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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. An epic spanning three generations, Leaves of the Banyan Tree tells the story of a family and community in Western Samoa, exploring on a grand scale such universal themes as greed, corruption, colonialism, exploitation, and revenge. Winner of the 1980 New Zealand Wattie Book of the Year Award, it is considered a classic work of Pacific literature. Series: Talanoa: contemporary Pacific literature. Num Pages: 424 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 27. Weight in Grams: 569.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Univ Hawaii Pr
Condition
New
SKU
V9780824815844
ISBN
9780824815844
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.86

Paperback. "A delight" says Nobel-prize winning poet Derek Walcott. Lawrence Scott explores a Caribbean world of yearnings and memory, of escape and return underpinned by the disturbing tensions wrought by religion, race, sexuality and crime. Sensuous and evocative, Scott's prose has a glorious lightness of touch and tone that exhilarates and illuminates. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 137 x 14. Weight in Grams: 244.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Papillote Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780957118782
ISBN
9780957118782
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.74

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Bella Books United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9781594932212
ISBN
9781594932212
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 16.27

Paperback. Walk to orchard .. Check inside paper sack: extra diapers, two bottles, four cans of Borden's evaporated milk, five twenty-dollar bills. Set infant under most plentiful tree. Run. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
Publisher
Blackfriars
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349134475
ISBN
9780349134475
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.31

Paperback. Num Pages: 162 pages. BIC Classification: 5SL; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 203 x 11. Weight in Grams: 214.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Caitlin Press Canada
Number of pages
162
Condition
New
SKU
V9781894759748
ISBN
9781894759748
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.90

Paperback. Veering between the comic and tragic, the self-contemptuous and the inspired, Leaving the Atocha Station is a dazzling introduction to one of the smartest, funniest and most audacious writers of a generation Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 131 x 12. Weight in Grams: 140.
Publisher
Granta Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847086914
ISBN
9781847086914
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.75

Paperback. Ben Marcus's highly anticipated new short story collection - his first since his extraordinary debut The Age of Wire and String Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 200.
Publisher
Granta Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847086365
ISBN
9781847086365
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.66

Paperback. On the night of her thirteenth birthday, Jane Howard made a vow to her warring parents - she would never get married and she would never have children. But life, as Jane discovers, is a random business. Many years and many lives later, she is a professor in Boston, in love with an erratic man named Theo. And then she falls pregnant. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 38. Weight in Grams: 416.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Arrow
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099509684
ISBN
9780099509684
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 18.58

Paperback. Number One bestselling author Jodi Picoult returns with her compulsive new novel - about the lengths we go to for those who have left us behind; about the staying power of love; and about how three broken souls might have just the right pieces to mend each other. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 33. Weight in Grams: 342. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
SKU
KIN0034605
ISBN
9781444778168
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Number One bestselling author Jodi Picoult returns with her compulsive new novel - about the lengths we go to for those who have left us behind; about the staying power of love; and about how three broken souls might have just the right pieces to mend each other. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 33. Weight in Grams: 342. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KHN0000948
ISBN
9781444778168
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Number One bestselling author Jodi Picoult returns with her compulsive new novel - about the lengths we go to for those who have left us behind; about the staying power of love; and about how three broken souls might have just the right pieces to mend each other. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 33. Weight in Grams: 342. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KRA0011784
ISBN
9781444778168
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Hardback. A collection of stories, in which moments of change, chance encounters, the twist of fate leads a person to a new way of thinking or being. It presents a radiant, indelible portrait of just how dangerous and strange ordinary life can be. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 248.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1940
Publisher
I.T.S.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781870166393
ISBN
9781870166393
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 41.54

Hardback. A collection of stories, in which moments of change, chance encounters, the twist of fate leads a person to a new way of thinking or being. It presents a radiant, indelible portrait of just how dangerous and strange ordinary life can be. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 248.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1939
Publisher
Irish Texts Society
Condition
New
SKU
V9781870166355
ISBN
9781870166355
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 41.54

Hardback. A collection of stories, in which moments of change, chance encounters, the twist of fate leads a person to a new way of thinking or being. It presents a radiant, indelible portrait of just how dangerous and strange ordinary life can be. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 248.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1941
Publisher
I.T.S.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781870166416
ISBN
9781870166416
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 41.99
€ 41.54

Paperback. A novel that tells a story of life, death, love, and the ties that bind us not only to what has been but what will be: the power of one moment, the weight of one decision, the inevitability of one outcome, and the price of one life. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 308.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9781573661461
ISBN
9781573661461
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99

Paperback. .
Publisher
Bantam
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9780553818123
ISBN
9780553818123
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.97

Paperback. Steeped in the tradition of the Indian epic, yet modern and vastly entertaining. The Times (London)" Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 139 x 30. Weight in Grams: 350.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
WW Norton & Co United States
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
SKU
V9780393343939
ISBN
9780393343939
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 18.28

Paperback. Intoxicating, witty and delicious, like Paris itself Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 24. Weight in Grams: 264. Good clean copy showing minor shelf and reading wear, remains a nice copy
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Headline Review
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
SKU
KSG0011647
ISBN
9780755325023
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140. Weight in Grams: 666.
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781681774107
ISBN
9781681774107
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.21

Paperback.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Pocket Books
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
SKU
KNW0007957
ISBN
9781847393128
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

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