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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Hardcover. In an interview, Updike once said, "If I had to give anybody one book of me, it would be the Olinger Stories." This title follows the life of one character from the age of ten through manhood, in the small Pennsylvania town of Olinger (pronounced, according to Updike, with a long O and a hard G), which was loosely based on Updike's own hometown. Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Classics. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 189 x 138 x 18. Weight in Grams: 266.
Publisher
Everyman's Library
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841596181
ISBN
9781841596181
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.81

Paperback. A sweeping, suspenseful coming-of-age tale from "gifted storyteller" Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 143 x 20. Weight in Grams: 288.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781451695687
ISBN
9781451695687
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.30

Paperback. Focuses on the trauma of a mother who awakens one morning to the shattering news that her son is lying dead in the morgue and her struggle to understand his decision to be a Naxalite. Editor(s): Devi, Mahasweta; Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 143 x 7. Weight in Grams: 184.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Seagull Books Pvt.Ltd India
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
Edition
Translation
SKU
V9788170461449
ISBN
9788170461449
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 13.99

Paperback. Friends and enemies reunited! A brilliantly entertaining novel from the author of THE SECRET SHOPPER'S REVENGE. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 240.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co United Kingdom
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9781409102335
ISBN
9781409102335
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.25

Paperback. A novel from an American writer. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 14. Weight in Grams: 176. Fine copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0003259
ISBN
9780747574651
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.70

Paperback. This book was a 19th century utopian blueprint for a modern state of Israel, making Zionism a cultural and political movement acceptable to Western governments and intellectuals. The novel opens in a Viennese cafe with the hero being invited to travel in luxury to Palestine and on to an island, returning after 20 years to found a Jewish state. Editor(s): Kornberg, Jacques. Translator(s): Levensohn, Lotta. Num Pages: 340 pages, photographs, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 560.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Markus Wiener Publishers
Condition
New
SKU
V9781558761605
ISBN
9781558761605
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.41

Hardcover. Num Pages: 244 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 239 x 162 x 19. Weight in Grams: 518. 244 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FC. Dimension: 239 x 162 x 19. Weight: 518.
Publisher
IndyPublish
Number of pages
244
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9781414238807
ISBN
9781414238807
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 43.99
€ 8.22

Paperback. Series: Open Door Series II. Num Pages: 58 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 113 x 179 x 14. Weight in Grams: 74.
Publisher
New Island Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
SKU
V9781902602363
ISBN
9781902602363
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.95

A fantastic layered novel of stories within stories set in Athens, Florence, Somerset, and Glasgow. Num Pages: 312 pages, 10 Woodcuts. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 614.
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Small Beer Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
SKU
V9781931520690
ISBN
9781931520690
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 24.30

Paperback. These warm and humorous stories are ideal for fireside reading for young and old. Illustrator(s): Hayes, William J. Num Pages: 264 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 435.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Derrydale Press United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9781568331430
ISBN
9781568331430
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.78

Paperback. Series: Modern Library. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 134 x 10. Weight in Grams: 198.
Publisher
Random House USA Inc United States
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812967388
ISBN
9780812967388
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 14.82

Paperback. Old Flames is the second title in the Frederick Troy series, which Grove Press UK are reissuing to celebrate the release of A Lily of the Field in paperback. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 34. Weight in Grams: 420. Old Flames is the second title in the Frederick Troy series, which Grove Press UK are reissuing to celebrate the release of A Lily of the Field in paperback. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 131 x 198 x 34. Weight: 422.
Publisher
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781611855906
ISBN
9781611855906
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.77

Paperback. A genuine masterpiece - funny, brilliant and wise - Old Filth is now reissued with a new cover. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 125 x 18. Weight in Grams: 210.
Publisher
Abacus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349139494
ISBN
9780349139494
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.30

Hardback. One little cocaine-induced heart attack and it's back to my childhood to start over .. A wry, debut novel about addiction and small-town Texan life. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 145 x 225 x 23. Weight in Grams: 368.
Publisher
Arcadia Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9781910050781
ISBN
9781910050781
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.39

Paperback. "The only book I've ever written in which I've allowed myself to say absolutely anything I want.." Jack Kerouac Series: City Lights/Grey Fox. Num Pages: 94 pages. BIC Classification: DCF; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 128.
Publisher
City Lights Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
V9780872867031
ISBN
9780872867031
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 13.87

Paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages, map. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 133. . Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
David Philip Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
SKU
KRA0009489
ISBN
9780864863850
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. From the desks of Nigeria's newsrooms, two journalists are recruited to find the kidnapped wife of a British oil engineer. Zaq, an infamous media hack, knows what's in store, but Rufus, a keen young journalist eager to get himself noticed, has no idea what he's let himself in for. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 162.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141046846
ISBN
9780141046846
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. In an idyllic American village, elderly romantic Lemuel Sears still has it in him to fall wildly in love with strangers of both sexes. But Sears' paradise is under threat. Can Sears thwart the monstrous aspects of late-twentieth-century civilisation and save his beloved village? Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 8. Weight in Grams: 86.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
112
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099411512
ISBN
9780099411512
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.29

Paperback. Translator(s): Leafgren, Arabic Instructor Luke (Harvard University). Series: Interlink World Fiction. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 134 x 18. Weight in Grams: 230.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Interlink Pub Group
Condition
New
SKU
V9781566569927
ISBN
9781566569927
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 14.43

Paperback. It's 1924, and New York is the centre of the universe. Henry Smart, on the run from Dublin, falls on his feet. He is a handsome man with a sandwich board, behind that he stashes hooch for the speakeasies of the Lower East Side. He catches the attention of the mobsters who run the district and soon there are eyes on his back and men in the shadows. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 284. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0000706
ISBN
9780099477655
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

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