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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. Longlisted for the 2013 Man Booker Prize, the overlapping lives of five newcomers to China's most dynamic city are the subject of this kaleidoscopic novel. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 138 x 29. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780007494187
- ISBN
- 9780007494187
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. A novel about a street in an unnamed city whose inhabitants speculate on the life of a mysterious Madam X. It interweaves their endless suppositions into a work that is at once political parable and surreal fantasia. Translator(s): Gernant, Karen; Chen, Zeping. Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters. Num Pages: 352 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 192 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Rep Tra
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300167962
- ISBN
- 9780300167962
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.17
€ 19.99
€ 16.17
Paperback. Five powerful stories exploring identity and selfhood. With haunting, Kafkaesque prose, Emanuela Barasch-Rubinstein creates a series of profound, internal narratives. Num Pages: 204 pages, No illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 128 x 17. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Holland House Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781909374799
- ISBN
- 9781909374799
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.41
€ 12.41
Paperback. Five Seasons is a moving and, at times, humorous novel about the need to fall in love again. It is A.B. Yehoshua's third novel and has long been out of print. Num Pages: 332 pages. BIC Classification: 2CSJ; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 24. Weight in Grams: 312.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Peter Halban Publishers Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781870015943
- ISBN
- 9781870015943
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.30
€ 11.99
€ 10.30
Paperback. One quiet evening in Salisbury, the peace is shattered by a serious car crash. At that moment, five lives collide - a flower seller, a schoolboy, an army wife, a security guard, a widower - all facing their own personal disasters. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 197 x 23. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Publisher
- Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784161354
- ISBN
- 9781784161354
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.84
€ 13.00
€ 11.84
Paperback. Beyond the main street of Les Laveuses runs the Loire, smooth and brown as a sunning snake - but hiding a deadly undertow beneath its moving surface. This is where Framboise, a secretive widow, plies her culinary trade at the creperie - and lets her memory play strange games. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 23. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Edition
- paperback / softback
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780552998833
- ISBN
- 9780552998833
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.85
€ 13.00
€ 11.85
Hardcover. Num Pages: 128 pages, b/w illus. BIC Classification: FA; WSJH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 147 x 14. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Brindle and Glass Publishing, Ltd Canada
- Number of pages
- 116
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781897142189
- ISBN
- 9781897142189
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 19.76
€ 27.99
€ 19.76
Paperback. Peter Haskell, president of a major pharmaceutical company, has everything: power, position, and a family which mean everything to him. Olivia Thatcher is the wife of a famous senator. She has given to her husband's ambitions and career until her soul is bone-dry. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 105 x 24. Weight in Grams: 180. Clean copy, good to very good. Some light shelf wear
- Publisher
- Corgi Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KST0012525
- ISBN
- 9780552143783
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Peter Haskell, president of a major pharmaceutical company, has everything: power, position, and a family which mean everything to him. Olivia Thatcher is the wife of a famous senator. She has given to her husband's ambitions and career until her soul is bone-dry. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 176 x 105 x 24. Weight in Grams: 180. Clean copy.
- Publisher
- Corgi Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KRS0020108
- ISBN
- 9780552143783
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Things have never been the same in the village since the evacuee arrived and the five boys mistook him for a Nazi spy. There have been a host of visitors: the Americans preparing for D-Day and a deserter hiding out in the woods. But it's the arrival of the Bee King who makes the biggest impression. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 128 x 17. Weight in Grams: 182. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- Main
- SKU
- KKD0001636
- ISBN
- 9780571206186
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
paperback. In Twicetown, once Key West, two missiles sit unexploded, objects of awe and indifference. Mr Cheung teaches the boy Fiskadoro to play the clarinet; Grandmother Wright, the oldest person in the world, endlessly relives the fall of Saigon; Cassius Clay Sugar Ray trades in radioactive artefacts. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099440840
- ISBN
- 9780099440840
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.04
€ 13.99
€ 11.04
Hardcover. Whether set against the open ocean or tiny mountain streams, in ancient China, tropical Tahiti, Paris under siege, or the vast Canadian wilderness, this title features stories that cast wide and strike deep into the universal joys, absurdities, insights, and tragedies of life. Editor(s): Hughes, Henry. Series: Everyman's Library Pocket Classics. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 186 x 27. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Publisher
- Everyman United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841596136
- ISBN
- 9781841596136
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.41
€ 17.99
€ 13.41
Paperback. Num Pages: 234 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 141 x 14. Weight in Grams: 326.
- Publisher
- NeWest Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 234
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- 1St Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781897126370
- ISBN
- 9781897126370
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 17.33
€ 24.99
€ 17.33
Paperback. Journeying through city steam rooms, rugged North Wales mountains, and estuaries facing other places, this collection examines the lives of young men making daring choices--about risky sex, new romance, and status and belief. These sensual stories by a prize-winning author reveal a lucid prose, etched with echoes of the sea. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 152 x 8. Weight in Grams: 124.
- Publisher
- Parthian Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 168
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781902638348
- ISBN
- 9781902638348
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 9.14
€ 9.99
€ 9.14
Paperback. When you're the next big thing in Silicon Valley, the whole world is watching.. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 31. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782392637
- ISBN
- 9781782392637
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.74
€ 13.99
€ 10.74
Paperback. Num Pages: 290 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 157 x 24. Weight in Grams: 428.
- Publisher
- Spinifex Press
- Number of pages
- 290
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781876756970
- ISBN
- 9781876756970
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.00
€ 19.99
€ 15.00
Paperback. It all begins in a small town in Belgium on the morning of the festival of St. Woelfred. There are dead fish scattered everywhere, blown in by the wind. Are the fish a sign from the saint or a trick played by Contexture, the dance group who once got naked at the Vatican? The lives of six people who live in the town are about to be changed forever Num Pages: 290 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 139 x 19. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Publisher
- Parthian Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 290
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906998905
- ISBN
- 9781906998905
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.41
€ 12.41
Paperback. When his parents split up, and his dad leaves home, a ten-year-old boy begs the sky to help him. The next day an ice storm covers his city. When the power goes out and the temperature drops, people must turn to each other to survive. But for one neighbourhood the catastrophe brings surprising new beginnings. Translator(s): Anderson, Alison. Num Pages: 272 pages, no. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 199 x 19. Weight in Grams: 194. 272 pages. When his parents split up, and his dad leaves home, a ten-year-old boy begs the sky to help him. The next day an ice storm covers his city. When the power goes out and the temperature drops, people must turn to each other to survive. But for one neighbourhood the catastrophe brings surprising new beginnings. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 136 x 199 x 19. Weight: 184. Translator(s): Anderson, Alison.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857861627
- ISBN
- 9780857861627
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.99
€ 11.99
€ 9.99
Paperback. Illustrator(s): Linney, Bob. Num Pages: 144 pages, 11 black and white drawings. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 246 x 12. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Publisher
- Charlcombe Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780956851055
- ISBN
- 9780956851055
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.36
€ 11.36
Paperback. The magical new bestseller from Irish number one author Colette Caddle Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 286. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- SKU
- KIN0033074
- ISBN
- 9781849838962
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99