Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Results 2593 - 2616 of 15128
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. Dare you follow your heart? The wonderful first novel from Dorothy Koomson. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 126 x 23. Weight in Grams: 262. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KTG0007446
- ISBN
- 9780751539691
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Dionisio Vivo, a South American lecturer in philosphy, is puzzled by the hideously mutilated corpses that keep turning up outside his front door. To his friend, Ramon, one of the few honest policement in town, the message is all too clear: Dionisio's letters to the press, exposing the drug barons, must stop. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 19. Weight in Grams: 224. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAC0003058
- ISBN
- 9780749399627
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Num Pages: 274 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 195 x 20. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Milet Publishing Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785080876
- ISBN
- 9781785080876
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 16.35
€ 16.99
€ 16.35
Paperback. A vivid recreation of the interwar period, this fictionalised memoir is a touching and very true depiction of boyhood and how our early experiences affect us. Translator(s): Evans, Julian. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Gallic Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781910477342
- ISBN
- 9781910477342
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 9.35
€ 15.99
€ 9.35
Paperback. With his fortieth birthday receding into the distance, along with his hairline and his most successful novel, the writer Nathan Zuckerman comes down with a mysterious affliction - pure pain, beginning in his neck and shoulders, invading his torso, and taking possession of his spirit. What will it take for the pain to finally leave him alone? Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 250. First edition, first printing. Fine in fine dust wrapper. DW showing light age and shelf wear, small nick to front spine. Ownership stamp on ffep. Lightly toned, light spotting on page edges text is crisp, remains a fine copy
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0029212
- ISBN
- 9780099476610
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 98.00
€ 98.00
Hardback. The new novel from Iain Banks, the bestselling author of The Wasp Factory. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 166 x 30. Weight in Grams: 564. First edition. Fine in fine dust wrapper. DW showing light shelf wear, remains a very good copy
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Edition
- First Edition (reprinted)
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0029240
- ISBN
- 9781408703946
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 35.00
€ 35.00
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- WaterBrook Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781400071296
- ISBN
- 9781400071296
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.35
€ 17.99
€ 16.35
Paperback. Offers a irreverent overview of Indonesian history in the Sukarno and Suharto eras and insights into the postcolonial condition. This title tells a story that begins in the 1930s, before Indonesia's independence from Dutch rule, and follows the fortunes of a poor Javanese village woman who becomes a servant in the household of President Sukarno. Translator(s): Keeler, Ward. Num Pages: 224 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 216 x 13. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Washington Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- SKU
- V9780295983929
- ISBN
- 9780295983929
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.66
€ 32.99
€ 29.66
Paperback. A companion volume which expands on the knowledge contained in each of the nine insights of "The Celestine Prophecy". It aims to foster readers' spiritual growth by putting them in touch with evidence of their own experience. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 2ABM; FA; VXA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 20. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Bantam
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780553503708
- ISBN
- 9780553503708
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.89
€ 15.99
€ 11.89
Paperback. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 514.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Counterpoint United States
- Number of pages
- 496
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781619027145
- ISBN
- 9781619027145
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 20.65
€ 21.99
€ 20.65
Paperback. Against the backdrop of the 1893 World's Fair, a young woman finds employment with an illustrious Chicago family---a family who may guard the secret of her sister's disappearance. Series: The Chicago World's Fair Mystery Series. Num Pages: 336 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; HRCV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 139 x 22. Weight in Grams: 299.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Zondervan United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780310338529
- ISBN
- 9780310338529
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 14.31
€ 15.99
€ 14.31
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 142 x 14. Weight in Grams: 302.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Arsenal Pulp Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- First Edition
- SKU
- V9781551522357
- ISBN
- 9781551522357
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.45
€ 25.99
€ 19.45
Paperback.
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Kensington Publishing
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- Format
- Paperback
- SKU
- V9781622869107
- ISBN
- 9781622869107
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.86
€ 10.86
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 155 x 307 x 22. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781509822638
- ISBN
- 9781509822638
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.72
€ 13.99
€ 11.72
Paperback. Winner of the 1990 Booker Prize, this novel describes the romance between two 19th-century poets and the parallel relationship of their two biographers and includes passages of "Victorian verse". It is structured in the form of a literary and biographical treasure hunt. Num Pages: 528 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 33. Weight in Grams: 370.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Edition
- 1st, First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099800408
- ISBN
- 9780099800408
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 11.88
€ 15.99
€ 11.88
Paperback. Num Pages: 424 pages, maps. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 153 x 31. Weight in Grams: 676.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 424
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226103556
- ISBN
- 9780226103556
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 43.99€ 33.72
€ 43.99
€ 33.72
Paperback. Reminiscent of Voltaire, Broges and Kafka, "A Dog's Head" is a piece of realism. It tells the story of Edmund Du Chaillu, a boy born, to his bourgeois parents' horror, with the head of a spaniel. Edmund must endure his schoolmates' teasing as well as an urge to carry a newspaper in his mouth. Translator(s): Chancellor, Robin. Series: Phoenix Fiction S. Num Pages: 164 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 132 x 13. Weight in Grams: 190.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 164
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226174921
- ISBN
- 9780226174921
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 26.06
€ 32.99
€ 26.06
Paperback. This is the story of Joseph, a tall, scattered looking boy of 17, and his wonderfully indomitable mother, Meg, who is resolved, in the summer after her son's high-school graduation, to start arranging his life for him, even going so far as to accompany him to college. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; JFSJ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 205 x 135 x 17. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226264165
- ISBN
- 9780226264165
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 25.13
€ 31.99
€ 25.13
Paperback. Follows a journalist who returns to Prague after its annexation and finds her efforts to obtain help for the refugees and to convey the shocking state of the country both frustrating and futile. Num Pages: 328 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 145 x 203 x 18. Weight in Grams: 358.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University Of Chicago Press
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226286969
- ISBN
- 9780226286969
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 19.17
€ 23.99
€ 19.17
Paperback. Moving from Massachusetts to Kansas in 1855, with his new wife and a group of German carpenters, Gordon McKay is dead set on making his fortune raising bees, undaunted by Missouri border ruffians, newly- minted Darwinism, or the unsettled politics of a country on the brink of civil war. Series: Phoenix Fiction S. Num Pages: 288 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 206 x 135 x 19. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- New ed
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226561110
- ISBN
- 9780226561110
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 25.12
€ 31.99
€ 25.12
Hardback. In this lively translation of Wang Chen-ho's ribald satire, a Taiwanese village loses all perspective -- and common sense -- at the prospect of fleecing a shipload of lusty and lonely American soldiers. This irreverent novel by one of Taiwan's best-known writers is both a masterpiece of fiction and a vivid reflection of Taiwanese identity and the impact of Western culture. Translator(s): Goldblatt, Howard. Series: Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan. Num Pages: 212 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 158 x 22. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 212
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231112024
- ISBN
- 9780231112024
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 83.25€ 64.30
€ 83.25
€ 64.30
Hardback. These twelve stories represent the best work of respected "nativist" writer Cheng Ch'ing-wen and encompass his major themes: the tensions between men and women, parents and children, city and village, tradition and modernity. Series: Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan. Num Pages: 240 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 408.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231113861
- ISBN
- 9780231113861
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 99.90€ 76.68
€ 99.90
€ 76.68
Paperback. Ruminates on the life of the writer and the significance of language as art. This title takes as its central conceit a famous anecdote about Ernest Hemingway's early work: Hemingway's first wife, Hadley, going by train from their apartment in Paris to visit him in Switzerland, brought along, at his request, a suitcase full of his work-in-progress. Num Pages: 238 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 127 x 13. Weight in Grams: 317.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 238
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231115438
- ISBN
- 9780231115438
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 25.05
€ 33.99
€ 25.05
Hardback. Billed as "a Taiwanese 'Gone With the Wind'", this story spans more than half a century of Taiwan's history, tracing the fortunes of the Pengs, a family of Hakka Chinese settlers, across three generations from the 1890s, just before Taiwan was ceded to Japan, to World War II. Translator(s): Liu, Taotao; Balcom, John. Series: Modern Chinese Literature from Taiwan. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 24. Weight in Grams: 590.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231122009
- ISBN
- 9780231122009
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.66€ 80.20
€ 104.66
€ 80.20