Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. Along with his siblings, Raphael Hardin left his childhood home in rural Kentucky. Grappling with an AIDS diagnosis, he returns to care for his dying father. Told from the perspectives of Raphael, his family, and their lifelong neighbour, Fenton Johnson's landmark novel reveals the blood struggles and binding loves of a broken family made whole. Series: Kentucky Voices. Num Pages: 258 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky United States
- Number of pages
- 258
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813166568
- ISBN
- 9780813166568
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.58
€ 25.58
Paperback. In the name of Rome, Scipio Africanus systematically destroyed the hard-won empires of Hannibal and Alexander the Great. This work reveals the aristocrat, general, politician, and aesthete behind the Roman triumph. Series: Carthage Trilogy. Num Pages: 400 pages, 1 map,. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 26. Weight in Grams: 282. 400 pages, 1 map,. In the name of Rome, Scipio Africanus systematically destroyed the hard-won empires of Hannibal and Alexander the Great. This work reveals the aristocrat, general, politician, and aesthete behind the Roman triumph. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 196 x 128 x 26. Weight: 282.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847671004
- ISBN
- 9781847671004
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.49
€ 15.99
€ 11.49
Paperback. A new collection of short stories from the author of the highly acclaimed Canary Wharf. Num Pages: 116 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 151 x 11. Weight in Grams: 210.
- Publisher
- COIS LIFE
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781907494383
- ISBN
- 9781907494383
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.09
€ 15.99
€ 11.09
Paperback. Attending a New England summer camp as an adolescent, young Erik Schroder - a first generation East German immigrant - adopts a new name and a new persona - Eric Kennedy - in the hopes that it will help him fit in. This fateful white lie will set him on an improbable and ultimately tragic course. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 126 x 19. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571296729
- ISBN
- 9780571296729
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.20
€ 10.99
€ 9.20
Paperback. When a teacher is found dead, having apparently committed suicide, his friend Pierre Hoffman takes over class 4F and finds himself responsible for a group of strangely subdued, well-behaved and yet menacing pupils. Over the weeks that follow, he receives a series of signals that cause him to question the circumstances of his colleague's suicide. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099466727
- ISBN
- 9780099466727
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.43
€ 10.99
€ 9.43
Paperback. The second novel by an award-winning Caribbean novelist, playwright and poet. It deals with the impingements of modern life on a remote village in the interior of Trinidad which wants a school and a schoolmaster. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 17. Weight in Grams: 160.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571196760
- ISBN
- 9780571196760
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.74
€ 13.99
€ 10.74
Paperback. Catrine Evans, a young American, is sent to an English boarding school after her mother dies of cancer. Thrust into an unfriendly world and ridiculed for her accent, Catrine lays bare her thoughts in a luminous stream-of-consciousness narrative. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 23. Weight in Grams: 226. Clean copy with some slight markings to the page edges, otherwise a clean copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KSS0001485
- ISBN
- 9780571206711
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. As the new school year begins, Jack Sheffield prepares for an eventful year than usual. A teacher is appointed, and before long tongues start to wag. Meanwhile, five-year old Madona Fazackerly makes her mark in an unexpected way, life changes dramatically for Ruby the caretaker and, in village Coffee Shop, Dorothy Humpleby plans a dirty weekend. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Publisher
- Corgi
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780552167031
- ISBN
- 9780552167031
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.81
€ 15.99
€ 11.81
Paperback. Translator(s): Boguslawski, Alexander. Num Pages: 248 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Weight in Grams: 367.
- Publisher
- NYRB Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781590178461
- ISBN
- 9781590178461
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.47
€ 23.99
€ 16.47
Paperback. A teenage son shoots himself under his parents' bed. They sleep that night unaware he is lying dead beneath them. A stranger turns up at a man's door to persude him that they must get rid of his ageing mother in order to sell the house. An old man grumbles to his daughter about the unexplained digging and banging he hears under the house at night. Translator(s): Lange, Nicholas de. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 18. Weight in Grams: 196.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099541363
- ISBN
- 9780099541363
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.88
€ 15.99
€ 11.88
Paperback. Translator(s): La Shure, Charles. Num Pages: 171 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 150 x 19. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Dalkey Archive Press United States
- Number of pages
- 171
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781628970685
- ISBN
- 9781628970685
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.21
€ 17.99
€ 16.21
Paperback. Winner of the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, this is the new novel from the author of 'King of the Badgers' and the Man Booker-shortlisted 'The Northern Clemency'. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KSG0013688
- ISBN
- 9780007450107
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Winner of the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize, this is the new novel from the author of 'King of the Badgers' and the Man Booker-shortlisted 'The Northern Clemency'. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780007450107
- ISBN
- 9780007450107
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
paperback. Series: Irish Literature Series. Num Pages: 204 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Dalkey Archive Press United States
- Number of pages
- 204
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781564783875
- ISBN
- 9781564783875
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 13.81
€ 14.99
€ 13.81
Paperback. Features stories of dysfunctional marriages, abnormal goings on in rural outposts, urban alienation and kitchen sink dramas where the woman is no longer tied to the kitchen sink, but railing against past wrongs. This work also talks about various issues of domestic violence, child abuse, and abortion. Editor(s): O'Connor, Rebecca. Series: Short Stories by Women from Around the World S. Num Pages: 170 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 133 x 14. Weight in Grams: 176.
- Publisher
- Telegram Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 170
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846590030
- ISBN
- 9781846590030
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.04
€ 16.99
€ 15.04
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 198 x 18. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408865330
- ISBN
- 9781408865330
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.11
€ 11.99
€ 10.11
Paperback. Num Pages: 227 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 228.
- Publisher
- Old Street Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 227
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905847877
- ISBN
- 9781905847877
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.34
€ 11.34
Paperback. Num Pages: 438 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; HRCV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 210 x 30. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Publisher
- Tyndale House Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781414370637
- ISBN
- 9781414370637
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.98
€ 19.99
€ 15.98
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Bella Books United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781602828681
- ISBN
- 9781602828681
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.63
€ 17.99
€ 16.63
Paperback. SCARLET FEATHER has all the distinguishing Binchy characteristics: human interest, pacy plot, judicious humour, warm sentiment .. You can see why, for a legion of female readers, Maeve Binchy is a one-woman opiate of the people' Evening Standard Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 40. Weight in Grams: 412.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752876856
- ISBN
- 9780752876856
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.04
€ 13.99
€ 11.04
Paperback. Pathetic, contrite and hapless, Benjamin is nonetheless the scapegoat at The Store: there is nothing for which he cannot be blamed. While his blunders remain minor, most of his unwitting victims can find it in their hearts to forgive him, but when violent explosions begin to follow him around, he inevitably becomes the prime suspect. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 12. Weight in Grams: 162.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Harvill Secker
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846559075
- ISBN
- 9781846559075
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.20
€ 17.99
€ 14.20
Paperback. * A convict colony in New South Wales, Australia is the setting for Carol Birch's new novel, based on real events. Now out in paperback, Birch proves once again that she is 'a born storyteller' TIMES Num Pages: 448 pages, map. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 126 x 29. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844083916
- ISBN
- 9781844083916
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
Paperback. Series: Open Door Series V. Num Pages: 100 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 114 x 6. Weight in Grams: 66. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- New Island Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- SKU
- KTG0012285
- ISBN
- 9781905494026
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Series: Open Door Series V. Num Pages: 100 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 114 x 6. Weight in Grams: 66.
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- New Island Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- SKU
- KTK0091569
- ISBN
- 9781905494026
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99