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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc. United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780486424453
ISBN
9780486424453
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.33

Paperback. Published in 1890, The Slum is a tale of passion and greed with two intersecting story lines: a penny-pinching immigrant landlord who becomes a rich capitalist and discards his black lover for a wealthy white woman; and the innocent love affair between the immigrant and a mulata who live in a tenement owned by this landlord. Editor(s): Rosenthal, David H.; Graham, Richard; Sant'Anna, Alfonso Romano de. Series: Library of Latin America. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 344.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195121872
ISBN
9780195121872
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.30

Paperback. ONE DAY is the multi-million copy bestselling novel that brilliantly captures the experiences of a generation. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 28. Weight in Grams: 300 448pp
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Condition
New
SKU
9780340896983
ISBN
9780340896983
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.28

Paperback. Tells the story of Lyman Ward, a retired professor of history and author of books about the Western frontier, who returns to his ancestral home in the Sierra Nevada. Wheelchair-bound with a crippling bone disease, Ward embarks on a search to rediscover his grandmother, who made her own journey to Grass Valley nearly a 100 years earlier. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 30. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Edition
unknown
Condition
New
SKU
9780141188003
ISBN
9780141188003
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 14.48

Paperback. After seven years of marriage, the beautiful Lady Brenda Last is bored with life at Hetton Abbey, the Gothic mansion that is the pride and joy of her husband, Tony. She drifts into an affair with the shallow socialite John Beaver and forsakes Tony for the Belgravia set. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 216.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780141183961
ISBN
9780141183961
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.82

Paperback. The Bright Young Things of twenties Mayfair, with their paradoxical mix of innocence and sophistication, exercise their inventive minds and vile bodies in every kind of capricious escapade - whether promiscuity, dancing, cocktail parties or sports cars. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 166 x 199 x 15. Weight in Grams: 194.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Press
Condition
New
SKU
9780141182872
ISBN
9780141182872
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.82

Paperback. Tells the story of Charles Ryder's infatuation with the Marchmains and the rapidly disappearing world of privilege they inhabit. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 236.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780141182483
ISBN
9780141182483
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.45

paperback. Henry Wilt has for ten years been trying to teach English literature to his students at the Fenland College of Arts and Technology. He has become bored, frustrated and possibly murdereous, so Chief Inspector Flint suspects the worst when Henry's wife Eva goes missing. From the author of GRANTCHESTER GRIND. Series: Wilt Series. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 244.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Arrow
Condition
New
SKU
9780099435488
ISBN
9780099435488
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.27

paperback. A sensational international bestseller, and winner of Frances' coveted Prix Goncourt, 'The Lover' is an unforgettable portrayal of the incandescent relationship between two lovers, and of the hate that slowly tears the girl's family apart. Series: Harper Perennial Modern Classics. Num Pages: 144 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 7. Weight in Grams: 112.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Condition
New
SKU
9780007205004
ISBN
9780007205004
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 9.59

paperback. A companion piece to the captivating memoir GIVING UP THE GHOST by the Man Booker-winning author, this collection of loosely autobiographical stories locates the transforming moments of a haunted childhood. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 134.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Fourth Estate
Condition
New
SKU
9780007166442
ISBN
9780007166442
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.27

Paperback. WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 145 x 26. Weight in Grams: 266. Some minor shelf wear but overall in a very good condition
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSC0002366
ISBN
9781408809938
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

paperback. Series: Break Away Books. Num Pages: 188 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 5SG; FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 204 x 15. Weight in Grams: 244.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
188
Condition
New
Edition
Break Away Book Club
SKU
V9780253020628
ISBN
9780253020628
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.29

paperback. Num Pages: 313 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 133 x 18. Weight in Grams: 272.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Random House USA Inc United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
313
Condition
New
SKU
V9780679759287
ISBN
9780679759287
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 16.43

paperback. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 143 x 17. Weight in Grams: 306.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc. United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
SKU
V9780486468877
ISBN
9780486468877
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.81

Paperback. Touching and wonderfully funny, In Custody is woven around the yearnings and calamities of a small-town scholar in the north of India. An impoverished college lecturer, Deven, sees a way to escape from the meanness of his daily life when he is asked to interview India's greatest Urdu poet, Nur - a project that can only end in disaster. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 174.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099428497
ISBN
9780099428497
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.18

Paperback. Hannah and Humphrey Drayton seem to be happily married. Yet Hannah has reached the stage where she can't stand her husband. Every Thursday she meets with her friend, David Craventon, and they go to the cinema or the theatre. Yet when Humphrey finds out, her Thursday friend becomes her saviour. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 107 x 26. Weight in Grams: 192. Clean copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Corgi
Edition
New Ed
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KEX0245717
ISBN
9780552144384
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 133 x 19. Weight in Grams: 274.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Random House Trade Paperbacks
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780812972498
ISBN
9780812972498
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.84

Paperback. David Armitage - husband, father and failure - has lived the life of an unsuccessful screenwriter for eleven years. When one of his scripts is bought for television, David's life is transformed, more dramatically than he could have ever imagined. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 129 x 27. Weight in Grams: 282.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Cornerstone
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099469261
ISBN
9780099469261
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.87

mass_market. In bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith's ninth tale of Isabel Dalhousie, Edinburgh philosopher and sleuth, the victim of an important art theft appeals to her for help. Series: Isabel Dalhousie Novels. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 124 x 17. Weight in Grams: 206. Paperback, cover slightly scuffed, otherrwise in good condition.
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Abacus
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KRF2233785
ISBN
9780349138763
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 12.99
€ 4.99

paperback. A FRANK O'CONNOR AWARD-winning, simply stunning short-story collection by one of America's most critically acclaimed young writers. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 17. Weight in Grams: 214. Paperback, cover slightly scuffed, otherrwise in good condition.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Orion Publishing
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KRF2233782
ISBN
9781780222295
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 12.99
€ 4.99

paperback. Tells the story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom, set against the background of a land and a people riven by racial injustice. This work talks about love and hope, courage and endurance, born of the dignity of man. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 184.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
New
SKU
9780099766810
ISBN
9780099766810
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 10.95

Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JJP; APB; BGL; FA; KNTJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 25. Weight in Grams: 286. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Hachette Books Ireland
Edition
1st. Edition
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KHN0000661
ISBN
9780340898451
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

paperback. Num Pages: 572 pages. BIC Classification: 1FMM; FA; FJM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1202.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Monsoon Books Singapore
Number of pages
572
Condition
New
SKU
V9789810823825
ISBN
9789810823825
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.95

Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Monsoon Books
Condition
New
SKU
V9789814423380
ISBN
9789814423380
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.79

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