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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. "An absorbing tale of contrasts.. Cherian tells the story with quiet strength." -San Francisco Chronicle Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 211 x 141 x 25. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393335293
- ISBN
- 9780393335293
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.52
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€ 15.52
Paperback. Escapee from suburbia, overweight, oversexed.. Morgan Leafy isn't overburdened with worldly success. Actually, he is refreshingly free from it. But then, as a representative of Her Britannic Majesty in tropical Kinjanja, it was not very constructive of him to get involved in wholesale bribery. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 248.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Re-issue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141046891
- ISBN
- 9780141046891
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
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Paperback. Features ten stories that depicts the underside of life, deep in the American South. This book is about the weaknesses and follies of humanity, about the operation of grace in our lives and about the necessity of humility. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 15. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780571322855
- ISBN
- 9780571322855
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.94
€ 11.99
€ 9.94
Paperback. Follows the adolescent adventures of William Grove, a boy with no father figure (his parents are divorced) who tries to make a man out of himself after he is shipped to a boarding school designed for children who don't fit in. This work presents a tale of adolescence, slightly reminiscent of "Catcher in the Rye". Num Pages: 226 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 11. Weight in Grams: 148. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Methuen Publishing Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0000762
- ISBN
- 9780413775207
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. A novel of wine, women and sun with a plot that offers more twists than a corkscrew. This is a captivating new novel from the internationally bestselling author of A YEAR IN PROVENCE and BON APPETIT! Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 127 x 17. Weight in Grams: 182.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780751539660
- ISBN
- 9780751539660
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
€ 13.99
€ 11.09
Paperback. A novel that portrays several characters in a village whose intertwined lives are transformed by the 1952-1960 Emergency in Kenya. It features a reticent Mugo, the village's chosen hero and a man haunted by a terrible secret. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 17. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141186993
- ISBN
- 9780141186993
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
Paperback. What did it mean to be a 'half caste' in early twentieth-century North America? This collection of short works ranges from magazine romance to story melodrama and provides an introduction to a unique literary personality - Onoto Watanna. It includes nineteen - thirteen stories and six essays - intended to show the versatility of her writing. Editor(s): Moser, Linda Trinh; Rooney, Elizabeth. Series: The Asian American Experience. Num Pages: 208 pages, bibliographical references. BIC Classification: 1F; 1KBC; DSB; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 315.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252070945
- ISBN
- 9780252070945
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 21.98
€ 23.99
€ 21.98
Paperback. After seven years of marriage, the beautiful Lady Brenda Last is bored with life at Hetton Abbey, the Gothic mansion that is the pride and joy of her husband, Tony. She drifts into an affair with the shallow socialite John Beaver and forsakes Tony for the Belgravia set. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141183961
- ISBN
- 9780141183961
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.82
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€ 10.82
Paperback. *A woman's struggle to find happiness. Set against a background of poverty and hardship in Clydeside's docklands. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 109 x 26. Weight in Grams: 252. Clean copy. Good to very good
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Number of pages
- 480
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- SKU
- KST0015497
- ISBN
- 9780751545111
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. * Set in Bethnal Green, this story opens just after the Ripper murders. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 110 x 25. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 448
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780751548419
- ISBN
- 9780751548419
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.50
€ 10.99
€ 9.50
Paperback. Is it possible to die a happy death? This title tells the story of a young Algerian, Mersault, who defies society's rules by committing a murder and escaping punishment, then experimenting with different ways of life and finally dying a happy man. Translator(s): Howard, Richard. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 94.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 112
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141186580
- ISBN
- 9780141186580
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
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€ 11.05
Paperback. As a criminal pathologist, Dr Edward Jenner has seen many bad deaths in his day, but none as crazed as the ritual slayings perpetrated by Robert Farrar, The Inquisitor. He survived the final denouement of Farrar's killing spree, but not the fall-out from the authorities which saw his medical license suspended and him banished from New York. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 28. Weight in Grams: 328. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Cornerstone
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- SKU
- KRA0010720
- ISBN
- 9780099538646
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. A collection of 19 tales about the way we live now, as lovers, partners, children, parents. Or alone. Stories of passion, desire, and necessary restraint; of the near future, the recent past; of old habits, new technology; of won't-be mothers and would-be fathers; and of houses, ancient and modern. Num Pages: 262 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128. Weight in Grams: 200. Good clean copy showing some shelf wear, pages lightly toned, text is clear and remains a nice copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Flamingo
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KSG0023761
- ISBN
- 9780006550983
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. In the middle of a family lunch Teresa, just married, goes to the bathroom, unbuttons her blouse and shoots herself in the heart. What made her kill herself immediately after her honeymoon? Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 19. Weight in Grams: 234.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141199955
- ISBN
- 9780141199955
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.33
€ 13.99
€ 10.33
Paperback. The bestselling author of Kommandant's Girl returns with the follow-up to The Officer's Lover Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 197 x 22. Weight in Grams: 256.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Digital original
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780751543629
- ISBN
- 9780751543629
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
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paperback. A tale of border warfare, military and erotic, set in the twenty-third century, where the women rule the kingdom and the men play war games. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations, map. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 196.
- Edition
- Main
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841955766
- ISBN
- 9781841955766
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.74
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€ 10.74
Paperback. Odran Yates enters Clonliffe Seminary in 1972 after his mother informs him that he has a vocation to the priesthood. He goes in full of ambition and hope, dedicated to his studies and keen to make friends. Forty years later, Odran's devotion has been challenged by the revelations that have shattered the Irish people's faith in the church. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 35. Weight in Grams: 334.
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780552778435
- ISBN
- 9780552778435
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
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€ 11.08
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 234 x 153. .
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton General Division
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781473641761
- ISBN
- 9781473641761
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 14.17
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€ 14.17
Paperback. Beginning with an unlikely stowaway's account of life on board Noah's Ark, this book presents a surprising and subversive fictional-history of earth told from several kaleidoscopic perspectives. Num Pages: 320 pages, 1 Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 150 x 21. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099540120
- ISBN
- 9780099540120
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.47
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€ 13.47
Paperback. In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession-scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college tuition, and finally do something great. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 134 x 25. Weight in Grams: 234.
- Publisher
- PENGUIN BOOKS
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241145869
- ISBN
- 9780241145869
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02