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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. On the brink of war with the Sioux, Sarah risks everything to expose the betrayal threatening the man she loves. Series: A Journey of the Heart. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 213 x 11. Weight in Grams: 114.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Condition
New
SKU
V9780718031664
ISBN
9780718031664
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 9.61

paperback. In this first of six novels, Tremblay fictionalizes the lives of his beloved characters, dramatized so brilliantly in his plays. Translator(s): Fischman, Sheila. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 299.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1981
Publisher
Talonbooks Canada
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
SKU
V9780889221901
ISBN
9780889221901
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 19.85

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
€ 16.66

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

€ 11.34

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. 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
€ 17.61

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

€ 10.99
€ 10.70

Paperback. Num Pages: 180 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSK; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Scholarly; (UP) Postgraduate; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 250 x 200 x 13. Weight in Grams: 205.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1986
Publisher
W W Norton & Co Ltd United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
180
Condition
New
SKU
V9780811209540
ISBN
9780811209540
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 16.39

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. 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
€ 11.08

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

€ 20.99
€ 19.69

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

€ 24.99
€ 22.34

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
€ 11.02

Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 168 x 213 x 22. Weight in Grams: 316. 320 pages. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 168 x 213 x 22. Weight: 316.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Akashic Books
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
SKU
V9781617751318
ISBN
9781617751318
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 20.53

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

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

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

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

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. Because of the boyhood trauma of seeing his mother make love to another man in the presence of his dying father, Mizoguchi becomes a hopeless stutterer. Taunted by his schoolmates, he feels utterly alone untill he becomes an acolyte at a famous temple in Kyoto, where he develops an all-consuming obsession with the temple's beauty. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 184.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
9780099285670
ISBN
9780099285670
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.04

paperback. A story of four boys growing up in the Edinburgh schemes, and about the loyalties, the experiences - and the secrets - that hold them together into their thirties. What binds the four of them is the friendship formed by the scheme, their school, and their ambition to escape from both; their loyalty fused in street morality. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 30. Weight in Grams: 420.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
9780099285922
ISBN
9780099285922
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.14

paperback. A divorced, middle-aged English professor finds himself increasingly unable to resist affairs with his female students. When discovered by the college authorities he is expected to apologize to save his job, but instead he refuses and resigns, retiring to live with his daughter on her remote farm. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 15. Weight in Grams: 166.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
9780099289524
ISBN
9780099289524
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.45

paperback. Describes the class tensions of a changing France at the beginning of the twentieth century and exposes the decadence of aristocratic Parisian society and muses upon the subjects of homosexuality and sexual jealousy. Translator(s): Scott-Moncrieff, C. K.; Kilmartin, Terence; Enright, D. J. Num Pages: 656 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 128 x 39. Weight in Grams: 460.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Condition
New
SKU
9780099362517
ISBN
9780099362517
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 11.14

paperback. It is April 1204, and Constantinople, the splendid capital of the Byzantine Empire, is being sacked and burned by the knights of the Fourth Crusade. Amid the carnage and confusion, one Baudolino saves a Byzantine historian and high court official from certain death at the hands of the crusading warriors, and proceeds to tell his own story. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 368.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
9780099422396
ISBN
9780099422396
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 14.99
€ 12.53

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