Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. Obi Okonkwo is an idealistic young man who has now returned to Nigeria for a job in the civil service. However in his new role he finds that the way of government seems to be corruption. Obi manages to resist the bribes offered to him, but when he falls in love with an unsuitable girl, he sinks further into emotional and financial turmoil. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 9. Weight in Grams: 114.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141191553
- ISBN
- 9780141191553
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
€ 13.99
€ 11.09
paperback.
- Publisher
- Norton & Company
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1973
- Edition
- 8th
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780811204811
- ISBN
- 9780811204811
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 14.29
€ 15.99
€ 14.29
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781509839193
- ISBN
- 9781509839193
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.34
€ 25.99
€ 19.34
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 107 x 21. Weight in Grams: 172.
- Publisher
- Corgi
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1978
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780552075831
- ISBN
- 9780552075831
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.10
€ 13.99
€ 11.10
Num Pages: 358 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 173 x 108 x 25. Weight in Grams: 176.
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Strebor Books International, LLC United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781593093488
- ISBN
- 9781593093488
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.83
€ 9.83
paperback. A stunning evocation of the shifting emotional landscape of a man who has lost his way and a daughter who cannot find her father, No One is an intimate novel of love and loss. Translator(s): Selous, Trista. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 172.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Tin House Books United States
- Number of pages
- 112
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Translation
- SKU
- V9781935639220
- ISBN
- 9781935639220
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 13.87
€ 14.99
€ 13.87
Paperback. This bestselling, critically acclaimed short story collection is being canonised Series: Canons. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 130 x 13. Weight in Grams: 172.
- Publisher
- Canongate Canons
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782116295
- ISBN
- 9781782116295
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.79
€ 13.99
€ 10.79
Paperback. Num Pages: 310 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 156 x 215 x 20. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster United States
- Edition
- Reprint
- Number of pages
- 310
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781439178102
- ISBN
- 9781439178102
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.80
€ 19.99
€ 18.80
Paperback. Communication or the lack thereof is the subject of this sly update of the picaresque. Num Pages: 199 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 356 x 225 x 15. Weight in Grams: 294.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Dalkey Archive Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781564789600
- ISBN
- 9781564789600
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.58
€ 16.99
€ 15.58
paperback. Fridays are different. Every other day of the week, the Colonel and his ailing wife fight a constant battle against poverty and monotony, scraping together the dregs of their savings for the food and medicine that keeps them alive. But on Fridays the postman comes - and that sets a fleeting wave of hope rushing through the Colonel's ageing heart. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 6. Weight in Grams: 66.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780241968734
- ISBN
- 9780241968734
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 10.33
€ 14.99
€ 10.33
Paperback. Wife, mother and journalist Jess finds her usually cheery muddle of family life turned upside down when her husband Matt is unexpectedly made redundant. For instead of looking upon it as the disaster it is, he sees it as the perfect opportunity to indulge in some kind of second adolescence. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 12. Weight in Grams: 220. Keywords: "Subjects - Fiction - Genre - Family Sagas,Subjects - Fiction - Authors, A-Z - A - Astley, Judy,Subjects - Fiction - General,Subjects - Fiction - Contemporary Fiction: 1970 Onwards - Women's Popular Fi"
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- KHS0048846
- ISBN
- 9780552147644
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Wife, mother and journalist Jess finds her usually cheery muddle of family life turned upside down when her husband Matt is unexpectedly made redundant. For instead of looking upon it as the disaster it is, he sees it as the perfect opportunity to indulge in some kind of second adolescence. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 12. Weight in Grams: 220. A fine reading copy
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- KRS0016790
- ISBN
- 9780552147644
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. In the grand tradition of Josephine Cox and Catherine Cookson Num Pages: 544 pages, n/a. BIC Classification: FA; FT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 175 x 112 x 36. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton General Division United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 544
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780340738603
- ISBN
- 9780340738603
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.26
€ 11.99
€ 10.26
Paperback. Hailed as Elizabeth Spencer s best novel (Michael Gorra, New York Review of Books), this lost masterpiece of mid-century America finally returns to print." Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 209 x 139. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- W W Norton & Co Ltd United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781631490637
- ISBN
- 9781631490637
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Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 16.02
€ 16.99
€ 16.02
Paperback. Winner of the Naguib Mahfouz Medal for Literature Translator(s): Booth, Marilyn. Series: Hoopoe Fiction. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBL; FA; FW; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 130 x 25. .
- Publisher
- Hoopoe Fiction
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789774168178
- ISBN
- 9789774168178
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 19.01
€ 20.99
€ 19.01
Paperback. A classic novel of terror from Richard Laymon Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 113 x 24. Weight in Grams: 252. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Headline Publishing Group
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0006573
- ISBN
- 9780747267300
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. A heart-warming and hilarious novel about four girls looking for Mr Right by internationally renowned and bestselling author. Her critically acclaimed YA novel, 'Does My Head Look Big in This' sold over 25,000 copies in the UK. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 25. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Publisher
- Saqi Books
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780863567117
- ISBN
- 9780863567117
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 14.50
€ 14.99
€ 14.50
Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 174 x 105 x 39. Weight in Grams: 214.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Kensington Publishing
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781622867325
- ISBN
- 9781622867325
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.18
€ 10.18
Paperback. This haunting, elegiac tale about the secret love of a man destined shortly to die, was published in the year before the author's death and is her last novel. She also wrote "All Passion Spent", "The Edwardians", "Family History", "Seducers in Ecuador" and "The Heir". Series: VMC. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 127 x 11. Weight in Grams: 110.
- Publisher
- Virago
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1985
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780860685784
- ISBN
- 9780860685784
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
€ 13.99
€ 11.09
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Bella Books United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781594933073
- ISBN
- 9781594933073
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.38
€ 17.99
€ 17.38
Paperback. An Irish, contemporary romantic comedy about relationships and what happens when the romance wears off Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 314. Clean copy in good condition. Some shelf wear.
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Headline Review
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- SKU
- KRF0009138
- ISBN
- 9780755328475
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. An Irish, contemporary romantic comedy about relationships and what happens when the romance wears off Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 314. Good clean copy with some reader wear.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Headline Review
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KTM0005729
- ISBN
- 9780755328475
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Set in 1968, this story is narrated by twelve-year-old Gilles as he approaches his Solemn Communion, puberty, and some sense of the chaos around him. His home is deeply dysfunctional, and Gilles is blithely unaware that any of this is out of the ordinary. There is a deeper trauma here, however, far more shocking that Gilles could have dreamt of. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 34. Weight in Grams: 352.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 528
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099428831
- ISBN
- 9780099428831
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.51
€ 10.99
€ 9.51
Paperback. A majestic novel about post-Independence South Africa by the Nobel laureate and Booker Prize winner Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 137 x 26. Weight in Grams: 352. 432 pages. A majestic novel about post-Independence South Africa by the Nobel laureate and Booker Prize winner. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 202 x 137 x 26. Weight: 298.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781408831267
- ISBN
- 9781408831267
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.32
€ 17.99
€ 14.32