 short stories that attempts to capture the essence of everyday life in the small Middle East country of Kuwait. The stories explore life in Kuwait from an American expatriate's perspective. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 263.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Syracuse University Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780815610144
- ISBN
- 9780815610144
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.66
€ 24.66
Paperback. It's Dublin, June 1995, the hottest summer since records began. But Billy Sweeney, a middle-aged salesman with a failed marriage, a faltering career and a tumbledown house, has more than weather on his mind. His youngest daughter lies in a coma in hospital following a mysterious attack on the petrol station where she worked. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099268383
- ISBN
- 9780099268383
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.20
€ 13.99
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Paperback. This is a pivotal year in one young man's life: Guy Boucher is a fatherless teenager oppressed by his small-town existence and dominated by his uncle, Isadore. Together with poverty and self-hatred, violence has been bred into Guy's very bones - and violence is one thing he can't shake off. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 27. Weight in Grams: 288. Good clean copy showing light shelfwear to covers and page edges, remains in good condition
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- SKU
- KSG0009574
- ISBN
- 9780099442059
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. A band of savage 13-year-old boys reject the adult world as hypocritical and sentimental, and train themselves in a brutal callousness. When the mother of one of them begins an affair with a ship's officer, he and his friends idealise the man at first; but it is not long before they conclude that he is in fact soft and romantic. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 142.
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099284796
- ISBN
- 9780099284796
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.01
€ 13.99
€ 11.01
Paperback. An excellent, clean copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- Publisher
- Wayne State University Press Detroit
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- SKU
- KRS0018343
- ISBN
- 9780814319307
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 5.49
€ 5.49
Paperback. An excellent, clean copy
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- Wayne State University Press Detroit
- Number of pages
- 264
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1987
- SKU
- KRS0018342
- ISBN
- 9780814319307
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 5.49
€ 5.49
Paperback. IN Num Pages: 450 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 250 x 150 x 15. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Publisher
- Zubaan India
- Number of pages
- 450
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789381017630
- ISBN
- 9789381017630
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 21.00
€ 25.99
€ 21.00
Paperback. An exotic tale of lost family secrets.. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 36. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Publisher
- Quercus Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782067641
- ISBN
- 9781782067641
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.10
€ 13.99
€ 11.10
Paperback. * A passionate novel about mothers and daughters, roots and exile, set among an Anglo-Iranian family Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 19. Weight in Grams: 196. Good clear copy with some minor shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Abacus, London
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- SKU
- KIN0031851
- ISBN
- 9780349119557
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. The Safety of Objects, A.M. Homes' first collection of short stories, displays the flair for the hilarious, the perverse and the extraordinary that characterizes all of her books. Num Pages: 178 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 11. Weight in Grams: 130.
- Publisher
- Granta Books
- Number of pages
- 178
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847087300
- ISBN
- 9781847087300
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.79
€ 13.99
€ 10.79
Paperback. The only way Rebekah Lantz and Tobias Byler can face the future together is if they forget the past. Can two runaway children from another country teach them what true family is? Series: The Amish of Bee County. Num Pages: 352 pages. .
- Publisher
- Zondervan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780310339861
- ISBN
- 9780310339861
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.43
€ 17.99
€ 17.43
Paperback. Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents. Num Pages: 344 pages, 17 b&w illus. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 524.
- Publisher
- Autonomedia United States
- Number of pages
- 344
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781584351207
- ISBN
- 9781584351207
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 19.09
€ 19.99
€ 19.09
Hardcover. A semi-autobiography of the childhood of Alan Kent, from early manhood to artist. The text includes brief, graphic sketches which illustrate the struggle against various hardening effects of a brutal and seemingly indifferent world. Illustrator(s): Frizzell, Ralph. Num Pages: 88 pages, 8 illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820317892
- ISBN
- 9780820317892
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 25.10
€ 29.99
€ 25.10
Paperback. A searing allegorical portrait of North African society, The Sacred Night uses Arabic fairy tales and surrealist elements to craft a stunning and disturbing vision of protest and rebellion against the strictures of hidebound traditions governing gender roles and sexuality. Translator(s): Sheridan, Alan. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 141 x 13. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801864414
- ISBN
- 9780801864414
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.67
€ 34.67
Paperback. The hilarious journal of Sacred Diary's Adrian Plass which documents the mishaps and successes of his seven-day speaking tour. Num Pages: 240 pages, b & w line. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 158 x 18. Weight in Grams: 214.
- Publisher
- Zondervan United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- New ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007130467
- ISBN
- 9780007130467
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 14.95
€ 18.99
€ 14.95
Paperback. In this second diary, the fictional character Plass is in demand as a public speaker which demands a new diary revealing what has happened to the outrageous Gerald, the joyless Flushpools, incompetent Leonard, the long-suffering Anne and the other well-known characters. Num Pages: 176 pages, B & W Line. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Publisher
- Zondervan United States
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780310269137
- ISBN
- 9780310269137
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.11
€ 17.99
€ 14.11
Paperback. A pacy, page-turning thriller centred around the discovery of some mysterious ancient human remains in a hidden crypt beneath Jerusalem's Temple Mount Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 112 x 48. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster UK
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847390127
- ISBN
- 9781847390127
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.76
€ 13.99
€ 11.76
Paperback. Presents a story of different loves; and of how a man may need two women in such a way that he can be happy with neither. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099433576
- ISBN
- 9780099433576
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.71
€ 13.99
€ 11.71
Paperback. Num Pages: 341 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 25. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1920
- Publisher
- Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 341
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780553371024
- ISBN
- 9780553371024
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.94
€ 18.99
€ 17.94
Paperback. Explores the landscape of twentieth century Russian literature. This autobiographical novel reconstructs the lives and fates of Russian, often Jewish, writers during the long age of Soviet terror, re-establishing them at the heart of the European tradition. Num Pages: 169 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135 x 14. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 169
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857549102
- ISBN
- 9781857549102
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 27.05
€ 32.99
€ 27.05
Paperback. Raya, a mercurial Moscow blonde who speaks no English, and the affair she is embarking upon with Gordon Proctor-Gould, a British businessman who speaks no Russian. They need an interpreter; which is how Paul Manning is diverted from writing his thesis at Moscow University to become involved in all the deceptions of love and East-West relations. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 14. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571315888
- ISBN
- 9780571315888
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.71
€ 13.99
€ 10.71
Paperback. A sweeping novel set in war-torn China, with a star-crossed love story at its centre. Series: Russian Concubine. Num Pages: 608 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 39. Weight in Grams: 410.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780751540420
- ISBN
- 9780751540420
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.92
€ 14.99
€ 11.92