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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. Even as a young man, Hamid Farsi is acclaimed as a master of the art of calligraphy. But as time goes by, he sees that weaknesses in the Arabic language and its script limit its uses in the modern world. In a secret society, he works out schemes for radical reform, never guessing what risks he is running. Num Pages: 450 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 135 x 36. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Publisher
- Haus Publishing
- Number of pages
- 450
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781906697280
- ISBN
- 9781906697280
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.44
€ 17.99
€ 13.44
Paperback. A magical retelling of the myth of Eldorado, the Enchanted City of the Amazon, by one of Brazil's most acclaimed writers Translator(s): Gledson, John. Series: Myths. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 218 x 142 x 14. Weight in Grams: 196.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781847673008
- ISBN
- 9781847673008
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.74
€ 13.99
€ 10.74
paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 28 x 112 x 176. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Hachette Books Ireland Dublin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- SKU
- KNW0014530
- ISBN
- 9780340831564
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardcover. In these three sea stories, based on his own experience, the author invests his portraits of mundane steamers and their crews with epic qualities of fortitude and courage in the face of overwhelming natural odds. Num Pages: 305 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 135 x 211 x 27. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Publisher
- Everyman United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 305
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857150049
- ISBN
- 9781857150049
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 15.82
€ 20.99
€ 15.82
Paperback. When she was still a child, Lucy Nelson had her alcoholic failure of a father thrown in jail. Ever since then she has been trying to reform the men around her, even if that ultimately means destroying herself in the process. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 234.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099484998
- ISBN
- 9780099484998
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
€ 13.99
€ 11.02
paperback. An atmospheric, vibrant and moving tale of pain and passion at the heart of war-torn Spain, from the million-copy bestselling author of The Island Num Pages: 592 pages, Map. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 38. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Publisher
- Headline Review
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780755332953
- ISBN
- 9780755332953
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Paperback Original
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781471154942
- ISBN
- 9781471154942
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 8.46
€ 9.99
€ 8.46
Paperback. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 112 x 39. Weight in Grams: 310. Well-read paperback, in good condition. Some shelf wear.
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Poolbeg Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- SKU
- KRF0030442
- ISBN
- 9781842233146
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. 'Not since Colin MacInnes's City of Spades and Absolute Beginners thirty years ago has a novel stuck a flick-knife so accurately into the young and marginal city' The Times Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 199 x 18. Weight in Grams: 198. 288 pages. 'Not since Colin MacInnes's City of Spades and Absolute Beginners thirty years ago has a novel stuck a flick-knife so accurately into the young and marginal city' The Times. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 164 x 199 x 18. Weight: 198.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857862716
- ISBN
- 9780857862716
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.50
€ 13.00
€ 11.50
Paperback. The story of two young Jewish girls living in a village in Persia at the turn of the century. Nazie has been long engaged to her cousin and anxiously awaits their marriage whilst Flora is married, pregnant and seemingly abandoned. Translator(s): Lotan, Yael. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 131 x 18. Weight in Grams: 168.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841955100
- ISBN
- 9781841955100
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.73
€ 13.99
€ 10.73
Paperback. Features stories ranging from teenagers coming into awareness of their sexual and artistic powers to humdrum housewives whose lives are shattered by unexpected epiphanies to old people who don't know what to do with themselves. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 672 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 34. Weight in Grams: 468.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141197388
- ISBN
- 9780141197388
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.04
€ 19.99
€ 15.04
Paperback. Tells of Arthur Koestler's travels through Russia and remote parts of Soviet Central Asia and of his life as an exile. This book puts in perspective his experiences in Franco's prisons under sentence of death and in concentration camps in Occupied France, and ends with his escape from there in 1940 to England, where he found stability and a home. Num Pages: 528 pages, Illustrations, 1 map, ports. BIC Classification: BGLA; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 34. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics London
- Number of pages
- 528
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099490685
- ISBN
- 9780099490685
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.04
€ 19.99
€ 15.04
Paperback. An affecting, evocative and often funny story of the ultimate British immigrant, a man who fits in everywhere and nowhere, who cannot help but cause harm to those around him, but ultimately, inspires love. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 24. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Publisher
- Headline Publishing Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 368
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780755383405
- ISBN
- 9780755383405
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 12.54
€ 13.00
€ 12.54
Paperback. Savagely funny, compelling and a cult classic, A Private Place has struck a chord with generations. It's now available with a new afterword by the author. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 19. Weight in Grams: 200.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Digital original
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780349139548
- ISBN
- 9780349139548
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.85
€ 13.00
€ 11.85
Paperback. The stunning and emotional second novel in the Chadwick Family trilogy set in Devonshire Num Pages: 512 pages, genealogy tab. BIC Classification: FA; FT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 113 x 32. Weight in Grams: 280.
- Publisher
- Headline Publishing Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780747259978
- ISBN
- 9780747259978
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
€ 13.99
€ 11.09
Paperback. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 197 x 27. Weight in Grams: 298.
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781509801671
- ISBN
- 9781509801671
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.43
€ 10.99
€ 9.43
Paperback. It isn't just Nanny who finds it difficult in France when Grace and her young son Sigi are finally able to join her dashing aristocratic husband Charles-Edouard after the war. For Grace is out of her depth among the fashionably dressed and immaculately coiffured French women, and shocked by their relentless gossiping and bedhopping. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 182.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241974728
- ISBN
- 9780241974728
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.09
€ 13.99
€ 11.09
Paperback. Translator(s): Malberg, Carl. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 217 x 57. Weight in Grams: 632.
- Publisher
- Nordisk Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780995485204
- ISBN
- 9780995485204
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.39
€ 16.99
€ 13.39
Paperback. Ring the bells and lock up your homes. Karen Maitland, author of the bestselling Company of Liars, is back. And so is the plague.. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FM; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Headline Publishing Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472235862
- ISBN
- 9781472235862
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.47
€ 17.99
€ 13.47
Paperback. The brilliant second novel from GMTV's Penny Smith. A sequel to 'Coming Up Next', Katie Fisher's back in front of the cameras, but not exactly on the sofa. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 26. Weight in Grams: 286.
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- SKU
- KLN0014231
- ISBN
- 9780007315284
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99