Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. Guy Crouchback is now attached to a commando unit undergoing training on the Hebridean isle of Mugg, where the whisky flows freely and HM forces have to show respect for the laird. But the comedy of Mugg is followed by the bitterness of Crete. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 192 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 196.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141184678
- ISBN
- 9780141184678
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.76
€ 13.99
€ 11.76
Paperback. Bea Maxwell has been kissed only once and has never been in love. Apart form a stint away in Chicago, she has always lived in Green Bay where she cares for her invalid mother. This story charts her solitary but self-possessed life. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128. Weight in Grams: 148.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Main
- SKU
- KEX0200325
- ISBN
- 9781843540014
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. 'Mona Simpson is a wonderful writer, very spare and economical but with extraordinary emotional power. Off Keck Road is her best book yet - lucid and beautiful' Kate Atkinson 'Mona Simpson is a wonderful writer, very spare and economical but with extraordinary emotional power. Off Keck Road is her best book yet - lucid and beautiful' Kate Atkinson Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 147. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- Main
- SKU
- KSS0001827
- ISBN
- 9781843540014
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. 'Mona Simpson is a wonderful writer, very spare and economical but with extraordinary emotional power. Off Keck Road is her best book yet - lucid and beautiful' Kate Atkinson 'Mona Simpson is a wonderful writer, very spare and economical but with extraordinary emotional power. Off Keck Road is her best book yet - lucid and beautiful' Kate Atkinson Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 147. Good clean copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Edition
- Main
- SKU
- KKD0001659
- ISBN
- 9781843540014
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Bea Maxwell has been kissed only once and has never been in love. Apart form a stint away in Chicago, she has always lived in Green Bay where she cares for her invalid mother. This story charts her solitary but self-possessed life. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128. Weight in Grams: 148.
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KEX0200310
- ISBN
- 9781843540014
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Hardcover. Here is a quirky and fantastical novel about things lost and things found from a startling new voice in fiction. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 218 x 27. Weight in Grams: 420. Good clean copy in dustwrapper. DW with some minor shelf wear.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- SKU
- KTG0003631
- ISBN
- 9780007562473
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover. Here is a quirky and fantastical novel about things lost and things found from a startling new voice in fiction. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 144 x 218 x 27. Weight in Grams: 420. Some light shelf wear, else as new
- Condition
- Used, Like New
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- SKU
- KRA0009974
- ISBN
- 9780007562473
Hardback
Condition: Used, Like New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Drifters in search of work, George and his childlike friend Lennie, have nothing in the world except the clothes on their back - and a dream that one day they will have some land of their own. Eventually they find work on a ranch in California's Salinas Valley, but their hopes are dashed as Lennie - struggling against extreme cruelty, and more. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 183 x 10. Weight in Grams: 98.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- 9780141023571
- ISBN
- 9780141023571
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 9.75
€ 13.99
€ 9.75
Paperback. Drifters in search of work, George and his childlike friend Lennie, have nothing in the world except the clothes on their back - and a dream that one day they will have some land of their own. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 14. Weight in Grams: 112.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- 9780141185101
- ISBN
- 9780141185101
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.44
€ 10.99
€ 9.44
hardcover. Describes how in 1949, as a young reporter, the author witnessed the opening of several tombs as an old convent made way for a new hotel. One of the tombs contained a skeleton of a young girl with reddish hair that measured 22 metres, 11 centimetres long. This novel talks about her legend as a popular saint. Num Pages: 5 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 145. Weight in Grams: 379. Good clean copy, showing light age and shelfwear. Light wear to dust jacket
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Jonathan Cape London
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMO0000898
- ISBN
- 9780224040259
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
Paperback. When a witch doctor appears on the Marquis de Casalduero's doorstep prophesising a plague of rabies in the Colombian seaport, he dismisses her claims - until he hears that his young daughter, Sierva Maria, was one of four people bitten by a rabid dog, and the only one to survive. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 12. Weight in Grams: 132.
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Re-issue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241968741
- ISBN
- 9780241968741
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
€ 13.99
€ 11.09
Paperback. Set in the Depression era, this novel is written by a key literary figure in the pubs of post-war Fitzrovia. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 172.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141187112
- ISBN
- 9780141187112
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Twisted Spoon Press Czech Republic
- Number of pages
- 154
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788086264301
- ISBN
- 9788086264301
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.45
€ 12.45
Paperback. After a few months studying in Heidelberg, and a brief spell in Paris as would-be artist, Philip Carey settles in London to train as a doctor. And that is where he meets Mildred, the loud but irresistible waitress with whom he plunges into a formative, tortured and masochistic affair which very nearly ruins him. Num Pages: 720 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 39. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Number of pages
- 720
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099284963
- ISBN
- 9780099284963
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.33
€ 17.99
€ 14.33
Paperback. Series: Modern Library. Num Pages: 656 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 131 x 35. Weight in Grams: 478.
- Publisher
- Random House USA Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 656
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780375753152
- ISBN
- 9780375753152
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.11
€ 17.11
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, maps. BIC Classification: FA; FJM; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 138 x 19. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Gefen Publishing House
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789652295330
- ISBN
- 9789652295330
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 14.29
€ 18.99
€ 14.29
Hardback. Through its heroine, Kenza, and her search for herself through the mother she doesn't know, this novel mirrors the struggle of Algerian women to make a place in a society that has stripped them of their rights. Translator(s): Marcus, K. Melissa (Associate Professor of French, Northern Arizona University, USA). Series: Caribbean & African Literature. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813919331
- ISBN
- 9780813919331
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.67
€ 83.67
Hardcover. In this psychological novel, memories spawn tales within tales and seemingly disparate elements are woven into a tapestry of extraordinary moments that reveals the authorAEs penetrating observations on the interdependency of humanity and nature in its wholeness. Translator(s): Wilson, Michiko N.; Wilson, Michael K. Series: Cornell East Asia Series. Num Pages: 274 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Univ of Hawaii Pr
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781933947303
- ISBN
- 9781933947303
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 140.77
€ 140.77
Paperback. From the lauded, bestselling author of the Cazalet Chronicles. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 27. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781447272366
- ISBN
- 9781447272366
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
Paperback. Eve and Hanna have each other's backs as they navigate the emotional pitfalls of twenty-something life, but there's chaos and confusion to spare. Num Pages: 176 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FXL. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 168 x 230 x 15. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Publisher
- Image Comics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781632156914
- ISBN
- 9781632156914
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.82
€ 16.99
€ 15.82