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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 135 x 18. Weight in Grams: 274. 240 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 199 x 135 x 18. Weight: 270.
Publisher
Langton & Wood
Number of pages
240
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
First Edition, First Printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9780955506703
ISBN
9780955506703
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 11.69

Paperback. From the Booker Prize-winning author of 'Offshore' comes this unusual romance between the poet Novalis and his fiancee Sophie, newly introduced by Candia McWilliam. Num Pages: 320 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FRH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 300.
Publisher
Flamingo
Number of pages
304
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
V9780006550198
ISBN
9780006550198
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.70

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Luath Press Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9781842820612
ISBN
9781842820612
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.06

Paperback. From one of Israel's most important and acclaimed contemporary writers Translator(s): Halkin, Hillel. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 26. Weight in Grams: 264. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Canongate Books
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0001280
ISBN
9781841952420
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Keywords: "Subjects - Romance - Authors, A-Z - B - Bingham, Charlotte,Subjects - Fiction - General" During the Second World War, Miranda and Ted are sent to the country with another young evacuee, Roberta (Bobbie), to live with Aunt Sophie and Aunt Prudence. And when the aunts die, Miranda, Tom and Bobbie - who have come to regard themselves as a family unit - are eventually parted, seemingly forever. The three find each other after the war. Num Pages: 566 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 110 x 35. Weight in Grams: 294
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
BANTAM
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Edition
New
SKU
KHS0058476
ISBN
9780553812749
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Johanne is a young woman in her twenties who lives with her mother. When she falls in love with Ivar, she finally feels ready to leave home. The couple plan a trip to America. But the morning of her departure, Johanne wakes up to find the door locked. Translator(s): Dawkin, Deborah. Num Pages: 174 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 138 x 198 x 16. Weight in Grams: 232.
Publisher
Peirene Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908670151
ISBN
9781908670151
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.41

Hardback. A novel, in which the narrator unexpectedly finds himself back in the world of his childhood: Switzerland in the 1940s. He returns to his childhood home to find his parents frantic because their son is missing. Then, in another switch, the young boy that he was back then turns up in the present of the early 1990s, during the Gulf War. Translator(s): McLaughlin, Donal. Series: SB - The Swiss List. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 136 x 212 x 17. Weight in Grams: 230.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857422118
ISBN
9780857422118
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 18.36

Hardcover. A European novel of racial mixing and "passing" in early twentieth-century America that serves as a unique account of transnational and transcultural racial attitudes that continue to reverberate today. Series: Studies in German Literature, Linguistics, and Culture. Num Pages: 182 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Weight in Grams: 666.
Publisher
Camden House
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781571139825
ISBN
9781571139825
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 98.42

Paperback. Presents a funny, bittersweet tale of love in the south of England. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 156. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSS0001826
ISBN
9780747557708
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. A novel that immerses us in the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family - Pauline, Cholly, Sam and Pecola - in post-Depression 1940s Ohio. It shows how the past savagely defines the present. Unlovely and unloved, Pecola prays each night for blue eyes like those of her privileged white schoolfellows. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 12. Weight in Grams: 166.
Publisher
Vintage
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
First Thus
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099759911
ISBN
9780099759911
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.05

Paperback. From the author of "Bilton", this is a funny, macabre thriller about jealousy, drugs, media-friendly Yorkshiremen, salmon fishing, modernist chair design and gruesome death (both accidental and premeditated), all set against a backdrop of beautiful Georgian architecture and the English countryside. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 14. Weight in Grams: 160. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0002089
ISBN
9780571212293
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Life is harsh in close-knit community of Dirrabeg, a community on the Dingle Peninsula facing extinction in the mid-1950's. Donal Hallpelly's bodhran playing brings him into conflict with Canon Tett, the ultraconservative local priest, determined to stamp out the last vestiges of paganism in his community. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 25. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
O´Brien Press Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9781847178855
ISBN
9781847178855
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 11.92

Paperback. Adam is a middle-aged playwright who accepts a tempting offer to have his mind transported into a younger body for six months. Youth restored, he embarks on an odyssey of physical hedonism, but must then face the dire consequences when he is loath to relinquish his new body.. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571333592
ISBN
9780571333592
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.50

Paperback. Trapped in the unrelenting grip of pain and heartache, Josh is losing his hold on reality. Having escaped to Bangkok, his life appeared to be turning around with a beautiful girlfriend, a roof over his head and a somewhat unconventional job. But then he took a call from somebody he thought he left behind a long time ago. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 24. Weight in Grams: 310.
Publisher
Legend Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
320
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9781908248268
ISBN
9781908248268
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 10.11

Paperback. The brilliant and funny new novel from the author hailed as 'one of his generation's most gifted writers' by the New York Times Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 186.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780747568285
ISBN
9780747568285
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.35

Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140. Weight in Grams: 367.
Publisher
Seven Stories Press,U.S.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Tra
Condition
New
SKU
V9781609807511
ISBN
9781609807511
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.27

Paperback. .
Publisher
Nazca Plains Corporation
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
V9781934625989
ISBN
9781934625989
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 5.21

Paperback. Num Pages: 236 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBC; FA; WSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 334.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
NeWest Press
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
236
Condition
New
SKU
V9781897126172
ISBN
9781897126172
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 17.39

Paperback. The dazzling new novel from the author of Cloud Atlas, at once the kaleidoscopic story of an unusual woman's life, a metaphysical thriller and a profound meditation on mortality and survival. Num Pages: 640 pages, 6. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 50. Weight in Grams: 438.
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
SKU
V9780340921623
ISBN
9780340921623
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.89

Paperback. Powerful and visionary, Keri Hulme has written the great New Zealand novel of our times. Num Pages: 560 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 37. Weight in Grams: 400.
Publisher
Picador
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Condition
New
SKU
V9780330485418
ISBN
9780330485418
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.33

Paperback. The highly acclaimed romantic tragedy of love, migration, and the search for identity from the Granta 'Best of Young British' author Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 133 x 197 x 29. Weight in Grams: 292.
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847679789
ISBN
9781847679789
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 15.99
€ 11.50

Paperback. A major novel from the internationally bestselling author of 'The Joy Luck Club', 'The Kitchen God's Wife' and 'The Hundred Secret Senses'. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 266.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780006550433
ISBN
9780006550433
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.70

Paperback. When his father is taken ill, Thomas hopes that he may be able to communicate honestly with him, as his father sets a formidable Christian example, and sort out his wayward life. But Thomas is a chronic liar, and athiest as well, and instead finds that once at home, he falls back into the disastrous and evasive patterns of his childhood years. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 132 x 17. Weight in Grams: 186. Clean copy with some shelf wear and yellowing
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
SKU
KOC0027055
ISBN
9780099453574
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. It's the midsummer ball at Oxford, and a group of men and women - friends since university days - have gathered under the stars. Included in this group is David Crimond, a genius and fervent Marxist. Num Pages: 624 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 39. Weight in Grams: 436.
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Condition
New
SKU
9780099433545
ISBN
9780099433545
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 11.08

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