Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. Reassembles the Charles W Chesnutt's work in the conjure tale genre. This work allows the reader to see how the original volume was created, how an African American author negotiated with the tastes of the dominant literary culture of the late nineteenth century, and how that culture both promoted and delimited his work. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 143 x 15. Weight in Grams: 340.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822313878
- ISBN
- 9780822313878
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 25.41
€ 26.99
€ 25.41
Paperback. The Time Machine (1895) is H. G. Wells's first published novel as well as his most enduring and influential work. Editor(s): Arata, Stephen. Series: Norton Critical Editions. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 213 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- WW Norton & Co United States
- Edition
- Norton Critical Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780393927948
- ISBN
- 9780393927948
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 22.50
€ 22.50
Hardcover. Num Pages: 372 pages. BIC Classification: FA. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2023
- Publisher
- LITTLE BROWN IMPORTS
- Number of pages
- 372
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780316129374
- ISBN
- 9780316129374
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 31.49
€ 40.99
€ 31.49
Paperback. The portrait of a New Orleans stockbroker, Binx Bolling, turning thirty and caught between ennui and a need for redemption through women, family or personal revelation, 'The Moviegoer' won the National Book Award in the USA on its first publication in 1961. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 246.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Methuen Publishing Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780413773272
- ISBN
- 9780413773272
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.00
€ 19.99
€ 14.00
Paperback. *The cult TV series now becomes a major film Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 208. Good copy with some minor shelf wear.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Abacus
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KTG0001436
- ISBN
- 9780349121161
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. Translator(s): Singerman, Alan J (Davidson College). Num Pages: black & white illustrations, black & white halftones. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 243 x 160 x 22. Weight in Grams: 485.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Pennsylvania State University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780271063911
- ISBN
- 9780271063911
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 74.94€ 63.23
€ 74.94
€ 63.23
Vain when a prince, as king Sihanouk discovered his responsibility to his country and came to embody Cambodia. He used every means to keep his country growing, healthy, and out of the wars of Southeast Asia. This play begins with Sihanouk's abdication in 1955 and ends with his arrest by the Khmer Rouge two decades later. Translator(s): MacCannell, Juliet Flower; Pike, Judith; Groth, Lollie. Series: European Women Writers. Num Pages: 233 pages, Introduction, translators' preface, notes. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 378.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 233
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803263611
- ISBN
- 9780803263611
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.79
€ 32.99
€ 29.79
Paperback. Four men. One dangerous secret. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 272. Fine copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KJE0003515
- ISBN
- 9780747596332
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
Paperback. From the author of 'Blonde', 'The Falls' and 'We Were the Mulvaneys', this new novel takes in the themes of race, immigration, family and social mobility, and is Joyce Carol Oates at her storytelling best. Num Pages: 600 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 38. Weight in Grams: 440. Fine copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KJE0003514
- ISBN
- 9780007258468
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
Paperback. Nine men. Each of them at a different stage of life, each of them away from home, and each of them striving - in the suburbs of Prague, beside a Belgian motorway, in a cheap Cypriot hotel - to understand just what it means to be alive, here and now. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 309. Fine copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KJE0003513
- ISBN
- 9780099593690
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
Paperback. * From the author of the magnificent, award-winning GILEAD comes a masterpiece novel that returns to the people and places of Gilead. Winner of the ORANGE PRIZE Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 282. Fine copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KJE0003505
- ISBN
- 9781844085507
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
Paperback. Shalimar the Clown was once a figure full of love and laughter. His skill as a tightrope walker was legendary in his native home of Kashmir. But fate has played him cruelly, torn him away from his beloved home and brought him to Los Angeles, where he works as a chauffeur. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 25. Weight in Grams: 292. Fine copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KJE0003432
- ISBN
- 9780099421887
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
Paperback. The residents of Pepys Road, London - a banker and his shopaholic wife, an elderly woman dying of a brain tumour, the Pakistani family who run the local shop, the young football star from Senegal and his minder - all receive anonymous postcards with a simple message: We Want What You Have. Who is behind it? What do they want? Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 199 x 38. Weight in Grams: 438. Fine copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KJE0003391
- ISBN
- 9780571234622
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
Paperback. Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage floundering. But this time it is different: his wife is having the affair, and he is still in love with her. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 288. Fine copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KJE0003387
- ISBN
- 9780099549024
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
Paperback. A doctor to the rich and famous goes to extreme lengths to protect his daughter in this dark and addictive novel from the author of the million-copy bestseller The Dinner Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 129 x 33. Weight in Grams: 312. Fine copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KJE0003376
- ISBN
- 9781782390725
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
Paperback. A novel by the author of "Asylum". Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 212. Fine copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KJE0003372
- ISBN
- 9780747574156
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
Paperback. Stifled by the torpor of colonial South Africa and trapped in a web of reciprocal oppression, a lonely sheep farmer seeks comfort in the arms of a black concubine. But when his embittered spinster daughter Magda feels shamed, this lurch across the racial divide marks the end of a tenuous feudal peace. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 11. Weight in Grams: 132. Fine copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KJE0003354
- ISBN
- 9780099465942
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
Paperback. Gustav Hackendahl's will is law. Known as 'Iron Gustav', he runs his family and his Berlin carriage business with stern, unyielding discipline. But his children have wills of their own, and soon they slip from his control - some to better lives, some towards disaster. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 608 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 133 x 27. Weight in Grams: 408. Fine copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KJE0003333
- ISBN
- 9780141196534
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
Paperback. A new novel from Paulo Coelho, author of The Alchemist. Translator(s): Hopkinson, Amanda; Caistor, Nick. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 170. Fine copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KJE0003322
- ISBN
- 9780007116058
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
Paperback. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 330. Fine copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Poolbeg Press Ltd
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KJE0003308
- ISBN
- 9781781999530
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
Paperback. Mags keeps everything safe in the box. Letters. Postcards. Photographs. Each memento plays a role in the secret story that's always in her thoughts. A story that can't remain hidden forever. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 24. Weight in Grams: 226. Fine copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Hachette Books Ireland
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KJE0003289
- ISBN
- 9781473618084
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
Paperback. 'Like A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD written by Tina Fey' (Sam Baker, RED). The 2013 Women's Prize shortlisted, NEW YORK TIMES bestseller. Includes Reading Group Notes. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 20. Weight in Grams: 262. Fine copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KJE0003282
- ISBN
- 9781780221243
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
Paperback. Tells the story of Frank and April Wheeler, a bright, beautiful, and talented couple whose empty suburban life is held together by the dream that greatness is only just round the corner. The author shows how Frank and April mortgage their hopes and ideals, betraying in the end not only each other, but their own best selves. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 22. Weight in Grams: 248. Fine copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KJE0003271
- ISBN
- 9780099518624
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 11.99€ 10.33
€ 11.99
€ 10.33
Paperback. A novel from an American writer. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 14. Weight in Grams: 176. Fine copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KJE0003259
- ISBN
- 9780747574651
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.70
€ 5.70