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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. 1975. The cusp of Argentina's Dirty War. The magnate Tamerlan has been kidnapped by guerrillas, demanding a bust of Eva Peron be placed in all 92 offices of his company. The man for the job: Marrone. His mission: to penetrate the ultimate Argentinian mystery: Eva Peron, the legendary Evita. A caustic and original take on Argentina's history. Translator(s): Barnett, Ian. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 386 x 23. Weight in Grams: 344.
Publisher
And Other Stories
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908276506
ISBN
9781908276506
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.69

Paperback. A penniless and parentless Chicago boy growing up in the Great Depression, Augie March drifts through life latching on to a wild succession of occupations, including butler, thief, dog-washer, sailor and salesman. He is a 'born recruit', easily influenced by others who try to mould his destiny. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 396.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141184869
ISBN
9780141184869
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.81

Hardcover. A fictional autobiography of a rumbustious adventurer and poker-player who sets off his native Chicago in the spirit of a latter-day Columbus to rediscover the world - and more especially, twentieth-century America. Num Pages: 616 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 138 x 35. Weight in Grams: 702.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Everyman
Condition
New
SKU
9781857152159
ISBN
9781857152159
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 12.53

Hardcover. Features Baron Munchausen's absurd adventures. This book tells how he turned a wolf inside out in Russia, rode on a Turkish cannon ball, danced a hornpipe in the stomach of large fish which had swallowed him alive, mended his horse which had been severed in two by a portcullis, and lent his friend General Elliot a hand at the siege of Gibraltar. Num Pages: 192 pages, YES. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 158 x 17. Weight in Grams: 400.
Publisher
Everyman United Kingdom
Number of pages
192
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857155181
ISBN
9781857155181
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.80

Paperback. The Adventures of Eovaai is the most important prose satire of English politics and the administration of Sir Robert Walpole between Gullivers Travels and Jonathan Wild. Jerry C. Beasley, University of Delaware Num Pages: 243 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 298.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd Canada
Number of pages
243
Condition
New
SKU
V9781551111971
ISBN
9781551111971
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 27.84

Paperback. Num Pages: 180 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 10. Weight in Grams: 200.
Publisher
Athena Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844017065
ISBN
9781844017065
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.99
€ 5.52

Paperback.
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc. United States
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9780486421599
ISBN
9780486421599
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.48

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
SKU
V9780714530215
ISBN
9780714530215
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.35

Paperback. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 18. Weight in Grams: 205.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Old Street Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905847174
ISBN
9781905847174
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.34

Paperback. The Adventures of Rivella is especially valuable for the light it throws on a woman authors relations with publishers and other writers, both male and female. Bruce Stovel, University of Alberta Num Pages: 178 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 218.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9781551111216
ISBN
9781551111216
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.53

Paperback. Series: Dover Children's Thrift Classics. Num Pages: 96 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (JC) Children's (6-12). Dimension: 209 x 148 x 6. Weight in Grams: 73.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780486430317
ISBN
9780486430317
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 7.31

Paperback. Originally published 1940. First published by Princeton 1983 and assigned new ISBN when reissued as a print-on-demand title in 2014. Translator(s): Bodde, Derk. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 514 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 26. Weight in Grams: 885.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
514
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691613314
ISBN
9780691613314
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 88.59
€ 68.36

Paperback. A woman has her throat cut behind a bar in Mississippi. Just down the road is a big army base. Is the murderer a local guy - or is he a soldier? Jack Reacher, still a major in the military police, is sent in undercover. The county sheriff is a former US Marine - and a stunningly beautiful woman. Her investigation is going nowhere. Series: Jack Reacher. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 35. Weight in Grams: 372.
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
Bantam
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780553825503
ISBN
9780553825503
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. For fans of Siri Hustvedt and Nicole Krauss, THE AFFAIRS OF OTHERS is an exceptional debut about the awakening of a young widow and 'carries a considerable erotic charge, but there's much more to it besides: grief is Amy Grace Loyd's subject and her narrative is as psychologically acute as it is sensual' (DAILY MAIL). Includes reading-group notes. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 20. Weight in Grams: 222.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Edition
0th Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780226811
ISBN
9781780226811
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.27

Hardback. Includes "Things Fall Apart", "No Longer at Ease", and "Arrow of God". In "Things Fall Apart" the individual tragedy of Okonkwo, 'strong man' and tribal elder in the Nigeria of the 1890s is intertwined with the transformation of traditional Igbo society under the impact of Christianity and colonialism. Num Pages: 536 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 129 x 36. Weight in Grams: 578.
Publisher
Everyman Paperback Classics
Number of pages
536
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841593272
ISBN
9781841593272
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 18.94

Hardcover. "The Afterlife of Stars moved me more than any other novel I've read in recent memory." --Tim O'Brien Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 163 x 242 x 27. Weight in Grams: 454.
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780316308113
ISBN
9780316308113
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 20.59

Hardcover. With this novel about the anguish of loving, and society's brutal treatment of those who transgress its codes, Edith Wharton became the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize. Num Pages: 308 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 140 x 27. Weight in Grams: 508.
Publisher
Everyman
Number of pages
308
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Edition
New ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781857152029
ISBN
9781857152029
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.99

Paperback. Edith Wharton's most famous novel, written immediately after the end of the First World War, is a brilliantly realized anatomy of New York society in the 1870s. The charming Newland Archer is content to live within its constraints until he meets Ellen Olenska, whose arrival threatens his impending marriage as well as his comfortable future. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 214.
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199540013
ISBN
9780199540013
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.66

Paperback. The text of Wharton's richly allusive Pulitzer Prize-winning 1921 novel of desire and its implications in Old New York has been rigorously annotated by a prominent Wharton scholar. Editor(s): Waid, Candace. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 544 pages, bibliog. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DNF; DSBH; DSK; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 143 x 16. Weight in Grams: 464.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Edition
Norton Critical
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393967944
ISBN
9780393967944
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.47

Paperback. A group of world-weary travellers discover the meaning of life in a mysterious Swiss mountain village. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 199 x 26. Weight in Grams: 272.
Publisher
Head of Zeus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784081485
ISBN
9781784081485
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.33

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