Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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€ 17.45
€ 17.99
€ 17.45
Paperback. Presents an account of the torment that besets Father Cenabre, historian of mysticism and controversial star of the Parisian clergy, when his faith suddenly deserts him. This book explores the delicate balance between redemption and damnation, and highlights the fragility of our constructed selves. Translator(s): Whissen, Anni; Whitehouse, J. C. Num Pages: 250 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 299.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Nebraska Press United States
- Number of pages
- 250
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780803261532
- ISBN
- 9780803261532
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 20.64
€ 20.99
€ 20.64
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€ 16.31
€ 17.99
€ 16.31
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€ 17.31
€ 18.99
€ 17.31
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€ 18.38
€ 19.99
€ 18.38
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€ 18.38
€ 19.99
€ 18.38
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
€ 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
€ 10.03
€ 10.03
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€ 18.38
€ 19.99
€ 18.38
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
€ 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
€ 18.36
€ 18.36
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
€ 43.21
€ 43.21
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
€ 5.96
€ 5.96
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
€ 5.96
€ 5.96
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
€ 5.96
€ 5.96
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
€ 5.70
€ 5.70
paperback. Ezeulu, the chief priest of Ulu, has rivals in the tribe, in the white government and even in his own family. Surrounded by trouble, he adopts an increasingly cosmic view of events - surely in the battle of the dieties, he is merely an arrow in the bow of his God? Series: Heinemann African Writers Series. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 202. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Publisher
- HEINEMANN
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMK0022456
- ISBN
- 9780435905309
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.96
€ 5.96
paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 24. Weight in Grams: 248. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMK0022436
- ISBN
- 9781408856314
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.96
€ 5.96
paperback. Maycomb, Alabama. Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch - 'Scout' - returns home from New York City to visit her ageing father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South, Jean Louise's homecoming turns bittersweet when she learns disturbing truths about her family. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 17. Weight in Grams: 204. Clean copy showing some age and light shelf wear. Remains a very good copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KMK0022333
- ISBN
- 9781784752460
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 11.99€ 4.99
€ 11.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 29. Weight in Grams: 288.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Triple Point Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780992972424
- ISBN
- 9780992972424
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.61
€ 13.99
€ 11.61
Paperback. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; 1HFMS; FA; JFFJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 199 x 23. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Triple Point Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780992972400
- ISBN
- 9780992972400
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.77
€ 11.99
€ 10.77
Paperback. Reissue - with a stunning new cover - of Anita Shreve's outstanding second novel - 'a superbly crafted, intelligent exploration of the complications of an abusive relationship' BOOKLIST Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 26. Weight in Grams: 264. Good copy with some minor shelf wear. First pages slightly stained.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KTG0004548
- ISBN
- 9780349105864
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Lexi wakes up in a hospital bed after a car accident, thinking it's 2004 and she's a twenty-five-year old with crooked teeth and a disastrous love life. But, to her disbelief, she learns it's actually 2007 - and she's married! To a good-looking millionaire! How on earth did she land the dream life? Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 28. Weight in Grams: 316. Good, clean copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Black Swan
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KSG0005385
- ISBN
- 9780552772761
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 10.99€ 9.70
€ 10.99
€ 9.70
paperback. Depicting German life from WW1 until the early 1970s, Boll's novel follows Leni Pfeiffer and her illegitimate son, Lev, as they fight against the demolition of their Cologne apartment building. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 27. Weight in Grams: 300. 2 tomes.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099578130
- ISBN
- 9780099578130
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.16
€ 15.16