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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

paperback. It's the summer of 1985 and Benji is determined that this is the summer when things will change and he'll fit in. For starters, he'll be reinvented as 'Ben'. When that doesn't catch on, it's another summer of the perpetual mortification that is teenage existence. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 18. Weight in Grams: 206.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
SKU
9780099531883
ISBN
9780099531883
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. .
Publisher
Fleet
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780708898406
ISBN
9780708898406
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback.
Publisher
Fourth Estate
Number of pages
400
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9781841155708
ISBN
9781841155708
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.45

Paperback. The marvellously inventive, genre-bending, noir-inflected debut novel from the author of The Underground Railroad. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 126. .
Publisher
Fleet
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9780708898475
ISBN
9780708898475
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 11.99
€ 10.26

paperback. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2004, a remarkable novel about Henry James, the American-born novelist and a connoisseur of exile. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 24. Weight in Grams: 266. Signed on title page. Good clean copy. Covers sunned to spine, showing light shelf wear. Lightly toned text is crisp and clear and remains a very good copy
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Picador
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KSG0031524
ISBN
9780330485661
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 20.00

Paperback. It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce. So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York, Eilis knows she must go. Arriving in a crowded lodging house in Brooklyn, Eilis can only be reminded of what she has sacrificed. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 198 x 19. Weight in Grams: 198.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
SKU
9780241972700
ISBN
9780241972700
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.45

Paperback. It is Ireland in the early 1950s and for Eilis Lacey, as for so many young Irish girls, opportunities are scarce. So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York, Eilis knows she must go, leaving behind her family and her home for the first time. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 17. Weight in Grams: 198.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
9780141041742
ISBN
9780141041742
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 12.99
€ 10.10

Paperback. It is the late 1960s in Ireland. Nora Webster is living in a small town, looking after her four children, trying to rebuild her life after the death of her husband. She is fiercely intelligent, at times difficult and impatient, at times kind, but she is trapped by her circumstances, and waiting for any chance which will lift her beyond them. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 224.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Condition
New
SKU
9780141041759
ISBN
9780141041759
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 10.38

Hardback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FQ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 135. . Very good copy in bright and clean dustwrapper. First edition.

Includes neat newsclippings on the author.
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
SKU
KEX0303152
ISBN
9780241257685
Hardback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 45.00

Paperback. From the young Pakistani immigrant who seeks some kind of permanence in a strange town to the Irish woman reluctantly returning to Dublin and discovering a city that refuses to acknowledge her long absence. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 194 x 128 x 15. Weight in Grams: 162.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd London
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
SKU
V9780141041773
ISBN
9780141041773
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. For Mary, her son has been lost to the world, and now, living in exile and in fear, she tries to piece together the memories of the events that led to her son's brutal death. To her he was a vulnerable figure, surrounded by men who could not be trusted, living in a time of turmoil and change. Num Pages: 112 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 9. Weight in Grams: 114.
Publisher
Penguin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Edition
01st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780241962978
ISBN
9780241962978
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 11.08

Paperback. Well-read paperback, in good condition. Some shelf wear and/or some light soiling.
Condition
Used, Good
Publisher
Penguin
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
SKU
KRF0030456
ISBN
9781844881925
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good

€ 4.99

Paperback. Intrigue, investigations, thievery, drugs and murder all make an appearance in Collins's classic who-done-it, The Moonstone . Published in serial form in 1868, it was inspired in part by a spectacular murder case widely reported in the early 1860s. Editor(s): Farmer, Steve. Series: Broadview Editions. Num Pages: 700 pages, port. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 141 x 36. Weight in Grams: 848.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Broadview Press Ltd Canada
Number of pages
700
Condition
New
SKU
V9781551112435
ISBN
9781551112435
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 20.52

paperback. This book tells the stories of the vaqueros of the Wild Horse Desert for fourth- through eighth-grade students. Series: Jack & Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture. Num Pages: 138 pages, 62 b&w photos, 31 line drawings, 2 maps. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 6466 x 4531 x 203. Weight in Grams: 273.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
University of Texas Press United States
Number of pages
138
Condition
New
Edition
1st
SKU
V9780292712416
ISBN
9780292712416
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99
€ 20.87

Paperback. A heart-wrenching debut novel in the bestselling tradition of P.S. I Love You about a young woman with terminal cancer who undertakes a mission to find a new wife for her husband. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 130 x 199 x 22. Weight in Grams: 236.
Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Edition
Main
Condition
New
SKU
V9781760112103
ISBN
9781760112103
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.24

Paperback. Amid conditions of brutality that paralleled that of slavery, 'The First Fleet' was sent to a place no European but the legendary Captain Cook had ever seen. Left to live or die on the hostile Australian continent, these convicts and their equally isolated guards occupy the centre of this epic. Num Pages: 912 pages, maps. BIC Classification: FA; FT; FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 177 x 112 x 48. Weight in Grams: 504. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Arrow
Condition
Used, Very Good
SKU
KKD0004532
ISBN
9780099280989
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good

€ 17.95

Paperback. Marius, the general who saved Rome from barbarian invasion and became consul an unprecedented six times, has fallen into decline. Sulla, his closest associate, has withdrawn himself from his commander's circle in preparation for his own bid for power. As a deadly enmity develops between the two men, Rome must fight its own battle for survival. Series: Masters of Rome. Num Pages: 1072 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 49. Weight in Grams: 738.
Publisher
Cornerstone
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099462491
ISBN
9780099462491
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.02

Paperback. Presents the stories of Marius, wealthy but lowborn, and Sulla, penniless though aristocratic and debauched - men of vision whose ambitions will lay the foundations of the most awesome empire ever known. Series: Masters of Rome. Num Pages: 1056 pages. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 139 x 47. Weight in Grams: 724.
Publisher
Cornerstone
Number of pages
1056
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099462484
ISBN
9780099462484
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 15.04

Paperback. * The Australian answer to GONE WITH THE WIND * 'One of the biggest-selling, most widely read books in the history of fiction' Observer Series: VMC. Num Pages: 592 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 39. Weight in Grams: 448.
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Number of pages
592
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9781844084470
ISBN
9781844084470
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.00
€ 11.89

Paperback. Rome's leaders are frightened: the brilliant, ruthless Gaius Julius Caesar must be crushed before he can overthrow the government and become dictator. This novel opens in Gaul, scene of Caesar's magnificent victory over fierce people. His conquest is in the name of Rome. Series: Masters of Rome. Num Pages: 864 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: FV. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 40. Weight in Grams: 588.
Publisher
Cornerstone
Number of pages
864
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Edition
New Ed
Condition
New
SKU
V9780099460435
ISBN
9780099460435
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.43

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