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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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

€ 27.99
€ 24.58

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
€ 9.18

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
€ 17.49

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
€ 11.09

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

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

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

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
€ 19.88

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

€ 14.99
€ 11.88

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

€ 14.99
€ 11.90

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
€ 10.31

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

€ 22.26

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

Hardcover. Series: FIVE STAR FIRST EDITION MYSTER. 225 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 222 x 149 x 18. Weight: 390.
Publisher
Five Star
Number of pages
225
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781594142703
ISBN
9781594142703
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 6.03

Paperback.
Publisher
Parthian Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
250
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781906998486
ISBN
9781906998486
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.89

Paperback. The Flame Tree offers a vivid snapshot of a fast-developing Malaysia on the cusp of the new millennium, of moral choices and a womans search for her cultural identity. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 197 x 168 x 39. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
MONSOON BOOKS
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
SKU
V9789814423908
ISBN
9789814423908
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 11.04

paperback. An elegiac and poetic sequence of stories following the progress of a young girl through childhood and adolescence on the fringes of the Badlands in Alberta, Canada. Series: Parthian Shots S. Num Pages: 92 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 10. Weight in Grams: 141.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Parthian Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
92
Condition
New
SKU
V9781902638102
ISBN
9781902638102
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.31

Hardcover. Takes you to a world where bicycles listen to conversations, inventors search for methods of 'diluting' water, and characters play truant while novelists sleep; a world where spiteful fairies wreak havoc and heroes from legend blunder into suburban sitting-rooms. Num Pages: 778 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 139 x 45. Weight in Grams: 844.
Publisher
Everyman
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Edition
Combined volume
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841593098
ISBN
9781841593098
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.89

paperback. Series: Vintage Classics. Num Pages: 226 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 131 x 18. Weight in Grams: 264.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Random House USA Inc United States
Number of pages
226
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780307474520
ISBN
9780307474520
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.26

Paperback. A dazzling new anthology of the very best very short fiction from around the world. Editor(s): Thomas, James; Shapard, Robert; Merrill, Christopher. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 210 x 21. Weight in Grams: 266.
Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393346077
ISBN
9780393346077
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.65

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