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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. A classic, page-turning story of secrets and science, passion and betrayal, innocence and experience - in the tradition of Tracy Chevalier and Philippa Gregory Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 226.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780753821312
- ISBN
- 9780753821312
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.09
€ 17.09
Hardcover. A global phenomenon, The Alchemist has been read and loved by over 62 million readers, topping bestseller lists in 74 countries worldwide. Now this magical fable is beautifully repackaged in an edition that lovers of Paulo Coelho will want to treasure forever. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 162 x 120 x 27. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Condition
- New
- Format
- Hardback
- SKU
- 9780008144227
- ISBN
- 9780008144227
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 10.24
€ 15.99
€ 10.24
Paperback. A biographical novel of Michelangelo. Michelangelo Buonarotti lived in the time of the turbulent Renaissance, the years of poisoning princes, warring popes, the powerful Medici family, and the fanatic monk Savonarola. Working with a God-driven fury he created "David", painted the Sistine ceiling, and was the architect of the dome of St Peter's. Num Pages: 784 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 112 x 34. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099416272
- ISBN
- 9780099416272
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.14
€ 14.99
€ 11.14
Hardback. Hailed by Robert Coover as "the most audacious literary debut in decades", The Age of Wire and String is unlike anything you've read before -- now appearing for the first time heightened by an artist's visual interpretation of this legendary work. Illustrator(s): Morgan, Catrin. Num Pages: 192 pages, Illustrated. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 136 x 21. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Publisher
- Granta Books
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847086389
- ISBN
- 9781847086389
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.50
€ 19.99
€ 14.50
Paperback. Num Pages: 276 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Brindle & Glass
- Number of pages
- 276
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781897142424
- ISBN
- 9781897142424
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 19.72
€ 27.99
€ 19.72
Paperback. Mathieu Delarue, a philosophy teacher, has so far managed to contain sex and personal freedom in separate compartments. But now he is in trouble, trying to raise 4,000 francs to procure a safe abortion for his mistress, Marcelle. Beyond all this, filtering an uneasy light on his predicament, rises the threat of the coming of the Second World War. Translator(s): Sutton, Eric. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141185286
- ISBN
- 9780141185286
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. A nine-year-old Kurdish boy plays in his village in the Persian mountains, gazing over the land of his fathers and forefathers. But when messengers from the hills bring whispers of war and rumours that the Shah's army is on the march, he must stand alongside his villagers and fight for their land. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 21. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408802533
- ISBN
- 9781408802533
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.34
€ 10.99
€ 9.34
Paperback. What if our 24-hour day grew longer, first in minutes, then in hours until day becomes night and night becomes day? Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 136 x 31. Weight in Grams: 278. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- SKU
- KRA0012648
- ISBN
- 9780857207258
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. WHAT IF our 24-hour day grew longer, first in minutes, then in hours until day becomes night and night becomes day? Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 222 x 29. Weight in Grams: 464. Fine in fine dustwrapper
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- SKU
- KRA0009861
- ISBN
- 9780857207234
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. A group of world-weary travellers discover the meaning of life in a mysterious Swiss mountain village. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 199 x 26. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Publisher
- Head of Zeus
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784081485
- ISBN
- 9781784081485
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.34
€ 10.99
€ 9.34
Paperback. The text of Wharton's richly allusive Pulitzer Prize-winning 1921 novel of desire and its implications in Old New York has been rigorously annotated by a prominent Wharton scholar. Editor(s): Waid, Candace. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 544 pages, bibliog. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DNF; DSBH; DSK; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 143 x 16. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- Norton Critical
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393967944
- ISBN
- 9780393967944
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 17.54
€ 18.99
€ 17.54
Paperback. Edith Wharton's most famous novel, written immediately after the end of the First World War, is a brilliantly realized anatomy of New York society in the 1870s. The charming Newland Archer is content to live within its constraints until he meets Ellen Olenska, whose arrival threatens his impending marriage as well as his comfortable future. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 214.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199540013
- ISBN
- 9780199540013
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.69
€ 13.99
€ 11.69
Hardcover. With this novel about the anguish of loving, and society's brutal treatment of those who transgress its codes, Edith Wharton became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize. Num Pages: 308 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 27. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Number of pages
- 308
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Edition
- New ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857152029
- ISBN
- 9781857152029
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.00
€ 19.99
€ 15.00
Hardcover. "The Afterlife of Stars moved me more than any other novel I've read in recent memory." --Tim O'Brien Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 242 x 27. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780316308113
- ISBN
- 9780316308113
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 20.55
€ 30.99
€ 20.55
Hardback. Includes "Things Fall Apart", "No Longer at Ease", and "Arrow of God". In "Things Fall Apart" the individual tragedy of Okonkwo, 'strong man' and tribal elder in the Nigeria of the 1890s is intertwined with the transformation of traditional Igbo society under the impact of Christianity and colonialism. Num Pages: 536 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 129 x 36. Weight in Grams: 578.
- Publisher
- Everyman Paperback Classics
- Number of pages
- 536
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841593272
- ISBN
- 9781841593272
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 18.94
€ 26.99
€ 18.94
Paperback. For fans of Siri Hustvedt and Nicole Krauss, THE AFFAIRS OF OTHERS is an exceptional debut about the awakening of a young widow and 'carries a considerable erotic charge, but there's much more to it besides: grief is Amy Grace Loyd's subject and her narrative is as psychologically acute as it is sensual' (DAILY MAIL). Includes reading-group notes. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 20. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780226811
- ISBN
- 9781780226811
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.30
€ 11.99
€ 10.30
Paperback. A woman has her throat cut behind a bar in Mississippi. Just down the road is a big army base. Is the murderer a local guy - or is he a soldier? Jack Reacher, still a major in the military police, is sent in undercover. The county sheriff is a former US Marine - and a stunningly beautiful woman. Her investigation is going nowhere. Series: Jack Reacher. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 35. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Bantam
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780553825503
- ISBN
- 9780553825503
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
Paperback. Originally published 1940. First published by Princeton 1983 and assigned new ISBN when reissued as a print-on-demand title in 2014. Translator(s): Bodde, Derk. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 514 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 26. Weight in Grams: 885.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 514
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780691613314
- ISBN
- 9780691613314
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 88.96€ 68.36
€ 88.96
€ 68.36
Paperback. The Adventures of Rivella is especially valuable for the light it throws on a woman authors relations with publishers and other writers, both male and female. Bruce Stovel, University of Alberta Num Pages: 178 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Ltd
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781551111216
- ISBN
- 9781551111216
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.93
€ 37.99
€ 27.93
Paperback. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 18. Weight in Grams: 205.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Old Street Publishing
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905847174
- ISBN
- 9781905847174
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.34
€ 11.34
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780714530215
- ISBN
- 9780714530215
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.35
€ 13.99
€ 13.35
Paperback. Num Pages: 180 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 10. Weight in Grams: 200.
- Publisher
- Athena Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844017065
- ISBN
- 9781844017065
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 8.99€ 5.53
€ 8.99
€ 5.53
Paperback. The Adventures of Eovaai is the most important prose satire of English politics and the administration of Sir Robert Walpole between Gullivers Travels and Jonathan Wild. Jerry C. Beasley, University of Delaware Num Pages: 243 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Broadview Press Ltd Canada
- Number of pages
- 243
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781551111971
- ISBN
- 9781551111971
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.84
€ 37.99
€ 27.84
Hardcover. Features Baron Munchausen's absurd adventures. This book tells how he turned a wolf inside out in Russia, rode on a Turkish cannon ball, danced a hornpipe in the stomach of large fish which had swallowed him alive, mended his horse which had been severed in two by a portcullis, and lent his friend General Elliot a hand at the siege of Gibraltar. Num Pages: 192 pages, YES. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 158 x 17. Weight in Grams: 400.
- Publisher
- Everyman United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857155181
- ISBN
- 9781857155181
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.88
€ 15.99
€ 11.88