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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Paperback. Born in Friesland himself, Geert Mak explores the "silent revolution" that took place in the small village of Jorwerd after World War II. By interweaving the personal stories of villagers with the wider history of Europe, he demonstrates how rural life is under threat from the modern world. Translator(s): Kelland, Ann. Num Pages: 284 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1D; 2AB; 3JJ; FA; HBJD; HBLW; JFSF; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 135 x 23. Weight in Grams: 355. Very good copy
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Harvill Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
SKU
KEX0303369
ISBN
9781860468032
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 15.00

Paperback. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 174 x 111. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
OTK Books Limited
Condition
New
SKU
V9780954807351
ISBN
9780954807351
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.31

Paperback. It's December 1937. The Japanese have taken Nanking. A group of terrified schoolgirls hides in the compound of an American church. Among them is Shujuan, through whose thirteen-year-old eyes we witness the shocking events that follow. Translator(s): Harman, Nicky. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 16. Weight in Grams: 186.
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099569626
ISBN
9780099569626
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.02

Paperback. Fusang is a Chinese girl shanghaied from her village in China, brought to California and sold into the seedy underworld of prostitution. Soon she falls into an obsessive relationship with a young boy, Chris. But many barriers are laid between the lovers - by Chris' wealthy family, and most menacingly by Fusang's murderous pimp. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 19. Weight in Grams: 226.
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780571253562
ISBN
9780571253562
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.74

Paperback. If you can't date anyone nice, don't date anyone at all.. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 304.
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
SKU
KSG0018480
ISBN
9781847561916
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Good clean copy with some reader wear.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Poolbeg,
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KTM0007230
ISBN
9781842231739
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 126 x 27. Weight in Grams: 280.
Publisher
Poolbeg Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9781781999547
ISBN
9781781999547
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.45

mass_market. The sizzling second book in New York Timesbestselling author Gena Showalter's Otherworld Assassin paranormal romance series. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 170 x 104 x 27. Weight in Grams: 190.
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Pocket Books United States
Number of pages
400
Condition
New
SKU
V9781451671605
ISBN
9781451671605
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.20

Paperback. When a man who claims to be from outer space is brought into Manhattan Institute, the mental ward seems to be just the place for him. Calling himself 'prot', he says that he is an inhabitant of the planet K-PAX. Setting a departure date - August 17th at 3.31am - on which he plans to return home on a beam of light. Is he really extraterrestrial? Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 16. Weight in Grams: 204. 240 pages. When a man who claims to be from outer space is brought into Manhattan Institute, the mental ward seems to be just the place for him. Calling himself 'prot', he says that he is an inhabitant of the planet K-PAX. Setting a departure date - August 17th at 3.31am - on which he plans to return home on a beam of light. Is he really extraterrestrial?. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA; FL. Dimension: 197 x 129 x 16. Weight: 172.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Edition
New edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780747557524
ISBN
9780747557524
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.90

Paperback. Tells the story of an impoverished young girl, Elnora Comstock, growing up on the edge of the Limberlost swamp. Illustrator(s): Benda, Wladyslaw T. Series: The Library of Indiana Classics. Num Pages: 496 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; YFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 142 x 204 x 30. Weight in Grams: 556.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1984
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253203311
ISBN
9780253203311
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 21.90

Paperback. Gene Stratton-Porter's tale of a plucky, orphaned newspaper boy is now back in print! Series: The Library of Indiana Classics. Num Pages: 576 pages, 32 figures. BIC Classification: 2ABM; DSBH; DSK; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5334 x 3556 x 29. Weight in Grams: 624.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
576
Condition
New
SKU
V9780253210456
ISBN
9780253210456
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 33.99
€ 30.61

Paperback. Series: The Invisible Library Series. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130. .
Publisher
Pan Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
Main Market Ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781509830701
ISBN
9781509830701
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.00

Paperback. Translator(s): Smith, Neil. Num Pages: 200 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 216 x 15. Weight in Grams: 186.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Véhicule Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781550654370
ISBN
9781550654370
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 18.30

Paperback. Walker is at a party where he meets Rachel. Two days later she turns up at his apartment. However, it's not Walker she wants but her husband Malory, who has gone missing. She asks Walker to find him. And as Walker's search grows in its weird intensity, it seems that somebody else is following, searching for him too. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 146 x 11. Weight in Grams: 126. 176 pages. Walker is at a party where he meets Rachel. Two days later she turns up at his apartment. However, it's not Walker she wants but her husband Malory, who has gone missing. She asks Walker to find him. And as Walker's search grows in its weird intensity, it seems that somebody else is following, searching for him too. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 204 x 146 x 11. Weight: 126.
Publisher
Canongate Books
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857862730
ISBN
9780857862730
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.54

Paperback. 'A beautifully composed rave generation rhapsody .. dripping with eroticism.' Sunday Times Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 202. A Romance. 288 pages. 'A beautifully composed rave generation rhapsody . dripping with eroticism.' Sunday Times. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 198 x 130 x 18. Weight: 202.
Publisher
Canongate Books
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857864055
ISBN
9780857864055
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.73

Paperback. 'Not since Colin MacInnes's City of Spades and Absolute Beginners thirty years ago has a novel stuck a flick-knife so accurately into the young and marginal city' The Times Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 164 x 199 x 18. Weight in Grams: 198. 288 pages. 'Not since Colin MacInnes's City of Spades and Absolute Beginners thirty years ago has a novel stuck a flick-knife so accurately into the young and marginal city' The Times. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: FA. Dimension: 164 x 199 x 18. Weight: 198.
Publisher
Canongate Books
Number of pages
288
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9780857862716
ISBN
9780857862716
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.50

Paperback. Num Pages: 374 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 142 x 25. Weight in Grams: 406.
Publisher
Harbour Books (East) Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
Paperback re-issue
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905128273
ISBN
9781905128273
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 10.01

Paperback.
Publisher
Flamingo
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
SKU
V9780006550785
ISBN
9780006550785
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 16.99
€ 13.39

Hardcover. When Gordo O'Connor answers the doorbell one night when he is at home alone with his sons, he encounters an angry man who shoots him in the chest. Fortunately he escapes serious injury, but the gunshot begins a chain of events that alters the course of his life forever. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 603.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Texas Christian University Press
Edition
First Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780875652696
ISBN
9780875652696
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 26.48

Paperback. Packer has a new assignment. A wealthy businessman, Kamata, wants to rescue an ailing car company, but the moment the announcement is made, death threats are made against him by a former prisoner-of-war. Kamata is kidnapped and Packer is soon in the jungle, both hunter and hunted as he searches for the missing man and is tracked by his enemies. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FF; FH; FJM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 111 x 31. Weight in Grams: 212. 8vo. Very good former library copy.Religon
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Arrow
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
SKU
KEX0286927
ISBN
9780099427957
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Twenty years out of the combat zone, hidden from killers, but now fate has thrust Alex Crawford back into the front line. Though he is an aid worker, the secret service minders who have protected him for twenty years have reactivated him: they want information about the man who perpetrated a massacre in a Muslim village in Bosnia. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FH; FJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 170 x 178 x 30. Weight in Grams: 328. Good copy with some shelf wearth
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Arrow London
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
SKU
KYB0000429
ISBN
9780099549413
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Twenty years out of the combat zone, hidden from killers, but now fate has thrust Alex Crawford back into the front line. Though he is an aid worker, the secret service minders who have protected him for twenty years have reactivated him: they want information about the man who perpetrated a massacre in a Muslim village in Bosnia. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FH; FJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 170 x 178 x 30. Weight in Grams: 328. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Arrow London
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
SKU
KAK0009719
ISBN
9780099549413
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 4.99

paperback. Num Pages: 182 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126 x 19. Weight in Grams: 249.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Dedalus Limited United Kingdom
Edition
REV ed.
Number of pages
182
Condition
New
SKU
V9781903517048
ISBN
9781903517048
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.34

Paperback. The gripping sequel to the 1939 classic crime masterpiece, ROGUE MALE. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781780222103
ISBN
9781780222103
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.00

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