Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Bella Books United States
- Number of pages
- 242
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781602820319
- ISBN
- 9781602820319
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 15.95
€ 17.99
€ 15.95
Paperback. On the side of a mountain, in eighteenth century Japan, sits a man in perfect stillness as the summit erupts, spitting fire and molten rock onto the land around him. The man is Hakuin. He will become the world's most famous teacher of zen. This is not the first time he has seen hell. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 30. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857868541
- ISBN
- 9780857868541
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.48
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Paperback. Set in the small German city of Waltherrott, this novel is a madcap excursion from the 1980s back to 1848, the year of revolutions, then back to the time of the Black Death in the late 1340s. A startling comedy, A Night at the Opera is a tour de force in the unexpected, the bizarre, and the serendipitous. Num Pages: 256 pages, figures. BIC Classification: FA; FC; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 146 x 17. Weight in Grams: 385.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Biblioasis Canada
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781897231111
- ISBN
- 9781897231111
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 20.45
€ 21.99
€ 20.45
Paperback. Katharine Hilbery is beautiful and privileged, but uncertain of her future. She must choose between becoming engaged to the oddly prosaic poet William Rodney, and her dangerous attraction to the passionate Ralph Denham. Num Pages: 496 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Publisher
- Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140185683
- ISBN
- 9780140185683
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.80
€ 15.99
€ 11.80
Paperback. Virginia Woolf portrays her elder sister Vanessa in the person of Katharine Hilbery - the gifted daughter of a distinguished literary family, trapped in an environment which will not allow her to express herself. This title deals with their story. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 131 x 31. Weight in Grams: 376.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 528
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099982708
- ISBN
- 9780099982708
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.01
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€ 11.01
Paperback.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Baen Books United States
- Number of pages
- 508
- Condition
- New
- Format
- Paperback
- SKU
- V9781476736181
- ISBN
- 9781476736181
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.47
€ 10.47
Paperback. Lying on a four-poster bed, unable to sleep, Mary Hooligan recounts (mis)adventures, courtships, and sexual encounters of the most transgressive kind, in a narrative voice of blistering originality. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 11. Weight in Grams: 128.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571270293
- ISBN
- 9780571270293
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.99
€ 11.99
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Paperback. "Combining a Houellebecq-like sense of the psychic malaise beneath the surface of contemporary cultural life with the disspassionate voice of a police report, Nicola, Milan tells a story of perverse, asexual frenzy emptying out into the void"--Back cover. Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 10. Weight in Grams: 208.
- Publisher
- Autonomedia
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781584351283
- ISBN
- 9781584351283
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 14.27
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€ 14.27
Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 371.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Skyhorse Publishing United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781628723205
- ISBN
- 9781628723205
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.36
€ 16.99
€ 15.36
Paperback. Editor(s): Riviere, Daniele. Num Pages: 128 pages, 45 b & w illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 280 x 220 x 13. Weight in Grams: 263.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Dis Voir France
- Number of pages
- 128
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9782914563567
- ISBN
- 9782914563567
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 26.13
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€ 26.13
Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FR; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 25. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408876947
- ISBN
- 9781408876947
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.93
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€ 10.93
Paperback. When Vic Wilcox (MD of Pringle's engineering works) meets English lecturer Dr Robyn Penrose, sparks fly as their lifestyles and ideologies collide head on. What, after all, are they supposed to learn from each other? But in time both parties make some surprising discoveries about each other's worlds - and about themselves. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 214.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099554189
- ISBN
- 9780099554189
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
Paperback. Ranging from the ultra realistic "Some Hours in the Life of a Witch" to the surreal fantasy world of "Fulfilment" and "The Wife of Bath", the stories in this book describe ordinary and not so ordinary lives, and the lives of women in particular, in the feminist and post-feminist era in Ireland. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 217 x 11. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Cork University Press
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781855942011
- ISBN
- 9781855942011
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.60
€ 10.99
€ 10.60
Hardcover. These African experiences are recorded through the eyes of an African who is at once a participant and an observer, the latter due to the fact that he has come home on vacation from Europe. The reader is exposed to a variety of settings in the author's native Togo: middle-class city life, urban slums, and life in a village. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 163 x 14. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Publisher
- Associated University Presses United States
- Number of pages
- 112
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780838640203
- ISBN
- 9780838640203
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 92.64
€ 92.64
paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; VX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 230 x 14. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Manor House Publishing Canada
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 192
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780978107000
- ISBN
- 9780978107000
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 18.90
€ 26.99
€ 18.90
Paperback. Run by Toby and Paula, the centre offers ordinary people a chance to learn from professional artists skilled in poetry, sculpture, ceramics, and the like. Artists like Greg, the New England poet, whose works are strangely absent; or Bob the lascivious potter who sells his Toby jugs to department stores. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 126 x 18. Weight in Grams: 144. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1984
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KJE0000712
- ISBN
- 9780140064810
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. 1936: London is abuzz with gossip about the affair between Edward VIII and Mrs Simpson. But the king is not the only member of the aristocracy with a hard decision to make. Owen Montignac, the handsome and charismatic descendent of a wealthy land-owning family, is anxiously awaiting the reading of his late uncle's will. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 41. Weight in Grams: 452.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780552777407
- ISBN
- 9780552777407
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.01
€ 15.99
€ 11.01
Paperback. The land running down to the River Dean has been farmed by the Meredith family for generations. Robin Meredith bought the farm from his father, just before he married his wife Caro and now he and his brother Joe work on the land. But now Caro has died, as much as a mystery to the family as she was when she arrived twenty years ago. Num Pages: 320 pages, port. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 242. 317pp
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- SKU
- KON0825688
- ISBN
- 9780552997003
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. A reissue of Derek Beaven's first novel - originally published by Faber - a lavish and richly detailed portrait of the world of Newton and the London of that time. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 27. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers United Kingdom
- Edition
- New Ed
- Number of pages
- 400
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841150116
- ISBN
- 9781841150116
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.14
€ 16.99
€ 12.14
Hardcover. Explores America's obsession with news and entertainment culture. This book features characters that seek to design realistic theme park attractions, such as "OJ's Bronco: The Ride" and "Siege at Waco," that allow park guests to experience the complexities of contemporary news events for themselves. Num Pages: 124 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Pittsburgh Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822942993
- ISBN
- 9780822942993
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 26.65
€ 30.99
€ 26.65