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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Jeff and Tonino, two Parisian football fans with serious drinking habits, are on their way to the European Cup final. So too are newlyweds Tana and Francesco; troubled young couple Gabriel and Virginie; and Geoff Andrewson, travelling with his brothers. As these four groups of characters cross paths, it gives way to a horrific tragedy. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 23. Weight in Grams: 250.
Publisher
Faber & Faber United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571236374
ISBN
9780571236374
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.73

Paperback. Features a portrait of people attempting to come to terms with a devastating historical event and their role within it. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 139 x 25. Weight in Grams: 368. .Clean copy in dustwrapper.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Faber & Faber London
Edition
Main
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KEX0200126
ISBN
9780571236367
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Hidden deep in the mountains, the recruits at 'Unit 701', China's secret services, operate in a dark, shadowy world. There is the 'wind-listener', a blind surveillance officer who can hear sounds from miles away, the beautiful, unstable maths genius who meets a violent end, and, the old man who deciphers codes in his dreams. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 25. Weight in Grams: 296.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Translation
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141391458
ISBN
9780141391458
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.63

Paperback. Set with a War in background, this is a story containing several characters who are all in the dark, with their dreams, secrets and fantasies. Electric light, new to their world, may be a boon but it reveals both grime and secrets. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 230.
Publisher
Vintage Books
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099507123
ISBN
9780099507123
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Num Pages: 485 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 160 x 39. Weight in Grams: 792.
Publication date
2005
Publisher
M P Publishing Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
485
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849821957
ISBN
9781849821957
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

Paperback. Series: Phoenix Books. Num Pages: 466 pages, vi, 464 p. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 202 x 133 x 26. Weight in Grams: 509.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1987
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226112541
ISBN
9780226112541
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 21.05

Paperback. An elegantly constructed story within a story, laced with the wit that characterises the work of this outstanding European writer. Translator(s): Dixon, Adrienne. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 133 x 11. Weight in Grams: 144.
Publisher
Quercus Publishing Plc United Kingdom
Number of pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781782067191
ISBN
9781782067191
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. The great English novel about Egypt, which is also the great Egyptian novel about England. Num Pages: 800 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 50. Weight in Grams: 650. 800 pages. The great English novel about Egypt, which is also the great Egyptian novel about England. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 196 x 129 x 50. Weight: 554.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC london
Number of pages
800
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Condition
New
SKU
V9780747545897
ISBN
9780747545897
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 14.72

Paperback. Paperback, black spine. 206pp
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Brandon / Mount Eagle Publications Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
SKU
KON0821133
ISBN
9780863222047
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Clean copy
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Brandon / Mount Eagle Publications Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
SKU
KEX0220135
ISBN
9780863222047
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Clean copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Publisher
Brandon / Mount Eagle Publications Ltd
Condition
Used, Like New
SKU
KEX0220376
ISBN
9780863222047
Paperback
Condition: Used, Like New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Social worker Keith, separated from his wife and their teenage son, is floundering in a world of fraught sexual politics, parental responsibilities and class expectations. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 242. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0000809
ISBN
9780099539742
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. An inspiring first novel, In the Field tackles the social obstacles that overshadow interracial family life in a rural town. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 133 x 23. Weight in Grams: 385.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Biblioasis Canada
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9781926845265
ISBN
9781926845265
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 18.32

Paperback. His third novel, Jacques Stephen Alexis brings his powerful characterization and political consciousness to the age-old question of whether a prostitute can leave "the life" to find her own identity and true love. La Nina Estrelita is plying her trade during Holy Week, 1949 in Port-au-Prince. Translator(s): Danticat, Edwidge; Coates, Carrol F. Series: CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: DNF; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 336.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780813921396
ISBN
9780813921396
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.82

Paperback. Michael first met the Hanbury's of Egypt Hill when he was a student. He was intrigued by their bohemian lifestyle. Twelve years later, Michael is invited back to the house and jumps at the chance of escaping his turbulent domestic situation. But his illusions about the family are shattered as the rotten core of the Hanbury myth is revealed. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 198. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KAC0002008
ISBN
9780571228140
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. A world-weary young father is seduced by dark secrets from the lost world of the Hopi Indians of Arizona. Translator(s): Anderson, Alison. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 233 x 30. Weight in Grams: 404.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Quercus Publishing
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857051264
ISBN
9780857051264
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.39

Paperback. Through his letters home and six short stories, Alun Lewis paints a vibrant picture of life in India as a British serviceman during World War II. Intimate, vivid, observational, and always filled with emotion, this is a rare literary example of one Welshman's experience of empire and war. Series: Library of Wales. Num Pages: 201 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 136 x 14. Weight in Grams: 214. Fine in cloth covers. Lacking dust wrapper. Covers showing minor shelfwear, sunned to spine, otherwise a nice copy
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Parthian Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
186
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Edition
Library of Wales Ed
SKU
KSG0010277
ISBN
9781902638874
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 10.00

Paperback. Num Pages: 218 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 141 x 14. Weight in Grams: 292.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Brindle & Glass
Number of pages
218
Condition
New
SKU
V9781897142356
ISBN
9781897142356
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 19.69

Paperback. Stifled by the torpor of colonial South Africa and trapped in a web of reciprocal oppression, a lonely sheep farmer seeks comfort in the arms of a black concubine. But when his embittered spinster daughter Magda feels shamed, this lurch across the racial divide marks the end of a tenuous feudal peace. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 11. Weight in Grams: 132. Fine copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KJE0003354
ISBN
9780099465942
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.70

Paperback. Written by the author of "The Floating World", this novel explores human relationships in a Los Angeles of the future, where rich and poor are deeply polarized and where water, food, gas and education cannot be taken for granted. Series: California Fiction S. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 216 x 20. Weight in Grams: 324.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520207288
ISBN
9780520207288
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.88

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