×


 x 

Shopping cart

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Results 4881 - 4900 of 15073

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

hardcover. Features a book of stories, drawings and poems that was first published in 1964 to great critical acclaim and became a phenomenon, selling over 600,000 copies in the UK alone and revealing a hitherto unseen side to author's artistic output and talent. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 183 x 138 x 10. Weight in Grams: 168.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Canongate Books
Condition
New
SKU
9781782115403
ISBN
9781782115403
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 11.54

Paperback. Num Pages: 324 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 197 x 27. Weight in Grams: 370. 8vo. .Very good copy
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
House of Stratus
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New edition
SKU
KEX0275927
ISBN
9780755100996
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 12.00

Paperback. Maggie lives a life of careful routines and measured pleasures. But everything changes when, walking through Gatwick airport, she is approached by a young woman who whispers a single word: 'Help.' Maggie's actions save Anja from her brutal trafficker. Then Anja makes contact, and quickly insinuates herself into Maggie's ordered life.. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 205 x 21. Weight in Grams: 238.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
KSG0019205
ISBN
9780571316687
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Maggie lives a life of careful routines and measured pleasures. But everything changes when, walking through Gatwick airport, she is approached by a young woman who whispers a single word: 'Help.' Maggie's actions save Anja from her brutal trafficker. Then Anja makes contact, and quickly insinuates herself into Maggie's ordered life.. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 205 x 21. Weight in Grams: 238.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
SKU
KSG0019441
ISBN
9780571316687
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Kate O'Brien is thirty and has very little to think about except trying to keep her balance as she totters up London's media-land ladder. Fiona O'Brien is Kate's responsible older sister - with a husband, twin boys, a dog and now ..a life-changing problem. It's a problem that means Kate going back to Dublin. Pronto. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 208. Already read but clean
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Penguin Ireland
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KDK0011368
ISBN
9781844880690
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Kate O'Brien is thirty and has very little to think about except trying to keep her balance as she totters up London's media-land ladder. Fiona O'Brien is Kate's responsible older sister - with a husband, twin boys, a dog and now ..a life-changing problem. It's a problem that means Kate going back to Dublin. Pronto. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 21. Weight in Grams: 208. Good clean copy with some reader wear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Penguin Ireland
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KTM0005784
ISBN
9781844880690
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. A story of unfulfilled love - tormented, funny, and affecting - and an impassioned embrace of our sexual differences. It is an intimate and unforgettable portrait of the solitariness of a bisexual man who is dedicated to making himself 'worthwhile'. Num Pages: 624 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 131 x 39. Weight in Grams: 436.
Publisher
Black Swan
Number of pages
624
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780552778442
ISBN
9780552778442
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.08

Paperback. Illuminates a place and people and describes the overlapping worlds of an extended Pakistani landowning family. This title includes stories that reveal the complexities of Pakistani class and culture, as they describe the loves, triumphs, misunderstandings and tragedies of everyday life. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 17. Weight in Grams: 214. 256 pages. Illuminates a place and people and describes the overlapping worlds of an extended Pakistani landowning family. This title includes stories that reveal the complexities of Pakistani class and culture, as they describe the loves, triumphs, misunderstandings and tragedies of everyday life. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Dimension: 198 x 128 x 17. Weight: 182.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408801048
ISBN
9781408801048
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.09

paperback. In the spirit of James Joyce's "Dubliners," Mueenuddin's collection of linked stories illuminates a place and a people through an examination of the entwined lives of landowners and their retainers on the Gurmani family farm in Lahore, Pakistan. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 139 x 17. Weight in Grams: 210.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393337204
ISBN
9780393337204
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 15.83

Paperback. Num Pages: 600 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 158 x 24. Weight in Grams: 526.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press United States
Number of pages
337
Condition
New
SKU
V9781564788160
ISBN
9781564788160
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.19

Hardback. Num Pages: 192 pages, 100+ b/w photos. BIC Classification: FA; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 161 x 22. Weight in Grams: 560.
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Edition
1st
Condition
New
SKU
V9780764307539
ISBN
9780764307539
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 25.42

Paperback. Series: Sisterhood Novels. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FH; FR; FT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 173 x 104 x 23. Weight in Grams: 136.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Zebra
Edition
Reissue
Condition
New
SKU
V9781420135923
ISBN
9781420135923
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.26

Paperback. 1980s Syria, our young narrator is living a secluded life behind the veil in the vast and perfumed house of her grandparents in Aleppo. Her three aunts, Maryam the pious one; Safaa, the liberal; and the free-spirited Marwa, bring her up with the aid of their ever-devoted blind servant. Translator(s): Price, Leri. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 127 x 20. Weight in Grams: 234.
Publisher
Transworld Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780552776134
ISBN
9780552776134
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.29

Paperback. Num Pages: 56 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 138 x 5. Weight in Grams: 100.
Publisher
Leete's Island Books,U.S. United States
Number of pages
56
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1977
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780918172020
ISBN
9780918172020
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.85

Paperback. An essay on aesthetics. It explores architecture, jade, food, toilets, and combines an acute sense of the use of space in buildings, as well as perfect descriptions of lacquerware under candlelight and women in the darkness of the house of pleasure. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: FA; HPN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 199 x 8. Weight in Grams: 66.
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099283577
ISBN
9780099283577
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.06

Paperback. Don Rigoberto, his second wife, Lucrecia, and his son, Alfonso, their family life together seems to be a happy one. Rigoberto, an insurance company manager, spends his time preening himself for his wife and collecting erotic art. Translator(s): Lane, Helen R. Num Pages: 160 pages, 6 full colour plates. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 111 x 10. Weight in Grams: 119.
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571141357
ISBN
9780571141357
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.66

Hardcover. Num Pages: 186 pages, 13ill. BIC Classification: FA; WSXH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 444. 186 pages, 13ill. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA; WSXH. Dimension: 243 x 163 x 20. Weight: 448.
Publisher
Coch-Y-Bonddu Books Ltd
Number of pages
186
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780953364886
ISBN
9780953364886
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 28.55

Paperback. Num Pages: 112 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 150 x 9. Weight in Grams: 181.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Dis Voir France
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
SKU
V9782914563413
ISBN
9782914563413
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 22.90

Paperback. For a while, Ian, Lauren and Paul shared the same friends, the same university, the same dreams and the same potential. Ten years on they are worlds apart. But when Lauren, in a moment of nostalgia, cracks open a long-forgotten Hotmail account, she comes face to face with the people these three friends used to be.. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135 x 28. Weight in Grams: 400.
Publisher
Canongate Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847672629
ISBN
9781847672629
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.09

Paperback. Recalling his initiation into the dazzling world of Parisian high society and looking back over his time in the glamorous salons of the aristocracy, the narrator satirises this shallow world and his own youthful infatuation with it. His observations also educates him in the volatile nature of desire as he walks the path towards adulthood. Translator(s): Scott-Moncrieff, C. K.; Kilmartin, Terence; Enright, D.J. Num Pages: 720 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 42. Weight in Grams: 500.
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099362418
ISBN
9780099362418
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.89

Subscribe to our newsletter

News on special offers, signed editions & more!