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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

paperback. In the little town of Goray, laid waste by murder and famine, grief becomes joy as good news arrives of the second coming of the Messiah. Once the town's pious rabbi is usurped, the townspeople are free to look forward to the End of Days, when they will wear golden jackets and dine on marzipan candy. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 16. Weight in Grams: 150.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780099285472
ISBN
9780099285472
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.45

paperback. Traces the fortunes of Edward Driffield and his extraordinary wife Rosie, one of the most delightful heroines of twentieth-century literature. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 164.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780099282778
ISBN
9780099282778
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.45

hardcover. Set in the Central Europe of old, this anti-war novel features a simple soldier whose determination to survive brings into question the powerful social and political institutions he confronts. A portrait of a "little man" waging his own war against authority, it becomes a satire on the old regime. Translator(s): Parrott, Cecil. Num Pages: 800 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 162 x 210 x 47. Weight in Grams: 868.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Everyman
Condition
New
SKU
9781857151510
ISBN
9781857151510
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 16.68

hardcover. A postmodern novel which combines a love and a detective story with a sardonic dissection of the publishing industry in an allegory of reading. Two readers attempt to finish the same book, but are comically and repeatedly frustrated. Translator(s): Weaver, William. Num Pages: 254 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 136 x 24. Weight in Grams: 436.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Everyman
Condition
New
SKU
9781857151381
ISBN
9781857151381
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 24.99
€ 13.91

Hardcover. A novel, in which Charles Gould returns to South America determined to make a success of the inheritance left to him by his father, the San Tome mine. But his dreams are thwarted as the country is plunged into revolution. Num Pages: 532 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 131 x 29. Weight in Grams: 606.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1992
Publisher
Everyman
Edition
First Thus
Condition
New
SKU
9781857150889
ISBN
9781857150889
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 13.91

paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 199 x 10. Weight in Grams: 124.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
9780099428480
ISBN
9780099428480
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 121 x 24. Weight in Grams: 266.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Black Swan
Edition
1st Black Swan Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780552772969
ISBN
9780552772969
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.10

Paperback. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 340.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Texas Christian University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780875655703
ISBN
9780875655703
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 23.38

Paperback. "First published a Le Daesert, ou la Vie et les Aventures de Jubair Ouali El-Mammi, Paris, Editions Gallimard, 1977, 1989."--Title page verso. Translator(s): Roumani, Judith. Series: Middle East Literature in Translation. Num Pages: 200 pages, 10 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 11. Weight in Grams: 277.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780815610557
ISBN
9780815610557
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 20.61

Paperback. Hal Treherne is a soldier on the brink of a brilliant career. Impatient to see action, his other commitment in life is to his beloved wife, Clara, and when Hal is transferred to Cyprus she and their twin daughters join him. But the island is in the heat of the emergency; the British are defending the colony against Cypriots. Num Pages: 480 pages, 1 map,. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 27. Weight in Grams: 330.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099540526
ISBN
9780099540526
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.10

paperback. Includes the novellas "First Love", "The Calamative", "The End" and "The Expelled". Editor(s): Dukes, Gerry. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 8. Weight in Grams: 92. Good clean copy showing some age and shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Penguin Classics
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KMK0019016
ISBN
9780141180151
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 9.75

Paperback. Translator(s): Holmstrom, Lakshmi. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 135 x 23. Weight in Grams: 406.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Zubaan India
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
SKU
V9788189884666
ISBN
9788189884666
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 17.02

paperback. Num Pages: 56 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 132 x 5. Weight in Grams: 80.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1974
Publisher
New Directions United States
Number of pages
56
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780811205566
ISBN
9780811205566
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.44

paperback. David Cunane is Manchester's most off-beat private eye. Fond of drink, fatally attracted to the wrong women and champion of the lost cause, he walks a thin line. Rachel Elsworth is missing. Nineteen years old, she has mysteriously vanished into the city's seamy underworld. Her father employs Cunane to find her. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 181 x 146 x 29. Weight in Grams: 244.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Arrow Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
448
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099594826
ISBN
9780099594826
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.77

Paperback. From the writer of The Crying Game, Mistaken is part thriller, part gothic tragedy, part comedy of manners, brilliantly evoking the divided Dublin of the 1960s and the trauma of adolescence Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 195 x 27. Weight in Grams: 264. Good copy, some light shelf wear.name on inside cover
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
John Murray Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KTK0090849
ISBN
9781848544192
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Robert Prentice is 18. His mother Alice Prentice is 53. Both are damaged souls: Robert by war, Alice by thwarted dreams of prosperity. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 197 x 23. Weight in Grams: 276.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Methuen Publishing Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
V9780413775191
ISBN
9780413775191
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.44

Paperback.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Bella Books United States
Number of pages
324
Condition
New
SKU
V9781933110011
ISBN
9781933110011
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.30

mass_market. A bold young English sailor has despised himself ever since an impulsive moment of cowardice. Jim moves East to Patusan, where natives worship him--and where he may be able to find redemption. Includes a new Afterword. Revised reissue. Series: Signet Classics. Num Pages: 329 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 109 x 244 x 30. Weight in Grams: 214.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Signet United States
Number of pages
329
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780451531278
ISBN
9780451531278
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 8.51

Paperback. Abandoned and alone, you'll do anything to survive.. A gritty saga from the bestselling author Kitty Neale. Num Pages: 544 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 140 x 35. Weight in Grams: 378. 544 pages. Abandoned and alone, you'll do anything to survive! A gritty saga from the bestselling author Kitty Neale. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 203 x 140 x 35. Weight: 378.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Number of pages
544
Condition
New
SKU
V9781847563484
ISBN
9781847563484
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 9.97

Paperback. Num Pages: 414 pages, map. BIC Classification: FA; FH; FJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 137 x 29. Weight in Grams: 588. Clean copy with minor nicks to cover at spine. Pages age toned and with light spotting to edges. Remains a good copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
House of Stratus United Kingdom
Number of pages
414
Condition
Used, Good
SKU
KMK0024588
ISBN
9781842321614
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 16.99
€ 4.49

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