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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. This novel chronicles the final decline of a poor white family in rural Georgia, who are exhorted by their patriarch, Ty Ty, to dig up their land in search of gold, and who thereby ruin it. Complex sexual entanglements and betrayals lead to a murder within the family that completes its dissolution. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 214 x 142 x 15. Weight in Grams: 272.
- Publisher
- University of Georgia Press
- Number of pages
- 232
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780820316635
- ISBN
- 9780820316635
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 21.80
€ 25.99
€ 21.80
Paperback. 'Richly nuanced and empathetic .. a vivid modern fable' Guardian From the winner of the Forward Prize, a magical and haunting novel set in the underbelly of Jamaica. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781474603614
- ISBN
- 9781474603614
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.04
€ 13.99
€ 11.04
Paperback. When Kolya moves into a new flat in Kiev, he discovers an annotated manuscript hidden inside a copy of War and Peace and decides to track down its author, even if it means digging up the grave of a Ukranian nationalist who died in mysterious circumstances. Translator(s): Bromfield, Andrew. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 24. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099513490
- ISBN
- 9780099513490
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.81
€ 20.99
€ 16.81
Paperback. Why does the same stranger keep appearing in the background of a family's holiday photographs? What makes a woman stand mesmerised by two children in a school playground, children she's never met but whose names she knows well? The stories in this title reveals these secrets. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Publisher
- SORT OF BOOKS
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780954899547
- ISBN
- 9780954899547
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.89
€ 10.99
€ 9.89
Paperback. Denmark's foremost literary author turns crime fiction on its head. Bess and Halland live in a small town, where everyone knows everyone else. When Halland is found murdered in the main square the police encounter only riddles. For Bess bereavement marks the start of a journey that leads her to a reassessment of first friends then family. Translator(s): Martin, Aitken. Num Pages: 189 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 16. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Publisher
- Peirene Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 189
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780956284075
- ISBN
- 9780956284075
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.69
€ 13.99
€ 11.69
Paperback. Set in the crossword and nature notes department of an obscure national newspaper during the declining years of Fleet Street, where John Dyson dreams wistfully of fame and the gentlemanly life - until one day his great chance of glory at last arrives. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 16. Weight in Grams: 194.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571315871
- ISBN
- 9780571315871
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.73
€ 13.99
€ 10.73
Paperback. Num Pages: 266 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 162 x 17. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Publisher
- Time Warner Trade Publishing United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781601625670
- ISBN
- 9781601625670
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.74
€ 19.99
€ 14.74
Paperback. Evokes a world in which squabbling couples, high school geniuses, misfit office workers, and small-town Lotharios struggle to adapt to changing technology, moral ambiguity, and unprecedented affluence. This work shows the anxieties of the postwar era. Num Pages: 272 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 21. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099548850
- ISBN
- 9780099548850
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.06
€ 13.99
€ 11.06
Paperback. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Publisher
- Darf Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Translation
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781850772880
- ISBN
- 9781850772880
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.51
€ 11.99
€ 10.51
Paperback. A novel of wine, women and sun with a plot that offers more twists than a corkscrew. This is a captivating new novel from the internationally bestselling author of A YEAR IN PROVENCE and BON APPETIT! Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 193 x 127 x 17. Weight in Grams: 182.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780751539660
- ISBN
- 9780751539660
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
€ 13.99
€ 11.09
Paperback. In these slippery stories the truth and the possible weave as unexpected lives, complicated minds and exotic spaces are sketched in with nimble words and quick wit. Ghosts torment from the past; future selves write back; the lost look about, find themselves watched, are lead astray. Num Pages: 250 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 202 x 21. Weight in Grams: 206.
- Publisher
- Parthian Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781910409688
- ISBN
- 9781910409688
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.44
€ 12.44
Paperback. Rand's passion is climbing - mountains, the huge vertical faces. There, where storms, snow, or rockfall can kill, he finds his happiness, sometimes climbing with others, sometimes alone. Not intending it, he becomes suddenly famous for a daring rescue in the Alps. This novel reveals what happens when passion is spent and what becomes of heroes? Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 15. Weight in Grams: 182.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141189581
- ISBN
- 9780141189581
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
Paperback. 'You're beautiful,' Johnny told her. So, full of hope, seventeen-year-old Felicia crosses the Irish Sea to England to find her lover and tell him she is pregnant. Desperately searching for Johnny in the bleak post-industrial Midlands, she is instead found by Mr Hilditch, a strange and lonely man, a collector and befriender of homeless young girls. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 15. Weight in Grams: 156.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141044620
- ISBN
- 9780141044620
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.00
€ 13.99
€ 11.00
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Dover Publications Inc.
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- Trade Paperback Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780486272757
- ISBN
- 9780486272757
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 6.56
€ 6.56
Paperback. Depicting the gradual disintegration of the Compson family through four fractured narratives, this novel explores intense, passionate family relationships where there is no love, only self-centredness. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 208.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Publication date
- 1995
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099475019
- ISBN
- 9780099475019
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 8.70
€ 8.70
Paperback. Ugandan Mary Tendo worked for many years in the white middle-class Henman household in London, cleaning for Vanessa and looking after her only child, Justin. More than ten years after Mary has left, Justin is too depressed to get out of bed. To his mother's surprise, he asks for Mary. This work confronts racism and class conflict with humour. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 131 x 25. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Publisher
- Saqi Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846590085
- ISBN
- 9781846590085
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.34
€ 11.34
Paperback. A classic novel from recent Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano, now available to English-language readers in a superb new translation Translator(s): Polizzotti, Mark. Series: The Margellos World Republic of Letters. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 15. Weight in Grams: 227.
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300215892
- ISBN
- 9780300215892
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.38
€ 18.99
€ 15.38
Paperback. As he's about to commit a massive act of violence, he finds himself shot back through time to resurface in the body of an FBI agent during the civil rights era, where he sees why 'Hell is Red River, Idaho, in the 1970s'. This book seeks an understanding of why human beings hate. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 137 x 9. Weight in Grams: 214.
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Harvill Secker
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846551529
- ISBN
- 9781846551529
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 15.11
€ 18.99
€ 15.11
Paperback. From master storyteller Danielle Steel comes another unforgettable tale of love, loss and new beginnings. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 175 x 119 x 24. Weight in Grams: 200. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- SKU
- KI20002897
- ISBN
- 9780751542448
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. The charming and entertaining new 44 Scotland Street novel from bestselling author Alexander McCall Smith. Series: 44 Scotland Street. Num Pages: 304 pages, 25 b/w illus. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 20. Weight in Grams: 246.
- Publisher
- Abacus
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349139166
- ISBN
- 9780349139166
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.04
€ 13.99
€ 11.04
Paperback. Stoyo Petkanov, the deposed Party leader of a former Soviet satellite country, is on trial. His adversary, the prosecutor general, stands for the new government's ideals and liberal certainties, and is attempting to ensare Petkanov with the dictator's own totalitarian laws. But he is not beaten yet. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 10. Weight in Grams: 116.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099540144
- ISBN
- 9780099540144
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
Paperback. Becky thought being married to Luke Brandon would be one big Tiffany box of happiness. But to be honest, it's not quite as dreamy as she'd hoped. The trouble started on honeymoon, when she told Luke the tiniest little fib, about the teeniest little purchase. Then she receives some incredible news. She has a long-lost sister. Series: Shopaholic. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 25. Weight in Grams: 276. Some minor shelf wear, but remains very good
- Edition
- paperback / softback
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KTJ0006745
- ISBN
- 9780552771115
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
paperback. A magnificent, essential work of fiction about the event which has come to define America at the turn of the twenty-first century. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 133 x 19. Weight in Grams: 188.
- Publisher
- Picador
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- Reprints
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781447224372
- ISBN
- 9780330524919
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 10.27
€ 12.99
€ 10.27
paperback. A collection of three works exploring the profound effects on protagonists who embark on psychological voyages of liberation. The first story offers a depiction of London's fashionable horse riding set. The second story portrays the intimacy between an aloof woman and her male guide, while the third deals with a woman's religious quest. Editor(s): Poplawski, Paul. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 202.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141441665
- ISBN
- 9780141441665
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.20
€ 17.99
€ 14.20