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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
paperback. Spanning three generations, this novel of family and myth is told through a series of flashbacks that depict events of staggering horror set against a landscape of gemlike beauty as the Chinese battle both the Japanese invaders and each other in the turbulent 1930s. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 28. Weight in Grams: 276.
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099451679
- ISBN
- 9780099451679
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.04
€ 13.99
€ 11.04
Paperback. Growing up in Kenya in the early twentieth century, the brothers Matu and Muthegi are raised according to customs that, they are told, have existed since the beginning of the world. But when the red' strangers come, sunburned Europeans who seek to colonize their homeland, the lives of the two Kikuyu tribesmen begin to change in dramatic new ways. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 26. Weight in Grams: 320.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141188508
- ISBN
- 9780141188508
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.24
€ 17.99
€ 14.24
paperback. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 145 x 225 x 14. Weight in Grams: 364.
- Publisher
- The American University in Cairo Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789774167379
- ISBN
- 9789774167379
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.17
€ 19.17
Paperback. Takes us through the lives of an engaging crew of misfits, fixers and ordinary good-hearted folk, set against the vivid natural backdrop of a mellow Alabama winter, along the riverside where birds and fish abound. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 168.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099490487
- ISBN
- 9780099490487
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. Eliza Duane Mooney is searching for a boy she has not seen in four years, one of the several children drawn into the war. His fate has been mysterious. It's a walk that will have consequences for many seemingly unconnected survivors. This novel is a tale of war and forgiveness, of strangers in a strange land, of love put to the ultimate test. Num Pages: 464 pages, ill. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 30. Weight in Grams: 338. Clean copy.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KEX0208241
- ISBN
- 9780099481522
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. The second novel by the international bestselling author of The Guilty One Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 198 x 33. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780749957278
- ISBN
- 9780749957278
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Paperback. Set in the summer of 1765, Redgauntlet centres around a third, fictitious Jacobite rebellion and a plot to enthrone the exiled Prince Charles Edward Stewart. The last of Scott's major Scottish novels, this is the only available critical edition. It reprints the Magnum text of 1832. Editor(s): Sutherland, Kathryn. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 512 pages. BIC Classification: FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 356.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 512
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199599578
- ISBN
- 9780199599578
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.70
€ 13.99
€ 11.70
Paperback. A haunting and elegiac love story set in a spoiled paradise, as vital and as relevant today as when it was first published Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 145 x 12. Weight in Grams: 142.
- Publisher
- Granta Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781783780303
- ISBN
- 9781783780303
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 9.99
€ 11.99
€ 9.99
Paperback. A novel set in post-9/11 New York City about a supermodel and the ultimate Broadway blockbuster. Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 156 x 13. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- MIT Press Ltd
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781584350309
- ISBN
- 9781584350309
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 17.85
€ 20.99
€ 17.85
Paperback. Translator(s): Dixon, A. Series: Signature. Num Pages: 90 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 133 x 9. Weight in Grams: 112.
- Publisher
- Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 90
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1971
- Edition
- New
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780714507101
- ISBN
- 9780714507101
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 8.23
€ 8.23
Paperback. Set on a Southern army base in the 1930s, this novel tells the story of Captain Penderton, a bisexual whose life is upset by the arrival of Major Langdon, a charming womanizer who has an affair with Penderton's tempestuous and flirtatious wife, Leonora. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 196 x 9. Weight in Grams: 104.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141184456
- ISBN
- 9780141184456
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
hardcover. Gives us Edmund Burke a new, vividly depicting his dazzling intellect, imagination and empathy against the rich tapestry of 18th century Europe. Editor(s): Norman, Jesse. Num Pages: 896 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 213 x 54. Weight in Grams: 998.
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841593654
- ISBN
- 9781841593654
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 16.53
€ 26.99
€ 16.53
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 198 x 14. Weight in Grams: 184.
- Publisher
- Carcanet Press Ltd.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910974230
- ISBN
- 9781910974230
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.39
€ 13.99
€ 13.39
Paperback. Editor(s): Herd, David. Series: Refugee Tales. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Publisher
- Comma Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910974308
- ISBN
- 9781910974308
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 13.47
€ 13.99
€ 13.47
Paperback. The poets and soldiers Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen are dispatched to Craiglockhart War Hospital in Scotland in 1917. There, army psychiatrist William Rivers is treating brutalised, shell-shocked men. It is Rivers' job to fix these men and make them ready to fight again. Series: Penguin Essentials. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 106 x 177 x 23. Weight in Grams: 198.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241970768
- ISBN
- 9780241970768
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.26
€ 11.99
€ 10.26
Paperback. Craiglockhart War Hospital, Scotland, 1917, and army psychiatrist William Rivers is treating shell-shocked soldiers. Under his care are the poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, as well as mute Billy Prior, who is only able to communicate by means of pencil and paper. Rivers's job is to make the men in his charge healthy enough to fight. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FJMF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 17. Weight in Grams: 184.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780141030937
- ISBN
- 9780141030937
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.33
€ 13.99
€ 10.33
Paperback. Lets you enjoy Christmas dinner with Begbie, and see how warmly Franco greets his sister's boyfriend and the news of their engagement. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 210.
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099506997
- ISBN
- 9780099506997
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. 'Relativity is a novel of assured and measured empathy, a story of familial love and familial hurt that is fair, honest and remarkably non-judgmental. Hayes is a convincing writer and a true storyteller: her characters are alive.' Christos Tsiolkas, author of THE SLAP Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 26. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472151704
- ISBN
- 9781472151704
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.26
€ 11.99
€ 10.26
Paperback. A prize-winning modern classic by the Man Booker shortlisted author Tom McCarthy. It contains a foreword by American scholar McKenzie Wark. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 229 x 31. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Publisher
- Alma Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846883804
- ISBN
- 9781846883804
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.86
€ 11.99
€ 10.86
Hardback. Translator(s): Berry, Michael. Series: Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FHP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231166003
- ISBN
- 9780231166003
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 99.24€ 76.26
€ 99.24
€ 76.26
Paperback. A stunningly imagined debut novel about the turbulent world of the master painter Rembrandt and the three women who shaped his life, seen through the eyes of his last great love and muse - a lowly housemaid. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 27. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782396765
- ISBN
- 9781782396765
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.01
€ 11.99
€ 10.01
Paperback. 'Remedy' is an agile and endearing debut about a single girl in Paris, who works in fashion and calls upon the saints to help her find the perfect man. Num Pages: 352 pages, b&w integrated line drawing illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 30. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Publisher
- Portobello Books
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846270925
- ISBN
- 9781846270925
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.23
€ 10.99
€ 9.23
Paperback. Charlie Grant, an intense young student at Glasgow University watches his father die. Overwhelmed by the memory of this humble yet dignified death, Charlie is left to face his own fierce resentment for his adulterous mother. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 17. Weight in Grams: 182.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 190
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782113041
- ISBN
- 9781782113041
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.75
€ 13.99
€ 10.75
Paperback. A savagely satirical tale of marital revenge. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers London
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007109265
- ISBN
- 9780007109265
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.68
€ 13.99
€ 11.68