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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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