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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. A spellbinding work of literary suspense from National Book Award finalist Jennifer Egan. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 140 x 16. Weight in Grams: 178.
Publisher
Abacus
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Digital original
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349120447
ISBN
9780349120447
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. A classic novel set in the siege of Malta 1940-1942 from the bestselling author of The Cruel Sea Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks. Num Pages: 464 pages, 1 maps. BIC Classification: FA; FJMS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 30. Weight in Grams: 378.
Publisher
W&N
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9780304358441
ISBN
9780304358441
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.81

Paperback. In this fourth volume of the bestselling series - The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, the ever-popular Precious Ramotswe - Botswana's leading, and only, female private detective - faces a new and unwanted problem: competition. Series: No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 16. Weight in Grams: 160.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Abacus
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349117041
ISBN
9780349117041
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.00

Paperback. When Nicholas Linnear agrees to help Miko Okami, a friend of his father, he does not know that he is the Kaisho, the boss of all the bosses of the Yakuza, the Japanese underworld. Okami possesses "koryoku", the Illuminating Power, that will allow Nicholas to explore the dark side of Tau-tau. Series: A Nicholas Linnear novel. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 111. Weight in Grams: 320. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
HarperCollins
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0005797
ISBN
9780006475965
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. A fictionalised account of the Kaiser Wilhelm's last years in Nazi-occupied Holland. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 14. Weight in Grams: 162.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers United Kingdom
Number of pages
208
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9780007124473
ISBN
9780007124473
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.89

Hardcover. Around 1400, in the city of Mainz, a man was born whose invention of moveable metal type was to change the written word for ever and alter the course of history itself. Johann Gutenberg died 60 years later, robbed of his business, his printing presses and, so he thought, of his immortality. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 137 x 25. Weight in Grams: 440. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear in good dust wrapper
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Chatto & Windus
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSS0002258
ISBN
9780701169657
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Editor(s): Robson, W. W. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 128 x 23. Weight in Grams: 296.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
432
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199536450
ISBN
9780199536450
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.99
€ 9.11

Paperback. Series: Dover Children's Evergreen Classics. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 135 x 10. Weight in Grams: 128.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc. United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780486410241
ISBN
9780486410241
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.00

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
388
Condition
New
SKU
V9780143039587
ISBN
9780143039587
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 21.43

Paperback. Upton Sinclair's story exposed the conditions in the Chicago stockyards at the turn of the nineteenth century and brought into focus the odds against which immigrants and other working people struggled. This book was championed by the then president Theodore Roosevelt, and was a catalyst to the passing of the Pure Food and Meat Inspection act. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 308.
Publisher
Penguin Books
Number of pages
448
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1985
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140390315
ISBN
9780140390315
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.41

Paperback. The gripping story of life on the inside and the outside of one of Britain's toughest prisons Num Pages: 832 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 56. Weight in Grams: 560.
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Number of pages
832
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780755374083
ISBN
9780755374083
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 11.81

Paperback. In the tradition of Alice Munro, an ambitious coming of age novel-in-stories set against the backdrop of the political turmoil in 1980s Nicaragua. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 199 x 31. Weight in Grams: 242.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
John Murray Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444792683
ISBN
9781444792683
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.23

Paperback. From the author of The Stars Look Down and The Citadel, and the creator of Dr Finlay's Casebook Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 153 x 25. Weight in Grams: 516.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
9781447244103
ISBN
9781447244103
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.94

Hardback.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
Revised
Number of pages
576
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226971315
ISBN
9780226971315
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 95.07
€ 78.49

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing United States
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611454260
ISBN
9781611454260
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.66

Paperback. Num Pages: 302 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 5SL; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 298.
Publisher
Spinifex Press Australia
Number of pages
302
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781875559541
ISBN
9781875559541
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.94

Hardcover. Tells the author's love story through alternating journal entries and with a complex layering of voices, revealing how a love affair takes shape through twin perspectives of a famed male novelist and the woman who desires him. Translator(s): Nasr, Ghassan. Series: Middle East Literature in Translation. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 21. Weight in Grams: 481.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815608837
ISBN
9780815608837
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 23.41

Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 338.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781564781659
ISBN
9781564781659
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 14.48

Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FK; FW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 440.
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780811222051
ISBN
9780811222051
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.47

Paperback. Num Pages: 330 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 135 x 22. Weight in Grams: 276.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Strebor Books
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781593095222
ISBN
9781593095222
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 15.91

Paperback. This is the first novel by the author of "Immortality", which won "The Independent" Award for Foreign Fiction in 1991. Milan Kundera is also the author of "The Book of Laughter and Fogetting". Translator(s): Heim, Michael Henry. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 23. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
SKU
9780571166930
ISBN
9780571166930
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.94

Hardback. Translator(s): Kessler, Michal. Num Pages: 239 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 248 x 21. Weight in Grams: 436.
Publisher
Penlight Publications
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2022
Condition
New
SKU
V9780983868538
ISBN
9780983868538
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.29

The fable has a 3000-year-old tradition in Jewish literature, going back to the Bible and the Talmud. It was not until the advent of the illustrious poet and fabulist Eliezer Shtaynbarg that fable writing in Yiddish was honed to perfection. This text is devoted to Shtaynbarg's work. Illustrator(s): Craft, Dana. Translator(s): Leviant, Curt. Series: Judaic Traditions in Literature, Music and Art. Num Pages: 256 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 2ACY; DQ; FA; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Syracuse University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815607182
ISBN
9780815607182
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 31.72

Paperback. From the bestselling author of The Russian Concubine comes a sweeping epic of love and courage, revenge and heartache in the last days of the Romanov empire Series: Russian Concubine. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 29. Weight in Grams: 312.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780751543308
ISBN
9780751543308
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

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