Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. * Zora Neale Hurston's masterpiece is perhaps the most widely read and highly regarded novel in the entire canon of African American literature. Series: VMC. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 20. Weight in Grams: 242.
- Publisher
- Virago Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1986
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780860685241
- ISBN
- 9780860685241
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
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Paperback. Taut, brooding and densely atmospheric, these stories show us the ways in which murder can arise out of boredom, perversity can result from adolescent curiosity, and sheer evil might be the solution to unbearable loneliness. Num Pages: 208 pages, 1. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. Weight in Grams: 368.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2018
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784703608
- ISBN
- 9781784703608
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.10
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Paperback. Brilliant, funny and tragic, Four Bare Legs in a Bed is an outstanding and invigorating collection of short stories. In Simpson's uniquely imaginative and sensuous voice, we hear of the mixed blessings of independence and marriage, of sex and babies. By the winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, the Hawthornden Prize and the E.M.Forster Award. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 140.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780749391621
- ISBN
- 9780749391621
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.49
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€ 12.49
Paperback. Set at the International Secret Intelligence Service (ISIS), suave master spy Sterling Archer deals with global espionage; a domineering, hypersexual, late middle-aged mother/boss, Malory Archer; his ex-girlfriend, Agent Lana Kane; her ISIS accountant boyfriend Cyril Figgis; and, a less-than-masculine code name: Duchess. Num Pages: 192 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 141 x 13. Weight in Grams: 226.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Inc
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- Original
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780062066312
- ISBN
- 9780062066312
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 17.11
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Paperback. Num Pages: 424 pages, map. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 135 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Publisher
- The New York Review of Books, Inc
- Number of pages
- 424
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781590172339
- ISBN
- 9781590172339
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 14.11
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Paperback. During a vicious persecution of the clergy in Mexico, a worldly priest, the 'whisky priest', is on the run. With the police closing in, his routes of escape are being shut off, his chances getting fewer. But compassion and humanity force him along the road to his destiny, reluctant to abandon those who need him, and those he cares for. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 133 x 15. Weight in Grams: 172.
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099286097
- ISBN
- 9780099286097
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
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Paperback. An irresistible journey of love, intrigue and betrayal from the Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling author. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 33. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Publisher
- Headline Publishing Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780755358540
- ISBN
- 9780755358540
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.02
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€ 11.02
Hardback. Tom has always known exactly the person he is going to be. A successful footballer. A man others look up to. Now, though, the bright future he imagined for himself is threatened. The Premier League academy of his boyhood has let him go. At nineteen, Tom finds himself playing for a tiny club in a town he has never heard of. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FRD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 165 x 241 x 34. Weight in Grams: 596.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781910702666
- ISBN
- 9781910702666
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 5.47
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€ 5.47
Paperback.
- Publisher
- FABER MUSIC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571100934
- ISBN
- 9780571100934
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.40
€ 12.40
Hardcover. A burlesque epic in the tradition of The Good Soldier Schweik, this title exposes the absurdity of war by applying its own demented logic to America's involvement in Korea. The 'catch' is that soldiers have to claim to be mad in order to get out of fighting - but being capable of making such a claim automatically proves them sane. Num Pages: 569 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FJM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 134 x 37. Weight in Grams: 650.
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Number of pages
- 569
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Edition
- New ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857152203
- ISBN
- 9781857152203
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.91
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Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
- Publisher
- Amazon Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781503942981
- ISBN
- 9781503942981
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 15.64
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Hardcover. The first products of Joyce's maturity, these stories look sideways to the tender realism of Chekhov and forward to Joyce's later work "Portrait of the Artist". In the most celebrated tale, "The Dead", the author constructs the first of his poetic monologues. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 213 x 136 x 28. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Number of pages
- 300
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781857150490
- ISBN
- 9781857150490
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.06
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Paperback. A dark, sexy thriller from the author of Sex Education Num Pages: 192 pages, plan. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Edition
- Illustrated edition
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC LONDON
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780747574187
- ISBN
- 9780747574187
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 8.59
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€ 8.59
Hardback. A story of Hollywood, celebrity and the love of two brothers. It conveys a family's predicament: the decline of one brother, their mother's disappearance and reappearance and the flayed emotions in search of healing, the loneliness and intimacy of despair and the buoyancy of filial love. Num Pages: 340 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 165. Weight in Grams: 679.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 340
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1988
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780747502371
- ISBN
- 9780747502371
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.23
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Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- New ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780743478472
- ISBN
- 9780743478472
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 16.06
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Paperback. Explores the last years of Hemingway's life, evoking both Cuba and this giant of American letters with enormous skill and wit. This title takes you on a journey into the past and into the personality of one of the twentieth century's most enigmatic and powerful writers, and totally convincing portrait emerges, as well as a riveting mystery. Translator(s): King, John. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 128 x 199 x 21. Weight in Grams: 172. 240 pages. Explores the last years of Hemingway's life, evoking both Cuba and this giant of American letters with enormous skill and wit. This title takes you on a journey into the past and into the personality of one of the twentieth century's most enigmatic and powerful writers, and totally convincing portrait emerges, as well as a riveting mystery. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 128 x 199 x 21. Weight: 206. Translator(s): King, John.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841955414
- ISBN
- 9781841955414
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.83
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Paperback. Davie Watts is the Trackman. He knows what song to play to you and he knows exactly when you need to hear it. Davie seeks out strangers in need and helps them using the power of music. Num Pages: 346 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 200 x 128 x 32. Weight in Grams: 330.
- Publisher
- Luath Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 2nd edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781908373434
- ISBN
- 9781908373434
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.08
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Paperback. A mesmerising and atmospheric tale of three mysterious deaths in an oddly isolated French village during World War I. Translator(s): Rogers, Hoyt. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 197 x 16. Weight in Grams: 144.
- Publisher
- Quercus Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857059949
- ISBN
- 9780857059949
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.12
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Paperback. How does love change us? How do we change ourselves for love - or for lack of it? Ten stories by acclaimed author Deborah Levy explore these delicate, impossible questions. From London gardens to a forest outside Prague, these are twenty-first century lives dissected with razor-sharp humour, about what it means to live and love, together and alone. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- And Other Stories
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- New edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781911508090
- ISBN
- 9781911508090
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.89
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Hardcover. Clean copy
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Publisher
- Secker
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2005
- SKU
- KEX0200871
- ISBN
- 9780436205835
Hardback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. An emotional, gritty family drama exploring the power of frustrated love and intense sibling rivalry - from the acclaimed author of ONE SUMMER and A WOMAN'S LIFE Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 129 x 197 x 22. Weight in Grams: 336.
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752893877
- ISBN
- 9780752893877
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.31
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Paperback. Enter the world of Gormenghast, the crumbling castle to which the seventy-seventh Earl, Titus Groan, is Lord and heir. It is the cobwebbed kingdom of Byzantine government and age-old rituals, a world primed to implode beneath the weight of centuries of intrigue, treachery, manipulation, and murder. This work is a sequel to "Titus Groan". Num Pages: 512 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 33. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Number of pages
- 512
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780749394820
- ISBN
- 9780749394820
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.08
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Paperback. Collects stories that capture the emotional undercurrents hidden beneath ordinary events. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 12. Weight in Grams: 180.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140186550
- ISBN
- 9780140186550
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.28
€ 11.28
Paperback. After a few months studying in Heidelberg, and a brief spell in Paris as would-be artist, Philip Carey settles in London to train as a doctor. And that is where he meets Mildred, the loud but irresistible waitress with whom he plunges into a formative, tortured and masochistic affair which very nearly ruins him. Num Pages: 720 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 39. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Number of pages
- 720
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099284963
- ISBN
- 9780099284963
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.37
€ 17.99
€ 13.37