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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. This volume gathers together some of the real and the imagined lives of Willa Muir, one of the finest and fiercest intellectuals of her generation. Series: Canongate Classics. Num Pages: 720 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 126 x 30. Weight in Grams: 473.
Publisher
Canongate UK
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780862416058
ISBN
9780862416058
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 18.40

Paperback. Num Pages: 230 pages, music, port. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 133 x 16. Weight in Grams: 200.
Publisher
Spinifex Press Australia
Number of pages
230
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781875559367
ISBN
9781875559367
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.44

Paperback. A reprint of the 1933 classic novel, the basis for two film versions, with a new introduciton. Editor(s): Itzkovitz, Daniel. Num Pages: 352 pages, 6 b&w photos, 1 line drawing. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5182 x 3556 x 22. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780822333241
ISBN
9780822333241
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 31.99
€ 28.71

paperback. A novel, divided into seven parts and exploring immortality. This is the author's seventh novel. His previous works include "The Joke", "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" and "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". He has written one play, "Jacques and his Master". Translator(s): Kussi, Peter. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 27. Weight in Grams: 318.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
FABER & FABER
Condition
New
SKU
9780571144563
ISBN
9780571144563
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.78

Paperback. As a librarian, Imogen read a lot of books, but none of them covered real life on the Riviera. Her holiday with tennis ace, Nicky, and the whole glamorous coterie of journalist, playboy, photographer, was a revelation - and so was she. A prize worth winning. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 226.
Publisher
Corgi
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
Re-issue
Condition
New
SKU
V9780552152549
ISBN
9780552152549
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.84

Paperback. His tautest, most compulsively readable work since American Psycho. A sequel to Less Than Zero, it imagines what became of that book's group of over-privileged, dead-eyed kids as forty-year-olds' Hari Kunzru, Observer Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 162.
Edition
Reprints
Publisher
Picador
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
9780330452618
ISBN
9780330452618
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 4.82

Paperback. His tautest, most compulsively readable work since American Psycho. A sequel to Less Than Zero, it imagines what became of that book's group of over-privileged, dead-eyed kids as forty-year-olds' Hari Kunzru, Observer Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 162. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Picador
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0000800
ISBN
9780330452618
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 11.99
€ 4.82

Paperback. Editor(s): Dean, Misao. Num Pages: 356 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 355 x 355 x 532. Weight in Grams: 458.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd Canada
Number of pages
356
Condition
New
SKU
V9781551115405
ISBN
9781551115405
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.66

Paperback. When Tiro, the confidential secretary of a Roman senator, opens the door to a terrified stranger on a cold November morning, he sets in motion a chain of events which will eventually propel his master into one of the most famous courtroom dramas in history. The stranger is a Sicilian, a victim of the island's corrupt Roman governor, Verres. Series: Cicero Trilogy. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 31. Weight in Grams: 346. 480pp
Edition
01st Edition
Publisher
Cornerstone
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
9780099527664
ISBN
9780099527664
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. Including Books, Street Fashion and Jewelry. 144 pages. A unique and utterly charming book that is at once a novel and a work of art. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 234 x 186 x 12. Weight: 334.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Edition
1St Edition
Number of pages
144
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408804728
ISBN
9781408804728
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 22.10

Paperback. "An invaluable literary document, Imre is also an unexpectedly absorbing fiction, here accompanied by an excellent scholarly apparatus." -- John W. Crowley, editor of Genteel Pagan: The Double Life of Charles Warren Stoddard Editor(s): Gifford, James J. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 5SG; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 146 x 6. Weight in Grams: 235.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd Canada
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9781551113586
ISBN
9781551113586
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 29.67

Paperback. From the author of the best-selling This Book Will Save Your Life, an intense, thrilling portrait of the patient-analyst relationship gone awry Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 198.
Publisher
Granta Books
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847087270
ISBN
9781847087270
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.99

Paperback. The central novel from V.S. Naipaul's Booker Prize-winning narrative of displacement, published for the first time in a stand-alone edition. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 14. Weight in Grams: 164.
Publisher
Picador USA
Number of pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780330522908
ISBN
9780330522908
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.70

Paperback. Memories she had long chosen to forget begin to resurface. Memories of an eccentric childhood in a large and shabby house, where the children were very much left to fend for themselves within the loose boundaries of their parents' unorthodox values. A chaotic existence peopled by a rich collection of feckless 'guests'. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 32. Weight in Grams: 360.
Publisher
Cornerstone United Kingdom
Number of pages
512
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099469186
ISBN
9780099469186
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. For ambitious industrialist Charles Freeman, it offers new opportunities and marriage to Mary. He buys the big house on the hill and nails his aspirations to the future. In quick succession, three sons and a daughter bring life to the big house and, with it, the seeds of family joy and tragedy. Num Pages: 688 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 36. Weight in Grams: 442.
Publisher
Cornerstone United Kingdom
Number of pages
688
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099538004
ISBN
9780099538004
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 19.38

Hardback. SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2010 'One of the most beautiful and unsettling books I've ever read. I can't remember a more troubling and intense study of rootlessness and loneliness; Galgut is a writer of great, almost frightening, depth.' Tash Aw Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 223 x 148 x 22. Weight in Grams: 338. Very good copy in clean dustwrapper. Second impression
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Atlantic Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
SKU
KEX0303109
ISBN
9781848873223
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 45.00

Paperback. IN A SUMMER SEASON is one of Elizabeth Taylor's finest novels in which, in a moving and powerful climax, she reveals love to be the thing it is: beautiful, often funny, and sometimes tragic. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 198 x 23. Weight in Grams: 156.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
New
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844083206
ISBN
9781844083206
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.09

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Omnidawn Publishing United States
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9781890650193
ISBN
9781890650193
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 12.69

Paperback. A story inspired by the emigration to America in 1876 of Helena Modrzejewska, Poland's most celebrated actress, accompanied by her husband, Count Karol Chlapowski, her fifteen-year-old son, Rudolf, the young journalist and future author of "Quo Vadis", Henryk Sienkiewicz, and a few friends; their brief sojourn in Anaheim, California. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 296.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141190105
ISBN
9780141190105
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 12.62

Paperback. .
Publisher
Comma Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905583768
ISBN
9781905583768
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.43

Paperback. A stunning novel set in the stark beauty of Orkney and the heady atmosphere of Penang in the 1930s Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 354.
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Number of pages
512
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780753820070
ISBN
9780753820070
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.86

Paperback. A group of angry and ill-assorted people accept an invitation to make a journey to discover the real Arcadia. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 29. Weight in Grams: 294.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781784082574
ISBN
9781784082574
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.13

Paperback. A collection of macabre short stories. Ian McEwan received the Somerset Maugham Award in 1976 for a previous collection of short stories entitled "First Love, Last Rites". Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 128 x 10. Weight in Grams: 124.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
144
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099754718
ISBN
9780099754718
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. Hannah Olsen and her husband Lars own Langani Farm and Safari Lodge where they struggle to protect their wildlife and land from poachers and corrupt officials. But the developing relationship between their daughter and a young African boy with a terrifying legacy tests the strength of their family. Num Pages: 608 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 136 x 32. Weight in Grams: 442.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
608
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Edition
Illustrated
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099520634
ISBN
9780099520634
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.85

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