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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
Paperback / so. Editor(s): Carlaftes, Peter; Georges, Kat. Num Pages: 131 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA; FF; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 133 x 8. Weight in Grams: 168.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Three Rooms Press United States
- Number of pages
- 131
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780988400849
- ISBN
- 9780988400849
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 15.19
€ 15.99
€ 15.19
Paperback. The first of a New York short stories series features works by Claus Ankersen, Larissa Shmailo, Adam R. Burnett, Darlene Cah, David R. Lincoln, Lawrence Block, Kofi Fosu Forson, Pedro Ponce, Ronald H. Bass, Jane Ormerod, Peter D. Marra, Puma Perl, Lisa Ferber, Keven Dupzyk, and Janet Hamill. Editor(s): Georges, Kath; Carlaftes, Peter. Series: Have a NYC. Num Pages: 164 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 133 x 9. Weight in Grams: 194.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Three Rooms Press United States
- Number of pages
- 164
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780983581338
- ISBN
- 9780983581338
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 15.36
€ 15.99
€ 15.36
Paperback. Editor(s): Johnstone, James C.; Tulchinsky, Karen X. Num Pages: 312 pages, Illustrations, 1 port. BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 516.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Arsenal Pulp Press Canada
- Edition
- 2
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781551520391
- ISBN
- 9781551520391
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.41
€ 19.41
Paperback / so. Editor(s): McBride, Rita; Licht, Matthew. Series: Ways Books. BIC Classification: DQ; FA; FF; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 179 x 116 x 11. Weight in Grams: 172.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Publisher
- Arsenal Pulp Press Canada
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781551521732
- ISBN
- 9781551521732
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 15.15
€ 15.99
€ 15.15
Eric Clapton's Lover and other Stories from the Virginia Quarterly Rev...
. Ed(S): Mcmillen, Sheila; Garrett, George
paperback. Editor(s): McMillen, Sheila; Garrett, George. Num Pages: 355 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 153 x 26. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Publisher
- University of Virginia Press United States
- Number of pages
- 355
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780813912851
- ISBN
- 9780813912851
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.49
€ 31.49
Paperback. These stories by immigrant writers remind us that in a way we are all immigrants. Editor(s): Novakovich, Josip; Shapard, Robert. Num Pages: 254 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- White Pine Press United States
- Number of pages
- 254
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781893996045
- ISBN
- 9781893996045
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.10
€ 18.10
Paperback. Editor(s): Rivera, Esteban Rios; Leon, Juana Ponce De. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Seven Stories Press,U.S. United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781888363739
- ISBN
- 9781888363739
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 17.01
€ 17.99
€ 17.01
Paperback. The fourteen contemporary novellas and stories in Running Wild represent the best of new Chinese writers from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, the U.S., and New Zealand. Editor(s): Wang, David Der-Wei; Tai, Jeanne; Der-Wei Wang, David. Num Pages: 264 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 153 x 16. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231096492
- ISBN
- 9780231096492
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 47.15
€ 47.15
Paperback. This is the mass market edition of HoneyB's steamy erotic tale about three men who marry for all the wrong reasons in the vein of New York Times bestselling author Zane. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 124 x 171 x 22. Weight in Grams: 158.
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Little, Brown & Company
- Condition
- New
- Format
- Paperback
- SKU
- V9781455554973
- ISBN
- 9781455554973
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 8.51
€ 9.99
€ 8.51
Paperback. Magda, a Polish immigrant, grows cannabis in Eastern Poland and ships it to the UK. But her plans are interrupted when she has to attend a funeral. Magda begins to tell the story of her life, her double life in London, her strained relationship with her family and her success in the male world of drug dealing. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 125 x 12. Weight in Grams: 268.
- Publisher
- Stork
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780957132603
- ISBN
- 9780957132603
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.16
€ 12.16
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 178 x 107 x 21. Weight in Grams: 172.
- Publisher
- Corgi
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1978
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780552075831
- ISBN
- 9780552075831
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.83
€ 13.99
€ 10.83
Paperback. A fresh contemporary design for A. S. Byatt's celebrated anthology of English short stories The Oxford Book of English Short Stories.The 37 stories featured here are selected from the 19th and 20th centuries, by authors ranging from Dickens, Trollope, and Hardy to J. G. Ballard, Angela Carter, and Ian McEwan. Editor(s): Byatt, A. S. Series: Oxford Books of Prose & Verse. Num Pages: 472 pages. BIC Classification: DQ; FA; FC; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 28. Weight in Grams: 348.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Number of pages
- 472
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Reissue
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199561605
- ISBN
- 9780199561605
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.25
€ 14.99
€ 12.25
Paperback. Fed up with stultifying criticism, Phineas decides to study the messiness of 'real life'. Doing nothing by halves, he sets out to write a biography of a great biographer. But a 'whole life' is hard to find. How do we put the idea of a person together? Everywhere he looks, he finds fragments and gaps. Trails run cold and mysteries are unresolved. Num Pages: 272 pages, portraits. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 18. Weight in Grams: 200. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0001474
- ISBN
- 9780099283935
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Tells the tale of a pair of young scholars investigating the lives of two Victorian poets. This book features a trail of letters, journals and poems they uncover a web of passion, deceit and tragedy, and their quest becomes a battle against time. Num Pages: 528 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 32. Weight in Grams: 374.
- Publisher
- Vintage Classics
- Number of pages
- 528
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- 01st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099503927
- ISBN
- 9780099503927
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.57
€ 14.99
€ 11.57
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
€ 14.99€ 11.57
€ 14.99
€ 11.57
Paperback. Cassandra, an Oxford don, and Julia, a best-selling novelist, are sisters who share disturbing memories of a bizarre childhood game - and of Simon, who loved them both. The memories re-surface when they see Simon on a television programme, and their relationship is played out to a fatal finish. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 17. Weight in Grams: 224.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099998402
- ISBN
- 9780099998402
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.82
€ 13.99
€ 10.82
Paperback. A.S. Byatt's fairy tales and fables are among the best-loved features of her fiction. This volume contains "The Glass Coffin" and "Gode's Tale" of the Breton Baie des Trepasses, together with three other stories with medieval and oriental settings, including the title tale. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 19. Weight in Grams: 218.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099521310
- ISBN
- 9780099521310
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.81
€ 13.99
€ 10.81
Paperback. While Frederica - the spirited heroine of "The Virgin in the Garden", "Still Life" and "Babel Tower" - falls almost by accident into a career in television in London, tumultuous events in her home county of Yorkshire threaten to change her life, and those of the people she loves. This work depicts the clashing forces in English life. Num Pages: 432 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 31. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 432
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099443391
- ISBN
- 9780099443391
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.13
€ 17.99
€ 13.13
Paperback. A novel which combines enlightenment and sexuality, Elizabethan drama and contemporary comedy. It is a tale of a brilliant and eccentric family, fatefully divided. The author won the Booker Prize and the "Irish Times"/Aer Lingus International Fiction Prize in 1990 for "Possession". Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 43. Weight in Grams: 462.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099478010
- ISBN
- 9780099478010
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.13
€ 17.99
€ 13.13
Paperback. Tells the story of Anna Severell's struggle at the age of seventeen to evolve her own personality in the shadow of her father, Henry Severell, a famous English novelist. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Publisher
- Vinatge 1991
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1991
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099889601
- ISBN
- 9780099889601
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 17.25
€ 21.99
€ 17.25
Hardcover. .
- Publisher
- Everyman
- Number of pages
- 568
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781841593555
- ISBN
- 9781841593555
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 16.23
€ 21.99
€ 16.23
Paperback. A sequel to "Virgin in the Garden" and "Still Life". A cast of characters play out their personal dramas amid the clashing politics, passionate ideals and stirring languages of the early-1960s. Their crises mirror some of the major world events of the age in which they live. Num Pages: 624 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 33. Weight in Grams: 462. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KKD0000111
- ISBN
- 9780099839408
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Each story is in some way inspired by a painting of Henri Matisse, each is also about the intimate connection between seeing and feeling - about the ways in which a glance we meant to be casual may suddenly call forth the deepest reserves of our being. This book includes stories which are all about human beings. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 10. Weight in Grams: 120.
- Publisher
- Vintage Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099472711
- ISBN
- 9780099472711
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.85
€ 13.99
€ 10.85
paperback. In this sequel to "The Virgin in the Garden", Byatt illuminates the conflicts between ambition and domesticity, confinement and self-fulfilment, while providing a observation of intellectual and cultural life in England during the 1950s. Num Pages: 448 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 29. Weight in Grams: 322.
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099479918
- ISBN
- 9780099479918
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.60
€ 14.99
€ 11.60