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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Hardcover. These African experiences are recorded through the eyes of an African who is at once a participant and an observer, the latter due to the fact that he has come home on vacation from Europe. The reader is exposed to a variety of settings in the author's native Togo: middle-class city life, urban slums, and life in a village. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 163 x 14. Weight in Grams: 374.
Publisher
Associated University Presses United States
Number of pages
112
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Condition
New
SKU
V9780838640203
ISBN
9780838640203
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.09

Paperback. Ranging from the ultra realistic "Some Hours in the Life of a Witch" to the surreal fantasy world of "Fulfilment" and "The Wife of Bath", the stories in this book describe ordinary and not so ordinary lives, and the lives of women in particular, in the feminist and post-feminist era in Ireland. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 217 x 11. Weight in Grams: 244.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Cork University Press
Condition
New
SKU
9781855942011
ISBN
9781855942011
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 10.60

Paperback. When Vic Wilcox (MD of Pringle's engineering works) meets English lecturer Dr Robyn Penrose, sparks fly as their lifestyles and ideologies collide head on. What, after all, are they supposed to learn from each other? But in time both parties make some surprising discoveries about each other's worlds - and about themselves. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 214.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099554189
ISBN
9780099554189
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.10

Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FR; WH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 25. Weight in Grams: 280.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781408876947
ISBN
9781408876947
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.93

Paperback. Editor(s): Riviere, Daniele. Num Pages: 128 pages, 45 b & w illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 280 x 220 x 13. Weight in Grams: 263.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Dis Voir France
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9782914563567
ISBN
9782914563567
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 27.11

Paperback. "Combining a Houellebecq-like sense of the psychic malaise beneath the surface of contemporary cultural life with the disspassionate voice of a police report, Nicola, Milan tells a story of perverse, asexual frenzy emptying out into the void"--Back cover. Series: Semiotext(e) / Native Agents. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 156 x 10. Weight in Grams: 208.
Publisher
Autonomedia
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781584351283
ISBN
9781584351283
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 14.91

Paperback. Presents a portrait of the Nietzsches we know and the Nietzsches we don't, the one who killed off God, unmoored language from the things to which it refers, and invented the notions of the Ubermensch and Eternal Recurrence. This book offers an experience of Nietzsche's criti-fictional imagination, internal dividedness, and existential alienation. Num Pages: 230 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 15. Weight in Grams: 348.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
230
Condition
New
SKU
V9781573661270
ISBN
9781573661270
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99

Paperback. Lying on a four-poster bed, unable to sleep, Mary Hooligan recounts (mis)adventures, courtships, and sexual encounters of the most transgressive kind, in a narrative voice of blistering originality. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 11. Weight in Grams: 128.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571270293
ISBN
9780571270293
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.75

Paperback.
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Baen Books United States
Number of pages
508
Condition
New
Format
Paperback
SKU
V9781476736181
ISBN
9781476736181
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.83

Paperback. Virginia Woolf portrays her elder sister Vanessa in the person of Katharine Hilbery - the gifted daughter of a distinguished literary family, trapped in an environment which will not allow her to express herself. This title deals with their story. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 131 x 31. Weight in Grams: 376.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
528
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099982708
ISBN
9780099982708
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.10

Paperback. Katharine Hilbery is beautiful and privileged, but uncertain of her future. She must choose between becoming engaged to the oddly prosaic poet William Rodney, and her dangerous attraction to the passionate Ralph Denham. Num Pages: 496 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 352.
Publisher
Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Edition
Revised ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140185683
ISBN
9780140185683
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.82

Paperback. On the side of a mountain, in eighteenth century Japan, sits a man in perfect stillness as the summit erupts, spitting fire and molten rock onto the land around him. The man is Hakuin. He will become the world's most famous teacher of zen. This is not the first time he has seen hell. Num Pages: 464 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 198 x 30. Weight in Grams: 314.
Publisher
Canongate Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857868541
ISBN
9780857868541
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.54

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Bella Books United States
Number of pages
242
Condition
New
SKU
V9781602820319
ISBN
9781602820319
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.49

Paperback. A terrifying and eerie thriller where the nightmare is real. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FH; FK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Headline Publishing Group
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781472248251
ISBN
9781472248251
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.10

Paperback. Mma has just buried her mother, and now she is alone. She has been left everything. But she's also inherited her mother's bad name. A bold, brash woman, the only thing her mother refused to discuss was her past. Why did she flee her family and bring her daughter to a new town when she was a baby? What was she escaping from? Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 137 x 20. Weight in Grams: 296.
Publisher
Vintage United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780224093835
ISBN
9780224093835
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 16.89

Paperback. The gripping lost masterpiece novel of wartime Vienna. Num Pages: 640 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 126 x 32. Weight in Grams: 446.
Publisher
Abacus
Number of pages
640
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780349000336
ISBN
9780349000336
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.47

Paperback. On a damp October night the body of beautiful Ashley Cordova is discovered in a Manhattan warehouse. Though her death is ruled a suicide, investigative journalist Scott McGrath suspects otherwise. The last time McGrath got too close to the Cordova dynasty, he lost his marriage and his career. This time he could lose his mind. Num Pages: 624 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 39. Weight in Grams: 496.
Publisher
Windmill Books
Number of pages
624
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099559245
ISBN
9780099559245
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.85

Paperback. Num Pages: 135 pages, illus. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 202.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1983
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S. United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
135
Condition
New
SKU
V9780873511674
ISBN
9780873511674
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 17.80

hardcover. Reinforces the Viennese author's remarkable achievement as literary modernist, depth psychologist, and prose stylist. Translator(s): Schaefer, Margret. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 155 x 27. Weight in Grams: 544.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Ivan R. Dee United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Edition
Translation
SKU
V9781566633864
ISBN
9781566633864
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 39.57

Num Pages: 226 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 133 x 23. Weight in Grams: 364.
Publication date
2005
Publisher
M P Publishing Limited United Kingdom
Number of pages
226
Condition
New
SKU
V9781849822022
ISBN
9781849822022
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.10

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