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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

paperback. Faulkner's final novel is a tale of three Mississippi travellers. Ned, Boon and young Lucius travel to Memphis in a stolen car to find love and fortune. Once there, Ned trades in the car for a racehorse, Lucius comes of age, and Boon sets about trying to win the heart of a prostitute named 'Miss Corrie'. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 126 x 23. Weight in Grams: 210.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1990
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
9780099542360
ISBN
9780099542360
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 10.60

paperback. From the author of the cult classic The 13 1/2 Lives of Captain Bluebear comes another fantastical journey into Zamonia. This captivating story from the unique imagination of Walter Moers is astonishingly inventive, amusing and engrossing. Num Pages: 688 pages, line drawings. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 156 x 50. Weight in Grams: 894.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
9780099472223
ISBN
9780099472223
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 20.97

paperback. Reflects the consequences of 9/11, that forces us to confront the blackness of night even as it celebrates the existence of ordinary joys in a world capable of the most grotesque violence. This novel presents the story of a seventy-two-year-old August Brill is recovering from a car accident in his daughter's house in Vermont. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 14. Weight in Grams: 158.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Faber & Faber, London
Condition
New
SKU
9780571240777
ISBN
9780571240777
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.64

paperback. Tells the story of Anna Blume and her journey to find her lost brother, William, in the unnamed City. The author takes us to an unspecified and devastated world in which the self disappears amidst the horrors that surround us. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 16. Weight in Grams: 168.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Faber And Faber Ltd.
Condition
New
SKU
9780571227303
ISBN
9780571227303
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.64

Paperback. An epic novel recounting the experiences of people living under the German occupation of northern France during World War I. Num Pages: 504 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 156 x 35. Weight in Grams: 762.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press Canada
Number of pages
504
Condition
New
SKU
V9780773547544
ISBN
9780773547544
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 37.99
€ 34.12

Paperback. Rebuilding her life in a different town, the taciturn Elsie finds modest comfort among the white people who employ and befriend her. This book weaves the story of a ravaged woman into the traditional tales of her people to create a vivid sense of communities bound by storytelling and understanding and sundered by ignorance and silence. Series: Native Storiers: A Series of American Narratives. Num Pages: 216 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 140 x 12. Weight in Grams: 274.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803298651
ISBN
9780803298651
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 19.68

paperback. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 135 x 20. Weight in Grams: 240.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
HarperOne United States
Condition
New
Edition
Reissue
SKU
V9780061122422
ISBN
9780061122422
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.60

Hardback. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 148 x 24. Weight in Grams: 390.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780060815165
ISBN
9780060815165
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 27.91

paperback. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 142 x 19. Weight in Grams: 240.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
HarperOne United States
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780060727673
ISBN
9780060727673
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.62

Paperback. Deals with the desire of Guanya, an African princess, to escape a repulsive fate: betrothal to a wealthy man twenty years older than she. Worse, he is a polygamist, compensating for his own ugliness with the beauty of many wives. Guanya must combat his eagerness, her mother's wish, and a tribal tradition that is as entrenched as it is oppressive. Num Pages: 114 pages. BIC Classification: BGH; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5182 x 3429 x 10. Weight in Grams: 171.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
114
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803297555
ISBN
9780803297555
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.51

Paperback. Num Pages: 213 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 19. Weight in Grams: 190.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
213
Condition
New
SKU
V9780062517494
ISBN
9780062517494
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.53

paperback. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 134 x 16. Weight in Grams: 286.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
HarperOne United States
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780060859565
ISBN
9780060859565
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 18.99
€ 17.55

paperback. Num Pages: illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 218.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
HarperOne United States
Edition
Illustrated
Condition
New
SKU
V9780060727086
ISBN
9780060727086
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.56

paperback. Num Pages: black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 137 x 19. Weight in Grams: 240.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
HarperOne United States
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780060000806
ISBN
9780060000806
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.56

Paperback. Formed in the mists of New Year's Eve, The Sex Division sees procreation at its most material, as five men devise a point system based upon the act. A missing brother, prophetic visions, a love-affair, and a confrontation draw the characters out into the open, revealing the men behind the machismo. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 21. Weight in Grams: 232. Used paperback in very good condition. Some shelf wear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Vintage
Edition
New Ed
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KRF0038329
ISBN
9780099739517
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

paperback. Oliver Ryan is a handsome and charismatic success story. He lives in the suburbs with his wife, Alice, who illustrates his award-winning children's books and gives him her unstinting devotion. Their life together is one of enviable privilege and ease - enviable until, one evening after supper, Oliver attacks Alice and beats her into a coma. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 174. Good clean copy showing some age and shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Penguin Ireland
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KMK0023455
ISBN
9780241965641
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 13.99
€ 10.45

paperback. Num Pages: 247 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 136 x 16. Weight in Grams: 204.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
HarperOne United States
Number of pages
247
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780060834555
ISBN
9780060834555
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.54

Paperback. An ambitious and compelling first novel about a key moment in Irish history. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 136 x 19. Weight in Grams: 210. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KTG0007107
ISBN
9780007429493
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Stories capture the peculiar rites of passage of growing up Midwestern Series: Break Away Books. Num Pages: 180 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 137 x 13. Weight in Grams: 220.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
180
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253008381
ISBN
9780253008381
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.54

Paperback. Editor(s): Langland, Elizabeth. Num Pages: 463 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 141 x 24. Weight in Grams: 552.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd Canada
Condition
New
SKU
V9781551112961
ISBN
9781551112961
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 30.95

paperback. The author has a genius for entering the lives of ordinary people and capturing the passions and contradictions that lie just below the surface. This title takes mainly the lives of women - unruly, ungovernable, unpredictable, unexpected, funny, sexy and completely recognisable - and brings their hidden desires bubbling to the surface. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 22. Weight in Grams: 258. The author has a genius for entering the lives of ordinary people and capturing the passions and contradictions that lie just below the surface. This title takes mainly the lives of women - unruly, ungovernable, unpredictable, unexpected, funny, sexy and completely recognisable - and brings their hidden desires bubbling to the surface. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 22. Weight in Grams: 258. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Random House
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMK0022753
ISBN
9780099287865
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.70

paperback. A collection of stories from the author's final years. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 23. Weight in Grams: 292. Clean copy with minor shelf wear. Newspaper clipping pasted to half-title page by previous owner. Remains a very good copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Hamish Hamilton
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMK0022712
ISBN
9780141042596
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.70

paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 161 x 17. Weight in Grams: 330. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMK0022688
ISBN
9781848403420
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.70

hardcover. Charles Croker, Atlanta real-estate entrepreneur, is having to face the reality of massive debt. Conrad Hensly, idealistic father of two, is fired from his job in the Croker Global Foods warehouse in Oakland. Back in Atlanta, Fareek "The Cannon" Fannon, star running-back, is accused of date rape. Num Pages: 752 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 244 x 167. Weight in Grams: 1030. Clean copy fine in dust wrapper. DW showing light shelf wear. Remains a very good copy
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Jonathan Cape London
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KMK0022617
ISBN
9780224030366
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 5.44

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