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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Hardback. Helene Cixous is one of France's leading contemporary writers. This new book is a work of fiction about the most implacable of human certainties - death. It explores death, mourning and loss by means of a poetic fiction: imagining a magic telephone through which one can open up a lifeline to departed loved ones. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780745642994
- ISBN
- 9780745642994
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 60.12
€ 60.12
Paperback. Illustrator(s): Opris, Cristian. Num Pages: 180 pages, 2 duotone and b&w. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 137 x 12. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Publisher
- Twisted Spoon Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788086264189
- ISBN
- 9788086264189
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.41
€ 11.41
Paperback. After fraudulently winning a writing competition, Sidony Redruth is sent by her editor to write the first-ever travel book on Hy Brasil, a near-mythical island somewhere in the Atlantic, whose very existence has been a matter of debate as late as the nineteenth century. Num Pages: 448 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 31. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 448
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841954110
- ISBN
- 9781841954110
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.52
€ 15.99
€ 11.52
Paperback. Jack McGreary is adrift of the faded boomtown of Paradise Flats. Raised by his eccentric and increasingly erratic father, Jack has learned to live by his wits. When a pair of fast-talking swindlers named Virgil and Miss Rose blow through town, Jack falls in with them and together they go on a crime spree across the American Southwest. Num Pages: 400 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 141 x 23. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 400
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099516439
- ISBN
- 9780099516439
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.50
€ 10.99
€ 9.50
Paperback. Eira is alone. Thirty-six years old and living on her own. She loved Jack, but their relationship had to end - she could never have a baby with an alcoholic. Now she works in a quiet museum, in the middle of a park, desperately lonely and aching for someone to love. And one spring morning, she finds a baby in a box on the museum steps. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 175.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099498346
- ISBN
- 9780099498346
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 8.70
€ 9.99
€ 8.70
Paperback. Sunday Times bestseller Adele Parks writes novels that real women want to read. With her trademark tell-it-like-it-is style, she gets right to the heart of the dilemmas people face in their lives and takes her stories to unexpected places. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 33. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Publisher
- Headline Publishing Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 512
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780755394258
- ISBN
- 9780755394258
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.23
€ 11.99
€ 10.23
Paperback. Na'ama Newman wakes up one morning to a new reality. Her husband Udi, formerly a healthy, active tour guide, announces that he can no longer move his legs. The paralysis is diagnosed as psychosomatic - Udi has gone on strike and Na'ama must cope with the crisis, while balancing the demands of work and motherhood. Translator(s): Bilu, Dalya. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 203. 288 pages. Na'ama Newman wakes up one morning to find her husband Udi, formerly a healthy, active tour guide, saying he can't move his legs. The paralysis is diagnosed as psychosomatic - Udi has gone on strike, and Na'ama must cope with the crisis, while balancing the demands of work and motherhood. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 196 x 129 x 19. Weight: 196. Translator(s): Bilu, Dalya.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841954165
- ISBN
- 9781841954165
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.71
€ 13.99
€ 10.71
Paperback. A daring and original novel, this acerbic satire pulls no punches in its depiction of male chauvinism and religious bigotry, as told through the tragicomic tale of its young female protagonist, Hurma. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 160.
- Publisher
- Darf Publishers Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781850772774
- ISBN
- 9781850772774
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.54
€ 11.99
€ 10.54
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Old Street Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910400333
- ISBN
- 9781910400333
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.83
€ 11.99
€ 10.83
Paperback. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 206 x 20. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Publisher
- Old Street Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910400074
- ISBN
- 9781910400074
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.44
€ 16.99
€ 15.44
Paperback. Camille is doing her best to disappear. She barely eats, works at night as a cleaner and lives in a tiny attic room. Downstairs in a beautiful, ornate apartment, lives Philibert Marquet de la Durbelliere, a shy, erudite, upper-class man with an unlikely flatmate in the shape of the foul-mouthed but talented chef, Franck. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 33. Weight in Grams: 344.
- Publisher
- Riverhead Books
- Number of pages
- 480
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099494072
- ISBN
- 9780099494072
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. After his death, a young woman returns to her grandfather's farm in Yorkshire. At his desk she finds the book he left unfinished when he died. Part story, part scholarship, his eccentric history of England moves from the founding of the printing press into virtual reality, linking four journeys, separated by the centuries, of four great men. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations (black and white). BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 139 x 24. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099578888
- ISBN
- 9780099578888
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.81
€ 20.99
€ 16.81
Paperback. Robert Grieve - pushing thirty and eager to side-step a life of quiet desperation as a small-town teacher - decides to go missing. As he crosses the border from Thailand to Cambodia, he tests the threshold of a new future. And on that first night, a small windfall precipitates a chain of events which changes Robert's life forever. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 274 x 24. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784700362
- ISBN
- 9781784700362
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.88
€ 15.99
€ 11.88
Paperback. The hunter arrives in an isolated community in the Tasmanian wilderness with a single purpose in mind - to find the last thylacine, the tiger of fable, fear and legend. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 13. Weight in Grams: 152.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Number of pages
- 170
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571200191
- ISBN
- 9780571200191
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.99
€ 11.99
€ 9.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. .
- Publisher
- Zaffre Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785763113
- ISBN
- 9781785763113
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.33
€ 10.99
€ 9.33
Paperback. Hungry Hill' is a passionate story told with du Maurier's unique gift for drama. It follows five generations of an Irish family and the copper mine on Hungry Hill to which their fortunes and fates are so closely bound. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 35. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781844084524
- ISBN
- 9781844084524
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
Paperback. The Nobel Prize-winning author Knut Hamsun's Hunger, an influential work of twentieth-century modern literature, is now a Canon Translator(s): Lyngstad, Sverre Lyngstad. Series: Canons. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 213.
- Publisher
- Canongate Canons
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Main - Canons Imprint Re-Issue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782117124
- ISBN
- 9781782117124
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.77
€ 13.99
€ 10.77
Paperback. Stunning reissue of an international bestseller, from the author of 'The Joy Luck Club' and 'The Bonesetter's Daughter'. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Harper Perennial
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780006550525
- ISBN
- 9780006550525
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.41
€ 15.99
€ 11.41
Paperback. After the death of his mother, fifteen-year-old Zachary Taylor lives with his father in a cabin on Sitting Down Lake in the Canadian wilderness. When the arrival of his neighbour's mysterious niece Eva stirs up ghosts from the past and present, the people of the lake grow closer as they realise that death is never final: something always remains. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127. .
- Publisher
- Parthian Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910901908
- ISBN
- 9781910901908
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.70
€ 13.99
€ 11.70
Paperback. For many years, the great poet Von Humboldt Fleisher and Charlie Citrine were the best of friends. At the time of his death, however, Humboldt is a failure, and Charlie's life has reached a low point. And then Humboldt acts from beyond the grave, bestowing upon Charlie an unexpected legacy that may just help him turn his life around. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 346.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 496
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141188768
- ISBN
- 9780141188768
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.88
€ 15.99
€ 11.88
Paperback. This book brings together the essay collection "Written in the margins of life (Xie zai ren sheng bian shang)" and the short story collection "Human, beast, ghost (Ren shou gui)." Editor(s): Rea, Christopher G. Series: Weatherhead Books on Asia. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; FA; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 153 x 12. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231152754
- ISBN
- 9780231152754
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.99€ 27.47
€ 37.99
€ 27.47
Paperback. From the Booker Prizewinning author of 'Offshore' and 'The Blue Flower'; a funny, touching, authentic story of life at Broadcasting House during the Blitz. Num Pages: 208 pages, port. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 158.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780006542544
- ISBN
- 9780006542544
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.70
€ 13.99
€ 10.70
paperback. Jacques Rebiere and Thomas Midwinter, both sixteen when this story starts in 1876, come from different countries and contrasting families. They are united by an ambition to understand how the mind works and whether madness is the price we pay for being human. This work explores the question of what kind of beings men and women really are. Num Pages: 800 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 46. Weight in Grams: 580. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- SKU
- KKD0000118
- ISBN
- 9780099458265
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.44
€ 5.44
Paperback. Set in 1998, with the backdrop of the impeachment of a president, this book shows us an America where conflicting moralities and ideological divisions result in public denunciations and houndings, and where innocence is not always a good enough excuse. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099282198
- ISBN
- 9780099282198
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02