Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback. From the bestselling author of The Yacoubian Building comes a novel bursting at the seams with Egyptian life 'Among the best writers in the Middle East today .. Al Aswany has his own magic' Guardian Translator(s): Harris, Russell. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 153 x 33. Weight in Grams: 620.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780857862204
- ISBN
- 9780857862204
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 14.77
€ 21.99
€ 14.77
Paperback. This exceptional Egyptian novel - as mesmerising as it is controversial - caused an unprecedented stir when it was first published in Arabic. Translator(s): Davies, Humphrey. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 200.
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007243624
- ISBN
- 9780007243624
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.49
€ 13.99
€ 10.49
Paperback. From the bestselling author of The Yacoubian Building comes a novel bursting at the seams with Egyptian life Translator(s): Harris, Russell. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 2. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857862211
- ISBN
- 9780857862211
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.42
€ 13.99
€ 10.42
Paperback. Series: American Literature Series. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- DALKEY ARCHIVE PRESS
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9781564784810
- ISBN
- 9781564784810
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 6.23
€ 9.99
€ 6.23
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 172.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780241962138
- ISBN
- 9780241962138
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.15
€ 10.99
€ 9.15
Paperback. Offers an account of a Black dandy trying to cut it in Paris. Translator(s): Ardizzone, Sarah. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 226.
- Publisher
- Profile Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846687778
- ISBN
- 9781846687778
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 11.33
€ 16.99
€ 11.33
Paperback. Broken Glass is a Congolese riff on European classics from the most notable Francophone African writer of his generation. Translator(s): Stevenson, Helen. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 139 x 13. Weight in Grams: 152.
- Publisher
- Profile Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 176
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846688157
- ISBN
- 9781846688157
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.33
€ 13.99
€ 11.33
Paperback. Michel is ten years old, living in Pointe Noire, Congo, in the 1970s. His mother sells peanuts at the market, his father works at the Victory Palace Hotel, and brings home books left behind by the white guests. Planes cross the sky overhead, and Michel and his friend Lounes dream about the countries where they'll land. Translator(s): Stevenson, Helen. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 138 x 26. Weight in Grams: 274.
- Publisher
- Profile Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846685842
- ISBN
- 9781846685842
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.30
€ 14.99
€ 12.30
Paperback. Series: Serpent's Tail Classics. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
- Publisher
- Profile Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- Main - Classic ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781257876
- ISBN
- 9781781257876
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.50
€ 11.99
€ 10.50
Paperback.
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 168
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780253007919
- ISBN
- 9780253007919
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 19.32
€ 19.99
€ 19.32
Paperback. Bonte III was five years old. A cow at that age is at her prime. Prime is an accounting term. A dairy farm is a business and must be managed as such. From this perspective, Bonte III's days were numbered. Numbered is not an empty word. She had been a good representative of her breed. A cow, after all, has no need to try to be a cow. Series: Literary Translation. Num Pages: 100 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 127. .
- Publisher
- University of Ottawa Press Canada
- Number of pages
- 100
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780776622859
- ISBN
- 9780776622859
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 10.91
€ 10.99
€ 10.91
paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Anthem Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781783082711
- ISBN
- 9781783082711
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.05
€ 27.05
Paperback. Editor(s): Yentob, Alan. Num Pages: 116 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 111 x 171 x 12. Weight in Grams: 122.
- Publisher
- Comma Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781905583676
- ISBN
- 9781905583676
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.04
€ 11.04
Paperback. Mrs Donaldson is a conventional middle-class woman beached on the shores of widowhood after a marriage that had been much like many others: happy to begin with, then satisfactory and finally dull. But when she decides to take in two lodgers, her mundane life becomes much more stimulating. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 111 x 14. Weight in Grams: 136.
- Edition
- Main
- Publisher
- Profile Books
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846685262
- ISBN
- 9781846685262
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.99€ 10.61
€ 11.99
€ 10.61
CD-Audio. An eccentric old lady moves into a quiet street in Camden Town. There she remains, installed in her van in glorious self-sufficiency, until the council instructs her to move on. Then a kind home-owner invites her to move her van into his garden - where she stays for the next fifteen years. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 142 x 11. Weight in Grams: 108.
- Publisher
- BBC Audio, A Division Of Random House
- Format
- CD
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Unabridged
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785291807
- ISBN
- 9781785291807
CD
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 14.16
€ 18.99
€ 14.16
CD-Audio. Offers a complete audio collection of Alan Bennett's celebrated monologues. This collection includes all twelve Talking Heads, the precursor of that series, and, A Woman of No Importance. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 143 x 24. Weight in Grams: 198.
- Publisher
- BBC Audio, A Division Of Random House
- Format
- CD
- Publication date
- 2015
- Edition
- Unabridged
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785291661
- ISBN
- 9781785291661
CD
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 22.80
€ 33.99
€ 22.80
Hardcover. The Uncommon Reader is none other than HM the Queen who drifts accidentally into reading when her corgis stray into a mobile library parked at Buckingham Palace. She reads widely and intelligently. Her reading naturally changes her world view and her relationship with people such as the oleaginous prime minister and his repellent advisers. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 175 x 134 x 14. Weight in Grams: 215. Good copy with some minor shelf wear. Dustwrapper with minor edge wear but remains good
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- SKU
- KKD0008952
- ISBN
- 9781846680496
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Funny, moving, exuberantly imaginative, The Incredible Adam Spark is the unforgettable story of a troubled young man who dares to take on the world. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Publisher
- Headline Book Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780755326464
- ISBN
- 9780755326464
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.60
€ 14.99
€ 11.60
Paperback. A vital read for anyone who wants to understand just who the hell some men think they are Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 139 x 25. Weight in Grams: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Hachette Scotland
- Number of pages
- 432
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780755319428
- ISBN
- 9780755319428
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.44
€ 14.99
€ 11.44
Paperback. The seventh novel in Alan Bradley's addictive Flavia de Luce mystery series. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 132 x 199 x 35. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781409149460
- ISBN
- 9781409149460
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.61
€ 14.99
€ 11.61
Paperback. Originally published as: The Grandmother's Club. Salt Lake City: Peregrine Smith Books, c1986. Num Pages: 392 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 33. Weight in Grams: 542.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Fig Tree Books United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781941493007
- ISBN
- 9781941493007
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.25
€ 18.25
Paperback. An incredibly powerful debut novel about a family caught up in the tragic earthquake in Istanbul in 1999 Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 230. 352 pages. An incredibly powerful debut novel about a family caught up in the tragic earthquake in Istanbul in 1999. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 197 x 129 x 23. Weight: 230.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- First Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780747596578
- ISBN
- 9780747596578
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.27
€ 10.99
€ 9.27
Paperback. A first novel which has been a bestseller in New Zealand, and has been made into a film. It is a portrayal of Maoris in New Zealand society, and a story in which everyone is a victim until the strength and vision of one woman transcends brutality and leads the way to a new life. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 14. Weight in Grams: 152.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099578413
- ISBN
- 9780099578413
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.82
€ 13.99
€ 10.82
Paperback. From the master of the wartime espionage novel; a thrilling story of subterfuge at sea Num Pages: 320 pages, map. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 202 x 133 x 21. Weight in Grams: 222.
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780753825556
- ISBN
- 9780753825556
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.83
€ 13.99
€ 10.83